Ducati Scrambler post up at Robert Mondavi Winery

June 10, 2018

Today while on our epic 240 Sunday 🏍🏍 Ride. Melinda who is excellent at knowing wines, tress, birds 🦅 & mor, pointed out a famous winery, Robert Mondavi Winery in NAPA Valley. Of course we had to ride through, take a 📸 #forthegram & check in 😂. More photos and videos from this trip all week!

Almost the Clearlake! A lesson is checking the route

June 10, 2018

💯 Transparency is about sharing the good, the bad, and the “f ups”. Melinda and I have been talking about riding to Clearlake. Today while planning our 240 mile ride I added gas stops and other destinations. One gas top was at the bottom right before #clearlake. For some reason it didn’t click with me to go further north to actual Clearlake. About 20 miles south of Clearlake after we get ⛽️ up, Melinda asked “did we pass the lake?”. Being we were coming up on hidden valley lake I was like not yet. Via our @senabluetooth headsets we chatted a little more to see if we should stop and check or not. Then we pulled over to check. We were now 30min away South of Clearlake. Dam it. We almost made it. All I could say is “my bad”. We took a big sigh, and said next time! One day we’ll make it to Clearlake. We enjoyed our ride back through #nappavalley to #sanfrancisco . Today we learned 3 valuable lessons.

#1 review the full route planned before leaving home.

#2 over communicate where you want to go.

#3 review the route at gas stations.

Still today’s ride was epic!

New Black and Red Scrambler Photo From Instagram

April 21, 2018

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Fun weekend on 🏍❤: Equator Coffee to Alpine Lake over the Golden Gate Bridge

April 13, 2018

Fun weekend on 🏍🏍❤ For those of you following the Wayne and Melinda weekend fun in our Norcal backyard…

After a rainy migrainy Saturday, and a 💁🏼‍♀️👢👞👔 clean up for the amazing Alonzo King LINES Ballet w Christine Herron…

🏍🏍☀ Ride through Sausalito with a ☕ stop at Equator Coffees & Teas in Marin, up to gluten free Flour Craft Bakery 🥐 (🙌🏼 Marian Zizzo).

Down the winding Bolinas Road along Alpine Lake and its cascading dam, turning into a one-lane road with the sides washed out from the rains😱🌧, past a roadside waterfall down into the surf town of Bolinas. 🏄‍♀️

Back out to gorgeous Highway 1 where it was almost completely washed out 🌊 covered in water. Wayne scoped it out and we said a 🙏🏼 and 🏍🌊🏍🌊through it. On the other side, less than a mile down the road we saw a hundred seals and pups hanging in the wetlands! 🏝 Pulled over to hear and see the pups. Amazing!

Then wound our way up the Panoramic Highway as the sun began going down 🌅, hit 101 and caught the Golden Gate Bridge 🌁 as the last ☀beams hit it.

And home for homemade 🌮.

New Black and Red Scrambler Photo From Instagram

April 11, 2018

When you’re leaning over a dam to take a selfie. We needed a drone 🙂 w/
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Black and Red Scramblers: A San Francisco motorcycle couple Melinda Epler and Wayne Sutton, capturing their adventure traveling on Ducati Scrambler Icon and Full Throttle.

