00:00Tell me who is Jasmine.
00:03Tell me who they are.
00:05I'm a lot of people.
00:06I am a daughter.
00:08I'm a friend.
00:09I am an advocate of black women.
00:12I am certain that I was put here on this earth to celebrate and uplift women of color.
00:18And most importantly is I'm a woman walking her purpose and passion.
00:23And it took me a minute to get here, but I'm so thankful for the journey that I'm on right now.
00:27And here's what I love about that, right?
00:30I remember, and we'll get into where we know each other from and all this place, but I have spent a good chunk of my career sitting in, whether it be conferences or rooms, listening to people tell these inspiring stories about their career.
00:46And I would listen to these stories that came with all, everything went well.
00:52Yeah.
00:52Treatment on them, right?
00:53And there would be all of these triumphs and things they had, and they didn't seem to run into anything bad or have anything flawed about who they were.
01:00So I would watch, but I'll be like, what's the room for the people that screw stuff up on a daily basis, right?
01:05Because then I would remove myself from believing that was possible for me because they never talked about the stuff that didn't go wrong.
01:14So you said in the answer to that first question, you mentioned a journey that brought you to where you are now.
01:21Where does that journey start?
01:24Where did you start?
01:26Who's Jasmine at the point that she entered the world and what seasons has represented Jasmine getting to this point?
01:34Yeah.
01:34I mean, my mom always said that I came out of her wound with my eyes open.
01:41And she said, so I knew that you was not going to be someone to be played with because you came in very curious, right?
01:47And so I've always been this young girl that has been super curious about things, challenging the norms, but also trying to figure out how to structure that in a corporate setting in which sometimes my value systems and sometimes my personality was perceived as like too strong, where I was maybe too much of the loud voice in the room.
02:08And so I'm now able to step into a season in which I get to cultivate all of those things that I actually truly think that are part of my soul and bring that into a company that I believe in and not be afraid to be that loud voice in the room that was actually heard, believed, and seen in this space where it maybe wasn't always celebrated in other spaces.
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