VLOG | Photo Contest Winner

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WINNER OF THE NOVEMBER PHOTO CONTEST GIFT GIVEAWAY IS ANNOUNCED! A $100 GIFT Certificate and a bottle of bubbly from Meagan Zarba LMT of Everything Ohm Massage and Wellness and guest judge & lifestyle photographer Vessi Vlasseva Photography & Creative

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles and Welcome to the November photo contest.

I’m Christon Gibson and joining us today is Meagan Zarba and guest photographer Vessi VLasseva.

Say that 3 times while your dancing. It’s go a good disco beat to it.

Today we’re gonna find out who the winner is of the monthly photo contest

How do you enter the monthly photo contest?

You have to hashtag #NLandL

Which stands for Newport Living and Lifestyles!

Fantastic! so Vessi did a great job of picking only five photos.

I don’t know how you did it.

It was difficult.

How many were there?

There’s a lot

A lot! I only looked for the month of November. I didn’t look past the month of November.

There is probably at least 100, I would say

Wow!

Yeah, people are doing a great job of hashtagging.

Every winner, every month, gets a gift certificate and a bottle of bubbly

Today our host is Meagan Zarba

Would you like to tell us something about what the winners will receive and what you do.

Absolutely, I’m a licensed massage therapist and health coach and I

work with people. I specialize in helping people have less pain in their

body, chronic pain, acute pain, I work with people who are in rehab programs, people

who just want to feel better in their body and I’m

offering $100 giftcard to come work with me in any capacity.

I practice deep tissue, myofascial release, just simple relaxation, Swedish massage,

I also incorporate marma point therapy, which comes from Ayurveda

if you’ve heard of it, if not, if you’re curious, come talk to me.

I could probably talk for hours about everything that I do.

I do have two locations.

On Monday and Tuesday I’m located here at Stella Mare in Newport it’s 91 Long Wharf and then

my other location is Wednesday and Thursday in Middletown, inside Wyatt Square, its 575 East Main Road.

You can see me at either of those locations and

I’m really excited to work with you and meet whoever the winner is

They can book appointments for you straight through Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook @massagewithmeag Instagram @meaganzarba

Also, by my phone number, which I’m not sure if we are putting that out there….

Let’s do it!

Go for it!

Yeah! Call me! 978-870-8161

or you can reach me at my email

which is Maegan@everydayohm.com

my website is EverydayOhm.com

Your Instagram and Facebook?

My Instagram is @MeaganZarba and

You can find me on LinkedIn by the same name @meaganzarba

I’m the only one that has that name.

Well I love your name and this is a beautiful space to work in with a piano and gongs, really gorgeous space.

It’s a really special space. Stella Mare is also used as a rental space for micro weddings, corporate parties, private

parties and any of that jazz. It is a gorgeous place to hold events.

Yes, I teach yoga here. The owner of this

space is super passionate about holistic health and wellness and she invites any

of that to be part of the space when it’s not being rented out for events so

We are actually home to Newport Kundalini , which is a type of yoga.

It’s a really big community here.

Every Tuesday night there’s a class at 6:00PM Kundalini Yoga and

on Tuesday mornings I teach a regular Hatha alignment based flow and

I also do private yoga, small group yoga and just teaching people how to move their bodies in general.

My whole background is in exercise science and psychology originally.

I used to be a personal trainer so I’ve been studying the body

and the workings of the mind and the body for probably 15 years.

How did you guys meet?

Through my husband and her boyfriend.

I was dying one day. I was having horrible, horrible back pains and her boyfriend who works with my husband,

said you have to go see Meagan, she is life changing and she fixed me.

I’m honored to be a part of anybody’s healing process and thank you very much.

Vessi tell us about your photography, your history, how you got started, your passions.

I am new to Newport. I moved here from Colorado in May.

I started photographing when I was 14 years old in high school.

I did it as a second major in college and then once I graduated college.

I decided that photography was going to be my side hustle.

