91. How to Live a Committed Life & Raise Money from the Heart with Lynne Twist

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Dec 6, 2022

Lynne Twist, a global visionary and author of "The Soul of Money," shares her transformative insights on commitment in the nonprofit sector. She discusses the pivotal role of women in redefining wealth and her new book, "Living a Committed Life." Lynne emphasizes heart-centered fundraising and overcoming the scarcity mindset, highlighting how genuine connections with donors embody love. She also explores the significance of community, self-care, and embracing suffering to foster resilience and meaningful change in fundraising efforts.

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INSIGHT

Commitment Hones The Person

Commitment shapes you into the person needed to fulfill a mission rather than waiting to be fully ready first.
Living a committed life aligns your actions and frees you from staying stuck keeping options open.

ADVICE

Ask From Heart And Stand For It

Fundraise from the heart by aligning your life stand with the cause you represent.
Ask authentically and let commitment move you through rejection and challenge.

ANECDOTE

Witnessing Suffering Deepened Compassion

Lynne describes being present in refugee camps and with Mother Teresa to learn human resilience and dignity.
Those encounters deepened her compassion and capacity to face suffering without despair.

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15 years ago Lynne Twists’ first book - The Soul of Money - completely changed the trajectory of my life, and it became the foundation for much of the work I do today. It is one of my greatest honors to get to interview someone on What the Fundraising who has been so instrumental in changing the course of my life and my relationship with money.

Over the course of her extraordinary 40-year career, Lynne Twist has been recognized as a global visionary whose innovative ideas challenge received wisdom. In addition to co-founding The Pachamama Alliance, she is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute. Today, through her new book, "Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself", Lynne is challenging us to reconsider commitment – the role it plays in our work as nonprofit leaders and the power it has to fuel deep, systemic change.

In this far-reaching conversation, we explore the pillars of commitment and it’s importance to heart-centered fundraising. Lynne explains how she has managed to raise multi-millions over the years, undeterred by rejection: “You make a commitment, and then out of that commitment you hone yourself, or the commitment hones you, into the kind of person you need to be to fulfill it.”

Lynne radiates a sense of mission and asks us to bring every bit as much intention and intensity to our own efforts to serve. We discuss why she gravitates towards – not away from – suffering; how to avoid burnout by staying connected to our purpose; and what it means when the opposite of scarcity is simply enoughness - sufficiency. Lynne’s empowering vision of commitment calls upon – and empowers – us to become the people we need to be in order to fulfill the epic global moment we are in.

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