Meet Jasmine E. Castillo | Voice Over Artist & Podcaster

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jasmine E. Castillo and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jasmine E., what role has risk played in your life or career?
This is a tier-level answer. My thought process, in a nutshell, is how far do I go without negatively affecting my family, current full-time income, social life, and sanity.

Family: I’ve been a single mother for 5 years and have gone through many transitions that were a make it or break it. I’ve moved from Wisconsin to Texas, to start fresh with a new married life. I have grown in so many ways, from finding my eldest son and discovering that I was now a grandmother to two beautiful children. As time went on, my marriage was not healthy for me and my children. I took the risk of changing my toxic situation and jobs.

Work: When I arrived in Texas, with a brand-new job, with higher pay, and much needed recognition of my educational status. Not having the ‘glass ceiling’ that I encountered in Wisconsin. A lot had to do with my ethnicity. Yet, this new company accepted me on what I can do and not what I look like. After exploring the demographics of Dallas, I had this new interest in becoming more knowledge of where my fate has taken me and the fresh faces in Texas.

Social Life: Let me tell you! When I started taking on supplemental income as a rideshare driver, Deep Ellum, The Colony, Bishop Arts, were nostalgic in comparison to where I was raised in Riverwest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Country music was seeping through the doors of bars and restaurants, I caught the country bug. I’m intermediate in Afro-Latin Dancing, but I HAD to learn the 2-step and start blasting country through my car speakers religiously!

I could say I was finally home, yet with all the changes in my life, sanity was being tested. I just felt like I was still missing something.

Sanity: When I looked back to all the bits and pieces that I can categorize as ‘life’, I wanted to take all those flaws and success into one big ball of fire. That is when I dusted off my old Radio theme name and tweaked it to promote small businesses, entrepreneurs, musicians, and artists globally. Now, I love what I’m doing, I just started doing another podcast based on true crime.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
I come from a long line of lost understanding of who I REALLY am, not knowing where I belong. As an Afro-Latina, my bridges were demolished or guarded. The lost land of unknown and uncertainty. As I plugged along with my life, not sure what I did was helping or hurting my growth in seeking knowledge of my language, my culture, my lands, my traditions, my love.

As a 44-year-old woman, I know this journey has just begun and the Creator only provided hints when the time was right for me to walk every twining path before me.

Now, as a voice-over artist, podcaster, comptroller to start-up company, mother of 3 handsome boys, Creator has a plan for me and I’m sooooo ready!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Well, my friends might not be ready for what I have in store. I have always enjoyed the outdoors, so National Forests and Parks in Texas would be a great starting point.

Of course, let’s not forget a little bit of Haunted/Ghost Walking / Murder Tours in Texas.

And lastly, to calm the nerves of our exciting and jarring adventures, 2-night stay at one of the finest hotels

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I want to thank the Creator for walking me through the flames and finding my purpose. For my mother, Nancy Brunette, for giving me life to live and making her proud in doing so. For all my exes, you gave me the unshakeable determination to push through and never give up. For my past and future podcast and voice-over guests and partnerships, you believed in me. For my children, Tomas, Josue, and Phero – you knew when to give mommy her space to make the magic happen. And finally, My’Asia Jaaber, who fixed my crown and handed me the mic to shine! Dios de Bendiga

Website: http://jasminecastillovoice.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminecastillovoice/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jazcstiyo/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasminecastillotx

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk7MGihjqJFhuJFNWsId3RA

Image Credits
Troy Phoenix Photography, based out of Dallas, Texas
photos were taken in Bishop Arts District, Texas