Speaker 1: And so I used to believe it was all about
Speaker 1: the collection of things. And so what I began to
Speaker 1: do was say, if I buy, I must use, and
Speaker 1: if I don't use, I can no longer buy. And
Speaker 1: so all the shoes you see behind me, I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time. They say, oh, you're showing off
Speaker 1: all your shoe collection. No, baby, this is my journey.
Speaker 1: This is my journey. Each shoe represents something that I
Speaker 1: went through, how hard it was. The higher the heel,
Speaker 1: the more difficult the struggle.
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Speaker 2: Our guest this week is an exceptional multimedia personality, a
Speaker 2: passionate adoption advocate and a true inspiration who has risen
Speaker 2: from foster care to media stardom. Her unwavering dedication to
Speaker 2: empowering women and championing adoption makes.
Speaker 3: Her a remarkable presence.
Speaker 2: You might recognize her as the co host of The
Speaker 2: blg we Show and blgque Uncut, as well as multiple
Speaker 2: other podcasts. Join us today as we delve into her
Speaker 2: incredible journey and the meaningful impact of her work. In
Speaker 2: this captivating conversation, Moneymovers, please give a warm.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Jasmine Sanders.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: Jasmin, Hi, thank you so much for having me at FYI.
Speaker 1: I need to caption that so I can use it
Speaker 1: for my bio in the future.
Speaker 3: I like the way you're out it. It was nice.
Speaker 1: I was like who is this woman that she is
Speaker 1: speaking of. Oh that's me, that's me.
Speaker 2: Well, pat yourself on the back, Sis. I'm so happy
Speaker 2: to have you here and all that is true. We're
Speaker 2: going to unpack so much more of who you are
Speaker 2: and what you've done and how you got here and
Speaker 2: all the lives you've touched. And I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: introduce you to our Moneymover's audience today.
Speaker 3: So welcome, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here. Anytime that I have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to speak to another sister, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I believe in supporting and I believe in in the
Speaker 1: life that you live. If you're not sharing lessons from
Speaker 1: your journey, I don't care how much money you make,
Speaker 1: I don't care how good you do, you are living
Speaker 1: in vain. You have to share it. That's the most
Speaker 1: important thing to me. So thank you for allowing me
Speaker 1: to grace your platform.
Speaker 3: Exactly what it's all about.
Speaker 2: And that's why I love Like sometimes I have these
Speaker 2: pinch mean moments where I'm like, we're just going to
Speaker 2: share and tell other people and inspire, and then you know,
Speaker 2: it always comes full circle when someone comes back and
Speaker 2: they'll be like, I heard Jasmine's story and this really
Speaker 2: resonated with me, and this caused me to do something
Speaker 2: different and make my money move.
Speaker 3: In my life. I always start off.
Speaker 2: By asking people and we're you know, you talk very
Speaker 2: vocally about having grown up in foster care and here
Speaker 2: you are, and I know there is a long journey
Speaker 2: before there, but I want to start off because I
Speaker 2: ask everybody this go back to little Jasmine, and how
Speaker 2: did you really think about money, whether it was in
Speaker 2: foster care or who were the people that really instilled
Speaker 2: thoughts of money? And this is a really broad question
Speaker 2: for so many, but what did that look like as
Speaker 2: a young person to you?
Speaker 1: Well, I will be fully transparent and say that for
Speaker 1: me money we didn't really have a great conversation or
Speaker 1: a bad conversation about money. Now, I didn't actually grow
Speaker 1: up in the foster care system, but I was there
Speaker 1: for about five years before I got my forever family,
Speaker 1: and you know, I had a lot of lessons to
Speaker 1: learn as an adult because the way my mama looked
Speaker 1: at money, I looked at money and that was it's
Speaker 1: always there, it's easily accessible, and you just spend it
Speaker 1: as soon as you get it, and so she had
Speaker 1: a terrible relationship with money. Now I will say we
Speaker 1: were not in debt, but it was an unfair burden
Speaker 1: that was placed on my dad that I didn't understand
Speaker 1: until later. So my mama would say, I want it.
Speaker 1: My daddy would have worked hard and go get it.
Speaker 1: But then I noticed that my mama shopped every single day,
Speaker 1: which trickled down to me, you know, And I would say,
Speaker 1: she would write these checks. Now I'm dating myself because
Speaker 1: people don't use checks anymore, but she would write. What
Speaker 1: I was like, I got to get me some of
Speaker 1: these little paper things, so I too can buy things.
