The Neighboring Movement Podcast

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam continue to interview members of the Neighboring Movement board of directors. Myrna Craig has been a part of the Neighboring Movement since the beginning and recently joined the board again. In this episode she shares some of her stories of moving onto a new block, what it is like to neighbor as an introvert, and following your gut instincts on how to neighb...

This week on the podcast, hosts Adam and Matt re-examine our 2nd ingredient in our Good Neighbor Soup: Abundance. They explore how a shift of focus, from scarcity to abundance, can change a community. If you haven't listened to the first ingredient, Relationship, that was Episode 95 that dropped September 14. Quotable Moment: "So when we talk about abundance, we're talking about the abundance of g...

This week on the podcast, Adam and Matt are joined by Cara Mattson and Dylan Ewalt. They have been knocking on literally HUNDREDS of doors in the South Central Wichita area over this past summer, encouraging people to get to know the neighbors in the 8 front doors closest to them, sharing ideas and what the Neighboring Movement is all about.  Listen in to hear a bit about their work and what happe...

This week on The Neighbor Next Door, hosts Adam and Matt begin a three part series as they re-examine our Good Neighbor Soup ingredients: Relationship, Abundance, and Joy. While these ingredients haven't changed over the years, Matt and Adam want to add in what they have learned and discuss the nuances of the word "relationship." Quotable Moment: "I heard a definition for the word society as "soci...

This week, hosts Matt and Adam are joined by our newest employee, Elizabeth Ramirez, who is heading up the Kansas Animator Network (KAN) Program. In this episode, she shares some of her background and discusses what she excited about getting started with! Elizabeth just recently published on our blog as well! You can find that here: https://neighboringmovement.org/abcd-application-blog/

This week on the podcast, we have an energizing episode on one of our favorite topics, JOY! Hosts, Matt and Adam, are joined by Jaime Junker, another member of the Neighboring Movement's Board of Directors. She is the Principle at Harry Street Elementary School and in this episode, Jaime shares her wisdom about the simplicity and practicality of joy and how to prioritize it in your life and even i...

This week, hosts Matt and Adam are joined by Kristopher Swanson for a new Neighboring Tip! Hosting a "Get Together" AKA a block party! But don't be afraid! They have some great suggestions for how to keep it simple! "Move away from, "did I entertain my neighbors?" which is the trap that block parties fall into... You don't need to entertain your neighbors. You need to help them know each other and...

This week, Adam and Matt are joined by their AmeriCorps VISTA intern Lydia Chappell Deckert. She shares her memories of neighboring, how her travels have impacted her experience of neighboring, and her excitement about what she is doing at the Neighboring Movement as we are growing! Quotable Moments: "...living a whole life includes other people." "My advice for most things in life is to stay curi...

Greetings, neighbors! In this episode, hosts Adam and Matt return to the front porch for a second conversation with the President and CEO of Thrive Allen County, Lisse Regehr. If you have not yet listened to Adam and Matt's first conversation with Lisse, we would encourage doing so before listening to this episode. In that first conversation, Lisse tells the story of her organization and their app...

This week we are revisiting a great 2-part episode from 2019! Hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the front porch with the President and CEO of Thrive Allen County, Lisse Regehr.  Lisse is an excellent storyteller, and she brings to the front porch a ton of community development experience. Her organization, Thrive Allen County, is a health, wellness, and economic development coalition located in Alle...

This week on the podcast, Adam and Matt continue to talk to members of the Neighboring Movement's Board of Directors. Today, you will hear from Ashley Beck, our accountant, and her experiences of neighboring both growing up and in our Wichita community. Neighboring can look a little different depending on where you live (rural/urban/apartment/cul-de-sac) but in all settings, a good place to start...

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam are joined by NaQuela Pack, Director of Engagement for Wichita State University and now one of the newest members of the Neighboring Movement's Board of Directors.  NaQuela found the Neighboring Movement through this podcast, contacted us, and we put her to work! We are excited to have her curiosity and enthusiasm! To learn more about the Neighboring Movemen...

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam are joined by writer, Alicia Snyder, who talks about a project that she did with the young people in her neighborhood that met their interests and discovered gifts so that everyone could learn from each other. To check out the video project discussed in this podcast, check out the links below. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI37NAxj6aFtOvJidg0ogcQ https://...

Happy Pride from The Neighboring Movement!

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam are joined by Blanca Soto, a member of the Neighboring Movement's Board of Directors. Blanca is also the newest City Commissioner of Dodge City, KS and works in ESOL & Diversity with Dodge City Public Schools. We are very excited to have Blanca on our board and on our podcast! In this episode, Blanca talks about the diverse culture of Dodge City and referenc...

Happy Pride from The Neighboring Movement!

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam are joined by Joseph Shepard, a member of the Neighboring Movement's Board of Directors. Joseph is Director of Multicultural Engagement and Campus Life at Newman University and recently has begun a new journey as Director for Lead for America Kansas. He is a California native, moved to Kansas to attend Wichita State about 10 years ago, fell in love with our...

This week on the podcast, Matt and Adam are joined by Megan Ginn whom they met virtually during a seminar that the Neighboring Movement was hosting for a global ABCD event. Megan has a gift for finding information and learning from everything she can find and then sharing what she has learned with the rest of us. This episode is a gold mine of sound bites and mic drops! "Relationships rooted in mu...

This week, Matt and Adam are joined by friends, Justin Hancock and Rebecca Mitts. We are doing something we haven't done in a while, a podcast episode swap! Justin and Rebecca are the hosts of a podcast called Palsys With Palsies where they share profound ideas about important topics in an approachable and accessible way. Today, they share with us Episode 11 of their podcast called, "The Gaze & th...

This week, Matt and Adam are joined by Kristopher Swanson for a new Neighboring Tip which is to strike up a conversation with your neighbor. For some people, this may be a very obvious tip. It is spring, people are out and about, it makes sense to strike up a conversation! For others that may think this is a harder tip to execute, be intentional about saying hello and being open to a conversation....

This week, Adam and Matt are joined on the podcast by Maddie Johnson. She is joining the Neighboring Movement team to be the new Good Neighbor Experiment coordinator! Listen in to meet Maddie and hear a little bit about her and why she is excited to join us! Find out more about the Neighboring Movement at www. NeighboringMovement.org.

This week Matt and Adam are joined by Dee Brooks, ABCD Asia Pacific Trainer and Facilitator for the Jeder Institute and ABCD Asia Pacific Network. She is a world-wide connector for Asset Based Community Development and we are thrilled to have her on the podcast! Dee shares inspirational stories and ideas that will make you want to get up and go out to interact your neighbors- just get out and "let...

This week, Matt and Adam are joined by David Burton from Springfield, Missouri who works for the University of Missouri Extension in community development. David shares his experiences with neighboring, what caused him to begin advocating for neighboring, as well as the pilot program they launched in March and what lessons they are already learning from that. To learn more about the neighboring mo...

This week we have a JOYFUL celebration of an episode because Matt and Adam are back on an actual front porch! We've got birdsong, we've got trains in the distance, we've got the creak of the porch swing AND we've got Adam and Matt doing what they do best- playing live music and talking about taking the time to enjoy the little things that mean the most to us as we come out of the season of Covid....

This week, Adam and Matt are joined by John McKnight to discuss the six (possibly even seven) attributes of a culture of contribution, how these characteristics in a community could foster peace, and then continues with the roles that we play within our neighborhood. The six attributes discussed: Cooperation, Hospitality, Generosity, Kindness, Accepting Fallibility, Forgiveness, (and the seventh,...