Inside The Grant Podcast

Carve out 20 mins to see how a grant writing program helps you earn & learn! 👉 https://www.learngrantwriting.org/become-a-paid-grant-writer/ Learn from the Experts - Must-try Grant Writing Courses For 2024! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bUmW73Yfo How Kelsey hit a revenue milestone of 250k in just two years! 👉 https://youtu.be/ch_sx9TTSfg Grant Writing Unicorn Spotlights 👉 https://www.you...

Not sure if you’ll like grant writing? Take our 16 question personality quiz to see if grant writing is your next career path: 👉 https://www.learngrantwriting.org/suc ... Like reading? Check out Meredith’s 2nd edition of How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn: 👉 www.amazon.com/How-Write-Grant-Writing-Unicorn ebook/dp/B0969G2R7J Watch more videos like this: Writing A Grant Is Like B...

Jess Stack From Teacher to Grant Writing Consultant in 6 months 🦄 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRolftMJ38&list=PLdG9L-lMwx_gPlKmqrzy-EwTgW5lmNxNc&index=23 Getting a Grant for Your Passion Project or Business 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFv2-yEnHHE&t=7s Check out this playlist: Freelance Grant Writing & Grant Writing Jobs 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdG9L-lMwx_gYR3jDLe0...

Watch more videos like this: Boss Mom of 4 Gets To Work Remotely AND Puts $$$ Toward The Mortgage https://youtu.be/LHAtDzXtVSY Curious how you could get into grant writing and build a career in it? Here is a training on how to do that without volunteering or having prior experience: 👉 https://www.learngrantwriting.org/become-a-paid-grant-writer/ Learn more about the 7-steps to writing winning gra...

Curious how you could get into grant writing and build a career in it? Here is a training on how to do that without volunteering or having prior experience:   👉 https://www.learngrantwriting.org/become-a-paid-grant-writer/ Curious how to grow your consulting business? Here is a training on how to make $100k salary working 20 fewer hours per week:  👉 https://www.learngrantwriting.org/experienced-...

🚗 Applying for federal grants can feel like navigating a road trip without a map or a plan. Trust me, dodging common pitfalls can be the difference between cruising to success and finding yourself stranded on the grant highway. 🛣️ We'll guide you from chaotic submissions to smooth sailing applications—including cutting down wordiness and mastering those tricky grant portals. Join us on this journ...

Career change MBA alternatives Grant writing Education myths Earn and learn method DREAM framework Professional development Higher education Alternative education EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted by: Meredith Noble & Alex Lustig Audio Edit by: Ana Castro Connect with Us: Website: [www.learngrantwriting.org] Instagram: [@learngrantwriting] Facebook: [Learn Grant Writing]

Timestamps:  00:00 Intro  02:00 Transition from burnt out teacher  04:00 Overcoming the fear of being without paychecks  05:52 Finding grant writing as a good fit leaving a career as an educator  08:47 Surpassing goals as a new grant writer  11:42 Winning a competitive grant  14:10 How long before you saw success as a grant writer?  16:56 What it's like to subcontract  18:02 The Global Grant Write...

You might not know yourself as well as you think you do. Here are five tips to lean into what makes you, you: Look at your clothes 👕 Look at the décor in your home 🖼️ Write down your top five stories 📑 Listen to your voice 🗣️ Name your top five personality traits 👋   “When we are ourselves, we straight up glow.” ✨   Resources and links: 🔸 Ch'eghwetsen Point System: The Gentle Habit Building M...

If you have the fear of failure (we all do!), start recognizing if you’re needing something to succeed and therefore squeezing the life out of it. 🍋Or, are you detaching yourself from the outcome, staying open, making little shifts, and chilling out?   Resources and links: 🔸 Career Foresight Coaching // Jennifer Spoelma 🔸 “Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable” by Victoria Song...

Meredith found clarity about her role on social media through taking concrete action! That’s the punchline: clarity requires action. ✨ How can you apply that concept in your life? What action can you take to get clarity on something that you have been ruminating on?   Resources and links: 🔸 New reviews page on the website 🔸 Free training on how to build recession-proof opportunities and become...

Meredith reflects on 7 major lessons in building a business to $1M in revenue. As a whole team, we’re dedicated to staying humble and remaining wildly committed to our members. (Psst: that’s never going to change).    Resources and links: 🔸  Podcast episode: Meredith And Alex Have A Work Wedding 🔸 Free training on how to build recession-proof opportunities and become a grant writer   Questions a...

