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Local Voices (Miami)
by LV TEAM - Simeon Dubois
An inspirational series on local characters in Miami. Follow @localvoices_Miami on Instagram. Spread Love. Feast.
Episodes
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Kenlie Reed - Pilates Expert
Kenlie is................helping make Pilates something for the boys. Born in Arkansas with a background in dance, she started enjoying mat workouts in her warmups before ever encountering a reformer (pilates machine). She moved her senior year of high school to Florida and went to UCF, where she...
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Samantha Quintana - Food Blogger
Samantha is...................one of the best food bloggers in the city. Half Cuban, half Chinese, and a tad bit Jamaican, she loves studying the melting pot that is Miami. Her obsession with the art of cuisine, started with her parents who would always take her and her siblings out to…
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Natalie Cabo - Netflix Actress
Natalie is..............on her way to an Oscar, or at least we're all hoping. Born in Miami, growing up in Kendall, she did theatre in high school, and started acting professionally after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill with a business degree, A lover of reality and competition shows, she applied...
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Osvaldo Espino - Music Writer
Oz is..................a fan of the lyric, "A job ain't a job, it's a damn good time." As a local beat writer studying the music scene, he gets to take a closer look at the heart of entertainment. Born in Dallas, his family from Mexico, he went to the University of Miami for Finance, then…
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Joe Stadlin - Soccer Coach
Joe is..............a great example of how a weakness or personal challenge, can become a personal strength. After growing up with Tourrettes syndrome, he became especially conscious and compassionate towards others, realizing that everyone is going through something and deserves kindness. Born...
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Drew Goldsmith - Motivational Yogi
Drew is.............bringing masculine yoga energy to Miami. Born in Boston he used to make fun of yoga, until he tried it one day and eventually got hooked, doing yoga #everydamnday for 3 years, After getting his 200hr and 500hr RYT on international retreats in Japan & Greece, he decided to move...
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Shay Williams - Pilates Leader
Shay is...................Miami's latest Pilates star, bringing a level of consistency and professionalism that no one can deny. Born in Dallas, Texas, she went to Nova Southeastern briefly before deciding to join the Navy, serving as a master helmsman and fitness leader on the ships, getting...
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Troy Wright - Neighborhood Director
Troy is..................the man behind the curtain, helping create moments that transform. As Executive Director of the Washington Avenue Business Improvement District, he oversees a main avenue in South Beach, and has great insight into what makes a community thrive. Born in Seattle…
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Tito Puente Jr. - High Octane Entertainer
Tito is.............as energetic as it gets. Fueled off Florida orange juice, & the drive to honor his father, he carries an electric energy into every performance, and describes them even as religious, cathartic experiences. Born in New York City, son to the King of Latin Music, Tito Puente, he...
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Aimee Cuadra - Yoga Inspirer
Aimee is................a culmination of Miami's inclusive yoga community. Someone transformed from feeling unsafe, to feeling empowered. Born in New Jersey, her parents separated when she was young, and it was quite difficult, she ended up not seeing her dad for 20 years. She became super...
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Geoff Cole - Supermind Facilitator
Geoff is...............the Dude, the dude for turning your brain from fear to love in 5 days. Born & raised in Miami, he grew up in an alcoholic home, and developed addiction issues, sleep, anxiety, depression issues, all the above. Around age 30 he started transforming himself, learning to cope...
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Gaby Chiriboga - Woman Restaurateur
Gaby is here.............teaching us about gratitude and respect. Born in Quito, Ecuador, she always loved cooking, and used to film herself making macaroni & cheese as a little child. An avid lover of travel, she credits her passion for hospitality to her days traveling the world, playing in…
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David Rolland - Freelance Writer
David is............A new best friend around the corner..............in with the Miami New Times and teaching us at LV about the value of A good mic check ;)................Born in Evanston, Illinois, he moved here when he was a baby to Key Biscayne, and went to FSU, where he first got paid to...
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Pete - Aspiring Yogi
Pete is..........done looking for enlightenment. He invited himself over for chili. Listen in for some great Rejuvenism talk, Are you in the 1%, or even just consider yourself blessed, Consider why you don't give more of your growing gifts to charity, The Kingdom of Heaven, peaks at around 80k,...
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Geoff Kraft - Electric Guitarist
Geoff is.............livin in his own type of heaven. Born in New York CIty, he studied business at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and went to work on Wall Street, before even the beginning of the internet. After 19 years, and remote work became possible, he moved down to Miami Beach, where…
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Frankie Ruiz - Running Leader
Frankie is.........humbly making Miami a landmark running club city. Born in Coconut Grove, he remembers the first time his dad invited him out for a run, and the rest is history. Loving the feeling of independence and control that running provides, he did cross country in high school, and walked...
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Tiffany Levy - Yoga Queen
Tiff is...........the Queen of Miami Yoga........spreading her Utopia, Shanti Shanti Shanti. Born in Durham, North Carolina, she moved down to Florida to work for Sprint as soon as she graduated Meredith College, going back to Duke to get a degree in MBSR, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from...