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  • Part 3. The fourth year, my word was passion. So... about 5 weeks into the year, my now ex-husband and I took a long drive and talked and talked. We stopped driving and over a nice dinner, we had a wonderful honest conversation about how we lacked passion in our relationship. At the end of that conversation we decided: despite our friendship, we both were ready to take a leap of faith and get divorced. It was scary. (We made a promise that if we were old and grey and lonely we’d find each other and remarry.) But we thought we could find passion out there, we thought we could be happier. A short time later, when I was not expecting it... I met Wayne. And Wow. I found passion, let me tell you! Passion is one of the things that defines us. For real. I was so rewarded for that leap of faith. Just wow. I love this man. Honestly that would be an amazing end but there is much more to that year. By mid-year, I realized my job was draining me of passion. It was a miserable year professionally - I was nearly broken by biases, microaggressions, harassment and all the ways these squashed my ability to shine, all the ways they made me forget how good I am, how accomplished I am, how smart I am. I was in a dark place by mid-year professionally. In that darkness something else rose though. I realized something big. I’ve been working to change the world for the better my whole life and here I was having a lived experience (not the first or the last but a big one) of exclusion, bias, harassment. It was an aha moment. I realized that pretty much all the worlds problems boil down to exclusion in one way or another. And THAT is a place I know I can have impact. So I put things into place to leave my job as an executive to take on the tech industry - and make it more inclusive. It is important in so many ways today and tomorrow, to close the wealth and innovation gap stemming from this industry. So by the end of the year, I ended up taking on that new work with the love of my life. Passion. . . . . . #passion #oneword #wordoftheyear #love #happiness 📸 by @shephotographyexperience
  • Part 2. After 2 years of self-compassion, I moved on to a new word. Self-compassion is something I still have to remind myself about - it’s so easy to go go go, and for me to focus so hard on making the world better for other people and for the future, I have to remember to stop and nurture my self. So I bring that word into every year. My word the next year was compassion. I realized that year that compassion is the biggest need on our planet right now. It’s something we are often missing in big global decisions and small decisions throughout our lives. People, humans matter. Also in my work, if I want to create world change, I have to change behaviors. And to create behavior change I have to design with empathy (an important part of compassion). . . I was working as a consultant helping NGOs, social entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies to tell stories that change the world. In my work that year, I began to teach my clients empathy. My work got better, their work got better, my consultancy took off like never before. I spoke at a conference about storytelling as a catalyst for changing behavior and it impacted many people in the audience, some of whom still keep in contact today. And from that talk I landed a huge client in San Francisco (I was in Seattle at the time). A year later that client hired me as an Executive - head of Marketing and Culture - and brought me to San Francisco. One word. Again, life changing in ways I never could have expected. My muscle for compassion has continued to grow and expand. And now a core part of my work is helping teach others how to tap into their own compassion and build greater empathy. . . . . . #compassion #empathy #changetheworld #oneword #wordoftheyear Above: on stage at our Tech Inclusion 2018 Conference interviewing leaders who are building inclusive startup ecosystems around the world. 📸 @yuliana_taylor
  • Part 1. For the first 30+ years of my life, I focused so much on changing the world and making a difference in other people’s lives - that I neglected my own body and general well being. I worked long long hours in front of a computer (18-20 hours/day, 6-7 days/week) in the film industry. I was taking 7 different medications to keep myself alive by keeping my asthma at bay. I didn’t have much of a social life and I was emotionally drained for years of fighting to create much needed change in the world. I had frozen shoulders (they wouldn’t rise vertically). My body was a bit broken. A few years ago I had an aha moment that sent me down a path that was life-changing. It began with a word. The first time I set out with a word for the year, that word was compassion. But I realized a few months in that I was missing a key ingredient in compassion: self-compassion. So I changed my word for the year, one word one year turned into two years of self compassion - I needed to focus on this! The first year was for my mental self-compassion, the second I added physical self-compassion. In those two years I started to meditate, I got massages regularly to work through old body traumas, I started yoga again after several years, I went to a naturopath instead of institutionalized medicine, I saw an executive coach, I got good air filters, I took my first relaxing vacation EVER (first a weekend, then a whole week in Hawaii). And all that together I began reducing my reliance on meds for asthma. It's when I began meditating and taking time to decide what I really wanted to do and who I wanted to be, asking hard questions of myself and answering them. I went on an eco-retreat by myself and deconstructed and reconstructed me- past, present and future. I said goodbye to my old consulting business and business Partner and laid out a multi-year plan for where I wanted to be and how I would get there. One word changed my life. Take care of yourself, don’t forget to show yourself self-compassion. We need you. ❤️ . . . . . #selfcompassion #oneword #selflove #selfcare #asthma #yoga #treepose #costarica
  • What a gift I had this winter to spend 8 days in Costa Rica w @waynesutton - writing, hiking, meeting monkeys 🐒, swimming in the ocean at sunset. It was just what I needed to warm up, decompress and get ready for a new year. Each year, I have a word that helps drive me forward. I spent some time thinking about my word each year and just how much it helped me transform. It’s pretty remarkable. Over the next few days I’ll write about them. Grateful for the beauty of this planet and the time to enjoy it. Happy 2019 everyone! . . . . . #beauty #costarica #flowers #sunset #banana #vacation
  • 2018 was a complicated but mostly great year - a lot of growth and change for me. Buying and riding a motorcycle was a symbolic change in how I view the world and the time I take to nurture my self and well being. I truly worked my ass off in 2018, working long hours and not making a lot of money. I needed those weekends of riding refuel! 2018 was a building year and a growth year. I posted earlier about all I accomplished and it’s motivation for my going strong around a new corner in 2019. I hope you have had time to reflect on 2018, let go of what you don’t want to take with you into 2019, and think about what kind of a 2019 you want to lead. ❤️✌🏼 . . . . . #top9of2018 #top9 #topnine2018 #topnine #motivation #motorcycle #womenwhoride #ladyrider #motolife #🏍 Also thanks to my main photographer @waynesutton
  • Floating on the clear, warm water of the Pacific during this beautiful sunset was magical. Live in this moment. Relax and savor the joy you have. Life brings pain and sorrow and hard moments, but when you have moments of joy - be fully present in them. This helps you heal, strengthens your soul, body and mind, and helps you become more resilient. This moment is beautiful. . . . . . #sunset #costarica #pacificocean #waves #ocean #swim #life #motivation #jaco 📷 by @waynesutton
  • A year ago @waynesutton and I exchanged vows on a beautiful hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. We walked through cobblestone streets past castles and a Christmas festival. And we froze our butts off, happily. Today we celebrated our anniversary having a leisurely breakfast in our Costa Rican Airbnb then hiking through a cloud forest during the day and exploring more of the forest at night. And drive through precarious winding roads in the sun and the night fog. Every day is a beautiful adventure with this man. We have so much fun, exploring the incredible world we live in, and working hard to make that world better for all. Peace love and joy to you all. . . . . . #anniversary #love #life #happiness #❤️
  • Flaskback to London a couple weeks ago, one of the most beautiful places during the holidays. Wishing you a wonderful last few days of the year for reflection, rejuvenation and warmth. Peace and love, inside and out. ❤️❄️ . . . . . #peace #love #holidaycheer #london #❤️
  • Our last ride of the year (at least in California). Cold but beautiful. So grateful to be in California where we can ride through incredible forests and beautiful beaches. A big lesson for me this year: it’s not always about the destination - sometimes the biggest joy is the journey. ❤️ . . . . . #womenwhoride #motorcycle #motorcyclesofinstagram #forest #California

