1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey bestie is today on the bright Side. 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: We're headed to the farm. Y'all Food Network star and 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: cokebook author Molly Ye is here to talk family recipes, 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: go to sweet Halloween treats, and she's answering all the 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: questions you've wanted to know about life on a farm. 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: It's Monday, October twenty First, I'm Simone Boyce. 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: share women stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day. 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: On my Mind Monday is brought to you by missus 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Meyer's Clean Day, inspired by the goodness of the garden. 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 3: Happy on my Mind Monday, Simon. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 4: Happy on my Mind Monday. What's on your mind this week? 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: Danielle Okay, I was scrolling Instagram like I do every night, 15 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: Don't tell my Mom, and I came across this post 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: by Elvest, which is an account that I love and 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: learn a lot from. It was started by Sally Krawchek, 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: who's a businesswoman and an advocate for women's financial empowerment, 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: and she co founded Elvest, which is basically a digital 20 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: investment platform designed specifically for women to talk about money 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: and to close the gender investment gap. So everything on 22 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 2: this account is money related. Okay, this post was about 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 2: micro retirement, which is essentially women rebranding their retirement era, 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: so like taking many sabbaticals throughout their lives instead of 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: waiting until traditional retirement age. 26 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 3: And all the comments were, of course about money. 27 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 4: Oh you know, I am all about this idea, are you? 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course I'm done with waiting as a philosophy, 29 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: as a concept, as a life approach. 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 4: I just don't want to wait anymore. Life is too short. 31 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: I get these reminders all the time of just how 32 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: precious and fragile and short life is. Yeah, why are 33 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: we waiting till the end of our lives to do 34 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: the things that we want to do? 35 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: It's really interesting you say that, because I saw this 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 2: post and then got interested and curious about this idea, 37 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: and I wanted to see if this was a one 38 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: off thing or if young women were really talking about 39 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: this and considering it. And I came across this story 40 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: in the Wall Street Journal that doubles down on the idea. 41 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 2: So the article explored how workers are choosing to spread 42 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: their retirement over the course of their careers rather than 43 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 2: saving it all for one big break at the end. 44 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: For example, one person interviewed quit her high powered job 45 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 2: at thirty one years old and spent six months hiking 46 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: the Pacific coast, and her reason was, I don't want 47 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: to wait till I'm in my sixties. I won't have 48 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 2: the same energy to physically tackle something so demanding. 49 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: Okay, I do like the sound of this, but I 50 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: also think that there's some financial risk involved, because there's 51 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: a reason why we do save our money for the 52 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: end of our lives. When we're not working, we're going 53 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: to need that money. Did you find anyone talking about 54 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: that aspect of this? Yeah, the comment section was a 55 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: lot having to do with that. I think millennials in 56 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: particular are part of this experience economy. Like if you 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: ask millennials statistically, we feel as if the experience is 58 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: worth the cost, or like that yolo you only live 59 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: once phrase is like very big and millennial culture. 60 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 3: But two things come to mind for me. 61 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 2: One is I have a mentor who used to say 62 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 2: to me, if you don't plant roots when you're young, 63 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: you tip over when you're older. And it's hard to 64 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: think about that because you want the experience, you want 65 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: the bag, whatever it is. But if you don't plant 66 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 2: those roots when you're young, you do tip over. You 67 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 2: have to plan. On the other hand, I think my 68 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: father is a very wise person, and I ask him 69 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: a lot of questions about what he would do differently, regrets, etc. 70 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: And he said to me the other day he had 71 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: two regrets. One is he would have had a third kid. 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: It's just me and my brother, which I thought was 73 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: really interesting because my dad's not really a kid person, 74 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: so I don't know how where that came from. But 75 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: the second one is he's such a play and he 76 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: said he thought later in life, I'll do this when 77 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: I have more money, I'll do this when i'm retired. 