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Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran-Ecuadorian writer and creator of @NuevaYorka. She recently released her first memoir “First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery and the American Dream” Today she joins PRETTYSMART and shares:
- Her battle with alcohol addiction—and why she took her story public.
- How society’s view of addiction differs for white people vs. people of color.
- The systems failing those struggling with addiction—and the changes we desperately need.
- The 7 words a stranger said that saved her life.
- How shame fuels addiction, and why we need to ask better questions.
- The weight of American Exceptionalism—and her own personal reckoning with it.
- Why your core beliefs might not be yours at all—and how to uncover what you truly stand for.
- Why she believes her story still makes some people uncomfortable.
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