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Speaker 1: Hello, my beautiful listeners, Welcome to your favorite podcast, Cheeks

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Speaker 1: and Chill. I am so grateful and happy that you

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Speaker 1: are here today. Thank you for listening today. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about something really personal, something that's shaped so

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Speaker 1: much of who I am, being the eldest sibling. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about birth order. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: the experience, the weight, the gift, and the wound that

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Speaker 1: can come with it. Because if you are the eldest,

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Speaker 1: especially in a Latino family or a family with a

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Speaker 1: lot of expectations, you already know it's not always easy.

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Speaker 1: And as the oldest, I became a second mother before

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Speaker 1: I was ready. I learned how to protect, provide, and

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Speaker 1: perform even when I was hurting myself. I was the

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Speaker 1: one they leaned on, the one they looked up to,

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Speaker 1: the one who had to be okay even when I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And I know those of you that are listening that

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Speaker 1: are an el discibling, and even you don't have to

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Speaker 1: be an el disibling. You could be a middle child

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Speaker 1: or the baby, and you feel this way. This is

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Speaker 1: just my personal experience and I wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: this because I haven't going through it. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: and you guys know that I am always very transparent

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Speaker 1: and honest and I share everything with you guys. And

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Speaker 1: I thought about it twice, three times, four times, so

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Speaker 1: many times should I share this? And it's not anything bad.

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Speaker 1: I think, if anything, it might resonate with you guys,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you guys can give me some advice if

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Speaker 1: you guys have gone through it yourself, so I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear from you guys as well. Anyway, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be short with this because I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get into too much detail because I want to also

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Speaker 1: protect my siblings and their privacy. But we are definitely

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Speaker 1: going through a shift, and mind you, I am a

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Speaker 1: person that's very in tune connected to my feelings, a cancer,

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Speaker 1: I wear my emotions on my sleeve. And I've been

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Speaker 1: talking to you guys on the podcast about the shift

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Speaker 1: that I've been feeling since last year, and never did

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Speaker 1: I expect it would happen with my siblings. It was

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Speaker 1: a huge surprise for me, and just trying to get

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Speaker 1: because it's been something that's been so so hard to accept,

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Speaker 1: to understand, to adapt to. It's something so foreign to me,

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Speaker 1: but we had a little rough patch, and it seems

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Speaker 1: that things are getting better. We just never had a

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Speaker 1: rough patch like this. Mind you, We've had arguments, disagreements,

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Speaker 1: but we always found our way back to each other.

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Speaker 1: And this time it's been a little different. And I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about all of us. It's five siblings, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's because of all the stress that

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Speaker 1: I had this year with just so many things going on.

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Speaker 1: But I tried something different with them and it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: And I'll get into that in a little bit, but basically,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't agree on something. I think Johnny was the

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Speaker 1: one that brought something up in our group chat and

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Speaker 1: one of the siblings, two of the siblings, and I

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Speaker 1: won't say names. I just again I want to protect

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Speaker 1: their privacy and I didn't even ask them if I

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Speaker 1: can talk about this, but this is who I am,

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Speaker 1: and they know their sister has a podcast and I'm

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Speaker 1: very honest, so I'm going to talk about it. AnyWho.

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Speaker 1: So two of the siblings didn't agree with something that

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Speaker 1: Johnny was saying, and I felt that he was being

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Speaker 1: attacked for the lack of a better word, and of

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Speaker 1: course that motherly instinct that I have kind of I

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Speaker 1: went out to defend him, not thinking how it was

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Speaker 1: going to hurt my other siblings. So then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden they were mad at me, and then I

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Speaker 1: got mad and I was tough, something that I've never done.

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Speaker 1: When I say tough, I was just more assertive. And

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Speaker 1: I think this comes with the people pleasing that I

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Speaker 1: always talk about on the podcast. I've always dealt with

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Speaker 1: an issue of people pleasing, and I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: able to do it in every other area of my life.

