Motts Mueller // From Broadreach Student to Broadreach Owner
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Motts Mueller is the longtime director, and now owner of Broadreach, whose unforgettable summer adventures for teens specialize in scuba diving, sailing, marine biology, veterinary medicine or wildlife biology. Motts has been a part of the company since 1993, when he was a student on the first-ever trip, sea-kayaking in the BVI. Recently he bought the business from founder (and former podcast guest) Carlton Goldthwaite. Motts and I talked about business and life in this wide-ranging episode.
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| 0:00.0 | And so I think getting away from the habits and frankly the friends and the family that kind of influence them and keep them in the rut and keep them behaving the same way and reacting the same way to the same stimuli is an amazing opportunity for teenagers. |
| 0:17.1 | And you can be anyone you want when you get on a broadish program. |
| 0:20.8 | Greetings, friends. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm your host, Andy Schell. I am talking with |
| 0:26.5 | a longtime friend and influential mentor, Mutz Mueller, in today's episode. I wanted to give |
| 0:34.1 | a little preamble today because Mott's and I go way back. |
| 0:37.9 | And similar to my experience with the Woodwin and Captain Jen and her dad, Ken, |
| 0:44.2 | my experience at Broadreach, the company Mott's has been the director for and now owns, |
| 0:49.3 | was really foundational in how my career has evolved since then. |
| 0:56.3 | I worked at Broadreach. It was my first ever skipper job in 2008. And there's a fun little backstory here. I was living in Uppsala with Mia. |
| 1:03.4 | She was still in school. We shared an apartment in one of the student apartments with her friend Johanna. |
| 1:08.9 | And I was basically doing nothing. It's when I first |
| 1:11.2 | moved to Sweden the winter of 07 and 08. I would bike a lot during the daytime. I did some odd |
| 1:17.3 | jobs for a charter company in Stockholm. I was writing a lot in my blog, but I wasn't doing much. |
| 1:25.6 | I was very listless, but knew what I wanted to do in my... |
| 1:28.3 | I knew I wanted to do something with sailing. |
| 1:30.7 | And we were thinking of what to do that summer. |
| 1:34.1 | And I was listening to the Killers album called Sawdust, |
| 1:38.5 | which is like a covers album, basically, that came out a while back. |
| 1:43.7 | And there's a hidden track on the very end of |
| 1:45.7 | that album that I'll play in this in this intro called the captain or something and I did this |
| 1:52.3 | I was writing in my journal this sawdust album played all the way through and then there was a |
| 1:55.7 | few minutes of silence at the end and then this this song came on and I was kind of trying to |
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