How I Choose Where My Money Actually Goes

After the Rush Podcast · Sep 10, 2026 · 17m · transcript

I had fourteen charity appeal letters spread across my kitchen table last December and I didn’t write a single check for eleven days. Not because I didn’t want to give. Because I couldn’t remember the last time I’d actually decided where the money went instead of just responding to whoever asked most recently, or most movingly, or right before the tax deadline.

I spent a decade writing those letters myself, for a nonprofit I founded. So this episode is the conversation I wish someone had handed me back when a photograph on an envelope was all it took. Not a lecture on efficient giving. Just…