In this episode, Jessica reveals a truth that many of us first-generation and bicultural people carry deep inside: the pain of not fully belonging anywhere. Ni de aquí, ni de allá — neither from here, nor from there isn’t just a phrase. It’s a wound, a strength, a whole identity.
Jessica shares her personal story of growing up between cultures, the questions that haunted her, and the emotional weight of trying to be “enough” in two worlds that often pull in opposite directions. But this story doesn’t stay in the pain it rises.
This episode is an invitation to reclaim that space between worlds as something sacred. As power. As both/and, not either/or. Jessica invites us to stop trying to fit into someone else’s definition of identity and to embrace the bridge we already are, carrying double the love, double the culture, double the fire.
Here’s the book mentioned in the episode:
Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
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