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Jess Ekstrom

Chasing The Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, And Write Your Own Story Hardcover – 24 February 2020

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One flicker of hope. That's all it takes to catapult yourself into the life you’ve always imagined. Join entrepreneur and bestselling author Jess Ekstrom as she shares her journey to creating good in the world while fulfilling her own dreams -- and teaches you how to do the same.

Do you have dreams for yourself and the world that are tucked away in your box of somedays What would happen if today was the day you opened the box And what if that box was the key to a better tomorrow

InChasing the Bright Side, Jess Ekstrom shares her own inspirational story of how optimism helped her overcome multiple challenges, and the dynamic ways her mindset propelled her as a young entrepreneur, international speaker, and philanthropist.

Jess teaches us that success is not born out of skill, school, where we're from, who we know, or what we scored on the SAT. None of us were bornready, but we are born with something more important than skills. We're born with optimism -- the initial seed for success. Optimism fuels the belief that you can be the one to create the good the world needs. But you've got to hone it, practice it, and choose to livefromit.

Chasing the Bright Side will give you the practical tools and encouragement you need to:

Embrace the life-changing power of optimism
Activate your unique purpose
Write your own story

Jess's story is sure to inspire you to start Chasing the Bright Side -- right where you are.

Praise for Chasing the Bright Side:

"Chasing the Bright Side is essential reading for anyone facing a challenge, in work or in life. With emotion, humility, and humor (and some amazing stories), Jess Ekstrom not only demonstrates how anyone with a dream can eventually persevere, but also shows by example how we all can tap into the passion to do so. It's the book I wish I had read before starting my own entrepreneurial journey, but luckily it's not too late for everyone else. It's a page-turner that you won't be able to put down until you've finished but holds lessons that will reveal themselves to you for a lifetime."

--Marc Randolph, Netflix cofounder and first CEO

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224 pages
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Thomas Nelson US
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24 February 2020
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15.88 x 2.16 x 23.75 cm
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0785229329
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978-0785229322

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Stop wishing for a better world. Start creating one.

Success is not born out of skill, school, where we're from, who we know, or what we scored on the SAT. None of us was born ready. None of us started life knowing how to fly a plan or launch a company or knit a sweater for our dog.

But we are born with something more important than skills. We're born with optimism—the initial seed for success. Optimism fuels the belief that you can be the one to create the good the world needs. But you've got to hone it. And practice it. And determine to live from it.

-Marc Randolph, Netflix cofounder and first CEO

It's the book I wish I had read before starting my own entrepreneurial journey, but luckily it's not too late for everyone else. I'll be recommending this book to my own children, to the aspiring entrepreneurs I work with, and to everyone I meet who aspires fo find more purpose in their life. It's a page-turner that you won't be able to put down until you've finished but holds lessons that will reveal themselves to you for a lifetime.

-Marie Forleo, author of Everything Is Figureoutable

Three things you can control in life are your attitude, your effort, and your actions. If you're ready to see challenges as opportunities for growth, Chasing The Bright Side is the guide you need.

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'Chasing the Bright Side is essential reading for anyone facing a challenge, in work or in life. With emotion, humility, and humor (and some amazing stories), Jess Ekstrom not only demonstrates how anyone with a dream can eventually persevere, but also shows by example how we all can tap into the passion to do so. It's the book I wish I had read before starting my own entrepreneurial journey, but luckily it's not too late for everyone else. I'll be recommending this book to my own children, to the aspiring entrepreneurs I work with, and to everyone I meet who aspires to find more purpose in their life. It's a page-turner that you won't be able to put down until you've finished but holds lessons that will reveal themselves to you for a lifetime.' Marc Randolph, Netflix cofounder and first CEO

'Full disclosure: I am a huge Jess Ekstrom fan! I have seen firsthand her passion, impact, and joy for changing the lives of all she serves. Chasing the Bright Side is more than a blueprint for creating a social and business impact for new and existing leaders; it is a map to changing the world.' Ron Kitchens, CEO of Southwest Michigan First and author of Uniquely You and Community Capitalism