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  • ❤️ Micah... the coolest kid in the 🌍! Made a trip by the comic book store.
  • When you’re almost 8 and writing in your diary with so much joy = Micah ❤️
  • In NC for Micah’s bday weekend. He turns 8! Miss and love this kid!
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  • #swipeleft ⬅️ / Melinda and I are coming up on our 1yr motorcycle anniversary. Since last year I stared an @instagram collection of all the motorcycle meetups / events! Swipe through to see all the events I found. I had no idea so many Moto events were held and how many were using IG to promote. It would be great if there was a site with a list of all the events! Feel free to tag them in the comments. Last year our first moto event was @caitmadethat ‘s @californiamotomarket . This year our first event was the @womensmotoshow . I should have planned better to start 2019 because now everyone is announcing their moto event dates with @the1moto in February that I hope @changecatalysts and I can attend. I want to do more #flattrackracing in 2019 but with work and conference travel it’s looking slim. Either way! Happy moto event season! #events #motorcycle #moto #motorcyclesofinstagram #scramblerducati #motolife #motorcycleshows #motorcycleshow #customshow
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  • I have such a different feeling now when I see this sign! I’m like “YES” especially when there a no cars on the road. #motorcycle #roads #signs
  • My niece is awesome! A special message from Alana to world about girls. Anyone need a kid actress? She ready! #Repost @janetscarter ・・・ An important message from Alana! #girlscouts #girlscoutcookies #share

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