He's spent eight years convincing nonprofits to believe in themselves. The harder sell has always been himself.

Patrick is one of those people who walks into rooms radiating certainty. But the version of him that wakes up before a keynote, quietly running through every reason it could fall apart, is just as real... and he thinks that version is actually the better one.

Patrick Kirby is a fundraising consultant, speaker, and author based in Fargo, ND. Over nearly a decade, he has helped hundreds of nonprofits raise more money, build better cultures, and stop doing things the way they have always been done.

In this episode of Never Been Asked That, we get into:

• Why the most confident person in the room is usually fighting the hardest internal battle
• How theater, Les Miserables, and a hallway at  ...