🎙️ 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
World Class Baking from Slovakia to the Okanagan with Jan Petrasek
Jan Petrasek is originally from Slovakia and moved to Calgary, Canada in 2003 with his wife Silvia. They have three daughters age 15, 14 and 10.
Jan's first job in Calgary was at Boston Pizza. In August 2007 he opened his own bakery in northwest Calgary. 7 years later he opened his second store in Cochrane, Alberta and moved all of his production there.
Eventually, Jan was supplying 20 stores with his products in Calgary including health stores, organic stores and European stores. In 2016 he decided move to Slovakia with his family and sold his business and house.
But his friend in Calgary told him that before he moves to Slovakia, he had to visit the warmest place in Canada. He told Jan to go to Osoyoos, British Columbia. Jan was planing to get there with his family but on the way there they encountered a big storm, so they had to stop in Penticton. Jan was on his motorcycle and his wife and kids were in the truck. So they stayed in Penticton for four days instead of going to Osoyoos.
They loved Penticton`s weather and all of the lakes. They moved to Slovakia, but it didn’t work out how they thought it would. After just one year they moved back to Canada and settled in Penticton. In November 2018, Jan opened his bakery in downtown Penticton.
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