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 and she just moved the whole band here from Orlando. “I guess you can say that I am an…
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 for the better. Steven graduated from Coastal Carolina University (Go Chants!) with a degree in finance and immediately moved…
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 Hall of Fame. After Jansone graduated she decided to play golf professionally, which is when she moved to the…
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 in 2015, the Sociallee team brings so much more to the table than just posting pretty pictures and clever…
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 the Panhandle before her overall career became digital marketing and online branding. She works with businesses of all sizes…
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 is the owner of Great Florida Smiles & Orthodontics and O’Donnell Eye Institute, where him and his wife both…
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. Before getting into the restaurant business Ron worked for the DOD and DOE for 24 years in various positions….