Captain Sandy Yawn: ...you can be a yacht captain

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On this episode, we’re excited to welcome Captain Sandy Yawn to the show. Captain Sandy is a super-yacht captain with over 30 years of international maritime experience. Captain Sandy is perhaps best known as the star of the hit reality series, Below Deck Mediterranean. She’s the author of a new book called, Be The Calm or Be The Storm: Leadership Lessons from a Woman at the Helm. Her website is captainsandyyawn.com. She is also the co-host of the podcast, "The Captain Sandy and Leah Rae Show".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:12.2	I'm Laura Owens.
0:13.2	And I'm Jan Black.
0:14.2	On this episode, we are so excited to welcome Captain Sandy Yon to the show.
0:19.6	Captain Sandy is a super yacht captain with over 30 years of
0:22.8	international maritime experience. Captain Sandy is perhaps best known as the star of the hit reality
0:28.5	series Below Deck Mediterranean. And she's the author of a great new book called Be the Calm or Be the
0:35.4	Storm, Leadership lessons from a woman at the helm captain sandy thank you so
0:40.3	very much for joining us oh my goodness thank you for having me and after hearing you read what you
0:45.7	just read i'm like i think i'm living a life beyond my wildest dreams yeah yeah and i was i was gonna ask
0:53.4	you about that because you point out in the book
0:55.4	that you were a high school dropout, an addict who cycled in and out of jail and rehab. So how
1:01.2	did you go from that life to being a captain of super yachts? Oh, my goodness. It was a big hit over the head going either wake up, change your life, or
1:15.3	continue down this path of destruction and probably end your life very quickly through the choices
1:21.9	I made by drinking and driving and other things like that. So I got sober and not by choice.
1:29.4	I was court-ordered, which I was court-ordered to many things.
1:33.4	So this time, unlike all the other times, something stuck.
1:39.0	And I went to a halfway house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1:43.3	I continued to stay in the program and got a sponsor.
1:48.1	And now I just live it on a daily basis because I know it's like having diabetes without the
1:55.2	medication. I'm never going to, I will never be the same. right? So the meetings and the work is the medication for me.
2:05.2	Meditation is the medication.
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