STORY BEHIND: SUSPENDERS UNBUTTONED MEDIA
How Sarah Weyer and Julie Palmquist founded Suspenders Unbuttoned Media is an interesting story. Suspenders Unbuttoned Media is an entertainment company focusing on digital media, now reaching over one million a month. It all started when their love of TV/film collided with their love of analyzing and discussing a good story. From this they created an Instagram fan account and began to create an entire community where they actively incorporate fundraising as part of their promotion. Their podcast, Suspenders Unbuttoned Podcast, grew organically from their Instagram lives, and they quickly found their footing interviewing actors, directors, producers, and so many others. Their shared love of connecting with people has helped them to create a place where real conversations happen, and it often feels like friends sitting down over dinner. Soon after launching their podcast, they began hosting and covering live fan events. This is something they immensely enjoy and look forward to doing more of in the future.
GET TO KNOW SARAH WEYER
Sarah is married to her high school sweetheart, with whom she has three children. She keeps busy homeschooling her two sons and chauffeuring her daughter to school, theater rehearsals, and lots of ballet. Between bits of real life she spends her time working on Suspenders Unbuttoned Media, where she co-hosts a podcast that she also produces, along with helping to keep social media accounts active and innovative.
From a young age, Sarah has been enamored by the film industry. She fell in love with storytelling through books and loves how telling a story can touch people and impact their lives. She has also always been interested in the process of creating mediums for story telling and loves how a good story can transport you to another time and place. She enjoys connecting with people and learning about their work and their journey.
GET TO KNOW JULIE PALMQUIST
Julie is married to her high school sweetheart and has three grown children and three adorable grandchildren. Julie is a critical care pharmacist at a children’s teaching hospital who works with an amazing healthcare team in a pediatric critical care setting. She spends her free time biking, co-hosting, researching, and developing content for Suspenders Unbuttoned Media and baking competitively and for fun, including entering baking competitions at the county level and the Minnesota State Fair. How stories are told and evaluating everything about a story has always been an interest since childhood, starting with books. Julie enjoys the opportunity to connect with people on a personal level and hear their path to storytelling.
