Jun 9, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
Most nonprofit leaders know what burnout feels like. But not everyone burns out the same way.In this episode, Tosha Anderson sits down with Britt Stockert, Certified Fundraising Executive and coach at…
Uh, I read a statistic, and don't fact-check me on this because I don't, I couldn't pinpoint to what it was, but I was, I was, I was not all that surprised when I think about it, but I, I read something one, uh, somewhere that said, um, uh, neurodivergent people, especially ADHD, uh, individuals, have six times more likely to start businesses, be entrepreneurs, or I would even add founders of nonprofits or even leaders of nonprofits, right?
And on one hand, all the things that you were saying, I gotta get this skill and do this skill and, and all of this, I was kind of chuckling because I can relate to that.
... it's a superpower because I genuinely just like learning and trying to figure things out, but it's a little bit of my superpower that I have a pretty decent baseline of a lot of different random skills, and I, I can figure things out, and I work really quickly, and I can make decisions really quickly, and I just move really, really fast.
That's where, for me, it hit a wall of I am just overwhelmed with the sheer volume of things I've managed to assign to myself or allow myself to get wrapped up in.
And this wasn't just me and starting a business, um, in, in the, in the firm that I have now, but even in any other professional setting I've ever found myself in.
Every career I've been the overachiever, cared more than I probably should have.
Not that that's a bad thing, but, uh, there's this fine line between healthy and, and harmful, and I, I've certainly realized in hindsight that a lot of that was just truly trying to be the superhero in all ways, and over-functioning, over-performing.
And I think going back to, you used the word masking, um, and, and I'm not an, an expert on the Autism Spectrum Disorder either, but there's certainly for, um, many people that, that's a fine line too, right? Where does one, um, diagnosis end and another one begin? Or, or many people have multiple symptoms of multiple types of neurodivergence, and I can certainly relate to that as well because I think, you know, the idea of masking is, is requ- frankly, it's required for any leader, right? You have employees that are looking to you, and in the nonprofit world you have board members looking at you and donors looking at you, and maybe even other funders and government agencies looking at you, media and press, right? You're constantly in a position of masking because if you don't show up as the collected, calm leader, uh, there's risks that other people can find themselves in a bit of a tailspin.
I know some days I've walked in and people are a little like, "Oh, gosh, what's wrong with Tasha?" I'm like, "Y'all, my, my dog woke me up last night.
... and that just shows how much people are really looking at you as, as, as, you know, that person.
So I think regardless of where you might find yourself on the neurodivergence side, if you're a high-functioning, overproducing ADHD person coupled with masking, there is an energy drain whether you're on the Autism Spectrum Disorder or not.
I told a team member the other day, I said, "Look, um..." Somebody asked me, I had this kinda round table town hall thing with all of my employees.
Somebody asked me a question, you know, "Tasha, how do you, you know, kinda sustain the energy? How do you keep going when you don't always feel like you have the motivation?" I said, "Look, I don't think you all realize how much work I put into myself to show up like this every day, and I don't mean physically, I mean mentally, because my energy is spent 50% on the things that actually happen, real problems, 50% is managing my reaction to the problems.
Uh, I read a statistic, and don't fact-check me on this because I don't, I couldn't pinpoint to what it was, but I was, I was, I was not all that surprised when I think about it, but I, I read something one, uh, somewhere that said, um, uh, neurodivergent people, especially ADHD, uh, individuals, have six times more likely to start businesses, be entrepreneurs, or I would even add founders of nonprofits or even leaders of nonprofits, right?
And on one hand, all the things that you were saying, I gotta get this skill and do this skill and, and all of this, I was kind of chuckling because I can relate to that.
... it's a superpower because I genuinely just like learning and trying to figure things out, but it's a little bit of my superpower that I have a pretty decent baseline of a lot of different random skills, and I, I can figure things out, and I work really quickly, and I can make decisions really quickly, and I just move really, really fast.
That's where, for me, it hit a wall of I am just overwhelmed with the sheer volume of things I've managed to assign to myself or allow myself to get wrapped up in.
And this wasn't just me and starting a business, um, in, in the, in the firm that I have now, but even in any other professional setting I've ever found myself in.
Every career I've been the overachiever, cared more than I probably should have.
Not that that's a bad thing, but, uh, there's this fine line between healthy and, and harmful, and I, I've certainly realized in hindsight that a lot of that was just truly trying to be the superhero in all ways, and over-functioning, over-performing.
And I think going back to, you used the word masking, um, and, and I'm not an, an expert on the Autism Spectrum Disorder either, but there's certainly for, um, many people that, that's a fine line too, right? Where does one, um, diagnosis end and another one begin? Or, or many people have multiple symptoms of multiple types of neurodivergence, and I can certainly relate to that as well because I think, you know, the idea of masking is, is requ- frankly, it's required for any leader, right? You have employees that are looking to you, and in the nonprofit world you have board members looking at you and donors looking at you, and maybe even other funders and government agencies looking at you, media and press, right? You're constantly in a position of masking because if you don't show up as the collected, calm leader, uh, there's risks that other people can find themselves in a bit of a tailspin.
I know some days I've walked in and people are a little like, "Oh, gosh, what's wrong with Tasha?" I'm like, "Y'all, my, my dog woke me up last night.
... and that just shows how much people are really looking at you as, as, as, you know, that person.
So I think regardless of where you might find yourself on the neurodivergence side, if you're a high-functioning, overproducing ADHD person coupled with masking, there is an energy drain whether you're on the Autism Spectrum Disorder or not.
I told a team member the other day, I said, "Look, um..." Somebody asked me, I had this kinda round table town hall thing with all of my employees.
Somebody asked me a question, you know, "Tasha, how do you, you know, kinda sustain the energy? How do you keep going when you don't always feel like you have the motivation?" I said, "Look, I don't think you all realize how much work I put into myself to show up like this every day, and I don't mean physically, I mean mentally, because my energy is spent 50% on the things that actually happen, real problems, 50% is managing my reaction to the problems.
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