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Chasing the Bright Side

Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, and Write Your Own Story

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

One flicker of hope. That's all it takes to catapult yourself into the life you've always imagined.

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 born ready. None of us started life knowing how to fly a plane 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.

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

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?

Jess's journey will inspire you embrace the power of optimism in your own life, and help you reimagine your purpose so you create good in the world while fulfilling your own dreams—right where you are.

Discussion questions and info on a listener exclusive are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from September 2, 2019
      In this spectacular debut, Ekstrom, founder of Headbands of Hope, which donates to cancer research for every headband sale, provides a delightful guide to making one’s dreams come true. “I’m not going to tell you to put on a happy face and skip down the street high-fiving everyone who walks by,” she promises in her opener. Instead, she offers strategies for embracing optimism—where one can see and understand the bad, but still believe there can be good—and learning to feel comfortable with its twin qualities of fear and possibility. Ekstrom, great-niece of Bernie Madoff, developed this attitude after her family lost all of its money to the disgraced financier. After interning at Disney World and Make-a-Wish, Ekstrom noticed many girls with cancer wearing headbands instead of wigs and hats, and founded her company from her dorm room at North Carolina State University. She shares the ideas that propelled her: letting the wonder be bigger than the limits, documenting and celebrating “the wins,” having self-confidence, and getting motivated “just for today” every day. Ekstrom’s winding life story and uplifting message of betting on oneself in all situations will appeal to readers at any stage of their life or career.

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