78 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: I'll do this. 79 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: And he said he didn't have enough experiences or fun 80 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: along the way. He waited too long. It's a really 81 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: weird balancing act. I don't quite know the answer. It's 82 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: a really great reflection that your dad shared. I definitely 83 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 2: do not want to end up at the end of 84 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: my life with that regret, the regret of not experiencing 85 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: enough or not traveling enough. I do try to do 86 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 2: it some now, but I honestly think I could lean 87 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 2: into it even more, like. 88 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: You would take more trips with your kids or alone. 89 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't think my kids are old enough to bring along. 90 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: They're just they're really a handful at this stage. But 91 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: I think that's going to change in short order. You know. 92 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: I do think that is a real consideration, and there 93 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: are real reasons, valid reasons why people can't travel all 94 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: the time or experience things. There's work, there's responsibilities. If 95 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: you're co parenting, that's something to consider as well. Yeah, 96 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: all in all, I really like the sound of this. 97 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: It reminds me of the fire trend that I saw 98 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: people talking about a few years ago, which is financial 99 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: independence retire early. I think that there is a way 100 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: to satisfy both desires to be able to experience things 101 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: in the now while also being prudent for your future. 102 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: And I think the solution is passive investing. You know, 103 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: like setting aside a certain amount of money from your 104 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: paycheck and you do it automatically so you don't even 105 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: see it go away from your account. And if you 106 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: invest that in the right places, you can generate passive 107 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: income that will set you up for success and retirement. 108 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 2: I was also wondering like this This girl took a 109 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 2: six month mini retirement, as she called it, and I'm like, 110 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 2: maybe you could just take like. 111 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 3: A two week break and still keep your job. 112 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: That's a vacation, Danielle, have you ever? Have you ever 113 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: heard of one? 114 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 4: You don't really take them. 115 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: You need to take them, I know, but I'm just thinking, like, 116 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: maybe there's a way to do both. 117 00:05:59,080 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 4: I don't know. 118 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 2: It feels I have had, you know, like in what 119 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: we do, we're not always fully employed on a day 120 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: to day basis, and so I have had times where 121 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 2: I've been more free and I just feel anxious. I 122 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: don't know if I could like go hike Mount Kilimanjaro. 123 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 4: Oh no, Danielle, this is no. 124 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: You can't be anxious while you're on your sabbatical, on 125 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: your many retirement. 126 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 4: You gotta just be present. 127 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: I think the solution is being present, because if you're anxious, 128 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: that means you're thinking about either the past or the future. 129 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, I don't know. I still don't know 130 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: how I feel about this. 131 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 2: I'm actually really curious what the bright side besties feel. 132 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: I wish we could do a poll. 133 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: Well why not, I mean, we'd love to hear what 134 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: you think, hit us up on Instagram at Hello Sunshine, 135 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: and on TikTok at the bright Side Pod. 136 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,119 Speaker 4: One more thing I want to add. 137 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: I've found that the best time to take extended breaks 138 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: from life are whenever you're one chapter and starting a 139 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: new one. So if you're coming to the end of 140 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: a job contract, build in you a three month mini 141 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: retirement so that you can really soak up life before 142 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: you get involved in that next position. 143 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, transition phases are good. That's a good call. 144 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: Well, our guest today knows a little something about stepping 145 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. I'm 146 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: talking about The Food Network's Molly. Ye See, Molly always 147 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: thought she'd be a classical percussionist. Her craft even took 148 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: her all the way to Juilliard. But between the intense 149 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: rehearsals and training there, she found her true love food 150 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: blogging and recipe creation. And she also found her romantic 151 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: love there too. Molly and her husband met in those 152 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: famous halls at Juilliard, but instead of performing together, they 153 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: found themselves embracing a very different life. They made the 154 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: bold decision to leave the city behind and take over 155 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: his family's beat farm in Northern Minnesota. 156 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, a beat farm. 157 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 3: This is such a like, this is such a different path. 158 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 3: So excited to hear this story. 