Today’s podcast features Debbie Shore, talking about the High Leverage Practice of “Connection”. How often do you reflect on the quality of your connections? Debbie Shore shares the power of building a network of connections that can exponentially grow your influence. She talks about building trust that is based on reciprocity – helping others while they help you. Debbie’s experience exemplifies meeting others where they are and understanding that respectful connections with few can ultimately become positive networks with many.
Debbie Shore is the Co-Founder of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit that is ending childhood hunger in America through the No Kid Hungry campaign. Together with her brother Billy Shore, Debbie founded Share Our Strength in 1984 with a $2,000 cash advance on a credit card. Since then, Share Our Strength has raised and invested more than $600 million in the fight against hunger, As a member of the executive team, Debbie oversees the organization’s long-term planning and strategy.
Debbie has led the development and launch of several key platforms such as Share Our Strength’s culinary events, which include Taste of the Nation®, No Kid Hungry dinners, Dine Out for No Kid Hungry and Chefs Cycle. Now in its 29th year, Taste of the Nation® has raised more than $95 million through hundreds of events in every major market in the country and built a national network of volunteers. She is also the co-creator of Add Passion and Stir: Big Chefs, Big Ideas, the weekly Share Our Strength podcast hosted by Billy Shore, launched in 2016.
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Debbie earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy from Ohio University. She has experience as a political organizer and fundraiser for former U.S.
Senator Gary Hart’s (D-Colorado) presidential campaign. Debbie has lived, studied and traveled extensively in Mexico, and has one daughter, Sofia.
