166. Rachel Wyman, Owner of Montclair Bread Company & Founder of Fueled by Doughnuts Run Club
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
"I was in survival mode. What can I do to pay our rent? What can I do to put food on the table?"
When Rachel Wyman was five months postpartum with her third child, she opened her first bakery: Montclair Bread Company. Then, when the bakery hit 4,000 Facebook likes, Rachel decided she should do something to celebrate the social media milestone. Despite not being a runner and never having run a race herself, she hosted a low-key 4K race that has since grown to become New Jersey's hardest-to-get-into annual 5K. And Rachel, of course, has become a runner and triathlete along the way. Today, Montclair Bread Company is the town's go-to destination for runners, and is home to the 2,000-member Fueled by Doughnuts run club. On this episode, Rachel, a mom of three, talks about what it was like working 80-hour weeks while getting her MBA and being the sole income provider for her family of five. (Her final project for her master's degree was a business plan for a bakery — which she then made into a reality. A+ for Rachel!) She talks about the accident that shattered her pelvis and changed her life, the power of community, and the importance of following your passions and being open to where life takes you.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- The story behind the Fueled by Doughnuts 5K, and how it grew to something huge and amazing (4:45)
- How Rachel started the Fueled by Doughnuts run club, and grew it to more than 2,000 members (18:50)
- On being naturally business-minded (31:10)
- What it feels like walking into her bakery every day (52:50)
- What it was like being on — and winning! — Food Network’s Doughnut Showdown (55:00)
- The accident that shattered Rachel’s pelvis and changed her life (57:50)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm a writer and editor, a runner, and a new mom. |
| 0:15.4 | And every week on this show, I talk with inspiring people who lead interesting lives on the run and beyond. |
| 0:21.8 | Running is the thing that brings us all together, but any runner knows there is so much more to |
| 0:26.4 | those daily runs than splits, paces, and sports brought to headlines. |
| 0:30.9 | We're here to talk about the other stuff. The decisions people have made to get where they are today |
| 0:35.7 | and how getting sweaty has factored in. I met Rachel Weiman in July. We were attending the Lululemon |
| 0:42.4 | Ambassador on-boarding event in Montclair, New Jersey. But Rachel, I very quickly learned, |
| 0:47.8 | she wasn't just there as an ambassador like I was. Rachel had also catered the event. |
| 0:53.1 | Breakfast, lunch, snacks. Oh, and she had gone for a run too. She woke up at something like 2am |
| 0:59.5 | that day to finalize all the catering stuff. Then she went for her run and then she attended the |
| 1:04.7 | day-long event. Rachel is the owner of Montclair Bread Company in Montclair, New Jersey. |
| 1:10.5 | I'd call it a cute local bakery, but it is so much more than that. |
| 1:15.4 | Montclair Bread has become the local spot for runners. We talk a lot about how that happened in this |
| 1:21.0 | episode because when Rachel opened the bakery, a runner she was not. But basically Rachel and her |
| 1:26.7 | donuts have created a run club boasting more than 2,000 members. Yeah, 2,000 members. When we |
| 1:34.9 | recorded this episode together in the fueled by donuts clubhouse next door to the bakery, |
| 1:39.4 | Rachel was about to head to Vancouver to run the Lululemon Seawee's Half Marathon. This race |
| 1:44.8 | would celebrate one year since a major accident shattered her pelvis. Her doctor's told her it would |
| 1:50.6 | be a year before she ran a step. She celebrated her one year accident aversory with 13.1 miles |
| 1:57.6 | and a new personal best time. Rachel is inspiring. She's cool. She is unbelievably busy and she's |
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