Erica Ash is an award-winning actress, producer, writer, comedian, singer, model and foodie! Best known for her role as Gwen Sullivan on BET’s "In Contempt" and the sketch comedy series MADtv, Erica talks about growing up surrounded by diet culture, how ordering steak "well done" is a major no-no, and more.

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Chef Kayla Greer (aka Chef Kay Kay) caters to a who's who of A-list clients like Diddy, Drake, and the late Nipsey Hussle, and she's sharing her experience as a celebrity chef. In this episode, Chef Kayla talks about her favorite childhood meal of pasta and tuna with ranch, her unforgettable achievement as a nominee at the culinary Olympics as a teenager, and how she can make anything taste good.

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Chef can’t contain her excitement as she sits down with “Super Vegan” Maurice Manley II, a man who she calls a total inspiration. In this fun and enlightening conversation, Maurice talks about his own podcast “Lead Up” which is committed to helping new and or existing leaders in every aspect of life, the food he misses eating as a vegan, and his unique take on what his last meal would be.

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In this episode, Chef talks with Miami-born, LA-raised actress, Free the Nipple founder, and self-proclaimed gazpacho lover, Lina Esco. Lina opens up about coming from a broken home and how that encouraged her to get into acting, her favorite Mexican food spot in Downtown LA, and her divisive enjoyment of Coke Zero (to which Chef responds with “Booo”).

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Natalie Paterson is the founder of ingarden, an organic home growing kit that's best described as modern-tech meets mother earth. A huge breakfast fanatic, Natalie talks about her love of veggie-filled omelettes, her life as a nutritionist, and how she makes food "fun"- even the healthy stuff!

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Ethiopia Habtemariam means business. Not only is she CEO of Motown Records–tasked with revitalizing the iconic record label–she is also one of Rolling Stone's Future 25, (an acknowledgment of the visionaries of the music industry) and one of Chef Alisa's very best friends. In this conversation, Ethiopia talks about starting her music career at 14 years old, why she thinks music tastes like a mango, and more.

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Maurice Harris is a Los Angeles-based artist who is best known as the visionary behind Bloom & Plume, a bespoke floral design studio located in Echo Park. In this lovely conversation with Chef, Maurice talks about opening a coffee shop in a traditionally white, male dominated space, the go-to restaurants his family would dine at for Sunday dinner, and his “guilty pleasure” fast food order.

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Lena Waithe’s growing list of accomplishments reads like a menu at an all you can eat restaurant, she has it all! The Emmy award-winning writer, producer, actress, and all around renaissance woman sits down with Chef and talks about the early days of their friendship, her “predictable” food palate, and her favorite savory on-set snack.

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​​Shuffling into the studio this week is the Emmy-nominated tap dancing sisters Chloe and Maud Arnold.

The choreographing and producing duo talk to Chef about their early days of growing up in a fitness-focused family where French Soul food was always on the menu, how free pasta and granola from the college cafeteria led to the “Freshman 15” - and how food, like dancing, has the power to unify communities.

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This week on the pod, Chef sits down with activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement Patrisse Cullors. A loyal customer of My 2 Cents LA since day one, Patrisse gets candid about growing up in a “food desert”–where fast-food chains served as the main source of sustenance–and the discoveries she made when adopting a vegan lifestyle. Plus, she shares her cooking goal for 2022.

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