Uplifting Blog

Do you know that Workaholics Anonymous exist? Perhaps we don’t hear much about it because overworking is often admired rather than recognized as a problem. And besides, who would have time to attend? I know I didn’t. A client recently took a two-week vacation. She is the Executive Director of a school that doesn’t have students during the summer. I was delighted for her—until I learned that she had forwarded her work calls to her cellphone and hadn’t turned on an out-of-offic

Listen to what you’re saying about your board. This one sentence may be shaping more than you realize—your tone, your leadership, and their response “My board won’t fundraise.” It’s a statement I hear from so many Executive Directors and Development leaders. It’s also the statement that has many of you signing up for my courses. And I get it. It usually comes from that familiar frustration: “Once again, the board didn’t step up… didn’t make connections… didn’t bring in the m

Have you ever watched a perfectly competent, intelligent, successful board member completely shrink the moment fundraising comes up? Cue the body language shift. Tight shoulders. Nervous laugh. Sudden fascination with the agenda packet. You might think, here we go again. Resistance . What if it’s not resistance? What if it’s also about biology? The good news is that when we understand what’s happening in the body, it gives us a way forward. The VAGUS NERVE, which helps re