Jessica Ekstrom gives back to childhood cancer research
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
During an internship at a wish granting organization, Jess found that girls loved to wear headbands after losing their hair to chemotherapy. Therefore, during her junior year, she founded HeadbandsofHope.org. For every headband purchased, one is given to a girl with cancer and $1 is donated to fund childhood cancer research.
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| 0:52.0 | Jessica, extra. Jess, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:56.0 | I am ready to go, John. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes. During an internship at a wish-granting organization, |
| 1:02.0 | Jess found that girls love to wear headbands after losing their hair to chemotherapy. |
| 1:08.0 | Therefore, during her junior year, she founded headbandsofhope.org. |
| 1:14.0 | For every headband purchased, one is given to a girl with cancer and one dollar is donated to fund childhood cancer research. |
| 1:22.0 | Jess, have you given fire nation just a little insight? |
| 1:26.0 | So take a minute. Tell us about you personally and then expound upon your biz. |
| 1:30.0 | Sure. Yeah, I was in college and I was studying journalism and found a call for an internship at a wish-granting organization. |
| 1:38.0 | And thought it would be a great experience. |
| 1:40.0 | And when I was there, I saw that there were so many girls who love to wear headbands after losing their hair to chemotherapy. |
| 1:46.0 | But a lot of organizations provided them with wigs, which they weren't all necessarily comfortable with. |
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