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Kim is the Business Development Officer at United Fidelity Bank overseeing the Fort Walton Banking Center. As a trusted banker with over 43 years of experience, she specializes in relationship building for both personal and commercial clients. She provides exceptional service and is always available to assist clients with their banking needs.

Kim is also a devoted community member. She is passionate about working with non-profits to help them meet the needs of the community. She serves on the board and executive committee of United Way Emerald Coast and is also on the board of Emerald Coast Foundation and Habitat for Humanity of Okaloosa County. Kim also volunteers with many other local organizations in her community. She is a member of the Military Affairs Committee and has recently been selected as an Honorary Commander for the 782d Test Squadron at Eglin AFB. Kim enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Call 850-244-5151 or email kim.cox@unitedfidelity.com to learn how Kim can help you!

Veteran of the United States Navy, parent to 5 adult children (2 boys and 3 girls), 7 grand kids (4 boys and 3 girls) and 2 fur babies (dogs: Bella and Bentley). I have been married a little over 7 years and realized after seeing how the unhealthy choices of both of our parents and grandparents led to potentially preventable disease that I needed to make changes and break the cycle of disease.
My husband and I desired to break old, unhealthy habits and start new healthy ones to be around as long as possible with our family. After working on ourselves, we decided to pay it forward by helping others obtain their one and only healthy life and the best version of themselves.
We believe that given the opportunity most would also desire to leave a legacy of breaking the cycle of unhealthy habits leading to disease for their families and friends. Our mission as lifestyle transformation specialists is to guide others toward their own healthy life through a transformation process to live healthier, happier, lives for as long as possible.

Blessings,

Melissa Brown

Cell: 214-907-04952

melissa@m1hl.com

Co-owner, My One Healthy Life

Empowering others to be heroes

of their own health journeys 

https://linqapp.com/myonehealthylife

A retired Navy submariner, parent to 5 adult children (2 boys and 3 girls), 7 grand kids (4 boys and 3 girls) and 2 dogs: Bella and Bentley. Married to Melissa since Sept 2016.

We love to travel and visit our kids and their families as well as explore unfamiliar places. We are active in our growing church.

We own and operate Bridging Analytics: a consulting firm with a focus on helping non-profit organizations understand, measure, and communicate their true impact.

Respectfully,
Jeff Brown(816) 810-5044
golddolphins62@gmail.com 

Co-owner, Bridging Analytics

Helping non-profits get better and grow.

https://linqapp.com/Bridging_Analytics________________________

Co-owner, My One Healthy Life

Empowering others to be heroes

of their own health journeys 

https://linqapp.com/myonehealthylife

Robert Bage was born and raised in Miami, FL. After graduating, he enlisted in the United States Navy for three years and then joined the United States Border Patrol for a year. However, he missed his hometown and left the Border Patrol for the North Miami Police Department. He worked at the North Miami Police Department from 1999 until 2019. During his tenure at the North Miami Police Department, he obtained the rank of Assistant Chief and worked in various units spanning all aspects of law enforcement, but he spent most of his career in Community Policing. He also served as the elected chair of the Police Pension Board and as a Union Representative.

During his time at the North Miami Police Department, he obtained his bachelor’s degree from Florida International University in Psychology and his master’s degree from Barry University in Public Administration. Additionally, he attended the FBI National Academy (session 248), the Police Executive Research Forum’s (PERF) Senior Management Institute of Policing (SMIP), and the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute’s Chief Executive Seminar.

In 2019 after a nationwide search, he was selected as the Chief of Police for the City of Fort Walton Beach and has grown the department by adding a traffic and community policing unit. He also served as the President of the First Judicial Law Enforcement Association in 2021 and is currently the 2nd Vice President of Florida Police Chiefs Association, the Florida Representative to the State Association of Chiefs of Police (SACOP), the chair of the Okaloosa County Health Improvement Plan Healthy Communities Group, a member of the State of Florida Domestic Security Oversight Council and a Commissioner on the Criminal Justice Training and Standards (CJTS) Commission. 

Kelly has been in the field of psychology since 1994 when she was in undergraduate school at UWF. She is a trained psychometrist with several decades of psychological testing experience.  She has been employed in a variety of jobs that have given her a wider berth of experience such as being a provider network representative for Tricare, a case manager and inpatient therapist in psychiatric hospital settings, working with runaway, ungovernable, and truant teens, providing services to children who were placed in the care of Dept. of Children & Families, to being a director of therapeutic communities for prisons in Northwest Florida. She has served on several committees through the years including the Program Development Committee with the Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for ASHA (Advanced Sacred Hope Academy). She has been in private practice successfully since 2003. That private practice has become a growing group practice.

Kelly has a passion for helping others and improving the services that are available for those in need in the Northwest Florida area. She has a deep commitment to the military community and to the first responders. 

Kelly is a proud military brat that grew up all over the world and finally found her home in Fort Walton Beach, FL. She has two daughters. She encourages those that she supports and supervises to self-care and to know their core. She enjoys volunteering, paddle boarding, boating, skiing, scuba diving, and much more. She has a passion for animals and children.  Kelly has served on several mission teams and as Chair of a Missions Committee.

Kelly’s therapeutic specialties include trauma, mood disorders, ADHD, anger management, work/life balance, peri-natal depression, clinical mental health evaluations, forensic assessments, women’s issues, and much more. She is also a Florida Qualified Supervisor and provides supervision to FL Registered Mental Health Counselor Interns along with Masters Level Interns. children; personal and spiritual growth. I help clients resolve shame so they break negative cycles and live out of a deeper, truer inner awareness. 

 Kelly Beck, MS, LMHC is a FL Licensed Mental Health Counselor (MH 5763) ,Certified Mental Health Counselor, & a FL Qualified Supervisor. Kelly has been licensed since 1999. She is a member of the NAFC, FMHCA, AACC, MHA, & ECMHCA. 

Ballet Mistress, 

NW Florida Ballet Académie

Haley Blaise began studying ballet in Portland, Oregon at Oregon Ballet Theater. She also studied on full scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Northwest Academy and The Portland Ballet, where she received training from influential teachers Patricia Brewer-Jones, Nancy Davis, Carol Schults, Elizabeth Guerin and Robert Guitron. Mrs. Blaise has performed roles in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Balanchine’s Raymonda, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Dennis Spaight’s Ellington Suite and Gloria, Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadere, and John Clifford’s La Boutique Fantasque to name a few.

Mrs. Blaise began her teaching in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. From there she relocated to Pensacola, FL to teach at Ballet Pensacola in the academy and performed as a Soloist in the resident professional company. Mrs. Blaise was invited to Virginia School of the Arts intensive programs as a guest instructor and was later hired as Ballet Mistress.  As a member of the VSA faculty, she contributed to restructuring the ballet program and staging ballets.  Haley returned to Portland and joined the Polaris Dance Theatre company and to start a family. While back in her home town she also continued teaching for Polaris Dance Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Bodyvox, DanceFusion NW, The Portland Ballet and Reed College.