Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This week, I’m sitting down with @jackieaina for a conversation about what it really takes to go from influencer to founder and why the two have almost nothing in common.
Jackie has been building in public for 17 years. After nearly two decades as one of YouTube’s most recognised creators, she took $250,000 of her own money and started a fragrance brand one of her childhood dreams. The first thing she ever did that nobody asked for and nobody expected from her.
This conversation is honest, surprising, and full of the kind of perspective that makes you want to stop doing things for everyone else and start doing them for yourself.
In this episode we get into:
✨ How she self funded Forvr Mood
✨ What she had to unlearn from influencer to business owner
✨ What it finally felt like to do something just for herself
✨ Why having an audience doesn’t automatically give you leverage
This week, I’m sitting down with @jackieaina for a conversation about what it really takes to go from influencer to founder and why the two have almost nothing in common.
Jackie has been building in public for 17 years. After nearly two decades as one of YouTube’s most recognised creators, she took $250,000 of her own money and started a fragrance brand one of her childhood dreams. The first thing she ever did that nobody asked for and nobody expected from her.
This conversation is honest, surprising, and full of the kind of perspective that makes you want to stop doing things for everyone else and start doing them for yourself.
In this episode we get into:
✨ How she self funded Forvr Mood
✨ What she had to unlearn from influencer to business owner
✨ What it finally felt like to do something just for herself
✨ Why having an audience doesn’t automatically give you leverage
