Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

Find Your Philanthropic Purpose: Ask the Right Questions #shorts

29 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational exchange, Speaker A asks how to guide individuals who might be motivated to start a nonprofit or foundation for financial or obligatory reasons toward a more authentic philanthropic purpose. Speaker B recommends a layered questioning technique, likening it to peeling an onion, to uncover the individual's core passions and objectives. By drilling down through successive layers of motivation, the true purpose emerges, making the appropriate philanthropic avenue clear and natural.

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I'm wondering, like, great, there's people out there that, you know, it's in their financial interest to create a nonprofit or create some type of foundation. How, what are some of the steps that you would ask, or maybe some of the questions that you would ask someone to help them get to like something that doesn't feel like obligatory, like, oh, I should do this. This is just a good thing I should do. And they really don't have an invested interest in it versus, you know, what questions might you ask to help them get to like, here's what I want to hone in on, focus on. When I'm, when I'm bringing this to the world?
Well, I can go with that if you want. Yeah, let's go for it. So, uh, I think asking questions to get down to the, the layers of the onion of what is their purpose, what is their objective in philanthropies, and what are they passionate about, and, and just peeling the layers till you get to the core of what their purpose is. And then the philanthropic organizations or the philanthropic endeavors that fit that core will manifest. I mean, it'll be— become really obvious.