'Immerse yourself in Jess Ekstrom's entrepreneurial optimism and allow her remarkable journey to convince you page by page that you can achieve great things in business and life. Jess is one of my favorite girls--her big heart and self-taught tenacity touch thousands of people, making her a genuine hero to those she serves and a leader for the business community to emulate. I've jumped at every chance to feature Jess and her Headbands of Hope mission on national TV because it inspires everyone, regardless of circumstance, to chase the bright side.' Tory Johnson, Good Morning America contributor, New York Times bestselling author, and speaker

'Jess Ekstrom exudes what it means to be a Catalyst leader. She's a true hope dealer and is inspiring a new generation of change-makers. Chasing the Bright Side is not just a great book; it's a lifestyle manifesto! If you're looking to be inspired, filled up with hope, and raise your overall optimism quotient, read this book!' Brad Lomenick, former president of Catalyst and author of The Catalyst Leader and H3 Leadership

'Jess Ekstrom gives you a window into the soul of entrepreneurial optimism and tenacity in a way no other book does. Her transparency and humor will delight you and embolden you to believe that anything is possible.' Nancy Duarte, CEO and bestselling author

'Jess Ekstrom's Chasing the Bright Side will empower you to step up, take risks, and learn by doing. With humor and admirable transparency about her missteps, Jess will inspire you to live with purpose and do important work that has a profound impact on those around you.' Kristen Hadeed, author of Permission to Screw Up and founder of Student Maidand trade;

'Optimism is a daily choice. It's not naive or Pollyanna; it's a foundation for success in life. In Chasing the Bright Side, Jess Ekstrom will motivate you see your challenges as opportunities to learn and grow and believe the best is yet to come. Every day you can focus on being positive, working hard, and making others around you better, and Jess's inspiring message will help you get there.' Jon Gordon, bestselling author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership

'Optimism is never accidental. Jess Ekstrom knows this better than anyone. I love that she's given practical, encouraging, empowering steps to discovering what it takes to lead with optimism. Read this today if you want to change your tomorrow.' Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

'The key to your success is waiting for you inside the pages of Jess Ekstrom's new book, Chasing the Bright Side. She had me highlighting and nodding my head in agreement throughout the entire book. Jess's experience and writing style will have you doing the same. Your success needs an experienced cheerleader, and she's waiting for you in the pages of this book.' Lindsay Teague Moreno, entrepreneur, speaker, and author of Boss Up!

'There's no better way to transform your life than by transforming your mind-set. In Chasing the Bright Side, Jess Ekstrom will motivate you to believe that something better is possible and empower you to create lasting positive change. Optimism is a choice, and when you choose to embrace it, there's no limit to the good you can create in your life and in the world.' Jack Canfield, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Souland reg; series and author of The Success Principlesand trade;

'Three things you can control in life are your attitude, your effort, and your actions. If you're ready to see challenges as opportunities for growth, Chasing the Bright Side is the guide you need.' Marie Forleo, author of Everything Is Figureoutable

'We often believe we need grit or perseverance to overcome our struggles and our failure, but optimism is the secret ingredient to true success. Jess's inspiring story of resilience and positivity shows us that true optimism is possible, even in our darkest hours. Chasing the Bright Side is a realistic look at how we can shift our mind-set to see the positive and live a life that feels happier.' Tonya Dalton, author of The Joy of Missing Out and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co.

About the Author

Jess Ekstrom 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. The company has been featured on the TODAY Show, Vanity Fair, Seventeen, Good Morning America and more. But more importantly, they've donated over 200,000 headbands to every children's hospital in the United States and 15 countries. Jess is also a professional speaker, writer for Entrepreneur and curator of Weekly Wink (a positivity email sent every Wednesday). She's also the founder of Mic Drop Workshop, an online course with the mission of empowering more women to share their message as a speaker. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and standard poodle, Ollie.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson US (24 February 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785229329
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785229322
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 2.16 x 23.75 cm

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Jess Ekstrom 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.

