The Neighboring Movement Podcast

In this episode, Matt and Adam discuss how we as a community can find our way forward on this long road we all find ourselves on- the election season. "Spoiler Alert: The way forward is neighboring." They discuss 5 points on a journey that has helped them feel a bit better about what we each can specifically do get things moving in a positive direction. Quotable Moment: "What we have to remember i...

Matt and Adam explore the nuances of the word "relationship" with our neighbors. They discuss three elements of the neighbor relationship: Gifts, Dependability, & Safety as well as the transformation that occurs when we can communicate with our neighbors. Quotable Moment: "...It takes the pressure off. You don't have to be best friends with all of your neighbors and you can still have good, health...

This week we are highlighting 16 episodes of The Neighbor Next Door podcast that give you the best overview of the Neighboring Movement. If you are new to neighboring, this is a great way to get your feet wet. Click HERE to be taken to our Spotify Playlist. Episodes Include: Rhonda Stevens "Kick-starting Neighboring"; Finding Abundance; The Power of Relationships; Joy: A Key Ingredient of Neighbor...

We are joined again this week by Riccardo Harris to continue our conversation about racism and how it relates to economic opportunities. Quotable Moment: "Let's begin to look at different ways in which we can build up the community."- Riccardo Harris To learn more about Riccardo, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/riccardo. If you missed Part 1 of this conversation with Riccardo,...

This week we are joined by Riccardo Harris, one of our Neighboring Movement staff, a pastor, a teacher and he talks to us today about the importance of having discussions about racism as well as his experience of racism in the education system in America. Quotable Moment this week: "Being uncomfortable is part of this... and recognize that we may not solve this in this session and that's ok. This...

This week Matt and Adam are joined by Justin Hancock who shares "the inciting incident" into The Julian Way and what we can take away from that incident.  The Julian Way is an organization focused education and empowerment with, for, and by, persons of diverse embodiments. They seek to help places of faith, and other cultural institutions, achieve greater universal accessibility, by fostering envi...

Guest Speaker: Allie Utley from Allen County, KS Allie has worked across the state since 2018 as the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Thrive Allen County, the largest and most prominent rural health advocacy organization in Kansas. Outside of Thrive, Allie is the Secretary of the Kansas Young Democrats, a Young Kansans for Barbara Bollier co-chair, a columnist at the Iola Register, and a tennis i...

Hello friend! Thank you, as always, for joining us on the virtual front porch! This week, we had the honor of interviewing Claire Branstetter, and in this episode, Claire presents practical advice on how to neighbor when language barriers are present. ¡Disfrutar! Among so much more, Claire is an incredibly kind person with a true passion, and gift, for welcoming the stranger. Claire actually used...

Hello friends! This is our third and final week of spotlighting a few of our all-time favorite episodes of The Neighbor Next Door . Today, we re-release a neighboring tip episode from April, and starting next week, we'll be back with new episodes. Thanks for listening! This week's episode was originally released on April 28, 2020. Like our other neighboring tip episodes, this one presents a simple...

We're continuing to spotlight a few of our all-time favorite episodes of The Neighbor Next Door . Last week, we re-released an episode on social capital. This week, we're re-releasing an episode in which hosts Adam and Matt further the concept of social capital through the use of a new term: social fabric. As we stated last week, this is a busy time of year for us at the Neighboring Movement, so w...

For the next three weeks, we're spotlighting a few of our all-time favorite episodes of The Neighbor Next Door . This week, join us on the front porch as hosts Adam and Matt have a hilarious conversation about a concept that's important to our work: social capital. This is a busy time of year for us at the Neighboring Movement, so we've decided to take the next three weeks off from new recordings...

Welcome back to The Neighbor Next Door, friends! For today's episode, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the virtual front porch with one of our dear friends, and co-founder of The Julian Way, Justin Hancock. Among so much more, Justin is an extremely compassionate person, a passionate leader, a deep thinker, and a gifted speaker and writer. We are so incredibly honored that he was willing to do an e...

