The Breakthru Podcast
Welcome to the Breakthru Podcast – I’m J.Paul Fridenmaker and I am amazed by all you folks who do fundraising, inviting generous people to resource causes all over the world. In the Breakthru Podcast, we interview high net worth givers globally to listen and learn about how we, as fundraisers, can do our best work in inviting people to the party.
Thanks for listening in!
Interspersed throughout the great guest interviews, you'll see audio readings from The Breakthru Blog. Each of those are titled with the length of the reading and the date of original post. The link to the written versions are included in the show notes of each reading.
Enjoy! And send me a note with your feedback. I read every comment and you all make the content that much better!
Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
9 min
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Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026
11 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
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Sep 18, 2026
Sep 18, 2026
10 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Links referred to in this episode:* Strength of Relationship Assessment (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTV95ZL-p-u0wW4X4QUfWy4isvoJjQ-U/view?usp=sharing)
* Connecting Worksheet (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_wXLKkwJtuRmfApkLLGuVwErtGYq5_F8/view?usp=sharing)
Sep 11, 2026
Sep 11, 2026
11 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Sep 5, 2026
Sep 5, 2026
10 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Links referred to in this episode:Strength of Relationship Assessment (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTV95ZL-p-u0wW4X4QUfWy4isvoJjQ-U/view?usp=sharing)
Aug 22, 2026
Aug 22, 2026
10 min
SPECIAL THANKS to my good friend Mike Best for his stellar background vocals and music on this episode🕺🏻❤️😊
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Aug 14, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
10 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Aug 8, 2026
Aug 8, 2026
8 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Jul 31, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
7 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Jul 24, 2026
Jul 24, 2026
8 min
Follow J.Paul on LinkedIn, X, or BlueSky for daily pro tips and reflections on major gift fundraising. (http://linkedin.com/in/jpaulfridenmaker, https://x.com/jpaulfry, and https://bsky.app/profile/jpfry.bsky.social)
Subscribe to The Breakthru Newsletter to have free guides like this delivered to your email each week. (https://mailchi.mp/55b75ef0bc13/breakthru_newsletter)
Schedule a free 30-minute consult with J.Paul (https://calendar.app.google/SnDhUpJfcm3uNWF38)
Link referred to in the episode:
Blog post "Self Care for Major Gift Fundraisers" (https://www.jpaulfridenmaker.com/blog/self-care-for-major-gift-fundraisers-part-1-of-3)