Her first brush with success was selling all of her toys on eBay when she was twelve. Since then, Jess and her company have been featured on Today and Good Morning America and in Seventeen, Vanity Fair, Forbes, and People. More importantly, they have donated millions of headbands reaching every children’s hospital in the United States and in 22 countries.

Jess is also a professional speaker and founder of Mic Drop Workshop, an education company with the mission of empowering more women to share their message as a speaker. For three years, Jess lived and traveled full-time in her Airstream with her husband, Jake, and their 70 lb dog, Ollie. Now they reside in Raleigh, NC.

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Umakant S Dahad
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"CFL"
Her story started with a headband. How will yours begin?
Reviewed in Canada on 20 May 2022
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That was the last line from the book.

A book I needed when I was 'younger', but the lessons are not lost on me now!!
I'll just do a little adjusting.

"Chasing the Bright Side" is a book written for a friend (me). It's like we've been sitting down having a 'coffee and a chat.' That's how comfortable she makes the reader.

I would encourage those of you who take the time to read reviews before you make a book purchase...this is a good one!

Congratulations and continued success with 'Headbands of Hope'!

I found this quote:
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney

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Shawn
A Must Have Read for Dreamers
Reviewed in the United States on 17 May 2021
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Have you ever read a book so inspirational and relatable that you wish you had written it yourself? That's how deeply I felt every word in Chasing the Bright Side.

Jess Ekstrom manages to take her experiences and use them to connect to her readers in their own journey of growth and dream chasing. So many times I found myself so inspired in fact, that I put the book down and got to work on marketing plans or business models of my own. How could I grow more, challenge myself more, test my own comfort zone and limits more?!

As a self-published author, it's easy to forget how big your accomplishment is, because to the world you're a small fish. The fact is, when you're a self-published author, you're doing, learning, and teaching yourself more skills than a traditionally published one. You're making mistakes in your formatting. You're editing isn't up to professional standards. You totally forgot to wrap that secondary plot point up with a clean little bow and not leave readers guessing. But, whatever you're not doing right, you're doing it all on your own most of the time, and that's no small thing. Plenty of people have taken rejection from traditional publishers or literary agents and said, well, looks like that's the end off the road for me. I clearly don't deserve the chance to prove myself. What I have to offer is trash and I'm not worthy of outside recognition for it.

This book, for me, was the delivery of a complete opposite message. This book said, you're tall enough to ride this ride. You've earned your place in the game, and you can do this. Don't be afraid to be ignored, turned down, or negatively received. All of that is better than standing still in another person's impression of what you've achieved.

I bought this book because I suspected it was a good time to sprinkle some positivity into my life. And boy was I right! It has been eight years since I last published a novel. My recently published novel The River House was sparked by my mother's unexpected passing in April 2020, a time where my personal grief was overshadowed by a loss of normalcy and security that the whole world mourned together. It's a literary achievement for me that means so much more than just getting my name as an author out there. This novel mended my soul. So, needless to say, I was terrified to trust such a creation in the hands of critics. Or worse, people who would choose not to bother reading it at all because of who I am, or more accurately, who I'm not.

Whatever your dreams are, whatever stage you're at, whatever your fears or doubts may be...you've got this, and you've got to get this book, because Jess sums this very mantra up so well, providing such rich and raw examples as to WHY you've got this, because she too has been in the position of believing otherwise. She proves to the world that believing in your vision IS enough, and eventually they will see it too, but only you can deliver your gift to the world, so don't give up, and keep chasing the bright side.

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Lindsay G.
March to the Beat of Your Own Drum!
Reviewed in the United States on 6 November 2019
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Chasing the Bright Side details the amazing and comical journey of how CEO and Founder of Headbands of Hope, Jess Eckstrom, achieved her undeniable success and created change--great change. It’s about how realistic optimism, relentless individuality, and big dreams can pave a path where no one dared to traverse.

