Episode 8: Our first video podcast! Gabrielle and Ariana talk with Gabriela Paz, a retired Venezuelan professional tennis player about her childhood, professional career and post-career coaching some of the best female tennis players in the world today. 

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Gabriela Paz is a retired Venezuelan professional tennis player. Her career-high singles world rank was No. 230. On 23 July 2012, she peaked in the doubles world ranking at No. 299. In her career, Paz won eight singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. As a junior, she reached a career-high world rank at No. 10. She was the runner-up of the girls' singles tournament at the 2008 US Open, where she lost to wildcard CoCo Vandeweghe. Gaby first played for Venezuela in the 2012 Fed Cup Americas Zone, playing in all five matches, winning four of her five singles, and losing both doubles with partner Adriana Pérez. Her most recent WTA event was at the 2012 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. where she entered the tournament at world rank No. 280. She played in the qualifying, beating Allie Klick in the first round, and then lost to Michelle Larcher de Brito in the final round of qualifying.

In May 2015, Gaby retired from professional tennis to become a coach. She is currently the director of Vantage Tennis where she trains Amanda Anisimova (ranked 25th in the world), Laura Sieguemund (#30 WTA) and former professional player Lauren Albanese (#158 WTA) along with several ranked Division I collegiate players. Gabi holds a psychology degree and authored several books.

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Episode #7. Gabrielle and Ariana talk with Aliza Septimus, Psy.D. about her career as a private practice psychologist while raising a family. 

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Dr. Septimus has a psychotherapy practice in South Florida as well as a virtual practice. She is the past Assistant Director of CARES.,an adolescent day program at the Child and Family Institute of Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s in N.Y., where she led a team of psychologists in their treatment of teens struggling with mental illnesses. Dr. Septimus is also a consultant who provides supervision to mental health professionals that are seeking to expand their clinical skills.

Dr. Septimus specializes in treating anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties.  For over 20 years she has helped people learn methods to recover and heal from their distress and problems. In addition, she works with individuals striving for personal growth and psychological well-being.  Her mindfulness training sessions help individuals learn to pay attention and be more present in their increasingly distracted lives.

Dr. Septimus speaks on a variety of topics from the field of

psychology.  Her engaging and informative talks help people learn ways to cultivate the best within themselves, enhance their relationships with others, and create more meaningful and fulfilling lives.  She gives her listeners practical tools to apply the latest psychology research into their everyday lives.

Dr. Septimus received her undergraduate degree from Stern College Yeshiva University and a Doctorate in Psychology from Pace University. She completed her post-doc training at the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She is a member of American Psychological Association, Florida Psychological Association, New York Psychological Association, and the APA practice organization.

Dr. Septimus’s personal interests include spending time with family and friends, travel, sports, music and reading.  She, her husband Alan Berger, and 5 children live in Hollywood, Florida.

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Episode #6. Ariana & Gabrielle talk with Chaya Krinsky, co-founder, creative director and lead designer for Tov Furniture - A female-focused furniture brand - about motherhood, the power of female run businesses and the importance of social media.

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Chaya Krinsky is the Co-founder, creative director, and lead designer of TOV— A female-focused furniture brand dedicated to creating trendy, fashion-forward furniture and home decor that doesn't break the bank. Chaya and co-founder Bruce Krinsky built TOV out of a need for more youthful representation in the furniture industry. A Long Beach, CA native with a unique approach to design, Chaya oversees the brand identity of TOV from the sourcing of materials, initial designs to the production process. Inspired by her boho roots, current design trends, and vibrant pastels, TOV bridges the gap between the old guard of furniture sales and the new under Chaya's unparalleled eye. TOV operates with one rule— Don't be boring, and Chaya's design style is anything but.

Episode #5. Ariana & Gabrielle talk with attorney and mother Amber Sved Schwartz about Ivy League law school, working in a firm and going in-house at a global pharmaceutical company. 

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Amber Sved Schwarz is a practicing attorney who lives in Hollywood, Florida with her husband and two sons - Noah, age 7 and Ryan, age 4.  She is currently expecting her third child. Amber was raised in Lower Merion, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, where she attended Jewish Day School. After graduating high school, Amber attended Sha’alvim for Women in Israel and then Stern College for Women in New York, where she studied economics and played varsity basketball. After graduating college, Amber attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia.  After her first year of law school, Amber interned for the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which is the federal court that sits in Philadelphia.  After Amber's second year of law school, Amber interned for a firm in Wilmington, Delaware named Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP.  Amber started working at Potter Anderson after she graduated from law school and worked there for two years, focusing her practice on Mergers and Acquisitions and Delaware corporate law matters.  After two years, Amber started working at Pepper Hamilton LLP (which is now Troutman Pepper LLP) in Philadelphia, PA in its Corporate and Securities Group, where she focused her practice on strategic and private equity mergers and acquisitions.  After working at Pepper Hamilton for 4 years, Amber moved to an in-house position at Sandoz Inc., which is the generic division of Novartis, a global pharmaceutical company.  At Sandoz, Amber supports the Business Development & Licensing Group, focusing on licensing and collaboration agreements, acquisitions and divestments, corporate governance matters and general counseling about partner disputes/contracts.

