Founder Story

Revela did not start as a business idea. It started as a personal return.

My name is Jess Hinkle and improv was not just something I learned or taught. It was something that brought me back to myself. In the middle of over 12 years spent in education, leadership roles, and the steady weight of responsibility there was a moment where something simple cracked everything open. Play.

Through improv I began to remember a version of myself that had always been there but had slowly gotten quieter over time. The child who did not overthink. Who spoke freely. Who imagined boldly. Who saw the world as full of possibility instead of limitation.

There was something powerful in that rediscovery. In saying yes without fear. In creating without permission. In laughing without holding back. It was not just fun. It was freedom.

And in that freedom something shifted.

I did not just find confidence again. I found clarity. A sense of identity that felt honest grounded and alive. And with that came a realization that if this kind of transformation was possible for me it could be possible for other people too.

Revela was born from that moment of remembering.

Not remembering who the world told me to be but who I already was underneath it all.

I came to believe that people do not need to be fixed. They need space to play to express and to reconnect with the version of themselves that existed before fear pressure and expectation started to take over.

Today Revela is the extension of that belief. It brings improv into schools workplaces and communities across the Kentuckiana area not as performance but as permission. Permission to be creative. Permission to be loud. Permission to be soft. Permission to be real.

Because once I found that version of myself again I did not just feel grounded.

I felt limitless.

The kind of limitless you understand when you remember how you used to dream as a child before you were told to shrink it filter it or make it realistic.

Revela exists to bring people back to that place.