🎙️ I Love Kelowna

I got invited to go on popular podcast Big Impact with Bill Hobson. This is Bill's interview with me, which he allowed me to repurpose as an episode of New Town Big Dreams.

Bill and I discuss:

• Why your mental diet is the most important diet you will ever have,

• What you absorb into your mind affects every single aspect of your life, including your physical health

• How to recover from seemingly insurmountable odds against you

• Why finding a way to help others will always improve your own situation, no matter how  untimely it seems to be

• Why I started the New Town Big Dreams podcast and how we transitioned from a local show to international

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Angie Orth is an award-winning content creator currently working on her first book, a travel memoir possibly titled, Flirting with Disaster. 

Angie’s adventures have landed her on the Today Show, the New York Post, Cosmopolitan, AFAR and Glamour. She’s a sought-after speaker, presenting wild stories of travel misadventures at the New York Times Travel Show, TBEX, PRSA and the Women in Travel Summit.

Angie received her Bachelor of Science in public relations, French and Spanish from the University of Florida. She was a finalist for Season 6 of The Apprentice (but didn't make the last cut - whew!) and was chosen out of 30,000 to be a top 50 finalist for Australia’s Best Job in the World campaign.

She created her website AngieAway.com to chronicle a yearlong round-the-world trip that accidentally became a career. Today, she produces and co-hosts The Jet Sisters, a video series focusing on Millennial travel, and still shares travel tips, recipes and rants on her website. 

Angie and I discuss:

• Travel - Destinations, Tips
• Florida
• Theme Parks
• Travel safety
• The hottest destinations for this year
• Which theme park is better, Universal or Disney
• Insider tips for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• FREE BRITNEY

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Chris Howard has been blessed to help to transform the lives of millions of people around the planet. A global phenomenon, Chris is one of the most prominent figures in personal development and life style turnaround.

Chris helps people to create performance breakthrough results: physically, emotionally, spiritually and financially

A 3 X Best-Selling author who has done  100 Million in sales globally of his seminars and coaching world-wide....

Chris has a black belt in mindset with 3 additional Black Belts that span his 40 years in the martial arts. Holding black belt distinctions in:

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Twin Dragon Kung Fu

Chinese Goju

Chris is known in the personal development industry as the Trainer of Trainers and Coach of Coaches. He is a big believer in the idea that great leaders build other leaders.

He's helped not just to unleash the full potential of millions through his live programs, and media appearances but he's also been thrilled to develop many million dollar plus speakers, trainers, consultants, and coaches over the years.

The founder of the sciences of Neuro Design Engineering, he built the largest NLP training company in the world and he enjoyed the largest personal development presence in more than one country world-wide.

As an entrepreneur, speaker, and performance consultant over the past 25 years, his personal clients have included politicians, celebrities, and Fortune 500 companies, Chris Howard is a long-standing household name amongst many high-achievers.

Chris and I discuss:

• How Do We Create Our Reality?

• Why Do You Say Reality is Subjective and Why is That So Important?

• How Do We Break Free From Our Past Programming and Conditioning?

• How Can Someone Accelerate Their Path Toward Their Dreams?

• What is The Secret To Creating Breakthrough Financial Results?

• What's The Fastest Way To Build Your Dream Business?

• What Does Someone Do Who Has No Idea What They Want To Do With Their Life?

• What Are the Most Common Reasons People Fail In Building Their Businesses

• How Can Someone Transform The Quality of Their Relationships?

• What Do You Do If You've Hit Rock Bottom?

Learn more about Chris and his offerings at Wealthpropulsion.com and Speakandgrowrich365.com

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Steve Preda’s passion is to help people build self-managing, fast-growing, and high-profit businesses. Since 2002, he has helped more than 250 entrepreneurial organizations become more valuable and sellable by serving as a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisor, a business coach, a Certified EOS Implementer® and a Certified Pinnacle Business Guide.

Steve started and grew an M&A firm to market leadership in his native Hungary. After implementing the E-Myth® and later the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) Management Blueprints, his business grew rapidly and was acquired by a private equity firm in 2013, allowing Preda and his family of six to move to the United States.

Steve has written three books on entrepreneurship and selling businesses, is a regular blogger and podcast host, and delivers workshops and keynotes to entrepreneurial audiences around the US.My objective is to promote my new book: Buyable - Your Guide to Building a Self-Managing, Fast-Growing and High-Profit Business. The book includes Steve's story of coming to America. You can get the first 40 pages of the book for free by clicking here.

Here are some of the topics Steve and I discussed:

• Why you need to build a Buyable Business regardless of whether you will ever consider parting with it

• The difference between proactive and reactive entrepreneurs and how their approach determines their financial and emotional success

• How to design the ideal future state of your business, from which you can reverse-engineer the steps to getting there

• How to determine your personal financial goals, which your business should help you achieve

• How to estimate the value of your business right now and how you can determine the value your company must be worth in the future to allow you to harvest the cash you need for your Next Chapter— Your Ideal life?

• What are The Seven Management Concepts that you need to master to orchestrate your business into a well-oiled machine

• What a Management Blueprint is, the major principles involved, and how to pick one that is right for you

• How Management Blueprints can help you create the vision alignment, execution, and team cohesion needed to build a self-managing, growing, high-profit, and talent-attracting business

• What are the major value drivers of your business and how to engineer them into your company to create the most value in the shortest time

• The ways to groom your business into a product that attracts investors and buyers who will value it highly

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Born and raised in the Okanagan, Meredith Schuurman is passionate about life and strives to live each day to its fullest. Physical, mental and spiritual wellness is extremely important to her and the OK Valley provides a rich backdrop for her to uphold these values.

When she's not at one of the gyms in town, working for Kelowna's locally founded ed/tech company FreshGrade, or hiking the trails with her dog, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family and pursuing her other hobbies such as attending rock concerts and live events (DRAG SHOWS!), modeling in photoshoots, practicing aerial hoops, scoping out the offerings at local farmers and flee markets, treasure hunting at antique and thrift stores and gold panning. 

Meredith has a passion for travel and also gets to travel for work a great deal; and while it is always inspiring and exciting to visit new locations (most recent development = she's going on a personal trip to Africa this fall), she knows the Okanagan Valley, Kelowna in particular, is a truly special place to be celebrated for all it has to offer. 

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Deanne Leung is the creative vision and energy behind Stepping Stones Counseling Group. She is a strong supporter of the use of creativity, nature and active self-care in the healing & wellness process. 

Deanne's education and training include a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology, and an undergraduate degree in Psychology. Deanne is NMT Level 2 Certified and EMDR Level 2 Certified. Her specialties include: 

• Individual and Family Therapy
• Play & Expressive Therapies
• Trauma, Attachment, Grief & Loss
• ADHD, Anxiety, Depression
• Workshops & Presentations
• Animal Assisted Therapy

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Jaye Siegmueller loves plant medicine, the outdoors, meditation, and yoga. She is a momma of a 17-year-old hockey player, so you might see her cheering in the local hockey rinks! Her commitment to local food runs deep and she truly believes that the people's connection to the earth starts with their connection with their food. She loves waste reduction and started the first zero-waste store in the Okanagan. She and her sister also are the founders of Bottle None (www.bottlenone.ca)

Farm Bound was sprouted from a Permaculture Design Course. Students were challenged to find their passion that is supported by the 12 permaculture principles and that harnesses their strengths. They are not farmers but they have a passion for local food and community. They grew with a passion to start a service that bridges the gap between local farms and customers. Small towns are their specialty!

Not everyone in our province has access to quality organic food year round. Farm Bound can help by doing the work for you. They visit farms and develop partnerships to deliver only the best and most sustainably produced food. Doing whatever it takes to get you local and organic food efficiently is their priority!

