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Jacqueline is an accomplished singer, actor, podcast host, author, and two-time Emmy Award winner. She was thrilled to make her Carnegie Hall debut in June of 2025 with esteemed choir, Arete Singers and is excited to continue her classical career. When she is not on stage she is an associate Marriage and Family Therapist in California.
Her training came early in life in musicals and TV appearances. She currently studies acting at Nancy Banks Studio, and voice with Juilliard and Cambridge professor and voice coach, Cameron Richardson-Eames. You can find her singing musical theater, jazz, and classical in Los Angeles and New York City.
In her past, Jackie was signed to a publisher as a singer-songwriter-producer writing music for film and TV. She released two albums "Home" and "Jackie Brubaker and The Ex-Boyfriends" during that time. She continues to work with music publisher Kobalt as a writer and artist. Click here and here to listen to her albums or watch her sing on her YouTube channel.
She has a natural ability to get people to open up and tell their stories in a way that inspires others. That is apparent on her popular podcast, Love You Even More with Jackie Brubaker. It has had rapid success in the last four years with over 300k downloads, a loyal audience, and inspirational guests such as Sharon Price John (CEO of Build a Bear Workshop), Renee Bauer (She Who Wins), Terri Cole (The Terri Cole Show, Boundary Boss) and countless other experts in their field.
Jackie brings inspiring people on the show to have informative and inspiring conversations on self-development, relationships, business, and spirituality. Love You Even More with Jackie Brubaker can be found everywhere you get your podcasts or click here.
In November 2020, she released her first novel, That Girl: A Novel. A romantic dramedy about working in the music industry and coming of age in LA. It was the novel that created the podcast Love You Even More accidentally and she's thrilled how it all worked out. The novel can also be listened to on its own podcast, That Girl: A Novel. Find it everywhere you get your podcasts. Click here to listen. Click here to buy the book, That Girl: A Novel.
In her past, Jackie was fortunate enough to have a successful background as a writer-producer for television and has worked for broadcast media companies such as NBCUniversal and Conde Nast. Jackie has written for several magazines such as Glamour, Flaunt, Made Man, and The Frisky and was an editor at All Women Stalk.
A list of some of the people Jackie has interviewed includes Jennifer Lopez, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jane Lynch, Jameela Jamil, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Giada De Laurentiis, Jane Krakowski, Curtis Stone, Matthew Morrison, Martha Stewart, Wesley Snipes, Zachary Levi, Tom Arnold, Gina Rodriguez, Yvette Nicole Brown, D'arcy Carden and Rex Lee.
Her natural ability to get people to open up and tell their story through storytelling, writing and interviewing made her transition into becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist all the more natural. Becoming a therapist was something she knew she wanted to do in college but waited for until she had more life experience under her belt to begin.
She is currently completing her master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Capella University and earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University, She is currently in her practicum, seeing clients and will graduate in March 2026. She focuses on individuals and couples struggling with a broad spectrum of mental health issues, focusing on narcissistic abuse, life transitions and childhood trauma. With her background in the arts, she specializes in working with artists. Having worked in the entertainment field since childhood and through out her entire adulthood she understands the inner workings of the TV and film industry and an artist's journey through it.
In her past in TV and film she was an accomplished makeup artist. Her long career has awarded her three nominations and two Emmy Awards for the show The Bold and The Beautiful. She has worked on shows such as The Voice, America's Got Talent, Seal Team, Real Time with Bill Maher, American Crime Story, and celebrities such as Olivia Wilde, Tina Fey, Matt Bomer, Betty White, and Edward James Olmos amongst others in her long career.
She also hosted and produced the popular home improvement and cooking YouTube series, Reluctant Housewife ran weekly with over 400k views. It was inspired by her successful alcoholic bakery Brubakery which helped Jackie to win Food Network's Cupcake Wars. You can find it at www.youtube.com/yourreluctanthousewife
She loves her two twin tabby cats, lazy Sundays, and '65 Mustangs.
