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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Mollie Engelhart

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Mollie Engelhart is a chef, restaurateur, and regenerative farmer whose career spans the culinary and agricultural worlds. She co-founded Sage Regenerative Kitchen and previously ran several Los Angeles restaurants, including Sage Vegan Bistro and KindKreme. After years in the plant-based restaurant industry, she shifted her focus to regenerative agriculture, founding Sovereignty Ranch in Texas, where she integrates sustainable farming practices with her food ventures. She is the author of Debunked by Nature, a book exploring lessons from motherhood, farming, and food. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Athletic Nicotine https://www.AthleticNicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://Squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://DrinkLMNT.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0

Tetragrammaton

0:02.0

Tetragrammaton It's 2015.

0:28.6

I'm sitting on the back of a refrigerated box truck at Coachella.

0:34.2

I have food trucks and booths everywhere. I have like 30 employees, RVs. Like, it's a

0:41.2

massive undertaking to serve food at Coachella. And I'm breastfeeding my one-year-old at the back

0:48.4

of a refrigerated box truck with the door slightly open so the cold air is coming up my back and cooling me off while

0:56.2

I breastfeed my child out of the hubbub for a moment. And my phone just starts going crazy.

1:04.3

And it was cafe gratitude owners are murderers. They have a slaughterhouse. They have this.

1:09.9

And then people are tagging me. And then people are saying, well, I don't know if you know, but Molly's their daughter,

1:15.5

the owner of Sage. Her husband is not vegan and she's not an ethical vegan because she allows,

1:22.6

I've seen on Facebook that she made eggs for her husband. Like, I mean, it just was like crazy and tagging and

1:28.9

tagging and cafe gratitude, never go to Sage, never go to cafe gratitude. And it was somehow I got

1:33.9

into it. And what had happened was, so my stepmother got Instagram in 2014 and basically

1:41.1

viewed it as a way for her children and her many grandchildren.

1:46.6

My stepmom has 15 grandchildren.

1:48.2

I don't know how much she had at the time to see what's going on on the farm.

1:51.3

So she posted Grandpa's eating his first hamburger in 40 years.

1:57.2

This was a year earlier.

1:59.0

And because she had, I don't know, 50 followers that were all in the

2:02.9

family, nobody saw it. And it was not a big deal. And we were like, oh, Grandpa ate a hamburger.

2:08.7

And I actually had assumed when then she did that, because I was younger and more savvy about

2:14.2

social media, I had assumed that her account was private, but I didn't think to ask.

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