Meredith shares how 2022 went for her, including some business details and a lot of personal details. TMI? Maybe. But, we like to keep it real around here.  We’re sure you had a big year too. Let us know. How was your year? Did 2022 end differently than it started for you? Resources and links: 🔸 Podcast episode: Co-founder Meredith Noble Lived Through a Gas Leak Explosion. Here’s The Story.  🔸 ...

In this podcast episode, Meredith explains how you can come up with a single question in lieu of a resolution. This single question emphasizes your big priority for the year and serves as your decision making framework.  Resources and links: 🔸  Attachment Styles 🔸  “ Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable ” by Victoria Song 🔸  “The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Ex...

For Rose, traveling after college was been a transformative experience. She packed her life into a 40L backpack and she started traveling with her husband which turned into 5 years of travel.  🎒   Along the way she learned how to be a writer.    Here is a free training on how to build a career in grant writing: https://www.learngrantwriting.org/webinar-videos/discover-grant-writing   ✨  Tips to...

Alex’s mini-sabbatical was amazing, and it turns out, much needed. In this podcast episode, she talks about her top 5 takeaways.    Curious how you could get into grant writing and build a career in it? Here is a free training on how to do that without volunteering or having prior experience: https://www.learngrantwriting.org/webinar-videos/discover-grant-writing   🔸  The Burnout Was Bigger Than...

A month after graduating with her English degree and six months after joining the Collective, Abby received an email from an engineering firm asking if she wanted to interview for a job. She landed it! Curious how you could get into grant writing and build a career in it? Here is a free training on how to do that without volunteering or having prior experience: https://www.learngrantwriting.org/we...

Making dreams a reality is no small feat! Luckily, we learned our lessons the hard way so you can skip ahead to the good part. Lesson #1: Fail Fast Preparing to launch the Alaska Movement was a year-long process. Two and a half months in, she realized there wasn’t a succinct problem that needed to be solved. She called it quits which was hard to do because: ego.  😮  The only thing that would have...

The Ch'eghwetsen Method is a habit building system Meredith built to encourage healthy habits without being self-critical. Renee Warren, founder of We Wild Women, is to thank for getting this system out in the world.  ✋ For Meredith, she noticed that hunger and drive to always be doing her absolute best were in conflict with each other while training for a long distance mountain bike race. There...

A gas leak explosion in a tiny house derailed the original schedule to get this podcast episode posted, but it’s finally here!  🎊    📚  “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” by Priya Parker Alex loves gathering. "We spend all this time thinking about the beginning of events and we don’t spend time thinking about the end. This book talks about how we intentionally gather…includin...

Meredith Noble, co-founder of Learn Grant Writing, shares what happened when she was in a tiny house that had a gas leak explosion. In this podcast episode, Meredith covers: 🔸 Background on why she moved to Valdez, Alaska to build a company.  🏔️ An Alaska woman at heart, Meredith was able to feed her soul while doubling down to create a successful company.    🔸 Quick history on the last two year...

Dr. Christie Edwards, Alex’s mom, is living and breathing the Unicorn Lifestyle. 🦄 She’s living an awesome life and is passionate about serving her clients as a Doctor in Natural Medicine. She first earned her B.A. in Zoology to serve animals. Then, she went back to school for further study (right around the same time that Alex graduated high school). Christie became the owner of a packaging stor...

Karisa Coe, member of The Grant Writing Unicorn Collective , conducts an informational interview with Meredith. The timing is divine as The Collective is in the midst of an informational interview challenge . Karisa is a recent college graduate from Texas A&M University who is working towards becoming a freelance grant writing consultant. She reached out to Meredith for an informational interview...

In this episode, we sit with Meredith, Alex, Jared (Alex’s husband), and Tobias. We celebrate the work wedding of Meredith and Alex as Alex legally becomes part owner of Learn Grant Writing.  The four gather at an AirBnB for a weekend away to honor the occasion. As is tradition for Meredith and Alex, tarot cards are drawn for each of the four individuals. The cards pulled by each person pertain to...

The Mission Makers belongs to Kim and Bob, unicorns extraordinaire.  They created this business to fill the void of programs they are passionate about not receiving the proper funding. Kim is also very involved with the YMCA and currently working as a developmental specialist dealing directly with the grant writing for a large city campaign project.  Truly a team in everything they do from serving...