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An Aries powerhouse, she is also the supportive force behind Bula Kava Bar & Coffeehouse Cocoa Beach location, combining her exceptional organization and leadership skills with her huge heart to cultivate and maintain a successful space serving the community. Sharon’s degree in Public Affairs & Sociology paired with her background in business and retail management provide the experience needed to juggle her many roles and responsibilities. Employees call her ‘momager,’ a reflection of her nurturing managing style. When she is not at Bula or The Space Next Door, she can be found enjoying her garden with her dogs.

She graduated in 2007 with a BA in psychology from UCF, and has always loved discovering and learning about human nature, how we survive and deal with trauma, and the power of how to heal ourselves. Healing is a deep return to the self. Everyone has the ability to heal and live a happy, fulfilled life. 

Her personal healing journey began over 20 years ago, with counseling therapy, and has continued with unified therapy, reiki, massage, acupuncture, ayruveda, EMDR, Shirodhara, and sound bath healings. She's learned to listen to her body through consistent yoga practice, and meditation. She is a licensed massage therapist, reiki certified, unified therapy practitioner, and intuitive.

Dr. Leandra Preston is a Florida native and Senior Lecturer of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Central Florida where she has taught for twenty years. A longtime feminist activist and animal advocate, she founded Animal Safehouse in 2008 after reading about a similar program and realizing the unmet need in her community. While she has goals to expand, her wish is for every domestic violence shelter to take pets.

Leandra is a domestic violence survivor and single parent to a 9-year-old daughter. They live in Cocoa Beach with four rescue dogs, a cat, and the occasional foster pet.