Welcome to the RISE Podcast. I'm Rachel Hollis and I built a multi-million dollar

media company with a high school diploma and a Google search bar. Each week we'll

be sharing tangible direct advice or inspiring interviews with the same

intention. These are the tools to change your life.

Hi, thank you so much for hanging out with me today, Jasmine. I am a long-time fan,

so I'm nerding out a little bit that I get to talk to you. I wish you were like

hanging out in real life and drinking coffee or having wine or doing something

fun, but this is pretty good too. It is pretty good and of drinking coffee. So,

you know, we're chatting and drinking coffee. That's two out of the five things.

We're okay. We're starting off with a good fit. Nice. So I would love it if you

would tell listeners who maybe aren't as familiar with you or who are and just

want to hear the story again. Tell us about who you are, what you do, and how you

got here. Well, my name is Jasmine Star and I'm a photographer and business

strategist and I happen to believe and know that I like to make wild ideas come

to life. So to kind of put like what it means to pursue my career in a box would

be it would be a really wonky box. I just create, I love creating and I love when

people say it can't be done because I'm just like watch me. Let's just kind of

create along the way. And so how that's manifested itself is I picked up a

camera after dropping out of law school when I saw my mom have a relapse with

brain cancer and I realized the enormity and beautifulness of life and I

realized how short it was. And I thought to myself, I am on the wrong path. And so

what does it look like for me to course correct in order to have my mom's

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