One Visit Away
By: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Language: en-us
Categories: Business, Non-profit
One Visit Away is a podcast focused on helping major gift fundraisers achieve their potential by inspiring them to increase the number and quality of visits they have with their benefactors or prospective benefactors. This motivation comes about by hearing fascinating stories of visits that went well from a wide array of development professionals. When you hear these stories of success, you will realize that you too are just One Visit Away from a transformational experience for your benefactors and your organization.
Episodes
#246 Raising Money for Scouting America with Janssen Lemley
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#245 Ask Questions Like This to Raise Millions
Dec 10, 2025🔥 Make 2026 Your Best Year Ever! 🔥
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There is no discount, you pay the full price of $1,500, but you get:
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3. A 60-minute coaching call with me. (We'll schedule this for January 2026 and can discuss anything on your mind whether it's major gift related o...
#244 No Red Wine Allowed!
Dec 03, 2025If you want to win in major gifts, you need to protect your mental state. Don't let yourself be dragged down by negative people.
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Duration: 00:12:12#243 Surviving Cancer and Getting Licked by a Great Dane with Sarah Conner
Nov 26, 2025Sarah Conner is the Director of Development at YES and she bring some incredible stories to the podcast including ones about fundraising, surviving cancer, and her experiences in childhood that lead to a career in the nonprofit world.
Duration: 00:46:33#242 One More Attempt!
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Duration: 00:08:27#241 Mindset is the Game with John Heinen
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Duration: 00:47:38#240 Going All In To Serve the Special Needs Community with Nate Wertz
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Duration: 01:10:49#239 Is Giving Down Because of the Economy?
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Duration: 00:11:16#238 Is There A Formula To Determine How Much To Ask For?
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Duration: 00:12:44#237 These Teachers Gave a $4 Million Gift! with Nicki Hendrix
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Duration: 00:36:40#236 Respond to Objections Like a Pro!
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Duration: 00:15:55#235 Feeling Stuck? Take Action!
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Duration: 00:12:53#234 Do Fundraising Consultants Actually Help? with Evan Woolsoncroft
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Duration: 00:41:56#233 Should You Go Back to Old Contacts?
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Duration: 00:11:31#232 A Drunk Donor and A Million Dollar Gift with Lora Croley (Re-upload)
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Duration: 00:56:08#231 Stressed Out or Panicking? You Need a Plan!
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Duration: 00:16:43#230 Fundraising is Hard. Keep Going!
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Duration: 00:10:08#229 How To Make This The Most Profitable Q4
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Duration: 00:07:57#228 The Homeless Millionaire and Founding a School with Reev Rohter
Oct 13, 2025This episode is epic. Reev Rohter is a Real Estate Broker, but has also helped found a school and has endless stories of asking for money, getting asked for money, as well as sales stories.
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Duration: 01:28:24#227 Change the Terms; Close More Gifts
Oct 10, 2025Want to close more gifts? Change the terms! Make it easier for a donor to say yes.
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Duration: 00:06:39#226 My Biggest Sales Regret
Oct 08, 2025Here's how you know you compensation plan is unethical: if you wouldn't feel comfortable telling a donor how you're paid.
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Duration: 00:09:55#225 A Donor Revoked a $25 Million Estate Gift with Jeff Scott
Oct 06, 2025Would you stick to your principles if it cost your org a $25 Million gift?
In this episode Jeff Scott with ICM shares some incredible stories from his long career in major gifts including one where not compromising his values caused a donor to take their org out of his will.
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Duration: 00:40:20#224 What is Freedom Worth?
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Duration: 00:12:44#223 The Hedge Fund Billionaire and the Pony Stable Farmer with Andrew Kerr
Sep 29, 2025Getting in front of people leads to incredible things.
In this episode you'll hear 3 unique stories of a hedge fund billionaire, a farmer, and a philanthropist who all gave incredible gifts after an in person visit.
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Duration: 00:41:18#222 When Should You Change Jobs?
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Duration: 00:08:05#221 Advice from a Donor Asked Every Day with Rob Hays
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Duration: 00:59:24#220 Send This to Your Boss
Sep 17, 2025If you're running a nonprofit you need to get involved in fundraising.
