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53206 Cast
53206, located in the inner city of Milwaukee, is the poorest zip code in the state of Wisconsin. 99.2% of residents are non-white and the median household income is $24,000. Meg and Alex talk about what they have learned over the last 15 years from living in a place that is very different than the suburbs they grew up in. Each episode typically covers thoughts on education, social justice, and the normalization of inequities they see on a daily basis. Join Meg & Alex as we rethink our inner…
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Episode 188: Building Financial Capacity
Correcting societal inequities is point of social justice work. One of the major inequities found in the inner city is the lack of financial capacity found…
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Episode 187: Aluminum Siding
The economic opportunities for the poor are few and far between. This week, Meg and Alex talk about one of those opportunities and talk about some of the…
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Episode 186: Perspective
This week, Meg and Alex talk about the power that perspective has when trying to understand what we see in the world around us.
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Episode 185: Dumping Reprise
Solving complex problems requires a nuianced understanding of the problem. This week Meg and Alex talk about the psycology of the dumper and give a quick We…
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Episode 184: The Pretty Girl From High School
Sometimes in life, the opportunity to do good in the world stems from aggrivation around a circumstance. This week, Meg and Alex talk about how to spot…
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Episode 183: Different Ways To Solve The Same Problem
This week, Meg and Alex discuss differing viewpoints on solving the cities litter problem.
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Episode 182: Another House Fire
This week, Meg and Alex give an update on what has been going on in the neighborhood. Specifically, the two talk about house fires and another recent instance…
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Episode 181: It Either Gets Better Or It Gets Worse
In life, things either get better or they get worse, but they rarely stay the same. This week, Meg and Alex talk about some of the new things happening at We…
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Episode 180: Dumping Revisited
Dumping has been in the news a lot lately here in Milwaukee. This week, Meg and Alex talk about what someones option are when their property is dumped on and…
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Episode 179: Dumping
What does it say about a neighborhood when it's treated like a garbage dump? This week, Meg and Alex discuss this and share on the topic of dumping, which is a…
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Episode 178: Turning Housing Liabilities Into Assets
This week, Meg and Alex talk about the mechanics and give a little history lesson around the purchase of their latest property. The two share about housing…
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Episode 177: The Benefits Of Living In An Area Of Concentrated Poverty
This week Meg and Alex talk about the transferring of problems in the tenant/landlord relationship and fixing broken furnaces.
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Episode 176: Tips On Being An Activist
For those of us that are socially justice minded, it can be challenging sometimes to take that inclination and turn it into action. This week, Meg and Alex…
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Episode 175: Abnormal Calls To Action
The news can be unsettling, unnerving, or even aggrivating. This week, Meg and Alex talk about a different way to think about calls to serving a community…
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Episode 174: The New Slumlord - An Excerpt From Bad Neighborhood
This week, Meg and Alex share an excerpt from the book Bad Neighborhoods. If you like the 53206 Cast, Bad Neighborhoods is similar in concept, but is more of a…
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Episode 173: It's Dark Out
This week, Meg and Alex talk about the added responsibility put onto residents in areas of concentrated poverty to keep the standard of living within their…
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Episode 172: 5am Hit and Runs
In this episode of The 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex reflect on the complexities of making a positive impact in the community. They share their thoughts on a recent…
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Episode 171: Why Gardens Matter with Andre Lee Ellis
Memory updated The 53206 Cast: A Conversation with Andre Lee Ellis In this episode of The 53206 Cast, we're excited to welcome Andre Lee Ellis, founder of We…
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Episode 170: Fear Is A Terrible Motivator
While being motivated by fear can by helpful sometimes, when we make everyday decisions about how we interact with the world, fear is one of the least useful…
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Episode 169: The Return of Jamie DeJesus
This week, Meg and Alex sit down with Jamie DeJesus. Jamie is a leader in the community helping facilitate the re-entry process for justice involved…
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Episode 167: Shorts Are My Legacy
Legacies are something we leave whether or not we do so intentionally or not. For a lot of us, we want to leave the world better than we wound it. This week on…
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Episode 166: Everything Is An Opportunity
This week Meg and Alex discuss the philosophy that everything is an opportunity to make the world the way you want it to be.
