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The Ethical Rainmaker

Michelle Shireen Muri

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 41

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 the way! Follow @theethicalrainmaker on Insta and FB and sign up for our mailing list at www.theethicalrainmaker.com

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🇨🇦 Canada - howTo
12/06/2026
#67
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11/01/2026
#97
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10/01/2026
#82
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09/01/2026
#69
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08/01/2026
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07/01/2026
#56
🇫🇷 France - howTo
06/01/2026
#47
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#33
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04/01/2026
#22
🇫🇷 France - howTo
03/01/2026
#13

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https://www.freedom-conspiracy.com/
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https://www.collectingcourage.org/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
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The Hidden Danger of Purity Culture, ft. Lorraine Nibut

Season 4 · Episode 9

Thursday, December 29, 2022 • Duration 48:42

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

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

Season 4 · Episode 8

Friday, December 16, 2022 • Duration 43:00

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!

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The Drizzle: Three Mistakes I've Made As A Fundraiser

Season 4

Wednesday, August 3, 2022 • Duration 18:46

In the second episode of our Drizzle Miniseries, our Ethical Rainmaker host Michelle shares the three biggest mistakes she made as an in-house fundraiser, including themes on event extortion, process predicaments and burn out blessings.

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The Drizzle: How I Got Into Fundraising

Season 4

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 • Duration 21:41

In this inaugural episode of our Drizzle miniseries, the Ethical Rainmaker host Michelle shares her origin story, (with chapters that include bullying, Classical music, the CIA, fate, therapy, and more!)

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The Truth About Cancel Culture (and an alternative approach) ft Kevin Baker

Season 3 · Episode 10

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 • Duration 37:41

Kevin Baker is bringing that rich voice and beautiful mindset to The Ethical Rainmaker! Kevin is a consultant whose mission focuses on making sure people can bring their authentic cultural selves to the workplace, creating healthier, more open workspaces that better serve employees and their clients. And he does this all through a diversity and inclusion lens.

You can find Kevin (and hire him) at The Kevin Baker Consulting

Thank you so much to Kevin for all the deep work you have done and for the work you do!!

The Ethical Rainmaker is a podcast, hosted by Michelle Shireen Muri, that explores the world of inequity in nonprofits and philanthropy, including where we should step into our power or step out of the way! It is my desire and effort to bring zero-cost information, case studies, and inspiration to everyone in the third sector — especially those who want to do better on this journey.

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The truth about unhoused folx (and harm reduction!) ft. The Sidewalk Project

Season 3 · Episode 9

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 • Duration 44:28

Soma Snakeoil and Stacey Dee are founders of The Sidewalk Project, bringing compassion instead of judgment to people living on the streets. “When systems fall down, people stand up!”

The Sidewalk Project
Soma Snakeoil, also called Goddess Soma, is an activist, a mediation facilitator, a visionary artist, a playright, a professional dominatrix…
Stacee Dee’s band Bad Cop / Bad Cop (wiki, spotify)

Thank you so much to Stacy and Soma for sharing your deeply personal stories and for the work you do!!

Follow the Ethical Rainmaker on Instagram, Twitter, listen wherever podcasts are found, and consider supporting the Ethical Rainmaker through Patreon!

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How I Figured Out I Suffer From Toxic Productivity, ft. Marina Martinez-Bateman

Season 3 · Episode 8

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 • Duration 44:18

Follow the Ethical Rainmaker on Instagram, Twitter, listen wherever podcasts are found, and consider supporting the Ethical Rainmaker through Patreon!

Marina Martinez-Batemanis a communications strategy consultant with over 20 years motivating people to take action. They are a serial entrepreneur, having started their work life and first business at the age of 13, and having created, consulted on, planned, and launched multiple business and projects

Marina’s businesses and hustle is about making money — without sacrificing their principles or values — which is really hard to do! They are a popular speaker, trainer, and peer mentor in the industry around topics like #abundance, #mentalhealth, #latinxleaders, #accountability, and #valuesbasedleadership.

Connect with Marina:

A lot of our content in this episode was story form — thank you so much to Marina for sharing their deeply personal stories!