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Duration: 00:13:19#219 Childhood Trauma, Healing, and The Goodness in People with Jim Langley
Sep 15, 2025Jim Langley is a major gift legend.
If you don't know Jim, he is likely the most well respected fundraising consultant of our time.
Jim was gracious enough to join me in Dallas for his second appearance on the podcast, but this time he really opened up about the experiences that shaped him.
If you want to grow as a fundraiser and as a human, make sure you listen to what Jim has to share.
Learn more about Jim's work here: https://langleyinnovations.com/
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Duration: 01:32:26#218 No One Responds to Me!
Sep 10, 2025If no one is responding to you, here are a few things you can do to start getting more responses and scheduling more visits!
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Duration: 00:11:42#217 From a $300,000 Budget to Launching a $21 Million Campaign with Jim Norton
Sep 08, 2025Jim Norton is an entrepreneur, board member, and all around great guy.
You'll hear some incredible stories from a board member that actually asks for money!
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Duration: 00:37:00#216 Four Lessons Learned From a Bad Ask
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Duration: 00:11:22#215 Skydiving and Major Gifts at 90 Years Old with Joe McIlhaney
Aug 27, 2025What are you going to be doing at 90 years old?
This week's guest is Joe McIhaney, the Founder of the Medical Institute, a great man, one of my clients, and now... a skydiver.
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Duration: 01:07:34#214 How To Determine How Much You Should Ask For
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Duration: 00:28:27#213 Should You Talk About Money with a Dying Donor?
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Duration: 00:08:28#212 Do You Have A Strategy for Major Gifts?
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Duration: 00:07:39#211 How I Lost 20 Pounds-- A Conversation with Fitness Coach Cody Lutz
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Duration: 00:42:30#210 A 60 Minute Guide To Your First Major Gift
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Duration: 00:45:41#209 My Journey From Volunteer Intern to Entrepreneur
Jul 11, 2025Big Summer Blowout on Major Gift Millions!
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Duration: 00:15:34#208 Digital Minimalism and K-12 Fundraising with Robert Clements
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Duration: 00:49:48#207 Courage in Fundraising with Julie Ordoñez
Jul 07, 2025Big Summer Blowout on Major Gift Millions!
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Duration: 00:58:01#206 The Biggest Thing Holding You Back
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Duration: 00:04:42#205 7-Figure Gifts and Mostly True Stories with Tom Ryan and Ryan Loutsis
Jul 02, 2025This is the hardest I've laughted in the studio in a while. Tom and Ryan from NET Ministries bring hilarious stories as well as great wisdom. Enjoy this great conversation!
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Duration: 00:57:41#204 Planned Giving and Vacations to the Airport with Tom Thimons
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4. You get access to my webinar "Your Path to a 6-Figure Coaching Business" detailing how I started and run my major gift coaching business.
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Duration: 00:53:21#203 Feeling Stuck? Try Something!
Jun 27, 2025Big Summer Blowout on Major Gift Millions!
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2. The course is normally $1,500 for individual access, but during the sale it's only $1,000.
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4. You get access to my webinar "Your Path to a 6-Figure Coaching Business" detailing how I started and run my major gift coaching business.
5. Use the coupon code SUMMER at checkout.
If you want your entire team to have lifetime access to the course, use the c...
Duration: 00:08:43#202 A Hospital Patient Turned Into A $250,000 Donor with Caitlin Derderian
Jun 25, 2025A game-changing conversation with Caitlin Derderian from Stony Brook Medicine.
Caitlin shares several powerful stories about success in major gifts, but also talks about loss in her family that has impacted her work to this day.
I promise you Caitlin will get you excited to go schedule visits for your own mission!
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Duration: 00:37:10#201 Donating a Wildebeest and Becoming an Entrepreneur with Colin Stroud
Jun 23, 2025Colin Stroud: Fundraiser turned entrepreneur.
You might know Colin as the points guy on Linkedin and the founder of https://www.gosomewhere.world/ but before that he was a major gift fundraiser.
Listen to some of his stories here.
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Duration: 00:48:15#200 Three Reflections After 200 EPISODES!
Jun 18, 2025Big Summer Blowout on Major Gift Millions!
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2. The course is normally $1,500 for individual access, but during the sale it's only $1,000.
