Her Story
About Martine
Martine Annozine is a polymath combining carriers as Experiential Producer, Prism Architect, NYS Licensed Real Estate Broker, and Certified Sommelier based in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Her career spans over 30 years across investment and heritage properties, hospitality, performing arts, and immersive design, defined by a consistent through-line of breaking glass ceilings and operating in spaces where she was often an unconventional presence. She began her professional path as a dancer on full scholarship at Dance Theatre of Harlem, a trajectory that was ultimately redirected, leading her into Manhattan real estate where she became a trailblazer in investment sales—most notably brokering the sale of an entire city block, later featured in America’s Next Top Model. Her hospitality background includes spending six years as Sommelier and Head Bartender at the Round Hill Club, a top-tier private country club serving elite and high-profile clientele in Greenwich, CT. Her work evolved at the intersection of spatial design, storytelling, and revenue strategy, where she specialized in restaging and repositioning high-value properties by transforming flow, atmosphere, and guest perception without structural renovation. This experiential approach became the foundation for her broader creative system, LOVE IRONY: When the Universe Winks, an immersive performance and narrative platform that integrates music, storytelling, dining, and design into scalable, revenue-generating experiences for luxury venues and cultural institutions. Her methodology focuses on revealing latent value within spaces—reverse engineering from emotional and experiential outcomes to align narrative, environment, and economic performance. She continues to work across real estate and experiential production, developing bespoke programs for heritage properties, hotels, and private venues seeking high-impact, low-overhead experiential activation. Her career has also been shaped by significant personal disruption and reinvention. After years of caregiving for her terminally ill husband and experiencing a major life rupture, a period that marked a profound turning point in her life and work. During this time, she began using AI as a reflective and analytical tool to identify patterns across her career, recognizing a consistent thread: the ability to reveal brilliance hidden in plain sight and reframe undervalued environments into meaningful, functional systems. After more than 35 years away from formal education, she returned to refine and structure LOVE IRONY as a fully realized performance framework. Today, she works as a one-woman creative and experiential producer, using AI as an operational assistant while continuing to bridge real estate, performance, and immersive storytelling into viable, income-producing cultural experiences.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Martine
01What do you attribute your success to?
Take up space. Even if it feels counterintuitive. I've always loved expanding what the room can look like by being in environments that wouldn't normally expect me to be in. It's not that they won't have you in the room, it's that you don't ask to be there in the first place. It's very freeing when you have a powerful viewpoint and don't have to worry about gatekeepers. And at this stage in my life, my credentials, resilience and ability to build from a place of rupture speak for itself, and the business comes from there. I've made it about making the space for myself and maintaining high standards regardless of circumstances. Even when I was homeless, I didn't let go of my standards - I still had my membership to Lifetime Fitness club, and still got my French manicure, still had my $35 glass of wine at Marea where my connections happened. My standards stayed high even without anything, and that's what I realized - this is not something inherent to me, this is access everybody has to this part of themselves.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I think the human touch is going to be the differentiator. Don't rely on language models for your voice - use it as an assistance to amplify it, not as a substitute or replacement, or have it lead what you want to say. You lead the conversation. Keep your voice distinct, because language models soften your ideas, and then you just become generic. There's definitely a voice that they're losing if they're not diligent about it. Also, be unapologetic about who you are and don't ask for permission to shine your brightest. You can be self assured and kind at the same time. That's confidence at the core. You have to take a chance on your dream—sometimes quietly—regardless of whether people like it or not.
03What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The most important value to me is agency - making decisions in your life that are just little steps towards what you envision your life to be and what you want to say about it. I believe in self-love and showing up in your life first, even if it's a tiny little step. This whole concept of doing well and doing for others only works if you do it for yourself first. I've learned that you don't have to have money to have access to luxury and a good quality of life and a meaningful life. I maintain high standards regardless of circumstances - that's not something inherent to me as a great person, it's access everybody has to this part of themselves. There doesn't have to be a rupture for you to access this part of yourself, it's just about having the courage for yourself to move counterintuitively to what you're normally used to, to break the habits you might be caught up in. I also value revealing brilliance hidden in plain Excellence has been the through-line of my life. I believe in maintaining standards and dignity regardless of external circumstances.
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