159 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: I feel like if this or me, it would be 160 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: like an episode of the Simple Life. I'm so curious 161 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 2: to see where Molly's journey took her. 162 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: Well, doesn't it sound like a romantic comedy. I mean 163 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: it practically just writes itself. 164 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 4: Yes. 165 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: She went on to become the host of the Food 166 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: Network series Girl Meets Farm, which follows Molly as she 167 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: embraces her life in the country and makes dishes inspired 168 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: by her Chinese and Jewish heritage. And now Molly and 169 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,239 Speaker 1: her husband co own a cafe in East Grand Forks, 170 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: Minnesota called Bernie's. 171 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 4: Plus. She's also a New York Times best selling author. 172 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: Wow, I can't wait to hear about all of this. 173 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 2: And I'm bummed I missed this conversation, As you said, Simone, 174 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: I was on a vacation. But I know it's going 175 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: to be a treat no pun intended. 176 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: After the break my conversation with Molly. Ye, welcome to 177 00:08:58,440 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: the bright Side, Mollie. 178 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 4: Thank you, Molly Gosh, what a. 179 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: First for us. You're our first guest who lives on 180 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: an actual farm. So this is a huge rail. 181 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 4: Oh I'm honored. 182 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is big, and we are really farm curious 183 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: on this show. I think a lot of city dwellers are, 184 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: so tell us everything. What does a typical day on 185 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: your family's bet farm look like? 186 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 5: I was once farm curious myself. I still am farm 187 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 5: curious myself, because even after almost thirteen years of living here, 188 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 5: I feel like I don't even know the tip of 189 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 5: the iceberg because every day it's different, and my husband's 190 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 5: job is dictated by the weather or the wheat markets 191 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 5: or tractor breakdowns. How like the seeds are growing, which 192 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 5: again it's all dependent on the weather. 193 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 4: So it's just it's always changing. 194 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 5: No two days are alike, and I have to make 195 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 5: something that can sit for a while for dinner. So 196 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 5: there's a lot of soups and a lot of just 197 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 5: like rice that can stay in the rice cooker, because 198 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 5: who really knows if he's going to be in in 199 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 5: five minutes or if he's going to be in an hour, 200 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 5: And am I going to have to give the kids 201 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 5: snacks so that they don't totally starve by the time 202 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 5: he gets in. We're in between wheat harvest and beat harvest, 203 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 5: which is a little bit of a caulmb before the storm. 204 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 5: Beat harvest goes for twenty four hours a day and 205 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 5: it is basically the last big push before the snow falls. 206 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 5: And it's really intense and can be very muddy and 207 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 5: involves these just massive pieces of machinery that are bigger 208 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 5: than any car you would ever see in a big city. 209 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 5: They still look like transformers to me. When I was 210 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 5: farm curious, I didn't imagine so much machinery and so 211 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 5: much mud and so much checking the weather like an Ironically, 212 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 5: as you're telling me about this lifestyle and your husband, 213 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 5: I'm thinking he must be a really patient man. 214 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 4: What are the qualities that a good farmer has to have? 215 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 5: So much patience nimbleness, I mean the ability to kind 216 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 5: of change what you're doing at the last moment, and 217 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 5: that might mean canceling a family vacation in the middle 218 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 5: of the summer because a bug has decided to eat 219 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 5: your crops, or this summer there were a lot of 220 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 5: groundhogs that all of a sudden Nick had to become 221 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 5: an expert at getting rid of groundhogs because they were 222 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 5: eating his beets. Yeah, it's ground talk. 223 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 4: Control. 224 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 5: It's learning about soil preservation so that the soil will 225 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 5: be healthy for generations to come. It's knowing how to 226 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 5: weld and fix a tractor, and being able to predict 227 00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 5: the weather. I mean, nobody is better at predicting the 228 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 5: weather than Nick. Because I'll open up my silly little 229 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 5: basic iPhone weather app and be like, oh, it looks 230 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 5: like it might rain in three days, and Nick will 231 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 5: be like, no, we're going to be getting measurable rain 232 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 5: tomorrow night, actually, because look at this weather system on 233 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 5: my fancy farmer radar app, and so we're probably not 234 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 5: going to be able to do this thing in the field. 