The heart of our mission is to find the amazing souls that breathe life into our communities. In the recent weeks, we’ve had the privilege to connect with some incredible artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and rabble rousers and we can’t begin to express how impressed we are with the incredible group below. Check out our favorite stories from across the Voyage family.
Justine Govea
I grew up in the shop for as long as I can remember. My mother has been cutting hair for over 35 years. I remember when she worked at a local hair salon, and I would go to work with her. She eventually opened her own shop years later. Read more>>
Aswini Sivaswamy 
My story really begins at home, shaped by the family and elders around me and who raised me. My mother, grandmothers, great-grandmothers taught me to respect the earth, appreciate natural ingredients, and show care through food and hospitality. They also taught me humility and to treat everyone with equal dignity. My father brought a different influence: an engineer’s curiosity and determination to solve problems. Read more>>
Aileene Rosales 
My journey with Andy Minis started with a vision to create something different in the event industry. What began as a passion for creating memorable experiences has grown into a full-service event business specializing in luxury catering, unique food and beverage concepts, rentals, balloons, and custom event designs. From the beginning, I wanted to offer more than just food or decorations. Read more>>
Diego Rosales 
My start in music began at a young age. A lot of my knowledge and understanding of music comes from being an instrumentalist where I grew up playing the trumpet since I was 11-years-old. Since then I have been a student to music and all that it has to offer. Read more>>
Mars Morningstar 
I have been into anime and cosplay for well over a decade, and have been to many an anime convention over that span of time! I grew up super cringey and dorky, your average ”kawaii girl” LOL! I have always been a creative person. Read more>>
Cary Austin 
We started our drone services business after years in the videography industry. Driven by our desire to bring high quality aerial story telling and data collection to the doorstep of industries across Austin. We started out slowly, doing projects for free to get our foot in the door. Eventually, through many trials and errors and iterations, we have arrived where we are today. Read more>>
Marsha Munoz 
Our journey with Highland Park Elementary Ballet Folklórico began in 2008 with a vision to celebrate culture, build community, and bring the beauty of traditional Mexican dance to our school. That vision was sparked during our school’s very first Diversity Night, when a Ballet Folklórico group from an elementary school in Austin performed. Read more>>
Jennifer Jeffs 
Le Petit Ranch (LPR) brings a western touch to events through live customization using our mini branding irons. Guests can get hats and leather goods personalized on the spot, leaving with something uniquely theirs. LPR was born in August 2024, after almost a year of dreaming it up. Read more>>
Lenina Yin 
When I was 19 (2012) I moved from San Diego to Houston for cosmetology school. I went to the Aveda institute and graduated in cosmetology in August of 2013. My plan originally was to move back home but given the cost of living I deceived to stay here. Read more>>
Alicia Connor
Known for always being positive, surprisingly to me I am also positive during my own hard times, and I don’t mean smiling through hard times when that feels uncomfortable. I have a grounded sense of knowing this is temporary. Read more>>
Kristina Kennedy 
I come from a family of entrepreneurs. My dad owned a pool repair business, my mom ran music and play classes for parents and kids, and my brother owns a real estate appraisal company. You’d think that made me destined to start my own company, but it did the opposite. Read more>>
Jessica Shedrick-Rendon 
My path into design definitely hasn’t been a straight line. Before becoming a designer, I served in the Marine Corps and later worked in criminal justice and social services. These careers and experiences shaped my love of helping and supporting people through challenges but I was missing something. Read more>>
Amber Hoffmann 
My story has never really followed a straight line, and looking back, I think that’s one of the things I love most about it. I’ve always been someone who believes you can have more than one passion, more than one career, and certainly more than one chapter in life. I began my career in the beauty industry over 22 years ago as a hairstylist. Read more>>
Zuleiha Yusuf 
I have always been a medium of unadulterated expression. It started before I understood what it was. As a barely-there child, I was obsessed with sounding out words, tasting them, turning them over like smooth stones. I loved rhythm and instrumentals, and my body always answered before my mind could. Then came the books. I read so many that I stopped caring about the titles. Read more>>
Su-Hwei Tan DeWitt 
I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember. Art was one of the first ways I learned to understand and communicate with the world around me. Growing up, I explored everything from drawing, painting, and mixed media to theater and dance. Read more>>
Austin Beck 
I am a true Austinite through and through. My parents grew up here and met at Westwood High School in North Austin. My grandparents on my dad’s side both worked for the University of Texas in Downtown Austin. My grandfather worked in construction and my grandmother worked at a daycare on campus. Read more>>
Leticia Hernandez 
My journey into content creation started when I was 21, while I was a college student at UTSA and a new mom. I was balancing motherhood, school, work, and figuring out what I wanted my future to look like. Read more>>
Dustin Caputo 
“Curator of emotional, energetic, and euphoric tunes, with a feel-good atmosphere” That’s how Dustin describes himself as a DJ. Never afraid to dive deep into the soul, as music is his therapy. His goal is to create a safe space for music lovers alike, to experience the true power of music. Read more>>
Kim Jones 
My journey to interior photography has not exactly been linear. About two years ago, I was a decade into my interior design career and feeling burnt out and unfulfilled. I knew I needed a change, but I wasn’t sure what that looked like. Around that time, I took a trip to Marfa, one of my favorite places to visit, but something different clicked this time. Read more>>
Lorraine Jaimes Martinez 
For more than 30 years, my life’s work has centered on advocating for children and families. What began as a career in Child Protective Services eventually led to foster care agency leadership, the development of specialized Medicaid healthcare programs, executive leadership, and national consulting. Read more>>
Javier Jaimes Jr. 
