Today we’d like to introduce you to Anne Reinstein.
“As a growing minority, Hispanic women have led the way in business and have proven to be strong role models for other women as well as the next generation.”
If Anne had a theme song, it likely would be “Climb Every Mountain.” When this busy CPA isn’t helping her company’s clients with their accounting and tax issues, she climbs some of the world’s tallest peaks to raise funds to help those less fortunate.
Anne is a co-founding member, vice president/treasurer and frequent media spokesperson for Project Change, a non-profit group that builds schools and orphanages and rescues children enduring Uganda’s horrific conditions. To help raise funds for Project Change and other charitable endeavors, she and five other climbers twice scaled Africa’s tallest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro. Anne also surmounted Colorado’s 14,000 foot high seven peaks to raise funds and bring awareness of the global problem of the trafficking of women and children. For four consecutive years, she and her husband, Paul Marley, traveled to Paul’s home country to raise money to benefit the United Kingdom’s Multiple Sclerosis Society by climbing the U.K’s ten peaks in an extraordinarily short ten hours. In addition, Anne has been mountaineering in Texas, New Mexico, Washington, Thailand, Utah and her native Peru. She hopes to one day ascend Himalaya’s Mt. Everest.
A breast cancer survivor, Anne also completed the New York City 26.2 mile marathon in 2016 and plans to run again this year.
Anne is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Florida Atlantic University where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and her Associate of Arts degree from Broward College. In 2003, she earned her Certified Public Accountant license from the State of Virginia.
Using her accounting expertise as a CPA, Anne donates her time as a Board Member/Director for the Jessica June Children’s Cancer Foundation by reviewing their financial statements and annual tax return.
In Miami, on a fully-accessible beach, Anne also volunteers for the Sabrina Cohen Foundation as part of their Adaptive Beach Program that helps to physically transport the disabled into the ocean to allow them to experience the delight of the sea, perhaps for the first time. She also has served as an English teacher for Global Volunteers, Inc. in
India and volunteers and/or is a donor for Women for Women International, the Humane Society of Broward County, H.A.N.D.Y, and other non-profits. Anne also proudly sponsors the College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania and is a benefactor for the Orphanage El Niño Emanuel in Peru.
Promotional Biography for “Empowering the Next Diva” Event:
On Mondays, she’s in Peru volunteering with others as she helps underprivileged families. On Tuesdays, she’s in New York City kicking ass at a Marathon and Wednesdays she somehow finds the time to be in Miami petting baby tigers all the while being an entrepreneur, business owner, wife, friend and overall DIVA!! This AMAZING woman sets no limits when it comes to living LIFE! Wanna know a chic that inspires you to do ANYTHING…. than search no more as you meet our Woman Crush Wednesday, Empowering the next DIVA Speaker and all around FANTABULOUS DIVA Anne Reinstein!
Anne is a Peruvian native that has lived in the United States since she was a teenager. Around the time that she was starting college, life took an unplanned turn as her parents, unfortunately, separated causing Anne to fall into a rebellious stage. Her parents then made a decision to send her to Germany to continue her studies but this Diva had other plans in mind. At a young age, she decided to follow her gut feeling and rerouted her own journey to America. When she arrived in New York City, Anne worked odd jobs in the diamond district and clothing stores before stumbling across a diamond in the rough herself. Anne was approached with the opportunity to do Spanish and English translations at court hearings as a profession. Funny thing was, her English was limited but that was certainly not going to stop her. She took on the responsibility of learning the English language in what needed to be an overnight task and continued to be a professional translator for another year. Even though she was able to find a living in NYC, it wasn’t an easy challenge. She lived through the extreme hardships that most people who come from other countries endure but she always set her bar at making it happen. She knew going back to the comfort of living back in her country was not an option because she was on a mission to prove that she was going to make it on her own no matter what!
Florida has been home for Anne the last 23 years. Her accomplishments have been plenty in this time span as she made it a point to surround herself with great people that have shared her passions and have inspired her success. She returned to school in 1993 where she studied accounting. It took her 10 years to complete her college degree because, like everyone else, life gets in the way and sometimes great things take a little bit to arrive. She found herself working full time during the day and going to school at night. At one point for a period of 2 years, she worked 2 jobs and still managed to go to school. She prides herself in that for 10 years… she never once took a semester off because she knew that had she done so, just one semester, would derail her from ever finishing her goal. Talk about dedication and understanding her own structure!
