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So, without further ado, I would like to welcome you Christine Hassler. Thank you so much for
talking to me today, I really appreciate it. Oh, it's really my pleasure to just connect
with you and share, and I know this is gonna be a really rich conversation. Yeah, I look
forward to it. So, I was telling Christine, before we got on the call, that I really want
to get to know her on a really deep and intimate level. I mean, I'm sure you can find plenty
about her all over the web, but I wanna, I personally wanna really know what's goes on
inside and behind the scenes. So, I was thinking that maybe we could start kind of getting
to know where you come from, and your, your origins, where you were born, where you grew
up, and get to know your family, and kind of start there. I always think that starting
where you come from is always a good starting point. Yeah, yeah. Sure, I can kind of give
you my story of where I come from, where I've been, and how I got to where I am now.
Does that sound good? That sounds good, and if you don't mind I'll jump in every now and
again, and ask you. I love that, I love that, I love talking with people rather than at
them, so interrupt me all you want. Well, I was actually born in Wisconsin, but I grew
up in Texas. We moved to Dallas when I was two, so Texas is my home, I will always claim
Texas. You'll hear my accent come out only when I'm angry, which doesn't happen too often,
or when I'm around people from Texas. And so, I grew up in, you know, a really loving
family. I was really blessed with that. And so, most of my learning opportunities came
with school, and came with friends and peers. And I would say that my life curriculum has
been a lot about really learning how to deal with rejection, and feelings of "less than,"
and feelings of "not good enough." And that all really kind of got triggered in fourth
grade when a couple of girls started the "I Hate Christine" club. And that's when I really
moved out of love, you know, which is our natural state, into fear and into doubt.
Wait, before you go beyond that. Can we back up a bit? Do you have siblings? Where are you in
the order of siblings? My husband always loves that question. What do you... take a guess?
Are you the oldest? Of course. Me too. Yes, definitely I figured you probably were.
I am the oldest. I have one younger sister, she's three and a half years younger. I adore
her. Perfect I love it. And she has gifted me with an amazing nephew who I just love
so much, and I'm so excited that I'm, you know. I go to Austin, which is where my whole
family is now. I don't like to go longer than six weeks without seeing my family. You know,
I made a commitment when my nephew was born to be a big part of his life and to really
be the auntie, to be a participant, 'cause I don't have children yet of my own. And,
so, I'm really excited to go and see him. And my family, you know, we've been through
a lot, and I just, the relationship that I have with my parents and my sister, and my
brother-in-law too who's been in my life since my sister and he were 19, so he's like a brother
to me, is just incredible, and I'm just really, really grateful for that.
Go ahead. I was gonna say if you had to kind of take one sentence and describe your Mom, and one sentence
to describe your Dad, I assume they're together, how would you describe them? My Mom, she is
so full of love, like she lights up when she can give, and when she can be with her family.
Family is the most important thing to her, and she is so proud to be a mother. She was
a stay-at-home Mom until I was about in, this is longer than a sentence sorry, she was a
stay-at-home Mom until my sister and I were in school full-time, I was like a teenager,
and then she went and became a therapist. And, so, yeah, but she, but her primary job
and what she loves the most is being a Mom. Mine too. She's the kind of Mom if I called,
yeah, and my Mom and I had our things. When I tell my story I'll tell you about when she
disowned me temporarily. So, we've had our struggles, but I've learned, and I'm sure
you can relate to this Jasmin and people out there can relate, like relationships, you
know, sometimes there's a going apart, and sometimes there is, you know, something dramatic
that happens, so that, kind of the issues of the relationships can kind of come up to
the surface and they can heal. So, you know, everything I've been through with my Mom has
gotten us to a point where we have a really amazing, loving, healthy relationship now.
And my Dad, I'm so grateful for my Dad. My Dad is a man of deep integrity, deep integrity.
He's so brilliant, so brilliant, and he's always made his family his priority. He was
a hard worker, he always provided for us. I'm very lucky as a woman to have been raised
by a Dad who never cheated, never abandoned, never left us, never criticized me, and that
really gave me a strong, strong foundation. So when I think of my Dad, I feel so much
love for him, but also a tremendous amount of respect. I feel like that's one of the
most important things in relationships in general, respect. Oh my God, absolutely.