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Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

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X is for X-Ray Weak Spots: Stress Reveals Already Existing Cracks

September 01, 2025 • Brooke Richie-Babbage

Stress doesn’t create cracks—it reveals them. Your job is to see them before they break.

🧭 Today’s belief shift: Simple stress tests can X-ray your org and show the first points of failure now.

Early fixes are cheap; late ones are costly—especially in Q4.

Today’s leadership prompt is simple: For your next pressure point (appeal launch, gala, audit), answer: Where will it fail first? What single safeguard prevents that? Who owns it, by when?

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