Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

Revisiting: Why Adding Money or Staff Can Break a Growing Nonprofit - Understand the Design Deficit

If a genie handed you $2 million or five new team members today, would it really solve your organization's biggest challenges—or reveal them? In this episode, I unpa

Revisiting: How Sustainable 7-Figure Nonprofits Are Built Differently

In this audio workshop, I pull back the curtain on the core elements that successful 7-figure nonprofits consistently point to as the reason they were able to grow to and

Revisiting: What an Effective Nonprofit Strategic Plan Actually Contains

In this episode, I dive into the essentials of creating a high-impact strategic plan for your nonprofit. Last week, we explored the importance of a well-structured planni

Why Your Strategic Thinking Time Disappears Every Week

Most nonprofit executive directors lose their strategic thinking time every week for a reason that has nothing to do with discipline: it is the only block on the calendar

Crossover! How To Make Your Org More Sustainable, With Casey Lardner & Chidi Asoluka | From the We Are For Good Summit

Capacity is something you design. And when you feel strain, it's about that design, not about passion or ability. In this conversation, I talk with two leaders who&

The Answer To Your Funding Instability May Be Hiding In Plain Sight

"Once we stabilize the funding, we'll invest in systems." It sounds like responsible stewardship, and almost every leader running a $1M–$2M organization has said som

Why Pretending the Organization Is Simpler Than It Is Doesn't Work

You leave a leadership team meeting where everyone got their assignments and everyone nodded — and you still can't shake the sense that the real problem never got sa

3 Truths Every 7-Figure Nonprofit ED Needs to Hear

There's a version of nonprofit leadership that gets sold as authenticity, luck, and the right personality in the chair — and it quietly lets leaders off the hook for

Stop Apologizing for a Funding Model That Works

What This Episode Answers Most growing nonprofits aren't underperforming because their funding is too concentrated — they're stalling because they've adop

The Day Your Organization Starts Running on “Unspoken Agreements”

Most organizations aren’t just shaped by strategy, org charts, or job descriptions — they’re shaped by the unwritten rules everyone follows but no one talks about. In thi

Designing the Future: How to Build an Institution That Can Hold the Next Stage of Growth

Growth should feel like momentum. For most nonprofit leaders between $1M and $3M, it feels like barely surviving — because the organization was built for a prior stage an

Why "Delegate Better" Doesn't Work

You’ve delegated. Probably more than once. So why does every decision still end up back on your desk? In this episode, Brooke unpacks the real reason delegation so often

When Your Organization Is One Funder Away from a Crisis

Funding concentration becomes risky when a nonprofit depends on a small number of major funders without the infrastructure to replace, supplement, or stabilize that reven

Why Your Board Has 11 Members and Drives Zero Revenue

Most executive directors I talk to already know their board isn’t pulling its weight in fundraising. And yet, nothing really changes. In this episode, I unpack why that g

The Meetings That Should Not Exist

You know the meeting. It's on your calendar every week. Same time, same people — and you walk out wondering what you actually accomplished. In this episode, Brooke r

Abundance Is Not a Vibe—It’s a Design Choice

We’ve all heard it before: “Just shift to an abundance mindset.” But what if abundance isn’t just something you feel—it’s something you build? In this episode, I’m breaki

The Calm You're Waiting For Isn’t Coming

In this episode, I talk about a pattern I see constantly among nonprofit leaders — and one I’ve caught myself falling into too. It sounds like: “After the gala.” “Once th

The Real Reason Your Board Feels Like More Work (It’s Not What You Think)

If your board meetings leave you feeling tense, depleted, or like you’re carrying the entire organization on your back, you’re not alone—and it’s probably not because you

Why Annual Plans Collapse By March: The Problem Behind Every 'Good Plan'

If you’re a few months into the year and already thinking, “Is this plan falling apart?” — you’re not alone. In this episode of the Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast, I talk

Micro-Series Pt3: How To Start Fixing Your Design Deficits

Every February, I see the same thing: high-performing nonprofit leaders suddenly feeling like everything is falling apart. After the December push and the excitement of n