Episodes

Navy Veteran Ron Suzuki served in the Navy for 15 years as an Aviation Electronics Technician.  During his time at the Navy, a mate introduced him to photography. He became a full-time photographer shortly after being honorably discharged. His photography business was doing great, but sales eventually slowed down, forcing him to work for a […]

Army Veteran Richard Kaufman has served the Army and National Guard for 23 years. During this time, regardless of whether he’s deployed or not, he was always active in the health and fitness industry and had a job in GNC. After service, Richard went full time in the health and fitness industry and has worked

Army Veteran Delisina West started in the army as a preventive medicine specialist. She has spent 26 years combined as active duty, reserved, enlisted officer, air national guard. In her time in the army,  she got involved in bodybuilding as means to be active and in good shape. After service, she continued to have an

Air Force Veteran Amanda Huffman was a Civil Engineer in the Air Force. She was an officer and managed all the civil engineer troops during this time. While in the Air Force, she was deployed in Afghanistan and worked with the Army as part of the provincial reconstruction team. After that, she worked in an

Navy Veteran Danique Masingill served the Navy from 2002 to 2007. In 2007, She found herself with an administrative discharge due to bad leadership, ending her Navy career abruptly. She basically has to fight for her Veteran’s Rights. Like most vets, her transition to civilian life wasn’t entirely smooth. She moved from state to state,

Army Veteran Andrea Overend has served the US Army for 11 years. She joined at the early age of 16 essentially grew up in the Army. During her service, she went the finance route and then became a part of the 82nd Airborne Division. She always saw herself as a lifer, but she started other

Target River is passionate about serving, and this includes their work for non-profits. They share your vision and goals to engage members of your community to have them join your mission. www.targetriver.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianepperson To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.

Tips and tricks to help you with both your live and silent auctions! www.auctionfrogs.org To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.  

After 90 years the Children’s Hospital Association continues to help grow programs for Children’s Minnesota… Now virtually!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEhAt6SMws https://www.cha-stpaul.org/ To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.    

The best practices for Event check in and check out for your event. www.auctionfrogs.org To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.      

This episode we talk with Bill Woolsey, the Founder and CEO of the FiveTwo Network.  They equip Christian entrepreneurs to launch a variety of sustainable start-ups, from church plants and re-plants, non-profits, and for-profits.  

How to choose the right audio and visual company for your fundraising and awareness needs!  They are NOT all created equal!!

Cory talks with Larry Flynn about his 25+ years as a board member, advisor and active auctioneer for non-profit organizations and what fundraising events look like in a post 2020 world! www.LarryFlynnEvents.com https://www.facebook.com/larryflynn1959  

Tyson Baker sits down with us to talk about the history, passion and heart of the Baker family and the Baker Auction Co. https://bakerauction.com/charity.html https://bakerauction.com/contact.php https://www.facebook.com/BakerAuctionCo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonbaker

Fundraising Fails- Gala Edition with Auctioneer Anna Couvrette! Anna Couvrette took her experience as an actor and comedian and became one of the youngest charity auctioneers in the United States. What began as a way to supplement her tuition at the University of Southern California has become her passion and profession. Her dual degrees of

Nonprofit.Courses brings you Online Training for Nonprofits through Thousands of Videos, Podcasts, Books, and Documents from Around the World! Nonprofit Training Courses for Staff, Boards, and Volunteers To keep listening, visit www.auctionfrogs.org/podcast or subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast app.    

Healthy nonprofits carefully nurture and cultivate resources from a variety of sources.  One of the most important of these are transformational, or major gifts.  Brian Wells, a highly successful development professional, joins Greg to discuss approaches to develop or enhance your nonprofit’s ability to attract and secure major gifts.  

How connected do you feel to the core values of your nonprofit?  This episode features a discussion of values-based leadership for nonprofits.  Listen as Greg shares practical tips for developing or revising core values as well as ensuring that values play an integral role in the leadership and culture of your organization.   

  Key Takeaways: Struggling is not sustainable. Our need to be in struggle causes burnout, turnover, mission creep and a ton of other issues. Essentially, the name “nonprofit” is hurting the industry. Being defined by a negative hurts us. We feel a huge responsibility to those people we serve and we tend to sacrifice ourselves because of

When nonprofits, governments, and businesses come together as a “network” to address the most pressing social issues of the day, they can more easily address root causes and implement effective approaches.  Renowned social impact researcher and advisor Dr. Michelle Shumate, Ph.D. joins Greg to discuss strategies for building network and collaborative frameworks to address complex social

Nonprofit teams are comprised of leaders with a diverse array of leadership and communication styles.  Dr. Jean Latting joins the podcast to share approaches to successfully build positive and productive professional relationships with those whose style is different than your own.   

A strategic plan serves as a roadmap to enable an organization to set priorities and measure progress. It informs the direction of the organization, generates heightened engagement and ownership of the mission.  Gary Romano, author and creator of Finding Your North Star Tm, joins Greg to discuss a bold, effective, and evidence-based approach to strategic

It starts with a story…  As nonprofit leaders, you have many stories to tell.  Program accomplishments, a wonderful event, a new offering, a particular challenge you are wrestling with.  However, sometimes it can be difficult to get these stories noticed.  Jessica Leving Siegel shares tips and strategies for positioning your stories with those likely to

The departure of a key leader can be a difficult time for any nonprofit organization.  One approach to ensure organizational stability and momentum is to hire an interim executive for a defined period of time.  Jarrett Ransom joins Greg to discuss the ins and outs of hiring an interim leader.  

Nonprofit organizations with effective fundraising strategies exhibit 5 key behaviors.  Philanthropy expert Sybil Ackerman-Munson joins Greg to discuss these key attributes and empower nonprofit leaders to feel good about their fundraising strategies.  

Healthy fundraising strategies begin by focusing on cultivating deep and lasting relationships with those who believe in and support your mission.  As Giving Tuesday approaches, Nejeed Kassam — Founder of Keela — joins Greg to discuss 5 donor types to engage this Giving Tuesday in order to enhance your fundraising success.  Greg and Nejeed also

A capital campaign represents an organization-wide focused effort to generate resources for a specific project or undertaking.  Hal Hedley, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kentuckiana, joins Greg to discuss strategies for successful capital campaigns, from critically important planning efforts to managing the highs and lows of a campaign.  You won’t want to miss

Marc A. Pitman, CSP® helps leaders, especially in nonprofits, lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. He’s also the author of Ask Without Fear!® – which has been translated into Dutch, Polish,

Rabbi Amy Feder became the Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel in July of 2009, when she became the youngest woman to become a Senior Rabbi of a large Reform congregation in history.  She is blessed to work alongside her husband, Rabbi Michael Alper. Rabbi Feder began working as the assistant rabbi at Temple Israel in

Key Takeaways: Don’t put peace on a pedestal. Peace and conflict are both part of the process of healing. We were taught to value things that feel good, but not everything that feels good is good and not everything that feels bad is meant to be pushed away. Conflict is just people being human beings, we don’t