{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Making It with Jess Ekstrom","title":"Making it to...raising Jess Ekstrom with Jess's Mom, Laurie Ekstrom","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3222,"description":"Have you ever realized that the person who shaped you most never once thought of themselves as remarkable? Have you ever sat down with someone you've known your whole life — and learned something that changed everything?This episode is a little different. Today's guest isn't a founder or a bestselling author or a keynote speaker. She's something harder to find and harder to hold onto. She's Laurie Ekstrom — Jess's mom, Lala to the grandkids, and the woman who quietly, consistently made it possible for everyone around her to go for it. Jess recorded this episode to celebrate the launch of her book, Making It Without Losing It, because Laurie is — in so many ways — what that book is about: finding peace in the present while still believing in something bigger.This conversation is warm, funny, unfiltered, and at times, genuinely surprising. There's a Waffle House run at midnight. There's a confession about being unplanned. There's the story of a FLaurieda beach, a shared earbud, and a wedding song played during the darkest financial chapter of their family's life. And there's a two-minute message to Jack and Ellie — Jess's kids — that might be the most honest parenting advice in the whole episode.Tune In For:The 2 AM email Laurie sent Jess after watching her first local news segment — and the revelation it sparked about purpose, motherhood, and what contribution actually looks like\"My brainwaves are so flat I don't think I could work a toll booth\" — Laurie's honest account of what the early stay-at-home years actually felt like, and the one thing Jess's dad said that turned it aroundThe Bernie Madoff chapter — what it was like when a family betrayal and a financial collapse arrived at the same time, and how Jess's dad responded with a single earbud and their wedding song on the beachWhy the candy drawer matters more than you think — and what Laurie got right about raising kids with an abundance mindset around food (and everything else)The midnight Waffle House run...","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}