What is your passion project?
- "What is your passion project?" originally appeared in the February 2025 "Passion Project" issue of COMO Magazine.
If money was no object, what passion project would you pursue? (And if you’re already living that dream, what is it?)
Does “Start a whiskey distillery count?!” Lionheart Whiskey Co. (Open since June 2022).
– Marie Newell
The Fight Abuse Program is dedicated to creating sustainable revenue streams to support nonprofit organizations helping abused and neglected children. We are currently developing an ecommerce platform to further this mission. With unlimited resources, we would accelerate this initiative to provide much-needed relief to vulnerable children even sooner.
– Fight Abuse
I would be a travel blogger that reviews hotels, resorts, and spas. No kidding – I watch this dude on TikTok who reviews spas all over the world and takes followers into his services and it is amazing. LOL.
– Delight Events
United Care Transport is my passion project. We offer non-emergency medical transportation services to our communities. We focus on underserved populations and individuals with mobility challenges. My dream is to expand our services to every county in Missouri!
– Jordan Mertgen
Our passion project has been Coyote Hill Children’s Home for a number of years. These past few years watching our communities come together to make their home and the homes on “The Hill” a safe place for an abused/neglected child to be safe and loved has been beyond remarkable. The hard work and dedication by the staff at CH many times goes unseen and heard about. We are lucky to have such a loving place such as Coyote Hill. A passion for many of us: We would build a HUGE activity building!
– Cindy Lou’s Glass Studio
City of Refuge was definitely my passion project. It has been fun being a part of Adam’s passion project with Big Tree and it became my passion as well. I think there is still a missing piece with access and affordability to health care that I still want to pursue. For example, getting funding for families that need help paying for autism evals or more access to health care for everyone.
– Jen Wheeler/Big Tree Medical
I’d start a business with my friends. A big cafe/bookstore/plant store. Something with very homey vibes and lots of community events to bring people together.
– Ashley Lasiter
I would start a nonprofit and build compounds for families in need. Six container homes in a circle that would share farming space as well as land chores. I would also build these for Airbnb (a fun non-farming version) investments to sell and put money back into the nonprofit. It would be an “off-grid” experience.
– Emily Dillstrom
How many words do I get? One word? Cure. Two? Parkinson’s Cure.
– Jennifer Lea
A big music school with a performance space preferably adjacent to art and dance center (for possible collaborations and constant inspirations) next to a cafe and music store(s), that is open to all those who are interested. Something like Neighborhood Music School, where teachers can interact and teach pre-collegiate students and interested adults in the same building, filled with Steinway and Yamaha grand and upright pianos and other instruments students can rent/use.
– Ayako Tsuruta
I would organize the world’s largest travelling PrideFest!
– Janet Davis