43. Katherine Lacefield on Moving from Confrontation to Connection & Campaigning for Causes that Welcome Everyone

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"Compassion has no borders" - Katherine Lacefield

Katherine Lacefield—founder of Just Be Cause Consulting—shares why swapping confrontational animal-rights tactics for compassion-first community building creates deeper, lasting change for animals, people and the planet.

Connect with Katherine

• Website – justbecause.consulting
• Facebook – @JustBeCauseConsulting
• Instagram – @just.because.consulting
• TikTok – @justbecauseconsulting
• Threads – @just.because.consulting
• LinkedIn – /in/katherine-mac-donald

Topics we cover

✔︎ From “I hate people” to human-centred advocacy
✔︎ Closing the values–action gap
✔︎ Why confrontation backfires—and what works instead
✔︎ One Health: linking human, animal & environmental wellbeing
✔︎ Letting go of perfectionism in activism

Resources & further reading

• Just Be Cause Consulting – Fundraising & strategy for mission-driven orgs – www.justbecause.consulting
• Just Be Cause Podcast
  • Podcast (Apple) – https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-just-be-cause-podcast/id1743692401
  • Podcast (Spotify) – https://open.spotify.com/show/3IKpckZtQIwrUrXL8i0IY0
• WHO “One Health”- an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.

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1. 43. Katherine Lacefield on Moving from Confrontation to Connection & Campaigning for Causes that Welcome Everyone (00:00:00)

2. Katherine Lacefield's Journey into Activism and Charity (00:00:22)

3. Shifting from Anger to Engagement to Gain Support for Causes (00:04:10)

4. Empowering Individuals through Connection and Common Ground (00:12:24)

5. Defining Boundaries & Assessing Intentions (00:16:31)

6. Overcoming Righteousness in the Moment (00:20:10)

7. Choosing your Cause - Follow Passion or Data? (00:22:58)

8. Distinct Challenges of Fundraising in the Animal Cruelty Sector (00:26:11)

9. Expanding the Moral Circle for Secular Humanists Organisations (00:30:12)

10. Analyzing Effective Charity Communication (00:31:17)

11. One Health Movement and Interconnected Causes (00:31:51)

12. Contact Katherine and Just Be Cause Consulting (00:33:13)

13. Changing Minds on.... Veganism (00:34:35)