Jess does a phenomenal job exposing success for what it is: raw, organic, and hard! No perfectly manicured Instagram pictures here! But, in spite of her many trials and encounters with negative naysayers who didn’t believe enough in her and her vision, she had one thing that no one could take away from her: unyielding faith in the change she could bring about.

Jess believed wholeheartedly in the solution she could bring to the table: the creation of a company that donates headbands to children with pediatric cancer; something that had never been done before! She summarizes every figurative fall off her ladder to success. But, with every fall came a lesson, embedded with humor, and optimistic beliefs that you have to keep pushing forward toward your progress.

Through “She Made it Work” anecdotes, Jess does what most successful people don’t do: actually talk about the “OUCH, WHACK, OOPS, OH CRAP!” moments that got them to the success they have today. No one is born living at the top. It’s a series of steps: sometimes baby steps, giant leaps, and everything in between. Jess highlights that failure, although not easy to accept, is not your enemy, but rather what propels you into being successful. If you fall down in the mud because your shoes keep getting stuck, do you stay down and quit, OR do you take your shoes off and keep going?

True success isn’t about having all of your ducks lined up in a row and you certainly don’t have to have it all figured out (because who really does?!) The magnitude of your success is attributed to your fortitude, tenacity, and resourcefulness.

I came out of reading Chasing the Bright Side feeling empowered, equipped with a new perception on life, and with even more fervor in continuing to work towards making my big dreams a reality. I loved every word on every page of this book and found it to be so relatable! I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend you add this to your reading list!

Life isn’t perfect, nor should it be! Life is about your experiences and the stories you create from them. What’s your story?

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Lindsay G.

March to the Beat of Your Own Drum!

Reviewed in the United States on 6 November 2019
Chasing the Bright Side details the amazing and comical journey of how CEO and Founder of Headbands of Hope, Jess Eckstrom, achieved her undeniable success and created change--great change. It’s about how realistic optimism, relentless individuality, and big dreams can pave a path where no one dared to traverse.

Jess does a phenomenal job exposing success for what it is: raw, organic, and hard! No perfectly manicured Instagram pictures here! But, in spite of her many trials and encounters with negative naysayers who didn’t believe enough in her and her vision, she had one thing that no one could take away from her: unyielding faith in the change she could bring about.

Jess believed wholeheartedly in the solution she could bring to the table: the creation of a company that donates headbands to children with pediatric cancer; something that had never been done before! She summarizes every figurative fall off her ladder to success. But, with every fall came a lesson, embedded with humor, and optimistic beliefs that you have to keep pushing forward toward your progress.

Through “She Made it Work” anecdotes, Jess does what most successful people don’t do: actually talk about the “OUCH, WHACK, OOPS, OH CRAP!” moments that got them to the success they have today. No one is born living at the top. It’s a series of steps: sometimes baby steps, giant leaps, and everything in between. Jess highlights that failure, although not easy to accept, is not your enemy, but rather what propels you into being successful. If you fall down in the mud because your shoes keep getting stuck, do you stay down and quit, OR do you take your shoes off and keep going?

True success isn’t about having all of your ducks lined up in a row and you certainly don’t have to have it all figured out (because who really does?!) The magnitude of your success is attributed to your fortitude, tenacity, and resourcefulness.

I came out of reading Chasing the Bright Side feeling empowered, equipped with a new perception on life, and with even more fervor in continuing to work towards making my big dreams a reality. I loved every word on every page of this book and found it to be so relatable! I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend you add this to your reading list!

Life isn’t perfect, nor should it be! Life is about your experiences and the stories you create from them. What’s your story?

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Uplifting, honest and funny!
Reviewed in Canada on 29 May 2020
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A book that is perfect for these times and anytime after. A book that is funny and uplifting while actually helping you shift your mindset. Written with Jess’ honest and storytelling voice, it’s a book that will uplift you and move you. Do yourself a favour and read this book, then, read it again.

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