

Passionista Sarah Boyd — Founder of SIMPLY
Courtesy of Sarah Boyd Sarah Boyd did the thing we love to see our Passionistas do — she parleyed a successful business as a public relations maven in the fashion industry into a thriving business where she's following her passion. In 2012, Sarah founded SIMPLY, a fashion and beauty conference that now spans the globe with events in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Dubai.
During our Passionistas Project Podcast interview with Sarah, she talked about her love of connecting


Jessie Jacobson: I'm a Com-Passionista
It's interesting how you can know someone for years but not know their whole story. Jessie Jacobson is someone we've had meals with, gone to concerts with and always enjoyed talking to. We knew that she loved The Beatles and The Monkees. We knew about her work as a therapist. We had heard parts of her amazing personal journey as a trans woman in spoken word performances. But until we sat down to interview her for The Passionistas Project Podcast, we had no idea how accomplish


Frank Kilpatrick Is On a Mission to Make Music with a Message
Courtesy of Frank Kilpatrick Songwriter Frank Kilpatrick admits that his connection to music when he was young was “limited.” He took “mandatory clarinet” lessons in the sixth grade, was in a rock cover band in college and would listen to the symphony records his father brought home from work at the local radio station. And he recounted in a recent interview, “I was fortunate to fall into a basic music theory class in high school; it gave me just enough knowledge about sevent