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Molly is a seasoned business leader with more than 20 years of experience spanning sales, finance, banking, hospitality, operations, and leadership. Throughout her career, she has worked with businesses and teams of all sizes, helping leaders strengthen operations, develop their people, and build the systems needed for sustainable growth.

Her passion is working with family-owned and closely held businesses to help them grow without losing the culture, values, and relationships that made them successful in the first place. Having grown up in a multi-generational family business herself, Molly understands that building a successful company is about more than the numbers. It is about creating something strong enough to become a lasting legacy.

Molly brings a practical, people-first approach to strategic planning, operational improvement, financial performance, leadership development, and company culture. She believes the strongest businesses are built when clear expectations, strong systems, accountable leadership, and engaged teams work together.

Known for her positive energy and ability to connect with people, Molly challenges business owners and leaders to look beyond where they are today and take intentional action toward where they want to go.

Outside of work, Molly is a proud mom of three and is happiest spending time with her family. Whether she is supporting her kids in sports, fishing at the lake, or enjoying a round of golf, she values the same things personally that she brings to business: relationships, experiences, hard work, and making the most of every opportunity.

Carol Olson brings more than 15 years of experience helping agricultural producers and rural communities turn good ideas into workable, fundable projects. Her work spans project development, funding strategy, grant development, research, budgeting, partnership coordination, and implementation, with a strong focus on agriculture and rural economic development.

Throughout her career, Carol has worked alongside farmers, ranchers, processors, lenders, engineers, government agencies, nonprofits, and community partners. Her experience includes value-added agriculture, meat processing, local and regional food systems, agricultural infrastructure, renewable energy, and the development and marketing of new agricultural products. She has extensive experience with USDA and other federal and state funding programs and understands how to bring together the financial, technical, and organizational pieces needed to move a project forward.

Carol brings that experience to Nebraska Farmers Network's Meat Pod initiative. In her role with NFN, she will work with producers and communities to explore project opportunities, identify potential funding resources, develop project plans and budgets, build partnerships, and help navigate the path from an initial concept toward implementation.

What particularly interests Carol about the Meat Pod model is its potential to solve a very practical problem for livestock producers: access to processing. Increasing processing capacity closer to where livestock are raised can give producers greater control over how and where their animals are processed, create opportunities to reach new markets, and allow more of the value generated by Nebraska agriculture to remain with producers and rural communities.

Carol has deep ties to Nebraska agriculture and understands that a successful project has to do more than look good on paper. It has to make sense for the producer, be financially and operationally realistic, and ultimately work in the community where it will be put into practice.

Outside of her work, Carol is an avid equestrian and competitive masters swimmer and enjoys spending time with her family and grandchildren.