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4. You get access to my webinar "Your Path to a 6-Figure Coaching Business" detailing how I started and run my major gift coaching business.
5. Use the coupon code SUMMER at checkout.
If you want your entire team to have lifetime access to the course, use the c...
Duration: 00:09:26#199 Caring More About The Person Than Their Money with Russel Dains
Jun 16, 2025Russel Dains is the President and CEO of Save Our Youth in Denver.
In this episode you'll hear some incredible stories of how Russel was able to work with donors experiencing difficult circumstances as well as some of hilarious situations he found himself in.
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Duration: 00:55:44#198 Stop Listening to The Wrong People!
Jun 11, 2025If you want to win at major gifts, you need to keep up the positive energy. Stop listening to people that don't know what they're talking about.
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Duration: 00:09:29#197 Joy in Fundraising and Launching a Business with Jake Kubik
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Duration: 00:50:19#196 The LIE About Fundraising in the Summer!
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Duration: 00:06:20#195 A 6-Figure Gift On A First Visit with Stephen Beaudoin
Jun 02, 2025Stephen Beaudoin is Director of Individual Giving at Houston Grand Opera.
Stephen brings decades of experience and wisdom from the fundraising world to the podcast this week.
Give the show a listen to be inspired to scheduled more visits and be sure to connect with Stephen on Linkedin.
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Duration: 01:21:32#194 Difficult Workouts, Goals, And No Experience Fundraising Consultants
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Duration: 00:11:34#193 A $50 Million Capital Campaign with Fr. Richard Hermes and Nick Suszynski
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Duration: 01:18:11#192 Sour Candy and Major Gifts
May 22, 2025If you want to succeed in major gifts you need to put in hard work consistently for years.
In this episode you'll hear about an entrepreneur that inspired me to get back to uploading podcast episodes consistently.
I hope this helps you find your own inspiration and get back to putting in the hard work over time.
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Duration: 00:08:24#191 The Donor Slammed His Hands On The Table with Claire Keupen
May 19, 2025This week's guest Claire Keupen was a babysitter for my kids when she was a student in college.
Now, she's a highly competent major gift fundraiser and shares some amazing stories from her time working in major gifts with Young Catholic Professionals.
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Duration: 00:52:02#190 From Receiving Generosity as a Child To Working in Philanthropy with David Duxbury
May 12, 2025David Duxbury is gaining serious traction through his posts on LinkedIn about fundraising.
Listen to learn why he's so passionate about the work he's doing and you'll be inspired to go schedule some more visits!
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#189 Bringing Clean Water To The Unreached with Brandon Gossett
May 05, 2025Brandon Gossett quit his dream job after a life changing experience. This is one of my favorite conversations ever on the podcast and you won't want to miss it.
Brandon and the team at Neverthirst have all been through Major Gift Millions.
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#188 Three Ways to Make More Money in Major Gifts
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Duration: 00:21:47#187 Strategic Listening and Board Involvement with Kent Stroman
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Duration: 01:11:25#186 Living An Undivided Life With Jeff Schiefelbein
Apr 21, 2025Enter to win $100 Amazon Gift Card and Free Access to Major Gift Millions!
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Duration: 00:37:46#185 Meeting Mother Teresa And Serving The Poor with Anand Bheemarasetti
Apr 14, 2025Enter to win $100 Amazon Gift Card and Free Access to Major Gift Millions!
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Duration: 00:53:04#184 Asking Questions is a Superpower with Peter Blute
Apr 07, 2025Don't miss this great conversation with Peter Blute from Young Catholic Professionals.
To learn more about the job click this link: https://www.youngcatholicprofessionals.org/careers-at-ycp
Duration: 00:42:31This 23 Year Old Startup Founder Raised Money and Quit His Job
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Duration: 00:43:51#182 Is Asking On A First Visit Transactional?
Mar 28, 2025Get enrolled in the giveaway to win a $100 Amazon Gift card AND Free access to Major Gift Millions.
All you have to do to enroll is leave a rating and review of One Visit Away on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and send me a screenshot of your review.
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Duration: 00:10:10#181 See The People! with Fr. Mark Perkins
Mar 26, 2025Want to win in major gifts? SEE THE PEOPLE!
Fr. Mark Perkins is raising money for St. Dustan's Academy a boarding school for boys in Virginia.
