The Ethical Rainmaker

The Ethical Rainmaker

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The Ethical Rainmaker episodes

  • The Hidden Danger of Purity Culture, ft. Lorraine Nibut

    Juicy episode alert! Michelle and Lorraine break down many aspects of purity culture and how this form of supremacy and oppression — controls and dictates how we express ourselves, causing anguish and keeping us from our best work. From large breasts, to Honey Boo Boo, the Atlanta spa shooting and fetishization, the Fyre Festival  and consent violation ... Michelle and Lorraine explore the many ways purity culture holds us down — and what we can do to fight back against it! 

    Links:

    Check out Michelle's workshop collabs here: https://www.freedom-conspiracy.com/workshops--trainings.html

    Reach Lorraine Nibut here! https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainenibut/

    The Game defends his 12yo, cite 1 and cite 2

    Fyre Festival article and documentary

    Purity culture as motive for Atlanta spa shootings

    Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

    Lorraine's recommends: 

    + Present how you are most comfortable, unapologetically

    + Embrace your identities - own it and rise above the shamers

    + Speak your needs choose courage over comfort as courage can bring comfort

    + Express when something is uncomfortable for you

    + Face when your own discomfort is preventing you from your own success

    49 min
  • Why White People Have A Hard Time Being Real ft Fleur Larsen

    Fleur drops some knowledge especially for our white colleagues - for example "we can't move forward until  we've tended to what's occurred - most orgs need to do repair...not pretend that we can just move forward like nothing happened, you gotta try and see what happens." 

    Check out our new workshops just for you!

    Here are some of the resources she loves on this topic:
    + Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work by Dax-Devlon Ross
    + How to plan a White Caucus Agenda by Pippi Kessler
    + Racial Identity Caucusing: A Strategy for Building Anti-Racist Collectives by Crossroads
    + Why We're All Suffering from Racial Trauma (Even White People) -- and How to Handle It by Resmaa Menakem via Ten Percent Happier
    + A Call to White People: It's Time To Live In The Answer by Melia LaCour

    Oh and Doctors Without Borders recently set this example of truth telling!

    43 min
  • Patagonia did WHAT? ft Andy King

    "If you're giving back, maybe you should just stop taking." Wow, so much to say about current events in the world of nonprofits and philanthropy including ridiculous claims and unethical, dishonest behavior from UK's famous BrewDog, dishonest partnership and tokenization at Forterra in Seattle, the relationship between extractive practices, power hoarding and Patagonia, and beloved Captain Tom and his daughter, mourning through greed! Show notes can be found at theethicalrainmaker.com

    Learn about upcoming collaborations between Michelle and guests like Andy King, Mallory Mitchell, Fleur Larsen, Rachel D'Souza-Siebert and more - at http://www.theethicalrainmaker.com/

     

     

    49 min
  • Are We Even Evaluating What Matters? ft Dr Marcia Coné
    Traditional philanthropy has been asking nonprofits to jump through ridiculous and paternalistic hoops since its inception. But as movements like CCF require institutions to rethink how we do our work, we are not questioning our evaluation and metrics practices! In a world where tech money wants us to quantify our work, what is truly meaningful and how do we change!? Michelle talks with Marcia about Equitable Evaluation Framework and how our practices are so wrong and how to do better.
    48 min
  • Shame On You and Guilt Too ft Dr. Anu Taranath
    We throw shade and cause guilt and shame in social justice work all the time! But is finger pointing effective or does it just make us feel better to make someone else wrong? In this ep, Michelle and Anu, author of Oprah-loved book Beyond Guild Trips, build analysis through a lens of travel ethics and what it means to truly move forward.
    44 min
  • The Drizzle: Emotions That Sabotage Getting Money

    In this third and final-for-now episode of our Drizzle Miniseries, our Ethical Rainmaker host Michelle talks with Stacy about the emotions that can sabotage us when it comes to money! They discuss the impact of our personal narratives and family of origin stories — and how all of that shows up in how we run nonprofits and fundraising.

    23 min

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The Ethical Rainmaker hosts authentic conversations grappling with tough questions in the nonprofit and philanthropy space, including where we can step into our power and where we should step out of…