“Two years ago, I lost everything. I ended up in a small trailor in the woods of South Georgia 20 miles from the nearest town. I ended up knitting teddy bears to get myself out of there. It took six months, it took walking 7 miles a day to the nearest post office, and took a lot hope, prayer, and resilience. My teddy bears became admired, adored, and longed for.
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I’ve knit nearly 600 teddy bears in these last two years, and though people love them, I’ve only just begun what I think could be an amazing moment in entrepreneurial history, where a man, homeless and with nothing, managed to build an empire by knitting. Yeah…by KNITTING. A rough looking, bearded red neck of a man who smells of Old Spice that knits teddy bears showed the world that it takes passion, persistance, and a certain amount of humility to build a business into a brand.”