Hey friends! Two weeks ago, we had the first of the gapper calls, and it was so fantastic! So today, hosts Adam and Matt sit down with Kristopher, who helps facilitate the calls, to talk more about how it went. Tune in to hear what the call was like and learn more about the gappers! We have a couple previous episodes on the gappers, and they are titled "The Gappers, Our Coronavirus Response (Parts...

Hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the virtual front porch with Kristopher in order to talk through this week's neighboring tip: Wear a mask. (Yes, wearing a mask is also just good for neighboring!) This week's episode, like our other neighboring tip episodes, presents a simple experiment for connecting with your neighbors - even in the midst of a pandemic. We hope you not only enjoy listening to thi...

What do you get when you combine a beautiful story, an off-script podcast, and a surprise phone call to your friend? This episode! When hosts Adam and Matt sat down to record what Adam had dubbed "The Super Fun Happy Hour" episode, they had no idea that this would happen next....Buckle up, and tune in to this hilarious crazy beautiful episode! Alright, that was the spoiler-free introduction to tod...

Greetings, friends! We are so very excited to present today's episode, in which hosts Adam and Matt sit down with Anna Almendrala, a health care journalist who recently wrote a powerful opinion article that was published in The Los Angeles Times and centered around a story of neighboring. We are so honored to be joined by Anna  on the virtual front porch! She is an incredibly compassionate person...

This week, we're switching things up a little bit! In this episode, John McKnight tells a story about his childhood neighboring, and then hosts Adam and Matt respond to the story. If you've heard John tell a story, then you'll know you're in for a treat! John McKnight is one of the co-founders of asset-based community development and a hero of ours. At the end of March, we interviewed John for the...

Friends! Today, we introduce the newest member of our staff to the podcast...Sydney Roe! Sydney rocks, and we are so excited to introduce her to you all! Among so much more, she embodies both a gentle and fiery spirit, possesses a deep commitment to work for the good of others, and loves to listen to people talk about what they care about. She has a deep love for words and also a fantastic array o...

For this week's episode, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the virtual front porch with Kristopher in order to talk through this week's neighboring tip: Support a business in your neighborhood. This week's episode, like our other neighboring tip episodes, presents a simple experiment for connecting with your neighbors - even in the midst of a pandemic. We hope you not only enjoy listening to this ep...

Good day, friends! Today, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on their virtual front porches in order to talk about where we're at in this pandemic and discuss ideas on how we can take care of ourselves in the midst of it. While Adam and Matt are not licensed therapists or counselors, Adam does work around social and emotional intelligence, and Matt does spiritual direction, so they have some thoughts to...

We're back with another episode on the gappers! Our newest project is taking off, so this week, hosts Adam and Matt sit down to discuss the project a bit more. Tune in to learn more! Two weeks ago, we introduced this new project on our podcast with an episode titled "The Gappers, Our Coronavirus Response". If you have not yet had a chance to listen to that episode, we would highly recommend doing...

Welcome back to The Neighbor Next Door ! Today, host Adam is honored to sit down on the virtual front porch with Krissy Matthaei and Ashley Barlow-Thompson in order to talk about setting boundaries with neighbor kids. It is an honor to welcome Krissy Matthaei to the virtual front porch! Krissy is a supermom and a gifted educator. With two kids of her own and twenty years of teaching experience in...

Happy May, friends! This week on the podcast, Adam, Matt, and Kristopher sit down on their virtual front porches in order to talk about the Neighboring Movement's coronavirus response: an experimental community called "the gappers".  Throughout this coronavirus pandemic, we have noticed the temptation to say things like, “I just wish we could go back”, or “I just wish things would be back to norma...

In this week's episode, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the front porch with Kristopher in order to talk through this week's neighboring tip: Engage in in-person interactions with your neighbors while practicing physical distancing. This week's episode, like our other neighboring tip episodes, presents a simple experiment for connecting with your neighbors - but this one directly addresses the pan...

As always, welcome back to the front porch! In the weeks to come, we will release episodes that are all focused on neighboring in the time of coronavirus, so stay tuned! To kick off this series, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on their respective front porches to talk about one specific element of life in the midst of COVID-19: grief. In this episode, Adam and Matt first talk about the practice of gr...