🎙️ 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
Unleashing creativity and taking care of business with Sonia Riediger
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Sonia Riediger is one of those rare individuals who is ambidextrous, and equally skilled on her analytical side as well as her creative side. She makes amazing custom jewelry of many varieties. She truly loves what she does and she's fantastic at it! Her business is called Sonja's Vision. We discuss the ins and outs of success in doing something you love to do; balancing the business aspects with your creative talents.
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SHOW NOTES: IMPORTANT LINKS
Learn more about Sonja's Vision on her Facebook Page.
Sonja nominates Sean MacMillan to come on the I Love Kelowna Podcast. Thank you so much to Meredith Hansen for nominating Sonja!
We now have a pair of great interns helping us with the audio. This episode was engineered by Alex Gardener, an outstanding student at Centre for Arts and Technology here in Kelowna. He is really easy to work with and the quality of his work is excellent. Please email me (Luke) if I can help get you connected with Alex.
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