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Frankie Midnight - God Vessel
Frankie is...........an artist who wants to.........."nip it in the bud at the youth". What that means is, he's an eclectic crusader. Born in Miami Gardens, he attended a magnet program for acting as a youth, learning to love music from his father, a rapper, and his mother, a singer. He remembers...
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Ron Magill - Wildlife Conservationist
Ron is.............THE MAN at the zoo. Born in New York City, his father a Cuban immigrant, and his mother the daughter of Colombian and German immigrants, he always loved animals, and initially wanted to be a veterinarian. After his family moved down to Florida in 1972 to live on a farm and…
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Millah - Meditation Artist
Millah is..........the Founder, CEO and voice of the meditation app, YouTuneIn. Born in Brazil, she remembered her calling for music at an early age, putting on Millah shows for her friends & family, eventually going into acting with her passion for psychology and consciousness. She started her…
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Maxxi La Placita - Hospitality Manager
Maxxi is...........blessed. Well, Puerto Rican, so she knows IT. Born in San Juan, PR, she studied communication, and worked in TV, with Telemundo & Univision, getting transferred to Miami when NBC bought them out. Arriving here in 2008, she quickly went and got a human resources degree from...
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Raquel Pelayo - Studio Owner
Raquel is................basically the queen of South Beach, if we're talking vibes. Born in Miami, to Cuban & Puerto Rican parents, she went to UCF for undergrad, switching majors many times, before settling on business entrepreneurship. Taking advice from one great teacher, she decided to…
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Sammy Figueroa - Joyous Percussionist
Sammy is...........ready for some more comedy. Born in the Bronx, New York, he moved to Puerto Rico at age 8 to live with his grandparents, after his father died, a heavy bohemian. Noticing his love of music at an early age, he decided one day that he was going to be a percussionist, and was able...
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Lian Navarro - Shelter Coordinator
Lian is.........glad she is helping save us humans. First joining the faith-based Rescue Mission back in 2012, originally thinking it was an animal shelter, she has since become an indispensable part of the organization helping more than 15,000 people in need each year. Born in Cuba, she moved to...
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Jeff Rechtman - Cacao Entrepreneur
Jeff is.........bringing bliss to South Florida. Born in Miami, and raised in the Fort Lauderdale area, he went to UF Gainesville for an undergrad degree in business, entrepreneurship, and real estate, before studying law and working at a startup in the area. When that project failed, he went out...
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Hannah Baumgarten - Artistic Director
Hannah is.........living her dream. Born in Santa Cruz, California, she was put into ballet by her parents at an early age, and graduated high school in just 3 years, focused on her goal of pursuing dance professionally. After being initially rejected by the Juilliard School in New York City, she...
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BONUS - Daniella Levine Cava - The Mayor
Daniella is.......the mayor of Miami-Dade County. Born in New York City in 1955, she had the opportunity to travel Brazil and Chile in her youth, before going to high school in Brooklyn, and studying psychology at Yale University. Having helped her mom in the slums of Rio de Janeiro as a little...
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Julie Tyler - Writing Coach
Julie is the encouraging writing coach, respected nationwide, and based here in Miami. After studying English, and getting her Masters and Phd in Literature, she taught at the university level for 10 years, before starting her own company 3 years ago, to help writers, mostly adults, learn how to...
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Josh Castaneda - Fitness Trainer
Josh is the smiling fitness trainer here in South Beach, with a dream to bring more boxing exercise classes to the masses. Born in New Jersey, near Manhattan, he studied criminal justice in college, before pivoting to his true passion and getting a job at Equinox in Chelsea, New York, He excelled...
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Stephanie Lox - Real Estate Agent
Stephanie is the sweet real estate agent from Panama, who is part of a great top rated brokerage here in Miami (https://miamiresidential.com/), and a great choice for anyone moving here or looking at at a new lease this year. After moving from Panama to the states 9 years ago, she finally found…
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Brittany Brave - Fearless Comedian
Brittany Brave is the marvelous Mrs. Maisel of Miami, born in New Jersey, raised in Kendall, and developed as an improv teacher, she has taken her personal hardship of the last decade and used it to evolve further as an artist, standing up on stage now all by herself and dishing jokes nightly....
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Emilia Garth - Disney Princess
Emilia is the sunrise greeter of Miami Beach, a loving yoga teacher, singer, voice coach, sound healer, and Jamaican dance hall instructor. After growing up on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, and loving surfing and singing, her family encouraged her to go to school on the mainland, where she found...
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Amaris Jones - Celebrity Chef
Amaris is the intelligent vibrant soul in soul food, who truly cares about making a difference. Raised in South Philly, she first started loving cooking at her father's church on South Street, where she would help sell dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. After getting into property management,...