235 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 5: Therefore we can maybe have a date night in four days. 236 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 5: So it's just like putting all these pieces together. But 237 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 5: it's yeah, it's being a weather man, it's being a 238 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 5: business owner, it's being a mechanic. So many different things, 239 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 5: and patients is definitely one of them. 240 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: Okay, Molly, I feel like we have to rewind a 241 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: bit because you live on a beat farm now. But 242 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: this is such a surprise twist and you're happily ever after. 243 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you grew up in Chicago, you moved to 244 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: New York to study percussion at Juilliard. Tell me what 245 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: happened next. 246 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 5: I fell in love with food when I moved to 247 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 5: New York, like kind of discovered restaurants there, and food 248 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 5: trucks were really big when I lived in New York. 249 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 5: And Okay, so I played classical percussion, and percussion is 250 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 5: everything that you hit to make music out of. There 251 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 5: would be a lot of rehearsals where I would be 252 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 5: waiting in the back of the orchestra for my one 253 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 5: symbol note or my one big triangle moment, and so 254 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 5: there was just a lot of waiting around and in 255 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 5: that time I was I found that I just really 256 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 5: wanted to plot where my next meal would be. 257 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 4: So I would leave rehearsal and. 258 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 5: Go downtown, go to go you know, food truck chasing, 259 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 5: and try all these new things. And that was giving 260 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 5: me so much creative fulfillment, and sometimes it was giving 261 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 5: me more creative fulfillment than playing music was. So I 262 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 5: kind of had to come to this realization of what 263 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 5: is truly fulfilling me creatively and. 264 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 4: Is it the food? Is the music? 265 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 5: I didn't know when I graduated, And so when I graduated, 266 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 5: I decided to stay in New York and pursue both 267 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 5: and be a freelance musician and also take some little 268 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 5: food writing gigs that I was starting to get. 269 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 4: And around that time I started dating Nick. 270 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 5: He was also a student at Juilliard, and at one 271 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 5: point we both sort of realized that we really wanted 272 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 5: to be back near our families in the Midwest, and 273 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 5: he mentioned, Oh, my family has this farm in northern Minnesota, 274 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 5: and I said, yes, let's go there. It is easy, 275 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 5: yes for you, Yes, yes, it was why because at 276 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 5: that point I was ready to be not living in 277 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 5: a city anymore. I had moved out to Brooklyn, and 278 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 5: I had this great, big, beautiful kitchen, big by New 279 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 5: York standards. And when I started dating Nick too, like 280 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 5: all these things came together where I just realized what 281 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 5: a homebody I am and how much of a desire 282 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 5: I had to be working on recipes in my blog 283 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 5: and then stay inside on a Friday night with Nick 284 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 5: and watch Netflix and order pizza. And you don't pay 285 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 5: me your brand to stay in on a Friday watched 286 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 5: Appolines and order pizza. So when we started talking about 287 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 5: leaving the city, it felt like a relief because I 288 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 5: could see that he wanted to be closer to his 289 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 5: family and that the city didn't totally agree with who 290 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 5: he is. And for me, as much as I love 291 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: the city, it just kind of occurred to me that 292 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 5: I'm ready for something quieter and a little bit more 293 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 5: time to focus on the work that I really wanted 294 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 5: to be doing. 295 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: Then, so you're saying Brooklyn is a gateway drug to 296 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: farms one hundred percent, right, that's the pipeline, the Brooklyn 297 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: to farm pipeline. 298 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 4: I mean usually it's like Brooklyn to Hudson Valley, right exactly. 299 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, you just hop the title of zip codes. 300 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, War States kept driving the minivan a little. 301 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 4: Bit further west. 302 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: Okay, can I be nosy about the Juilliard chapter for 303 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: just a minute, because I wonder if our timing overlapped. 304 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: I worked as a reporter on Fox five News in 305 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: New York, and I actually did a lot of stories 306 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: at Juilliard. I was a theater kid, my mom was 307 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: an actor, and like from the outside looking in, I 308 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: always had this fascination about Juilliard and I felt like 309 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: whenever I went there, it was like pulling back the 310 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: curtains at ODZ because it is the most prestigious performing 311 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: arts school in the world. And you're laughing at me 312 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: because you went there, so you probably don't have the 313 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: same perspective on it. 314 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 5: No, I love it at you because it's it's exactly 315 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 5: that terrifying, Is it really? 