Podcasts about neighbor next door

Hello friends and loyal listeners! We are so psyched to welcome you back to our nonprofit's podcast after a brief hiatus...and, we are so excited to announce that The Neighbor Next Door is now officially The Neighboring Movement Podcast! In this brief introductory episode, staff members Elizabeth, Adam, Matt, and Kristopher sit down to talk about the podcast's name change and re-imagination. Welcome to the next chapter of our podcast!

You know how Spotify has "This Is" playlists for popular artists, filled with songs considered to be their classics? In this bonus episode - which we are calling "This Is The Neighbor Next Door" - we reveal our Spotify playlist, filled with classic episodes from our nonprofit's podcast. Stay tuned for the next chapter of the podcast, and in the meantime, check out the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1UGIQIj0MvNlW8jyMVPQcY?si=b2f0c384ca734e44. Happy neighboring!

This week, hosts Adam and Matt are joined by Kristopher Swanson for a new Neighboring Tip. This tip is more of a brainstorm on how we can be a welcoming presence in our neighborhoods, not necessarily to new neighbors, but the neighbors we know and have established a relationship with.We would love to hear your ideas on how you can be more welcoming to your neighbors! You can share your ideas with us and find more information about the Neighboring Movement on our website, www.NeighboringMovement.org.

This week on the podcast, hosts Matt and Adam are joined by Rev. Donna Thompson who hails from the crystal coast in North Carolina. Newly appointed to a church in the community, Donna shares with us her experiences of meeting the 8 front doors around her new home, her excitement in finding the gifts of the people in her new community, and her vision for neighboring moving forward.To find out more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org.

For our 100th episode, it's appropriate that we have the Chairman of the Neighboring Movement's board of directors on the podcast, Trevor Hinz. Trevor has been with the Neighboring Movement since the very beginning and this week he sits down with hosts, Matt and Adam, to talk about our humble beginnings, some of our pivoting moments, and where we are now.To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org.

This week on the podcast, hosts Adam and Matt re-examine our 3nd ingredient in our Good Neighbor Soup: Joy. At the Neighboring Movement, joy isn't just another word for happiness. To live and neighbor joyfully and authentically, joy must encompass happiness as well as emotions like grief and gratitude. If you haven't listened to the first two ingredients, Relationship & Abundance, those were aired September 14 & September 28.Find out more about what we are doing at The Neighboring Movement by visiting www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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 neighbor in a way that you are comfortable with.To learn more about the Neighboring Movement or to find our Block Map Magnet, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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 happens next!To learn more about the 8 front doors challenge, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/8-front-doors-challenge/.

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 "society is the sum of all relationships"... We are not powerless to society and the societal norms that we don't like about society right now. We have the influence to change it one relationship at a time- one neighbor at a time."- Adam Barlow-ThompsonFind out more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org

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 in your work environment. Quotable Moment: "...if you prioritize that joy and find that and just be conscious of those moments in the midst of your most challenging times, there are moments of joy, there are silver linings, there are things to celebrate... if you get lost in the challenges, you will not be successful."- Jaime JunkerEditor's Note: I hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I did! The last year and a half of pandemic has been exhausting and in so many ways it has been a thief of joy. So, grab the jumper cables! This is the episode for you if your joy battery needs a recharge!

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 know something about each other." -Adam Barlow-ThompsonIf even two neighbors that didn't know each other before, walk away from the event knowing one thing about the other, then it was a success! If you decide to give this neighboring tip a try as the weather cools down a bit, let us know! You can find contact information and more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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 curious. When you interact with anyone or anything, if you can go in with a question instead of a judgment or an assumption, then you're probably set up to have an awesome conversation with an unlikely person or friend."

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 approach to community development, which provides a perfect foundation for the stories you are about to hear. The episode with the first conversation is titled, "Lisse Regehr (Part 1): The Story of a Thriving Organization".Now, welcome to Part 2! In this conversation, Lisse tells some amazing stories that have blossomed forth from the Allen County community before giving advice on how you can continue to work to make your community a better place. We hope you enjoy! And, if you have not yet had a chance, check out Thrive's website to learn more about their amazing work!

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 Allen County, Kansas, and her team does incredible work! In this first episode, Lisse tells the story of her organization and what their work looks like throughout Allen County. Check out Thrive's website to learn more about their amazing work, and stay tuned for next week's episode, Part 2: Story's of a Thriving Community.