About 3 – 3 1/2 years ago it turned into my full-time job.

I’ve been doing it ever since.

I’ve had a lot of clients in Colorado that I’ve worked with.

I primarily work with interior designers on interior design photography.

I do a lot of lifestyle shoots with people and products.

That is what my main focus is, however I’m open to new ventures in photography,

which is really really cool.

Then I also do some graphic design work as well, because my other major,

because I couldn’t just be an art major, according to my parents, was advertising.

I do all of that stuff as well.

Some clients use me as kind of a little more of a full-service, small boutique-y agency,

others just come to me for a la cart services

It just depends on what people need.

A women of many facets. How can they find you?

You can find me at VessiVlasseva.com

and my photography, design work and all of my contact information can be found there.

Fantastic, thanks ladies, are we ready to check out some of these photos?

I picked 5 photos off of the #NLandL hashtag for November.

Should we start with this one? This one is by @MermaidMasterpieces

She’s got fantastic work.

It’s so so pretty. It’s just the sky and the ocean.

It’s just absolutely beautiful.

I love of the colors and the reflections.

I love that it all blends together.

It looks like a painting.

I want to hang it over my bed.

That would be a great canvas.

You get lost in it.

Yes! it’s beautiful!

And it looks very mermaid-ish.

How many likes does she have, 22 others liked it,

so go check out @mermaidmasterpieces

She has really fantastic work and she DESERVES the props!!!

She has a lot of beautiful work on her page, I kind of stalked everybody a little.

She has a Christmas cards! check out her Christmas cards!

CUTE! That’s awesome!

The second photo I chose is by @l_Double

and the reason I liked this photo is because it looks a little urban for Newport

It gives the city a little more of a city, like a big bigger city vibe.

I really like it and also girls who skateboard are cool!

yeah!

That one was personally my favorite.

And this one got 136 likes.

Nice work Lee Abney!

He’s one of the favorites around town by the way

I have not met him.

Each of his photos really exude a lot of mood, you can completely tell that they are his work.

You guys definitely check it out @l_double

You know everybody!

Well doing this, you meet more and more people for sure.

The next photo I chose is by @TimNewportRI

It got a 179 likes. I don’t know if Tim’s a professional photographer or if this is something he does on the side.

He works at Discover Newport and by the way,

He is a bartender at the Black Pearl, so go check him out there as well.

He’ is always out and about highlighting Newport for Discover Newport

Cool! I saw a bunch of photos.

It’s just really, just such a pretty composition.

Calming.

Even the 3 that you picked so far really show so many different sides of Newport so look forward to seeing more.

Yeah, I tried to do that.

I thought that was beautiful.

It’s very calming and relaxing and this is actually a snapshot of the video that he had.

You can just hear the birds chirping and it’s really beautiful.

We couldn’t print that.

Our next contestant is @emdiggity_

She got 124 likes on her image. It’s a picture of her and her dog, I think at the beach.

So cute! I love it !The dog is on point !

Yes! You don’t know how many pictures I have tried to get

of my dog hanging out the window and I cannot do it!

They are not paying attention.

She really captured this so perfectly.

Even as a photographer, I can never nail anything like this, ever.

So good job, way to go, this is perfect,

you should frame it, I hope it’s on your wall, I love it.

I actually want to get a picture of him, which I’ve been trying to do for so long, with the caption that reads

“and I always think they’re waving at me, like a baby in a carriage”

cause they are always waving at the dog like they are so cute!

Good job

Last photo is by @K__Elizabeth.

She got, oh gosh, 968 likes!

She’s pretty popular! I have not met her yet but we should definitely make that happen!

I just loved this photo at the beach, it’s so pretty.

The lighting.

She actually has verbiage here reads,

“Stormy night” so it must have been a stormy night.

It’s just a very pretty, peaceful beach image which just makes me think of Newport.

I love how she captured so many different colors on the beach and the sky it’s really popping with that blue.

What do you like about it?

