In 2014, she was “pushed out of her big dream job” as creative director and vice president of design at Playboy, where she was making six figures, because she wasn’t eager to relocate to Los Angeles. Around the same time, she lost a close friend and mentor to HIV, and then her wife of two years asked for a divorce. Szymczak, a Pennsylvania native, recently returned to New York following a three-year stint in Miami.Tamara Beckwith“It’s the same as what I made at my peak as a global VP, which blows my dad’s mind,” the Pennsylvania native said. “Like, he still doesn’t understand. He’s like, ‘Do people just come at night? Do they come at Halloween?'” She bought her first deck of tarot cards at age 11. “I literally saved my allowance,” Szymczak said. “It was something I was always drawn to. And honestly, it’s something I did in a past life … It feels like something that’s innate.” But, her interest in tarot waned in her teen years.  “I was trying to fit in with the cool kids,” she said. “It wasn’t cool back then and I was really focused on going to college and getting into fashion design. At that point in my life, it wasn’t a priority and not something I thought I could do as a career.” |
