7: Kobe Clarke-Jacobs on Life After.. Chronic Illness: How Kobe navigates chronic illness, quit her dream job, and redefines success through business
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In this episode of Life After I Left, we're joined by the incredible Kobe Clarke-Jacobs, founder of Finance With Kobe, a mortgage broker on a mission to make finance fun, simple, and accessible.
Fuelled by her love for property (and hot chocolate), Kobe takes us through her incredible journey, one marked by misdiagnosis, chronic illness, and resilience.
After a promising career in real estate as a buyer’s advocate, Kobe’s world was turned upside down when her health began to deteriorate with no answers in sight. What followed was a long and emotional road to receiving diagnoses for Graves’ disease, chronic fatigue, and cutaneous lupus.
But this isn’t just a story about illness, it’s a story about tenacity, transformation, and the fire that gets lit when someone tells you “you can’t.”
In this episode, Kobe shares:
- Her devastating early experiences with doctors dismissing her symptoms
- The reality of navigating chronic illness in your early 20s
- How one empowering doctor changed everything with a life-altering surgery
- Why she pivoted from real estate to mortgage broking, and never looked back
- The moment her boss said, “You’ll be a bad broker if you only work part-time”, and how that sparked the launch of her own business
- Building a thriving company, all while working part-time and living with chronic illness
This is more than a business journey. It’s about trusting your gut and redefining what success looks like, on your terms.
Whether you live with a chronic illness, are building a business, or need a reminder that your voice matters, this is an episode you can’t miss.
Connect with Kobe on Instagram and on her website.
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