#43: Jess Ekstrom: Finding Purpose And Passion

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

When the journey is challenging how do you continue to feel into your purpose and passion to continue to push forward and lean into what you truly are meant to do? Jess Ekstrom shares her journey in how she arrived at this question through out her life and how she found space to feel through the realness of those moments, choosing to lean into all the possibilities over choosing fear. About The Guest: Jessica Ekstrom founded Headbands of Hope when she was a senior in college in 2012. She created the company to bring joy back to kids who have lost their hair and help fund childhood cancer research. Headbands of Hope has given tens of thousands of dollars to childhood cancer research and has donated headbands to every children's hospital in the United States and fifteen countries. Her first brush with success was selling all of her toys on eBay when she was 12. Since then, Jess and her company have been featured on the Today Show and Good Morning America as well as Vanity Fair, Forbes and People. She is also an author, speaker and the founder of MIC drop workshop, an online course and community dedicated to empowering more women to share their stories on stage. Jess and her husband are currently traveling around the country in their Airstream alongside their dog. More from Jessica Ekstrom: Buy her book Chasing The Bright Side Shop at Headband For Hope Visit Jess Ekstrom's website: www.jesseckstrom.com Finding Jess Ekstrom: Twitter & Instagram: @jess_ekstrom Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you! My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals,
0:05.6	overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
0:08.9	That's or no studio.
0:10.5	I'm ready for my close up.
0:12.1	Hi and welcome back, and if you can tell I have a major frog in my throat.
0:18.0	Well not literally just feels like it sounds like it.
0:21.0	So I have definitely let myself get run down and have
0:27.8	had some high-level stress going on the past two weeks, but things have worked out fine. In the end, I was not sleeping enough,
0:37.4	I was definitely pushing myself way too far. And as you know, stress is that killer that you don't even realize it but it's
0:46.0	eating away at you all day I mean I could sense that I was having anxiety and I knew
0:50.8	it was stressed out but one situation that occurred was I found out I had
0:54.8	mold in my bathroom and we were going to come have to completely gut the bathroom I have a
0:59.1	12-year-old I was really questioning if I should move out of here temporarily.
1:03.6	I didn't know what to do.
1:04.4	I didn't know what the ramifications were.
1:06.0	You know, just all that fear around, oh my gosh, what could happen?
1:10.1	Is my son going to be sick?
1:11.5	Am I going to be sick? Am I being a good parent? How did this happen? Just
1:15.6	questioning everything, which is not a good idea, by the way. So it ends up, in the end, I got multiple estimates and had multiple people come in and it turns out I don't think
1:28.1	I have mold. Instead it looks like I'm
1:35.0	I need to gut my bathroom.
1:37.2	It looks like I need to gut my bathroom.
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