
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...


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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 hosted by Molly Ruland. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Leaving MAGA: One Betrayal Too Many with Rich Logis" (8 August 2026, 42 minutes), "Turning Anxiety into Action with Gary Lucks" (11 July 2026, 50 minutes), and "From French Class to Congress: Erik Terwey Fights for Eastern Oklahoma" (27 May 2026, 39 minutes).
What do we do next? publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 42 episodes.
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Molly Ruland hosts What do we do next?, a news podcast with 42 episodes published.
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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...

Episode #41
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...

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<p>From French Class to Fighting for Eastern Oklahoma with Erik Terwey</p><p>He Saw a $100,000 Medical Bill and Decided to Run for Congress. </p><p>He did not want to run for office. He wanted to teach French, help kids...

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<p>From Iraq to the Senate Floor with Brian McGinnisHe broke his arm at a Senate hearing and called it worth it.</p><p>Brian McGinnis deployed to Iraq in 2003, ran into burning buildings as a firefighter, and in March...

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<p>Here’s the thing, mis amigos: every once in a while I talk to somebody who makes you sit up a little straighter.</p><p>Jeff Pixley did that to me.</p><p>He’s a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. An F-16 combat pilot. A...

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<p>I wanted to have Mark on because he is one of those people who makes you sit up a little straighter and pay attention. He is blunt, thoughtful, and completely unafraid to say the quiet part out loud — which...

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<p>What if you could vote on the same bills as your legislators — right now, for free? That’s exactly what the Digital Democracy Project has built, and this week Molly sits down with Sadie Holzmeyer, the woman helping...

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<p>I know, I know — it sounds almost suspiciously optimistic. But that’s exactly what made this conversation so fascinating. This week I sat down with Tom Joseph, founder of America’s Main Street Party, and we got into...

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<p>If nearly 50% of Americans identify as independent voters, why does our government keep getting more partisan? The answer, according to Chad Peace, isn’t apathy — it’s architecture.</p><p>Chad is the founder of IVC...

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<p>This one hit different. I sat down with Liuba Grechen Shirley — founder and CEO of Vote Mama — and walked away energized by what happens when a mom decides the political system needs to change. We talked about broken...

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<p>In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Jakle — Yale grad, social worker, political organizer, and Founder & Executive Director of DemocraShe — a nonpartisan national nonprofit paying high school girls $15/hour to...

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<p>Welcome back to “What Do We Do Next?” on today’s episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Anne Brodsky—better known as the Fence Fairy—joining us all the way from Key West. Anne is an unwavering advocate...

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<p>In this episode of “What Do We Do Next?” I sat down with Sarvnaz Chitsaz, the chair of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Sarvnaz Chitsaz shares her inspiring journey—having joined...

<p>Welcome back to What Do We Do Next? In this episode, I sit down with Aceil Haddad, whose career at the intersection of communications, public policy, and social change truly inspires me. Over the past decade, Aceil...

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<p>Welcome back to What Do We Do Next? In this episode, I’m joined by Cristina Giovanna Olivares—an award-winning visibility coach, leadership advisor, and TEDx speaker who helps high-achieving Latinas and women of...

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<p>A lot of us are trying to stay informed without getting swallowed by the news cycle, and still figure out what to do with what we’re feeling. I’m one of them.</p><p>In this episode, I speak with Anabel Ternès von...

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<p>What do we do next?</p><p>Linda Chavez has spent fifty years holding positions that cost her, and she said the quiet part out loud: if it ever makes her a pariah, she’ll read great literature and play with her...

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<p>What do we do next?</p><p>The story Professor Hughes told me about how she found this movement has been rattling around my head since Paris, and the lesson in it is bigger than Iran. So here’s the assignment, from a...

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<p>Why a top European lawyer took up Iran's cause, with Izabela Konopacka</p><p>Why a top European lawyer took up Iran's cause, with Izabela Konopacka</p><p>The former president of a million-lawyer federation on why...

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<p>What do we do next?</p><p>I sat in a room in Paris with 37 women, former prime ministers, ministers, presidents, who each decided, some thirty years ago and some two, to stand publicly with the Iranian resistance...
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