During her time in school, people began recognizing her skills and ability in accounting and began hiring her independently for services. After 7 years of building an impressive clientele base, she ended up opening her own practice which she very successfully runs today.
But this Diva’s personal accomplishments surpass her educational ones if you can believe that. Anne seamlessly juggles Life and Work making sure to live out a legacy instead of just existing in life. Her passions include travel and charitable work and somehow she manages to marry the two and make a difference! She takes great pride in traveling around the world and learning a variety of cultures, gets to know different people and most importantly sets out to change the lives of those people she meets.
In particular, one of Anne’s greatest passions is to travel the world for climbing expeditions. Her notable experience ranks pretty impressively for this DIVA! In 2002, she conquered the Inca Trail in Peru which is one of the top 5 treks in the world. There she says she found the solitude and peace of being on her own and testing her physical limits and realizing…. she was in control of those limits! She also climbed and mastered Mount Kilimanjaro which is the highest volcanic mountain in Africa! But don’t gasp in awe just yet! As if that wouldn’t give her enough bragging rights at her next Girls Night Out, she embraced this experience by giving life to her passion of giving charity. She told us that these climbing expeditions are composed of a multitude of professionals and locals that help guide you through your journey. During her climb at Kilimanjaro, she met a guide by the name of Alex John who had a dream of Wild Life Management but who’s financial means would never allow for him to fulfill it. In Anne’s notable nature, she decided to share her blessings and make his dream come true by funding his entire schooling to become just that. Alex John has now climbed over 100 times as a Wild Life Manager thanks to the graciousness and humbled beginnings of one impressive woman! Please insert standing ovation here!
Let’s read off the rest of her incredible climbing resume… Mount Whitney, in the Sierra Nevada, has climbed 7 of the 14ers in Colorado, Utah, Washington State, Texas, New Mexico, England, and Thailand!! Are you serious!!! And sometimes we say we don’t have the time to read a book and this Diva is piling up awesomeness into her life! In her climb that she did in Cambodia, again in Anne Fashion, in 2005, she took another opportunity to give back and paid for the full education of a local Monk. I’m dropping the mic now.. she’s just too terrific!
So you would think that with this kind of life experience, she has the mentality of been there done that and there’s nothing else to muse her. That’s where you are very wrong! This Diva has not limited! So what adventure is she planning on next? She shared that it is her dream to tie in her charitable passion with travel. One of the ways she envisions in coming to life and truly living out her legacy is by living in every continent of the world for at least two to three years and leaving her imprint behind. She has embraced her tireless need to help others and share her abilities in changing the lives of those she meets. What a beautiful legacy to live out than that!
As they prepare to showcase her at their Empowering the next DIVA event coming up, they are extremely proud to count with her as a friend, a fellow Diva but more importantly, a human being that lives out her life as it should be. Anne Reinstein…. these Divas salute, tip their hats, raise their high heels and applaud her in every way possible for not only sharing part of her incredible journey but her joyous and amazing story!!
Has it been a smooth road?
No, it was not smooth at the beginning. I was living in an abusive relationship for two years but when it became a matter of life or death, I had to leave for good. It took 8 moves during that period of time to finally feel strong enough to do it. The mental damage that was done took over 5 years to repair but I met my first husband then and he became my life savior. He helped me pick up the pieces to allow me to strive and earn my degree while working two jobs and going to school at night. It took me 10 years to graduate with an accounting degree. It was a very long road of sacrifices but worth every minute of my 20s.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
I started working for a small firm in Plantation in 1998. Shortly after, the owner of the firm proposed a mentorship where we both had the common goal to pass on the firm to me within 7 years. I purchased the firm in 2000 and I have been able to grow it significantly.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
For the Hispanic community, there is definitely an advantage to start. Much of Miami reminds people of home, you get to see a lot of visitors, friends, family that help through the assimilation journey and significant connections are made through our own culture. There is a vast amount of opportunity to stand out from the rest if you become really good at what you do. It requires time and sacrifices much of which most people aren’t willing to put out. But I am walking proof of it and I encourage any newcomers or any graduate to work hard, with pride and simply learning to the best of what you can be at whatever it is you do. Any business will thrive in any city if you stand out from the rest.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 954-444-2887
- Email: areinstein@msn.com
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