From $60k in Debt and Lying About Being Unemployed to Becoming the Lazy CEO Behind Showpo’s $100 Million Empire
She's On The Money
Intro
Victoria introduces the show, guest Jane Lu, and previews Jane's journey from debt to founding Showpo.
Even some of the most successful people you know started at rock bottom like $60k in debt, no job, and pretending everything is totally fine. That was Jane Lu’s life… right before she built Showpo. And today, Jane is speaking candidly about it all.The pressure to pick the “good girl” career, the fear of disappointing her parents, the panic of feeling behind while everyone else looks like they’re sprinting ahead and the moment you realise you’ve built a life around other people’s expectations and now you have to undo it. But interesting part is what came next, and nothing about it looked like the beginning of a global brand. Cofounders walked. Ideas fizzled. She was building websites in the State Library and quietly hoping no one noticed she was making it up as she went. And then, slowly, things shifted. A call she made out of instinct, a social moment went viral and she found a way of working that suited her Lazy CEO approach. This became the backbone of the business she’d grow into a company valued at more than $100 million.
In this ep:
✨Her mindset shifts about the "safe" career
✨How to rebuild when your confidence is shot and your bank account is judging you
✨The small (almost accidental) move that blew open her career
✨Lazy CEO rules that help you stop doing the absolute most
✨Why your messy chapter isn’t a setback, it’s leverage
JANE'S LINKS: Showpo's website, TikTok & Instagram
Her personal website, Tiktok & Instagram
READ: Victoria's book The Business Bible just won the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Book of the Year at the 2025 Australian Business Book Awards. You can find it here.
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