by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Featured, Resilience
Mississippi’s Gulf Coast was ground zero for the worst impacts of the historic 2005 storm. To leave or not to leave — in hurricane season, that is often the most consequential question anyone can answer. In the best-case scenario, staying put during a...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Featured, Resilience
Despite the trials life has sent her way, the psychologist, businesswoman and philanthropist continues to chart a course built on helping others achieve their potential. Trials and traumas have a way of defining the course of life as much as ambition and...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Featured
A successful blues artist and arranger for decades, Jackson’s mission to preach the power of music around the world can’t be derailed. Mississippi blues artist Vasti Jackson was only 15 or 20 minutes into watching the acclaimed 2025 Ryan Coogler film “Sinners,” set in...
by Lauchlin Fields | Amplify The Sip, From the Front Porch
Lauchlin Fields with Vasti Jackson in 2011 It’s no coincidence that the first issue of Amplify The Sip begins with resilience. Eleven years after first publishing The ‘Sip magazine, I’ve found myself back where it all began—telling Mississippi stories that matter, but...
by Lauchlin Fields | Amplify The Sip, Another Round, Resilience
The Sound of Resilience If you’ve been around me long enough or stopped by my front porch, you know I make playlists for just about everything—road trips, long workdays, heartbreak, big celebrations. It’s how I hold onto moments and people, and how I make sense of...
by Lauchlin Fields | Amplify The Sip, Personal Journey, Sip Notes
Nearly a decade in nonprofit journalism has brought me back to the heart of what drew me to storytelling in the first place—only now with deeper clarity, experience, and purpose. I’m returning to my roots, carrying everything I’ve learned along the way, to build...
