The Most Inspiring Stories in Utah

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.

Yang Yang

Salt Lake City will always hold a special place in my heart. The 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah were my final Olympic Games, and after that season, I decided to retire. After starting a family, I was living in San Diego and began thinking about creating a place where my kids could play, be active, and have fun. Read more>>

Bya Patzner

I was born and raised in Brazil and moved to England as a teenager, and that’s where my love for architecture and design began. Funny enough, I first trained to be a teacher and earned an RSA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. When I later decided to pursue architecture, the entrance exams leaned heavily on physics, which was never my strength. Read more>>

Rupali Munot

My journey with henna began when I was a little girl growing up in a small village in India. I was always fascinated by visual arts, especially henna, which has such a rich and beautiful presence in Indian culture. During weddings, festivals, and family celebrations, I would watch henna artists create intricate patterns with remarkable grace and precision. Read more>>

Gina Esposito

My relationship with photography began when I was just 15 years old, with a film camera in my hands and a realization that would ultimately shape the course of my life. I discovered something extraordinary through the lens: despite our differences, our backgrounds, or the circumstances that separate us, we all share an inherent desire to be seen, understood, and loved. Read more>>

Misdemeanor

The band initially started in 2022 with Ty Spilman Boston Jones, max Marston and gibson mcmullin, we were really inspired by green day and blink and all the classic pop punk and punk bands like the offspring and sum 41. we played our first show December 9th 2022 and The Boardwalk winter battle of the bands. Read more>>

Lily Nguyen

Hi! My name is Lily, and my business partner is Lindsey. Together, we run Homesik Coffee, a coffee and matcha pop-up business based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Homesik started back in 2024 as a little idea between my cousin and me, but it didn’t officially become a business until December 2025 because we were both in school. Read more>>

Andrew Nelson

I come from a musical family on both sides and music has always been an important part of our lives. I started piano lessons at age five, and my parents encouraged my sisters and me to explore music without putting too much pressure on us. Read more>>

Asha Brown

I believe everyone deserves to be heard. When I lived in a small, impoverished community in Jamaica, my sister and I thought we were the only young girls there. Then I learned that the other girls were not allowed outside their homes or allowed to go to school, and had no chance to talk to someone who could help them. Read more>>

Shannon White

I was born and raised in rural Indiana. My biological father was in prison for most of my life and so I never met him. My step father never made it past middle school education and loved hunting, farming and anything masculine. I was both of their pallbearers. My Mother is the bread winner, outgoing, and the personification of positivity. Read more>>

Madi Pickett

When I was a teenager, I remember watching the behind-the-scenes making of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. That was my first introduction to what a film crew does and to realizing it could be a job. I remember an interview with the key hair stylist where she talked about her inspiration behind some of Katniss’s hairstyles. Read more>>

Maggie Newcomb

I am returning to making art after a long hiatus. I grew up in Massachusetts and, like so many New Englanders, I moved out west for the skiing—first to Montana and now to Park City, Utah. Read more>>

Nyamuoch Kuay

My Journey Into Esthetics — Kuay Beauty My journey in the beauty industry began a year or two after graduating high school, when I started doing makeup for small photoshoots with friends who were involved in Utah’s modeling community. Many of the models I worked with were women with deeper skin tones, largely because that was the community I was surrounded by. Read more>>

Eric Bertholet

I came to the US at 10 years old we bounced around different parts of California and eventually landed in LA I started as an entrepreneur when I was 10 yo, I asked my stepdad for a $1 for ice cream, and he said go make your own money, so I did and I had five jobs around the neighborhood doing everything from cleaning offices to picking up trash to folding hospital clothing, also made things at home and was selling them at school. Read more>>

Samantha Marble

In 2022, I started pet sitting through Rover as a way to supplement my income while working as a paraeducator. What started as a side gig quickly became something I loved. Over the years, I built relationships with incredible pets and their people. Read more>>

McKay Prince

I grew up all over the place. I was born in Richfield, spent my early childhood in Arizona, and moved to Toquerville when I was 14, so Southern Utah is home. After high school I served a full-time mission for my church in Santiago, Chile. I came home speaking Spanish, which turned out to be more useful than I expected. Read more>>

Thomas Demeter

Well I was at my grandparents one day, in my room, and decided to look up videos of a DJ controller. Once watching those, I decided that I wanted to buy my first one!! So I bought a little DDJ-SB3 from pioneer, and started doing basic stuff. Read more>>

MiguelAngel Villalobos

My interest in music and event organizing began when I was really little, always wanting to be involved in party planning for friends and family. I then quickly realized that a huge part of the success of the party is the music, so I began to curate the sound selection for parties for my friends in middle school. And that’s where it all started! Read more>>

Sadie Belle Sullivan

I thought to be a tattoo artist you had to be the best of the best when it came to art, so I had actually dismissed it as a career option. It wasn’t until I saw online that someone I followed got a tattoo apprenticeship. Read more>>

Truman Hight

drunk in june got started in 2022, we started out as a group of high school friends who simply wanted to make music together, it led to a rewarding collaborative project that has taken us to places we were never expecting. Read more>>

Amy Koford

The number one question I get asked the most is: How did you get interested in being a hypnotist? My answer is: After my personal experience with traditional therapy and being unsatisfied with how it didn’t help me, I set out to find what works to get the results I wanted. I found hypnosis and NLP, plus more. Read more>>

Bella Davis

I had a really hard childhood, things I will probably never share publicly. I went to live with my dad at 15 after never knowing him and then I lost my hearing in my right ear completely at 16, then a few months later my dad passed away. I was also very suicidal from about 15-17. Read more>>