Bob Weis

You don't understand that they relate to you when you first see them.

I'm Bob Weis.

Welcome to Dream Chasing, conversations with extraordinary people whose talent, drive, and passion have turned their dreams into experiences that change the way we work, play, and celebrate life.

Well, hello, Dream Chasers.

It's Jody Maberry, and we are about to have a wonderful conversation with someone that Bob Weis has a very long history with.

Bob, I'm just going to let you introduce him.

Well, Joe Rohde is just an incredible force of life and creativity.

I've known Joe now for probably at least three decades, I guess, since we first met and started working together.

We added a new feature this time where just at random spots, I would pick someone and say, "Okay, ask Lee a question not based on your problem that you're here for." That was wonderful.

We had two guest speakers, Jeff Knoll from the Disney Institute, Bob Weis from...

Well, he president of Walt Disney Imagineering.

And something I noticed this time, Lee, you may have noticed this too, perhaps more than any other time, people that brought up their challenge after seeing the speakers would reference something they learned from Jeff or from Bob.

You're not going to become an expert at everything all at once.

I'm Bob Weis.

Welcome to Dream Chasing, conversations with extraordinary people whose talent, drive, and passion have turned their dreams into experiences that change the way we work, play, and celebrate life.

Jodi, I'm so excited to have Kathy here.

I wish there was a way to describe it in a way that you can sit down and just do it.

But you've got to know the people.

Thank you for listening to Dream Chasing with Bob Weis.

I'm Jody Maberry.

And then Dr. Jessica Drake Thomas refers to it as the spellbinding witchy adventure we've all been waiting for.

But the endorsement that really ties everything together for me comes from Bob Weis.

Oh, yeah, because he is the retired president of Walt Disney Imagineering.

Which firmly validates the themed entertainment connection that we just discussed.

Yes.

The protagonist's survival narrative maps directly onto the real world survival narratives of marginalized communities fighting against systemic erasure.

Which brings us back to Bob Weis' point about unconscious bias.

The author is acutely aware of the baggage the reader brings to the book.