Jess Ekstrom | Chasing the Bright Side

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Leadership, Teamwork, Success, Positiveuniversity, Jongordon, Health & Fitness, Positivity, Education, Positiveu, Happiness, Teambuilding

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Positive University Podcast, bestselling author Jon Gordon talks with Jess Ekstrom. Jess is the founder and CEO of Headbands of Hope, a company she started as a junior in college in 2012. For every headband sold, a headband is given to a child with cancer. She’s been featured on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, and all kinds of top media outlets. More importantly, Headbands of Hope has donated over half a million headbands reaching every children’s hospital in the United States and in fifteen countries. She's making a huge impact! Her new book Chasing the Bright Side recently released with praise from one of the cofounders of Netflix, among others, and Apple picking the audio version as their Must-Listen of the month.. which by the way Jess thinks is because of her Bill Nye the Science Guy impression she did when she was narrating. : )

You’ll definitely be inspired by Jess’s story and the practical insights she shares.

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0:00.0	Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. My name is Daniel Decker. I'm the co-host of
0:06.9	Positive U and on this episode John Talks with Jess Ekstrom. Jess is the founder and
0:12.2	CEO of Headbands of Hope, a company that she
0:15.1	started as a junior in college in 2012. For every headband sold, a headband is
0:20.2	given to a child with cancer. She's been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning
0:24.3	America, and all kinds of top media outlets, but more importantly, Headbands of Hope
0:28.8	has donated over a half a million headbands reaching every Children's hospital in the United States and in 15 countries.
0:35.6	She's making a huge impact with this. Now her new book is Chasing the Bright Side,
0:41.6	recently released with praise from tons of people like the co-founder of
0:45.2	Netflix and Apple picking up the audio version as one of their must listen to's of the month.
0:50.6	Which by the way, Jess thinks is because of her Bill Nye the Science Guy
0:54.0	impression that she did while she was narrating it hilarious. You'll
0:58.0	definitely be inspired by Jess's story and the practical insights that she
1:01.3	shares during this interview.
1:03.0	And when you're done, be sure to subscribe to the Positive University
1:05.9	podcast wherever you listen.
1:07.5	That way you'll get notified every week when we release new episodes.
1:10.9	We'd also appreciate you rating it and leaving a review. It only takes a minute and helps a ton, especially for those of you listening via Apple Podcast. You can also jump over to positive University.com for easy access to past episodes and to sign up for updates by email where we also provide free resources.
1:28.2	So that's Positive University.com.
1:30.3	All right, let's join John and Jess.
1:31.5	Hey, this is John Gordon. All right, let's join John and Jess.
1:40.0	Hey, this is John Gordon, and I'm with Positive University, and today my guess is Jess Ekstrom. Jess is the founder of Headbands of Hope,
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