Episode Details

How many of your own donors actually read your newsletter, start to finish? Open rates are declining, and meanwhile podcast and audio consumption keeps climbing. This episode is about meeting donors where their attention actually is, turning content you’ve already written into audio, without doubling your team’s workload.

Sean walks through the real tools already doing this (Google NotebookLM’s free Audio Overview, Podcastify, Wondercraft), how to adapt written content for listening instead of just running it through text-to-speech, right-sizing length, and a platform rule worth knowing: Spotify now requires disclosure labels on AI-narrated podcast episodes. The episode closes with an honest look at what this can and can’t do, and a nod to the fact that this show is itself a bet on the same idea.

Sean is the founder of Magnolia Philanthropic Services, advising nonprofits nationwide on development strategy, with 25+ years in the field.