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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. 

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 how we view areas of concentrated poverty. 

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. 

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, Bad Neighborhoods. 

This week, Meg and Alex talk about the interconnectedness of life and it's implications on how we interact with tragedy. 

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. 

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. 

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 the summer. 

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 about the organizations two biggest limiting factors. 

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. 

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 and Alex talk about those things and give a mid summer We Got This update. 

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. 

This week, Meg and Alex give a We Got This update and talk about neighborhood revitalization. 

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 theory, keeps young people from making bad decisions. 

This week, Meg and Alex recap the first week of the We Got This season. 

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. This week, Meg and Alex talk about violence and how to position yourself to be a positive participant in change instead of removing or distancing yourself. 

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.

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 talk about that and give a quick update on We Got This. 

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 necessity. This week Meg and Alex talk about raising the floor on housing and share a story to better explain what the floor currently looks like. 

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 interesting components and variables to it that are a great reminder that people are people too. 

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 desire to add affordable housing units to its housing stock. 

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 and Alex talk about how to use the design thinking principals to be a better advocate. 

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 studio, Embody Yoga. Embody Yoga is on a mission to share the practice of yoga with people of color and is a leader in the health and wellness space in the city of Milwaukee. Friend of the podcast and avid yoga enthusiest, Jessica Butler join...