by Motivated Magazine | Jan 8, 2013 | Brand
People often ask me how I managed to take the idea for Build-A-Bear Workshop¨ and create the successful brand that it is today. I tell them that it started when I simply allowed myself to dream. I have always been a dreamer, and in 1971 when I graduated from...
by Motivated Magazine | Jan 8, 2013 | Negotiate
In poker, to win big, you play big, or at least that’s always been my motto. I’ve been playing the game casually since I was four-years-old and it never fails to bring out the risk-taking side of me. Recently, I found myself sitting at a dollar poker table in a...
by Motivated Magazine | Jan 8, 2013 | Explore
I spend a great deal of my life taking risks. As the host of the Angry Planet TV series, I often find myself chasing after tornadoes, driving into the eye of land-falling hurricanes, or climbing into the crater of an exploding volcano. I’ve dove with sharks, swam with...
by Motivated Magazine | Jan 8, 2013 | Balance
“Work/life balance.” Yes, it’s a phrase we hear often. But if you want the truth, I don’t think it really exists – at least not in the way most “experts” say it does. I, like most people, have never been able to balance the scales of work and life...
by Motivated Magazine | Jan 8, 2013 | Interviews
So when did your entrepreneurial spirit first rise up, you know, that spark that gets flamed into an inferno? Do you remember when that was? It’s interesting…because I didn’t see myself as an entrepreneur until I started my first business. I viewed myself almost as...
