This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up with Chan Wanasinghe. I met Chan when he was my cycling tour guide in Sri Lanka. I thought what an amazing person with wonderful insight into what his stunning country has to offer... Listen to some of his great stories here.
Contact:
www.rediscoversrilanka.com
www.eastboundgroup.com
Email: accordingtochan@gmail.com
Insta: rediscoversrilanka
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I sit down with Charl Minnaar, 1st Mate on board a luxury Super Yacht, a money coach to the yachting industry and host of his own 'Rich AF' Podcast.
Contact Info:
www.yachtinginvestor.com
Insta: @theyachtinginvestor
Podcast: Rich AF Podcast
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up with Gary Hopes, a director of Agency 888, a successful talent management firm to performers and creatives. He's had a varied career and an entrepreneur across several businesses including operating restaurants.
Contact info: admin@agency888.com.au
This week on Tales From A Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up stewardess Danni Ramsay.
This is an inspiring story as she outlines her career pivot from luxury resorts to super yachts and now living her dream.
Contact:
Insta: @ramsay_danni
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, my special guest is Gregson Gastar who has pivoted from a successful hair salon owner into a career as a food reel content creator on social media.
This is one great story that includes having his marriage filmed for a reality TV show in 2025. Don't miss this one...
Contact Info:
www.gregsoncooks.com
Insta and Tic Toc - gregsoncooks
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up with Captain Liam Devlin, a luxury Super Yacht Captain originally from Australia. He tells us some amazing stories and gives us all insight into the world of the luxury yachting industry.
Contact Details:
@captainliamunbridled
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I have something very special for you as a listener to my podcasts.
I first met Chan while on a cycling tour of Sri Lanka and soon discovered what an amazing person he is with such incredible insight into a stunning country.
So, coming up in September/October this year I will be hosting culinary tours with Chan as our very special tour guide in Sri Lanka.
You can find out more about this tour through me or you can contact Chan through his websites. I just know you will love this special tour and I hope you can join me in September this year.
Email: accordingtochan@gmail.comInsta: rediscoversrilanka
We will find out more about Chan and his life as a Sri Lankan Tour guide in an upcoming episode.
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I am joined by Rosemary Peterswald, now living on the Gold Coast of Australia. Rosemary has lived quite the life of author, farmer, realtor, auctioneer, adventurer and so much more. Listen to this great story.
Contact details:
www.ballynastragh.com.au
www.ballynastraghbooks.com.au
or just type in "Lots to chat about" on YouTube.
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up Kelly Higgins-Devine.
Kelly is recognised as being one of the leading broadcasters in Australian Radio and on this podcast we get to learn more about the voice behind the mic.
@kellyhigginsdevine
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up with Chris Crawford, a commercial photographer originally from South Africa. He talks about his career starting off in advertising before making a life changing move overseas.
Contact Information:
Insta: @chriscrawfo
Website: chriscrawfordphotography.com.au
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I catch up with Chef Luke King. This is a great story as he talks about starting off as a butcher before turning to study as a chef.
He has since worked in many different restaurants including time as Chef De Cuisine on Hayman Island in the Whitsundays, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
He is now about to enter the world of Super Yacht Cheffing.
Catch up with Luke on Insta at chef_Luke_King.
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I had the pleasure of catching up with Chef Rene Moebius. He originally hails from Germany and has cheffed in many incredible restaurants across Europe and Australia.
He also talks about his next move...the world of Super Yacht Cheffing. Listen to this great story.
Follow Rene on Instagram and Linkedin - renemoebius
Welcome to 2025. This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch up with Colin Bushell, a true creative, writer, photographer and photo journalist. Listen to some of his incredible stories about famous musicians and artists including an interview with music icon David Bowie.
www.colinbushellphotography.au
FB: colinbushellphotography
INSTA: @colbushell
This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef I catch up with Chef Jake Warhurst. He's an Australian Chef that has cooked on private islands fro the rich and famous, won culinary awards, cooked for a famous performer and he's not even 35 yet.
Don't miss this one as Jake tells plenty of chef stories from around the world.
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I have the pleasure of catching up with one of Australia's top comedians, Daniel Connell. I had a chance to go along and enjoy one of his shows recently and I can honestly say I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. He has his own laid-back style of humour and a great story to kick of 2025.
www.danielconnell.com.au
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I catch up with another Medium from Brisbane, Australia.
We met by chance but I learned that Carol has a unique story. She has had a varied career from Signwriter to spending over 20 years as an Immigration Officer.
So, when did she realise she had psychic abilities. Listen and you shall find out more...
This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I catch up with another very successful medium and the 2023 winner of Australian Psychic of the year.
It's a great story of how he left a career in environmental science to pursue a career as a medium.
He will be doing more live shows in Brisbane, Australia in January 2025. www.rhyswynndavies.com info@rhyswynndavies.com
You Tube Links
My Dad Ken https://youtu.be/tCPAeUlGhuc
7 Spirits with 7 Drawings   https://youtu.be/mu5iGD6n96M
Message to my daughter   https://youtu.be/L_L6GiqVfbM
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I have Jim Hyndman as my special guest. He's a man of many talents having studied Russian, French and Italian. He's lived and worked in some amazing destinations too, but it was after a spiritual awakening that he followed the path of being a Medium and this is something I have always been interested in.....and you can find out why and a whole lot more today...
Jim's email: jimshyndman@gmail.com
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I'm talking with Restaurateur and Chef Katrina Ryan from her top Brisbane Restaurant. With a long-time passion for food she left her career as a physio behind and has been on quite a journey. At one time as head chef for Neil Perry in Sydney, she found herself cooking for celebrities Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Today, she runs her own restaurant, The Golden Pig in Brisbane, Australia.
www.goldenpig.com.au
This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I catch up with Lenzy Ruffin from Washington DC. He started his career in the computer industry but through many twists and turns he landed himself a new career. With skills and experience in film and photography he now teaches chefs how to create revenue generating cooking shows on YouTube.
YouTube Channel - Parkroad Studios.
Socials - parkroad studios
www.parkroadstudios.com