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Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch on YouTube Alison Jeffrey has spent 25 years in nonprofit fundraising, and five of those running her own boutique consulting practice. She works deeply with about 15 clients instead of chasing volume, and she's built her reputation on bringing strategy to a field that too often treats fundraising as pure hustle. On this episode of Scrappy But Successful, Alison joins Jack to talk about what it actually means to ask people for m

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3zSMlS41U0FfttadYBYbri Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scrappy-but-successful Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmDDM9Jivp6CuB8taaTFTzl2zSFfGKWRd Cris D'Annunzio believes the greatest enemy of performance isn't failure, it's drift. As the founder of Mettle & Method, he's spent decades studying why some people and organizations sustain excellence while others slowly decline, and he's tested his answer

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Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zSMlS41U0FfttadYBYbri?si=f856281edcae4c53 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scrappy-but-successful-consultants-personalities-when/id1878384628 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmDDM9Jivp6CuB8taaTFTzl2zSFfGKWRd Sean McColl is the founder of Trusted Business Advisors in Charleston, South Carolina. After more than 20 years as a top-performing sales leader - selling pagers in W

Listen on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Playlist Marcus Gaughan didn't start his consulting career with a polished pitch deck or a defined niche. He started with a pair of goggles held together with Raspberry Pi wires, a light therapy treatment he'd experienced firsthand for a vision condition, and an optometrist who pulled the rug out in a single email. That rejection became the foundation of a philosophy that still drives Minds on Fire today: push on the walls, and som

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zSMlS41U0FfttadYBYbri?si=f856281edcae4c53 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scrappy-but-successful-consultants-personalities-when/id1878384628 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmDDM9Jivp6CuB8taaTFTzl2zSFfGKWRd Priscilla McKinney is the CEO, or as her team calls her, the “Momma Bird,” of Little Bird Marketing, a content and lead generation agency based in Joplin, Missouri. S

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Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zSMlS41U0FfttadYBYbri?si=f856281edcae4c53 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scrappy-but-successful-consultants-personalities-when/id1878384628 What does it look like when a supply chain consultant, expert witness, and rock drummer walk into a podcast? You get Steve Hopper - founder of Inviscid Consulting, 21-year veteran of warehousing and logistics consulting, and someone who genuinely does not f

Most business owners hear "data-driven" and immediately think: dashboards. Or spreadsheets. Or some expensive software implementation that takes six months and a dedicated IT person. That is not what this is about. Building a data-driven culture is about getting your entire organization quantifiably aligned so that every person, at every level, can connect their daily work to the goals that actually move the business forward. Done right, it uncovers dozens, if not hundreds of

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6IuoauRwsPm1PRrIjw4oYh?si=KT3goplYTGO4f_7t5oAZ3A Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-the-scrappy-strategist-how-la-tonya-roberts-went/id1878384628?i=1000759504690 La Tonya Roberts has always had a plan - and the grit to execute it. From running a lemonade stand outside a military base in Alaska at age 7 to pitching her parents with formal PowerPoint presentations for Christmas gifts, La Tonya's