For businesses and organizations with a purpose-driven mission, telling their own story can feel daunting. Dot Org is the podcast that helps nonprofit leaders master the foundations, techniques, and effectiveness of storytelling.
It's hosted by Matt Pearl, a nationally award-winning broadcast journalist who now runs Pearl Impact Media, providing meaningful, memorable video storytelling for nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses.
EP 17: Building your nonprofit's storytelling culture, with Helene Prokesch
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. If you’re...
27 May 2026
EP 16: Ethical storytelling for nonprofits, with Magdalena Verdugo & Frank Velásquez
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. We’re 16 e...
28 Apr 2026
EP 15: Documentary storytelling for nonprofits, with Candice Jordan
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. This is an...
25 Mar 2026
EP 14: Lessons in nonprofit storytelling from a nonprofit news outlet, with Lucas Grindley
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. Let me ta...
24 Feb 2026
EP 13: infusing your brand into your storytelling, with Ana Maria Páramo
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. This inter...
13 Jan 2026
EP 12: Your nonprofit's video storytelling game plan for 2026
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. As I recor...
9 Dec 2025
EP 11: successful video strategy for nonprofits, with Ashley Stewart of FreeRent.Org
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast, DOT ORG, is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. As someone...
28 Oct 2025
EP 10: Ten lessons on nonprofit video storytelling from ten episodes of Dot Org
This is Episode 10. It’s a milestone episode. Double digits. And in each of the first nine, I can tell you how I feel when I finish listening. Invigorated. Ready to get out there and do what I love for this space. And thankful for all the nuggets of insight provided by our guest. I want to try to capture that in this episode by mining those insights, specifically those about video. We’re switching it up a bit. No guest today … it’s just me. And I’ll be going through ten lessons from ten...
6 Oct 2025
EP 9: the pillars of nonprofit storytelling, with Kacey Koeppel, The Pink Agenda
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast. is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. Sometimes organic ...
10 Sept 2025
EP 8: empowering nonprofits to share their story, with Lasima Turmon, Community Foundation CSRA
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast. is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. For Episode 8, I'm...
11 Aug 2025
EP 7: Ralph Jean, Resource Rural, on rural storytelling & tips for nonprofits
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast. is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. For Episode 7, I'm...
7 Jul 2025
EP 6: Zach Toombs, Evident Media, on storytelling tips any nonprofit can use
Zach Toombs of Evident Media shares storytelling tips for nonprofits and discusses documentary storytelling from a nonprofit model in an interview with the host.
27 May 2025
EP 5: Bethany Wiggin, My Climate Story, on embracing all forms of storytelling
Bethany Wiggin discusses the Climate Storytellers Summit and the importance of diverse storytelling approaches in addressing climate change, in this interview with the host.
21 Apr 2025
EP 4: Lydia Storie, Caring Across Generations, on carving attention for your mission
Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story. We are now into Episode 4, and unlike Episodes 1 thru 3, I had not met the person I was interviewing until a few minutes before our conversation. But I’d worked with her organization on one of the most important projects of my career as a journalist. Back in the fall of 2022, I put together a documentary for Scripps Media called The Love of Care. I spent a day...
16 Mar 2025
EP 3: Jeronica Harts, Purpose Built Schools Atlanta, on embracing authenticity in nonprofit storytelling
I got the chance to know this guest late last year when I collaborated with her and her organization on an impact video. We hit it off quickly over a shared love of a few select storytelling projects and a similar outlook on embracing authenticity when telling your own story. That’s the topic for Episode 3 of DOT ORG. And she is my guest: Jeronica Harts, Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships for Purpose Built Schools Atlanta.
10 Feb 2025
EP 2: Andreas Karelas, RE-volv, on storytelling as the mission
Recently I worked with a client that provides grants and guidance for nonprofits in the climate space, particularly solar and clean energy. They wanted a video that spotlighted several of their grantees, which – in one case – sent me on a cross-country trip to the Bay Area to meet a truly impressive nonprofit with an equally impressive leader. He is the founder and executive director of RE-volv, Andreas Karelas. For more than a decade, RE-volv has made storytelling central to not just its mar...
16 Jan 2025
EP 1: Brent Pease, The Kyle Pease Foundation, on investing in visual storytelling
I was a broadcast journalist locally and nationally for 20 years. Now I run Pearl Impact Media. I help nonprofits and purpose-driven businesses raise money, raise awareness, and separate themselves from the rest through meaningful, memorable, and affordable video storytelling. That’s my mission. This podcast. is an offshoot of that mission. Each episode I chat with a nonprofit leader with a defined, thoughtful, and successful approach to telling their organization’s story.For Episode 1, we’re...
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