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.
Chelsea Cuthbert
My name is Chelsea Cuthbert, and I am a business developer and investor dedicated to building organizations that create both economic value and meaningful community impact. One of my primary ventures is C&A Protective Solutions, a security services company that I have helped develop and grow in partnership with Adrian Pittman. Read more>>
Jonika Gerald
I am beyond grateful and excited to share that Gussie Mae “Special Needs” Adult Daycare Center, Inc. has been selected to be interviewed and featured in Voyage Dallas Magazine! This is truly an honor and blessing. Read more>>
4Factorial
The band first met at the University of Texas at Arlington. Brayzon and Anthony were in an engineering class together and decided to study with one another. After a while, they got tired of studying and found out both of them play an instrument and decided to make a band together, with Brayzon as the lead guitarist and Anthony on the drums. Read more>>
D’Andre Pyke
I was born in Arlington, Texas, and my connection to music deepened after my father passed in 2011. He was a gospel singer at church, and losing him made music something much more personal for me. In 2016, I started singing at parties, just having fun, and people around me kept telling me I should take music seriously. Read more>>
Adrian Mills
I started ASPS Luxury after recognizing a gap in the market—there weren’t many options for travelers who wanted a product that balanced luxury, durability, and organization when it came to storing shoes. I set out to create a premium travel shoe bag with separate compartments that protected items while maintaining a high-end look and feel. Read more>>
Portia Bruner
Portia Bruner is the host of “Portia”—a nationally distributed talk show that’s now in its fourth season. Before her transition from FOX 5 Atlanta News anchor to talk show host in 2022, Portia built a reputation as a compassionate and dynamic storyteller who genuinely cares about the people whose life events she reported. She covered crime, breaking news, government affairs, natural disasters and human-interest stories. Read more>>
Belal Kattan
My cooking career started because I simply wanted to make pasta. When I moved to Texas, I briefly lived in Plano. I went door to door with my resume asking chefs to teach me to make pasta but no one would hire me without me working the line too. Back then, I didn’t understand why, but now I get it. Read more>>
Kuma Christ
Since I was in school I always dreamed of working in the fashion industry. Being a kid from almost no where Texas at the beginning this seemed almost impossible, no one thought what I was trying to achieve was remotely possible. I started selling shoes and clothes locally at age 15/16 as soon as I got a car. Read more>>
Abigail Anderson
Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved books. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery was gifted to me when I was a little girl, and reading it for the first time altered something in me, changing me forever. For the first time, I saw myself in a fictional character. Read more>>
Karlie Deitrick
I started KarlieDoesDallas in 2018. At the time I was a hairdresser that hated their job. I used to wake up, go to work, come home and do it all again. I was so bored. When I was 25 I moved Downtown from North Dallas and I knew nothing about the city even though I am born and raised in Dallas. Read more>>
Maiya Dalton
I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and that will always be home in the deepest sense of the word. Detroit shaped my resilience, creativity, and grit. The culture, the people, and the lessons I learned there filled my cup in a way no other place could. Read more>>
Unspoken Being
Well, i typically would turn a question like this over to you asking what would you like to know like i was cody rhodes. However i think it’s my turn. I didnt always view what i do as something to pursue, i always viewed it as something of life. Read more>>
Fatima
Bloggers Brunch started as a simple idea rooted in connection. As the founder of H & I Artisans, I was already interacting with creatives, small business owners, and content creators; but I noticed there wasn’t a dedicated, elevated space for them to genuinely meet, collaborate, and grow together in a meaningful way. What began as a small, curated gathering quickly evolved into something much bigger. Read more>>
Meha Jha Joseph
I work full time in the tech industry. I followed a typical South Asian career path and have always been looking for fun ways outside of the office to channel and grow my creative energy. I’ve moved over 10 times in my life. I’ve studied abroad in China. One year I lived in Texas, Singapore, and Ohio in a single year for work. Read more>>
Kyle Towb
At an early age I got into art and tech, beginning with chess at age 4, and using MS DOS at the age of 5, as well as painting and drawing. I excelled in school and transferred to an Academy and by the age of 11 already made my first website. Then at the age of 12 we won the US First National Robotics Competition. Read more>>
Nichelle Allen
I began my career in education as a classroom teacher, working with students from Pre-K through 6th grade in one of the largest urban school districts in Texas. Over time, I felt a growing desire to make an impact in a different capacity, which led me to return to school and pursue degrees in both Counseling and Educational Leadership. Read more>>
Taylor Hillenbrand
I’ve always been creative—I was the kid doodling on everything… notebooks, school books, even my bedroom walls at one point. That never really changed, it just evolved into something bigger. I found my passion in nail artistry, where I get to turn creativity into something people can actually wear and feel confident in. Read more>>
Marlene Rosana
My journey started when I moved from Cameroon to the United States at 20 years old with big dreams of becoming a doctor and one day giving back to my community. Life didn’t go as planned—I faced unexpected challenges, had to pivot, and eventually pursued nursing. That experience taught me that life doesn’t always follow a straight path, but every step has purpose. Read more>>
Mary Katherine Richey
Success didn’t arrive all at once for me—it was built quietly, one day at a time. Before I became the owner of two psychiatric businesses, I was a single mother navigating the everyday realities of responsibility, exhaustion, and uncertainty. There was no perfect moment, no clear path laid out. There was simply a decision: to keep going. Read more>>
Nancy Flores
I grew up raised by a single parent in multiple households. Jumping from one house to another, I wasn’t given the opportunity to grow when it came to my creative side. I ended up living with my uncle for over 15 years and was limited to only one room. Read more>>
Chance Alexander