I love that you can see the storms starting to roll in but it looks so the calm and peaceful.

There’s really a lot going on to it.

I feel like it brings in a lot of different moods rather than being cohesively one.

That’s @K__Elizabeth so check out her stuff.

Vessi being our professional guest photographer,

What is the winner of November!

It is so hard to choose and I love them all and I wish everyone could win but

I am going to go with @MermaidMasterpieces

Just because I would hang this on my wall if it was printed on a canvas. I think it’s beautiful!

Congratulations! Great ! Fantastic ! so we can invite @mermaidmasterpieces here together with us and

take a group photo and we can post that as well!

We look forward to seeing you !

Excited to meet you!

If you would like to learn about new businesses in the area and who

is behind those businesses and some local influencers, make sure to visit

www.NewportLivingandLifestyles.com

We look forward to seeing you on

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Boston Yacht Sales

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Honored to host an interview, and dance, on the bow of a Sabre 45 with Andrew Savage of Boston Yacht Sales at the Newport International Boat Show! B.Y.S. is one of only 40 professional brokerage firms in the country to have earned the distinction as an Endorsed Brokerage Firm by the Yacht Brokers Association of America: YBAA . Watch to see what NEW products 2020 Sabre and Back Cove’s coming to market and why boaters are choosing these classic family style cruising yacht’s.

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles

I’m Christon and we are at the

2019 Newport International Boat Show and

joining us today is Andrew Savage from Boston Yacht Sales, Welcome

Thank you

What a beautiful and gorgeous day we have here.

This is perfect boat show weather today. We are thrilled, the docks are full.

This gonna be a great great weekend for us.

Tell us a little bit about you, where are you from?

Sure, I’m from Marblehead Massachusetts

I grew up in Maine, near where these beautiful boats were built and

I work with Boston Yacht Sales here out of Weymouth as well as Falmouth and the Marblehead office.

How’d you even get into the industry ?

You know it’s a second life for me. It’s something I’m really passionate about.

I’ve been with them for five years now. It was a funny story actually.

I was looking for my next boat. I knew it was gonna be a Sabre or a Back Cove.

I started working with them and loved the brands, love the people and it’s a family business.

That worked out perfectly, timing was great for me and been with them ever since.

Where do you sell? What’s your basic geographical area?

My geographical area is New England primarily. We work with Sabre in Back Cove in Massachusetts and in Rhode Island.

The boats are built up in Maine, so we have a lot of clients up in that area as well.

What attracted you specifically to Boston Yacht Sale’s?

It’s the people. This industry is a small industry but it’s all about relationships and the people.

We are really fortunate to have people that have been working in this industry for over 50 years and really care about their clients.

So, so far in five years what’s your most sentimental testimonial?

You know it’s really interesting we get so many families on these boats,

they are really couples and multi-generational boats.

That it’s not one particular instance but it’s the time that these boats allow families and

multi generations to have together on the water.

If I’m out off Stellwagen watching the whales and all of a sudden two other boats pull up and

they’re my clients and I see them with their families out there, that’s what

gets me really excited and about what we do.

And whales !

And Whales,

That’s a good secondary plus.

Well , that’s the great thing about these boats, they have lots of range, people can take them up

and down the coast, they can go to Florida on them for the winter

What are some unique things about these particular boats that most people love?

Sure, so Sabre and Back Cove are sister companies. They’re down east traditional

Maine style boats, really set up for comfort and cruising, but also very

functional for day use. We have couples that can live on them for months

at a time and other families that just use them as a day boat .

I have got to see these closets!

We’ve got room for everything! Wardrobe after wardrobe.

They’re classic in style,

Yes, really nice lines, they’re classic, they’re clean.

Classic Maine built boats.

I love this leather interior that you guys have on this one.

I love the trim, the classic cherry interior so it’s a very yacht feeling,

but a very traditional yacht feeling but within a modern propulsion package and modern technologies.

What kind of engines are you guys working with?

