🎙️ 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
Creative art + deep understanding of data = marketing success with William Walczak
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William Walczak from Hiilite - Web Design, SEO, SEM, and Marketing Agency has total passion for technology, brands and business. He believes that maximum potential is achieved only when the right technology works in concert with the brightest creative minds. He wants to empower those around him to achieve their best results. William utilizes Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Analytics, management consulting and solid business fundamentals to find business and growth opportunities for Hiilite clients. A couple of months ago I sat down with William for a fascinating conversation about building an incredible creative business from scratch, forming some surprising partnerships along the way, and overcoming adversity to go on to real success in a highly competitive marketplace.
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Learn more about William Walczak and his amazing team at Hiilite, and see some great examples of what they can do on their website and on their Facebook page.
William nominates Corey Wagner, Joshua Fraser and Dina Kotler to come on the I Love Kelowna Podcast. Thank you so much to Tina Walczak for nominating William!
We now have a pair of great interns helping us with the audio. This episode was engineered by Clinton Wietzel, another outstanding student at Centre for Arts and Technology here in Kelowna. Clinton is also 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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