LP&B 75 Cheryl Jacobs Serial Entrepreneur

PUBLISHED MAY 20, 2020

My guest on today’s programme is the Serial Entrepreneur Cheryl Jacobs.

Cheryl Jacobs Serial Entrepreneur — Elite Flight Club

Looking at her life, you could say she is currently at the top of her game, but then who said there was a top. We only reach a ceiling in life when we decide we have, and I cannot see Cheryl choosing to stop any time soon.

Like many high achievers, the journey has a humble beginning.

Cheryl was born and raised in Ohio, her father worked in a factory, and her mother was a secretary. She was one of three siblings growing up in an impoverished part of town. They had a simple life, played outside most of the time, no internet, no cell phones. One never asks the age of a lady, but to be growing up before the internet does set a place in time.

At 18, she married her high school sweetheart, and by 19 they had two children but now living in poverty. The new family relied on charity for groceries and hitchhiking to travel to work or nursery.

Young love works, or it does not, and poverty does not support it. The relationship with her husband did not last, and he became an ex-husband and an abusive alcoholic.

The Break that made the Difference.

Cheryl was blessed with good looks and always looked after her appearance. The big break came when a modelling agency discovered her and she selected by two agencies, one in New York City and another Los Angeles.

It was these contracts gave her the resources and security to move on in life. However, the universe had plans, both her mother and grandmother became ill and died within months of each other.

Now on her own with a young family, depression became that ever-present and unwelcome friend. But it was the words of her mother that pulled her through and kept her going.