The Sabres all come with either Volvo Penta IPS drives or Cummins Zeus drives, which are pod driven boats.

These are twin Diesel’s. The pods allow for joystick functionality.

I love the joystick

It makes around the dock, it makes everybody look like a superstar!

Even I can use the joystick to dock

Especially, grand kids and kids get on the boat,

If they’ve been playing video games all their life, this is child’s play for them.

Oh perfect

Then the sister company, Back Cove, is a little bit more of a traditional economical kind of lobster boat functionality,

where they are all single engine outboard boats.

What’s your hottest selling product?

The hottest selling product right now for Sabre is the one we’re standing on right now.

The 45, which is a new model about 18 months ago. Really popular twin cabin design and

then for Back Cove they introduced at this show last year, we introduced the 34o ,

which is the first outboard version of Back Cove.

We can’t keep those in stock.

Put your order in now

People can custom design these boats, I imagine.

Within a platform, yes, there’s a long options sheets, custom build them.

We often have them in stock too

See there guys, where else would you want to go?

That’s right

Can you give us any insight scoop to what may be coming and for next year 2020?

Yeah, we’re really excited about next year, for both brands.

Sabre is coming out with a new 58.

Actually, that hull number one is just about complete.

We’re hoping to see that this winter.

That’s been so popular that we’ve sold the first 13 or 14 just off the drawings.

Beautiful three cabin three stateroom boat.

Then Back Cove just yesterday here at the show announced

their second outboard boat which will be a 39-foot, 39o, 39-foot two cabin boat.

Since you have new product all the time, you must have a great celebrity clientele.

We do, If I told you, I would have to kill ya, right?

Yeah right! Just throw me overboard!

If you keep your eye out on the water you’ll notice enough out there,

we try to respect their privacy.

Do they have special celebrity flags, like a burgee, on the front?

They try to be incognito out there as well, that’s their family time as well.

That’s a great opportunity for them to get away from the hustle and bustle.

I’d like to ask,  Do you have a signature dance move?

I know your kids will be able to tell all, but they’re not here today.

yeah, they would kill me.

We’ll do it together

Well I think I would just have to go with raise the roof

Alright! Raise the roof!

Boston Yacht Sales!

That is what we are hoping to do here this week

Oh I love that! That’s great!

How can people reach you?

The best place to start is our website www.bostonyacht.com

We’ve got physical offices in Marblehead, in North Weymouth, as well Falmouth.

You can find all the information for all of our brokers and all the boats we represent on the website.

All right, What’s your favorite boat show of all time?

It’s got to be the Newport International Boat Show, right?

This is it! Look at the weather, the people can’t beat it!

Thank you so much!

That was great talking to you, getting to know you, getting to know your business and

We look forward to seeing you on

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SIREN Womens Cooperative with Sarah Nadimpalli & Suzanne Ramponi

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SIREN Women’s Cooperative is growing daily with over 50 members and you might want to consider growing with them. Women helping Women. Sarah Bergman Nadimpalli SIREN Founder and Suzanne Guarino Ramponi of Your Soul Discovery tell us about their community, their events, why people are jumping on board with the SIREN Women’s Coop, the passion behind this organization, the symbolic meaning behind the name, the benefits they offer, how you can participate, and their collaborative new book “Women Words and the Water”, a collection of inspiring recipes & stories written by your neighbors and Siren Members with profits benefiting SIREN’ own “Ready to Work Exchange Program”

The S.W.C. Books has arrived! The Book Launch & Signing date is set! Come July 20th 10-1130 @ Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, 101 Ferry Road Bristol RI and learn more about SIREN and purchase a book that goes to a great cause.

 
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Newport Music Festival Event in Newport RI

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Newport Music Festival started in 1969 and has grown to a month long expose with renowned artists performing at highly notable establishments throughout Newport and Rhode Island including The Chinese Tea House, The Breakers, The Elms, Ochre Point (which is now air conditioned), Blithewold Mansion, Bellevue House, Newport Arts Museum, The Casino Theatre, The Bohlin, Castle Hill, Newport Country Club & Aldrich Mansion in Warwick. Acclaimed opera singer, visionary and Executive Director Pamela Pantos speaks to the upcoming performances, artists & venues. There is music for all ages, price ranges and genres; including complimentary community performances.

