Episodios

  • J is for Jury of One: If your board feels passive… listen to this
    Aug 14 2025

    If every major decision still runs through you, your board isn’t governing. They’re spectating.

    🧭 Today’s belief shift: You’re not getting enough support because your board doesn’t have clear goals to own.

    What you’re experiencing isn’t a lack of care—it’s a lack of clarity.

    When your board doesn’t have time-bound, mission-aligned goals, they default to vague support, suggestions, and silence. And you end up doing all the leading, in a vacuum.

    Today’s leadership prompt is simple: What’s one goal your board could own this quarter that would move the mission forward—and lighten your load?

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  • I is for Infrastructure: You can't scale without systems that support growth
    Aug 13 2025

    Hiring won’t fix overwhelm if your systems can’t support growth.

    🧭 Today’s micro-shift: You don’t necessarily need more people. You could just need stronger systems.

    Ask yourself: What process do you keep fixing manually? That’s your infrastructure gap.

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    🎯 Want the full checklist? Org Operating System Snapshot helps you design the backend your growth depends on.

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  • H is for Habits: You don't need more hustle, you just need new defaults
    Aug 12 2025

    Let’s talk about burnout—but not the emotional kind.

    🧭 Today’s belief shift: Burnout isn’t emotional. It’s habitual.

    Most nonprofit leaders aren’t exhausted because they’re weak or disorganized. They’re exhausted because they’ve built habits that make burnout inevitable.

    Jumping into decisions your team could handle.

    Rewriting that donor email—again—because it’s “faster.”

    Staying late just to catch up.

    These aren’t quirks. They’re patterns. And they’re quietly bleeding your energy.

    Today’s challenge: Pick one draining habit and ask—What structure or expectation makes this habit necessary?

    📥 Download: Burnout Habit Audit Worksheet

    🎯 Want to start building habits that protect your energy? The Leveraged Leadership Toolkit will help you create systems that support you—so you can lead without burning out.

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  • G is for Governance Reset: Your board isn’t broken—they’re just lost.
    Aug 11 2025

    If your board feels disengaged or misaligned, the issue may not be effort—it’s clarity.

    🧭 Today’s micro-shift: Your board isn’t disengaged. They’re disoriented.

    Ask: Where has your board outgrown its role? What expectations need a reset?

    📥 Download: Board Re-Engagement Discussion Swipe Files

    🎯 Ready for a board that actually leads? The Year In A Day Board Engagement Planning Toolkit gives you the tools to realign and re-engage your board.

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  • F is for Fundraising Friction: Is your fundraising stuck? It’s not your donors.
    Aug 10 2025

    If your fundraising feels harder than it should—slow responses, low returns—it might not be donor fatigue. It’s likely a system problem.

    🧭 Today’s micro-shift: Stuck fundraising isn’t a donor problem. It’s a design problem.

    Run a quick check: Where are donors getting stuck? What system—or lack of one—is slowing their path from interest to gift?

    📥 Download: Donor Friction Audit Worksheet

    🎯 Go deeper with the Attracting the Right Donors Toolkit—a full blueprint to remove the friction and unlock your giving flow.

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    5 m
  • E is for Evaluate: If everything matters, nothing moves
    Aug 9 2025

    This is Letter E of the Design Your Strongest Year End Ever podcast series, and it’s about trimming the noise.

    Teams that seem disorganized usually have a different problem.

    They’re drowning in a sea of “priorities” that all seem equally important.

    🧭 Key Takeaway E: Lack of priorities make you vulnerable to the tryanny of the urgent. You miss what’s essential.

    📥 Collectible #5: Impact vs. Noise Matrix – a quick filter to drop busywork and double down on what moves the needle.

    🎯 Refocus your strategy: The Post It Planning toolkits helps teams zero in on priorities - and what it will take to execute - in fast (in under 2 hours!).

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  • D is for Design Deficit: You’re not failing - you’re under-designed.
    Aug 8 2025

    This is Letter D of the Design Your Strongest Year End Ever Podcast Series! This one is for anyone dragging bricks uphill.

    In this episode, I talk about what your overwhelm is really telling you:

    Yous current structure can’t carry the weight of your mission.

    🧭 Key Takeaway D: Your overwhelm comes from invisible work, unsupported.

    📥 Collectible #4: Org Design Tarot Canvas – a fun, printable mini-reflection and diagnostic tool to help you and your team turn friction into insight.

    🎯 Want better scaffolding? Take the free STRONG Org Quiz to diagnose your on design deficit!

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  • C is for Clarity: You don’t have the capacity issue you think you do
    Aug 7 2025

    This is Letter C of the Design Your Strongest Year-End Ever Podcast Series - today, we’re diving into the dangerous illusion of busyness.

    Busy doesn’t mean productive.

    When goals are fuzzy, your team spends time and money on the wrong things.

    And all the hard work doesn’t lead to impact.

    🧭 Key Takeaway C: You don’t have a capacity problem. You have a clarity gap.

    🎯 Set better targets. Use the ​Reset Your NorthStar Toolkit​to help your team get laser focused on the year-end goals that matter most.

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    #Onward

    Brooke

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