Mrs. Jacobs Classroom 📝 Podcast

For Episode 2 of Mrs. Jacobs Classroom, I decided to do something that makes me a little uncomfortable: go completely unscripted.No notes. No carefully written outline. Just me telling a story I know better than anyone else: the story of Candy Connections.For more than a decade, my husband and I built a business that opened doors I once only dreamed about. Some of those opportunities literally started on my vision board. We grew the business, worked together as husband and wife, experienced some incredible highs, made expensive mistakes, and eventually made the difficult decision to close.For a long time, I had a very specific picture of what success in business looked like. Recognition. Big opportunities. Being able to point to something and say, Look what we built.Closing Candy Connections forced me to reconsider that definition.In this episode, I talk about how I defined success when I first became an entrepreneur, the surreal experience of watching things from my vision board actually happen, what it was really like building a company alongside my spouse, and what closing the business taught me that achieving the dream couldn’t.Most importantly, I share how I’m defining business success differently as I build again.Because maybe success isn’t simply about how big you can build something.Maybe it’s also about building something profitable, sustainable, and aligned with the life you actually want to live.Class is in session. 🎙️🍎 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit daneyajacobs.substack.com

Welcome to Mrs. Jacobs Classroom: Class Is in Session!After more than a decade of entrepreneurship, building a six-figure business with my husband, landing on QVC and the Today show multiple times, and learning some very expensive business lessons, I somehow ended up exactly where I belong: teaching business to high school students.But I’m still building.In this first episode of Mrs. Jacobs Classroom, I’m sharing why I finally stopped overthinking and pressed record, what you can expect from this podcast, and why I believe starting imperfectly is still starting.Around here, we’ll talk entrepreneurship, education, ADHD, AI and the future of work, marriage, motherhood, rebuilding after disappointment, and what it really looks like to keep pursuing big ideas while living a very full life.I’m also building something new—a patent-pending product that my husband and I are developing from the ground up—and I’ll be taking you behind the scenes as we figure it out in real time.Your assignment: Take one step toward the thing you keep saying you want to start.Class dismissed. 🎓Follow Mrs. Jacobs Classroom for honest weekly stories about building businesses, rebuilding after disappointment, and becoming who you’re meant to be next. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit daneyajacobs.substack.com