McMinnville Yacht Club

We're ending the year in our favorite place, The Blue Moon. For Episode 51 - Holidays At The Moon - Part 2 we finish up our recent visit to McMinnville's favorite gathering place. We've been working hard this year to keep bringing you new content and sharing information about the town we love. We hope that our long time listeners feel like we put a nice bow on 2023 and our new listeners are inspired to start back at the beginning with us. This final episode of the year has more friends, more insight into what makes our town so special and more vodka sodas. Here's to another year of connecting and knowing that through it all, we are in this together. Cheers friends, and Happy New Year!

Horray! We've officially created and published 50 episodes of the Yacht Club! And for this milestone we brought in the people that know us the best, our spouses. So for this week's Episode 50: Podcast Spouses features Ossie's wife Lacy Bladine, and Chelsey's husband Brent Nichol. We have lots of laughs in this one because that's what you do with family...laugh at each other! All jokes aside, we are very thankful for these two's support as we continue on as captains of this ship. We hope you hear how important family is to us, and at the end of the day, even if we're not talking about McMinnville we are talking about the things that matter most to us.

We're great at multi-tasking around the yacht club and so we combined our daily workout sesh with a podcast recording. This week we laced up our tennies and hung out at MVP Performance Training on Episode 43: At The Gym. Over the last few months Chelsey has been working on her fitness at this gym and thought that it would be great to connect with others who are on their own fitness journey. So we talk with gym owner, Sean Burke, about his approach to fitness and how focusing on women's unique fitness needs is such a priority at MVP. We also invited Michele Melasecca, the owner of 5th Line Pilates about her own approach to fitness and how we can find similarities in both weight lifting and pilates instruction. We got a chance to chat with a few regulars at MVP about why the prioritize their health and fitness and what makes this gym unique. Every age can benefit from working out and we got to hear from folks at all stages of their health journey. We hope to provide a little inspiration with this one, and know though that its hard work to prioritize your health sometimes, but when you are ready there are dedicated professionals in McMinnville to help you make the commitment.

Kids are going back to school next week and we hope you've taken a trip to the store to get everything for their lunches! Or, you've probably stopped in to your favorite grocery store to pickup your dinners for the week, or went in to check out what seasonal fruits and veggies they've got to offer. There are so many options when you are deciding where to purchase your groceries, and we hope that with this week's Episode 40: Meet Your Grocer you are inspired to spend a bit more of your dollars with our two locally owned and operated grocery stores. This week we talk with long time owner of Harvest Fresh Grocery and Deli, Kristin Schofield and new-ish owner to the local Grocery Outlet, Mike McGinty. Both of these business owners have made contributing to the McMinnville community a priority and we are so lucky to have such giving and thoughtful business owners to support. You may not have thought you were interested in this topic, but we be you will finish and think that you can spread your grocery dollars a bit more local.

What better way to start 2023 than to look at where we've been and talk about where we are now. And maybe a little about our hopes for the coming year. Today we are chatting with two people who have had tremendous impact on our local community, Mike Colvin, and our dad, Jeb Bladine. Their stories and experience growing up in McMinnville is one shared by many, and those connections are what helped shape our town. Whether through their businesses, or community involvement, these two talk with us about how they have navigated decades of change, and what are the things they care about now. With a little advice for us as well. Happy New Year friends, let's do this year together.