Essays on ADHD, women’s leadership, and the nonprofit sector: why it rewards the way these minds work, right up until it burns them out, and what to do about it.
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Why the nonprofit sector is built for an ADHD brain, and why it burns us out →
I spent almost thirty years thriving in this sector and burning out in it. After a late diagnosis, I understood they were the same thing.
The nonprofit sector runs on urgency, meaning, and constant demand, exactly what an ADHD brain is wired to respond to. It lights you up, and it works for a long time. But running on borrowed fire eventually comes due. Borrowed Fire is where I name that out loud (the pattern most of us were never given the language for) and write toward something more sustainable.
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Essays on ADHD, leadership, and the nonprofit sector, for the women leading inside it and the people who fund and govern them.
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