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 is by sharing your gifts!Quotable Moment: "Take your gift, whatever your gift is, and build a bridge with that to your neighbors."To find out more about what we do in the Neighboring Movement, check out our website at www.NeighboringMovement.com

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 Movement, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org

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/UCI37NAxj6aFtOvJidg0ogcQhttps://bunaziua3.wixsite.com/websiteTo learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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 references videos that were created to showcase the stories of the people of Dodge, where they come from and what their dreams are. Those links are here so you can see what makes the local business owners and people of Dodge City so special!https://fb.watch/5K3ChFW6hR/https://fb.watch/5K4WIIihM_/https://fb.watch/5K4XM0kQDZ/https://fb.watch/5K4Z3WvK0P/

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 beautiful state and the City of Wichita and is here to share his experiences of how awesome it is to live here and do this work of neighboring!"... being boots on the ground and having an opportunity to get your hands dirty and the challenges that our neighbors are facing and our communities are facing, and recognizing the power of community. I think so often we rely on different entities to come in and solve our problems and there's nothing wrong with that, these entities are resources, our government, our non-profit organizations, they're resources to help us solve those problems but there is power and understanding that we as individuals and neighbors have the power to change the trajectory of our own communities if we are just willing to get our hands dirty for ourselves."- Joseph ShepardTo learn more about Lead for America, go to www.lead4america.org.To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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 mutuality... we both have something to learn from one another and there's strengths in that..." when discussing coming into ABCD."It's not our role to force people into our vision of flourishing, it's just partnering with them to create it..." when discussing finding joy in the work."...one of the necessary components to engaging in this work... shifting from that needs based to asset based approach, is you need to be able to lament really well because you're realizing that you can't control everything. Lament isn't very compatible with happiness but it is with joy."And as is with all rabbit holes, there's more!To find more about Megan Ginn's work, you can go to www.CommunityResourceNetwork.com or find CRN on Facebook and Instagram.To find out more about the Neighboring Movement, find us at www.NeighboringMovement.org or Facebook and Twitter.

Follow us on twitter!https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsieshttps://twitter.com/TheJulWayTo get more of Matt and Adam and the good work they do, check out https://neighboringmovement.org/neighbornextdoorOpening music for Palsys with Palsies: Southern Love by Tencher MusicOur first ever episode swap! In this episode, dear listeners, you will be hearing from Matt Johnson and Adam Barlow-Thompson, two of the co-founders of the Neighboring Movement. They bring a joy-filled approach to learning about, and practicing, good neighboring. They 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. 

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 & the Dance". "In this episode Justin talks about his experience with "the gaze," known in the disability community as being stared at by and interacting able bodied people who don't know how to inhabit the space with a person with a disability. He shares one the best experiences and some of his lousiest experiences with "the gaze." There is a social dance that happens whenever you meet someone different from yourself; so if you step on toes, don't keep stepping on their toes. Be curious, but not an a*****e."- summary from Palsys With Palsies podcast.Find their other podcasts at:Apple Podcasts: HEREGoogle Podcasts: HERESimplecast: HERE

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. If you can't remember your neighbors name, name the awkwardness and ask! And remember to write your neighbors name down for next time. Perhaps on a piece of paper OR a block map magnet that you can purchase at our store HERE.To find out more about The Neighboring Movement, go to our website, www.NeighboringMovement.org.  

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 the the dog go." We are encouraged to turn what may be seen as a challenge into an opportunity for growth and development.

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 movement, visit us at www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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.Editors note: I left this episode pretty raw! I want to invite you to take a minute and image yourself pulling up a chair onto Adam's porch to listen in on this conversation. I invite you to share in the laughter and joy of this episode!You can find more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org.

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, Spirituality.) What would you do to make these manifest? The people who love you, which of these attributes would they say YOU have?And look at your neighbors? What attributes do you see them living into? We want to hear your stories. How do we tell these stories in our neighborhoods?The roles that people perform in a community: Healers, Conscience, Artists, Conveners, Bridgers, Connectors, Voices, Visionaries, Executors, Tuck Pointers.  We would welcome your thoughts on this list. Which of these do you feel like is a role that gives you joy? Is there a role that you would add? And think about your neighbors. Do you see them embodying a role listed here? If so, what does that look like? Are there missing roles you would add to this list?You can learn more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.orgYou can learn more about John McKnight HERE and a link for The Learnings of John McKnight can be found HERE.

In June of 2019, we sat down with Dr. Justin Moore, a physician and researcher, and discussed this fact: neighboring makes us healthier. Justin practices medicine in various community-oriented ways, and he also researches the impacts of social isolation and loneliness on physical health. In this powerful episode, Justin shares surprising statistics before giving enlightening advice on how we can all start neighboring for health!