316 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 4: Yes? I mean it's I will say it's a lot. 317 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 5: Of extremes because you have people who are just at 318 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 5: the top of their game and they're all in and 319 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 5: they they don't do anything else other than pole in 320 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 5: the aircraft. 321 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: And then you have those other people that work hard 322 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: and also play hard. 323 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 4: And I fell into that category. 324 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 5: And then Nick was more of like the do nothing 325 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 5: except trombone and don't even sleep and play trombone for 326 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 5: twenty four hours. 327 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 4: A day, like Whiplash, like that movie Whiplash. That's what it's. 328 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 4: That's the mental image I have in my mind. 329 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 5: So in with Blash, there are a couple of scenes 330 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 5: where Miles Teller gets singled out for playing the wrong 331 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 5: thing in you know, his band that he's playing with, 332 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 5: and that is the most terrifying feeling. 333 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 4: And I almost had to turn Whiplash off because. 334 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 5: You do not want to be singled out in front 335 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 5: of the orchestra for playing the wrong thing. 336 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 4: That's terrifying. There were a lot of terrifying moments. 337 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 5: There are a lot of creatively fulfilling, satisfying moments. And 338 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 5: I also made some of my nearest and dearer's closest 339 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 5: friends there. Yeah, but it was intense. If you didn't 340 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 5: bring your a game one day, you really felt it. 341 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 4: And so that taught me a lot of things that 342 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 4: I use now. 343 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 5: Teaching how to perform under pressure was just one of 344 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 5: the biggest things that I could have learned there, And 345 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 5: so that was that was huge. And just becoming comfortable 346 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 5: with confronting your weaknesses, that was. 347 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: Always fun, always fun, my favorite, the best. 348 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,719 Speaker 4: I recommend weakness training. We love it. 349 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: Yes, you actually attended Juilliard with a truly elite class. 350 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: Danielle Brooks, John Batis, Philip Asu, Hannah Nielman, who we 351 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: all know as Ballerina farm Don't you think it's a 352 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: little wild that you both ended up choosing the farm life? 353 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 4: So wild? 354 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 5: And I just I love her. I love her bacon. 355 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 5: Their bacon is so good. 356 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 4: Oh, I gotta try it. I haven't tried it yet. 357 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 5: I mean, all those people that you just named are 358 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 5: are so freaking sweet and so good at what they 359 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 5: do you just have to love them, and so it 360 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 5: is incredible to see them achieving these incredible things. Because Yeah, 361 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 5: when Daniel Brooks was on Oranges, the New Black I 362 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 5: Soccer character, and I was like, that is so authentic 363 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 5: and that is. 364 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 4: Who she is in real life. 365 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 5: She is that good, ubly, wonderful human and just made 366 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 5: me love for even more. 367 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: Did you grapple at all with mourning the sunk costs 368 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: of your music career, like investing so much time into 369 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: being a classical percussionist only to make this hard pivot 370 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: and walk away from it. 371 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 5: No, Because I truly did feel like, and I still 372 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 5: feel like this way, that the skills in the training 373 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 5: that I did when I was a musician are completely 374 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 5: transferable to cooking food, creating recipes and performing on camera 375 00:19:59,000 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 5: cooking food for people. 376 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 4: There are so. 377 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 5: Many skills that I still use today that just yeah, 378 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 5: I wouldn't have honed if I was in a musician. 379 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: You are such a like emblematic success story when it 380 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: comes to nonlinear careers. 381 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 4: Thanks. 382 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: I just think it's so cool that, like, you thought 383 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: you were going to do this one thing and you 384 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: end up becoming wildly successful at this other thing that 385 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: takes you like so far away, both physically and just 386 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: figuratively away from that initial dream. 387 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 5: For me, it's all about the creativity and finding what 388 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 5: is creatively satisfying. 389 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 4: It's the same feeling that I get playing a. 390 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 5: Piece of music that I'm really into, as I get 391 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 5: from creating a cake recipe that I'm very proud of. 392 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 5: It's not completely separate in my brain. It's that same 393 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 5: sort of feeling that I'm trying to achieve. At the 394 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 5: end of the day, if you fail, you still have 395 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 5: hopefully and edible batchup cookies. Another thing, if you fail, 396 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 5: you hit some wrong notes and you're. 397 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 4: Like, what do I have to shell for this? And 398 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 4: you're hungry. You hit the wrong notes and you're still hungry. 