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The Entrepreneurial Mind: Why Learning Differently Shaped My Path

Perhaps it’s no surprise that so many entrepreneurs are the ones who didn’t fit neatly into the classroom rows.
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Why Learning Differently Shaped My Path
Entrepreneurship is not linear. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson
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My academic journey was never easy. Reading and writing didn’t come naturally to me, and by middle school I had been placed in special education classes. I have dyslexia, but at the time my parents didn’t make much of it. We had gone to a Waldorf school, where reading starts later, and they figured I’d catch up eventually. They always told me, “You’ll be just fine.”

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.