I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story.

The beauty of this work we do is that we are surrounded by people who put their hearts into improving our world. As a video storyteller, as a speaker, and as someone who gives workshops for nonprofits, I’m always meeting truly wonderful people doing fascinating work.

And then, every so often, I meet someone where I’m just blown away: like, “Wow, this person gets it. They’re dedicated to it. They are just a difference maker."

My guest for this episode is one of those people. She is part of an advocacy movement, and she has such an exquisite grasp of everything such a movement requires from a storytelling standpoint. Tracie Gardner, executive director of the National Black Harm Reduction Network, joins DOT ORG.

I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story.

What an important time! End-of-year game-planning is afoot. Galas are drawing near. Giving Tuesday is three months away. My guest is a super-skilled development director who I met last year and got to work with this year, and from the start I’ve been so impressed with her clarity for fundraising, specifically around events. From the Global Village Project in Atlanta, Lane Strickland joins DOT ORG.

I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story.

If you’re a loyal listener of this podcast, or if you’ve followed me in any context – social media, my workshops about nonprofit storytelling – you’ve probably heard me talk about Lekotek of Georgia. For nearly 15 years I have been on the board at this terrific nonprofit in the Atlanta area. In that time, we have built up a culture of storytelling that I always reference as a model for other nonprofits of a similar size: meaning, relatively small. It’s only fitting that I’d devote a full episode of DOT ORG to interviewing the woman at the heart of the organization, Helene Prokesch. She’s been the executive director of Lekotek ever since she founded it in 1983.