Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this special episode, we talk with Starbucks pro and Kansas City dreamer Jillian Benneson about her major life move to San Diego, officially happening on December 12, 2025.

At 20 years old, Jillian is setting out on a bold new chapter—leaving Kansas City for the West Coast to pursue opportunity, independence, and the thriving energy of a big city. Currently working for Starbucks, she also carries entrepreneurial ambitions of one day opening her own coffee establishment.

We dig into her upbringing, her desire for a big-city life, her trips to the West Coast, her work experience, who she believes she’s becoming, and the fun idea of maybe running into Billie Eilish in California. We also talk about life, identity, ambition, and the possibility of interviewing again in 2030 to see how the journey unfolds.

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Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.