How this started
Before founding PassionPass, I spent ten years working in the tech industry. It was demanding, and I kept pushing until in 2023 I burned out. For the first time in my life, I stopped and took a full year off.
I didn’t have a plan for that year, but I had time and a lot of curiosity I’d been ignoring. So I started trying things: singing, pottery, dance, painting. What struck me was how different it felt to make something in a room full of other people: welcoming, low-pressure, no experience needed.
Those classes became a big part of how I recovered. They got me out of my head, into a room with real people and back in touch with a side of myself that work had pushed aside.
The hard part was finding them. The studios were out there, great independent ones all over the city, but they were buried behind complicated booking pages and word of mouth. If you didn’t have hours to search or a network in place, you wouldn’t find them.
PassionPass is the place I wish I’d had back then.
PassionPass is the place I wish I’d had back then: one spot to discover and book creative experiences, for people who are curious but aren’t sure where to start. Whether it’s ceramics, dance, or floral design, you can just show up, create and connect.
It’s also built to be fair to the studios and artists who make it all possible, because their work is the reason any of this exists.
- Lena, Founder