When Passion Pays Your Paycheck: What Motivates You?


Interested in creating your own business? This creativity success story began 22 years ago after school in a Chicago suburb. In the late 80s, I lived for a few months with my cousins in Chicago. During that time, my cousin’s son Jon Kubricht was bitten by the bead bug and started making jewelry and selling to family and friends. Encouraged by his parents and small successes at bead shows and church bazaars, Jon started a little company he called Da Beads (after Chicago’s...

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