'If You Doubt Yourself, You're Dead': How Serial BIZ Experiences Jaclyn Johnson Launched the Rallying Cry for a Generation of Female BIZ Experiencess Kathleen Griffith talks business and fearlessness with Jaclyn Johnson, founder of Create & Cultivate.
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Jaclyn Johnson is a born BIZ Experiences, who launched and sold her first business, (No Subject) by the time she was 28. She went on to invest in female-owned startup Away before launching her second multimillion-dollar company, Create & Cultivate. In 2018, she also became a published author with WorkParty, filled with advice for female BIZ Experiencess looking to launch successful companies and careers.
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If that's not enough to blow you away, her tenacity, emphasis on collaboration over competition, combined with her love of community, will. She founded Create & Cultivate to provide resources, events and community for other female millennial BIZ Experiencess. "As a business owner every day is stressful and that has to become your baseline. You learn to weather the storms," she told me.
Photo credit: Create & CultivateBuilding a community of other female BIZ Experiencess and relying on her first BIZ Experiencesial role model — her mom — has helped her to do just that. We dove into how she approached brands to partner with her on Create & Cultivate, why you need to be willing to invest your own dollars in your company, and that "if you doubt yourself, you're dead."
Watch the video above, in which I know you'll find inspiration and actionable tips from fellow ADWEEK Disruptor Jaclyn Johnson.
Video Producer: Kari Jones