On Sunday, August 9th, 2021, I was sitting in church listening to our children’s minister share her testimony about God’s calling and His plan for her life. That’s when I felt it—clear as day. God was calling me to step into something with food and cooking. I didn’t know exactly what it would look like, but I knew I was called. Read more>>
Carmen & Nicole Wilson
Carmen and Nicole are the heart behind Be Kind For Free, a purpose-driven brand rooted in faith, love, and real-life experience. What started as a simple belief—that kindness costs nothing but the impact is PRICELESS —grew from their personal values and the way they naturally show up for others in everyday life. Read more>>
Joanna Gonzalez
My journey as a cosplayer began at the height of the 2020 pandemic. It started as a silly little hobby to pass the time on the weekends. I have always been a big fan of all things anime as well as a few comic book characters, but was always too scared to begin until we were shut inside for such a long time. Read more>>
Courtney Ekhator
My story starts in Benin City, Nigeria. I was 17 years old, already in my second year of medical school, when my sister and I left everything we knew to join our father in the United States. It was terrifying. But I came with one thing already decided — I was going to build something. Read more>>
Sasha Roberts
My father’s side of the family would take family trips with their siblings and their kids every other year. I would always have ideas to contribute on where we would stay when we would go on our trips. Eventually I began being asked to plan trips for friends and family. Read more>>
CHRISTINE MILLER
With years of experience working in the jewelry industry, including corporate and independent, I decided to start my own business buying and selling estate jewelry by private appointment in 2016. Originally meeting my customers in public areas such as Starbucks, I built my brand and reputation little by little. In 2020 I secured an office at Watters Creek in Allen. Read more>>
Taylor Rollins
I used to be a teacher! I taught 5th and 6th grade for 5 years. After I had my oldest daughter in February 2020, I quickly learned that I could not continue working full time and being a good wife/mom. My husband and I made the leap for me to stay home, but I needed some way to supplement a portion of my lost income. Read more>>
Kai Plummer
I’ve been making internet content for a little over a decade now. It all started with a pizza… a Reaper Roulette pizza from Zalat Denton to be exact. I ate a slice drenched in Carolina Reaper oil, and my entire mouth was on fire. I screamed like a banshee and ran around like Donny from The Wild Thornberrys. Read more>>
Sara Southerland
Sure. I’ve always been what I call a ‘Type A empath’ – highly driven, but also highly sensitive. When I was young, I began to ‘see things’ – people, energies, glimpses of a future situation, but growing up in a strict religious household, I often felt ashamed of these gifts and hid them away. Read more>>
Timothy Bubel
In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became increasingly clear that I was not happy with what I was doing. I’ve had the great fortune to work in many different areas, but one industry I longed to get back to was arts & entertainment. I grew up in the theatre world, performing in plays and working backstage as a teenager and later in college. Read more>>
Rana Ellison-Harris
My journey with The Champs Quarters didn’t begin in a boardroom; it began in my living room. As the wife of a former NFL player, I witnessed firsthand the ‘physical toll’ that high-performance life takes on a man. Read more>>
Sierra Wells
I am from a small town in Texas, but I am always in the DFW area visiting bookstores, like Monkey & Dog Books or Recluse Bookshop. We don’t really have bookstores close to where I live. I started reading at a very young age, but I really started getting serious about it when I was around 11-14. Read more>>
Betsy Frederick
My journey into this field has been shaped by both a deep love for people and a growing understanding of how much support we all need as we navigate life. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (Supervised by Russ Bartee, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-S), currently serving clients across Texas through both in-person and virtual settings. Read more>>
Casey Hansen
Much like the rest of the world, my life changed in the year 2020. I was let go from my job in December, 2 weeks before Christmas with a dwindling job market ahead. I knew I didn’t want to put my fate and livelihood in the hands of anyone else so it was time to set out on my own. Read more>>
Rod Lewis
I started in rural Illinois in a home that burned wood for heat in the winter and no running water. I worked on the school newspaper and enjoyed it. when I went to Jr. college I started on the paper as a reporter and before the semester was over I was the entertainment editor and the sports editor. Read more>>
Dr. Dwala Chandler
My journey has always been rooted in a deep commitment to people, purpose, and community. I began my academic path studying psychology, which sparked my passion for understanding human behavior and the factors that shape our experiences. Read more>>
Bracie Arnold
I was born and raised in East Texas, and I’ve had an entrepreneurial mindset for as long as I can remember. I started my career as a hairstylist at 19, and now, 13 years in, I’ve seen the industry evolve in a lot of ways but my passion for the craft has only grown stronger. Read more>>
Charles Houston
I began my passion of social media management and content creation while attending my Alma Mater Tarleton State University. I learned editing skills, best content scheduling practices, and how to properly optimize content. In my career now I work with a plethora of industries from insurance agents, plumbers all the way to book stores. Read more>>
Nana Kofi Kusi-Boadum
I never really had a clear plan for my life growing up, just a series of fleeting interests that I followed wherever they led. Most of my early education was rooted in science, and I had no formal training in the arts. Yet, I felt a constant pull towards creativity. Read more>>
Nesim Zeydanli
At NABA Style Nails, our journey began with a dream — to build a new life and a meaningful business as a family. In May 2025, my wife Anna, our daughter, and I moved to Texas from Turkey to make this country our new home. Read more>>
Manuel Chavez
Everything started in 1999 when I arrived in the USA with my wife and my daughter to have a new page in out life, with only 2 luggages pieces, one for clothing and the other one with dreams, at the beginning we slept in the floor since we dont have beds, looking for jobs with no english and leaving all the job experiences behind, i started working on a industrial AC units company making $5.60 per hour, i was there for the hottest months of the year and working nights as well. Read more>>