This week, Matt and Adam are joined by 3 introverted neighbors! Catherine Johnson who works with us at the Neighboring Movement, Daniel Reffner who is a pastor at Aldersgate UMC in Wichita, and Carter Ellis who is a pastor in Kansas City share with us how they are able to be good neighbors as introverted personalities and what gifts introverts can bring to the table.To learn more, visit our website at www.NeighboringMovement.org.

This week, Adam and Matt are joined by Nathan Hansen who shares with us his experience of neighboring in an apartment complex. We love talking about neighboring through the art of storytelling and Nathan has some great ones this week!As always, find out more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org.

This week, hosts Matt and Adam continue their discussion about the ReCycle process. (Part 1: The Act of Remembering aired on December 22, 2020.) In Part 2: Reveal, we move from the thinking and reflection portion of the process to the Action piece- Or to loosely quote Adam, just go out and try some *stuff* and see what happens!Find out more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org

This week, Matt and Adam are joined by our very own, Kristopher Swanson who shares with us a new Neighboring Tip. Walk with your neighbor!As Spring blooms, more folks are out and about in our neighborhoods. Invite a neighbor to walk with you; take in some sunshine! The great thing about this tip is that is for introverts and extroverts alike. You can fill the time with chit chat about the beautiful weather, how the neighbors' gardens are looking, etc. OR you don't have to talk at all. If you have a neighbor you are comfortable with, you could soak up the sun and just LISTEN. To the other person's story or if they are quiet too, just listen to the wind and birdsong. Grab a neighbor and walk!To find more Neighboring Tips, go to www.NeighboringMovement.org

This week Adam and Matt are joined by Amy Notbohm from Arizona. Amy found the Neighboring Movement through some mutual friends and started listening to the podcast, then jumped onto a Community Call and we immediately fell in love with her energy and started including her in all the things so that she could begin sharing her knowledge with us!In this episode, Amy references two books:"Doughnut Economics" by Kate Raworth. You can find out more information about that book and "the doughnut" at https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/."Women in the Gift Economy" by Genevieve Vaughan. You can find more information about this book at http://www.gift-economy.com/womenand.htmlAs always, find out more about the Neighboring Movement at www.NeighboringMovement.org

Welcome to the 5th and final part of our Cormac Russell interview! For the past 4 weeks, hosts Matt and Adam have broken down an hour long conversation they had with Cormac Russell, the author of "Rekindling Democracy," a much sought-after international keynote speaker and Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe. Listen in for the conclusion of this inspiring conversation. I really want to just have basically a transcript of everything Cormac says in this episode; there are so many profound, make you think, things packed into this short episode. But instead I will lead with this one quote and you will have to listen for the rest. "So if you want to breathe free, the starting point is to remember that the people who are most likely to enable that to happen, are you and your neighbors."- Cormac RussellTo learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.orgTo learn more about Cormac Russell, visit https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/ 

Welcome to Part 4 of 5 of our Cormac Russell interview! For the past 3 weeks, hosts Matt and Adam have broken down an hour long conversation they had with Cormac Russell, the author of "Rekindling Democracy," a much sought-after international keynote speaker and Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe. We are down to our last 2 parts of the conversation and oh friends, we are still very much in the depths of this rich, chocolate peanut butter pie!This week, Cormac starts out by talking a little about economics of institutions and the neighborhood economy."Lots of liberals would say, "well thank goodness we've got the public sector and we've got charities because they don't operate that way..." Well actually, they do. So the structure of the institution is essentially I'm going to take your need in whatever form it comes and I'm going to structure it in such a way that it can be commodified... Two thirds of all the monies that are intended to go to the people living in poverty, to put an end to poverty, don't go to people living in poverty in the US. They go to people who are servicing people who live in poverty who are not poor.""Many of the big churches are exactly the same, where they're harvesting people's misery and turning it into money." Insert head explosion emoji here! Listen in to hear what Matt and Adam talk about in response to that band-aide rip!To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.orgTo learn more about Cormac Russell, visit https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/ 

Welcome to Part 3 of 5 of our Cormac Russell interview. Hosts Matt and Adam are joined by none other than Cormac Russell, the author of "Rekindling Democracy," a much sought-after international keynote speaker and Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe.To recap a bit, Cormac has been telling us about the 3 Lanes. The first lane is what communities can do for each other. The second lane is what citizen's can do WITH institutions, key word is "with." And the third lane is what institutions alone can do. And where we are now is we always tend to start in lane 3, without asking questions of lane 1 first.This week, Cormac gives a couple of recent examples of lane one and how Covid has actually moved us back into lane one a bit.To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.orgTo learn more about Cormac Russell, visit https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/ 

