Create Your Bright Ideas: Read, Journal, and Color Your Way to the Future You Imagine
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Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive intro and extra reflection prompts!
This interactive book for energetic, creatively minded 8- to 12-year-olds from entrepreneur Jess Ekstrom uses inspiring stories, journaling prompts, coloring pages, and creative ideas to show kids that if they want something to be different in the world, they can do something about it today!
Water the seeds of creativity in your child through this engaging book about having a positive growth mind-set. In?Create Your Bright Ideas, Jess motivates kids to be creators and ambitious doers who know they are never too young to change the world.?Create Your Bright Ideas?helps kids discover their passions by offering
- journaling prompts to bring out your child's bright ideas;
- personal stories about entrepreneurship and perseverance; and
- practical advice for discovering and using their unique gifts
Jess never predicted that her time selling cookies and lemonade as a kid was foreshadowing founding her company Headbands of Hope, which helps millions of kids with illnesses. It wasn't always smooth sailing, but each obstacle she faced put her on an unexpected path of inspiration, helping her discover the amazing things she could become and do, like starting multiple businesses, writing a book, and helping millions of people feel more confident in their story. Now Jess shows kids how to channel their own energy and unique interests to create something meaningful. With inspiration from Jess's bestselling book?Chasing the Bright Side, this jump-right-in guide created just for kids and tweens is a great gift for
- Christmas and birthdays;
- elementary- and middle-school graduations; and
- young world changers who want to do something lasting but don't know where to start.
Create Your Bright Ideas?is a great listen while waiting for the bus, for reading time at school, or right before bed. A powerful and fun reminder that many CEOs and nonprofit leaders started their careers with a lemonade stand,?Create Your Bright Ideas?takes kids on an exciting journey of purpose, self-discovery, and bold action.
Coloring pages, journaling prompts, and interactive exercises are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Jess Ekstrom is the founder of Headbands of Hope, a company that donates headbands to kids with illnesses with every headband sold. Headbands of Hope has been featured on TODAY, Good Morning America, QVC, and The View and has been worn by celebrities like Kelsea Ballerini and Khloé Kardashian. More importantly, Headbands of Hope has donated over one million headbands, reaching every single children's hospital in America and twenty-two countries. After starting her company, Jess wanted to use her ups and downs to help other women become valued as experts in their industries. In 2020, she started Prompted.io, a self-improvement platform delivering Prompt Pathways by world-renowned thought leaders. Jess is also the author of Chasing the Bright Side and creator of Mic Drop Workshop, an e-learning company that helps women tell and sell their stories as thought leaders. For three years Jess lived and traveled full time in her Airstream with her husband, Jake, and their seventy-pound dog, Ollie. Now they reside in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Nadia Fisher is a self-taught artist and children’s book illustrator based in Washington, DC, who works digitally using Procreate and traditionally using watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil. Raised in Italy, just outside of Venice, Nadia draws inspiration from her childhood memories, her daughter, and her advocacy for social justice and inclusion. Wanting to reflect the diversity in the world, Nadia wants children from all backgrounds to be able to see themselves in the books they read, and she strives to instill within them a sense of confidence and joy.
