# 444: Top Five Episodes, Ranked with Sarah Olivieri

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Podcast: [Inspired Nonprofit Leadership](https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspired-nonprofit-leadership-812838)
Published: 2026-08-06T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Top 5 Episodes Countdown Five episodes rose to the top over the last two years of this show. Trauma. Cash flow. Starting a nonprofit from scratch. Health equity. Organizational design. On the surface they have nothing in common. Underneath, all five are making the same argument, and none of them tell you to work harder. Sarah pulled the download data on the last hundred episodes and ranked them across thirty-day, ninety-day, and lifetime windows. The same five came out on top every time. In this solo episode she counts them down and reads the lines that made each one land. In This Episode, What you'll hear: Dr. Melanie Gray on why all money is not good money, and how a grant your team can't deliver on manufactures overwhelm inside your own organization The capacity nobody budgets for, and why the strain almost always lands on your admin and finance staff Neil Shah on why net income hides your real financial story, and the number to watch instead Katerina Manoff on why grants have never worked for her organization, and what funds it instead Dr. Eugene Manley's one-sentence test for whether your program is actually equity work Pierre Berastain on nonprofits as civic laboratories, and what changes when you stop operating as society's backstop Why the sector that invented hospice, domestic violence shelters, and harm reduction gets asked to justify experiments that tech companies get praised for The through-line: your culture, your reporting, your funding model, and your experience of scarcity are all design choices. Design can be changed. Every episode is linked below. Start anywhere. If you only have time for one, start with Pierre. If you're tired right now, start with Melanie. Linked Episodes Trauma Informed Leadership with Dr. Melanie Gray More Than Just Budgets: The…

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