Rusty Morinelli was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and raised in New Wilmington, PA. She has now been in Destin for 21 years. Her band, Flash Flood, was offered a job at the Sky Bar above Grazzi…
Steven Vanden Heuvel
Steven Vanden Heuvel was originally born in Houston, Texas where he spent all of his grade school years. When he was five years old, he was diagnosed with a severe-to-profound hearing loss that changed his life…
Laura Jansone
Laura Jansone is originally from Latvia, a small country in NE Europe. She to the United States college golf at East Tennessee State University where she studied interior design and was recently inducted into the Athletic…
Whitney Lee
Whitney Lee is the owner and founder of Sociallee PR & Digital Media, a social media, and PR agency specializing in driving users to book and buy experiences online- from resorts, events, products, and services. Founded…
Cali Hlavac
Cali Hlavac grew up in Nebraska and made the move south in 2014 to expand her wedding videography business. Hlavac is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in video production, which brought her to…
Kathy Marler Blue
Kathy Marler Blue is a lifelong resident of Destin and is a fourth-generation descendent of the Marler family of Destin. Kathy was locally educated and holds a B.A. in Early Childhood K-3 & Elementary Education 1-6…
Michael O’Donnell
Michael O’Donnell and his family moved to Santa Rosa Beach in 2004 to start his and his wife’s practices after professional school. “My wife is an Optometrist and I am a dentist,” O’Donnell said. Michael O’Donnell…
Matthew K. Sweester
Matthew Sweester was born and raised in Destin and is a descendent of one of Destin’s founding, father’s John G. Maltezo who settled in Destin from Greece. Sweester enjoys following in so many of his family…
Ron Green
Ron is the founder of Another Broken Egg. He grew up in Montgomery, Alabama but found roots in Fort Walton in the early ’60s after his family was stationed at Eglin, making it their home base….