S3 E8 | The Dark Side of Running a Nonprofit (No One Talks About This) | Nick Manderfield

Nick Manderfield walked away from managing a Cheesecake Factory in Chicago to start a nonprofit in Medellín from scratch. What followed was 80 tons of food distributed during a pandemic, a bead jewelry business selling 20,000 units a year on Amazon, and a daily reality most nonprofit founders are too burnt out to talk about.In this episode, Nick breaks down what it actually looks like to work with the Embera indigenous community people displaced from Chocó, surviving on 25,000 pesos a day, navigating a city that was never built for them. He gets into the mothers program born from finding black mold in baby bottles, the business mistake that quietly killed their revenue, and why donating money almost never gets to the root of anything.Unfiltered, uncomfortable, and worth every minute.Find Nick at reincorporated.org or search Embera Bead Project on Instagram and Amazon. Follow Nemology Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts for new episodes every week.