524. Innovating for Impact: Seth Godin's Revolutionary Strategies for Nonprofit Growth + Fundraising Success

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Overview

Meet Seth. For more than thirty years, he has made it his mission to inspire, innovate, and challenge audiences to level up, and we’re so honored he is back in our house today to do just that. Seth is a prolific author, an entrepreneur and perhaps most of all, a teacher. This conversation is full of surprises from the lessons found in canoeing🛶 to reimagining the charity auction👨‍⚖ to the powerful moments of philanthropy he witnessed from his parents. He had us laughing, crying, and dreaming of a better future 💭 Join us for a conversation that left us with one of our favorite invitations, an opportunity to “upgrade our guts”!

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How innovation is the key to solving critical fundraising problems
Why we need to rethink the nonprofit auction
What GOODBIDS is + Why we think it’ll be a gamechanger for nonprofits

Today’s Guest

Seth Godin, Bestselling Author + Speaker

“Explore. If the problem is worth working on, it’s worth failing along the way to making things better.”

— Seth Godin, Bestselling Author + Speaker

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Episode Highlights

Seth’s take on innovation (4:00)
Why innovation crucial for nonprofits today (5:30)
What the heck is holding us up? (6:50)
Retention crisis in the sector (11:00)
Innovating the nonprofit auction with GOODBIDS (14:00)
What GOODBIDS unlocks for nonprofits (19:00)
How nonprofits can get involved with GOODBIDS (25:00)
Seth’s dream for the sector (32:00)
Seth’s One Good Thing: We are nothing but information now. When generous conduits show up and tell us the truth and inspire us, it’s worth saying thank you. (35:35)
How to connect with Seth + GOODBIDS (36:40)

Impactful Quotes

“Every nonprofit is trying to solve a problem that we don’t have a solution to yet. If you’re solving a problem that hasn’t been solved yet, you’re going to have to do something that might not work.” -Seth

“Explore. If the problem is worth working on, it’s worth failing along the way to making things better.” -Seth

“You can't get there by doing what you did yesterday, but louder. We're gonna have to find a different path. When you start looking for new paths, it suddenly becomes energizing.” -Seth

“Burnout is what happens when we do the same thing and we expect a different result.” -Seth

“How often does your boss say at the meeting, “list 3 things at your meeting last week that didn’t work?” If you can’t, you’re in trouble.” -Seth

“If you are a scientist and you tell your supervisor you did no experiments last week, you can’t stay in the lab.” -Seth

“This moment in time is what we did all the work for.” -Seth

“Why did you sign up for this in the first place?” -Seth