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EPISODE · Jan 15, 2026 · 53 MIN

Nervous System First Fundraising with Kim van Niekerk

from What Grows? · host Noella Moshi

After 15 years teaching fundraisers communication skills, she watched someone look up from a training session and say, "I wish you worked for us because you've got the words." That moment broke something open: She realized people weren't missing technique, they were missing access to their own capacity when fear took over.We talk about the donor who wouldn't give until one fundraiser asked him why he wanted to know about a fourth project, and about noticing your nervous system state with kindness instead of frustration. Kim reminds us that 95% of what we experience as "smallness" is just the volume of fear, and underneath it is the quiet capacity to meet people exactly as they are.Also: why your dad texting instead of calling your aunt might say something about all of us right now.Find Kim at: https://www.theviewlooksgood.com/

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