Losing It All and Rising Again, One Step at a Time (as featured on The Other Side of Success podcast with Ella Lucas-Averett)

December 10, 2024

56: Losing It All and Rising Again, One Step at a Time (as featured on The Other Side of Success podcast with Ella Lucas-Averett)

In this episode, Jacqueline shares her unfiltered truth about how she navigated a $5.2M project that ended in global scrutiny and the critical life lessons she learned from losing it all. This conversation comes from an episode of The Other Side of Success podcast with Ella Lucas-Averett, where Jacqueline joins as a guest to share her remarkable story of resilience, failure, and self-belief.

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What if your life’s biggest failure played out on the world stage? Jacqueline Brooker lived it and this is your invitation to tune in for a masterclass in resilience!

This conversation comes from an episode of The Other Side of Success podcast with Ella Lucas-Averett, where Jacqueline joins as a guest to share her remarkable story of resilience, failure, and self-belief.

She takes us through her extraordinary journey — from a chaotic childhood to entrepreneurial heights, followed by a devastating public fall. 

In this conversation, Jacqueline shares her unfiltered truth about how she navigated a $5.2M project that ended in global scrutiny and the critical life lessons she learned from losing it all.

But it doesn’t end there. Her story isn’t just about failure — it’s about the courage to keep going when the world expects you to give up. 

If you’ve ever faced a moment that felt insurmountable, this episode is for you. Share it with someone who needs to hear that even when the narrative slips out of your hands, you still have the power to write your next chapter.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Jacqueline shares why her baseline was always failure first (00:33)
  • From McDonald’s to taking over a multimillion-dollar family business (02:34)
  • How the right people shaped Jacqueline’s journey (07:49)
  • How Jacqueline risked it all to launch a groundbreaking women’s leadership project (09:18)
  • June 17, 2016: The day Jacqueline lost her business, her voice, and control of her story (11:40)
  • Securing an A-list speaker and the unraveling that followed (14:49)
  • The emotional and professional fallout of losing it all (19:36)
  • Why bouncing back isn’t always the answer in recovering and building resilience (27:47)
  • Jacqueline’s message to 2016 her (30:12)
  • Jacqueline reflects on hard truths from her high-stakes dealings with Reese Witherspoon’s team (31:10)
  • The raw truth about finding strength after losing everything (33:05)
  • The power of humanity (35:27)

QUOTES

“Anytime you’re creating an endeavor around something you’re passionate about, it hits different. Then I imagine all of those things that felt like enormous blessings becoming a curse in an instant.” – Ella Lucas-Averett

“I knew that the only way out was through.” – Jacqueline Brooker

“You don’t want to bounce back. What you want to do is find one thing and take that step, and another thing and take that step, and just see where the steps open up, and make sure there’s steps. Because sometimes you have to sit down on your ass and take a breath and work out how to even see the next step — and you cannot do that when you’re obsessed with a bounce back.” – Jacqueline Brooker

“Remember you have value, because it’s hard to keep sight of you have any sort of value when your internal narrative is caught in what’s been going on and what’s handed to you” – Jacqueline Brooker

“When you get rid of the noise, whether it’s the trauma or the public or whatever it might be, and you listen to your deepest, truest self, it’s always a voice of love. And that’s where self belief starts, where the flame starts again. And what I would say is, the secret to self belief is understanding that it’s a day-to-day variable, and it’s a choice.” – Jacqueline Brooker

RESOURCES

The Other Side of Success podcast with Ella Lucas-Averett Episode 2: My Fall Out with Hollywood A+ Lister Almost Destroyed Me – Jacqueline Nagle is Speaking Up

Andrew Banks

The Simpatico Connection

Marie Claire Magazine Australia

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