Jump Start Your Joy

Click here to get email notifications for each episode.   Show Notes: Jess Ekstrom is the energetic CEO and founder of Headbands of Hope, and the developer of the Mic Drop Workshop. I had the pleasure of meeting Jess in Atlanta last year, and knew from the moment she shared the mission of her company (and it only further made me love her when she quoted Will Ferrell) that I wanted to talk to her more, and to have her on the show.   Jess Ekstrom and I talk about: Her earliest sparks of joy: food, and going on a scavenger hunt for a new skateboard that had her name spray painted on it How she started Headbands of Hope The insights she learned working for Make a Wish, and having met the owner of Toms shoes as she was creating her company Sometimes the things that are most earth shattering and game changing are the simplest How to get to inspiration from frustration Her Mic Drop workshop, and how it fills the need of having more women speakers at conferences and conventions Why we both love Will Ferrell and how