Jill Ekstrom
Writer | Storytelling, Blogs, Essays & Content
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A personal essay exploring our relationship with technology, distraction, and the difficulty of being truly present.
What begins as an observation about people using their phones during dinner becomes a deeper reflection on how we use distraction to avoid uncomfortable emotions, boredom, loneliness, and self-awareness. The piece follows my own experience of breaking that pattern and learning to become more present in everyday moments.
This work demonstrates my ability to combine personal storytelling, observation, vulnerability, and reflection to create relatable long-form content with a clear narrative and takeaway.
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This customer experience essay explores how small moments of customer service can have a lasting impact on customer loyalty. Drawing from a personal retail experience, I examine the importance of acknowledgment, employee engagement, and making customers feel valued. The piece demonstrates my ability to turn real-world customer experiences into engaging, insight-driven content for brands and businesses.
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A personal essay about starting over after losing my job, rediscovering my interests, and learning to trust my own instincts through the surprisingly humbling process of baking bread.
What began as an experiment with new hobbies became a lesson in self-discovery, persistence, and letting go of the need for outside validation.
This piece combines personal storytelling, humor, and reflection to explore what happens when we stop trying to make our lives impressive to other people and start figuring out what genuinely makes us happy.
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A personal essay exploring sobriety, identity, family dynamics, and the unexpected emotional reckoning that can follow addiction. The piece combines personal storytelling with reflection on what it means to rebuild a life after leaving addiction behind.
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