August 14, 2025 • 11 mins
Steve Muschlitz with the nonprofit Wheels From the Heart talks about the event titled "Simple as Black and White: Cars & Conversations - Unity in the Community."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcoln for WJ and O dot com, the
Florida News Network. There is an event coming up this
week called Simple as Black and White Cars and Conversation
Unity in the Community, and it is from Wheels from
the Heart. If this is a kind of a new
thing to you, it is a nonprofit locally here in
(00:22):
South Florida and we have the founder, Steve mushlets On
with us of Wheels from the Heart. Thank you for
joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning, Joel, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, this is going to be a pretty exciting event
with some big names for sports fans. We're going to
get into that in a second, but first of all,
tell me about you your nonprofit. What made you found
this nonprofit and when did it happen?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, it really was founded the first car giveaway. It
was twenty fourteen. I've been in the car business. I
was buying and selling cars and forever in a lot
of people kept sending you know, single moms, moms in
distress to help, you know, find a car. And just
because of a small dealership, my capacity was little. You know,
(01:10):
I didn't have you know, I wasn't about to charge
a huge interest. I didn't have all those things set
up and it just kept coming and finally I realized
I had to do something about it. So here we are,
you know, ten years later, Wheels from Heart has you know,
been founded and we worked with a lot of different organizations, churches, synagogues,
faith based, different programs for single moms that go through
(01:35):
different things, learning skills, life skills, and then at the
end of the day, the cars, the final, final, final
piece of I call it the wheel right that spoke
without a car, think about what we can't do, so
now we provide cars to single mothers with children under sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Talk about if you can the the importance of a
of a single mom of a young child or you know,
a young teen of having a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I mean, I could just make it as simple
as think of what you do throughout the week and
then just try to imagine doing any of that without
a car. So mom can't get to get a better job,
which in turn what enhances their family. Mom can't get
home early to help with homework because she's working late
or has a long commute. Mom can't get the kids
(02:24):
to practice. I'm sure all you coaches out there can
relate how many times have you had to pick up,
not that you didn't mind, but you had to pick
up or drop off one of your kids. So you know,
it just trickles down healthcare, they can't get to the doctor,
just endless things without a car. It just basically closes
so many options to live life.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So that brings us to this event coming up this
Thursday night, August fourteenth. Crazy Uncle Mike's in Boca Ratone.
Tell me about the event.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So this is that big milestone for the charity. We
are going to donate our two hundred car to a
single mother from City House, which is a one of
our partners, and we will know present this car to her.
And basically this event is kind of like a reach
out and then it called the accident. So the reach
out is the unit in the community, simple as black
(03:20):
and white. It's about we bring in the cars and conversation.
There'll be some cool cars there and then we talk
about the issues of you know, racism, anti Semitism, different
things that are struggles between you know, what's going on
right now. We have a panel, we have a pretender
to state representative, I have Chief Coleman, the Riviera Beach Police,
I've got Mark Nudleberg, who's coach. Chris Redding is award
(03:44):
you know, omni whatever that is, award winning person that
works with autism and things such as that. I've got
Lee Cohen. He's a local attorney. And so we're going
to really tough. We have a moderator. We're going to
ask some of the tougher questions that maybe be afraid
to ask. It's a safe place. We want to open eyes,
what it's like to wulking each other's shoes. And then
(04:06):
the called action will be the single mom will receive
a car. And along with all these stars that I
have known over the years, believe in the concept and
what we're doing. They understand it because it hits them.
They all can have a story that relates to a
single mom, and they're all coming to help support the event.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And tell me about some of these folks. And they're
also taking part in the VIP meet and greet for
folks that upgrade, by the way, general admission forty five
bucks and then they pay a little bit more's the
what's the cost of the VIP admission that includes these
meet and greets?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And well, right now it's just kind of getting it
out there. The tickets are forty five dollars that will
include your food and two drinks, and then we're going
to try to figure out we want to hope to
let everybody meet different players they want to meet. We're
really not going to have a specific charge. If you
want to, we would ask if you would get of
some toured the donation to the charity, that would be grateful.
(05:03):
So that's kind of where that's going to lie right now,
not who they meeting. Well, we got Ricky Williams coming in.
We all know Ricky from his Miami Dolphin Days and
Heisman Trophy winner. He's actually coming to the second time.
He came to the twenty twenty event, and when I
called him about this one, he's flying from California. You know,
he was so excited to be part. Butch Davis, who
(05:26):
I became friends as we all know, he's the UM
coach that personally that was his national championship teen. Those
are all his kids. He's coming because he understands that
most a lot of the kids he recruits are raised
by single mops. So then I say, how many of
those kids, if they didn't get the football practice, wouldn't
get the next option the next level to get to
(05:46):
college and then become fine, you know, men in the
community and doing things. I've got Branda Schultz, who was
a top ten tennis player at one time on the
Women's Store. She holds the fastest serve record with one
of the week Sisters on tour. I've got Pedro Munhaus
who is a m aa UFC fighter. He's donating his
(06:11):
Volkswagen Beatle that his father gave him as an auction item.
