Vero Beach Podcast - Meet Your Neighbors. Support Local. ™
Welcome to the Vero Beach Podcast—where we share the stories behind the businesses, makers, and dreamers shaping our community.
Each week, we’ll sit down with local business owners and community leaders to hear their journeys—the highs, the lows, and everything in between. From family-owned shops to bold startups, you’ll get to “meet your neighbors” and discover what makes Vero Beach such a vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Because when we know the stories, it changes how we shop, connect and care for our community,
Meet Your Neighbors. Support Local. ™
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Episodes
86 episodes
Endless Gatherings - Two Friends Turn Grief Into A Place Where Everyone Belongs
We’re coming to you today from the Endless Gatherings House in Vero Beach, with Jo and Michelle. Michelle shares the grief that brought her to Florida after losing her daughter, Maddisyn, and we also about shallow water blackout and why more fa...
How Community Magazines Help Local Businesses Grow
Marketing can feel like shouting into the void, especially when you’re a local business trying to stand out without wasting money on random ads. We sit down with April Bekech from Best Version Media to talk about a different approach: community...
Breakthrough Wellness Ministry - From Mercury Poisoning To A Mission Of Wellness
A healthy lifestyle can still leave you facing disease and illness if you are fighting the wrong battle. We sit down with Jeanne from Breakthrough Wellness Ministries, and her story gets real fast: losing her dad suddenly to heart failure, watc...
HLP Quality Media - Writing That Still Sounds Human
AI can write a paragraph in seconds, but it can’t protect your reputation when the facts are wrong, the voice feels robotic, or the phrasing sounds off. We sit down with Helen from HLP Quality Media (also known as HLP Writing Services) to talk ...
Ashes To Beauty - Reclaimed Timber Into Meaningful Furniture
A slab of wood can be more than a building material...it can be a memory with grain lines. We’re sitting down with Zach and Abby of Ashes To Beauty Wood to hear how a couple of bold “let’s just do it” decisions turned reclaimed wood experiments...
Solar Solutions - Not A Shady Tinter Just A Smart One
Did you know your car can be tinted and still feel like an oven, and your home can have “great natural light” that drives your AC bill through the roof? We've had great experiences with car window tinting, and some that weren't so great, so we ...
Teaching Your Baby In Braille - If You Can Play Tetris You Can Read Braille
A blind mom walks into a system built for labels and gets told “we can’t help you” because her baby isn’t blind. That moment could have ended as frustration, but it became the spark for something better: an inclusive children’s book designed fo...
Warriors & Queens – Stop Frog Farming & Start Dating Again
Your relationship can be thriving on paper and still feel like you’re living with a stranger. That tension is exactly what we unpack with Dave and Yvette from Warriors and Queens, a couple who built ...
Hank's Heroes - What If Being A Hero Starts With Saying Hello
A 15-year-old walks into a medical daycare dressed as Spider-Man, and suddenly the room feels lighter. That’s the heart of our conversation with Hank, the founder of Hank’s Heroes, a local community s...
Nutrition Thyme - Nutrition Care Works Best When It Fits Your Real Life
You can’t out-hack a life that’s overloaded, under-slept, and stressed out and that’s why we loved this conversation with Tara, a Registered Dietitian and the founder of Nutrition Thyme. Tara bring...
JoyFit: How Group Fitness Builds Joy & Community in Vero Beach
You can learn a lot about a community by how it moves, and Crystal Divers has built JoyFit a Movement Studio around making movement feel safe, fun, and honest. We talk with her inside the bri...
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Building Coastal Cleaning with Kristin Charles
She’s on her phone juggling Airbnb messages before the mics even turn on, and that sets the tone fast. We’re talking with Kristin Charles from Coastal Clea...
SPENGA Vero Beach - Part 3: Why Vero Beach Works
Vero Beach isn’t just a pretty shoreline, it’s a place where the details matter: the bridges, the beaches, the way the town resists becoming a wall of high rises. We sit down with Christi and Brad from ...
SPENGA Vero Beach - Part 2: The 20/20/20 Workout
Spin. Strength. Yoga. Three words that can sound intimidating until you hear how this studio designs the hour to meet you where you are. We’re back with Christi and Brad from SPENGA in Vero Beach to...
SPENGA Vero Beach - Part 1: From Christi's Fitness to Spenga in Vero Beach
A lot of business success stories skip the messy parts. We didn’t. Sitting inside SPENGA in Vero Beach, we talk with owner Christi Wade and general manager Brad Bacon about what it really takes to b...
Riley Black Studios - Part 2: What Happens When A Small Town Supports You Back
Your business might run on word of mouth, but your next customer is still going to look you up. We sat down in Sebastian at Riley Black Studios with John and Crystal to talk about what’s changing acro...
Riley Black Studios - Part 1: A Niche Podcast Can Grow A Business Without Going Viral
What if the problem isn’t that nobody wants your podcast, but that you’re measuring it the wrong way? We sit down with John and Crystal from Riley Black Studios to unpack how they went from recording ...
Vero Tackle & Watersports - Part 3: Vero Beach Partnerships That Win
A quiet electric boat slides through the Indian River Lagoon, dolphins surface close enough that you can hear them breathe, and your night ends with a reserved table waiting behind Sweet Desires. That is not a gimmick. It is what happens when V...
Vero Tackle & Watersports - Part 2: How Do You Make More Beach
The ocean views are the easy part. The hard part is running a water sports business when the tide decides you only get half a beach and a full hotel still wants 100 chairs set up on time. We sit down with Chris from the
Vero Tackle & Watersports - Part 1: Anything To Avoid Wearing Shoes
You can learn a lot about a place by how people use the water and in Vero Beach, the lagoon is where stories, business, and community all collide. We sit down with Chris Woodruff from Vero Tackle and Water...
Nuglow By K - Part 3: Finding Home After The Storm
A flooded apartment, a quick move, and a quiet Florida town that felt like a second chance. We sit down with Kylie of Nuglow By K to share how a life uprooted by Hurricane Maria turned into a mission to help...
Nuglow By K - Part 2: Inside A Skincare Studio
Ever wonder what it truly takes to run a credible skincare studio? We sit down with Kylie from Nuglow by K for a candid look at the grind and the grace: hospital-grade cleaning, relentless prep, and the thou...
Nuglow By K - Part 1: Your Face Isn’t A Fast Food Order
Skincare shouldn’t feel like a sales trap or a guessing game. We sit down with aesthetician Kylie Castro of Nuglow by K to explore how empathy, curiosity, and custom plans can transform your routine and your...
21st Amendment - Part 3: Vero's Hidden Gem, Poured Neat
Ever wonder how a small coastal town quietly builds a powerhouse community around a local distillery? During this episode we sit with Jeff from 21st Amendment Distillery to trace the heartbeat of Vero ...
21st Amendment - Part 2: People Make The Room (Craft, Team & Community)
Slip into a private tasting room, at 21st Amendment Distillery, where Victorian mirrors, antique chairs, and a ceiling woven from whiskey staves set the tone for a different kind of night out. We pull ...