Welcome to Part 2 of 5 of our Cormac Russell interview. Hosts Matt and Adam are joined by none other than Cormac Russell, the author of "Rekindling Democracy," a much sought-after international keynote speaker and Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe.This week, you'll hear Cormac discuss the world as it is, a heightening of a sense of individualism and then asking the question, where do we go from here? What does the work look like when we re-center democracy within the neighborhood?"Now the question might be, what's the scale in which we can do that work? We know city is too big, we certainly know state is too big, region is too big, so what's the scale? We know family is too small, the individual, that is really not helpful... I think there is a third unit of change and that is the neighborhood."- Cormac RussellTo learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.orgTo learn more about Cormac Russell, visit https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/ 

This week, hosts Matt and Adam are joined by none other than Cormac Russell, the author of "Rekindling Democracy," a much sought-after international keynote speaker and Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe. There are so many golden eggs in this interview, you would think it was Easter already! To paraphrase Matt and Adam, this interview is so rich it's like a deep fried peanut butter pie, so we will break it down into 5 segments so that you can fully digest all of the great quotes and incite this interview has to offer. Here are few quotes from this week:"...at times the function of the state is to create a dome of protection around associational life and if there is a predatory force that's doing the community down, I think it's quite helpful for them to be big, to fan out, but when there's a whole set of things like for example in a little while I'll go and have a meal with my family, I don't want the state governing how the salt gets passed."- Cormac Russell speaking on institutions and how proportionality and context matters."...recognize that democracy at whatever level or scale we think of it is something that has to be an embodied act, otherwise it's just a concept."- Cormac Russell"...so the neighborhood is the primary unit of change in a democracy, so you think about it, what is the atomic element of molecular democracy?  It's the neighborhood."- Cormac RussellTo learn more about Cormac Russell, visit https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/ 

This week is Part 2 of a conversation that Adam and Matt had with the Mayor of Midland, Michigan, Maureen Donker, as well as Alysia Christy from the Cultural Awareness Coalition in Midland. They share their stories of what intentional neighboring is doing for their community. In Part 1 last week, we heard from Maureen and this week in Part 2, we hear from Alysia."How do we reach those people to support the narrative that "You belong," that "You have a place here," and that isn't going to happen just simply because of where they live or who their neighbors are but is going to come in the micro-moments that people experience their community through."- Alysia Christy

Matt and Adam are joined this week by the Mayor of Midland, Michigan, Maureen Donker, as well as Alysia Christy from the Cultural Awareness Coalition in Midland. They share their stories of what intentional neighboring is doing for their community. In Part 1, we hear from Mayor Donker and next week in Part 2, we will hear from Alysia."...if we are supposed to love our neighbor, we need to know who our neighbor is." And I thought, "Brilliant! How hard is that???""- Maureen Donker on how they got started."So we have deepened the conversation to where everyone could find a piece where they could fit in."- Maureen Donker on how the concept of getting involved with neighboring can be applied not only to church outreach but to schools and businesses, safety meetings, etc. How much safer is the community/school/business/church/etc when people know each other?

Welcome to the first recorded episode of 2021! This week hosts Adam and Matt are joined by the Neighboring Movement's newest team member, Clair Gallegos who shares where she is from and what she will be doing this year.Claire started working at the Neighboring Movement at the very end of 2020 and is the newest addition to our team. With a professional background of political fundraising and also legislative work, Claire brings a unique set of skills in the realm of organizing on a much larger scale. For the Neighboring Movement, Claire now works as a statewide organizer in order to recruit cohort members, network with similar organizations, and make connections on our behalf - all across Kansas! When possessing free time, Claire enjoys home remodeling and queso sampling.