He is fairly new to the world of fundraising, but has had some incredible success.
You will be inspired by his stories and want to go get some visits scheduled.
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Duration: 00:50:59#180 A 7-Figure Ask on a First Visit with Joe Bradley
Mar 20, 2025If you don't learn to respond to objections, you're leaving millions on the table!
Joe Bradley from BC High shares several incredible stories that will inspire you to go schedule some visits.
Most notably, he was able to schedule a visit with a couple that originally declined his offer. This soon led to a 7-figure gift.
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Duration: 00:53:37#179 Being Arrogant is Killing Your Fundraising Success
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#178 The Donor Brings a Guest... What Should You Do?
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#177 You Asked for Too Much!
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#176 How a $100 Gift Turned into $100,000 with Kara Mone
Dec 02, 2024This incredible conversation with Kara Mone illustrates exactly why I do what I do.
There are people in your database right now who have the ability to give WAY more than they are currently giving.
But if you don't visit with me, you're never going to know that they can and are willing to help.
Kara shares several stories highlighting donors who initially gave modest gifts and then increased by orders of magnitude.
Additionally, you'll learn about what's made her so successful at scheduling visits and getting referrals.
You don't...
#175 STOP ASKING SO MUCH!
Nov 12, 2024Most nonprofits ask their major donors WAY too much.
If you want to transform your fundraising results, you need to get as far away as possible from just throwing information and asks at donors.
YOU NEED TO GET TO KNOW THEM!
The only way to really do that is to get a visit scheduled.
The information you learn from a donor is almost infinitely more valuable than the things you will tell them.
Go get the visit scheduled now.
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#174 There Are No Small Meetings with Matt Letourneau CEO of neverthirst
Nov 07, 2024neverthirst is doing big things.
Since 2018, they've grown from a $2.5 Million budget to nearly $10 Million this year.
Matt Letourneau shares several incredibles stories ranging from individuals giving millions of dollars down to young adults coming together and spreading the word to ultimately raising millions.
If you want to learn more about how you can help, go to neverthirstwater.org
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#173 Fundraising From Friends and Nonprofit Compensation with Brett Attebery
Oct 31, 2024onevisitaway.com/millions
Duration: 00:53:46#172 STOP PRESSURING DONORS!
Oct 08, 2024Are you viewing your relationships over 10 years or 10 days?
Too many major gift fundraisers rush asks because leadership is putting too much pressure on their team.
If you want to have great, long-term relationships, you need to the freedom to NOT constantly put pressure on donors.
It only winds up costing you money in the long run.
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#171 Use This to Schedule More Visits!
Oct 02, 2024If you want to schedule more visits, you need to ignore the voices telling you to not make attempts.
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#170 Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor with Andrew Olsen
Sep 26, 2024Andrew Olsen is in an elite club: The 3 time guest club on One Visit Away!
Andrew is one of the most trusted voices in the nonprofit fundraising world and listening to this episode you'll see why.
Andrew shares how to make direct mail work harder.
Losing almost 200 pounds.
Treating every donor like a major donor.
Why he's focused his career on helping build organizations.
You don't want to miss this great episode!
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#169 An Epic First Visit with Giovanni Mowrey!
Sep 12, 2024I'm not sure I've ever heard of a first visit going well for a fundraiser. It's such a new experience with so many nerves and unknowns.
Until I interviewed Giovanni Mowrey-- his first visit was epic!
I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
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#168 Growing To Nearly $5 Million in Revenue with Dani Ruhf
Aug 28, 2024Every great organization starts with a story.
Chop Out Hunger is one of the most amazing organizations I have had the honor of working with.
Listen to this episode to hear from Dani Ruhf the founder of the organization.
Her story will inspire you to do bold things and dream bigger!
Check out their website here: https://chopouthunger.org/
#167 Flatscreen TV's and Deceiving Donors
Aug 07, 2024Don't deceive your donors.
It will always harm you in the long run!
#166 When Is It Time To Leave a Job You Love?
Jul 16, 20242 Year Anniversary Sale on Major Gift Millions!
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#165 Networking and Landing Multiple Job Offers with Molly Zepeda
Jul 09, 20242 Year Anniversary Sale on Major Gift Millions!
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4. You get your money back if you don't love it!
