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The View From HereThe Power of Seeing PotentialSome careers are built.Others find you.In this episode of The View From Here, I sit down with Julie Anne Longano, founder of Peeps Consulting and one of the most trusted connectors in the media industry.With more than 15 years across sales, agency, and integration, Julie Anne has built a name for seeing people clearly, spotting potential, trusting instinct, and connecting top talent with purpose-led companies in a way that feels deeply human.Behind the professionalism is something even more powerful: intuition.This conversation explores what happens when you...
2026-03-111h 22
The View From HereThe Hidden Cost of a World-Class DestinationWhat does it really take to build a town, without breaking it?Ben Kirkwood has spent more than 20 years inside hospitality and tourism, running restaurants, managing hotels, and operating resorts across Australia and overseas. But this conversation goes far beyond business.Long before “sea change” became a cultural shift, Ben made his own, moving to Byron Bay, opening his first restaurant, building a family, and committing to an industry that sits at the centre of both opportunity and tension.Tourism can elevate a place, but it can also strain it. Through leadership roles with...
2026-03-041h 02
The View From HereBeyond the Pro Card: Rebuilding Without the TitleLauren Killey built her life on discipline, performance, and winning.By her early twenties, she had earned her pro card, competed nationally and internationally, and become known as a high-performing athlete and coach. From the outside, it looked powerful. Controlled. Certain.Yet the certainty was surface-level.Behind the titles and prep seasons was a quieter unravelling a relationship that was ending, an identity built entirely on achievement, and a mental health crash few people saw coming. Giving up her WBFF pro card and the end of her five-year engagement did not just change...
2026-02-251h 27
The View From HereThe Man Beneath the MaskWhat happens when success stops working and a person is forced to meet themselves without the mask.Luke Flegeltaub has built businesses, led teams, crossed industries, and generated hundreds of millions in sales. He has also lost everything. Multiple times. Through addiction, grief, bankruptcy, burnout, and identity collapse, Luke’s life has repeatedly stripped him back to nothing but responsibility and truth.In this conversation, we go beneath the surface of leadership and achievement to explore the unseen cost of building a life on pressure, escape, and proving. Luke speaks candidly about addiction and self-destruction fo...
2026-02-181h 34
The View From HereCarrying More Than People SeeThe View From Here – Belinda KirkwoodWhat does it really take to survive and sustain success in hospitality?Belinda Kirkwood has spent over 20 years owning and operating Beach Restaurant in Byron Bay alongside her husband Ben, building a business that has weathered growth, reinvention, and the pressures of an industry that never slows down.In this episode, Belinda goes beyond accolades to share the real foundations of longevity, leading from the inside out, evolving through constant change, and navigating the unseen weight carried by small business owners. She reflects on steering a...
2026-02-111h 04
The View From HereBeyond Achievement: Healing the Patterns Beneath SuccessLewis Huckstep, a Purpose & Transformation Coach, author, entrepreneur, and someone willing to speak honestly about the space between success and fulfilment.Lewis has built multiple seven-figure businesses, helped thousands of people transform their lives, and mastered the external game of achievement. But this conversation isn’t about performance, it’s about what happens underneath it. We explore the tension between the hustle chapter and the healing chapter, the quiet patterns that shape relationships and success, and the inner work most high-achievers avoid until life forces a pause.Lewis discusses stepping into parenthood, selling the...
2026-02-041h 24
The View From HereWelcomeThe View From Here was created to explore the conversations that sit beneath the surface, the ones that rarely make it into interviews, highlight reels, or success stories.In a world focused on outcomes and the hero’s journey, this podcast slows things down to look at what happens in between. The pivots. The pressure points. The internal shifts that quietly shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, and our lives.This is not a studio-based podcast, and that choice is intentional.These are not Q&A sessions or structured interviews. They are un...
2026-01-2801 min
The View From HereStrength Without ArmourSiobhan O’Donnell is a network marketer, business owner, speaker, and the creator of the Power Without Permission podcast. She is known for her bold leadership and unwavering belief in women reclaiming their voice, but this conversation goes beneath the public narrative.In this episode, Siobhan reflects on how modern empowerment has reshaped what it means to be a woman today. Building financial independence, leading businesses, studying, raising a child and still maintaining a sense of self. She shares how her upbringing instilled a deep internal knowing that capacity is not granted, it’s cl...