Visit www.NewportMusic.org to partake in the schedule of events and participate as a sponsor

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles I’m Christon and joining us today isPamela Pantos from the Newport Music Festival. This started back in 1969and has now proliferated into a whole month-long of wonderfulextravaganzas. Yes. Tell us more about that. So you’re right, it’s a wholemonth, we started with the fourth of July. We did a huge free concert on the lawnat King Park and we have two more free concerts this summer and it goes all theway through July 28th and we have as you said a myriad of all different kinds ofconcerts from classical to jazz and then we even have the swingles comingtomorrow night which is this amazing acapella group from England five-timeGrammy winners Wow coming tomorrow night performing at the breakers and they’redoing all kinds of pop too so it’s it’s everything for everybody yes you have pop, swing, what other different types of music is there?Tomorrow night we have the swingles coming atthis acapella group they’re five-time Grammy nominated pardon me, not nominatedthey are five times Grammy winning! from England and they’ll be heretomorrow night and they’re doing a real myriad they do a little bit of classicalbut a lot of pop they’re even doing Fleetwood Mac oh and a little bit of rock and roll. okay and then onSaturday night we have two concerts one of which is completely sold out which isItalian opera night which is at the breakers however we still have a coupleof tickets left from the Harlem 100 they’re from New York they’re amazingit’s the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance and so if you like authenticjazz it’s at the Bohlin tent and it’s a whole evening so you get a drink whenyou come in valet parking is part of the price and then you get dinner stationsduring intermission plus a whole evening of jazz so it’s really a good time.absolutely, now where are some of the top placesthat everybody’s performing okay well we perform all over the place so certainlythe breakers here at the Elms we have beautiful morning concerts actually nextweek there will be three of them Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we have morningconcerts at the chinese tea house which are also completely sold out we’re doingas i said something at the bohlin we’re performing four times at the light poletent right in bristol and then Monday night we have a wonderfulextravaganza at Castle Hill so all over the place what’s the price ranges for peoplesure so as I mentioned there are free concerts especially next week’s the 16thTuesday at 6 p.m. there’ll be a free concert on the lawn of the Art Museum sothank you to the Art Museum for that and we’ll be doing carnival of animals so ifyou have kids bring a blanket and come at 6 o’clock we’ll have about 20 piecesright on the lawn and you’ll be able to hear this great piece it’s also narratedin addition to that we perform at the breakers almost every night as well as Isaid here at the Elms and lots of other things going on all over the place and agala a gala oh my gosh July 28th and I almost forgotso before we get to July 28th we have July 27 ok so this year we’re going back tothe casino theater which is a great space it’s air-conditioned and we arebringing in a New York dance troupe so the evening will be dance and music soour musicians but you won’t know when our musicians are just playing and whenit’s gonna start being danced and there’s smoke and all kinds of effectsso that’s a really great theater evening if you if you have anybody who lovesdance that’s a great evening moving music on the 27th at the casino theaterand the gala at the 28th at Ochre Court. I almost forgot that we perform theretoo so this Sunday next Sunday and the 28th we have concerts there and the 28this our gala that features metropolitan opera singer Nathan Gunn absolutelyincredible and his wife Julie Dunn who’s a concert pianistit’s gonna be a wonderful evening. You have a concert built into the eveningcatering guy Russell Morin it’s just gonna be a great evening and now they’veair-conditioned Ochre court as well so you can stay cool all night in your gownIf people would like to help you sponsor or just be involved somehow howcan they find you so they can go to the website which is NewportMusic.org youcan call the office at 401-846-1133 and just ask for Pamela andif you want to leave me a message my staff would be happy to talk to you.Easily Accessible. Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles