Kelowna Podcasts

Kelowna receives uneven podcast coverage. The strongest listening stays close to local pressure points: homelessness, municipal decisions, property, and interviews with people working in the region. Beyond those lanes, the city tends to surface as context rather than the main subject.

Five conversations about homelessness

The most sustained treatment comes from Homelessness in Kelowna, which approaches the issue through a sequence of named guests. Homelessness in Kelowna with Shannon Christensen and Homelessness in Kelowna with Kyleen & Kerry establish the format: one conversation at a time, with no attempt to squeeze the subject into a single definitive episode.

The run continues through Homelessness in Kelowna with Kara Triance, Homelessness in Kelowna with Dave Krysko, and Homelessness in Kelowna with Dustin Seidler. Taken together, those five episodes offer the clearest route for listeners who want more than a stray local reference. The repetition is useful. Instead of treating homelessness as an occasional news item, the show keeps returning to it through different voices.

How the city works

Kelowna Talks is the practical civic option. Its episode list moves through the machinery of local government: Episode 17: Civics 101 with Stephen Fleming, Episode 18: Making sense of the new Zoning bylaw, and Episode 19: Budget 101 with City Manager Doug Gilchrist. That sequence makes a tidy listening path for anyone trying to understand the decisions behind the city rather than simply hearing reactions to them.

The show also pulls back for Episode 20: Strategic planning with Mike McGreer. Then there is the more intriguingly titled Episode 16: The Okanagan Lake mirage, which offers a break from the administrative language of budgets and bylaws. This is coverage built around individual municipal questions, so it rewards choosing the issue that interests you instead of listening strictly in release order.

Property dominates the business conversation

Real estate supplies most of the remaining episodes that put Kelowna or its local institutions near the centre. Kelowna Real Estate Podcast makes the connection explicit in 124: Turning Diamond in the Rough Structures Into Iconic Kelowna Properties with Worman Commercial's Shane Worman. Its surrounding episodes broaden into operating questions: 128: Optimizing Profitability of Short-Term Rentals with Samson Waters' Derrick Sabourin, 127: Commercial Real Estate Insurance for Dummies with Summit Insurance's Josh Pillsbury & Roche Gom, and 126: How Credit Unions Are Reshaping Real Estate & Benefitting Our Communities with Valley First's Simon Mills.

Okanagan Real Estate Podcast offers an earlier, more guest-led entry point with OREP - Episode 5 with special guest Darryl Reuter from Royal Lepage Kelowna. From there, the titles turn toward the trade itself: OREP - Episode 9 with special guest Brady Hiemstra & real estate marketing, OREP - Episode 8 with special guest: Ryan Avery, your lifestyle mortgage broker!, and OREP - Episode 6 with Raina and Marika and the hot topic of selling in Winter. Listeners looking for a broad portrait of Kelowna will find this lane narrow; listeners interested in how property professionals talk will have more to work with.

People and community, one interview at a time

The city becomes a backdrop for personal conversations on 🎙️ I Love Kelowna. The Comprehensive World of Chiropractic Care with Dr. Graham Jenkins is framed around a profession, while Empathy, Leadership and Love with Ash Simpson promises a softer leadership conversation. From Corporate Nights to Camera Lights: The Unlikely Journey of VP turned Actor Mark Tompkins leans into an individual career story. The titles suggest a local interview shelf rather than a systematic guide to the city.

Okanagan QueerStory Podcast also works through named interviews, including An Interview with Ella Lamoureux and Shannon Lester aka Sasha Zamolodchikova, An Interview with Isaiah Bell and Sean Guist, An Interview with Wilbur Turner, and An Interview with James Sieben. Kelowna is not named in these episode titles, so this is better approached as regional oral history in which the city may appear than as direct Kelowna coverage.

Where to start

The strongest dedicated series opens with Homelessness in Kelowna with Shannon Christensen; start your listening there. For civic mechanics, try Episode 18: Making sense of the new Zoning bylaw. Property-minded listeners can go straight to 124: Turning Diamond in the Rough Structures Into Iconic Kelowna Properties with Worman Commercial's Shane Worman. For a personality-led change of pace, choose Empathy, Leadership and Love with Ash Simpson.

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