Pageants, Property & Purpose: A Conversation with Jennifer Santiago

Jennifer Santiago didn’t stop at the crown. In this episode, she breaks down how she competes on pageant stages and works in real estate, speaking up about mental health, especially in communities where it’s often overlooked.

We talk about:

• The unexpected reality of the pageant world
• How real estate became her next big move
• Speaking on mental health while still figuring yours out.
• And how she’s still defining what “success” looks like

Press play when you're ready to hear someone take a deeper dive into the pageantry and its platform, and a journey into real estate. Hop on this episode of the Sandbar growth, change, and staying solid while life evolves.

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Are you from the country you live in or the one one your family comes from? Are you your ethnicity or your nationality? How have you navigated having a culture at home that may differ from your social/professional life? Hop onto the sandbar w/ Jennylee Ramos and Jennifer Paulino in part two of Afro-Latinidad to get three perspectives on how we've navigated our intertwined worlds!

00:00 - Intro: Diving Back In

05:01 - What Does It Mean to "Speak Proper"?

10:01 - Code-Switching

15:01 - What Professionalism Looked Like

20:02 - Generational Work Ethic & Hereditary Habits

25:03 - Sometimes a Hug, Sometimes a Handshake

35:01 - Survival: By Bonds or By Blood?

40:01 - Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

54.41 - Final Throughts for the Culture

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Where is your family from? Are people within your family treated differently based on where they were born or the color of their skin? Does your community treat you differently than others like you based on the qualities mentioned before? Hop onto the sandbar w/ Jennylee Ramos and Jennifer Paulino in our two-part series on Afro-Latinidad.

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DISCLAIMER: Any businesses/services mentioned in this video are not sponsors and did not pay for promotion. This is simply meant for unofficial educational and entertainment purposes, within which the aforementioned entities can be replaced by similar or the same businesses/services.