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.
Laurier Tiernan
I was born on April 5th, 1973, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to two parents who could barely make ends meet without a child. And, growing up, my mother always told me my dreams were ‘expensive’; which, in her mind, meant ”impossible’; be it piano lessons, guitar lessons, or basically anything else I dreamt of doing. V
Ashley Settles
My name is Ashley Settles. I am 24 years old, and I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. I started baking as a kid. I always enjoyed helping my mom in the kitchen, and family dinners and holidays were my time to shine. I read cookbooks looking for new recipes. Read more>>
Vanessa Ross
Thank you so much for the opportunity to do this interview again. I appreciate this platform as I want to say thank you to the readers for taking the time to read this feature. My name is Vanessa Ross. To truly understand my journey, you have to understand that my past and my purpose are inextricably linked. Read more>>
Mario Smith
In 2014, I was working for a company that supplied wheels and tires to Volkswagen. At the time, I had been working for that company for over 5 years, but had reached a point where I felt there was no growth there for me. Read more>>
Jen Allen
I grew up in a musical and performing family in East Tennessee and have performed my entire life in one capacity or another, which included musical theater, opera, choirs, dance, various bands and solo performances. Read more>>
Master Rainer
I was born and raised in Nashville, TN. at General Hospital March 11, 1977, to my beautiful mother Edith Carol Mai and my Father Bobby L. Whitaker aka ‘Whit’ (R.I.P). I was raised around music my entire life, one way or another, by all of my family. Also, I think it was the time in music as well. Read more>>
Jessica Rickman
In 2013, my world was upended when my father passed away from ALS. In the midst of that deep grief, a friend convinced me to go “curb shopping” and “dumpster diving” one night just to get me out of the house. We came home with a chair that needed some work, a mirror, and a small chest. Read more>>
Ashley Vazquez
I guess I started when I was a kid. I grew up baking with my Nanny. I loved reading all of her old recipe cards. My grandpa would always tell me when I got older I was going to be a “cake maker”, so now this feels almost like my destiny. Read more>>
Morgan Brown
Our journey to owning The Livery Stables began long before we purchased it in October 2025. As someone who was raised in Cheatham County, The Livery Stables was not a new place to me. While my love for event planning started when planning my own wedding in 2015 and continued to grow as I organized celebrations and gatherings for family and friends. Read more>>
Savannah Vinson
I’m originally from Ohio and graduated high school a year early so I could move to New York City at 17 to pursue modeling. It was a huge leap, but I knew I wanted to build a career in the creative industry. Read more>>
Kahlila Gann
I was born in Los Angeles, but Nashville has been home for most of my life. My family moved here when I was young, and this city has shaped so much of who I am. Music was my first love. Read more>>
Charlie Cyns
My story isn’t one of overnight success. I grew up in a difficult environment and spent a lot of my younger years just trying to survive. I left home at a young age, learned independence early, and experienced more hardship than most people knew. There were times I questioned whether I’d ever be able to build the kind of life I dreamed about. Read more>>
Erin Coe
Growing up, I always knew I wanted to travel, I just needed to figure out how I could make that happen. When I picked up my camera, I realized photography could give me the freedom to work from wherever I wanted. Read more>>
Brandon Clark
My life has been full of highs and lows. It started with my father abandoning my Mother and I before I was born. Then came life-saving surgery at 18 days old for pyloric stenosis. At 3 years old, my Mother passed away from cancer, which led to me being adopted. I struggled with life as a young boy and as a teenager. Read more>>
Diana Petrova
English isn’t my first language, but I’ve always wanted to create content for an English-speaking audience, especially in the U.S. market. It took me a while to find my niche, and things didn’t work out at first. I started as a lifestyle creator documenting my journey of quitting my 9-to-5 job, but the content didn’t really take off. Read more>>
Carmine Prophets
My name is Sunil Rajan better known as Carmine Prophets. I’ve been making beats for about 15 years now and I’ve been DJing for about 8 years. Read more>>
Cherith Wooten
I grew up in Mississippi and, like many people, spent years trying to figure out where I truly belonged. I attended college and studied Business Administration, believing that was the path I was supposed to take. After school, I wore many different hats—from working in banking to serving as a teacher’s assistant. Read more>>
Shannon Black
Hi! My name is Shannon Black and I came into counseling as a profession after my early childhood and roaring twenties left me with problems I didn’t know how to solve, and without any other resources to solve them. I had landed in Middle Tennessee in 2002 and enrolled in the graduate program at MTSU in 2010 (coincidentally, the year I got sober as well). Read more>>
Elizabeth Spaulding
My journey into music actually started because I was goofing off in my 5th grade music class. My teacher called my parents because she wanted to tell them she thought I had a really great voice and she wishes I would take choir seriously because I could go far with my voice. Hearing that completely changed something in me. Read more>>
Jody Cross
I’ve been a psychotherapist for many years, leading a private practice as well as intensive therapeutic programs for individuals and couples. Much of that work involves helping people navigate trauma, relationship challenges, and major life transitions. I continue to love that work, and it remains the foundation of everything I do. Read more>>
Sara Claiborne
My story begins with me growing up in the Nashville area. Throughout my childhood I was an athlete who was also heavily involved in performing arts. I was mostly a dancer, singer, and soccer player. My mom directed children’s choir, and I believe I sang for the first time on stage at the age of two. Read more>>
Chrissie Kohne
When I was 13, my dad handed me the first digital camera I’d ever touched and put me in charge of capturing our vacation. I chose to capture movement: waterfalls, wild animals, & joy. I never suspected that ten years later, I would be standing behind a lens ten years later, capturing a photo that would change my life. I was standing outside M.L. Read more>>
Charlie Fagenholz
The short of it is I have been doing frequency medicine for years and when I moved to TN in 2022 my waitlist grew to 30k people so I started an online membership that is a library of all my clinical experience for people to get educated and benefit from. Read more>>
