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The Mary Valloni Show
by Mary Valloni
Welcome to The Mary Valloni Show, a podcast for purpose-driven leaders who are ready to live with more joy, clarity, and freedom.If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you've lost touch with what really matters, you're in the right place. Each episode is designed to help you quiet the noise, reconnect with your true desires, and take bold steps toward a life that feels aligned and meaningful.Host Mary Valloni is a coach, speaker, and author who brings years of experience walking alongside leaders as they navigate transition, growth, and purpose-driven living. With a blend of honest storytelling, practical tools, and soul-level encouragement, Mary invites you to slow down, reflect, and move forward with intention.This is your space to rediscover who you are and what you truly want.You were created on purpose, for a purpose. Let's live like it.
Episodes
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Episode 191 | Outrageous Generosity
Have you ever felt a nudge to give more generously, then talked yourself out of it because it felt too big, too risky, or just not practical? You're not alone. So many of us treat generosity as something we do when there's extra left over, instead of asking what it would look like to make it a...
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Episode 190 | Are You Afraid to Shine Too Bright?
Have you ever caught yourself holding back or dimming your light so you don't stand out too much, intimidate others, or risk failure? You're not alone. So many of us struggle with the fear of shining brightly, even when we know deep down we were created for more. In this episode, Mary unpacks why...
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Episode 189 | The #1 Question to Ask When You Feel Stuck
We've all been there... stuck in the mud of life, spinning our wheels, and wondering if we'll ever move forward. In this episode of The Mary Valloni Show, we'll unpack the single most powerful question you can ask yourself when you feel stuck. It's simple, practical, and can shift your…
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Episode 188 | What is Heart Motivation and Why Do We Need It
Have you ever set a goal that looked good on paper but fizzled out before you got there? You're not alone. Most goals stall out because they're missing the fuel that keeps us going... heart motivation! Head motivation - "I should do this." Heart motiviation - "I want to do this." In this episode,...
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Episode 187 | 7 Steps to Get What You Want
Have you ever felt like your dreams are out of reach? You're not alone. Most people don't go after what they really want because of three common roadblocks: Fear – of failure, success, or rejection. Lack of Clarity – not knowing what you want or how to begin. Scarcity Mindset – believing you…
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Episode 186 | How to Create Boundaries to Create Your Dream Life
If you've ever felt stretched thin, resentful, or stuck in situations that drain your energy, it's time for a reset. In this episode, I'll walk you through my 6-step process for creating healthy boundaries that protect your time, energy, and focus without feeling guilty. I'll also share my…
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Episode 184 | What Happens When You Make Room For Joy
In this episode, we explore the quiet power of joy: what it is, why it matters, and how it can radically shift the way you live and lead. You'll learn the difference between happiness and joy, discover why joy is essential (especially in seasons of overwhelm or uncertainty), and uncover what...
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Episode 183 | The One Word I Removed From My Life (and Why You "Should" Consider Removing It Too)
Over the years, I've done a lot of things because I thought I should, especially for my dad (who passed away 12 years ago when this episode airs!). But that one word, "should," has carried more weight than I ever realized. In this episode, I share why I decided to remove "should" from my every…
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Episode 182 | Why I Pressed Pause and Why I'm Back
After nearly 5 years, The Mary Valloni Show is back with new direction and new focus. In this relaunch episode, Mary shares the full story behind the podcast's evolution, from its beginnings in 2017, to the pause in 2020, and now to a powerful return in 2025. Whether you're a longtime listener or...
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Episode 181 | What It Looks Like to Focus Your Vision
If you have been following the Fundraising Freedom Podcast, when I first started it I actually called it the Mary Valloni Show. And if you've been following for a while, you know that I follow the steps that I teach in my book, Fundraising Freedom. Those steps follow the acronym FREEDOM because...
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Episode 180 | How to Create a Personal or Organizational Budget That Actually Works for 2021
Today we're talking about how to create a personal or an organizational budget that actually works for you coming into 2021. I know that budgeting is something that some people love, and other people hate - there's a love-hate relationship with the budget. And for many of you, you've probably...
