She Did It Her Way

Ep. 22 Fulfillment and Struggles: A Nonprofit’s Story

Kathleen Casey – Founder of Bear Necessities

Pediatric cancer effects over 15,500 children each year!

Such a will and desire to live life and live it to its fullest even though they are dealt with something that is so serious and so uncommon.

It doesn’t take a lot to bring joy and happiness to these kid’s lives!

Started at the onset to support the hospitals in the Chicago area with things that could bring hope and joy to children’s lives while going through the battle. 23 years later, Bear Necessities is funding research across the United States to find a cure for cancer.

“Help kids rediscover their childhood while we’re discovering a cure to pediatric cancer at the same time.”

Partner up with another foundation and collaborate efforts to make a big difference

“When you have something that you really believe in, and you believe in yourself, follow those dreams and follow your heart.”

How to engage donors to fulfill the mission:

• Every dime counts – no donation is too big or small

• Show your donors where their dollars are going

• Develop a relationship - make your donors your friends

• Give donors autonomy around what their donation is funding

• Share results, outcomes, and stories with donors

Where to go for Transparency:

• Newsletters

• 990 with IRS

• Annual audit

• Better Business Bureau

• Independent Charities of America

• Charity Navigator

“Everybody has a talent, treasure, & time that can be so needed at non-profits”

Keep Learning and Follow Your Passion

“To go to work every day and love the things that you do is incredibly important”

Ways volunteers can get involved:

• Events

• Work directly with kids

• Utilize day-job skills

• Get involved with interests

“It really is a great thing to be able to give back and you have no idea how valuable what you have, inside your own self is for every nonprofit.”

Book Recommendation: Inside the Kingdom – Carmen Bin Ladin

Get in contact with Kathleen and Bear Necessities: Bearnecessities.org

“I truly stood there and said ‘I’m going to make a difference’, and from the get-go, I didn’t start small, I started big and dreamed big”

Ep. 22 Fulfillment and Struggles: A Nonprofit’s Story

Kathleen Casey – Founder of Bear Necessities

Pediatric cancer effects over 15,500 children each year!

Such a will and desire to live life and live it to its fullest even though they are dealt with something that is so serious and so uncommon.

It doesn’t take a lot to bring joy and happiness to these kid’s lives!

Started at the onset to support the hospitals in the Chicago area with things that could bring hope and joy to children’s lives while going through the battle. 23 years later, Bear Necessities is funding research across the United States to find a cure for cancer.

“Help kids rediscover their childhood while we’re discovering a cure to pediatric cancer at the same time.”

Partner up with another foundation and collaborate efforts to make a big difference

“When you have something that you really believe in, and you believe in yourself, follow those dreams and follow your heart.”

How to engage donors to fulfill the mission:

• Every dime counts – no donation is too big or small

• Show your donors where their dollars are going

• Develop a relationship - make your donors your friends

• Give donors autonomy around what their donation is funding

• Share results, outcomes, and stories with donors

Where to go for Transparency:

• Newsletters

• 990 with IRS

• Annual audit

• Better Business Bureau

• Independent Charities of America

• Charity Navigator

“Everybody has a talent, treasure, & time that can be so needed at non-profits”

Keep Learning and Follow Your Passion

“To go to work every day and love the things that you do is incredibly important”

Ways volunteers can get involved:

• Events

• Work directly with kids

• Utilize day-job skills

• Get involved with interests

“It really is a great thing to be able to give back and you have no idea how valuable what you have, inside your own self is for every nonprofit.”

Book Recommendation: Inside the Kingdom – Carmen Bin Ladin

Get in contact with Kathleen and Bear Necessities: Bearnecessities.org

“I truly stood there and said ‘I’m going to make a difference’, and from the get-go, I didn’t start small, I started big and dreamed big”

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Ep. 21 – Get Massive Impact with Energy Featuring IEP Method Creator, Anese Cavanaugh

Anese Cavanaugh is the creator of the IEP Method (Intentional Energetic Presence) as well as a leadership and collaboration advisor, strategist, and thinking partner for business leaders in the design, service and innovation spaces. Through her speaking, writing and creative leadership programs, people learn how to optimize their leadership and presence, bringing their best selves to the table for greater collaboration, impact, and cultural success.