2026-01-281h 20
The View From HereThe Beauty Of Being SeenI’m joined by Kate Nutt, personal branding photographer, “human whisperer,” and facilitator of honest, empowered conversations.Kate shares what it really means to capture the person behind the brand, creating images that hold emotion, depth, and truth rather than performance. We explore the power of community, not just as a brand strategy, but as a vital part of being human, how the people we surround ourselves with can elevate, strengthen, and expand who we become.Kate also opens up about the realities of solo motherhood. The guilt many mothers carry. The sa...
2026-01-281h 34
The View From HereWhen Ambition Meets Emotional TruthLindsay Perry opens up about the inner chapters that shaped her far beyond what’s visible on the surface. She reflects on the fears that come with going all in on yourself and the quiet, often uncomfortable decision to back your vision before certainty exists. Lindsay shares how learning to sit with discomfort, rather than outrun it, became the turning point that changed not only her own life, but the lives of the people she now serves.She speaks candidly about creating an emotional state that allows her to be fully present in ev...
2026-01-281h 31
The View From HereFace to Face With MortalitySome people talk about darkness.Others have lived it long enough to understand what it means to come face to face with their own mortality.In this episode of The View From Here, I sit down with Nick Midgley, a man whose life has moved through addiction, recovery, single fatherhood, and profound personal reckoning, and who now dedicates his work to helping others find their way back to themselves.Nick speaks with raw honesty about the moments where life flashes before your eyes, when the weight of your choices can no longer be avoided.
2026-01-281h 39
The View From HereThe Power of the Pivot: Reinvention, Identity, and Trusting What’s NextKatie White is known first as a successful singer and songwriter. Until Katie's career took an unexpected turn when the world shut down at a pivotal moment. What followed wasn’t a collapse; it was a recalibration.In this episode, Katie shares what it means to walk away from an identity that once defined you, and how trusting a pivot led her from music to food, from London to Italy and France, and eventually to Byron Bay. We talk about the pressure of success, the courage to evolve publicly, and why fulfilment often co...
2026-01-281h 17
The View From HereJames Carson: Who You Become When the Image Falls AwayThis conversation isn’t comfortable, and that’s exactly why it matters.I sit down with James Carson for a raw and unfiltered discussion about obesity, men’s mental health, identity, and the darker realities of the film and modelling industries that few people talk about openly.James shares what it’s like when your sense of worth becomes tied to external validation, your body, your image, your success and how quickly that identity can unravel. We explore the mental and emotional toll of living for perception, the quiet darkness that can consume you, and...
2026-01-281h 15
54 Degrees North - Podcast series about issues around Northwest BC3. Up in Smoke: Wildfires and extreme weatherIt has always been predicted that climate change would bring more extreme and less predictable weather events. In this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear the science and stories behind wildfires and other extreme weather events in the Bulkley Valley. These impact not only our ecology, but our psyche as smoky days feel apocalyptic. Interviews with Chief Namoks (John Ridsdale), Dr. Jim Pojar, Vanessa Foord, Rachelle van Zanten, and Taylor Bachrach. Thanks to CBC public radio for news clips. Music thanks to the locally talented Los Gringos Salvajes and Rachelle van ZantenThis...
2019-11-2016 min
54 Degrees North - Podcast series about issues around Northwest BC1. Unpacking Snow: Glaciers and groundwaterIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear about how the climate has changed in the last 120 years in the Bulkley Valley, and hear more science and stories behind the melting glaciers and disappearing groundwater. Interviews with Vanessa Foord, Christoph Dietzfelbinger, Chief Namoks, Shannon McPhail and Sheena Miller. Music by the locally talented Los Gringos Salvajes and Rachelle van ZantenThis episode was recorded on unceded Witsuwit’en territory between August and October 2019 and is produced by Nikki Skuce (@nikkiskuce) and edited with the help of Pam Haasen (@hampaasen). Contact us at 54DegreesNorthPodcast@gm...
2019-11-2017 min