The heart of our mission at VoyageMIA is to find the amazing souls that breathe life into our city. In the recent weeks, we’ve had the privilege to connect with some of the Miami’s finest artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and rabble rousers and we can’t begin to express how impressed we are with our city’s incredibly deep talent pool. Check out inspiring stories from Palm Beach below.
John Dorine
It all started my senior year of high school back in 2012. In art, class is where my love for art started. I did two years at Palm Beach State College, where I was just taking General Education couple. Then, I transferred to the University of Central Florida in Orlando. At that time, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for my career. For the first at UCF, I wanted to become a cop. After that first year, I realized that’s not what really wanted to do. Read more>>
Stacy Paret
I get very excited about dessert! I am a lover of almost all cakes (not fruit-sorry!), cookies, pies and pastries! Wherever I travel, you will find me in the local bakeries gathering as many goodies as I can try! (I also love to support local!) I have loved baked goods and baking since I was 6 with my first Betty Crocker oven and chocolate brownie mix (which I only sometimes baked because the batter was so good!). Read more>>
Gerald Law II
My story begins as a toddler beating on pots, pans and lamp shades at home. My parents noticed that what I was doing was more than just a child “making noise” and “tearing stuff up” in the house. They helped nurture my musical interests by putting me in an environment that was strongly rooted in the arts. At age 17, the reality that I could pursue music as a career set in… and that was all I needed. Read more>>
Tracy Litt
I could start with I was born on May 15, 1977, in Brooklyn, NY but I’ll skip right to what brought me to the work I do in this world. Everything was fine. There was not outside of reason to make a change. I was the VP of People & Culture for a healthcare consulting firm and all was well, sort of. I wasn’t well on the inside. I was going through the motions, checking the boxes, staying safe. Read more>>
Sierra Rebecka
In middle & high school, I started working on my high school’s news team and yearbook staff and I enjoyed taking pictures and compiling images for the school yearbook and newspaper. It was during my matriculation at Bethune Cookman University, where I learned the fundamentals of understanding lights, developing film and the basic functions of the camera. Read more>>
Tay Napier
Stallions clothing is about perseverance, overcoming the obstacles, despite the odds stacked against you. Sometimes we often live based upon the limitations and negativity created by others. At some point in life, we’ve all been told of the things that WE COULDNT DO but today is a different day. Stallions, Stand tall and live life, I don’t owe nobody. No matter the trials and tribulations, never stop running, they’ll always be hurdles ahead. Read more>>
Amon Martin-Preston
I started making music when I was about 7 or 8 I would write tons of poems everyday about my problems growing up without a dad or mom or just life situations. Then in 9th grade, I decided to start recording them I worked on my craft for five years until releasing my first single warned on SoundCloud in just a couple of months it gained 250,000 plus streams. After a couple of singles and one album. Read more>>
Abbigail Arevalo
I am located in West Palm Beach, Florida and network all around South Florida. I started hula hoop dancing in 2014 as a hobby after I picked up my mom’s fitness hula hoop that she would use for exercise when she would watch TV. Around 2016 during the holidays, I had my day job tell me that I couldn’t visit my family in Texas for the Christmas. In response, I made a good decision to quit. Upon returning, I needed to figure out what I wanted to pursue as a source of income that would make me happy. Read more>>
Orenthian and Mickoy Porter
The Name of our product is Fashion Loopz. This was birthed out of personal frustration and annoyance. I like a nice belt with my outfits at times, but very often, I had to deal with that extra portion hanging off at the end. I would always try to find a quick fix to keep it in place and give it a neater look, so I resorted to hairpins and even a clear strap to keep my belt ends tucked. This was not the best look plus it eventually damaged the belts. Read more>>
Jocelyn Ventura
I pursued my Bachelor’s Degree with a Major in Art. I was now convinced that my childhood dreams were real and now more than ever I wanted to be a professional photographer. I was now equipped with the knowledge and passion to pursue my dreams and my obsession took off. Eventually, I earned my Arts Degree with a major in Photography from the UASD University, located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Read more>>
Megan Casabe
It wasn’t in the cards to be a therapist. Or an entrepreneur. Even typing those words seem foreign. I was always going to be that hardcore doctor that didn’t take crap from anyone and did her thing. My goal was to save every child from cancer that I could. Life happened, that changed. What didn’t change was my passion for healthcare and after graduate school, I found myself working in healthcare but from the mental health side. Read more>>
Cynthia Mortimer
I was a 19-year-old college student studying for Nursing when my love for Makeup was discovered, I would watch many YouTube videos of different looks and practice on myself, my little sister and cousins. All I had was one eyeshadow palette that had 32 shades of colors in it and a few brushes. Fast forward 2017, I left college to follow my dream to become a makeup Artist and that’s when I went to beauty school and got my Aesthetician license and certificate in Makeup Artistry. Read more>>
Brianne Ford
I have always been a very creative and organized person. At a young age, people asked me to help plan their parties. After a while, I thought what am I doing? I am good at this and enjoy it, but it is a lot of work and I need to start charging. Little did I know what I was getting into! I knew I had a good work ethic as I grew up riding and showing horses since I was young. Read more>>
Lauren and Candice Henry
Like most stories, ours starts at the beginning— but as sisters, we really do go way back. The two of us embarked on this journey together and discovered our interest in leadership and personal growth pretty early on. Looking back, we can see how these early experiences shaped our future, though we didn’t know it at the time. Our parents made an effort to immerse us in a positive. Read more>>