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Episode 179 | The 20 Ways to Thank Your Donors in 2020
Today, we are jumping into the topic of thankfulness. As we gear up for our Thanksgiving holiday this week, I wanted to be sure that we talked about how we can thank our donors. So, we're going to talk about the top 20 ways to thank your donors in 2020. As you know, this is such an unusual year.…
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Episode 178 | How to Pivot with Sarah Olivieri
My guest today is Sarah, Olivieri. Sarah is the founder and the heart behind the company Pivot Ground. She's a nonprofit business strategist, an author, and a former executive director. I think she's going to bring just a huge wealth of information to you on how to pivot during this season. Tell…
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Episode 177 | The #1 Reason Fundraisers Fail
Today we're talking about the number one reason fundraisers fail. Contrary to popular belief, it's not because we didn't work hard enough. The number one reason fundraisers fail is from internal conflict. As you know, right now we are dealing with a pandemic, more than likely about to be hit with...
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Episode 176 | How to Build a New Relationship with Money
We are talking about how to build a new relationship with money today. In the last couple of episodes, I have been really practical in my messaging. But today, I wanted to take a little bit of a different turn on our conversation and talk specifically about money itself. Now for those of you who...
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Episode 175 | 3 Things You Need to Include in Your 2020 Year-End Appeal
Today, we're going digging into the year-end appeal and I'm sharing the three things you need to include in your letter. This is very specific for 2020. As you know, this year has been very unusual so that means that your year-end appeal needs a new and fresh update. Did you know that a quarter…
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Episode 174 | How to End 2020 Strong (Your 90-Day Plan!)
Today, we're talking about how to end 2020 strong. And we're really going to be talking about your 90-day plan. These last 90 days are going to end the year strong and allow you to really come into these final last months with some clarity, focus, and really give you some practical steps on how…
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Episode 173 | The 7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before that Next Big Meeting
Today we're talking about the seven questions to ask yourself before that next big meeting. If you've been following the podcast for a while, you've been following the seven steps that I teach in my book, Fundraising Freedom. On all the lessons that I've taught over these last 173 episodes, I…
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Episode 172 | The 10 Things Successful People Do To Accomplish Their Goals
I want to share with you today some common things that successful people do. Number one, they don't allow fear to cripple them. Now think about people who are public speakers, they do not let the fear of public speaking stop them from accomplishing or stepping foot on stage. They don't allow fear...
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Episode 171 | Planning Virtual Events with Wendi Freeman
Today we're talking about virtual events, live events, all that good stuff with my guest, Wendi Freeman. Wendi is the founder and CEO of Be Bright Events. She has worked in the for-profit space, and she's done a lot of work in the nonprofit space as well. Wendi has more than 15 years of…
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Episode 170 | The 3 Things You Need to Effectively Grow and Multiply Your Cause
Today we're talking about the three things you need to effectively grow and multiply your cause. The reason why I wanted to talk on this topic is that multiplication is really what we're all about, right? When we join or when we start up an organization, our goal here is to affect as many people…
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Episode 169 | How to Communicate With Philanthropists with Kris Putnam-Walkerly
We've been talking a lot lately about a variety of different ways that you can raise funds and today, I wanted to bring a special guest on to talk specifically about working with philanthropists. Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a Global Philanthropy Advisor and she has more than 20 years of experience...
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Episode 168 | Major Gift Fundraising with Ben Starling III
My guest today is Ben Starling III. Ben is a former director of philanthropy, has worked on huge projects like the Museum of the Bible and Scripps Research Institute. He's from Palm Beach, Florida, and he runs a business called Southern Philanthropy. Southern Philanthropy offers custom-tailored...
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Episode 167 | The Industries That Are Booming During COVID-19 and What That Means for Your Cause
In the past few months, we have been talking about how to navigate this new "normal" as we walk through the season of a pandemic. Over the course of these last several months, you've had to make a shift. You've had to start looking at different ways of running your fundraising efforts. And so...
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Episode 166 | Making the Move from Live to Virtual Events With Philippa Fabbri
Today I'm joined by Philippa Fabbri, director of communications, fundraising, and school design at the Elsen Academy in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape South Africa. What do you enjoy about fundraising? I wouldn't say I'm passionate about fundraising but I'm passionate about showing the longevity of...
