#353: The Secrets of a Serial Founder + What It Takes To Become a Multimillionaire w. Jaclyn Johnson
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The revamped Mimi podcast kicks off in a big way with super founder extraordinaire Jaclyn Johnson, who started Create and Cultivate and now the newly launched Cherub—the Raya for dealmaking. She gets candid about the toll being a founder took on her mental health, the hard lessons from losing a $40 million dollar deal, and how she turned that disaster into another multi-million dollar exit. Plus the most effective way we’ve ever heard to deal with people who just want to “pick your brain".
Topics:
-The secret to hiring when you’re launching startups. (You don’t need a CEO. Or a CFO!)
-Million dollar exits; when things fall apart in due diligence and how to recover.
-Where her best ideas come from.
-Mental health and leadership. It’s lonely at the top.
-Having it all (at once?)
-Embracing imperfection and being almost ready.
-What to do with your money when you have a lot of it.
-The most effective way to deal with people who want to “pick your brain”.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2018 you got a massive cash offer for $40 million. First of all what was that like even just hearing that number? |
| 0:09.0 | It was so bizarre. Like I remember being like, wait, what? Like I remember I couldn't picture what my life would be like like I was like this is life changing money |
| 0:17.6 | How did you get that news? So we were going into this meeting and there was supposed to be like a bunch of people in it we walked in there was only one person in the meeting it was the CFO and basically he's like we're pulling out of |
| 0:26.0 | the deal. Did you cry like I would have bawled my eyes out? I didn't cry in that meeting |
| 0:30.1 | but then I sat in traffic for like two hours just like in my car having to call my business partners |
| 0:34.9 | Having to call everyone that was like part of that deal to tell them the news our lawyer like it was a mess and it was definitely devastating |
| 0:41.2 | But it was an amazing lesson. |
| 0:43.0 | You don't need the fancy office, you know, assistant, |
| 0:46.8 | the gigantic C-suite. |
| 0:48.1 | Like I know so many people who are like, |
| 0:49.5 | oh, I think I need to hire a CFO or COO, blah, |
| 0:52.0 | but most companies don't need a CFO or C.O. blah, but most companies don't need a CFO or |
| 0:54.5 | C.O. Being a solo founder, like founder depression is really real. You are alone in |
| 0:59.0 | that struggle and it's very hard to find people who support or care as much as you do. |
| 1:04.0 | So I like to be as open about it as possible because I've struggled with it myself. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Mimi Bouchard, founder of Superhuman, the transformational app that helps you become your future self, |
| 1:15.0 | so that you can finally start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. |
| 1:22.0 | And that's also my mission on this podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | Meet people whose lives have been transformed |
| 1:28.1 | in big and small ways, but always for the better. |
| 1:31.4 | They tell me how they did it, so that you can too. |
| 1:36.0 | Today on the podcast, how serial entrepreneur Jacqueline Johnson lost, then made her multim-million dollar fortune. |
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