Farm Bound offers sustainably produced, local and organic food. By supporting local farmers and producers they build your connections back to the roots. they specialize in amazing Okanagan produce, but offer other great food and goods produced throughout our province and beyond. In the winter months they keep the variety alive with certified organic produce from Washington, Oregon, California and Mexico.

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Danielle Scheven is the co-owner and marketing director of Carolily Finery, a high end jewelry brand whose designs were seen walking the runways of New York Fashion Week in 2018. Named one of her city's "Top 40 Under 40", Danielle believes in inspiring and empowering women through the Carolily brand and their community initiates.

Carolily specializes in statement jewelry that encourages self expression and helps you make your statement, whatever that may be. No matter who you are, we all want to be heard and seen. We want to feel represented and loved. We all have a statement to make.

Carolily Finery was created out of love. Donna and Danielle Scheven, the mother daughter team behind the Carolily brand, started the company to honor two very special women- Carol and Lily, Donna's mother and grandmother.

Carol and Lily are the inspiration behind the brand’s name and devotion to timeless, quality product. Like them, all of the women in their family were encouraged to be proud, kind, strong and unapologetically themselves.

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Molly Gibson Kirby was born in Liverpool, England, and grew up in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Growing up in a town with one stop light allowed her to create her own story. All she knew was that one day she would be living a life that she always dreamed up, beating the odds she faced in Liverpool. 

Molly moved out when she was 14, dealing with hard mental health battles. She eventually graduated college with a major in Broadcast Journalism through the Radio Television Arts program at NSCC. Her passion was to tell stories, whether her own stories or others.

Molly always knew that she would have to make a move to start her career in Journalism, but she never expected the move to be in northern Manitoba. She accepted a morning news position in Thompson Manitoba, 8 hours north of Winnipeg. 

There, she lived life to the fullest. Molly experienced northern life and it gave her a better understanding of the world, First Nations and how Canada is failing them. She saw the northern lights every night, went to trapping festivals, saw homes with no lights or water in the middle of a city, went snowshoeing and eventually became the only reporter at the Thompson Citizen Newspaper, writing about 80% of the newspaper every week. 

After two -50 degree winters, she knew her time was up and that she needed to venture even further west. At that point, Molly had never gone to BC and it was never a thought on her mind to move out west. But, again, she accepted a job in Kelowna, googled the city and knew in her heart this was the place she was supposed to be. 

Since living in Kelowna for nearly 6 years now, Molly has had the chance to open up about her mental health on a larger scale, hosting and speaking at mental health events. Kelowna is also the place where she's grown my passion for yoga, sustainability and low to zero waste living. 

Her blog thebookofmolly.com is the place where Molly shares mental health wins, lessons she's learned through yoga, sustainable tips and travel diaries. It’s her place on the internet to show others that not everything you see on social media is a staged photo with a professional behind the camera. She is determined to keep it real, share insights in her life and tips on people hoping to feel better and get better. After working so many years in journalism and covering so many tragedies, Molly decided she would focus her time on doing better, being better and helping others see the better in the world. 

In Kelowna, Molly works in real estate marketing and is working to build her career as a full-time freelance writer.. She loves Kelowna. She loves the possibilities, the environment, the people and the desire for the citizens to do better. 

Molly is committed to continuing to better herself through yoga practice, sustainability, saying no to fast fashion, sharing her mental health journey, and swapping to zero waste alternatives.

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Haley Kennedy is a 25 year old illustrator and designer based in beautiful Kelowna, BC. Originally from Calgary, AB, Haley has always been drawn to anything creative. Starting from a young age, creative projects have always come rather naturally and have lead her on an amazing path of self-exploration.

Currently, Haley is the owner of SUNDAE STUDIOS, her own personal creative brand offering her freelance design and illustrative services to companies and individuals alike. Her passion for topics such as positivity, mental health, and self care drive her use of content and colour as seen through her lighthearted Instagram feed @shopsundae.

Having dabbled in print design, graphic creation, and custom illustration, Haley always welcomes new and exciting projects to flex her creative muscles and let her joy for creating shine through.

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