Ambi Shantay
There are people who survive life’s hardest moments, and then there are people who transform those moments into purpose. I am doing the latter. I am a minister, author, nonprofit founder, speaker, podcaster, content creator, wife, and mother, and I have spent years answering one question: “How can my healing become someone else’s hope?” My journey didn’t begin with a microphone or a stage. Read more>>
Kelly McGahee
The Flower House was imagined years ago when I was working in the event industry, but saw a need for more face-to-face time with clients. Weddings, specifically, are one of the most special events in a client’s life, so I wanted to get to know my clients on a personal level, and erase the overwhelmingly transactional feel from the experience. Read more>>
Dan Clews
UK HIT BACK TO BLACK: THE MUSIC OF AMY WINEHOUSE COMES TO CITY WINERY NASHVILLE Following sell out performances across the United Kingdom and Australia, Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse comes to City Winery Nashville on July 27, 2027. Presented by Night Owl Shows, the production stars Reine Beau, whose acclaimed portrayal of Amy Winehouse has earned standing ovations across three continents. Read more>>
Chas Evans
I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years, and music has been one of the defining passions of my life. I earned a Master of Music in Guitar Performance from The University of Southern Mississippi and spent years teaching guitar at the college level. Read more>>
Lovesick
We met in 2011 while playing in another band, and from the very beginning we discovered that we shared not only a passion for music but also a deep love for American roots traditions. A few years later, in early 2015, we started what would become Lovesick. At first, it wasn’t meant to be a career move. Read more>>
Ryan Sorensen
My infatuation with music started as a child. Hanging out in my dad’s garage as he and his friends worked on muscle cars to the tune of Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, Testament, King Diamond, Megadeth, Stone Temple Pilots and much more. Read more>>
Maya Robinson
For a long time, I felt like I had to choose one lane. I studied marketing, became a licensed cosmetologist, built a career in higher education, pursued graduate studies in coaching and strategic leadership, and all along I was writing, creating, leading women, and dreaming about building something that reflected who I really was. Read more>>
AndreWolfe
I started by producing for people and I didn’t like what the customers did with the production I did so I started using my own beats and then I also started using YouTube beats but I seen how my beats fit me better then YouTube and also how you go only go so far with using them so started only using my beats or my friends beats and consistently dropped music and my music brought around new people and some relationships formed and I just kept going Read more>>
Jeff Fields
I was born on third base — my family was in the car wash business, so in a lot of ways I grew up in it. For a long time, I wanted nothing to do with it. The Fields family are serial entrepreneurs going back generations. It started in 1947 with a laundromat, moved into dry cleaning, and (by the late 1960s) into car washing. Read more>>
Rochelle Stewart
I got started during the pandemic after my family made a big life change. We moved from South Florida to Tennessee after my husband accepted a job opportunity. South Florida had always been home, but we were looking for a slower, more peaceful pace of life. Read more>>
Matthew Davenport
Music has been something I’ve been passionate about for a long time, and over the past few years I’ve been putting more and more of my focus into performing live and growing as an artist. Read more>>
Sarah Nicole
My journey definitely wasn’t a straight line. By day, I work full-time as a chemist and for years creating travel content was just something I enjoyed doing on the side. As someone who lives in East Tennessee, I was always exploring the Smoky Mountains and sharing places I loved with friends and family. Read more>>
Mamie Turner
My story is so amazing, I started in 2010 with my Nonprofit Healthy life for healthy families inc, and ended up on a bigger journey being founder of our Tennessee State Observance Day July 28th Bullets have no Eyes. I got to this elevation by, assisting those who needed resources, shelter, food, furniture, and the education on health issues. Read more>>
Sokeara Chem
I first started doing my first freelance makeup gigs by booking through friends and families for events, weddings, birthday parties. Then I decided to really improve my business by going to get licensed as an esthetician. I knew while I was in there i immediately wanted to get out and start taking this serious. Read more>>
Curt Henderson
From a young age I was surrounded by music. My dad was a bassist, and though his musical endeavors had slowed after he had kids, he would take me to his band rehearsals so I could hang out with the musicians and hear them play. Read more>>
Chandler Grammer
Gears, inc. formed in early 2014 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, while founding members Chandler Grammer and Christian Crew were still in high school together. Bonding over a shared music taste and interest in writing, recording, and performing their own songs, the duo began learning to play some of their favorites songs together while slowly working on their own material. Read more>>
Crow Johns
Spooky has over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, and I (Crow) took fire eating lessons from her in mid-late 2019 and over time learned several other stunts from her. By 2020 we started living together, started building our act and debuted ourselves as Spooky Crow Sideshow that summer. Read more>>
DC Brown
My journey in music actually began around 2012, although not behind a camera. At the time, I was producing electronic dance music under the name DC Brown, with tracks that are still available on Spotify today. Music has always been a huge part of my life, even if my role within it has changed over the years. Read more>>
Ava Tyler
I cater and I’m a private chef , and now I’m adding Baker to that lately I’ve been specializing in cake and it has been great I’m proud of my growth how my food as evolved and how I’m still learning more daily, I am a from scratch chef! Wel when it comes to Pretty Lady Catering I love to do personal pieces for my customer a keep sake from the day Read more>>
Chris Turner
TheRingFinders Directory began in 2009, when a gentleman from the United States—whom I have yet to meet in person—contacted me after seeing my metal detecting service in Vancouver, Canada, called “Finders.” He introduced himself by email and explained that he had followed my website/youtube channel for years. Read more>>
