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The Brave and Balanced Fundraiser

Erin McQuade-Wright

Business & Entrepreneuriat

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The Brave and Balanced Fundraiser is the podcast I wish had existed during my 15 years in fundraising. It’s a love offering to the people behind the mission—the professional fundraisers who give their hearts and energy every day to make the world better.

This show isn’t about strategy, metrics, or money. It’s about you—the human being doing the work. Each episode offers real tools and soulful conversations to help you regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your purpose, and renew your energy so you can lead with clarity, compassion, and courage.

If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, overworked, or caught in the constant pressure to perform, this podcast is your invitation to return home to yourself. Join me to learn how to cultivate balance, resilience, and authentic impact—from the inside out.

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Bypassing Bite #5: Stay in the Room

samedi 17 octobre 2026 • Durée 03:16

What to Do Instead of Bypassing

So if we stop bypassing, what do we do instead?

We stay.

Not forever. Not because discomfort is inherently good. And not because we need to wallow in every difficult emotion that comes along.

We simply practice staying present long enough to notice what’s actually happening before we rush to avoid it, fix it, reframe it or make it disappear.

In this final installment of Bypassing Bites, we bring the series together with a simple practice for meeting uncomfortable moments differently: notice, name, stay and choose.

What am I feeling? What am I trying to avoid? Can I stay with this sensation for just a little longer? And if I weren’t trying to escape this feeling, what would I choose to do next?

Because emotional mastery isn’t getting so evolved that uncomfortable feelings stop showing up. It’s becoming increasingly capable of staying with yourself when they do.

Your final Bypassing Bite:
What becomes possible when discomfort is no longer an emergency?

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Bypassing Bite #4: Peace at Any Price Isn’t Peace

vendredi 16 octobre 2026 • Durée 02:32

The Hidden Cost of Needing Everyone to Be Okay

There’s a difference between being peaceful and needing there to be peace.

If you need everyone around you to be happy, comfortable and pleased with you, keeping the peace can become a full-time job.

You monitor people’s reactions. Soften what you really mean. Say yes when you mean no. Take responsibility for someone else’s disappointment. Rush in to fix tension before you’ve even decided whether it’s yours to fix.

And ironically, all that peacekeeping can leave you with very little peace inside yourself.

In this fourth installment of Bypassing Bites, we look at what happens when our desire for harmony becomes a way of avoiding discomfort—and why someone else’s disappointment, frustration or disagreement doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve done something wrong.

Real peace has room for awkwardness. It has room for disagreement. It even has room for someone not being happy with you.

Your Bypassing Bite:
Can I allow someone else to be disappointed without immediately trying to make their disappointment go away?

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Bypassing Bite #3: I Just Don’t Like Conflict

jeudi 15 octobre 2026 • Durée 05:15

When Being Easy to Work With Gets Expensive

“I hate drama.”
“I’m pretty easygoing.”
“It’s not worth making a thing out of it.”
“I can just let it go.”

Sometimes that’s discernment. And sometimes it’s avoidance dressed up as a virtue.

In this third installment of Bypassing Bites, we’re looking at conflict avoidance—and the ways being agreeable, flexible and “easy to work with” can keep us from saying what actually needs to be said.

Avoiding the conversation may keep things comfortable in the moment. But the conflict doesn’t necessarily disappear. It can show up instead as resentment, exhaustion, withdrawal, over-explaining or quietly checking out.

Not having the conversation doesn’t mean you’ve eliminated the conflict. Sometimes you’ve simply moved the conflict inside yourself.

In this bite-sized episode of The Brave & Balanced Fundraiser, we explore what it costs us to continually keep the peace—and what can change when we become more willing to tolerate the discomfort of honest conversation.

Your Bypassing Bite:
What conversation am I avoiding because I’m more comfortable being uncomfortable myself than risking making someone else uncomfortable?

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Bypassing Bite #2: Avoidance Works. That’s the Problem.

mercredi 14 octobre 2026 • Durée 04:37

Why the Thing That Gives You Relief Today Creates Trouble Tomorrow

Avoidance gets a bad rap. But here’s the problem: avoidance works.

Don’t send the email. Don’t make the ask. Don’t have the uncomfortable conversation. Say “it’s fine” and move on.

And almost immediately, you feel better.

