We had the good fortune of connecting with Nicole Raimondi and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Nicole, can you talk to us a bit about the social impact of your business?
Forging ahead in a capacity that gives back to the places we live and love has really been at the core of our founding mission. Because we work almost exclusively with family owned and privately held businesses, it gives us space to support the character and longevity of communities we operate in. These are your neighbors and their families; this is the heritage they bring to the table, or the skill they offer the world. It keeps that local value intrinsic, self-sustaining, and unique.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
Sinequanon Consulting was founded with the desire to help family-owned businesses thrive in a seriously competitive market by teaching them how to implement the types of strategies and protocols that sustain long-term development, growth, and reach in an autonomous setting. Although it sounds completely counterintuitive and kind of weird, our ultimate goal as a company is, more or less, to be fired from our client’s service. A very bittersweet business model.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
One week is a perfect amount of time to explore some of the highlights of Florida. I would start in the central part of the state and work my way down the southeast. Crystal River and the sunken caves are some of the most beautiful natural areas we have to offer, and tubing through the rural, unspoiled Florida wilderness in mid-summer is an unspoken rite of passage. Pub subs and Miller High Life are required. Three tubes, one cooler, one full day flotilla.

From there, I would allocate a morning to visit the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine on the way down the eastern coast to my hometown, West Palm Beach. It would be the Patrick Lézé bakery on Palm Beach Island for pastries and coffee, followed by a tour of the Breakers grounds, the Flagler museum, and an early evening bike ride down Lake Trail.

For dinner, the infamous McCray’s family barbecue. For the raw, Jupiter culture, Ralph’s Stand-Up Bar. For the after-hours, the Brass Ring pub where you are physically forbidden to leave until you hook the brass ring.

Brightline premium class down to Miami first thing in the morning and hustle over to Arahi’s in Little Havana. Cafe con leche, croquetas, and guava pastries for breakfast; take some to-go because you’ll regret it if you don’t. Wander around Coconut Grove and the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Congratulate the team at Ariete on their Michelin Star. Eat all of their food. Stay for several cocktails. Take public transit. Ride the seaplane at sunset over Key Biscayne. Drink Schnapps at Fritz & Franz Bierhaus. Eat ice cream at Wall’s. Stay in an AirBnB that looks like it was an art-deco ballet studio in 1976.

Enlist a friend to take you to Stiltsville via boat the following morning. In fact, enlist two or three. Bribe them with (more) Pub subs and fill their coolers with fine reposado, fresh oranges, and Topo Chico. Go kite boarding up through Surfside. Visit the Soho House to eat lunch at Cecconi’s. Have dinner at that little Thai spot with the BYOB policy on Normandy Isle.

Skip South Beach this trip; you’ll thank me later. Unless it’s stone crab season, in which case it would be criminal not to stop at Joe’s Stone Crab.

Rent motorcycles and cruise through Homestead and onto the Overseas Highway. Stop at Robbie’s Marina and convince your friend to feed the tarpon while you eagerly look on with an ice cold lager. Take a video. Trust me.

Follow the road all the way to the very end. Watch the sun sink below the horizon from a gaff-rigged tallship. Eat everything except for Gulf oysters. Talk to every single local.

Charter a plane to the Dry Tortugas. Camp for a night under the Milky Way at Fort Jefferson. Start a commune there and never leave.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
There are so, so many people that have been instrumental in my successes. Every friend who has offered perspective and support, every leader from whom I’ve had the privilege to learn, and every team we’ve worked with have all contributed in their own invaluable way. Distilling it down to one lone catalyst is impossible.

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