And then I've got Thomas Anderson from the Dallas Cowboys
Super Bowl days. He's going to be there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So again, this is going to be Thursday night and
it's Crazy Uncle Mike's and that's in in Boca ratone
six o'clock. This is going to get underway. We'll have
all the information Steve Wright on our website where we
have this full interview for folks to take a listen.
We know they're not going to remember everything, so they
can Where do they get their tickets though?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Go to an event, right and yeah, simple as black
and white. It'll pull right up. And we also have
an auction We got some amazing items. We got three
tennis lessons with Brenda Schultz. We've got a golf clinic.
We've got two Rolex watches. We've got a Mini moke Is,
an LSV vehicle. We got a Volkswagen Beetle. We've got
an older BMW motorcycle. We've got clothing, Robert Graham clothing,
(07:08):
we got Johnny O clothing. We got some just epic,
some car memorabilia. I've got an artist, very famous artist.
She does a lot down in our basel. She donated
a bunch of pieces. I've got some historic photos of
Lra Beach, some really cool items. So you can get
on the auction, you know, the event bright auction, simple
as black and white. You know, heals from the heart,
(07:29):
and you can actually pre bid if there's anything there.
You see, I've got some ray banned glasses. I've got
a hairstylist that's one of the best colorists in South Florida.
So we got some really cool neat items. So if
you can't get there, maybe try to look online and
see if there's something there you might want to take
advantage of and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let me And I know you said you work with
a lot of different other nonprofits and the churches, synagogues,
et cetera. How what is the predominant way that these
cars are donated. Is it people going, hey, you know what,
instead of instead of bringing in my car to trade
it in, I'm buying a new one and I'm going
(08:06):
to donate.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
How does it work?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well? One of the main things is if you donate
a car to us, you get the full Kelly Blue
Book right off for that car. And as opposed to
some other things where you only get a percentage, a
very small percentage. So our car and then can be
gifted to a mom from maybe an older person has
to stop driving. We've given the keys to them. Actually
that person's handed the keys to the mother. And that's
(08:31):
a real good feel story because a lot of people
don't want to give up their car. You can donate
your car, we can, you know, sometimes we can purchase
cars depending on how much funny we have in house.
There are a lot of ways. But the benefit is
it's going to a single mom. You can see it.
And we've had many, many, many people that still stay
in touch with our moms because we call a Wheels
(08:52):
from the Hart family. They still help can involve they'd
like to see where their car comes. Most women name
their cars so Betsy gets to go to the new family,
and you know, it's it's so funny when you hear
that in every girl almost I say, do you have
a name for your car? Now? Not everyone's reluctant today
our memories. Oh yeah, but a lot of them will say, yeah,
we don't do that. Do well, how about a Petsy
(09:13):
goes right?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We refer to them as as, we refer to them
as her and she, but we don't really, I don't.
I don't think many guys give give our cars names specifically.
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Names that might not.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Be too now if you do donate, if somebody not,
names that are appropriate. If somebody does donate, if one
of our listeners was to donate, it's it's tax deductible.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I assume correct, one hundred percent. We're five o' one
c three. We can pick it up at our costs,
and we can do nationwide. I got a car in California,
believe or not, it basically car. It costs me twelve
hundred to ship it. I can't find a used car
for twelve hundred bucks, so it was definitely cost effective.
Border was like, do it so anywhere anyway we can
get it and give it life. And I basically say,
(09:57):
you give a mam a ride to work, she works
for day, you give her a car, she drives her
a better life.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Is there are there parameters regarding what kind of you know,
like mileage or year or any of that, if you're
going to donate.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, in all reality, not really. I mean we can
fix most anything. Even high mileage cars still have a life.
And remember these cars are hand to help a handout.
Sometimes they last six months, a year, two years, it
just depends. I don't have a crystal ball, but we
can get most of them safe with breaks and tires
and all the things, so they're safe.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So don't don't overthink it. In other words, if you're
thinking about donating, just reach out and and go from there.
And then they could do that at your website.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Ice made it. Yeah. Yeah, Wheels from the heeart dot org,
Wheels from the Heart dot org is all the information.
And like I said, just because you think the car
of paint no good, trust me to that mom. It's
a blessing. She's over her head, over heels that she
can actually get her kids to school.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
All right, awesome? Well, Steve Mushlet's founder of Wheels from
the heart this event again. We'll have the information up
again but this Thursday Crazy Uncle Mike's and we appreciate
your time and appreciate your efforts as well.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Thanks for all you do. Joel, very very great to
talk to you.
