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What do we do next?
by Molly Ruland
Overwhelmed by the news? Same. So instead of doom-scrolling, every week I sit down with people actually doing something, and hand you one thing you can do next. No breaking news, just direction. Hosted by me, Molly Ruland, founder of Heartcast Media.
Episodes
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Leaving MAGA: One Betrayal Too Many with Rich Logis
What Do We Do Next? podcast. Hosted by Molly Ruland, CEO and Founder, Heartcast Media. Guest: Rich Logis, Founder and Executive Director, Leaving MAGA. What does it take to walk away from a movement you helped build? Rich Logis spent seven years as an active MAGA pundit, activist, and campaign...
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Turning Anxiety into Action with Gary Lucks
A field manual for everyday changemakers who are done doom-scrolling and ready to move. There is a moment in every political crisis when worry stops being useful. Gary Lucks hit that moment in 2004, after John Kerry narrowly lost to George W. Bush, and instead of retreating, he started a group....
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Reading the Right: Inside Conservative Media with Howard Polskin
What happens when a veteran journalist reads 15 right-wing headlines every single day so you don't have to. Most of us scroll past the other side. Howard Polskin scrolls straight into it, every morning, on purpose. He launched The Righting in September 2017, the world's only newsletter dedicated…
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Closing the Recognition Gap with KJ Blattenbauer
What happens when brilliant people stay invisible, and what to do about it. You can be genuinely brilliant at what you do, have years of hard won experience, a track record of real results, and still be the best kept secret in your industry. That is not a talent problem. That is a visibility...
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Breaking Democracy's Chains with Metin Pekin
What if the system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed. You know that feeling when you vote, and then nothing changes, and you vote again, and still nothing changes? That's not a glitch. That's the feature. This episode of What Do We Do Next podcast cracked something open for me, and I...
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The Playbook Women Were Never Supposed To Have with Kelly Mooney
I mean, what is my life if not a long, slightly chaotic love letter to women finally stopping the wait. So many of us have spent years being patient, being nice, being "ready," and honestly, that gets old fast. Women's career advancement does not need another sermon. It needs a wake-up call. This...
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From French Class to Congress: Erik Terwey Fights for Eastern Oklahoma
From French Class to Fighting for Eastern Oklahoma with Erik Terwey He Saw a $100,000 Medical Bill and Decided to Run for Congress. He did not want to run for office. He wanted to teach French, help kids conjugate verbs, and maybe quilt on the weekends. But somewhere between a $100,000 hospital...
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He Broke His Arm at a Senate Hearing. The Part That Got Me Was the GoFundMe.
From Iraq to the Senate Floor with Brian McGinnisHe broke his arm at a Senate hearing and called it worth it. Brian McGinnis deployed to Iraq in 2003, ran into burning buildings as a firefighter, and in March 2026 had his arm broken by Capitol Police while protesting U.S. military action at a...
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'So Help Me God, Not 'Until Further Notice'' with Jeff Pixley
Here’s the thing, mis amigos: every once in a while I talk to somebody who makes you sit up a little straighter. Jeff Pixley did that to me. He’s a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. An F-16 combat pilot. A guy with 30+ years of service who has literally spent his life in the arena. And now he’s...
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Overwhelmed by the news? Same. So instead of doom-scrolling, every week I sit down with people actually doing something, and hand you one thing you can do next. No breaking news, just direction. Hosted by me, Molly Ruland, founder of Heartcast Media.
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Overwhelmed by the news? Same. So instead of doom-scrolling, every week I sit down with people actually doing something, and hand you one thing you can do next. No breaking news, just direction. Hosted by me, Molly Ruland, founder of Heartcast Media.
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What do we do next? is created and hosted by Molly Ruland.
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