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 company.

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 Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise' is available now online. For more information:...

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 of my loyal listeners seasons greetings and a Happy New Year. I will return in 2023 with a brand...

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.

This week on Tales from a Luxury Yacht Chef, my special guest is Hannah Staddon, a Superyacht Professional Chef born in South Africa and qualified in Vegan Cookery, now based in the Bahamas. Listen to her stories from sailing and cheffing aboard superyachts to trekking through to Base Camp on Mt Everest.

This week on Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef, we meet up with Shane Mahoney from Lugos Travel based in Florida, USA. Shane is a Luxury Lifestyle Vacation Specialist, who creates original and memorable vacation adventures all around the world.

In this episode of Tales From a Luxury Yacht Chef, Captain Andy Woodruff interviews Lisa Mead to find out the real life-story of a Luxury Yacht Chef.

This week on Tales of a luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Patrick Ward from Swaziland. Listen to some of his adventures as a former Yacht Captain, Dive Instructor, and now Hotel Owner.

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Superyacht Chef Elisa Eliot, a US Based Chef, who specialises in Nutrition, both on land and sea. Listen to her inside story of being the personal chef for Dwayne " The Rock' Johnson.

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Chef Grace Dvornik, who describes her culinary style as “Upscale Down Home Cooking”. This freelance chef, based in Florida, has served celebrities from around the world, royalty, and retired politicians. Listen to her story and journey as a yacht chef.

This week on Tales of A luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Paige Logsdon, the luxury motor yacht owner of ‘Angel Eyes’, an 85’ Horizon which was featured on a Netflix episode of “The World’s Most  Amazing Vacation Rentals.

This week on Tales of a Luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Maya Wierzbicki from St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands on life and her journey as a chef.

This week on Tales of A luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with a former yacht crew member, entrepreneur, and adventurer, Nicke Abraham, now a training specialist based in South Africa, where she runs the Professional Extraordinary in Leadership Training Program - The Winning Attitude Skills Training.

This week on Tales of A luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Super Yacht Chef Danny Davies who shares his story from spending time in the military and serving abroad including cooking for the British Royal family to cooking for high profile guests aboard superyachts. Danny is now US based with a Vegan Cookbook and his own cooking podcast.

This week on Tales of A luxury Yacht Chef, Lisa Mead talks with Captain and Chef Team Warren East and Elizabeth Lee, charter operators based in the Bahamas.