Hey, Joel Malcoln for WJ and O dot com, the
Florida News Network. There is an event coming up this
week called Simple as Black and White Cars and Conversation
Unity in the Community, and it is from Wheels from
the Heart. If this is a kind of a new
thing to you, it is a nonprofit locally here in
(00:22):
South Florida and we have the founder, Steve mushlets On
with us of Wheels from the Heart. Thank you for
joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning, Joel, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, this is going to be a pretty exciting event
with some big names for sports fans. We're going to
get into that in a second, but first of all,
tell me about you your nonprofit. What made you found
this nonprofit and when did it happen?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, it really was founded the first car giveaway. It
was twenty fourteen. I've been in the car business. I
was buying and selling cars and forever in a lot
of people kept sending you know, single moms, moms in
distress to help, you know, find a car. And just
because of a small dealership, my capacity was little. You know,
(01:10):
I didn't have you know, I wasn't about to charge
a huge interest. I didn't have all those things set
up and it just kept coming and finally I realized
I had to do something about it. So here we are,
you know, ten years later, Wheels from Heart has you know,
been founded and we worked with a lot of different organizations, churches, synagogues,
faith based, different programs for single moms that go through
(01:35):
different things, learning skills, life skills, and then at the
end of the day, the cars, the final, final, final
piece of I call it the wheel right that spoke
without a car, think about what we can't do, so
now we provide cars to single mothers with children under sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Talk about if you can the the importance of a
of a single mom of a young child or you know,
a young teen of having a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I mean, I could just make it as simple
as think of what you do throughout the week and
then just try to imagine doing any of that without
a car. So mom can't get to get a better job,
which in turn what enhances their family. Mom can't get
home early to help with homework because she's working late
or has a long commute. Mom can't get the kids
(02:24):
to practice. I'm sure all you coaches out there can
relate how many times have you had to pick up,
not that you didn't mind, but you had to pick
up or drop off one of your kids. So you know,
it just trickles down healthcare, they can't get to the doctor,
just endless things without a car. It just basically closes
so many options to live life.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So that brings us to this event coming up this
Thursday night, August fourteenth. Crazy Uncle Mike's in Boca Ratone.
Tell me about the event.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So this is that big milestone for the charity. We
are going to donate our two hundred car to a
single mother from City House, which is a one of
our partners, and we will know present this car to her.
And basically this event is kind of like a reach
out and then it called the accident. So the reach
out is the unit in the community, simple as black
(03:20):
and white. It's about we bring in the cars and conversation.
There'll be some cool cars there and then we talk
about the issues of you know, racism, anti Semitism, different
things that are struggles between you know, what's going on
right now. We have a panel, we have a pretender
to state representative, I have Chief Coleman, the Riviera Beach Police,
I've got Mark Nudleberg, who's coach. Chris Redding is award
(03:44):
you know, omni whatever that is, award winning person that
works with autism and things such as that. I've got
Lee Cohen. He's a local attorney. And so we're going
to really tough. We have a moderator. We're going to
ask some of the tougher questions that maybe be afraid
to ask. It's a safe place. We want to open eyes,
what it's like to wulking each other's shoes. And then
(04:06):
the called action will be the single mom will receive
a car. And along with all these stars that I
have known over the years, believe in the concept and
what we're doing. They understand it because it hits them.
They all can have a story that relates to a
single mom, and they're all coming to help support the event.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And tell me about some of these folks. And they're
also taking part in the VIP meet and greet for
folks that upgrade, by the way, general admission forty five
bucks and then they pay a little bit more's the
what's the cost of the VIP admission that includes these
meet and greets?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And well, right now it's just kind of getting it
out there. The tickets are forty five dollars that will
include your food and two drinks, and then we're going
to try to figure out we want to hope to
let everybody meet different players they want to meet. We're
really not going to have a specific charge. If you
want to, we would ask if you would get of
some toured the donation to the charity, that would be grateful.
(05:03):
So that's kind of where that's going to lie right now,
not who they meeting. Well, we got Ricky Williams coming in.
We all know Ricky from his Miami Dolphin Days and
Heisman Trophy winner. He's actually coming to the second time.
He came to the twenty twenty event, and when I
called him about this one, he's flying from California. You know,
he was so excited to be part. Butch Davis, who
(05:26):
I became friends as we all know, he's the UM
coach that personally that was his national championship teen. Those
are all his kids. He's coming because he understands that
most a lot of the kids he recruits are raised
by single mops. So then I say, how many of
those kids, if they didn't get the football practice, wouldn't
get the next option the next level to get to
(05:46):
college and then become fine, you know, men in the
community and doing things. I've got Branda Schultz, who was
a top ten tennis player at one time on the
Women's Store. She holds the fastest serve record with one
of the week Sisters on tour. I've got Pedro Munhaus
who is a m aa UFC fighter. He's donating his
(06:11):
Volkswagen Beatle that his father gave him as an auction item.
