Nonprofits are tired of outdated tactics and slow fundraising cycles. This show gives you the tools, mindset, and proven strategies to grow with confidence, speed, and sustainability.
Listeners come here for strategy that works, donor engagement that converts, and leadership insights that move them forward.
Fundraising is emotional. Leadership is emotional. Every decision you make impacts your mission, your team, and your community.
This podcast teaches you how to navigate that pressure with clarity and courage. You will learn how to create high-converting campaigns, strengthen donor engagement, secure major gifts, build influence, and lead with confidence even when the stakes are high.
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In Part 1, I cover six strategic and visibility shifts that will define the highest-performing organizations in 2026, from audience growth as a core revenue engine to the rise of laptop fundraising, human amplifiers, scrappy leader-driven content, superfan retention, and the ROI of LinkedIn thought leadership.
Read MoreIn this episode, I share the seven biggest lessons that created growth in a year everyone expected to be hard, lessons about donor behavior, clarity, courage, visibility, momentum, risk, and the kind of leadership that drives revenue even when the headlines say otherwise.
Read MoreIn this episode, I break down the three hidden psychological reasons donors give again before year-end, even if they've already given this month.
Read MoreAs Executive Director of FOTCOH, Nathan is responsible for overseeing the organization’s work to bring hope and healthcare to more than 15,000 Haitians annually.
Read MoreIn today’s episode, I share what to do when you’re completely wiped from GivingTuesday or a year-end push but still have fundraising goals to hit.
Read MoreIn today’s episode, I reveal the mindset pattern that’s quietly keeping you stuck: fear disguised as strategy.
Read MoreIn this episode, I share exactly what the top 1% of nonprofits do differently to make GivingTuesday their biggest fundraising win of the year (without burnout, perfectionism, or chaos).
Read MoreIf you’re ending your workday exhausted but can’t point to how you actually moved your fundraising forward, you might be caught in the fundraising busywork trap.
Read MoreIn The Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Year-End Fundraising, I share how safe, “board-approved” strategies are quietly capping your potential, and how modern fundraisers are rewriting the rules to build momentum, trust, and record-breaking campaigns.
Read MoreIn this episode, I share how I coach fundraisers to move from me mode to mission mode.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m joined by Kim Wardlow and Penn Street from Aftersight, an incredible organization supporting the blind and low-vision community through accessible media, podcasts, and programs.
Read MoreIn this episode, I talk about the retention wall, why most nonprofits struggle to keep donors giving year after year, and how to fix it.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m breaking down the five email types every nonprofit must use if you want to double, triple, or even 9x your campaign results.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on why silence in your donor’s inbox is way more damaging than showing up with short, story-driven emails.
Read MoreI had the pleasure of hosting Michael Murphy, Director of Development at Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial, and one of my Purpose & Profit Club® members.
Read MoreIn this episode, I break down why newsletters flop, what you should be sending instead, and how shifting to single-topic, story-driven campaigns can multiply your revenue without adding more work.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m sharing 10 proven strategies to transform your inbox into your most reliable fundraising engine.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on why a little “healthy delusion” might be the missing ingredient in your fundraising and leadership success.
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m sharing why grit matters just as much as skill in fundraising, the mindset shifts that make it sustainable, and how to build your own reserve of inner strength so you can lead with clarity, joy, and resilience, even when the work gets hard.
Read MoreThis episode is for the nonprofit leader doing “all the right things” (you’ve got peer fundraisers, events, email blasts, major donor asks) but you're still not hitting your campaign goals.
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