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#164 The Best Way To Learn Major Gifts
Jul 01, 20242 Year Anniversary Sale on Major Gift Millions!
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4. You get your money back if you don't love it!
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#163 Passion and Overcoming Objections with Rabbi Shaya Fox
Jun 25, 20242 Year Anniversary Sale on Major Gift Millions!
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4. You get your money back if you don't love it!
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#162 How Do You Make $1 Million/Year?
Jun 18, 20242 Year Anniversary Sale on Major Gift Millions!
4 Reasons to enroll now:
1. It's 40% off individual or team access!
2. You get a 30 minute coaching call with me at no extra cost! (60 minutes for team access)
3. You get access to "Your Path to a 6-Figure Coaching Business" the webinar I did teaching you exactly how I started my business
4. You get your money back if you don't love it!
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#161 Grit, Conquering Fear, and Reaching $1 Million with Maria Puccini
Jun 11, 2024Maria Puccini is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of In My Shoes.
In this episode, you'll hear about how Maria developed grit, times she's conquered her fears, and how she's grown the organization to over $1 Million in annual revenue.
Additionally, Maria has had a couple of kids in the last few years and she shares her experience navigating major gifts while being a mom.
Make sure you tune into this episode to hear some incredible stories about how big gifts come about.
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#160 Prayer and a 6-Figure Gift with Micah Tomasella
Jun 05, 2024Micah Tomasella is an Advancement Officer with Denison Ministries.
Listen to hear how asking a donor if they need prayers can lead to great things for the donor and you organization.
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#159 One Visit...$1 Million with Mike Murray
May 28, 2024THE FIRST EVER IN PERSON EPISODE!
After 4 years, the One Visit Away podcast is now exclusively an in person podcast.
To celebrate the occasion, I brought back Mike Murray who was the first ever guest on the podcast 4 years ago.
In this episode Mike shares several stories including one that led to $1 Million being given in a ten month period.
Mike also talks about call reluctance after being in the industry for more than a decade.
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#158 Should I Ask On The First Visit?
May 22, 2024Go get some visits scheduled and raise some money!
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#157 STOP TOUCHING YOUR DONORS!
May 14, 2024I heard some terrible advice that you should touch a donor's arm before you leave the visit.
I hate this advice and this episode explains why.
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#156 How Many Calls Should I Make?
May 07, 2024If you want to win at major gifts, you need to make a lot of attempts to schedule visits.
But how many is enough?
Listen to this episode to find out!
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#155 Why Sales People Fail at Major Gifts
Apr 30, 2024Are sales people destined to fail at major gifts?
Or are the "great" sales people you're hiring actually just slightly above average?
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#154 Don't Let the Idiots Win
Apr 24, 2024Go get some visits scheduled and raise some money!
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#153 You Don't Need a New CRM!
Apr 19, 2024Stop focusing on the things that don't matter.
Go get some visit scheduled and raise some money!
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#152 Your Product Sucks!
Apr 11, 2024We're back!
Check out this episode to learn why your fundraising efforts might be lackluster.
#151 How To Ask Awkward Questions That Lead to Big Gifts
Nov 10, 2023If you want to close big gifts consistently you need to learn how to ask good questions.
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#150 In Home Fundraising Events for Major Gifts!
Oct 30, 2023Join the nearly 400 students in my online training program Major Gift Millions here: OneVisitAway.com/millions
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#149 You're Not Making Enough Calls!
Oct 24, 2023Join the nearly 400 students in my online training program Major Gift Millions here: OneVisitAway.com/millions
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Ends October 31st!
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#148 A Clear Path to Success in Major Gifts
Oct 06, 2023A friend of mine was interested in working in major gifts, but she told me that it just seemed so mysterious.
I think that is a perfect description of what major gifts looks like to people who haven't experienced success in major gifts.
My goal with this episode is to remove the mystery and give you clarity around how to succeed in major gifts.
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#157 All Matches Suck... Except This One
Sep 25, 2023If you work in fundraising, you know almost all matches are fake... "Give before midnight and your money will be doubled!"
No it won't.
That money is already in the nonprofits account and it really doesn't matter if someone gives or not.
At least that's how 99% of matches work in my experience.
In this episode you'll hear my solution to using matches effectively to win at major gifts.
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