Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

Where was your life prior to these problems ?

23 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue in which the speaker (Jacqueline Elliott) uses a personal anecdote—having lived out of her car four years earlier—to reframe common complaints. She argues that current problems are actually blessings and signs of progress, emphasizes a leader’s duty to model resilience and a problem-solving outlook, and challenges listeners to reconsider what they complain about.

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Oh, I don't know. I'm dealing with this employee that always has trouble, is always calling in sick and oh, my wife is always spending the money and venting, telling me all of this crap. Problems and problems and problems and problems and problems. I'm okay. Tell me something good. And it's hard for them to tell me something good. And I said, okay. Where were you four years ago? You didn't have your business. Well, I was living out of my car. I did this, I didn't have this, I didn't have that. Four years later, you have your business, you have all these problems. Were to tell you I would take all these problems away from you and bring you back to four years ago, would you do it? Well, no. You prayed for these problems. God blessed you with these problems. You can handle these problems. It's your outlook on these problems. These problems are blessings. Hey, listen, I am a problem digger. I'm constantly looking for problems to solve all day long to make sure our company runs like I have to show my team that I can thrive in chaos. And then I wonder why, if I didn't have that outlook, I wonder why the team is not happy or they, they're complainers or all this stuff. It comes from the leader. That's what we do. But think about it. What is it that you're complaining about the most now?