Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien Podcast
The “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien Podcast” goes behind the scenes of the new series with host Elise Hu.
Go behind the scenes with host Elise Hu
Aug. 19
The "Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien Podcast" explores today’s hardest problems and the human ingenuity working to solve them.
Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien Podcast
The “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien Podcast” is the official companion podcast of the Arizona PBS and Mobias Media documentary series “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien,” the show that highlights the innovators who are looking for unexpected solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.
Hosted by journalist, author, podcaster and filmmaker Elise Hu, the “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien Podcast” is your look behind the scenes of the five-part documentary series.
After watching each episode of the television series, Elise Hu guides us through discussions with veteran science journalist himself, Miles O’Brien. They take a look at each episode’s two topics separately, providing even more insights into today’s hardest problems and the human ingenuity working to solve them. Miles reflects on the time he spent with each problem-solver, how he chose these problems and what obstacles stand in the way of implementing these solutions.
In this 10-episode season, we look at innovative solutions for cattle methane, drought, extreme heat, clean energy, local species extinction, the Doomsday Glacier, the shrinking Colorado River, addiction and the human brain’s capacity for healing.
Sit back with Miles and Elise and learn all about the challenges behind the creation of the show, the stories that had to be left on the cutting room floor and any developments that have occurred since filming.
“Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien” premieres at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, after “NOVA.” Watch or listen to “The Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien Podcast” right here on azpbs.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
Made possible in part by support provided by Sue Hart-Wadley and Searle Wadley.
Additional support from Jerry Cox.
Elise Hu
Elise Hu is a Los-Angeles based journalist, podcast host, author and media startup founder who hosts TED Talks Daily, the flagship podcast from TED conferences. You can also hear her co-host "Forever 35," a woman-focused show about how we take care of ourselves, and host "Raising Us," a parenting podcast from A Kids Co.
She was a correspondent for VICE News Tonight and spent nearly a decade at NPR, as a regular voice on flagship shows "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." She continues to report and host for NPR and fill in for shows like "Press Play" on KCRW.
As an international correspondent, she reported from more than a dozen countries and opened NPR’s first-ever Seoul bureau in 2015. Her coverage area included both Koreas and Japan, and she chased stories across the Asian region. Her experiences in Seoul inspired her debut non-fiction book, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital," a Porchlight Business Book Award winner and one of Vox’s Best Books of 2023. The book braids international reporting, cultural commentary and memoir to explore the global rise of K-beauty culture, the power of appearance standards worldwide and the simultaneous pleasure and pain of having to keep up with beauty norms.
She also created the Gracie-award winning video series "Elise Tries." In 2009, Elise helped found The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit digital startup after stops at many stations as a television news reporter. Her work has won the national Edward R. Murrow and duPont Columbia awards, among others.
She’s an alum of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Journalism school, the co-founder of the podcast production company Reasonable Volume, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the board of Grist. A mother of three girls, she spends an inordinate amount of time doing other people’s hair.