The Found Podcast with Molly Knuth15 Jul

261: 7 Truths About Rural America They Don't Want You to Hear

I'm angry this week. Not flip-a-table angry. The kind of angry that makes you sit up and say: this is wrong, and I want to be part of the solution.

Rural America has been talked about, talked at, and politicized for years...by people who don't actually live here. So this week, I'm doing something different. Seven truths about rural America, backed by real data and real stories from my own small town of Cascade, Iowa. No spin. No agenda. Just the truth about a people and a place that deserve better than they've been getting.

This one isn't political. It's personal. Grab your coffee (or your chore gloves) and let's get into it.

What You'll Hear

Why rural America's $2.7 trillion GDP contribution tells a different story than the one you've heard
The truth about small town business owners as some of the most underestimated entrepreneurs in the country
Why community isn't a soft value...it's an economic strategy
How rural values got mistaken for political ones, and why that's a tragedy
What it really means that rural America feeds the world and funds the country
Why the next generation of rural leaders isn't leaving, they're choosing to stay
The ripple effect of one small town business growing, and what it costs a community when it closes

Resources & Links Mentioned

Join Molly's email list for what's coming this fall: mkm.myflodesk.com/email
Berning Acres Farm Camps (Western Illinois)

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If this one landed somewhere in your chest, do me a favor: send it to somebody. Somebody in a small town who's never heard their story told with pride instead of pity, or somebody in a city who thinks they already understand rural America. And leave a review while you're at it. It's the easiest way to help this conversation reach a bigger room.

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