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The Face of D. Batia Interiors
DEBBIE BATIA
Inspired by her parents, both interior designers, Debbie Batia entered the family business after her father’s sudden death in 1975. She had been working in a bank but found she loved the business she grew up in and never looked back.
“Each new client or project is a challenge I love to take on,” she says. “I try to design each project with planning for that particular client’s needs, budget and vision. I never do the same design or furniture choices twice.”
The smiles and happiness she gets to be a part of make her job more like an adventure every day, not like work.
She says her two grown children and four beautiful grandchildren are her greatest personal successes. In business, her greatest success is the resilience she showed through recovery from Katrina. “Starting the business over on my own, staying
in business through the worst of times over the last 18 years, working through my own personal tragedies and triumphantly still working and owning my own successful business gives me great satisfaction to show the world that I stood on my own two feet and got through bad times,” she added.
A favorite thing to do is dining at Mary Mahoney’s restaurant where her family has been going since she was a little girl in the 1960s.
D. Batia Interiors LLC
1001 Howard Ave., Biloxi | 228.385.2657 | www.dbatiainteriors.com
Face of Strength
VINSON KEYHEA
Vinson Keyhea has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years. He is a master trainer/one-on-one personal trainer and five-time World Power Lifter champion. He competed for 26 years, breaking over 13 American records and 10 World Records. Keyhea was awarded the Best Lifter (pound-for-pound) in the World Power Lifting competition held in Australia. He still holds the 777-pounds deadlifting record.
Additionally, Keyhea created the “Keyhea Slam,” a cardio/ weight resistance program, which burns over 1,000 calories per session. He is a ranked tennis player and has ranked #1 in the state at a 3.5 level.
Join today, your body will thank you!
Vinson Keyhea
Fitness Training
Rhodes Fitness and off-site 228.324.0319
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