Listener Question: "How can I help the world when I feel like nothing I do is enough? It just feels like the problems are too big and I'm just one person. Burying my head in the sand isn't the answer, but I want to." — Feeling Overwhelmed on the East Coast

In this episode, Molly answers a listener question about how to stay compassionate without drowning in hopelessness from all the terrible things happening in our world right now.

Molly breaks down how our desire to help often becomes trapped inside our dominant culture’s mindset, demanding immediate results and perfect outcomes. When we treat compassion like a job to be mastered, our emotional health tanks.

Using the powerful stories of Harriet Tubman and the original creator of Monopoly, Elizabeth Magie (whose original vision for the game was VERY different than the popular version many of us know), Molly illustrates how we can reclaim our heart-centered power by focusing on the unique role we’re supposed to play in this world rather than focusing on trying to fix all the broken systems alone.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to spot the “performance rubric” in your own life.
• Why releasing the need for a specific outcome is a key to preventing burnout.
• How to find your unique calling and trust in the "compassionate revolution."

No need to bury your head in the sand: All you need to do is start moving into heart-centered power, one small action at a time.

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NOTE: Beginning next week, episodes will be published on Thursdays (instead of Wednesdays). See you back here on Thursday, March 5, 2026!

This week on the podcast, Molly shares two exciting announcements!

First, Molly’s new book, The Great All: A Parable of Hope, New Beginnings, and You, is now officially available and pre-orders have been shipped out. Molly offers curious listeners insight into the roots and inspiration behind this book — a colorful illustrated parable that takes a sweeping look at human history and carves a hopeful path toward our collective future, examining what’s possible as compassionate people continue waking up and walking in their power.

The second update is a new podcast format: Molly will now be taking audience questions, which she will answer in upcoming episodes in a Q&A-style format! Use the link below to share a 90-second (or less) voicemail with your question, and you might be featured on a future episode and receive valuable feedback on your challenges as a compassionate person.

You can call in and send your questions to Molly’s voicemail box here: https://www.speakpipe.com/AskMolly.

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Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE – and kickstart your boundaries journey.

Order Molly's new book: The Great All: A Parable of Hope, New Beginnings, and You.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed as a compassionate person in the world right now. We care so deeply, and seeing all the pain and injustice unfolding around us hurts our precious hearts.

But when we carry all that pain around inside us – rather than feeling, honoring, and releasing it – we don’t help the world become any better. We just collect more and more pain until we’re dysregulated and at risk of burnout.

More than ever, our world needs compassionate people grounded, regulated, and resourced. This guided meditation supports you in finding steadiness, presence, and calm connection to your body in moments when the world feels too heavy.

This meditation will help you:

• Come back into your body and the generous present moment
• Release the tension you’re holding
• Let your compassionate heart feel – but not keep – the pain
• Infuse love and light into the center of your being
• Allow yourself to simply be as you are right now

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Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE – and kickstart your boundaries journey.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All, and get an illustrated copy of the companion journal for free.

Thank you to Alan_Frijns via Pixabay for the beautiful background music “Meditation at the River.”

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!