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Speaker 1: But that last piece was my siblings, and I was like, no,

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Speaker 1: this isn't fair. I feel like they're being unfair and

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Speaker 1: was just very assertive. I'm like, you guys, basically get

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Speaker 1: and I was absolutely heartbroken. I don't think I've cried

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Speaker 1: crying so much. Emdial didn't know what to do. He's like,

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Speaker 1: what is happening. All he's ever known is how close

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Speaker 1: me like, I don't want to say much. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna be here if you need a hug. But this

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Speaker 1: is also weird for me. This is immedial talking because

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Speaker 1: all I've ever known is you being so close to them,

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Speaker 1: and I've been trying to make sense of everything, and

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Speaker 1: in my moment of prayer and meditating, I just realized

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Speaker 1: that things are changing. And I talk about change so much,

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Speaker 1: and I always say how change is uncomfortable, how growing

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Speaker 1: pains hurt. And with shifts because you want to elevate,

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Speaker 1: you know, the ground beneath you shakes, that's a shift.

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Speaker 1: And it's okay. I'm barely now, like a month later,

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Speaker 1: This has been going on for a while, and now

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Speaker 1: I am coming to the realization that it is okay.

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Speaker 1: Like I just did. I guess I didn't realize that

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Speaker 1: expecting it. I wasn't ready. But now I'm realizing that

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Speaker 1: that I can make space for my marriage, for my

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Speaker 1: baby hopefully, and they're growing and they need to spread

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Speaker 1: their wings and we can't always be attached at the hip.

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Speaker 1: Are we closer than a lot of other siblings. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: thank God. And I hope that with time we all

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Speaker 1: adjust to this new dynamic. But it sucked, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I swear I had moments fro. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: when when am I gonna just like be able to chill?

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Speaker 1: And like, I don't know. You always think, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: I should know better. Like life is a roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: You have ups and downs, and that's just what it is.

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Speaker 1: We are evolving creatures. And the reason I want to

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Speaker 1: how we are evolving creatures and we're always going to

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Speaker 1: face something and I want you guys to know that

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Speaker 1: I go through it too, even with people I didn't

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Speaker 1: expect to go through it with. And I'm human just

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Speaker 1: I'm hopefully helping you guys figure things out, it's also

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Speaker 1: say that we are definitely in a better place. Things

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Speaker 1: are moving forward, just differently. And I think the one

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Speaker 1: that needed to realize that was Jinny. I had always

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Speaker 1: been the glue, that's all I was taught you guys

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Speaker 1: to be the glue to bring us back together, to

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Speaker 1: reel them in. If they argue, let them argue, but

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Speaker 1: don't let it go too long. Now I have to

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Speaker 1: It's so hard because I'm like, oh, I know the

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Speaker 1: road you're going down. I was there. I don't want

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Speaker 1: And it's like I want to put all these stop

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Speaker 1: getting hurt because I've been there, because I've done that,

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Speaker 1: because I've made mistakes and I love them so much

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Speaker 1: am now. But I think what really hurt me was, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm good to do all these things for you guys,

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Speaker 1: also when I have something to say that I don't

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Speaker 1: my feelings. But I'm like, okay, I know I love them.

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Speaker 1: Because at first I was like, you know what, if this,

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Speaker 1: and not even need, I want to be in their life.

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Speaker 1: so long in my head was my mother, keep your

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Speaker 1: you know, they had their arguments and their share of

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Speaker 1: stuff that I don't want to get into. But my mom,

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Speaker 1: these are real conversations that I had. So many times.

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Speaker 1: I had these conversations with my mom about how she

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Speaker 1: expected me to keep us together. So for a long time,

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Speaker 1: when I went to Monterrey to where my mom's plane

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Speaker 1: remember feeling so much peace when we got there to

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Speaker 1: because I was expecting to feel something different, like maybe

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Speaker 1: heavy energy, but there it was so beautiful up there,

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Speaker 1: made me feel peace that my mom was good and

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Speaker 1: I didn't cry, which was like, I'm like, what's going

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Speaker 1: was my mom or it was God. But what I

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Speaker 1: heard and the only thing I heard when I was

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Speaker 1: my mom telling me you did your job. It's okay

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Speaker 1: Like now, I mean, that was a whole last year ago,

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