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I Love Kelowna

Luke Menkes Kelowna Real Estate Agent

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I Love Kelowna Podcast is a series of conversations about the people and businesses in Kelowna and the Central Okanagan https://ilovekelownapodcast.com About the Host Luke Menkes is a licensed real estate agent in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Your real estate journey starts here. https://search.mykelownaagent.com Real Estate Inquiries Let's have a conversation about real estate. No obligation. I'm here to answer your questions. https://bookus.page/lukemenkes/reales... Fair Realty (K ...
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I Love Kelowna episode 243. A deep dive into the world of chiropractic care with Dr. Graham Jenkins of Lighthouse Chiropractic. Chiropractic treatments go way beyond just addressing back pain. Experts like Dr. Jenkins have successfully treated conditions like colic in infants, thyroid issues, and much more. Dr. Jenkins shares his journey from Ontar…
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Episode 242 is a captivating heart-to-heart discussion with Ash Simpson, the founder of a brand new mortgage company, Insight Finance. Ash, a symbol of perseverance, opens up about his nearly two-decade-long relationship with his wife, their long journey from financial struggles to growth, and an elevated proposal that would make your heart skip a …
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Today on Episode 241 of the I Love Kelowna Podcast, we have an incredibly inspiring conversation with Laura Draycott, a retired optician and business owner turned pageant queen. You'll be moved by her incredible journey, from her humble beginnings to becoming a part of the Miss Senior World Pageant. Laura’s story is one of motivation, resilience, a…
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Ever been captivated by the magic of acting and the thrill of corporate services? Well, you're in for a treat! Get ready for an insightful conversation with Mark Tompkins, a seasoned actor turned VP of Sales for IWG Corporate Services. We'll take a ride through his exciting journey from his childhood in Kelowna, surrounded by video cameras, to his …
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In Stephanie's own words: Selling and investing in real estate was never in my life plan. I was a teacher and then a Vice Principal. And then I got a taste of my first flip and realized there was a strong need for agents that would educate and advocate for their clients. I had 8 open escrows within 2 months of getting my license because I listened …
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E. A. Csolkovits was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. His humble beginnings were that of the son of a milkman. At age 16, he started his business career at a commission sales job selling janitorial services to business owners. At the age of 19, E. A. Csolkovits met Sam Robbins, a millionaire business man from Detroit, Michigan. Sam took E. A. Cso…
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Karen Putz is known as "The Passion Mentor." She is the author of multiple books, including Unwrapping Your Passion, Creating the Life You Truly Want. Karen was born with normal hearing, grew up hard of hearing, and became deaf as a teen after a fall while barefoot water skiing. She rediscovered her passion for the sport at the age of 44 and compet…
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Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health, and media expert who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. FORBES magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions: …
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In Madonna Hanna's own words: "I truly believe that when people drop kick the drama in their lives...Anything is POSSIBLE! I am a living example of that statement. I should be booked as guest because, I am a charismatic, energetic and dynamic survivor! Thank goodness I was bullied as a child. Being bullied prepared me to grow a thick skin and helpe…
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Tracy Lamourie is the Founder and Managing Director of Lamourie Media, the winner of the 2020 Women of Inspiration Award for Media, and the author of the upcoming book GET REPPED - Build Your Brand With Effective Public and Media Relations. She is a well known long time advocate on a myriad of important worldwide issues and an award-winning interna…
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Daniel went from having a daughter at 19 years old, being addicted to Oxycontin and a college drop out to owning a 7-figure business. Today, Daniel is a Forbes financial contributor and the owner of a 7-figure business called Quest Education, helping entrepreneurs touch more money. He teaches people how to make money tax free, pay off debt, get cap…
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FULL VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW This is my sixth interview with Brian Cates, a political columnist for the X22 Report and Epoch Times. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breitbart in March 2012. Brian makes his home in South Texas. BRIAN AND I DISCUSS • Recap of the Durham Investigation and the arrest of Igor Danchenko • At t…
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FULL VIDEO VERSION OF THIS INTERVIEW This is my fifth interview with Brian Cates, a political columnist for the X22 Report, Epoch Times and UnCover DC. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breitbart in March 2012. Brian makes his home in South Texas. BRIAN AND I DISCUSS • Update on the Durham investigation. When it seemed to…
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Originally from Westchester, New York, Lindsay headed south for college and received a BBA in Business Management from the University of Miami. After graduating, she worked on marketing and investor relations teams for several alternative investment funds, with assets up to $3 billion. Lindsay later received her Certificate in Independent Education…
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Robert Raymond Riopel is an international Best-Selling author, App Designer, Entrepreneur and Trainer who has spent the past 18+ years traveling around the world sharing his passion. He has also shared the stage with and trained many of the top trainers and thought leaders in the world today. With his high energy and heartfelt style, Robert draws o…
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Victoria Wieck is the epitome of the rags to riches American dream story. She immigrated from South Korea to America with her parents with only thirty dollars, and has built a multi-million dollar business with over $500 million in retail sales. After a series of corporate jobs, Victoria started her own company in 1989 on a shoestring budget to spe…
