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As a preschooler, Adriana Epelboim-Levy remembers, she slipped on her mother’s heels in their Caracas, Venezuela, home and felt like not only the most beautiful girl in the world, but also an empowered one. “Everything came down to posture,” she says. “It’s like the base of a building: What’s at the foundation of your posture? Shoes.”

Today, inside the North Miami office of her

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