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I Sold My Company for $22M. Here’s Why I Bought It Back.

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Stop making million dollar decisions alone. Hampton gives you a personal board of eight vetted founders in your city who meet monthly to tackle your hardest problems. Find your group: joinhampton.com

Jaclyn Johnson sold Create & Cultivate for $22 million. Then she hit pause – burned out, got divorced, and took a year off to figure out what she actually wanted. Now? She’s back, running the same company she sold, after buying it back for less.

Here’s what we talk about:

  • Flipping real estate, investing in 25 startups, and turning $10K into $1.2M
  • Spending $17K/month on rent – and not caring
  • The number where she actually felt rich: $4–5M liquid
  • Her full wealth breakdown: real estate, stocks, startups, and “a little” crypto
  • Why angel investing works for her, and the returns that keep her going
  • How burnout and divorce forced her to take a full year off
  • What it’s like buying back the company you sold – for less
  • Why she’ll never run day-to-day again (and how operators changed everything)
  • Female founder scrutiny, and why being the face of the brand gets brutal
  • Why she’s done chasing status, and how FOMO just disappeared

Cool Links:

Sponsors:

Chapters:

  • (0:25) How Jacqueline Johnson built and sold businesses for millions
  • (1:43) The three kinds of success every founder chases
  • (7:04) What it actually feels like to have $15M in the bank
  • (15:29) How Create & Cultivate became a brand women rally behind
  • (18:37) The double standard: What it’s really like being a female CEO
  • (23:18) The moments that made Jacqueline feel like she’d “made it”
  • (25:37) What happens after you stop chasing FOMO
  • (29:38) The money mistakes founders make after a big exit
  • (32:04) What Jacqueline wishes every founder knew before selling

This podcast is a ridiculous concept: high-net-worth people reveal their personal finances. Inspired by real conversations happening in the Hampton community.


Your Host: Harry Morton

  • Founder of Lower Street, a podcast production company helping brands launch and grow top-tier podcasts.
  • Co-parents a cow named Eliza.
  continue reading

79 episodes

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Manage episode 509199583 series 3550072
Content provided by Hampton. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Hampton or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Stop making million dollar decisions alone. Hampton gives you a personal board of eight vetted founders in your city who meet monthly to tackle your hardest problems. Find your group: joinhampton.com

Jaclyn Johnson sold Create & Cultivate for $22 million. Then she hit pause – burned out, got divorced, and took a year off to figure out what she actually wanted. Now? She’s back, running the same company she sold, after buying it back for less.

Here’s what we talk about:

  • Flipping real estate, investing in 25 startups, and turning $10K into $1.2M
  • Spending $17K/month on rent – and not caring
  • The number where she actually felt rich: $4–5M liquid
  • Her full wealth breakdown: real estate, stocks, startups, and “a little” crypto
  • Why angel investing works for her, and the returns that keep her going
  • How burnout and divorce forced her to take a full year off
  • What it’s like buying back the company you sold – for less
  • Why she’ll never run day-to-day again (and how operators changed everything)
  • Female founder scrutiny, and why being the face of the brand gets brutal
  • Why she’s done chasing status, and how FOMO just disappeared

Cool Links:

Sponsors:

Chapters:

  • (0:25) How Jacqueline Johnson built and sold businesses for millions
  • (1:43) The three kinds of success every founder chases
  • (7:04) What it actually feels like to have $15M in the bank
  • (15:29) How Create & Cultivate became a brand women rally behind
  • (18:37) The double standard: What it’s really like being a female CEO
  • (23:18) The moments that made Jacqueline feel like she’d “made it”
  • (25:37) What happens after you stop chasing FOMO
  • (29:38) The money mistakes founders make after a big exit
  • (32:04) What Jacqueline wishes every founder knew before selling

This podcast is a ridiculous concept: high-net-worth people reveal their personal finances. Inspired by real conversations happening in the Hampton community.


Your Host: Harry Morton

  • Founder of Lower Street, a podcast production company helping brands launch and grow top-tier podcasts.
  • Co-parents a cow named Eliza.
  continue reading

79 episodes

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