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756. You Are Worthy of Rest: A 7-Minute Reset for Changemakers - Sonya Perez-Lauterbach

2026-11-0907:06

Tune in for a special episode: You Are Worthy of Rest — a 7-minute reset with Sonya Perez-Lauterbach. 🧘‍♀️ Running on urgency? This one’s for you. In this guided meditation, Sonya — a human development and performance expert who’s spent her own time in the nonprofit trenches — invites you to pause, breathe, and let your nervous system shift into rest-and-digest mode. Rest is a skill, just like fundraising or board development. It gets stronger with practice. And it’s okay if it feels un...

755. You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Hear About Burnout - Nionne James, Dr. Jasmine Escalera + Jeremy Haselwood

2026-11-0428:46

In this special episode, Jon sits down with three We Are For Good community members: operations leader Nionne James, generational healing expert Dr. Jasmine Escalera, and ImpactUp: Atlanta host Jeremy Haselwood. They get real about burnout, where the "give until it hurts" mindset comes from, and why community is the antidote. 🩵 In this episode, you'll hear: The simple self-check Nionne uses to catch exhaustion before it winsWhy so many high achievers inherit their definition of success, and h...

754. The Audacity to Build Unlikely Alliances: Lessons for Every Nonprofit Leader - Hillary Blout, For the People

2026-11-0229:25

Hillary Blout spent years as a prosecutor fighting for victims and safer neighborhoods. Then she sat across from a man serving a life sentence and realized the system had no way to look back. So she wrote a law to change that. Today, Hillary is the founder of For The People, which pioneered prosecutor-initiated resentencing, the first law of its kind in the country. Guest co-host Carolina García Jayaram, founding CEO of the Elevate Prize Foundation, joins Jon to talk about audacity, proximity...

753. Policies Move at the Speed of Narrative: Meet the Org Changing the Story on Poverty - Aisha Nyandoro

2026-10-2836:53

In 2017, a mom in Jackson, Mississippi told Aisha Nyandoro she couldn't afford pizza and a movie with her kids. She was working, in job training, and showing up for every program. She was doing everything "right." It still wasn't enough. That conversation sparked the Magnolia Mother's Trust, one of the country's first and longest-running guaranteed income programs, giving Black mothers $1,000 a month with no strings attached. Then Aisha learned the hardest truth of all: proving it works doesn...

752. When Your Model Stops Working: How to Evolve and Multiply Your Impact - Kohl Crecelius

2026-10-2642:20

Ten years into building Krochet Kids intl., Kohl Crecelius hit a wall. Revenue plateaued. Donors said the self-sustaining model didn't need their money. And the thing that made the brand special was the thing holding it back. So he rebuilt from the ground up. The result: KNOWN SUPPLY, a certified B Corp that helps nonprofits, brands, and companies make ethically produced merch, supporting thousands of makers worldwide. Guest co-host Jason Locy of Whiteboard joins Jon for this one. In this epi...

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