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Consider This Next

Exploring how ideas become organizations, movements, and impact.

Kacie Luaders (Founder of Could be Pretty Cool) hosts one-on-one conversations with founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building organizations at the intersection of science and society. Each episode explores how ideas move from concept to implementation, the challenges of building sustainable ventures, and what it takes to create meaningful impact.

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3

Seasons

20

Episodes

20

Guests

2024โ€“Present

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Kacie Luaders
WHY THIS PROGRAM EXISTS

Whether launching a nonprofit, creating a science communication initiative, developing a new educational model, or building a mission-driven company, founders face a common challenge: transforming vision into action.

Consider This Next documents those journeys and the lessons learned along the way.

THE QUESTIONS WE EXPLORE

Building Organizations

How do founders transform ideas into sustainable ventures?

Community Engagement

How do organizations earn trust and build relationships?

Science Communication

How can science become more accessible, relevant, and useful?

Innovation

How do entrepreneurs test, refine, and scale new ideas?

Leadership

What does it take to lead through uncertainty?

Impact

How do builders know whether their work is making a difference?

MEET THE BUILDERS

Learning from builders across the civic science ecosystem

Founders, educators, artists, communicators, nonprofit leaders, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs share lessons from building initiatives that connect science and society.

SEASON GUIDE

Evolution of the program.

Season 1 ยท 8 episodes

Science Communication, Storytelling, and Representation

The first season explored people reimagining how science can be communicated through humor, storytelling, visual design, media literacy, education, and culture.

HumorMedia literacyVisual communicationFiction
Season 2 ยท 8 episodes

Public Engagement in Practice

Season two expanded into conversations with practitioners working with communities and audiences through storytelling, public engagement, art, data, podcasting, and outreach.

StorytellingCommunityArt and dataOutreach
Season 3 ยท 4 episodes

Building for Impact

Season three moves more directly into entrepreneurship, organizational leadership, sustainability, and building ventures that create social impact.

Founder journeysSustainabilityLeadershipScale
EPISODE LIBRARY

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Know someone building something worth sharing?

We are always looking for founders, innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs creating new ways to connect science and society.

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