Habits of A Goddess

Episode: Never Look Like What You've Been Through

Host: Jasmine Rasco
Date: March 5, 2026

Episode Overview

In “Never Look Like What You've Been Through,” host Jasmine Rasco explores the empowering principle of focusing on the future rather than past hardships, encouraging listeners to embody their inner goddess. Jasmine shares intimate reflections on grief, personal growth, and honoring influential women—especially her late grandmother—while offering practical advice and affirmation for women seeking to step fully into abundance, confidence, and joy.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Core Message: Look Like Where You’re Going

• Jasmine centers the episode on the difference between carrying visible scars from one’s past versus confidently embracing and projecting the future self you wish to embody.
• "Do not look like what you've been through. Look like where you're going. As a goddess, it's all about moving forward." — Jasmine Rasco [02:37]

2. Personal Inspiration: Honoring Her Grandmother

• This episode is dedicated to Jasmine’s grandmother, whose strength, resilience, and loving advice continue to inspire Jasmine’s life and work.
• Jasmine recounts the anniversary of her grandmother’s passing and how she chooses to honor her by embracing joy and creating positive memories.
• "She was like that person in my life that gave me that unconditional love...she was always that motivator." — [04:02]
• "She grew up in a different era...but she did not look like what she’s been through." — [10:03]

3. Navigating Grief and Hardship

• Jasmine encourages listeners who are experiencing grief, heartbreak, career changes, or any challenge to remember these are temporary seasons.
• "It is a temporary moment, a temporary season, a temporary chapter in your life." — [09:37]

4. Integrating Rituals of Abundance and Self-Care

• Jasmine discusses honoring her grandmother with meaningful rituals, like enjoying their favorite seafood meal and buying herself flowers as acts of remembrance and self-love.
• Practical tips: dress for the life you want, create purposeful routines, and use your daily choices to reflect hope and self-respect.

5. Shifting Out of Victimhood

• The importance of not letting trauma or struggle become your identity:
• "You don't have to wear and carry anything that you have gone through that has caused trauma in your life. You don't have to wear that every single day." — [11:11]
• "No one is going to reward you to look like what you've been through. No one's going to give you a gold medal." — [20:42]
• The concept of “changing the narrative in your head” and not leading with struggle in new conversations or rooms.

6. Active Creation of Your Desired Life

• Affirmations
  • Jasmine urges listeners to use affirmations to reframe self-perception and set intentions for March and beyond.
  • "When you wake up in the morning, create something that makes you want to jump out the bed and actually become your best self." — [11:44]
  • "Look like the goddess that you are becoming." — [16:13]
• March as a Month of Manifestation
  • Jasmine connects the energy of March to manifestation, maturing, money, and empowerment.
  • "Month March is empowering...It's about manifestation. It's about money. It's about maturing into your growth journey, maturing into the goddess that you see yourself being." — [29:31]

7. Empowerment Through Community

• The significance of community—surrounding yourself with women who inspire expansion and confidence.
• Jasmine emphasizes that your story is to empower, not to keep you stagnant.
• "Your story is to empower you. It's not to keep you in stagnant energy and struggle mode and victim mode." — [25:17]

8. Giving Flowers and Honoring Women

• In celebration of International Women's Day and the spirit of March, Jasmine urges listeners to honor women who have contributed to their growth, whether in person, online, or through books.
• "I want you to honor that woman. Because as a goddess, your light does not dim when you shine and you give flowers to another woman, your light actually shines bright. It actually shines even more brighter." — [34:04]

9. Personal Responsibility and Growth

• Jasmine reflects on the necessity of doing the inner work and taking responsibility for one's transformation.
• Therapy, spiritual growth, and continual striving are mentioned as part of her ongoing journey.
• "It is my responsibility to get myself to the place, to the version that I see myself." — [31:18]
• Encourages listeners: “Stay open and connected to whatever is going to help you stay stronger, evolving and growing.” — [32:45]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Identity:
  "We are not looking like the past. We are not living in the past. We're not talking about the past. We are not living or lingering in the past." — [22:50]

• On Daily Practice:
  "Every single day that I step out...I make sure I look like my best self because those opportunities...are attracted to me." — [21:16]

• On Community:
  "Surround yourself around women that is helping you grow and expand and become even more confident, beautiful, as the goddess that you see yourself." — [23:30]

• On Affirmations:
  Series of goddess affirmations:
  "As a goddess, I attract the best case scenario...I create purpose in the present and in the future...I radiate, I glow, I shine." — [28:10]

Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:37] Focus of the episode, dedication to grandmother
• [09:03] Jasmine’s practices for moving through grief and continuing life
• [11:11] The message of not carrying trauma as your identity, honoring inspiration from her grandmother
• [16:13] Questions to envision your goddess self and set new intentions for March
• [20:00] The importance of presentation; not leading with past struggles in interactions; practical self-empowerment
• [25:17] The role of community and sharing your story from a place of empowerment
• [29:31] Headlines for March: Manifestation, money, maturity
• [34:04] Honoring women who have helped you—practical suggestions for International Women’s Day

Conclusion: Takeaways and Listener Challenge

• Jasmine closes with an invitation to listeners to honor the women who have influenced their journey—mothers, grandmothers, friends, mentors, or online inspirations.
• She affirms the power of mindset:
  "Do not look like what you've been through. Look like where you're going and where you're going this year, goddesses, you're going to a place that you are creating and it starts with your mindset." — [35:35]
• The episode concludes with encouragement to step into your goddess energy every day and create the reality you desire with gratitude and intention.

Stay connected: Jasmine invites feedback and interaction on social media at @habitsofagoddess.

This episode is a heartfelt call to self-love, resilience, and active empowerment for any woman ready to shed the look of her past and embody the vibrant goddess energy within.