Why honesty is my favorite form of poetry w Matthew Cuban Hernandez

Season 3 · Episode 7

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 • Duration 34:36

Matthew Cuban Hernandez, is an award winning poet, emcee, performance artist and storyteller…. a rapper, actor and performance coach, as well as the author of:

the book 3032, an anthology of poems
…and two hip-hop albums - Ivanna and Ivanna 2.

You can purchase the book or albums here.

As a performer, Cuban has opened for artists like Wu-Tang, and he’s been featured on BuzzFeed, NPR and tv spots.

A teaching artist for nearly ten years, Matthew has spent the last six years working in youth detention centers across Los Angeles County, and is currently serving as:

the Director of Camp Programming for Street Poets, Inc. In addition,
he is a current Lead Teacher and Co-Founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement

Oh and he’s a fundraiser too - launching his book through a kickstarter campaign!

You can find him on:
- Facebook: @MatthewCuban
- Insta: @matthewcubanofficial
- Twitter: @matthewcuban

A lot of our content in this episode was story form and on many different topics but here are notes on…

Honesty

How I Became An Accidental Sweatshop Overlord w Kristina Wong

Season 3 · Episode 6

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 • Duration 30:22

Kristina Wong does some pretty incredible things with her life energy and creativity - damn!

You can find Kristina Wong on:
- Facebook: @ilovekristinawong
- Insta: @mskristinawong
- Twitter: @mskristinawong
- Venmo: @givekristinawongmoney

In this episode we talked about several bodies of work she has created including:

The Auntie Sewing Squad
- The massive mutual-aid network of volunteers across the United States, sewing homemade masks for vulnerable communities - like asylum seekers on the border, which Kristina started. In early 2022 they are still sewing and involve hundreds of Aunties, shipping thousands of masks to vulnerable communities across the US.
The Book = Auntie Sewing Squad: Mask Making, Radical Care, Racial Justice (released 2021) talks about America’s pursuit of global empire at the cost of its citizens, the significance of women of color performing a historically gendered and racialized invisible labor…
- And was written with cool coauthor Rebecca Solnit
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
Kristina Wong for Pubic Office
- She’s actually an elected official at her neighborhood council in LA’s Korea Town
- Legit check out her hand sewn props and if you have time, her interview on Sew and So is great! (and literally a sewing podcast.)
Big Bad Chinese Mama.com a performance piece, her fake harem of brides - a “sophomoric” project that is still up!
She’s been a guest on late night shows on NBC, Comedy Central, NFX…I watched ALL of these TV spots and you’ll enjoy them too!

Courageous Fundraising Principles w Virginia Community Voice

Season 3 · Episode 5

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 • Duration 45:21

Lea Whitehurst Gibson and Bekah Kendrick talk to us about the processes they created and used to develop a community-centered organization with courageous fundraising principles…

Virginia Community Voice “So our mission overall is to equip neighbors and historically marginalized communities to realize their vision for their communities. And then the second part of our vision, our mission is to prepare institutions to respond effectively.” Learn more and follow them on socials: Facebook, Insta, Twitter, LinkedIn and of course, you can donate here.
- Facebook: @virginiacommunityvoice
- Insta: @vacommunityvoice
- Website: https://vacommunityvoice.org/
Lea Whitehurst Gibson is the Executive Director of VCV and is a seasoned community organizer. Priori to leading the VCV, Lea was the Director of Community Engagement at Thriving Cities Group. She also worked for Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities (RISC) where she organized 1,000 people in 20 diverse congregations to stand together for just practices. Lea has a degree in theology from Elim Bible College.At VACV Lea oversees the organization’s operations, fundraising, staff and board development, and leads Community Voice Blueprint training and coaching. Lea and her husband are foster parents and live on Richmond’s Northside.Contact Lea at lea@vacommunityvoice.org.
Bekah Kendrick is an experienced nonprofit professional, grantmaker, and grant writer. Prior roles include: Technical & Grant Writer for Thriving Cities Group, Director of Community Impact: Education at United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg, and Director of Programs at MentorVirginia. Bekah has a Bachelors in American Studies from The College of William & Mary and Master’s in English from Virginia Commonwealth University. She manages fund development and communications for Virginia Community Voice. Bekah enjoys reading, hiking, and being near the water with her husband and son.Contact Bekah at bekah@vacommunityvoice.org.
Find the Community Voice Blueprint here

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