{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Moneywise","title":"I Sold My Company for $22M. Here’s Why I Bought It Back.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1979,"description":"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\nJaclyn 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.\nHere’s what we talk about:\n\nFlipping real estate, investing in 25 startups, and turning $10K into $1.2M\nSpending $17K/month on rent – and not caring\nThe number where she actually felt rich: $4–5M liquid\nHer full wealth breakdown: real estate, stocks, startups, and “a little” crypto\nWhy angel investing works for her, and the returns that keep her going\nHow burnout and divorce forced her to take a full year off\nWhat it’s like buying back the company you sold – for less\nWhy she’ll never run day-to-day again (and how operators changed everything)\nFemale founder scrutiny, and why being the face of the brand gets brutal\nWhy she’s done chasing status, and how FOMO just disappeared\nCool Links:\nHampton https://www.joinhampton.com/\nLower Street https://www.lowerstreet.co/\nJaclyn Johnson https://jaclynrjohnson.com/ \nSponsors:\nGet US caliber talent at offshore prices with https://www.oceanstalent.com/\nAchieve your dream body with https://www.dailybodycoach.com/moneywise\nProtect your upside and get your time back at https://www.cressetcapital.com/moneywise\n\nChapters:\n(0:25) How Jacqueline Johnson built and sold businesses for millions\n(1:43) The three kinds of success every founder chases\n(7:04) What it actually feels like to have $15M in the bank\n(15:29) How Create & Cultivate became a brand women rally behind\n(18:37) The double standard: What it’s really like being a female CEO\n(23:18) The moments that made Jacqueline feel like she’d “made it”\n(25:37) What happens after you stop chasing FOMO\n(29:38) The money mistakes founders make...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vCvB-0dtzg339Iof9Uhri-E5Cu1YvE_goNcKch75CeI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZTZj/OWRiMTI3NjI1YWUy/MWY4ZWJkOTU2YzFl/NzE0Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}