Katie Flood: The Kiwi Serving The World's Biggest Celebs, Reality TV Stardom & What Bravo Never Showed You
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Hello Dom here. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of my podcast, the Dom Harvey podcast. Coming up, Katie Flood.
If we have like a charter, the person paying for the trip is normally the nicest, most humble, you know, uses manners, always really kind to the crew. It's the people they bring on that act like, you know, they're paying for this and this is their boat. So it's quite a fun dynamic.
You might think you know Katie from the Bravo reality shows Below Deck Mediterranean or Winter House, or maybe you don't know her at all. And that's totally fine because that's what these conversations are all about. Getting to know people or getting to learn more about people you may have a preformed opinion on. Katie Flood is from Whangarei. She went to boarding school in Auckland, then somehow ended up working on some of the most expensive super yachts in the world, serving the sort of people whose names most of us only see on the Forbes Rich List or on TMZ. And some of the stories are wild. We talk about what life is really like working for billionaires. the difference between real yachting and below deck, the biggest tip she ever got, which, by the way, was from Simon Cowell, and what Leonardo DiCaprio is actually like when he casually wanders onto a boat in the south of France.
We also talk about some darker, heavier stuff like anxiety, grief, burnout, being suddenly thrown into the Bravo universe, online hate, and what it's like living in Dubai while missiles are being intercepted overhead. This is the first time we met and I found Katie to be funny, honest, self-aware, very Kiwi and very, very, very sweary. Yeah, actually, we probably should put a swear warning in there. If you're offended by swear words, this is most definitely not the episode for you. I love this conversation because it went to places I absolutely did not expect, and it was done so in Katie Flood's trademark, authentic, unfiltered style. This is the Dom Harvey Podcast, and here is Katie Flood.
Thank you for having me.
So nice to have you here. We literally just met like 10 minutes ago.
I know, and here we are. Things move fast around here.
I'm so excited. You're back in New Zealand for a limited time only.
Well, yeah, limited time only, but that limited time is becoming somewhat semi-permanent at this rate, based on the current state of the world. And family problems. Not problems. Deaths. So, yeah. We'll see. I'm just hanging out here, basically, until things seem to be in a better spot.
Yeah, because home for you at the moment is Dubai.
Yep, home in Dubai.
Yeah, so were you over there in February when the missiles were... Yes, I was actually.
We were out on a boat. Our friends had chartered a boat for the day and we were having a bit of, you know, some day drinks, all this stuff, and then... You know, everyone's phone starts going off. There's news about things happening. I think it was Bahrain or Qatar at the time. And then literally, I think, about an hour later, we just heard two massive explosions, like, quite close to us. And then, you know, that was, yeah, Iran trying to hit the U.S. military base in Abu Dhabi. And then pretty much from then on, it was nonstop. So definitely... I think today was one of the scariest days of my life because at the time we didn't understand what was going on and you're just hearing these massive explosions.
Yeah, it was February 28th is a day I think I'll always remember.
It's terrifying. So you could see them in the sky?
Some of them you could see. As night fell, you could see them. And then basically what would happen is Dubai has this, well, the UAE has this air defence system called a THAAD system. And I feel like over the time I've learnt so much about war that I never thought I'd learn about. And basically they can intercept any sort of attacks on us. So drones, missiles, and they attack that with a missile. So obviously you can imagine a missile hitting a missile. You see a lot of smoke and stuff in the sky. And yeah, I think it's just the sound of the explosion literally sounds like a bomb going off.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–4:20
2
What is life really like working for billionaires?
4:20–6:00
3
What challenges does Katie Flood face working in Dubai?
6:00–40:04
4
How does Below Deck differ from real yachting?
40:04–56:54
5
What lessons can we learn from adversity and mental health struggles?
56:54–57:38
6
How does therapy play a role in personal growth and coping?
57:38–1:01:36
7
What are the financial realities of working on Below Deck?
1:01:36–1:03:04
8
How does reality TV influence personal relationships and public perception?
1:03:04–1:53:20
Speakers
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