Nashville’s Most Inspiring Stories

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.

Nate Mcgowan

Dust on a Lampshade started our freshman year at Belmont in 2017. It was a miracle that five jam-band loving dudes of different instruments (Mike “dirty” Eiler on vocals and guitar, Tristan “fingers” Ferner on keys and vocals, Drew “scooby” Kubinski on drums, Nate “big” McGowan on bass, and Max “j-hook” Mendeloff on guitar) were randomly assigned to the same floor.  Read More>>

Jinelle George

As a mother, I was determined to provide the best nutrition for our baby. After breastfeeding, I began searching for a milk product that met my high standards—one that was free of harmful ingredients and truly nourishing. But to my surprise, I couldn’t find anything on the market that I felt was good enough for our child. Read More>>

Shayna Desai

My passion for baking goes back for as long as I can remember. I would bake for family events, friends, any excuse honestly. I also found it very therapeutic during challenging times. During the covid times when everyone was trying out new hobbies, I ramped up baking and also expanded my knowledge on different ingredients. I started to look for things that were easier on the stomach to digest. Also from having eczema and being gluten sensitive, I wanted to create desserts that catered to a underrepresented crowd. Read More>>

Nashville City Golf

Bren is a co-owner and operator who brings extensive experience from both competitive and recreational golf, coupled with years of instructing golfers of all levels. His deep understanding of the golf industry is complemented by a strong background in client relations and hospitality, skills honed during his time as an ICU RN. Read More>>

Olivia Carroll

I absolutely love getting to know the sweet dynamics of each individual family/person I shoot and capturing moments big and small to cherish for a lifetime. I love every aspect of my business from the initial client interaction, through the shoot, the editing and the exciting delivery of the gallery to the client. I have a variety of locations I use regularly and recommend but I’m always open to experiencing new locations a client has in mind, no matter how far I have to travel to get there.  Read More>>

Crissonya Phillips

Making the decision to quit my 9-5 was scary but with the support of my husband, Glenn Phillips, I was able to make that transition happen with little to no disruption to my life and lifestyle. Read More>>

Alicia Johnson

This includes self love, self care, mental health, physical wellness, and healing aspects of myself that were impacted by trauma that I incurred during my childhood. I now see myself as a not only a model, but a role model for women of all ages that have a desire to shine from the inside out. I mean, that is where everyone’s true beauty originates. It does require a great deal of honesty, courage and commitment to yourself, but the sense of fulfillment that’s gained along the way is truly worth it. Read More>>

Paco Flores

I am Paco Flores also known as “Love, Pac”, I am from Del Rio, Texas a small town that borders Mexico. Growing up I always had a big imagination. I always had a passion to create. I would pick up many hobbies as a kid: Magic tricks, build forts in the woods, build gadgets, Act, dance, make movies, draw, write poetry, etc. My first passion was movies I absolutely love them, Every time my parents would ask what movies were playing at the movie theater I would be able to tell them which were playing. Read More>>

Constance Marie

Issasistahood started in 2017 from what began as a simple trip and quickly transformed into a lifelong sisterhood. My friend Anne-Marie invited me on an international trip, and I reached out to Nikka and Amber, who invited mutual friends as well. Though I was nervous about how all of our personalities would mesh, that trip in June 2017 solidified a bond that we’ve maintained every day since. Read More>>

Megan Wilde

My journey as a musical artist and entrepreneur has been one of transformation and resilience. I began as a quiet girl from a small town-struggling to find my voice. I ask for referrals and researched all over to find someone who could help me with my dreams and with nervous anticipation – I finally met with a voice teacher. After singing for the first time in front of a teacher, she looked me dead in the eye and said – “You have a biological disease called tone deafness, of which there is no cure.” Read More>>

Bryant Herbert

It has not been smooth. We started initially during Covid-19 as a group beleivers who wanted to do more so we started meeting when everything was locked down virtually. Then in July 2021 we met in person and from there we’ve started working towards the goal. The main struggle has been finding our niche. We’ve tried to do something’s that seemed more like work so we had to reevaluate we were as a core and what we enjoyed, and anything that seemed like work we pulled back from doing. We had to simplify our purpose. Read More>>

Ricky Hernandez

My name is Ricky Hernandez, I am originally from Mexico city and I am the owner of Salsa Franklin Taco. I’ve spent over 15 years working with international companies, managing their sales and marketing, and traveling about 45 weeks a year. Eventually, the constant travel and demanding schedule led to burnout, and I found myself yearning to spend more time with my family. As a family, we felt a strong desire to start something that would allow us to be together more and serve our community at the same time. Read More>>

Casey Strauss

After having my son in September of that year, I took a short break from baking during my maternity leave. At the end of my leave (beginning of 2024), I quit my job to stay home with my son. I started baking a lot more and created my Instagram page to document my baking. I chose the name Crunchi Cakes and Bakes because of my holistic/non-toxic (aka “crunchy”) lifestyle which I incorporate in my baking (as in, I try to avoid artificial dyes and seed oils). Shortly after, I made a Facebook marketplace listing for all of my baked goods. Read More>>

Sidney Graybill

Hahah, smooth is not the word I would use to describe this entrepreneurial road I’ve been swerving on for the last few years. In 2020 I had a massive Traumatic Brain Injury, miraculously recovered, moved alone from small town Pennsylvania to Tampa FL. Against my hardest efforts, I medically couldn’t work. At the time I thought my only option was to move in with my narcisstic ex boyfriend. Until a cop warned me I’d be leaving his place in a body bag next time, I stayed there.  Read More>>

Alyse Dusseault

My journey into grief coaching and working in the spiritual space with mediumship, Reiki, and Psychic guidance unfortunately began with loss. In June of 2020 amidst the pandemic my partner, and fiance of 5+ years, Jared was killed tragically in a head on collision with a drunk driver. This completely changed life as I knew it. Read More>>

Lisa Harris

With a background in acting and modeling, I’ve always enjoyed being in front of the camera. While these fields share similarities with content creation, acting and modeling come with specific pressures and high expectations of how it is expressed. As social media gained popularity, I discovered the joy of taking pictures and making videos without the pressure.  Read More>>