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Episode 165 | What You Need to Do to Shift Your Fundraising Online
Today I'm talking about moving to online fundraising. How do we still build relationships and still communicate and engage donors in the online space? First of all, I just want to share a few statistics with you. Only 3% of charities rated their board and executive leadership as being digitally...
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Episode 164 | The Single Most Important Thing I Learned in My Thirties
This episode airs the week of my 40th birthday and I'm pretty excited about it! I'm looking forward to the next decade and letting my thirties live in the past like they are supposed to. Today I want to take you on a walk down memory lane and share a little about what has happened in the last ten...
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Episode 163 | 8 Words That May Explain Why You're Stuck
Today we are talking about the eight words that might explain why you're stuck. As we've been talking about over the last several episodes, we've been dealing with a pandemic and trying to navigate not being in our offices and adjusting to working from home. Now, some of you may have already been...
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Episode 162 | Fundraising with Evan Cox
Today, I am joined by special guest Evan Cox. Evan works for Joyce Meyer Ministries and has a background in nonprofit work with the St. Louis Dream Center, Hand of Hope, and many others. He's also an incredible copywriter. I've invited him onto today's show to share his insight on fundraising and...
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Episode 161 | The 6 Basic Needs to Live Your Best Life
I am a huge fan of you raising a ridiculous amount of money and changing the world. I know that's what you're focused on and why you're here listening to this show but I want you to realize one thing. If you're awesome at fundraising and awesome at helping other people, there's a good chance that...
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Episode 160 | The Fool-Proof Process to Achieving Any Goal
If you've been with me for a while, you know I'm big into goal setting. I think this is why I love fundraising so much because it's all about goal setting and can be very rewarding when you reach them. So today I want to talk to you about how I set goals. Every time I work with a new client…
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Episode 159 | How to Create a Rich Nonprofit with Marissa Nehlsen, Part 2
I am joined today by Marissa Nehlsen, CEO of a 7-figure business, public speaker, coach, philanthropist, and an all-around incredible person. Like me, she is originally from North Dakota which makes my heart happy! What advice would you give to someone who is stuck in the financial mindset? I…
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Episode 158 | How to Create a Rich Nonprofit with Marissa Nehlsen, Part 1
I am joined today by Marissa Nehlsen, CEO of a 7-figure business, public speaker, coach, philanthropist, and an all-around incredible person. Like me, she is originally from North Dakota which makes my heart happy! Tell us why the world needs us rich. The world needs us rich in all areas and my...
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Episode 157 | What You Need to Know to Get Someone to Say Yes
Today I want to talk about the basics of fundraising. During this season where we are in the midst of a lot of uncertainty, I understand that people are being sensitive when it comes to asking for money. I want to take a step back and talk about why people say yes in the first place and why we...
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Episode 156 | The 3-Part Process I Use to Help Charities Raise More Money
In today's episode, I'm sharing with you the 3-part process I use to help charities raise more money. These last couple of months have been a bit crazy and the last several episodes I've talked a lot about this pandemic and how to walk through this season. But I want you to know that the topics...
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Episode 155 | Why Every Nonprofit Needs to Use Video with Casey Hill
I'm joined today with Casey Hill, Head of Growth at Bonjoro. Bonjoro is a personalized video messaging app with the mission of empowering every organization to build real and lasting relationships with its customers, donors, or community, no matter where they live or work. Casey is a published...
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Episode 154 | The Free Resource Every Charity Needs to Reboot and Start Again
In today's episode, we are talking about the free resource every charity needs to reboot and start again. We are in a season where we do need to reboot because we've never been here before. If we look at anything that's happened in our past, recessions, depressions, etc. we can look to them and…
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Episode 153 | How I Raised $500,000 in New Money in a Recession
Today I want to talk through how we can take back some control and turn things around for our causes so that when we come out of this pandemic, we are stronger than ever. I want to share a few ideas with you as you're walking through this season. First, it's all about perspective. There are two...