Episode #4. Ariana & Gabrielle talk with the famous "Lip Lady of Miami" Ilanit Samuels, PA-C, MCMS, about her training, exciting career and opening her own medical aesthetics clinic, Illy Aesthetics, in Hollywood, Florida.

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Ilanit Samuels is a Board Certified Physician Assistant born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida. She received a Master’s Degree in Clinical Medical Science and is a licensed Physician Assistant by the Florida Department of Health and certified by the National Commission of Physician Assistants. Beginning in 2009 Ilanit served as Medical Director of The Baumann Cosmetic and Research Institute in Miami, Florida. In 2021 Ilanit opened Illy Aesthetics, her own Medical Aesthetics clinic in Hollywood, Florida.

With over 12 years of experience as an injector, Ilanit is an expert in toxin and filler injections, skin care, lasers, and skin tightening procedures. She serves as a speaker & trainer for the top companies in the industry, such as Allergan Aesthetics and Galderma Laboratories. Ilanit is regarded as a key opinion leader in cosmetic medicine and serves as a member of GEN NOW, an elite group of top Galderma speaker trainers, and participates in many Allergan advisory boards.

Episode #3 Ariana & Gabrielle talk with Emily Perlstein, co-founder of La Detresse, about the thrills, challenges and opportunities of starting and running a fashion brand. 

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Born and raised in New York, Emily Perlstein was always certain of three things- she loved fashion, wanted to

Episode #2 Ariana & Gabrielle talk to Vanessa Portnoy about her career selling luxury real estate and raising a family in South Florida. 

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Vanessa Portnoy, New York native, has been a resident of South Florida for the past decade. Specializing in selling Florida’s ultimate lifestyle, Vanessa markets residential luxury Real Estate in Miami (including Bal Harbour, Sunny Isles and Aventura), and commercial Real Estate (specializing in shopping centers and office buildings).

While raising her three boys, Vanessa was the owner of a successful events planning company and spearheaded many prestigious events throughout South Florida.

Vanessa received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and her Masters in Special Education. Thereafter, she worked as an educational consultant at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan at the Developmental Disabilities Center before moving to Israel. Thereafter, she worked for the Herald Tribune as Director of the Classifieds Section before moving to Switzerland.

Since working in the service industry, Vanessa has become well-versed in the South Florida environment. With great attention to detail and an uncompromising customer service ethic, Vanessa provides her clients with first-rate personal experience. She has been able to convert her knowledge of individualized customer service, creative marketing, and community involvement into fostering successful relationships with buyers and sellers in both the residential and commercial markets.

Whether you are looking to buy or sell, residential or commercial, Vanessa’s experience and success, combined with the solid reputation of EWM Realty International and its affiliations with Christie’s International Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Mayfair International and Luxury Portfolio, makes Vanessa your perfect Real Estate professional for you to achieve your goals in the ultimate luxurious Florida lifestyle.

Vanessa is a member of the Miami Association of Realtors, the Florida Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors and EWM Realty International Chairman's Club Diamond Level.

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Episode #1. Ariana & Gabrielle talk to Dr. Batya Goldwaser, DMD MD, about her career providing an intimate look at the opportunities, challenges and rewards of medicine.

Dr. Batya Goldwaser grew up in New Jersey and graduated with honors from Columbia University.  She earned her DMD from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed a six-year residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the top-rated Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was rigorously trained in the full scope of the specialty, with unique training in orthognathic surgery, implant placement, facial trauma, jaw reconstruction, nerve repair, pathology, and pediatric surgery.  She also completed a prestigious research fellowship in minimally invasive maxillofacial surgery and is one of a handful of surgeons with specialized training in the use of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques to treat congenital and acquired facial deformities, salivary gland pathology, and traumatic injuries.She is currently on staff at Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Hospital West, JoeDiMaggio Children’s Hospital, and Westside Regional Medical Center where she performs more complex surgery.  Before moving to South Florida, she worked in private practice and was an associate professor at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York where she taught general dental, oral surgery, ENT, and plastic surgery residents.  She has published multiple papers as well as textbook chapters on minimally invasive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and facial trauma. Dr. Goldwaser is a board-certified Diplomate of the American Board of Oral andMaxillofacial Surgery and is a member of the American Association of Oral andMaxillofacial Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons.

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