{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Making It with Jess Ekstrom","title":"My live book signing at Argent, hosted by Meggie Palmer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2829,"description":"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 hear sirens. You're going to hear the room. You are, as Jess says, in there with them. And honestly? It makes this one of the most electric conversations in the feed.They dig into the dopamine science behind why we're never satisfied at the finish line (hint: your brain is getting the hit somewhere else entirely), what it really means to be ambitiously present, and why Jess signed up for stand-up comedy classes five months postpartum just to remind herself it was okay to be bad at things. The room also gets in on it — with questions from the audience about corporate life vs. entrepreneurship, raising kids who know how to fail, and the uncomfortable but necessary exercise of writing your own obituary before you need one.In This EpisodeJess and Meggie cover the core ideas behind Making It Without Losing It: the difference between anxious ambition and inspired ambition, why the smash is better than the cash, and how Jess went from measuring success by how many stages she could get on — to measuring it by how many stages she could help other women get on. Plus: live audience Q&A, a meditation on legacy, and the one question Jess keeps posted in her office that changes everything.Highlights From the Room:The dopamine study that reframes everything — why your brain rewards the anticipation and the process, not just the resultAnxious ambition vs. inspired ambition — one comes from feeling behind; the other comes from feeling calledThe piggy bank smash — and why the build might...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UeJn2_qX0SbHd9je8M1i3xYiHk_fwyHMoyDCBRs8oF8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNTBk/MGE4MGJlZWNlNDM5/ZjAxOTM5MzA2ODI3/MzUwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}