Mollie Engelhart is the executive chef and founder of Sage Plant Based Bistro, a growing group of plant based organic comfort food restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area. She operates a 20 acre organic farm focused on regenerative agriculture that doubles as an animal rescue including an aviary for rescued parrots. She is also the executive producer of the award-winning documentary film, “May I Be Frank.” and an accomplished spoken word poet.
In this episode we talk about:
- how being raised by young parents who were immersed in personal development shaped her
- trying to rebel as a teenager but realizing she really only got attention for during the good she did
- how moving out at 16 made her learn about being an adult and made her have compassion for her parents
- seeing the humanness in her parents and how their divorce brought her closer to her father
- getting a job at a record label and how that led to opening her own recording studio at the age of 22
- how not being afraid of failing has allowed her to do so much
- becoming a spoken word poetry artist and touring the country
- getting her ego checked after losing her house and becoming the personal assistant to the person who bought her house and furniture
- how her brother in law getting arrested and her best friend getting pregnant without the support of the baby’s father made her give up growing pot and create her vegan ice cream
- moving from one ice cream shop to taking over a vegan restaurant and creating now 4 more locations
- what motivates her to keep saying yes and opening more locations, producing films and more
- the impact of losing her best friend has had on her life
- being motivated by supporting the whole and not just the I.
- learning to rest as a person who has always been the person who does it all
- how you feel about what you are doing is just as important as what you are doing
- listening with an open mind
- finding the ways we are the same instead of how we are different
- finding the gratitude daily
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Make sure to check out Sage and her vegan ice cream when in Los Angeles! You can learn more about the restaurants here and follow on social here. You can find Mollie at @chefmollie
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
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Vintage Flax designs by Jeanne Engelhart
Mollie’s dad, Mathew Engelhart and his workshops and books
Follow Your Heart Restaurant
HBO Def Poetry
Mark Webber and the movie she produced The End of Love
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Thank you – we knew Mollie as an awesome child, my husband was her teacher. I was good friends with her mom. We lived down the road from them and swam naked all the time in their pond with our friends and skied in winter in long skirts and across fields. I took Mollie and her brother with my children on hikes in the woods. This is great joy to hear her and how she’s done for herself. We left that community of friends after a few years of teaching. But memories are strong. Thanks for interviewing Mollie. And I still have her mom’s dresses.