Making It with Jess Ekstrom

Jess Ekstrom

jess@jessekstrom.com

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Booking Overview

A women-forward business and personal-achievement show featuring high-caliber leaders, founders, and trailblazers who help guests amplify their ideas, influence, and income. It’s a strong booking fit for entrepreneurs and authors focused on leadership, measurable impact, and overcoming career barriers.

Metrics

Episodes: 144

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 879.0k subscribers

Instagram: 48.0k followers

Contact Information

jess@jessekstrom.com

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Host

Jess Ekstrom - Jess Ekstrom is a Forbes Top Rated Speaker and the host of Making It with Jess Ekstrom. The show focuses on amplifying women’s voices and features speakers, authors, and entrepreneurs.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Speakers, authors, and entrepreneurs with credible platforms (e.g., recognized founders, prominent authors, major public figures) and a strong personal or mission-based angle aligned to business impact and/or women’s empowerment.
Required Achievements:  
Founding and scaling a business or brand, Publishing a book, High public visibility (e.g., elite athletes, top speakers, widely known leaders), Demonstrated social impact (e.g., ethical entrepreneurship, maternal health advocacy, gender pay gap work)

Recent Guest Discussions

Jessica Honegger - Ethical Entrepreneurship, Building From A Constrained Origin Story, Scaling And Reinvention In Direct Sales Disruption, Integrating Family And Leadership, Women’s Empowerment

Allyson Felix - Training For Late-career Olympics, Resilience After Traumatic Pregnancy, Entrepreneurship And Footwear Design, Maternal Health Protections And Gender Bias

Meggie Palmer - Dopamine And Ambition, Anxious Vs Inspired Ambition, Legacy And Obituary Exercise, Navigating Corporate Vs Entrepreneurship, Postpartum Confidence And Growth

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Women, Public Speaking, Author

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Making It with Jess Ekstrom
:

Making it to Adoption and Inc's Fastest Growing Company with Jessica Honegger

June 30, 2026

Recorded on location in Austin, Texas, Jess catches up with long-time friend Jessica Honegger, the visionary founder of Noonday Collection. Jessica shares the raw, inspiring origin story of how she pawned her grandmother’s gold jewelry to build a website and launched Noonday as a simple fundraiser to finance her son's adoption from Rwanda. After scaling Noonday into an explosive powerhouse and one of Inc.’s fastest-growing companies, she faced a massive crossroads when post-COVID market shift...

Making it to the Most Decorated Track & Field Athlete in the World with Allyson Felix

June 16, 2026

In this special live episode of Making It with Jess Ekstrom, recorded in front of a live audience at Mic Drop Live, Jess sits down with Allyson Felix, the most decorated track and field athlete of all time. While her medal count is legendary, her true legacy lies in her resilience off the track. Allyson opens up about her bold decision to train for the LA 2028 Olympics at age 40, defying societal expectations for women in their 40s. She shares the raw details of navigating a traumatic pregnan...

My live book signing at Argent, hosted by Meggie Palmer

June 02, 2026

Have you ever hit the thing you were chasing — the milestone, the launch, the moment — and felt the goalpost immediately move? Have you ever wondered if ambition itself could be both the engine and the thief?This episode is a live one. Jess is in New York City at Argent's flagship store for the launch of her new book Making It Without Losing It — officially a USA Today bestseller — and she's in conversation with her longtime friend and founder of Pep Talk Her, Meggie Palmer. You're going to h...

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