399 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 4: That's the problem. 400 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: So you and Nick, your boyfriend at the time, you 401 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: both leave New York. You move back to his family's farm, 402 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 1: where Nick is a fifth generation beat farmer. I have 403 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: this idea of farm life being very demanding but also 404 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: very tranquil. 405 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 4: Is that true? 406 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: Like, how do you think being on the farm changes 407 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: your brain? 408 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 5: You just hit it on the nose, really, because yes, 409 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 5: because you go outside and you look around and you 410 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 5: see land. 411 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 4: To the end of the horizon. You see the huge sky. 412 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 5: There is never any traffic where we live, and it's 413 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 5: it is tranquil. But at the same time there's Nick 414 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 5: trying to harvest his fields before the snow falls, and 415 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 5: there is a time crunch for that. And so it 416 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: is this interesting sort of paradox that happens on a 417 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 5: daily basis. And if I ever say, oh, living out 418 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 5: here is peaceful, Nick will correct me it's not. And 419 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 5: but I think it just it. It's rejuvenating and it's 420 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 5: energizing for me. It's not that way for a lot 421 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 5: of people. And I know people who have moved to 422 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 5: this area and it hasn't been a great fit. 423 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 4: And that's okay. 424 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 5: And for me, if I would have tried moving here 425 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 5: even five ten years earlier, it could have been a 426 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 5: very different story. 427 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 4: But I was ready for this energy, shall we. 428 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 5: Say, because it I look at this as my own 429 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 5: practice room. Of course, in the city, it was a 430 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 5: little four foot by four foot room that I would 431 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 5: stand in all day and practice and xylophone. Here it's 432 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 5: this big farm where I stand in all day and 433 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 5: practice cake recipes. But if you want there to be 434 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 5: no distractions, there are no distractions. 435 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: We read that your husband promised you that this new 436 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: life that he was bringing you into would be exactly 437 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: like Gilmore Girls. Did it end up being true? 438 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 5: Yep, Oh yeah, yeah, it's totally gilmirls. 439 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 4: It's funny. 440 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 5: I just was watching gil Mere Girls yesterday when I 441 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 5: was making a plumcake. 442 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 4: It's a lot colder than Gilmar Girls. 443 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 5: There's a lot more snow, but this small town energy 444 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 5: is certainly there. 445 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 1: This life that you're living now. I kind of threw 446 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: out that term farm curious as a joke, but I 447 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: think there's something deeper behind it. I think a lot 448 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: of people are either farm curious or small town curious 449 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: after the pandemic. You know, people who always thought they 450 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: would live in big urban city centers. How has being 451 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: part of the fabric of a small town changed you. 452 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 5: It feels like you're always surrounded by family. Sometimes I 453 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 5: literally am, because my husband's family is connected by blood 454 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 5: to like half of this town. 455 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 4: But there's always somebody that you know around. 456 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 5: There's always somebody to the other day, I was lifting 457 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 5: my two year old out of the grocery cart and 458 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 5: getting her in the car and trying to get the 459 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 5: cart back into the little trolley and this couple was 460 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 5: walking by and they said, Oh, we'll take this cart 461 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 5: for you, don't worry about it. And oh, by the way, 462 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 5: our son went to school with your sister in law, 463 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 5: and we're so and so. And those types of interactions 464 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 5: happen all the time, where somebody's introducing themselves because they're 465 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 5: somehow connected, and then they're also helping you out, and 466 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 5: it makes you want to help other people out too. 467 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons why your show has 468 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: been so successful is because you have such a unique 469 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: voice as the daughter of a Chinese father and a 470 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: Jewish mom. If you could only communicate with a stranger, 471 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: someone you were meeting for the first time using recipes, 472 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: what's the one family recipe that you would show them 473 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: that defined your childhood? 