We recently connected with Meghan Decker and have shared our conversation below.

Meghan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you come up with the idea for your business?

I started this nonprofit after my brother was diagnosed with ALS at just 26 years old. I never had the intention of starting a nonprofit but after seeing how much you have to advocate for yourself as a patient and how 90 percent of costs are not covered by insurance I knew I needed to start this. The mission of our nonprofit is to fund research for the cure for ALS and to assist ALS families with the cost of the disease. I knew this would work because my family lives this battle every day. With insurance not covering 90 percent of your costs we knew we had to do this. We just got a new patient who has progressed to a point of needing in home care but cannot afford it and we are able to assist her with the costs for the next 6 months. The family was so stressed on how they were going to pay for 6 hours of care for their mother a day and we were able to help alleviate that stress a little. This nonprofit became my life’s passion due to my brother and now I can’t wait to help many families across the US

Meghan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into this industry after my brother was diagnosed with ALS. I knew I wanted to help more patients out there so we began the process of becoming a nonprofit and got 501c3 status last year. The main problem we provide for our clients is paying for their medical care/anything else they need to live comfortably with ALS. I am most proud of the fact that we get to take some of the stress off of these patients. ALS is a horrible disease and each donation either goes to research for the cure for ALS or to aiding ALS patients. Any donation big or small is apart of a huge impact and we tell the stories of all of our patients.

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

The main thing I do with my team is listen. If they have advice on how I can be better or better run the business I listen and make the change. At the end of the day everyone on the team is equal and no member is more important than the other.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to teach myself not to take everything to heart. Since this nonprofit was started because of my brothers battle I was taking every comment to heart. This was a negative on my life for a while and one day I decided I have to look at this as someone is giving me constructive criticism on the company, not as someone is attacking me or my family

Contact Info:

• Website: Tylerstribe.org
• Instagram: Tylerstribefoundation
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