That relief is exactly what makes avoidance such an effective self-preservation strategy—and why we keep returning to it. But the thing we avoided rarely disappears. Instead, we may be teaching ourselves that the discomfort itself is something we can’t handle.

In this bite-sized episode of The Brave & Balanced Fundraiser, we look at why avoiding discomfort can feel so good in the moment, how short-term relief can create bigger problems later, and what changes when we become more willing to stay with discomfort instead of immediately trying to escape it.

Because sometimes the very thing you’re doing to protect yourself from discomfort is also protecting you from the result you want.

Your Bypassing Bite:
Where am I choosing short-term relief at the expense of long-term freedom?

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Bypassing Bite #1: "But I’m Trying to Stay Positive"

mardi 13 octobre 2026 • Durée 04:59

Spiritual Bypassing and the Feelings We’d Rather Not Feel

What if “staying positive” isn’t always as healthy as it sounds?

In this first installment of Bypassing Bites, a five-part mini-series from The Brave & Balanced Fundraiser, we’re looking at spiritual bypassing—the ways we can use positivity, gratitude, forgiveness, spirituality and even personal-growth language to avoid feelings we’d rather not feel.

Sometimes “I’m choosing gratitude” really is gratitude. Sometimes “I’ve let it go” really does mean we’ve let it go.

And sometimes we’re trying to skip over the anger, hurt, disappointment or fear underneath it.

In this bite-sized episode, we explore the difference between genuinely moving through an emotion and trying to get to the other side of it before we’ve actually allowed ourselves to feel it.

Because emotional mastery isn’t about feeling good all the time. It’s about becoming more willing to be with what’s actually here.

Your Bypassing Bite:
What feeling am I trying my hardest not to feel?

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✨ Stay Connected & Continue Your Fundraising Growth

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Book a Brave & Balanced Breakthrough Call: A personalized 1:1 session to support your inner clarity and fundraising wellbeing. 👉

How to Ask Without Feeling Like a Burden, With Susan Fox

mardi 6 octobre 2026 • Durée 49:43

Releasing the fear of imposing so you can fundraise with clarity and ease.

In this live coaching session, Erin sits down with Susan Fox, a practitioner and nonprofit founder who feels like she’s imposing whenever she asks for donations. Together, they unpack the money stories she inherited from family, the “I have to do it all myself” pattern, and the shame that shows up in her body every time she thinks about fundraising.

If you’ve ever felt like asking for support is a burden—or worried people will avoid you if you make the ask—this conversation will feel very familiar.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How early money messages (like “don’t ask for more”) quietly shape your fundraising style
Why the belief “I’m imposing on people” is actually a protective strategy, not a character flaw
How mixed energy (wanting to ask + fearing the ask) leaks into your emails, appeals, and donor conversations
A simple reframe: from “I’m bothering them” to “I’m offering an opportunity to be part of something meaningful”
A compassionate self-forgiveness process you can borrow to soften old blocks and create safety inside your own system

You’ll walk away with language, insight, and a next step you can use right away as you prepare your next appeal.

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One Foot In, One Foot Out

mardi 29 septembre 2026 • Durée 21:25

What Your Split Energy Is Communicating Before You Say a Word

You say you want the gift. The promotion. The client. The opportunity.

But is all of you moving toward it?

In this episode of The Brave & Balanced Fundraiser, Erin explores “split energy”—what happens when one part of us wants something while another part is quietly backing away.

Using the story of a real estate agent who seemed enthusiastic about selling her house and then disappeared, Erin looks at the messages we're sending beyond our words. Because people aren't only listening to what we say. They're experiencing our follow-through, body language, presence, hesitation, urgency, and energy.

And in fundraising, that matters.

Split energy might look like avoiding the ask, softening it until it's barely an ask at all, overexplaining, failing to follow up—or desperately needing the donor to say yes.

But being “all in” doesn't mean eliminating fear, doubt, or uncertainty. It means becoming clear about your part: showing up, making the invitation, staying present, and allowing the other person to be free in their response.

In this episode:

How to recognize split energy in yourself
Why your actions may be communicating something different from your words
How both hesitation and over-efforting can come from the same internal conflict
Why being all in doesn't require certainty
The power of high involvement, low attachment
A simple inquiry for discovering where you may have one foot in and one foot out

A question to take with you:
What would change about your behavior if you'd already decided you were fully available for what you say you want?

