Be Local Podcast

Welcome to episode 36 of the "Be Local Podcast!" We have two very special guests and proud local business owners, J from Grateful J's and his daughter Ali. Grateful J’s started with the purpose of giving people a place to shop where they feel comfortable. J’s attitude is “It’s not what you smoke, It’s how you smoke it.” Besides being the owner of the multiple Grateful J’s stores, he’s a glass artist who creates objects for smoking, a pipe maker, free to express himself by putting a straight piece of glass in a fire and changing its form.

We are going for round 2 w/ UFC Champion Vitor Belfort. We learned so much having him on last week and we continue the conversation about giving back, achieving our goals and "half truths."

This is a BIG episode, so big we have a part 2 to this podcast next week! We are joined by UFC champion Vitor Belfort and our great friend and local Aaron Santiso. Find out what it takes to be champion in and out of the ring and why feeding your E.G.O, is a good thing.

Suzanne Citere is the owner of RealDance, a dance school in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Suzanne has been a dance educator for almost 40 years and her students have achieved great success in the dance industry and in their lives beyond the dance studios! Dance is her business but politics is her hobby, both local and National!

Julie Wilson Watson, south Florida native and long time LHP resident, is the owner of JAWW Media + Marketing and President of BOD for Here’s Help Inc.

JAWW intersects her two lives, radio and travel! You can find her all over the Caribbean storytelling about Sandals Resorts (Ya Mon). Here’s Help is her passion project, a full scale residential treatment campus in Miami, treating substance abuse in the young adult male population through life skills learning and behavioral resets. Their fundraiser Bubbles and Bones will be in the Fall of 2022 for their 20th year!

Welcome back to the EDBL life podcast! If you have a local you want us to feature reach out on instagram @belocalpodcast

This episode we are joined by the very stylish Debra Hook! Debra is the owner and founder of Boca Lavish. With a design background unlike most, Debra has cultivated her sense of style and implantation in ways that is totally unique to her clients. As a former model and actress, she turned her love of design into something she could bring to production. As a stage and set designer, Debra has staged countless nationally known commercials, tv shows, music videos and infomercials. Behind the cameras or in front, her joy and involvement in residential Interior Design has been her passion. With an education in period furniture and furniture construction, upholstery and drapery, her love for all things related to design has been ongoing since childhood.

“I love making people happy. And I have a lot of empathy and understanding towards people, who they are, where they have been and the journey that brought them here. I believe that this helps set me apart as a designer in this field. I design luxury interiors based on the clients needs, health condition, pets, relationships and lifestyles. Not one of my clients are the same, so no interior should be the same either.”

Ryan Paton is the Owner and President of local residential mortgage company, Capitol Lending Group. In 2012 he co-founded honor flight south Florida and serves as the director of Operations.

Over the past 4 years, he's taken WWII Veterans to 5 Countries, while filming a documentary about America's last remaining WWII Veterans called Cocktails With Heroes, and recently started the podcast version as well.

In between his company, his work with Veterans, and time with his family, Paton has donated over 20 gallons of blood throughout South Florida.

Welcome to episode 29 of the EDBL Life Podcast! Make sure you spread the word and share the podcast with all of your friends. We are always on the look out as well for guest for the podcast just reach out on instagram @belocalpodcast

On this episode we are joined by two great locals Terry Paterson & Jessica Easterling, who have used their platform and success to help out local charities here in South Florida. Terry & Jessica both own the Light House Point yacht club as well as Paterson Project Management. They are truly living the EDBL life!

This episode we have some special locals, Will Altier and Cutler Altier. When we say locals the Altier family has been in the jewelry business since the 1960's! Today, Altier Jewelers is owned and operated by Cutler and Will. With a full staff of jewelry and watch experts, GIA Graduate Gemologists and Master Jewelers and watchmakers, Altier Jewelers remains dedicated to upholding traditions rooted in quality, customer satisfaction, honesty, and integrity for generations to come.

Welcome back to the EDBL Life podcast! Not only are we celebrating episode #27 of the podcast but we are celebrating a very special guest legendary radio host Paul Castronovo from BIG 105.9!

Paul Castronovo, has been entertaining audiences for more than 30 years. In addition to his broadcasting talents, Paul ventured overseas in 2009 with his wife, Gina, and returned home having set in motion a second career and family legacy. Castronovo Vineyards grew out of his love of people, wine, and all things Italian and has become a brand with wines that are featured in some of the nation’s finest restaurants and retail locations. He serves on the board of directors for the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and the Miami Dolphins Ride DCC. He also co-chairs the Miami Dolphins Foundation’s Fins Weekend and has raised the equivalent of 20 million pounds of food for Feeding South Florida during his radio show’s annual holiday food drive.