Speaker 1: And I did not understand the connection between the check
Speaker 1: the bank account and the money or the money that
Speaker 1: wasn't in the bank account. So I grew up believing
Speaker 1: that the money was the check and not that the
Speaker 1: money was in the bank and the check represented what
Speaker 1: you had or what you didn't have. And so so
Speaker 1: many of us, so many of us. And you know,
Speaker 1: another really big lesson was I watched my mama a
Speaker 1: mass all of these clothes. Don't jail, are you about
Speaker 1: these shoes behind me? But she amassed all of these
Speaker 1: clothes and she never wore them. And so I used
Speaker 1: to believe it was all about the collection of things.
Speaker 1: And so what I began to do was say, if
Speaker 1: I buy, I must use, and if I don't use,
Speaker 1: I can no longer buy. And so all the shoes
Speaker 1: you see behind me, I tell people all the time.
Speaker 1: They say, oh, you're showing off all your shoe collection. No, baby,
Speaker 1: this is my journey. This is my journey. Each shoe
Speaker 1: represents something that I went through, how hard it was.
Speaker 1: The higher the heel, the more difficult the struggle. That's
Speaker 1: why you see I'm over here with the chunkies because
Speaker 1: they're a little lower because I had to come down. Right,
Speaker 1: So this is the life that I've walked in, that's right.
Speaker 1: And if I pan a little to the left, you'll
Speaker 1: see my sneakers. That means that I understood that there
Speaker 1: were some things that I had to run through and
Speaker 1: not tiptoe through, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 1: with the moment, I'm just dropping jewels. Pick them up
Speaker 1: as you need them. I honestly believe now when I buy,
Speaker 1: when I no longer use and they no longer serve me,
Speaker 1: they go to someone else, so that someone else can
Speaker 1: now take a journey either in my shoes or begin
Speaker 1: to walk a path of their own, which is something
Speaker 1: my mama never did. She died with all of these
Speaker 1: clothes in the closet with tags on, and I said,
Speaker 1: that will not be me.
Speaker 2: That is so interesting and fascinating, and it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think until we start having these conversations that
Speaker 2: we unpack the stuff.
Speaker 3: Like it's so nuanced, right, and so when you're.
Speaker 2: Family, it was like, we have this money, we buy
Speaker 2: all these things, but we don't touch it was still
Speaker 2: like the idea of like putting the plastic on the
Speaker 2: couch like period.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and I'm glad for you you recognize like
Speaker 2: I wanted to do something different.
Speaker 3: I want to wear these things. It's not just about
Speaker 3: amassing your wealth in things. You got it. It has
Speaker 3: to be useful in your life. It has to.
Speaker 1: But it took. It took my mother's death and me
Speaker 1: actually going through her closet because I was never allowed
Speaker 1: to go through her closet. So going through her closet
Speaker 1: and seeing these tags, all I could think was it
Speaker 1: represented what she missed. And by the way, what was
Speaker 1: she waiting for? What was the opportunity that never came
Speaker 1: that she did not wear this gorgeous outfit that she
Speaker 1: paid all of this money for. And so now I
Speaker 1: will put on a gorgeous outfit for no damn reason
Speaker 1: because me too.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 2: I'm one of those people where I have lots of stuff,
Speaker 2: but they are my things, they are my treasures. But
Speaker 2: I definitely have like zero tags on items in my closet,
Speaker 2: probably zero, And I have a lot of friends who
Speaker 2: are the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: But I wear it. I wear it over and over.
Speaker 2: You're going to be sick of me in this thing
Speaker 2: because it's my favorite this month or whatever. Like I
Speaker 2: wear my stuff because I think I've gone through the
Speaker 2: stages where I feel like the correlation between having stuff
Speaker 2: showing people you know, and especially with Instagram, now I
Speaker 2: think it's very different because you have to show it
Speaker 2: on the gram or else you don't have it, whereas
Speaker 2: in our parents twn, well you know.
Speaker 1: And the way I look at that is I am
Speaker 1: worthy of something that belongs just to me, So I
Speaker 1: don't need to share with the world because once I
Speaker 1: do that, it is no longer mine. And now people
Speaker 1: feel as though they have permission to say, oh, you
Speaker 1: wore that before, or I've seen that before. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give you that kind of permission. This
Speaker 1: is mine. I bought it for my own gentification, and
Speaker 1: I can wear it whenever I want, as often as
Speaker 1: I want to, and it is what it is.
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