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Ana Andras - Art-Deco Painter
Ana is the grassy knoll fun loving painter of Miami. Sitting on her chair outside on Ocean Drive, she enjoys bringing Art Deco buildings to life in watercolor drawings from her seat in the shade in Lummus Park. Born in Spain, and trained in accounting, Ana has embraced her retirement and has…
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ALI Shapiro - Super Volunteer
ALI is the bold all caps fashionista and local super volunteer who has a lot to teach each of us about developing a more complete sense of agency. Born in Long Beach, Long Island, into a Brooklyn based family with roots in Miami, Vegas, & Cuba, she won an academic scholarship to study education &...
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Ignacio Marino Larrique - Visual Artist
Ignacio is the inspirational visual artist from Uruguay who recently won a contest to create a 4000sq ft mural in South Beach, Miami. After being born into an artist family, and quite literally into a gallery, he studied architecture and the arts in Uruguay, and won many awards in his country,...
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Fran Gordon - Longevity Lover
Fran is the spirited 80 year old Jewish retiree.....who spreads love everywhere she goes. After studying early childhood development in New York and dedicating her life to children, she followed her husband's love of Miami here to the Magic City, and fell in love with it herself. An avid salsera...
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Michael Honablue - Emmy Producer
Michael is the charming producer and art collector of Miami, who truly rocks the community. After studying interior design at Parson's in Paris, and architecture at the Pratt Institute, he networked his way into producing for MTV and PlumTV, a luxury media source that relocated him to Miami. He…
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Ricky Torres - Dance Instructor
Ricky is the most consistent dance instructor in Miami, and the most highly rated by his students. Born in Bogota, Colombia, he moved here at an early age and first fell in love with dancing salsa with his wife. After realizing he had a special talent, he invested himself in learning to become an...
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Tony Thomas - Fitness Guru
Tony is.......the enforcer. Born in New York, schooled in Jamaica, and accomplished as a D1 basketball athlete at the University of Delaware, Tony has found his niche as a supreme motivator in the sports world, and one who leads by example. After training athletes like Gronk & D Wade, and…
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Michael Gongora - Paradise Commissioner
Michael is the fun loving Miami Beach City Commissioner who will very likely be mayor someday. That's how much he loves our city. Since growing up here as a kid, in Little Havana and Coral Gables, and studying at UM, he has become more and more involved and connected every year, and is now one of...
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Stephanie Vitori - Cheeseburger Baby
Stephanie is the passionate restaurant owner of the world famous Miami Beach cheeseburger joint, Cheeseburger Baby. After moving to Miami as a teenager, she worked in the service industry from day 1, holding all kinds of interesting jobs, before finding her place as manager and owner of her own...
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Harvey Burstein - Art Publisher
Harvey is the groovy leader of a local Miami arts magazine (https://www.miamiartzine.com/) and also sits on the board of the South Beach Jazz Festival happening every year in mid January. After moving here from Chicago about 25 years ago, he has witnessed the transformation of Miami from an arts...
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Eddie Arango - Nightlife Promoter
Eddie is the self control master of Miami nightlife, a family man working hard in the age of COVID to adapt and cater to our innate need for release. After moving from Colombia in the year 2000, he started as a valet driver at Senor Frog's and worked his way up to promoting for famous venues…
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Victoria Brunacci - Brazilian Yogi
Victoria is the intense leader of the Miami Beach based yoga studio, Synergy Yoga, now located on Alton Road. After moving to Miami, she took over the studio in 2009 from founder Gaia Budhai, and has brought the first yoga studio in Miami Beach into the digital age, with classes being…
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Mike Calderon - Salsa DJ
Mike is the most lovable salsa DJ in Miami, due to his big smile, and passion for the craft. After first taking lessons almost 10 years ago, he has been dancing ever since, and has expanded his skills to include event production and organization. He is open to many diverse styles and is always...
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Sandy Shapiro - Garden Director
Sandy is the resilient queen of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden (http://mbgarden.org/). After overcoming Zika, Hurricane Irma, and now COVID, she and her team are looking forward to a future that is bright and rosy with opportunity, as the MB garden is poised to become a more consistent event…
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Sophie Ringel - Sustainability Queen
Sophie is the energetic leader of the Miami-based sustainability movement, Clean Miami Beach. After noticing that there was a trash problem in the local environment, she starting picking up trash and making like minded friends, until her weekly eco-friendly meetup grew exponentially into the...
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Elliott Mason - Running Motivator
Elliott is the gentle leader of a run based community in Miami.....with the laugh of a lion. As an immigrant of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean, he pursued his knack for fitness and love of leadership, until he started his own tech company in Florida, which has culminated in the mobile...
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Giovanni Gagliardi - Pizza King
Giovanni is simply.....a legend. As the award winning Pizzaiolo of La Leggenda, he brings his passion every day to his pizzeria on Espanola Way in South Beach, and wants nothing more than to spread Neopolitan Pizza (done right) throughout the world. Get inspired by listening to his charisma, or...
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