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Episode 152 | Advice for Startup Nonprofits with Jonathan Roe
Dr. Jonathan Roe has been a non-profit coach and trainer in AZ for more than a decade and is the Founder and CEO of Venture 1:9. Venture 1:9 guides non-profits to a place of courage, health, sustainability and impact, through free training, coaching and granting. After graduating college in…
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Episode 151 | How to Thrive During Unprecedented Times
In the United States alone, we've gone through 15 recessions in the last 91 years. Many people talk about the Great Depression that started in 1929, which played a huge role in the way we live today. That generation still hides money under their mattresses and in different parts of the house...
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Episode 150 | How to Adjust During This New Season
This podcast began in 2017 right after I'd written my book, Fundraising Freedom. It was a huge undertaking, I used all of 2016 to write the book. I pretty much locked myself inside for one year – surrounded myself with authors – and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. One of the topics I'm...
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Episode 149 | Common Impact with Danielle Holly
Today I'm talking with Danielle Holly, CEO of Common Impact, which focuses on connecting corporations and companies with nonprofit organizations. The core mission behind Common Impact is to tap into the superpowers that each of us has as individuals and to channel them for social good. The…
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Episode 148 | How to Fundraise During a Pandemic
In light of COVID-19, I've been getting a lot of questions about fundraising during this time. Do I continue on? Do I push pause? Do I cancel my event? My number one piece of advice I want to give you is do NOT stop your fundraising. Don't allow this to stale or stagnate or freeze your…
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Episode 147 | Three Lessons Learned from the Homeless
On Saturday, I was running around doing my typical weekend errands and since we've been having spring-like weather, I decided to start looking for pots to plant herbs in and wound up at Ikea. I found what I was looking for and as I was loading up the back up of my car, I heard a woman call out to...
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Episode 146 | How to Gracefully Fire a Volunteer
If you are new to the nonprofit space, I know this may sound crazy. Just like some people don't work out in for-profit businesses, the same happens in nonprofits too. This is a topic that comes up fairly frequently and it's a hard conversation to have, which is why I want to make sure you are...
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Episode 145 | Five Minutes for Fundraising with Martin Leifeld
Martin Leifeld is an author, consultant, coach, and public speaker. Martin is a professional fundraiser who's raised a staggering 500 million dollars in his career that has spanned more than two decades. Two years ago, he was named the Outstanding Fundraising Executive by the Association of...
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Episode 144 | Are You Playing the Short or the Long Game?
In the last few weeks I've been doing a lot of traveling, not just for work but also with friends and family. It was great spending time with my family and to remind me of what's important - it's healthy to shut down for a while and regroup. Time away allows me to clear out the clutter, process...
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Episode 143 | What to Do When Things Don't Go Your Way
As I look back on my nearly 40 years of life, I can tell you how many different major things just didn't go my way. When I think back to those things and what I actually wanted, I am completely grateful and thankful that things did NOT go my way. But I know when we're in the middle of it all…
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Episode 142 | What's Better…Stretch or SMART Goals?
The last couple of episodes we've been talking about the new year and goal planning. Today I want to go over the difference between stretch and SMART goals and how you can incorporate them into the work you do. Most of you have probably heard of stretch and SMART goals but may not know how to...
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Episode 141 | When is Enough…Enough?
As we talk about goal planning in the new year, it is easy to fall into one-upping ourselves and wanting bigger, better, more. When is enough, enough? My answer is, never. Our vision should be so big that it's something we probably won't accomplish in our lifetimes. Of course, there will be goals...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Mary Valloni Show, a podcast for purpose-driven leaders who are ready to live with more joy, clarity, and freedom.If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you've lost touch with what really matters, you're in the right place. Each episode is designed to help you quiet the noise, reconnect with your true desires, and take bold steps toward a life that feels aligned and meaningful.Host Mary Valloni is a coach, speaker, and author who brings years of experience walking alongside leaders as they navigate transition, growth, and purpose-driven living. With a blend of honest storytelling, practical tools, and soul-level encouragement, Mary invites you to slow down, reflect, and move forward with intention.This is your space to rediscover who you are and what you truly want.You were created on purpose, for a purpose. Let's live like it.
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