Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I catch-up with Malaysian born Chef, Lisa Liu - Saucy Wench. Listen to her story as she transitioned from a career in architecture to creating a delicious line of Asian sauces plus a whole lot more... Insta: saucywenchhourmetfoods saucywench.com.au

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef, I Catch up with popular TV and Radio Host in Singapore, Michelle Martin. There's so much more to her story and she has many strings to her bow...

This week on 'Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef' with Lisa Mead, my special guest is Sharon Burrill. This is a great story and we find out how a social worker in Canada becomes a manager of a Butterfly Farm in Aruba.

This week on 'Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef' with Lisa Mead, my guest is Lynn Ringseis. Lynn and her husband begin a successful career working together as Captain and Chef on yachts in the Caribbean, leading an ideal life until heartbreaking situation occurs. Lynn also talks about writing her first book titled "I'm the Captain now". This is a great heartwarming story, don&#3...

This week on 'Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef' with Lisa Mead, my guest is Dee Williams. She comes from Sri Lankan heritage and moved to Australia to study Hospitality and eventually became a contestant on MasterChef Australia. Since then she has moved on to teach workshops, create content for her very own YouTube Travel and Food Channel, and judge others in culinary competitions

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, my special guest is Chef Kirsten Tibballs. A globally recognised pastry chef, Kisten has hosted her own TV show and appeared multiple times on Master Chef Australia as a guest celebrity chef. You can see more on her website: savourschool.com.au

This week on 'Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef' with Lisa Mead, my special guest is Martin Van Enoo. Martin was a guest on my yacht, we chat about him almost dying from a skiing accident, his father being a Japanese prisoner of war in Indonesia, leaving the US to work in Europe and learn his parent's Dutch language plus loads more.....

This week on 'Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef' with Lisa Mead, I meet up with Keshia Davis Barnes. This is her story about growing up on a Five-Star Luxury Island in the Caribbean before forging an illustrious career in the field of Culinary and Hospitality Skills and now turning to positive self-help.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I'm talking with Chef Moe Veniot, from New Brunswick, located on the East Coast of Canada. He's about to make the jump from being a land chef to the sea as a luxury yacht Chef and I thought this would be a great episode to find out about his process and any tips. To get in contact with Moe, on Instagram his details are @mveniot

This week on Tales From A Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I thought I would provide some answers to questions that I get asked a lot. At the top of the list is "How do I get a job onboard a luxury yacht, as crew or a chef". As I am currently onboard a luxury yacht myself at the moment in the British Virgin Islands, let me explain the process of what you need to do, the qualifications, a...

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I have a very special guest, Virgin Islands-born Designer, Kristin Frazer. This is a fascinating story of her life growing up and her business life as head of her company, Trefle Designs, a world-recognized fashion label.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I have someone very special who was a guest on a yacht I was cheffing on in the Caribbean. His name is Joe Riccitelli, a name synonymous with some of the biggest music recording stars. A former Co-President: Rhythm production at RCA Records and now the founder of his own label, Golden Retriever Entertainment, a full record label services...

This week on Tales From A Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, my special guest is a multi-Emmy award-winning news journalist and author, Margie Smith Holt. This is a great story as she talks about her media career in radio and television, winning 4 Emmys in the process, and why she left it all to escape to the Caribbean. Her latest book, 'Not On Any Map: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurri...

This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef, my special guest is Yacht Chef, Sandra Anderson. This is a great story of how Sandra transitioned from the world of IT to owning her own yacht and cheffing on it plus being discovered for an internet cooking show in New York.

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef, my special guest is Kate Henderson. She had quite an interesting childhood growing up when her parents decided to buy a boat and with no sailing experience sailed around the world. That's where her adventure begins...Listen to this amazing story.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef, we're back home in my home state of Queensland, Australia, where I  caught up with Australian Stand-Up Comedian, Georgie Humphries, also born in Queensland. We met at Brisbane Radio Station 4BC and she has quite a story apart from being on stage doing comedy gigs around Australia.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, I sat down with Brisbane Radio 4BC producer, Aiden Taylor and we talked about his career, travels, and his life-changing experience as an exchange student attending Texas A&M University, and much more.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead I thought I would just take a little break from doing an interview and spend this one reflecting on all the great guests that have shared their wonderful stories during 2022. There were some real highlights for me along the way and although I only have time to mention a few I want to take this time to thank all of my guests and to wish all...

This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef, we're back home where I caught up with High School friend, Mairi Cameron.  She still calls Brisbane, Australia  home, but has travelled widely as a successful Movie and TV Director. She talks about her first feature film, The Second, and her other film and TV achievements.

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef I caught up with Canadian Yacht Chef Jade Konst and she has a real story to tell. She's an expert diver and yacht chef, who had to adapt her life due to a medical condition. This did not stop her from living the best life cheffing on yachts around the Caribbean.

This week on Tales from A Luxury Yacht Chef, I'm talking with my good friend and Super Yacht Chef, Vicki Pettigrew from the British Virgin Islands. We first met while cheffing on yachts and then by chance we ended up in the same place many years later. You will hear lots of great stories in this episode.

This week on Tales From A Luxury Yacht Chef I chat with Media Executive, TV and Radio Broadcaster, Jason Dasey about his broadcasting career that has taken him all around the world to the BBC in London, CNN in the US then to Singapore, and back home here in Australia. 

On Tales From A Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Meade this week I reached out to Yacht Chef Niki Smith, who grew up in a yachting family, but never planned to actually work on yachts herself... Well, that soon changed as she and her husband, Captain Scott, spent the majority of their yachting life together based in the Caribbean.

This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Meade I catch up with an old friend of mine, Bronwyn Carrick. She hails from Sth Africa and worked in some fabulous places on luxury yachts as a Chef and Stewardess. Listen to her travel stories, where she met royalty and even some famous movie stars.....

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef with Lisa Mead, my guest is Kylie Champion from Champion Crewing & Concierge based at Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia. Operating at the gateway to the Whitsundays, Kylie shares her experiences as a businesswoman in the marine industry specializing in marine recruitment.