Kind of what led you to the model of practice to start what you're doing today?

So I'm New York City born and bred.

I did all my education in New York and then I moved down to Miami about four years ago post-COVID.

I don't think I need to say how New York City was during COVID.

And we were just looking for a little bit something different to get us out of, you know, the COVID slump that we were in.

Both my husband and I were first responders and frontline workers during COVID.

And then when we landed in Miami, we saw a great need in the area.

your target audience obviously is pretty diverse and from what you were saying um we as we come in and kind of here for a landing uh what's a book you can be however long-winded or short as you like on some of these questions But what book do you give out most or would you say is a necessary read if you're thinking about doing this or what's in your Audible library? Maybe it's a pleasure book and you're like, I don't know, because everybody's different.

Kind of what led you to the model of practice to start what you're doing today?

So I'm New York City born and bred.

I did all my education in New York and then I moved down to Miami about four years ago post-COVID.

I don't think I need to say how New York City was during COVID.

And we were just looking for a little bit something different to get us out of, you know, the COVID slump that we were in.

Both my husband and I were first responders and frontline workers during COVID.

And then when we landed in Miami, we saw a great need in the area.

And he's, you know, we joked about it last week, but nonetheless, um, your target audience obviously is pretty diverse and from what you were saying um we as we come in and kind of here for a landing uh what's a book you can be however long-winded or short as you like on some of these questions But what book do you give out most or would you say is a necessary read if you're thinking about doing this or what's in your Audible library? Maybe it's a pleasure book and you're like, oh, no, because everybody's different.

Yeah.

Um, and it's very, it's, it's very difficult to navigate, and my whole hope with Navan Health, which is the concierge practice that we started, was that patient advocacy is number one.

So the patient is the center.

I am your quarterback.

I'm your advocate.

I will be there if you ever got hospitalized.

I will be there to expedite your appointments.

Mm-hmm.

... which is amazing.

They're so cute together.

Like, you meet them, and you're like, "Wow," you know, "this is a love story with a happy ending," 'cause you're still together, and you're still cute.

Like, they're still like, they hold hands, and they're affectionate, and I'm like, "I want that after 50 years," you know? That's- it's amazing.

What does this film say to you about the power of love?

Um, I think it stands for how resilient love can be, and I think resilience is one of the most important qualities when it's actually really true love.

Like, when you're resilient and you're like, "I will bend heaven and Earth to achieve this thing," that makes it passionate, it makes it magical, and this movie's, like, an absolute example of that.

What's up?

... you have so much more to give than I think you ever give yourself credit to.

Like, I, I thought I can't function without, you know, that eight hours of sleep or...

And now, like, today we're at, you know, we've been awake almost every one and a half hours because she wasn't feeling too well, and we're fine.

We can function.

It just teaches you how resilient you are as a human, how much, I guess, to me, um, how capable you are because you love this thing so much more than anything ever before.

That's right.

By the way.

Yes.

Millions and millions of lives.

And this movie actually has a really interesting slice of what they were capable of doing.

They utilized pirates in order to, you know, take over new lands, right, and in their conquests.

And then, um, when piracy was abolished, they, you know, went after them, and they, they wanted to arrest them, and they vilified the same people that helped them build their entire empire.

So this was really interesting because, um, my character's story, her, her parents and her family are indentured servants, which was the truth of many, many people, especially in India, um, where young people were, um, you know, told better opportunities, new lands, more money, um, "Come with us," and take them off as servants and then drop them in different parts of the world, in islands.

And the Caribbean has a huge Indian community, um, whose history started with, um, just being displaced from their lands and, and dropped somewhere else in the world and then having to figure out what your future looks like.

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

But it was, uh, very hard on me.

And she's a miracle baby because she was my, like, only hope at that time to be able to have a baby.

So when we were told that she's coming, like, at twenty-seven weeks, I just shut down.

I remember I sat in front of a firep- fireplace in our house for, I think, like, nine hours or something, and for someone who's always so solution-oriented, I didn't have a thought in my brain.

And Nick was somewhere, and he came back, and we just-- he grabbed me, w- we loaded the car and our dogs, and we drove.

It was COVID time, and just the situation under which she was born was so much duress for everyone involved, and it was just really intense.

Mm

Mm-hmm.

But it was, uh, very hard on me.

And she's a miracle baby because she was my, like, only hope at that time to be able to have a baby.

So when we were told that she's coming, like, at twenty-seven weeks, I just shut down.

I remember I sat in front of a firep- fireplace in our house for, I think, like, nine hours or something.

And for someone who's always so solution-oriented, I didn't have a thought in my brain.

And Nick was somewhere, and he came back, and we just-- he grabbed me, l- we loaded the car and our dogs, and we drove.

Mm

Uh, for anyone listening who isn't as familiar with Bollywood movies and wants to get into it, what movies would you have them start with?

Ooh.

I would say you should go onto Amazon Prime and Netflix and see some of the newer movies that have come out.

I feel like the evolution of Bollywood...

We have every genre.

People think Bollywood is one genre.

In fact, I saw it somewhere where, you know, there were se- different genres for movies and I can't remember what platform this was.

Um, are there any in- initiatives or projects that you're working on right now that you can share?