Back in the day, before kids became internet influencers raking in millions of dollars, running away to join the circus was nearly every child’s dream — and every mom and dad’s nightmare. Even today, parents beg their artistically inclined offspring to major in business “just in case.”
But sometimes you can join the circus, fall head over heels in love and get a happy ending. Yeah, it never hurts to have a business degree to keep your feet on the ground.
Just ask Allison Blei, who founded Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium with her husband, Ivan España, a fifth-generation member of a celebrated Mexican-American circus family…