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Episode 165: Ghetto Self Esteem - An Excerpt From Bad Neighborhoods
Meg is out of town this week and we couldn't get a podcast in before she left so it seemed like a good opportunity to share a chapter of the book Bad…
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Episode 164: Ajamou Butler
This week, Meg and Alex sit down with long time community activist Ajamou Butler.
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Episode 163: Trick or Treating in 2024
For over 10 years we have been trick or treating in the same neighborhood outside of ours. Each year, we leave the inner city along with 300 or so of our…
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Episode 162: Bad Neighborhoods - Chapter 1
This week Meg an Alex share the first chapter of the book, Bad Neighborhoods, which is available to listen to for free on the Bad Neighborhoods podcast feed.
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Episode 161: A National Award
This week Meg and Alex talk about a pretty cool opportuntiy Meg received from a well known flower farm and speak about the shifts in cultural awareness around…
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Episode 160: Missing iPhones and Caucasian Pricks
This week Meg and Alex talk about what's been going on in the neighborhood and share a couple of stories of opportunities to be empathetic.
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Episode 159: Let The Bus In
It's easy to miss opportunities in life to help someone else on their journey. This week Meg and Alex talk about that dynamic and give an update on the book…
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Episode 158: Interconnectedness and Tragedy
This week, Meg and Alex talk about the interconnectedness of life and it's implications on how we interact with tragedy.
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Episode 157: Contributions
Each of us has the capacity to make a contribution to the world. This week Meg and Alex share some thoughts on how to figure out what your contibution could be.
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Episode 156: 3 Things That Work For The Kids In Our Neighborhood
This week Meg and Alex talk through three things that help a school or an organization get the best out of the kids from their neighborhood.
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Episode 155: We Got This Grand Finale
August 24th was the last Saturday at We Got This for the summer. Meg and Alex talk about the We Got This season finale and share some of the highlights from…
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Episode 154: Diversity
This week, Meg and Alex talk about diversity and the choice to intentionally add to the diversity of a space. The two also give a We Got This update and talk…
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Episode 153: Good Problems At We Got This
This week Meg and Alex talk about some of the basics around We Got This and some of the good problems happening in the organization.
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Episode 152: Conflict, Productivity, and a We Got This Update
In areas of concentrated poverty, conflict is unavoidable and opportunities to be a positive contributor to the neighborhood are hard to find. This week, Meg…
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Episode 151: Windswept Smoke
This week, Meg and Alex talk about a counter intuitive dynamic that exists in the inner city. While bad things happen sometimes, the good far outweighs the bad.
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Episode 150: 137
This week, Meg and Alex give a We Got This update and talk about neighborhood revitalization.
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Episode 149: Shooting On The Highway and A We Got This Week 3 Recap
This week Meg and Alex break down week three at the garden and talk about how that work attempts to give kids something positive and productive to do which, in…
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Episode 148: We Got This 2024
This week, Meg and Alex recap the first week of the We Got This season.
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Episode 147: Track Fights
Instances of violence are found more commonly in areas of concenrated poverty. This can be hard to understand for those of us unfamiliar with those spaces…
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Episode 146: Heal The Hood With Ajamou Butler
It's Heal The Hood season in Milwaukee. This week Ajamou Butler joins the podcast to talk about the 12th annual Heal The Hood Event on May 25th.
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Episode 145: Boat Shoes and Burned Down Houses
How do you know if you are doing more harm than good or if you are unintentionally participating in something that damages a community. This week Meg and Alex…
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Episode 143: Raise The Floor
Advancement can come in multiple forms. One way to approach advancement of a space is to commit to raising the floor, the base level or lowest form of a…
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Episode 142: People Are People Too
This week, Meg and Alex talk through a recent break-in at one of the rental properties. While break-ins are never fun, this one in particular had some…
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Episode 141: Affordable Housing With Bruce Kruger
This week, Bruce Kruger joins the podcast to discuss affordable housing and the journey that Whitefish Bay, a near northern suburb of Milwaukee is handling its…
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Episode 140: Using Design Thinking To Be A Better Advocate
Any time we assume there is a one size fits all in advacy work, we leave ourselves open to the possibility that we will do more harm than good. This week Meg…
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Episode 139: Embody Yoga
This week, Joanna Brooks, the founder of Embody Yoga joins the podcast to talk about her journey as a small business owner running the highly successful yoga…