![]() I learned some hard lessons early in life around making decisions based out of fear. When you sweep them under the rug, you’re setting yourself up to make those mistakes again, or other mistakes that are going to be more detrimental. ![]() When you learn from your mistakes, your mistakes are valuable. When something is not working, it doesn’t mean you are failing. People that are not successful, take a long time to make decisions and they quit pretty quickly. Successful people make choices quickly, and they stick with them long enough to make them successful. As human beings, we talk ourselves out of our divine intuition all the time. I trust that I’m being divinely guided and if it fails, there was a reason I had to do it. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what I’m going to do. In business, when people don’t take the next step, they are in their own way. It was always in the future and in what I anticipated was going to happen in the future. ![]() What has helped you be able to continuously rebound and not be consumed by your losses? MOLLIE: Growing up in New York, when I would come home from school super upset about something, my dad used to say, “Right now, in this moment, what is the problem?” The problem was never right at that moment. You have to be willing to experiment, fail, learn, repeat. What’s your secret for balancing everything on your plate as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur? MOLLIE: I fail all the time, but I am also learning. So how does she do it all? Mollie will tell you that her real secret to success is facing fear. She hit the jackpot when the owner offered to carry the loan on the property and this is the land that would become Sow a Heart farm. It took Mollie six years, seven loan rejections, rock-solid stamina and resilience - before finding a property. But getting her own farm wasn’t easy as apple pie. There, her intrinsic love for healthy, organic food and diversity was nourished. As a kid, her free time was spent running around barefoot, covered in dirt, splashing the pond, and eating apples from her family orchards. Mollie grew up on an organic 27-acre farm in upstate New York. It’s a positive relationship rooted in normalizing her setbacks, failures, losses and lessons so they become the transformative factors for her to ignite the change she wants to see in the world. From failed business ventures, home foreclosures, to the sudden and untimely death of her business partner and best friend, Mollie has had a multitude of losses on her journey that have compelled her to approach fear and pain differently. You name it and she has survived and learned from it. She proves the old adage: “if you want to get something done, ask a busy person”. A restaurateur and executive chef serving organic plant-based comfort food at her four locations across Los Angeles a regenerative farmer growing clean food free of harmful pesticides a board member of Kiss the Ground working to train farmers to reverse climate change a movie producer wife and mother of three. One thing is certain, Mollie Engelhart is a woman who wears many hats. Interviewed, written & photographed by Denà Brummer Mollie unpeeling loofah at her Fillmore farm location. ![]()
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