Interviews | Lava

Hour+ long in-person interviews that I condensed down to an Instagram post.
Hotshot #1 “I’ve been working on the Lava Coffee Club platform for the better part of a year now. It all started with the observation that “fine coffee is the new fine wine”. But beyond the beans, ...
Hotshot #2 “Instagram and blogging started off as a passion project. It was a creative outlet. I had developed a general interest in fashion at Indiana University, where I was involved in the appar...
Hotshot #3 “I’ve always had dreams of grandeur, which brought me to Chicago after graduating college. Being creative and artistic led me to focus on three main pursuits: acting, writing, and bloggi...
Hotshot #4 “Two days after my senior showcase, I got an email inviting me to audition for Hamilton. Crazy thing is, the morning of my audition, my car got towed with my resume, my headshot and my b...
Hotshot #5 “I actually wanted to move to Singapore, but as life would have it, I moved to Chicago and now I love it here. I’ve always seen myself as a very creative person. My father was a photogra...
Hotshot #6 “Coming from a small town in Switzerland, this is the big city life, everything you could ever hope or wish for. You have way more culture here than almost anywhere in the country. It’s ...
Hotshot #7 “I’m from Long Island originally, a town called Sag Harbor. I moved to Rhode Island for college and then to New York were I lived the past 6 years. Having half my family from NYC and bei...
Hotshot #8 “I grew up in the southwest suburbs, Lisle. Me and my two best girlfriends, we started a little girlband when we were younger and did all the talent shows, sang the national anthem, and ...