🎙️ I Love Kelowna
🎙️ I Love Kelowna is a long-running conversational podcast celebrating the people and stories that make Kelowna and the Central Okanagan vibrant and unique.
Across more than 243 episodes, host Luke Menkes sits down with entrepreneurs, creators, founders, community leaders and fascinating locals to explore three simple questions:
1️⃣ Why Kelowna? How did you choose this place as home?
2️⃣ What’s your journey? The real story of how you became who you are
3️⃣ What are you building now? Your work, purpose and impact
This show isn’t about products or services – it’s about people. Guests open up about their lives, lessons, challenges and inspirations, offering real insight into what makes the Okanagan such a special place to live and work.
About the Host
Luke Menkes is a dual-licensed real estate broker (British Columbia & Alberta), author, mentor, podcaster and long-time Kelowna advocate. He believes that business and life move at the speed of know, like and trust. This podcast is his way of strengthening community connection.
📩 Interested in being a guest or want to connect?
Email Luke at luke@lukemenkes.ca
📍 Learn more about Kelowna Real Estate:
https://mykelownaagent.com
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🎙️ I Love Kelowna
The Bezos Letters with Steve Anderson
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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 decades.
The four cycles -- Test, Build, Accelerate and Scale, along with the 14 Principles can help any business grow like Amazon.
STEVE AND I DISCUSS
• The Amazon Growth Principles that are hidden in plain sight in the Shareowner letters
• What can a small business learn from Jeff Bezos?
- How high-velocity decision making is key to moving fast.
- Wouldn't you like to have Jeff Bezos as your business mentor?
- Why the key to innovation is experimentation.
- Why Bezos is the “master of risk” and how to know when you’re taking too much or not enough
- Why it’s crucial that you become a customer-obsessed business and not just customer-focused
- Amazon's Customer Experience Pillars and how you can implement them in your own company
- How high-velocity decision-making can catapult growth using Bezos’ 2 main types of decisions
- The 4 key growth cycles that every successful company is always intentionally moving through
- Why you’ll never think or grow big enough if you’re not willing to risk “failure”
- Why the flywheel is Amazon's secret growth weapon
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