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Nonprofit Power Podcast — 144 episodes
Three Storytelling Secrets that Pull Decisionmakers in and Get Them to Yes Faster
The Biggest Mistake You're Making with Your Ask that's Leaving Money on the Table
The Four Most Valuable Ways Great Coaching is Helping Me Today
How to Capture the Full Attention of a Decisionmaker in the First 60 Seconds
My Three Favorite Shortcuts to Faster Advocacy Results
How the Power of Collective Action is Creating Great Possibility in 2026
What it Really Means When You Fall Short of Expectations
How to Clear One of the Biggest Obstacles to Your Greatest Results
Three Big Mistakes that can Turn Your Great Policy Win into a Bust
How to Turn Every Conversation with Decisionmakers into a Skill-Building Bonanza
How Your Modesty May Be Costing You Serious Money
Is Your Storytelling Built for Results?
How to Get Decisionmakers to See Your Services as the Best Possible Bargain
Powerful Lessons from Minnesota on How We Can Help Our Immigrant Neighbors
The Number One Advocacy Skillset You Absolutely Need in the Age of AI
How to Find the Messaging Winners in a Sea of Details
Are You Making Enough Mistakes?
What is Your Relationship with Power, and How is it Affecting Your Actions and Decisions?
A Totally Different Take on the Year-End Review
Why is There So Much Dumb Public Policy and What Can We Do About It?
The 3 Biggest Messaging and Engagement Mistakes that Could be Costing You Influence and Results
The Two Most Essential Ingredients to Getting a Decisionmaker to Say Yes
My Five Most Powerful Sources of Gratitude
How to Handle a Curve Ball Like a Pro
Five Big Reasons I'm Feeling Optimistic, Plus About 100 Other Little Things
Four Simple Checks to Tell You if Your Message is Built for Maximum Impact
The X Factor that can Make or Break Your Message's Impact
How Each One of Us Can Help Prevent an Authoritarian Takeover
How to Use the Power of Vision to Help Decisionmakers Commit to You on a Greater Scale
What's Standing in the Way Between You and the Advocacy Results You Want?
A True Story that Just Might Change How You Talk to Decisionmakers
How to Claim Your Unique Value in the Marketplace
How Do You Decide What to Say Yes to?
How to Deal with Decisionmakers Who Say There's No Money Right Now
Why More Information Rarely Results in Greater Understanding
How to Cultivate the Personal Power You Need Right Now
How to Apply Pressure to Decisionmakers, Without it Blowing Up in Your Face
How to Establish Yourself as an Expert in the Eyes of Decisionmakers
The Hidden Trap in Tailoring Your Messaging to Decisionmakers’ Concerns
Three Ways to Take Maximum Advantage of the Congressional Recess Right Now
The Four Essential Elements at the Heart of High-Impact Advocacy Messaging
Three Areas of Personal Growth that Will Have the Biggest Impact on Your Advocacy Success
The Fastest Way to Get Decisionmakers to Value, Respect, and Rely on Your Expertise
Decisionmakers Do Not Care About Your Services! (and That's OK if You Know What To Do)
The Most Powerful Thing Nonprofit Leaders Can Do Right Now to Preserve Medicaid and SNAP
The Shortest Distance Between Where You Are Now and the Advocacy Results You Want
How to Successfully Build Advocacy into Every Team Member's Role
Two Surefire Things You Can Do to Fix Your Messaging on the Fly
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Help Save Medicaid
Self Care in Times of Total Insanity
The Most Underutilized Advocacy Tool You Can Use Right Now to Improve Your Results
How To Stay Strong when Others Around You are Giving into Fear
How To Deal with a Decisionmaker Who Can't or Won't Make a Decision
Three Secrets to Building Influence with any Money or Policy Decisionmaker in Your World
How to Successfully Advocate for Your Funding on Multiple Fronts at Once
How to Ensure You Have Maximum Impact when Your Members of Congress are Home in Their Districts
How the Power of Community Building Can Help You Fight Back Against Attacks on Your Program and Your Funding
The Best Way to Help Your Supporters Become Valuable Advocates for Your Work and Funding
The Essential 5-Point Messaging Framework for Your Advocacy with Congress
Where to Focus Your Federal Advocacy Efforts Right Now to Have the Greatest Impact
How to Deal with the Right Wing's "Waste, Fraud & Abuse" Propaganda
How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding – Part 2
How to Defend Against Attacks on Your Federal Funding - Part 1
The Top Three Things to Focus on First When Crisis Strikes
How to Combat the Right Wing Messaging that Could be About to Endanger Your Program's Funding
How to Access Confidence Even When You’re Way Outside Your Comfort Zone
Why Money and Policy Decisionmakers Rarely Receive Your Intended Message – and What You Can Do About it
Setting Powerful Intentions that Will Serve You Well in the New Year
How to Capture Your Most Valuable Lessons from 2024
When Professionalism Can Become a Liability
Two Marketing Secrets that will Help You Engage Decisionmakers More Deeply, and Get to Yes Faster
What I'm Most Thankful for, and Why I'm Leaning into a Daily Practice of Gratitude
The Most Undervalued Skill that Could be Your Key to Engaging Decisionmakers
Building Strategies for a New Threat Environment
A Few Early Thoughts About the Recent Elections
How to Stay Grounded in Your Messaging in Stressful Encounters with Decisionmakers
How to Cope with Election Anxiety
Three Keys to Finding the Right Decisionmaker in any System
