🎙️ 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
Confidence is a Skill with Christine Woodward
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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' dreams over the finish line, over and over again.
To further her mission of empowering women, her consultancy, 19th&CO launched The JuDi Project - a mission-driven training program for women to level up in their confidence. Confidence is a skill. A skill that each of us deserves. We simply need the tools to acquire it.
Christine strikes the perfect balance of design-thinking with action-biased methods from her 15 years in advertising in New York and designing spaces as an architect and interior designer for some of the world's most luxurious brands. She holds a masters in Architecture, studies in management at Harvard, and is an MBA candidate at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She lives in California and spends her free time with her husband and two kids.
CHRISTINE AND I DISCUSS:
- Hey business owners, make yourself obsolete!
- Let's get real. What does your business really need?
- Why you never reach a finish line.
- What is the REAL function of a business owner? It's NOT what you think.
- How do you push new initiatives over the finish line when you can hardly keep up with the day-to-day?
- How to uncover your/your clients *real* needs?
Send audience to:
https://19thandco.com/
Christine Woodward is the Founder and CEO of 19th&CO, a woman-owned and women-led consultancy known for its innovative approach to client needs and its entrepreneurial and empowering culture.
Submit a request for consultation and mention this episode and the team at 19th&CO will see to it that you receive the Friends & Family rate!
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