Maria is a Native New Yorker from Bushwick, Brooklyn. Maria is a wife, mom and entrepreneur. Everyone calls her Ria. She lives in Winter Garden Florida.
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She has been in the Fitness, Talent/Fashion/Entertainment Profession since 1991 to present. Ria has experience as a Model coach, Acting Coach & MakeUp Artist.

​Ria started out in the entertainment business as a dancer. She danced at numerous concerts. She has danced & choreographed several R & B & Hip Hop Artist/groups.

Ria studied Fitness & Nutrition and became a group instructor and personal trainer while modeling and dancing in the 90’s. She currently still holds those credentials along with Zumba, Group class, Personal Trainer and Wellness coach. She renews her credentials every 1-2 years. She has great knowledge of supplements, essential oils and herbs. She owns a Tea Company located in downtown Winter Garden Fl, a delivery meal prep business and she has her own makeup & skincare line.

There was a time in Ria’s life that her health became a challenge. She had several diseases that made her life difficult. Some she was born with and some which she acquired during her thirties and forties. She is a cancer survivor!

Undergoing numerous surgeries and treatments and surviving very difficult times, she refused to give up. Ria takes Wellness, fitness & nutrition very seriously and has learned how nutrition, natural remedies along with exercise can support the very most difficult health conditions. She conducts wellness consults virtually as well as at her tea shop and office located in Orlando.

Her wellness seminar events that she hosts and speaks at is called “Wellness Matters & so do you” and she has a passion to educate all into or back into Wellness! Her Wellness business is called,
Wellness Matters & so do you LLC, Which is woman owned/minority owned. Ria conducts wellness consults for the Arthritis Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Ria has written several beauty/skincare articles for magazines and blogs as a contributing writer and has a gift of mentoring. She is an author and wrote a fitness journal called “Becoming Well” by Ria Mali.

Ria is passionate about Coaching ALL people to Wellness. She wants ALL to become the best wellness version of themselves.