Because your job isn't to control someone else's yes.

Your job is to notice whether you've said yes to your part.

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Why do I Keep Doing That?!

mardi 22 septembre 2026 • Durée 13:38

The Hidden Patterns Making Fundraising Harder Than It Has to Be

September used to make me itch. As a professional fundraiser, I knew the all-important fourth quarter was approaching, and I never felt ready. Appeals, Giving Tuesday, events, planned giving messaging—my days were long on tasks and short on energy.

I kept working, but underneath all that activity was a familiar mix of overwhelm, pressure, and avoidance.

What I understand now that I didn't understand then is that the problem wasn't just my workload. Some of the patterns I brought to my workload were making an already demanding season even harder.

In this episode, we explore why we keep doing things we know aren't helping us—overthinking, taking rejection personally, saying yes when we mean no, avoiding uncomfortable conversations, and carrying things that aren't ours to carry. We'll look at how to recognize these patterns with curiosity and begin choosing a different response.

Because maybe you don't need another Q4 strategy right now. Maybe you need fewer old patterns coming with you into Q4.

Join me for a free workshop:
Why Do I Keep Doing That?! Discover the Hidden Patterns Shaping How You Fundraise, Work and Lead

September 24 | 3 p.m. Eastern
90 minutes | Virtual | Free

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The Awkward Middle

mardi 15 septembre 2026 • Durée 32:05

Navigating the Heebie Jeebies of Learning in Public

We love growth. We just don't necessarily love letting other people watch us grow.

There's an awkward middle between deciding you want to get better at something and actually becoming good at it—a place where you don't quite know what you're doing yet, other people may be watching, and you can't control what they think about your performance.

For many of us, that's when preparation starts to look awfully attractive.

One more course. A little more research. Another degree. A few more donor touches. Just a little more practice before we put ourselves out there.

But when does responsible preparation become hiding?

In this episode of The Brave & Balanced Fundraiser, I'm exploring the vulnerability of learning in public—and sharing some of my own discomfort with doing exactly that as I learn how to podcast. We'll look at why being a capable, accomplished adult can actually make beginnerhood harder, what research tells us about women's desire to feel prepared before pursuing professional opportunities, and why avoiding discomfort can quietly cost us the very experience we need to grow.

We'll also look at how this shows up in fundraising: delaying the major-gift ask, researching instead of talking to donors, waiting until we can answer every possible question, or convincing ourselves we're not quite ready for the next opportunity.

Because eventually, there's something preparation can't give us:

Experience.

In this episode:

Why being inexperienced is not the same as being incompetent
How preparation can quietly turn into hiding
Why avoiding vulnerability feels so good in the short term—and what it costs us over time
The difference between waiting until you're completely ready and being ready enough to learn the rest by doing it
How fear of not knowing the answer can keep fundraisers from having the conversations that actually move the needle
Why confidence and capability are often the of taking action, not prerequisites for it

The Fastest Way to Lose a Great Idea

mardi 8 septembre 2026 • Durée 16:19

Why your first reaction to a big vision may be the very thing keeping you small

Have you ever had an exciting idea—only to talk yourself out of it before it had a chance to breathe?

In this episode, I share a powerful insight from a recent one-on-one business retreat: the biggest obstacle to our dreams often isn't a lack of time, money, or opportunity. It's the habit of rushing straight to the logistics.

When we're operating from old patterns of fear or self-protection, our minds become remarkably efficient at explaining why something won't work. Before we've even allowed ourselves to imagine what's possible, we've already dismissed it.

What if the first step isn't figuring out how your vision will happen—but giving yourself permission to simply hold it?

Whether you're dreaming about a bold fundraising initiative, a career move, or a life that feels more aligned, this episode invites you to notice how quickly you leave possibility behind—and how opening your heart may be the key to opening your future.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Why your nervous system may be shutting down creativity before it has a chance to emerge.
How childhood patterns of staying safe can quietly keep you thinking small as an adult.
The surprising connection between an open heart and expansive vision.
Why jumping immediately to "how" can suffocate your best ideas.
A simple practice to help you stay with possibility long enough to discover what's truly available.

Sometimes the most courageous thing you can do isn't to build the dream.

It's to stop talking yourself out of it.

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