Pr. Julieta Gabiola grew up in a poor rural village in the Philippines, with no financial security, no network, and almost no pathways toward higher education. Today, she’s a professor at Stanford.

The distance between these two worlds is filled with turning points she rarely shares — moments of doubt, courage, discrimination, reinvention, and a quiet, relentless determination that changed everything.

In this episode, Julieta opens up about:

• the unexpected event that first pushed her into nursing

• what made her start over again — this time in medicine

• the structural barriers she faced as a first-generation student and immigrant

• the discrimination she encountered in academia, and how she chose to respond

• the mindset that sustained her through years of uncertainty

• why globalizing educa ...