Apr 15, 2025 · 1 hr · 10 segments
Brand reinvention is about so much more than products! Sharon Price John is the CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop, but she's also a storyteller, an innovator, and an empathetic leader who knows how to…
Sharon Price-JohnGuest
Lisa MillerHost
I would suppose in my small town, if I, you know, really think about it, I can't sit and say it was this person or this person.

She was amazing woman, but you know, just my mom and I don't look back on things and think women were somehow limited.

Like we just, do what we do you know people just move aside and that's sort of the community that I was built you know kind of raised in nobody's like oh you can't do that because you know you're this or you nobody ever nobody ever said I don't remember

And I feel like I was the same way because my mom, she didn't work for part of when I was younger, but then she ended up working.

And I always just felt like she was such a good model, role model on, you know, she balanced, you know, kids and work and always was there, you know, to pick us up when we made our mistakes and let us fail, you know, let us fail and fail often.

So we learned, but I never felt like there was any, you can't do that or women can't do that.

it was sort of like equal, you know, when my mom and dad would disagree about things and they, you know, and they were on different political, they were supporting different political parties.

She paused for a little while there while my brother and I were really young.

And I actually remember the first day that she went to work and I got sick that day.

I would suppose in my small town, if I, you know, really think about it, I can't sit and say it was this person or this person.

She was amazing woman, but you know, just my mom and I don't look back on things and think women were somehow limited.

Like we just, do what we do you know people just move aside and that's sort of the community that I was built you know kind of raised in nobody's like oh you can't do that because you know you're this or you nobody ever nobody ever said I don't remember

And I feel like I was the same way because my mom, she didn't work for part of when I was younger, but then she ended up working.

And I always just felt like she was such a good model, role model on, you know, she balanced, you know, kids and work and always was there, you know, to pick us up when we made our mistakes and let us fail, you know, let us fail and fail often.

So we learned, but I never felt like there was any, you can't do that or women can't do that.

it was sort of like equal, you know, when my mom and dad would disagree about things and they, you know, and they were on different political, they were supporting different political parties.

She paused for a little while there while my brother and I were really young.

And I actually remember the first day that she went to work and I got sick that day.
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