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Sheila Farragher-Gemma moved to the states in 1989 for a job in Boston. She figured she would stay a few years before returning home to Ireland, but 30 years later, with a husband, two children, and a handful of successful businesses under her belt, she may be here to stay. Sheila has an entrepreneurial spirit which lead her to the world of marketi…
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Lynn Whitbeck is the Founder/CEO of Petite2Queen and Future Forward Sales. Lynn helps the world by providing sales and leadership training programs and tools to achieve more, faster. Building on her sales successes and experiences in executive leadership roles, Lynn shares the lessons learned along her journey to supercharge your career. She suppor…
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Ty Belknap was homeless (and felt hopeless) as a teenager. It was a struggle, but he managed to get out of the situation (and mindset). He moved from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii. He learned Island-life and became a SCUBA Divemaster, then he moved back to Seattle, got into computers and became a techy nerd. Now, Ty Belknap has a Doctorate of Str…
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Cetvies is a blogger, MA graduate in social sciences and political sciences, with a focus on human rights. She campaigns on human trafficking. She has a strong interest in human rights, environmental rights, politics, the news, society, philosophy, and current affairs in general. CETVIES AND I DISCUSS • Human rights • Current news • Animal rights •…
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Lucas Caneda is Global Team Lead at UNIQORN Incubator and a professional rugby player for Sarlat Rugby Team. Lucas grew up as a die-hard rugby fan and started playing at the tender age of 5. Despite suffering what many thought would be a career-ending knee injury, he moved to France and built a career as a professional rugby player. After a few yea…
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Anthony Russell is an army veteran and Property Leader. His main goal is to help others succeed as landlords with the experience he's gained as a rental property leader. Having served in the military, he views property management with a strategic and militaristic eye. Anthony likes to help people who are starting out in the rental property business…
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Evan Herrman is the podcast host of The Whole Person podcast and a real estate broker. Evan Specializes in personal growth and wholeness in the areas of faith, family, finances friendship, fitness and fun. Evan's goal is to add value to any audience that he speaks to. The value that he wants to bring to people is first, that they are not alone in t…
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FULL VIDEO VERSION OF THIS INTERVIEW HERE This is my fourth interview with Brian Cates, a political columnist for The Epoch Times and UnCoverDC. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breitbart in March 2012. He makes his home in South Texas and is the author of Nobody Asked For My Opinion But Here It Is Anyway! and Tex Randle…
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire Ho immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, 2003 in Los Angeles. Swire and his team successfully produ…
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Rich Butler is an NYC product through and through. Born in the Bronx and raised in Queens, NY, Rich is one of four children, with three of the four children adopted by his mother, Irma. Irma was a career foster parent specializing in raising children with special needs. Irma officially adopted Rich a few weeks before her passing in 2000 after raisi…
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After spending too many years in Corporate America, Lorraine Ball said goodbye to the bureaucracy, glass ceilings and bad coffee and followed her passion to help small business owners succeed. Today, this successful entrepreneur, author, professional speaker, and host of a weekly marketing podcast, More than a Few Words, brings creative ideas, prac…
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In John's own words: "I’m a serial entrepreneur, seasoned leader and strategist. I’m an expert in brand identity, business communications, buyer behavior, sales conversions, marketing systems, product/service design and digital marketing. I created two companies that averaged 4X’s ROI for businesses with branding and marketing models. In my industr…
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Teri Wellbrock is the host and producer of the international Healing Place Podcast; writer/blogger; motivational speaker; a registered Pet Partners therapy dog handler of her Labradoodle, Sammie; and founder/director of the volunteer organization, Sammie’s Bundles of Hope, benefiting children with trauma history. Teri radiates a contagious energy o…
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Beth Nydick is a speaker, author, and a magnetic business mentor. A big believer in the power of potential to catapult your business forward. She shows her clients how to strategically prepare their business and to use collaboration to establish instant credibility to get their life-changing messages in front of massive audiences. Thru her mantra o…
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Christine Woodward supports, challenges, and empowers women for a living. Through her consultancy, 19th&CO, Christine and the team of consultants help businesses to grow beyond their comfort zones. Her focus is less about services and more about the partnership they deliver to their clients that helps unearth each need and pushes each clients' drea…
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Julio Gonzalez is a self-made business leader and CEO. As a member of President Trump's tax roundtable, Julio lobbied Congress for tax incentives to help small businesses and played an instrumental role in writing the tax credits in the first Stimulus Bill. https://engineeredtaxservices.com/ Julio is also a National Tax Reform Expert, is the founde…
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In addition to his leadership role with Extraordinary People LLC, Robert White is an Executive Mentor, author, frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader on organizational leadership, successfully handling rapid change, entrepreneurial success and being more personally effective. Robert’s experience encompasses over forty years in the training in…