474 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 5: Black sesame, bobka hmm, because black sesame is one of 475 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 5: my favorite flavors, and that's something that's so nostalgic for 476 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 5: me whenever we would go out for Chinese food, and 477 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 5: it's such a huge dessert flavor in Chinese food. And 478 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 5: then bobka, which is from my Jewish side, and. 479 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 4: It comes together in a fun, swirly loaf. 480 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 5: And I feel like black sesame was meant to be bobkaized. 481 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 5: If that's a part, it's a mashup that really works 482 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 5: on a flavor level, on a texture level, and it 483 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 5: shows that part of me that is so near and dear, 484 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 5: which is my heritage. 485 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: Recipes are they're almost like these historical artifacts in a 486 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: sense because there's such a story behind them. When I 487 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: think of the recipe that defined my childhood, it's my 488 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: mom's apple cobbler, And I just recently discovered that there 489 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: was this whole story behind the apple cobbler recipe. And 490 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: she went to her roommate's house in college and her 491 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: mom made the cobbler for her, and she loved it 492 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: so much that she demanded that she get the cobbler recipe, 493 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: and she had to like fight tooth and nail because 494 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: it was a trade secret. 495 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 5: Is a recipe hand written on a milk card, it's handwritten. 496 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 5: Recipes teams better. 497 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 4: They do, You're right. Why is that is that? Because 498 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 4: they've been perfected over the course of years, there's that 499 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 4: lung in there. 500 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 5: And I mean, I think if you're talking about the story, 501 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 5: if your mom is telling you about what she had 502 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 5: to do to get this cobbler recipe as your Heck, yeah, 503 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 5: it's gonna taste better for. 504 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: Sure because you know that there was some elbow grease 505 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: that went into it. Yes, it's time for another quick break. 506 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back with Food Network 507 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: star and cookbook author Molly Yay. So earlier you mentioned 508 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: how the weather and the seasons are so integral to 509 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: life on the farm in Minnesota, fall is here. The 510 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: seasons are changing all around us. Are you a fall girly? 511 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 5: One hundred million percent? I have been waiting for sweater weather. 512 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 5: Sweaters and soups are my happy place. 513 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: So take me into like the Minnesota food world during 514 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 1: this time of year. What are some of your favorite 515 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: food related traditions. 516 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 5: We're in such a great season right now because tomatoes 517 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 5: and zucchini and corn are kind of coming to it 518 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,479 Speaker 5: and so I'm getting sick of fresh tomatoes just at 519 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 5: the right time. And my squash craving is starting to 520 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 5: really grow and it can see my squash growing in 521 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 5: the garden, so it's almost squash soup season. 522 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 4: As soon as the weather cools down, we're going to 523 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 4: be ready to roll. 524 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 5: But for Minnesota, Minnesota can grow anything and everything. The 525 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 5: only parameters that Minnesota really has is the short length 526 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 5: of the growing season. There's such great soil, really great conditions. 527 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 5: Mine is a pretty bad, sad garden. Everybody has a 528 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 5: rhubarb patch, a lot of people have apple trees. So 529 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 5: many things grow here, which I think kind of gets 530 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 5: forgotten when you think of all the snow that also 531 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 5: falls here. But this is one of the greatest times 532 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 5: of the year because so many things are good and 533 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 5: fresh and ready taste good when they come out of 534 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 5: your garden. After this, it'll kind of go into root 535 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 5: vegetable season because of the winter and hardy greens and pickles. 536 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 4: There's a reason that pickles are so big here because you. 537 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 5: Know, before tons of refrigeration and processed food and shipping 538 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 5: in fresh vegetables, people got their nutrients through pickling their 539 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 5: vegetables from the garden. So I really love leaning into 540 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 5: the pickle scene here and getting in my kimchi and 541 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 5: sauerkraut in the winter when so much it's so good. 542 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 4: I love it. 543 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 5: But yeah, I love eating with the season too, because 544 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 5: they are so defined and things taste so much better. 545 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 4: When you just feel, you feel better. 546 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 5: It just feels correct to be craving squatched right now. 547 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 4: Okay, we've got Thanksgiving coming up. 548 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Molly, but when I became 549 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: a mom and I started the holidays, I felt completely 550 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: overwhelmed and bamboozled. I was like, my mom did this 551 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: every year, multiple times a year. Like, the amount of 552 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: work and preparation that goes into it is mind blowing. 