Jamie Hess
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130 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Jamie Hess’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I used to love 48 hours and Dateline, but like I, and I love true crime podcasts, but like, I don't want it to end with like, and her body was found in a ditch. It's like, now that I'm a mom, I'm too protective to like deal with that. I'm like, especially when it's about kids.
So I was like, how can I take people through a story like that where there's like a cliffhanger and you're like, what's going to happen next? And then leave them with a really motivational outcome. That would be nice, right? So my why, my because, the answer to the question you asked me earlier was my addiction. I went through addiction. I went to a really dark place.
And then as a byproduct, I got better. I gained gratitude and it's fueled my success going forward. And as I went to more entrepreneurial conferences and summits, I realized every eight, nine figure entrepreneur has the same story. Any celebrity thought leader, we all have our why story. Something happened. It taught us a great lesson, usually along the way.
And then we came out on the other side, a different person. So each episode, each week, I tell the story of one person. I go and interview them and I do almost all my interviews in person. So I am flying around the country with a crew, sitting with these people because I just want to be heart to heart, eyeball to eyeball and hear it.
And I mean, I've had people like Rainn Wilson and Nev Schulman from Catfish and Gabby Bernstein. I mean, such cool people. And we get into their story and I tell it in a way where you feel like you're listening to an audio book. But the goal is to show people that if they are going through that hard process, point in their life right now.
Not only is it not the end, like we always have to see the darkness before the brightest light. What might be on the other side of that? If you play your cards right, right? If you lean into it, lean into the suck because there's something to be learned there. What's on the other side of that is amazing. And so I really believe that's a big part of gratitude is like almost the disruptive part.
It's really easy to be grateful when everything's
But learning to be grateful for the parts that suck because you know that they're there to teach you a big lesson. I think that's like gratitude. You know, the rest is gratitude 101. This is like AP gratitude.
Well, I was a publicist for my whole 20s and I was born to be a PR girl. Like I was just born to do it. I loved that job, but I was always fighting against myself because PR, as you can maybe imagine, I don't know if you know a lot about the world of public relations, but especially in New York City, it's like champagne and cocaine and models and bottles. And that's just what it is, you know?
And it was a very easy job for me to lose myself in. I was doing a lot of nightclub and hospitality hotels, you know, PR for those types of places. I was out all the time. You felt like you had to be out like doing drugs in the bathroom with the writers from page six, because that's like how you got further in your career. And it's like, it was hard.
It was very hard to get sober in that environment. For a couple of years, I was actually the publicist for Crowbar, which is the biggest nightclub in New York, Chicago, Miami. So like literally in the belly of the beast. So there was a lot of... And I think this happens to a lot of addicts. You get your whole identity wrapped up in that. Without the drugs, am I even me anymore?
Because am I even a publicist? Am I even cool? Am I even part of New York nightlife? When I came out on the other side, I really had to give myself a little time to get my sea legs. And to be honest, I had to take a little time away. I went back to my sport. Fun side note, I'm a horseback rider. So I had to... Burn it to the ground and build it back up.
I took three years to go teach riding to young women and go back to the working outdoors and getting dirty and working with animals. And then after three years, I woke up and I was like, okay. I'm ready to go home. I was in LA at the time. I'm ready to go back. And I came back to New York and I hit the ground running.
What happened on the other side of that is the part I always tell when I'm up keynote speaking, which is this incredible, I started falling up. And it was not even, I didn't get any new accreditations. I didn't learn any new skills, but as a by-product of showing up, as a new, different, whole version of myself because I did the work.
And the work, again, the work wasn't something I could do in like a six-week workshop. What you're hearing me say is I went to rehab and took three years to rebuild myself from the ground up, dismantling my identity from New York City nightlife, rebuilding my ego and my place in the world. And then I came back, by the way, to my high-power career. I didn't have to give it up.
I had to build myself back into a place where I came there, not a shell of a person, but a whole person.
And so I start following up. So I start getting promoted. By the way, three-year employment gap. Had to explain that. Came back after teaching little girls how to ride ponies for three years. And I was like, I'd like to be a high-powered publicist. And they're like, what about the last three years, babe?
Side note for anybody wondering, I got all my high-powered friends, editors, writers, celebrity friends of mine, to write a little blurb about what it had been like to work with me in my early days of PR. to show a testament, you know, hey, she's been out of it for a couple of years, but this is someone who, so where there's a will, there's a way is what I'm saying.
Got myself a job and started falling up. And I believe it's because I came to work every day with a humble spirit of gratitude. Everyone else in the office was doing what people in offices do. The West Coast office was fighting with the East Coast office and all the PR girls were being catty and they were fighting with each other. And I was just happy to be there.
And the reason I was just happy to be there was because I know that it didn't have to go down like that. that I potentially should have been dead. And by showing up as this different person, people just, it was magnetic. It was magnetic. And within three years, I got promoted from account executive to senior account executive, to managing director, to VP, to SVP.
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