Category: Confidence

Dear Tony Baxter: How one Disney Imagineer’s fearlessness taught us all to be brave

Disney Cicerone May 7, 2026 0 Comments
Dear Tony Baxter, It must have been frustrating to be so youngwanting to be heard but wondering if you had a right to do more than listentrying to find your place at 22 in the shadow of Walt’s legacycobbling together a new idea from pieces of older onesfragments from the original dream-buildersof the park that you loved. It must have been heartbreaking to watch your detailed models go into...

The Armor We Choose: Finding Grace in Painful Places

Disney Cicerone December 30, 2022 0 Comments
Armor. That's what she had to put on, every day. Amidst cat calls, pranks, and those who watched and waited for her to fail so they could pounce, Grace Huntington walked a daily minefield with invisible protective gear making her not as invisible as she wished she could be. Walt had warned her about this in her job interview for the story department at Walt Disney Studios. He was honest with...

How Disney Gives Us the Magic of Confidence

Disney Cicerone August 3, 2021 2 Comments
On a recent visit to Avenger’s Campus, I witnessed a kind of Disney magic I had never seen before. Now, this is really saying something. I’ve held my babies with teary eyes during fireworks, I’ve been pixie-dusted for once-in-a-lifetime moments, and I have witnessed a gentle snow falling on Main Street USA in Disneyland Paris at Christmastime. But this moment was one that will go down in...