[Connect with Anese: AneseCavanaugh.com, IEPMethod.com, and Twitter @AneseCavanaugh]

• A book coming out this Fall, 2015

• Live event in June, 2015 (see below for SDIHW discount!)

• IEP School is Open! (see below for SDIHW discount!)

Intentional Energetic Presence: Before I walk into a room I’m setting an intention of how I want to show up, how I want to feel and how I want the people’s experience of me to be from being in that room. Being really conscious of how I show up.

• Intentions: What do you want to create?

• Energy: How do you take care of yourself so you feel really good?

• Presence: How do I show up?

  • Stage presence + Charisma + Present in the Moment + Meditation

  • How present am I in this moment?

  • How present am I with the circumstances in my life?

“The more present I am from the inside-out, the more intentional I am, the better I take care of myself and the easier it is to put the IEP together.”

Burnout:

1. People creating great impact but health and relationships are suffering and they’re exhausted – not sustainable.

2. People who take really great care of themselves; however, they are not able to create the right kind of impact.

3. People who are creating impact and they’re taking care of themselves but they leave “dead bodies” everywhere they go.

• “Dead bodies”: You’re leading but you’re people aren’t following you because they want to follow you. They’re following because you’re giving them a paycheck and they’re afraid. – Leaving bad impact and making people feel like crap.

“Burnout is not always because somebody is working really hard and burning the candle at both ends […] people burn out more often when they get disconnected to purpose, and they get disconnected to their presence and what is actually happening.”

Burnout can come from an accumulation of present moments missed – Take some time to breathe and have downtime.

Boils down to the quality of the relationship with yourself, the quality of your connection to your purpose, the quality of how present you are, and the kind of support that you have in your life.

“We’re so ‘busy’, it has become this badge of honor, but we’re moving so fast that people lose connection to presence and they lose connection to the purpose of why they’re doing what they’re doing.”

“Busy” Alternatives :: “Richly Scheduled” or “Well Used”

IEP Method – Three Primary Components:

1. Your ability to reboot your presence in a moment

2. Being able to create intentional impact

   1. What are the outcomes I want?

   2. How do I want people to feel emotionally?

   3. How do I have to show up?

   4. What do I have to believe?

   5. What do I have to do?

3. Building a strong energetic field and IEP foundation

“There are all these different pieces that are happening, in terms of energy and presence, that are constantly impacting how you show up with the world that we’re not even conscious of.”

Basics for Presence and Energy Checks:

Focus on your breath.

• Think about where your butt is hitting the seat

• Your feet hitting the ground

• Your breath

Notice: “What is the relationship you have with what you’re working on?”

Identifying and Getting Back In Flow:

“I think our intuition is always 100% right, but our interpretation is sometimes wrong.”

Check in with the 4 Levels of The IEP Model

1. Values and Purpose – You in the center

2. Energy and Presence – Food, environment, emotional state

3. Competencies and Leadership Skills – How you actually get things done in the world

4. Impact your trying to have

“The Ick and The Umph”

• The Ick: When you have the feeling that something is off – “Every time I ignore that feeling it kicks my butt! You ignore ‘The Ick’, it is going to come for you later”

• The Umph: Heck yes – I  want this – It’s in flow

With The Ick – Go through the IEP levels and use it as a diagnostic tool

“What is one little thing you can do in each area that will help optimize that area for you?”

What is Impacting Our Space and Energy?

• Environment – Don’t take it for granted.

“There is something about post-its and sharpies that completely turn me on and I feel very energized by them”

• Energy is a choice - The stories we tell ourselves about energy.

  • Notice: How does the food that you’re eating and the decisions you’re making impact your energy?

-“It is about listening to yourself and listening to what feels good to you in your body, what feels good in your environment, and then designing your life to support that.”