How to Help Your Clients Make Sure Their Vote Counts
Two Secrets to Successful Negotiation
The Number One Block Most Decisionmakers Have that Keeps Them from Fully Valuing Your Services - Episode 64
How to Get Out of TMI Syndrome, and Laser-Focus Your Messaging with Decisionmakers - Episode 63
How Your Nonprofit Can Help Your Clients Register to Vote in the 2024 Elections - Episode 62
How to Turn Your Team into an Opportunity Generating Machine - Episode 61
Five Leadership Behaviors to Lean Into and Five to Leave Behind - Episode 60
10 Powerful Things I've Learned from my Best Coaches - Episode 59
How to Cultivate an Energetic Frequency that Boosts Your Effectiveness as an Advocate and Leader - Episode 58
How to Turn Data into a Story that Engages and Compels a Decisionmaker - Episode 57
How to 5 to 10 X Your Organization's Capacity for Building Influential Relationships with Decisionmakers - Episode 56
How to Use Imagery to Shift a Decisionmaker’s Perspective in Your Favor - Episode 55
How to Help the People You Serve Make Their Voices Heard at the Ballot Box - Episode 54
How to Make Sure Your Pilot Project Leads to Sustainable Funding - Episode 53
The Identity Cues from Decisionmakers that Tell You How to Talk to Them and What to Talk About - Episode 52
How to Craft Public Policy that Actually Does what You Need it To Do – Part 2 - Episode 51
How to Craft Public Policy that Actually Does what You Need it To Do - Part 1 - Episode 50
How to Maintain Your Personal Power when the Ish Hits the Fan - Episode 49
How to Equip Your Team to Successfully Communicate Your Best Messaging - Episode 48
Why Your Carefully Prepared Information May Be Failing to Engage Decisionmakers - Episode 47
How to Influence Critical Decisions About Your Program’s Federal Funding - Episode 46
How Right Wing Messaging is Damaging to Your Nonprofit, and How You Can Counter It - Episode 45
How to Use the Power of Vision to Achieve Your Biggest Goals - Episode 44
How To Add Client Voices to Your Advocacy Messaging for Maximum Impact - Episode 43
How To Build a Strong Cadre of Influential Champions - Episode 42
Should We Join (or Start) that Coalition? Top Strategic Considerations - Episode 41
What if You had Unlimited Advocacy Resources? - Episode 40
What To Do when You Have Too Many Competing Advocacy Priorities, and Everything Feels Urgent - Episode 39
Design Your Capitol Hill Visits with Members of Congress for Maximum Impact - Episode 38
How Parts of Your Messaging May Be Sabotaging Your Advocacy Success - Episode 37
How to Accelerate and Maximize Know, Like and Trust with Decisionmakers - Episode 36
The 5-Point Test to Determine How Well Your Advocacy Messaging is Performing - Episode 35
The Best Ways to Address Objections from Decisionmakers to Turn a No into a Yes - Episode 34
How One Nonprofit is Generating Millions in Revenue-Generating Partnerships to Fund Vital Services – with Dorella Walters - Episode 33
Successful Strategies for Negotiating with Decisionmakers - Episode 32
How to Get Maximum Results from a Decisionmaker’s Visit to Your Program - Episode 31
How to Create Powerful and Empowering Advocacy and Leadership Opportunities for the People You Serve - Episode 30
How to Plan Your Breakthrough Advocacy Year - Episode 29
The Five Most Valuable Things to Focus on in Your Year-End Advocacy Review - Episode 28
Are You Unknowingly Undermining Your Strategic Relationship Building? - Episode 27
The Key to Mastering Any Skill (Including Advocacy Skills) - Episode 26
How to Avoid Overload when Adding Advocacy Work to Your Plate - Episode 25
Gratitude for the Progressive Nonprofit Leaders Who Inspire Me Most - Episode 24
How to Navigate High-Stakes Encounters with Decisionmakers and Be Ready to Handle Whatever They Throw at You - Episode 23
How to Build a Relationship with a Decisionmaker When You’re Starting from Scratch with Them - Episode 22
What To Do when Your Advocacy Work has Stalled - Episode 21
Unlocking Your Next Level as an Advocate -Episode 20
When You Need a Lobbyist, and How to Work with One Successfully - Episode 19
Inside Secrets to Engaging both Elected Officials and Their Staff for Greater Advocacy Success - Episode 18
Establishing Yourself as a Thought Leader - Episode 17
How to Create an Advocacy Plan that Keeps Your Team Focused and Getting Great Results - Episode 16
How to Build an Advocacy Team that will Take You to New Levels of Impact and Success - Episode 15
The Four Essential Strategic Relationships Every Nonprofit Leader Needs - Episode 14
How to Use Story to Create Breakthrough Messaging with Decisionmakers - Episode 13
What Stops Decisionmakers from Hearing Your Message, and How to Break Through - Episode 12
Influencing Public Policy - Laying the Groundwork for Success - Episode 11
Advocacy Advice from a Nonprofit Leader Turned State Senate Majority Leader – with Sen. Eloise Vitelli - Episode 10
How to Get Decisionmakers to Pay Top Dollar for Your Organization’s Services - Episode 09
How to Get Your Board Fully on Board with Advocacy - Episode 08
How a Nonprofit Leader with a Counseling Background Negotiates 7-Figure Contracts with Major Partners – with Aleta McLean - Episode 07
Operating from the Identity of a Powerfully Influential Leader - Episode 06
How to Apply Pressure When You Need To - Episode 05
Building Strategic Relationships That Get Results - Episode 04
Knowing What You Want from Decisionmakers and How To Ask For It - Episode 03
Knowing Who's Really In Charge, & What Makes Them Tick - Episode 02
A New Definition of Advocacy - Episode 01