120. To All the Graduates: You Deserve to Be Honored

Welcome to another solo episode!

Graduation season is here—and while timelines and traditions may vary, your accomplishments matter. In this episode I honor ALL graduates—those who walked, those who couldn’t, and those still on the journey.

As a Mexican immigrant, farmworker, and first-gen scholar, I share my own bittersweet path through an underfunded school system. I grew up picking berries in the fields with my abuelita. I wasn’t seen as “college material.” I wasn’t even given the option to apply to UCs because no one advised me properly. I felt invisible in classrooms that should’ve nurtured my brilliance. And still—I made it and I know that you can do because you are doing it!

This episode is also a reality check, our education system is not built for all of us to thrive, but we persist anyway. Whether you’re a summer or fall graduate, whether you’re celebrating loudly or quietly, this space is for you.

Do not forget that you are worthy, brilliant, and more than enough. You belong in higher ed. You matter and your story deserves to be honored.

Thank you for being here and your support! It means the world to me. Muchas gracias de corazon.

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Dismantling Diet Culture: Fuck Being Calladita, is the only spanglish anti-diet podcast where your host Dr. Hortencia Jimenez shares her personal experience with diet culture, tips and strategies and education content to help you understand diet culture and systems of oppression so that you can have the tools to challenge diet culture. Current and future generations do not deserve to inherit your diet culture trauma and I’m here to help you. If you are on a mission to heal body and food traumas and embody your authentic self unapologetic, welcome to Dismantling Diet Culture: Fuck Being Calladita

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