I really want creative ideas to inspire like kids, teens and adults to just start where you are with what you have, you know, the idea of like go big or go home is like not something I subscribe to. I'm like, when you start small at home with what you have today and then see where it can bring you tomorrow.

I'm on this journey with me each week when you join me, you're going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for better tomorrow.

I'm ready for my close time.

Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet or re-acquaint yourself with Jess.

She's been on the show before. If you haven't checked out her episode, go back to 2019 and check it out. I will link it in the show notes.

Jess is the founder of headbands of Hope, a company that donates headbands to kids with illness with every headband sold.

Headbands of Hope has been featured on the today's show. Good morning, America.

We see the view and worn by celebrities like Kelsey Ballerini. More importantly, headbands of Hope has donated over one million headbands reaching every single children's hospital in America and 22 countries.

After starting her own company, she wanted to use her ups and her downs to help others become valued as experts in their industry.

Jess is the author of Chasing the Bright Side, came out in 2019, and that's what our first episode is all about, and create your bright ideas 2022, her newest book, and creator of Mic Drop Workshop, an e-learning company that helps women tell and sell their stories as thought leaders.

For three years, Jess lived and traveled full time in her air stream with her husband, Jake, and their 70 pound dog, Ali.

Now, finally, they are in a house in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jess, thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me back. I know I think the last time we talked, one was pre-pandemic, and two, I was in an air stream trailer, so a lot has changed since then.

Let's get into that, because we were just offline talking a little bit about it, and to me, I know everybody's different.

I could never fathom, well, I mean, other 15 year olds, I wouldn't be able to do it anyways, but even if I didn't, I can't fathom living in an air stream and driving and traveling around, give us an idea of what that's like.

Oh my gosh. Well, first, let me set the scene for you. So I mean, it was 25 feet long, and my husband's a former football player, and so he's like 65, like a really big guy.

So anything he does in the air stream is like straight out of a scene from Elf, if you've seen that movie, we're like sitting in the chair trying to make dinner.

But you know, it didn't, it was not supposed to be three years. It started as an idea for a book tour for chasing the bright side. We were like, oh, let's go to a couple different cities. It'll be great.

And then the pandemic hit while we were still in the air stream, and we're like, what are we going to do? Just sit at home like we're outside in nature, like kind of going around the country. Why not?

But I think, you know, one of the things that I learned too is that just try it on. If there's something that you want to do or something that you want to like achieve, you know, what we ended up doing is like, what if for one month, we just shipped it our mindset to say, okay, we're going to drop everything and go live in an air stream trailer.

And then by the time that month is up, you know, you can either say, yeah, this feels good or like, no, this isn't what I want to do. And so like the air stream, it was great.

But it also just taught me that like, you can shift and pivot all the time and things aren't permanent.

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