And then I've got Thomas Anderson from the Dallas Cowboys
Super Bowl days. He's going to be there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So again, this is going to be Thursday night and
it's Crazy Uncle Mike's and that's in in Boca ratone
six o'clock. This is going to get underway. We'll have
all the information Steve Wright on our website where we
have this full interview for folks to take a listen.
We know they're not going to remember everything, so they
can Where do they get their tickets though?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Go to an event, right and yeah, simple as black
and white. It'll pull right up. And we also have
an auction We got some amazing items. We got three
tennis lessons with Brenda Schultz. We've got a golf clinic.
We've got two Rolex watches. We've got a Mini moke Is,
an LSV vehicle. We got a Volkswagen Beetle. We've got
an older BMW motorcycle. We've got clothing, Robert Graham clothing,
(07:08):
we got Johnny O clothing. We got some just epic,
some car memorabilia. I've got an artist, very famous artist.
She does a lot down in our basel. She donated
a bunch of pieces. I've got some historic photos of
Lra Beach, some really cool items. So you can get
on the auction, you know, the event bright auction, simple
as black and white. You know, heals from the heart,
(07:29):
and you can actually pre bid if there's anything there.
You see, I've got some ray banned glasses. I've got
a hairstylist that's one of the best colorists in South Florida.
So we got some really cool neat items. So if
you can't get there, maybe try to look online and
see if there's something there you might want to take
advantage of and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let me And I know you said you work with
a lot of different other nonprofits and the churches, synagogues,
et cetera. How what is the predominant way that these
cars are donated. Is it people going, hey, you know what,
instead of instead of bringing in my car to trade
it in, I'm buying a new one and I'm going
(08:06):
to donate.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
How does it work?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well? One of the main things is if you donate
a car to us, you get the full Kelly Blue
Book right off for that car. And as opposed to
some other things where you only get a percentage, a
very small percentage. So our car and then can be
gifted to a mom from maybe an older person has
to stop driving. We've given the keys to them. Actually
that person's handed the keys to the mother. And that's
(08:31):
a real good feel story because a lot of people
don't want to give up their car. You can donate
your car, we can, you know, sometimes we can purchase
cars depending on how much funny we have in house.
There are a lot of ways. But the benefit is
it's going to a single mom. You can see it.
And we've had many, many, many people that still stay
in touch with our moms because we call a Wheels
(08:52):
from the Hart family. They still help can involve they'd
like to see where their car comes. Most women name
their cars so Betsy gets to go to the new family,
and you know, it's it's so funny when you hear
that in every girl almost I say, do you have
a name for your car? Now? Not everyone's reluctant today
our memories. Oh yeah, but a lot of them will say, yeah,
we don't do that. Do well, how about a Petsy
(09:13):
goes right?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We refer to them as as, we refer to them
as her and she, but we don't really, I don't.
I don't think many guys give give our cars names specifically.
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Names that might not.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Be too now if you do donate, if somebody not,
names that are appropriate. If somebody does donate, if one
of our listeners was to donate, it's it's tax deductible.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I assume correct, one hundred percent. We're five o' one
c three. We can pick it up at our costs,
and we can do nationwide. I got a car in California,
believe or not, it basically car. It costs me twelve
hundred to ship it. I can't find a used car
for twelve hundred bucks, so it was definitely cost effective.
Border was like, do it so anywhere anyway we can
get it and give it life. And I basically say,
(09:57):
you give a mam a ride to work, she works
for day, you give her a car, she drives her
a better life.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Is there are there parameters regarding what kind of you know,
like mileage or year or any of that, if you're
going to donate.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, in all reality, not really. I mean we can
fix most anything. Even high mileage cars still have a life.
And remember these cars are hand to help a handout.
Sometimes they last six months, a year, two years, it
just depends. I don't have a crystal ball, but we
can get most of them safe with breaks and tires
and all the things, so they're safe.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So don't don't overthink it. In other words, if you're
thinking about donating, just reach out and and go from there.
And then they could do that at your website.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Ice made it. Yeah. Yeah, Wheels from the heeart dot org,
Wheels from the Heart dot org is all the information.
And like I said, just because you think the car
of paint no good, trust me to that mom. It's
a blessing. She's over her head, over heels that she
can actually get her kids to school.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
All right, awesome? Well, Steve Mushlet's founder of Wheels from
the heart this event again. We'll have the information up
again but this Thursday Crazy Uncle Mike's and we appreciate
your time and appreciate your efforts as well.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Thanks for all you do. Joel, very very great to
talk to you.
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