-“Nobody is inspired by hearing how busy you are”

-“You can contribute to or detract from an energetic vibration at any time based upon the story you tell, how you show up, and your intentions behind it.”

-“Look at the stories you tell yourself and make sure they’re your stories, and if you’re going to tell stories make sure that they serve you.”

Book Recommendation:

• Anese’s book! -- Working Title: Contagious Culture (Look for it Fall, 2015)

• IEP Survival Guide

• Brene Brown

• The Anatomy of Peace - The Arbinger Institute

• Ignore Everybody – Hugh MacLeod

• Check out “Showing Up”, Anese’s column on Inc.com

**Anese is providing a 20% discount through the end of May for our listeners to attend the IEP Live! Leadership Summit happening in Ann Arbor June 25-26 Use the code: IMPACT at check out.

**And of course, Anese is offering all you lovelies a 10% discount on any level of IEP School (there are 3). Use the code: DIYW-IMPACT at check out. - For “Do It You Way” ;)

[Connect with Anese: AneseCavanaugh.com, IEPMethod.com, and Twitter @AneseCavanaugh]

All of Anese’s programs and offerings can be found at http://www.anesecavanaugh.com/store/

• SDIHW 003: Listen More, Talk Less
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• SDIHW 018: Embracing Vulnerability

Ep. 19 – Build a Mountain to Climb with Sarah Kunst

Sarah is a venture partner at Future Perfect Ventures and Fortis, an investor, a contributing editor for Marie Claire Magazine, and a startup, incubator, and accelerator advisor. Sarah is also involved in philanthropic efforts where she serves on the board of Venture for America and is very active in Help Us Adopt.

“From a really early age I realized that making money was fun because then I could buy whatever I wanted.”

Sarah’s Work Journey:

• Two farms growing up

• Fast Food

• Nanny

• Fragrance Industry – Coty Beauty

• Apple & Red Bull

• Marketing at Chanel

• Media startup – Guest of a Guest

• Personal Consulting

• Joined venture-backed startup

• Venture Capital Investing

“With the right people, if somebody really values your insight, you generally are going to get paid back for giving of yourself, giving of your time, and helping people.”

What do you look for in a company to invest in?

• The People –

  • With drive, integrity, hunger

  • Have capacity for learning and takes instruction well

  • Obsessively research their industry and company

You’re looking for someone who is going to work through when things get tough.

Tell us about one of your mistakes in investing: Finding companies that I love that just need a few of tweaks and not recognizing that the founders of those companies are not interested in change

Walk us through a typical day for Sarah:

• Phone Calls – “How I can help them and how they can help me”

• Breakfast, Lunch or Drinks Meetings – Reporters covering her company, company she wants to invest in, another investor she wants to send deals to

How do you stay organized?

• Memory, GoogleDocs, and Email

How to source the people reaching out:

• Look for a demonstrated amount of interest before asking for advice

• Try to figure out what people are actually asking you for

“Don’t ever ask somebody a question that you can Google”

Thinking critically and finding ways to meet as many people’s needs as possible, but also not completely burn yourself out in the process.

Mindset on Investing:

“Finding out things upfront and making sure, upfront, it really makes sense, is so important.”

• Don’t fall in love with a business before you know it can be profitable

• You’re not the exception

• Google profit margins for “X”

“I don’t look at business from a place of passion until I know that they can make money.”

“Starting a company is an irrational exercise. - I’m going to build a mountain so I can climb it.”

“Stay in love with the problem that you’re trying to solve, but don’t get too attached to the first solution that is trying to solve it.”

Talk about the imbalance and lack of diversity in Tech:

“Women need to really look at whether or not they may be internalizing the idea that guys are better at startups and investing than they are, and really shake that off!”

Sarah educates us on the most shocking facts and figures around tech and diversity

Staying motivated and inspired

“I love technology, I love innovation, and I love helping people”

Advice:

• “Be so excellent that no one can really doubt you”

Book Recommendation: Choose Yourself – James Altucher

Find Sarah via Twitter @SarahKunst and SarahKunst.com

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