Episode 253

What happens when you take a love for wine and pair it with a much bigger purpose? Tyler and Kelly Mullman were my neighbors in Tulsa, and today they own Cana Ranch Wines, a nonprofit winery built around meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A friend asked Tyler what he knew about running a nonprofit or making wine. Not much. So he enrolled in the UC Davis online winemaking program, and they volunteered at Belong Kitchen in Houston to learn how a nonprofit runs. We talk about the name, the first vintage (a 2024 Napa Valley Cabernet, 165 cases), how every $200 donation returns a bottle and funds their two partner programs, the Houston release party on November 13, and the vision of a Napa vineyard with a job for adults with disabilities at every level. Tyler's advice: you are smarter than you think you are. Keep trying, keep figuring it out.

Find Cana Ranch Wines at canaranch.org (Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn: canaranchwines).

Today's sponsor: Synergy Benefit Advisors (tulsasynergy.com).
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Chapters:
0:00 Coming up
0:36 Sharing Passion and Purpose
0:54 Welcome: meet Tyler and Kelly Mullman
3:08 The question they asked during COVID
4:40 Why open a winery?
6:06 What do you know about running a nonprofit or making wine?
7:04 Volunteering at Belong Kitchen to learn how a nonprofit runs
9:12 Parents, adult children, and a massive unmet need
12:48 What is in the name Cana Ranch
15:34 A word from our sponsor
16:44 Where the business is today: the first vintage
19:15 How community has carried them
21:37 The easy part is making the wine. The hard part is selling it
22:05 How to get involved: a bottle for every $200 donation
24:45 The pie in the sky: a Napa vineyard that employs adults with IDD
27:27 Rapid fire
32:16 A question from the last guest: solve one problem forever
34:54 It can be scary. Start small. You are smarter than you think
36:16 Sharing Passion and Purpose outro

ABOUT NANCY
Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself.

ABOUT TYLER & KELLY MULLMAN
Tyler and Kelly Mullman are the founders of Cana Ranch Wines, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit winery built to make great wine and do good: their 2024 Napa Valley Cabernet funds jobs and job training for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, on the way to a Napa vineyard and winery of their own. Tyler learned winemaking through the UC Davis online program; Kelly is a physician assistant. They live in Houston with their three children.
Website: https://www.canaranch.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canaranchwines/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanaRanchWines/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cana-ranch-wines/

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Episode 252

Destiny Green is the executive director of the Williams Route 66 Marathon and the historic Tulsa Run, and her path there started in IT. Today she shares how she grew from the race founder's right hand into leading it all, and why this job lets her have a small part in helping people do things they never thought they could do. She has seen engagements at the finish line and has even married couples at the start line.

We talk about how truly anyone can take part: walk a mile, walk a 5K, volunteer (it takes about 1,200 volunteers to make race weekend happen), or just get up off the couch and call a girlfriend for a walk after dinner. And I loved hearing about Kicks for Kids, the program that coaches and mentors elementary kids in Title I schools, teaching nutrition, confidence, and life lessons, where every kid who shows up earns a race entry, a medal, and a brand-new pair of running shoes. Some of them have never had a new pair of shoes before. It started with 4 schools and is in 18 now.

Connect with Destiny and the races at route66marathon.com and tulsarun.com, and follow her new adventure with her best friend Megan on Instagram at Girls Behind the Bib. The TTCU Tulsa Run is Saturday, October 31, and the Williams Route 66 Marathon is November 21 and 22.

Today's sponsor: Synergy Benefit Advisors (tulsasynergy.com).

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Chapters:

0:00 Coming up

0:45 Sharing Passion and Purpose

1:02 Meet Destiny Green

1:32 From IT to running the show

3:01 49 years of the Tulsa Run

3:35 The Route 66 centennial

5:33 Something for everyone: walk, run, volunteer

7:28 Couch to one mile: just get up

9:56 A word from Synergy Benefit Advisors

11:08 Kicks for Kids

13:23 "Some of these kids have never had new shoes"

14:26 Coaching: "you just have to show up"

16:13 Her own running + the directors' run

17:23 Married couples at the start line

18:13 The running community that carries you

20:12 Rapid fire

21:01 "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"

21:46 Know your resources

25:21 Girls Behind the Bib + finding the races

26:31 Until next time

ABOUT NANCY

Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself.

ABOUT DESTINY GREEN

Destiny Green is the executive director of the Williams Route 66 Marathon and the Tulsa Run, Tulsa's most iconic road races. She grew into the role from a career in IT, working alongside the race's founder, and has led the organization for the better part of a decade. In 2019 she launched Kicks for Kids, a running, mentorship, and nutrition program in Tulsa-area Title I elementary schools where every participating child earns a race entry and a brand-new pair of running shoes, now in 18 schools.

Website: https://www.route66marathon.com

Tulsa Run: https://www.tulsarun.com

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Episode 251

Susan McMurray spent 30 years in a classroom pouring into other people. This past summer she made something of her own: Kindred & Bloom, a magazine-style devotional for women with contributor articles in the front and a five-week devotional in the back, built to be an excuse to gather.

We talk about the magazine she loved that stopped publishing, how the first issue's theme, Abide, came out of a class at her church, the women she asked to write for it, and Create and Connect, the fifth week where you put the reading down and make something with your hands.

Susan names the thing under all of it: she read that over half of Americans feel unseen. Then she asks about the empty closet. If there is an empty closet in the house, we fill it with crud, and our schedules work the same way. The fix is margin, on purpose. And she is honest about starting: it was scary to take on something that was just hers, she got up at one in the morning to work on it, and her best advice is one line. Do not despise small beginnings.

Meet Susan in person: she and Michelle Bruns of Pinspiration join Nancy for a live podcast in Tulsa on November 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, craft and magazine included. Tickets at nancymoore.co/events.

The magazine: kindredandbloom.co (Kindred & Bloom Co. on Instagram and Facebook).

Today's sponsor: Synergy Benefit Advisors (tulsasynergy.com).
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Chapters:
0:00 Coming up
0:36 Sharing Passion and Purpose
0:53 Welcome: meet Susan McMurray
1:45 The magazine she loved that stopped publishing
2:56 One step further: a five-week devotional in the back
3:51 Create and Connect: doing something with your hands
5:20 How the theme Abide came to be
7:32 Family, hospitality, and community in every season
8:27 Permission to slow down
9:31 Is it surreal to have published a magazine?
9:47 Finding your drivers: writing, beautifying, connecting
11:07 Volume one: four issues, four seasons
12:46 November 10 in Tulsa: a live podcast for two
14:48 Where to find Kindred and Bloom
15:53 A keepsake worth gifting
16:20 Over half of Americans feel unseen
16:38 The empty closet theory, and making margin
18:08 A word from our sponsor
19:27 Trusting an idea God puts in your heart
21:00 Up at 1am, working on the magazine
22:54 Rapid fire
23:31 A theme song for this season
24:21 Best advice: do not despise small beginnings
25:12 One book every entrepreneur should read
26:38 A dream not pursued yet: Kindred and Bloom retreats
28:09 What following your passion means
28:56 A question from the last guest: which season are you?
29:59 Thank you, and the inner circle
30:43 Until next time
31:10 Sharing Passion and Purpose outro

ABOUT NANCY
Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself.

ABOUT SUSAN MCMURRAY
Susan McMurray is the founder and publisher of Kindred & Bloom Co., a seasonal magazine-style devotional for women whose first issue, Abide, pairs contributor articles with a five-week devotional made for gathering with a few friends. She has taught communication at Oral Roberts University for 30 years and built the magazine over one summer off from teaching.

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