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Barby Ingle is a best-selling author, reality personality, and lives with multiple rare and chronic diseases; reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), migralepsy, PALB2-var, endometriosis and other pain disorders. Barby is a chronic pain educator, patient advocate, and president of the International Pain Foundation. She is also a motivational speaker an…
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John Lee is the founder of custommobile.app, a first of its kind agency making custom-building, beautiful, branded mobile apps affordable to every content creator, everywhere. Plans start at just $6/month. JOHN AND I DISCUSS How did you get into app development? Tell us about some of the challenges you faced when starting your new business? Was thi…
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Catherine is a tenacious connector and a recovering banker. She is a leadership coach helping high potential managers turn into senior leaders. And her sales program, for business to business selling, is creating exceeding results. Catherine is a wife and mom, and cares about closing the broadband gaps in rural communities CATHERINE AND I DISCUSS H…
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FULLY TRANSCRIBED VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW This is my third interview with Brian Cates, a political columnist for the Epoch Times and UnCover DC. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breitbart in March 2012. He makes his home in South Texas and is the author of Nobody Asked For My Opinion But Here It Is Anyway! and Tex Randle…
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From being 6000ft underground in a mine, to starting an education business (that grew to have 4000 + students) to spending years working in venture capital, Rael Bricker has seen it all. He has listed companies on multiple international stock exchanges, and his financial services group has settled more than $3bn in loans over 19 years. He has a div…
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Wade Galt teaches Entrepreneurs & Professionals to create an abundant & sustainable 3-Day Weekend / 4-Day Work Week lifestyle so they can better enjoy their family, friends, and life. He's a 20+ year Software Company Founder, Business Growth Coach and Author of books on business growth, finance, personal growth, parenting, & spirituality. Wade and …
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Dr. Morissa Schwartz is the owner of DrRissysWriting.com – a marketing and writing company ranked as the number one for social media experts in NY by Thumbtack, and GenZPublishing.org – a publishing company, which has produced six Amazon bestsellers. DrRissysWriting.com is a marketing and writing company ranked #1 in PR and top ten in Social Media …
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Steve Anderson is the author of the bestselling book, The Bezos Letters, where he deconstructs Jeff Bezos' 21 letters to Amazon shareowners through his unique lens of risk. He provides listeners with a guide on the key takeaways and principles that Bezos leveraged in turning an online bookstore into a trillion- dollar company in just over two decad…
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FULLY TRANSCRIBED VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW This is my second interview with Brian Cates, a political columnist for the Epoch Times and UnCover DC. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breitbart in March 2012. He makes his home in South Texas and is the author of Nobody Asked For My Opinion But Here It Is Anyway! and Tex Randl…
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Storm Cunningham is Executive Director of RECONOMICS Institute: The Society of Revitalization & Resilience Professionals, which helps ensure that communities worldwide have certified Revitalization & Resilience Facilitators (RE Facilitators). Look for the “RE” after their names. As editor of REVITALIZATION: The Journal of Economic & Environmental R…
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Mike Acker is an executive and communication coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of four books including the bestselling Speak With No Fear ( https://amzn.to/3gD1mhF ), which has appeared on numerous booklists even getting designated as the #1 book on overcoming fear of speaking on Forbes.com. Mike passionately coaches business professionals t…
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Chelle Johnson is a first-generation college graduate that grew up with limiting beliefs, fear, and dysfunction. Through faith, resilience, grit and determination, she held executive leadership roles in Fortune 50 companies such as: Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Quest Diagnostics and Honeywell. She lived and worked in Asia, Latin America, has an MBA, a…
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Mike Solitro is a consultative leader and the founder of AccomplishedRE. He helps real estate professionals become more effective and efficient, solve problems and deliver an exceptional client experience. He is also a Real Estate Attorney, and an Associate Broker with Kinlin Grover Real Estate. Mike graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. i…
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FULLY TRANSCRIBED VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW There is some "slippage" in the video creating apparent crosstalk, especially near the end. But the transcription does a great job of clarifying most of that crosstalk. Brian Cates is a political columnist for the Epoch Times and UnCover DC. He entered the political arena following the death of Andrew Breit…
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Jefferson Rogers is a hard-working family man from Saint George, Utah, who built his window replacement business from zero to 10 million in just 2 years. Jefferson's claim to fame is his incredible story of huge commitments that shifted his trajectory from a life on the couch to now being a CEO of a rapidly-accelerating company. Jefferson’s new boo…
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Regina Huber is Founder & CEO of TRANSFORM YOUR PERFORMANCE, where she drives transformational leadership and guides her coaching clients to increase their influence and impact as leaders. With eclectic experience on five continents, she is a multicultural and multilingual Transformational Leadership Coach, an International Inspirational Speaker, a…
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John Davis has lived the life of an action hero. He has been a professional Fight Director and stuntman for stage and screen; An Artistic Director of three regional theme parks; A sword-fighting comedian, and a motivational speaker, author and coach. He has been featured on the Today Show and the Discovery channel. Since 2001 John has brought his i…
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