My story begins with my parents, Javier Jaimes Sr. and my mom, Sara Jaimes. They immigrated from Mexico, and I grew up in South Austin, in the Emerald Forest neighborhood. Some of my earliest memories are of both of them working hard, finding opportunities, and teaching us by example how to build something for our family. Read more>>
Julia Klimanova 
My journey into photography has been a journey of discovering people, emotions, and the beauty that makes each of us unique. I studied art photography in St. Petersburg, Russia, where I also took courses in studio and reportage photography. Read more>>
Joe Lyimo
My name is Joe Lyimo, and I create and perform under the name Forever Young Joy, or FYJ. I’m a Tanzanian-born musician, poet, and writer from Mwanza, now based in Vienna, Austria. My work brings together music, spoken word, and storytelling, but the thread connecting it all is a desire to make sense of life and connect with people honestly. Read more>>
Payton McGaha 
I was born and raised in Temple/Belton Texas with my parents and my older sister. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved taking photos. I vividly remember taking our family digital camera and doing a ‘photoshoot’ with my dog in our back yard when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Read more>>
Harley Hebert 
My Name is Harley Hebert. I have been in the hair industry for six years now. I attended Charles and Sues School of Cosmetology in Bryan Texas. I moved to and started working in Cedar Park in 2022. I opened my own independent salon suite, Fane Salon, in February of 2025. Opening my own business has changed my life in ways I cannot imagine. Read more>>
Katie Nagji 
I’ve been designing closets for over a decade, spending much of my career in Manhattan working for a larger closet company. I’m originally from Austin, and when my family and I moved back, I saw an opportunity to finally pursue something I had been dreaming about for years – starting my own company. Read more>>
Taylor Johnson 
My career has taken me through some pretty interesting places, but the common thread has always been a fascination with human performance and helping people become better at what they do. I started my career in collegiate athletics, working in strength and conditioning and sports science at universities like Auburn, UCLA, USC, and San Jose State. Read more>>
Clay Vaughan 
I’m Clay Vaughan, CEO of Good Agency, a StoryBrand Certified marketing agency for founder-led service businesses, and founder of Good Studios, a photo and video production studio in San Marcos, serving Austin. I started as a storyteller behind a camera. For years I thought the job was making something beautiful. Then I learned that beautiful doesn’t always mean effective. Read more>>
Seth Houdeshell 
I grew up in San Antonio, TX, and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology at Trinity Unversity. I also attended the University of Guanajuato in Mexico for 1 semester where I studied painting. I came to Austin in 1997 for grad school and received a Master of Social Work degree in 1999. I have been a practicing therapist in Austin for over 27 years. Read more>>
Diana Patricia Guizado 
I’m a multidisciplinary Mexican artist drawn to storytelling that explores my cultural roots in provocative, unconventional, and surreal ways with a feminist lens. I was born and raised in central Mexico. My dad is from Toluca, an hour from Ciudad de México, and my mom is from Anáhuac, a small town in Nuevo León forty-five minutes from Texas. Read more>>
Camila Flores 
When I was 10 years old, my family and I moved to the United States from my hometown of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, to Del Rio, Texas. Being introduced to a new culture and language was challenging, and my twin sister, Cathia Flores, and I struggled with the language barrier. During that time, we became one another’s closest friends and found comfort in the arts. Read more>>
Jasamine King 
My name is Jasamine King. I was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Austin, where my journey as a beauty entrepreneur began. I consider myself a self-made hustler and entrepreneur, and I give God all the glory for the strength, faith, and determination that have kept me going. Read more>>
Bobby Vasquez 
My journey to entrepreneurship began long before I launched Apollo Aerialography. Throughout my life, I’ve been influenced by the example set by my father, who taught me the value of hard work, perseverance, and building meaningful relationships. After retiring from the U.S. Read more>>
Christine Williams 
My path to becoming a cookie artist was anything but linear. Before starting Cookies del Mundo, I worked in fields ranging from technology and real-estate management to education and literacy tutoring, and each chapter taught me something about problem-solving, patience, creativity, and connecting with people. Read more>>
Arshia Gupta 
Since I was a kid, I have always loved performing. My cousins and I would choreograph dances and perform them in front of our family. I loved singing songs during karaoke nights at family gatherings. In middle school, I found myself doing choir, theatre, and taking Bollywood dance classes. I started solo singing for the first time at school talent shows. Read more>>
Maya Cytron Glazer 
I’ve always been passionate about design and creativity, but my journey into interior design happened quite unexpectedly. I started my career as a footwear designer and had my own shoe brand. When my family and I moved to the United States about 13 years ago, my original plan was to continue my footwear business here. Read more>>
Jessica Ishak 
I started doing hair in California. I worked under a Wella educator at Alan Edwards. After my training I went to work in a small salon on my own in Tarzana. Then I decided to work at John Of Italy in Westlake Village. I received more training, European and American.. After several years working at the salon I got to work under amazing educators. Read more>>
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