553 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: So please, if you have any hacks that you can 554 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: share to help your girl out, please let me know. 555 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 5: Okay, hold on, I was just thinking about this amount. 556 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 5: Do you know what I just realized just yesterday. Our 557 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 5: moms they did it seemingly so easily when we were growing. 558 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 4: Up holiday kids. They're three and four. 559 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 5: Okay, so you don't remember your holidays from when you 560 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 5: were three and four, right, You remember your holidays from 561 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 5: probably when you were ten, eleven, twelve. So like, imagine 562 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 5: how much more comfortable you're going to be hosting. Yeah, 563 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 5: in five, six, seven, eight years, we remember the version 564 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 5: of our moms after they had gotten ten years of 565 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 5: experience hosting under their. 566 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 4: Belt and past the toddler phase. 567 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 5: Yes, because after the toddler phase, we won't have little 568 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 5: kids hanging onto our knees, while we're trying to chop onions. Yeah, 569 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 5: or like kids climbing up onto places high places where 570 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 5: they shouldn't be and we have to drop everything that 571 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 5: we're doing every five minutes to go and peel them 572 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 5: off of the piano. 573 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 4: One day, they're going to be so much more independent. 574 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 5: They might be able to help us out in the kitchen, 575 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 5: or they might be occupied with their other things. 576 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 4: I think at this point, I'm all about lists. 577 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm all about prepping stuff in advance, so I 578 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 5: take full advantage of freezer space. Like I'm starting off 579 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 5: three days in advance, just doing little bits here and there, 580 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 5: and then knowing that they'll be fine in the refrigerator 581 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 5: or the freezer until the big day. 582 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: Molly, before we let you go, I have to ask 583 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: you about this dream of yours that I've read about 584 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: that you want to become a summer camp counselor at 585 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: your summer camp. I too, am obsessed with summer camp. 586 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,719 Speaker 1: I had such a magical experience at summer camp. I 587 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: just love everything about camp. Like I've thrown my kids 588 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: camp themed birthday parties. My kids room is camp themed. 589 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: I just I love it. 590 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 4: I want to visit that's please so fun. 591 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 5: Everything about it, except for the bucks, everything about it 592 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 5: is the best. 593 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 4: And so when my kids are old enough to. 594 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 5: Go to summer camp, we've been actually preparing by watching 595 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 5: The Parent Trap. 596 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 4: Oh we just watched it. We just watched it the 597 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 4: other day, Lindsay Lohan or oh Linda, of course. Yeah, 598 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 4: it's so good. But it's perfect a one hundred percent. 599 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 5: It so holds up beautifully, And now that my girls 600 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 5: are into it, I'm over the moon. 601 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 4: So as soon as they're old enough for summer camp. 602 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 5: I am applying to become any sort of counselor or 603 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 5: teacher that they have room. 604 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 4: This sounds great. 605 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: You know. Another option is they do have family camps now, 606 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: which this is something that I want to do where 607 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: you can go as a family to a camp, like 608 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: when they're not hosting a bunch of kids and you 609 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: just get to like be with your family there and 610 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: hop on the blob and go on the lake. I 611 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: want to do that the blob. Yes, the plot. That's 612 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: so fun, Mollie. This has been so much fun. Thank 613 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: you so much for joining us on the bride side. 614 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 4: This is so much fun. Thank you so much. I'm honored. 615 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: Mollie Ya is the host of the Food Networks Girl 616 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: Meets Farm, a New York Times best selling author and 617 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: the owner of Bernie's, a cafe in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. 618 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 4: Her new book, Sweet Farm, is out next March. 619 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 3: That's it for today's show. 620 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we're talking all about Reese's Book Clubs Lit Up Program, 621 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 2: a fellowship that uplifts and supports unpublished and underrepresented. 622 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 3: Right now, we're joined by mentor Laura. 623 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 2: Taylor Nami and mentee Chatham Greenfield to talk all about 624 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 2: the program and its impact. 625 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: Join the conversation using hashtag the bright Side and connect 626 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: with us on social media at Hello Sunshine on Instagram 627 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: and at the bright Side Pod on TikTok oh, and 628 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: feel free to tag us at Simone Boye and at 629 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 1: Danielle Robe. 630 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 2: Listen and follow The bright Side on the iHeartRadio app, 631 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 632 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 1: See you tomorrow, folks, Keep looking on the bright side.