Christian thought-leader Jen Hatmaker was getting asked constantly by nonprofit organizations around the world to throw my weight toward their work, she says.
The Austin-based author became known for the book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, which was updated this spring into Simple & Free, and an HGTV show called My Big Family Renovation, which followed the renovation of an old house in Buda.
Through the show, the books and the ministry, she built an online community of mostly women, all looking to her for leadership on common causes, including how to give to charities.
By 2015, she was taking international trips to visit different organizations as an ambassador. She would return to Austin and bang a drum to get my community to care about this thing, she says. My community was operating out of compassion fatigue.