That’s What I Get For Being an Overachiever w/ Jacquelyn De Jesu Center
04/03/24 • 67 min
This week on Don’t F*ck This Up, Lauren hosts the CEO, Founder, and Inventor of Shhhowercap, Jacquelyn De Jesu Center. The multi-million dollar patent portfolio holder takes us through creating her wildly successful product and what it takes to build a brand that pulses and lives.
We talk about some important things: being intuitive, rising above the imitators, and the tension between being a ball-buster and being vulnerable. Plus, Jacquelyn divulges the types of people she surrounds herself with to be effective in the C-suite.
“People call it authenticity, but that’s such a played-out word.” - Jacquelyn De Jesu Center
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This week on Don’t F*ck This Up, Lauren hosts the CEO, Founder, and Inventor of Shhhowercap, Jacquelyn De Jesu Center. The multi-million dollar patent portfolio holder takes us through creating her wildly successful product and what it takes to build a brand that pulses and lives.
We talk about some important things: being intuitive, rising above the imitators, and the tension between being a ball-buster and being vulnerable. Plus, Jacquelyn divulges the types of people she surrounds herself with to be effective in the C-suite.
“People call it authenticity, but that’s such a played-out word.” - Jacquelyn De Jesu Center
Follow Don’t Fuck This Up on IG: @dontfuckthisup.podcast
Follow Lauren Alvarez on IG: @LaurentheAlvarez
Follow Jacquelyn on IG: @deejayzoo
Follow Shhhowercap on IG: @shhhowercap
Buy Shhhowercap: www.shhhowercap.com
Email the show at [email protected] for your questions to be answered on an upcoming episode!
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Don't F*ck This Up - That’s What I Get For Being an Overachiever w/ Jacquelyn De Jesu Center
Transcript
Jacquelyn De Jesu Center (00:00)
Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
Lauren Alvarez (00:01)
And I think it's so cool. I love that when even in your notes coming over, I was like, how do you wanna be introduced? And you're like, I don't know, an icon who created a category? I was like, yes, that is the energy that we should all be bringing into our interviews, our conversations, and just our days in general. So thank you for that. Yeah.
Jacquelyn De Jesu Center (00:
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