Today, we are re-releasing a three-episode series in one MEGA episode! Hosts Adam and Matt sit down with, quite literally, the founder of asset-based community development, John McKnight.John began community organizing when he was in his early twenties, and since then, he has done everything from training Barack Obama in community organizing to developing an entirely new model of community development. This model that he developed is of course asset-based community development, or ABCD, and we, the Neighboring Movement, consider ourselves asset-based community developers. That being said, John has always been a hero of ours, and over the years, we have followed his work closely and been deeply inspired and influenced by his practices. He is incredibly kind, absolutely brilliant, and a gifted teacher who always tells the perfect story in order to illustrate a point. We are so very honored that John was willing to sit down on the front porch with us, and we are so excited to share these next three episodes with you all!In the first episode, John introduces what ABCD is, talks about what asset-based community developers seek to do, and explains how ABCD differs from needs-based approaches. He then details the first two of the five categories of assets that all communities possess. In the second episode, John starts by detailing the last three of the five categories of assets that all communities possess and that he started describing in Part 1. Then, he details what the work of asset-based community developers looks like moving forward and how we as citizens gain power. Of course, all of this is interspersed with incredible stories, and we are so excited for you to hear them! As one final note, this episode is dedicated to all of our Canadian neighbors out there; we have been referring to this episode as the "Canada rocks!" episode, and you will soon see why. In the third episode, John starts by talking about the importance of fostering cultures of connectedness and community consciousnesses. Intrigued already? Yeah, he has that effect on people....The episode only gets crazier from there, too! Next, John outlines how people, in association, can own their power and ask three simple questions in order to start producing their future together. To end it all, he tells one of our favorite stories of his, and then, it is get-up-and-go time! There is a call to action here, and you are invited to join in this work!As one final note, thank you for joining us for this series that has been a dream of ours to produce. John's work is incredible, so please check it all out! Here are some resources:His website - Here you can learn more about John and access his learnings, publications, videos, and blogs.His instituteHis blog

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 today's podcast. If you would like to be a bit more surprised with what happens in this episode, we would suggest you stop you reading now....Okay, spoiler time! What ends up happening in this episode is that Adam and Matt quite spontaneously interview one of our dear friends, Lora Andrews. Among so much more, Lora is an extremely joyful, justice-oriented person and a committed neighbor. She works as the senior pastor of a church in the Kansas City suburbs, and the powerful story that she shares today revolves around some of the action her congregation is taking in order to address racism. The story is just beautiful, like insanely beautiful, and it also speaks to how neighboring can play a part in the work of anti-racism. It's the most hopeful story we could have imagined for The Super Fun Happy Hour!As has been the case with some of our other episodes, this episode contains discussion of spiritual and religious topics. Because Lora's church is a Christian church, Christian spirituality is referenced in this conversation. As always, we want to reiterate that we do not present these episodes to promote any one spirituality or religion, Christianity included, but instead because we think they are helpful and encouraging for all neighbors, regardless of their relationships to spirituality or religion.As a final note, there is one swear word a couple of minutes into the episode, and it may or may not be said by one of our hosts....Like our last episode, if that is not something you are interested in hearing, please feel free to turn off the episode and do something else!As always, thank you for listening, and happy neighboring!

During the holidays, Matt and Adam offer some of The Neighbor Next Door's great episodes with a few special guests. This week, they sit down with Anna Almendrala, a health care journalist who 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 with a heart for justice, a way with words, and a fantastic sense of humor. Anna covers health care policy for California Healthline, a health news site independently published by Kaiser Health News. She previously worked at HuffPost for nine years, where she reported on health and lifestyle news and was the creator and host of a podcast about infertility called "IVFML." Yes, Anna is a podcaster herself (a much better one, too, we might add)! The podcast was a Webby finalist in 2019 and a Webby honoree in 2018. It also won a 2019 Excellence in Podcasts award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Check it out! In addition to HuffPost, her work has appeared in publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, NPR, USA Today and on NBC and Univision. She is so very talented!Anna and Adam are longtime friends, so the episode begins by the two talking about how they know one another and sharing stories. Then, Anna takes it from there and tells the powerful story that she wrote about in her opinion article. If you would like to read the article before hearing her tell the story in this episode, you can do so here. The first part of the story details an experience Anna had in her neighborhood that is extremely disturbing and speaks to the racism present in America and around the globe. It is an experience that Anna had, and others are having, that we cannot ignore. Then, the second half of the story details Anna's bold and compassionate response to the experience. Listeners, Anna participates in neighboring of the most difficult kind. We have so much to learn from her. We mean it when we say it, you are not going to want to miss this episode!As we note at the beginning of the episode, this particular episode contains more swear words than our episodes normally do. We are very open to this language on our podcast because we know some people use swear words in order to express themselves, process experiences, and tell stories, and we want those people to feel welcome doing so during their episodes. It also feels important to note that Anna would not be able to tell her story accurately without the use of swear words. If you would rather not hear these words, that is, of course, totally fine! Please feel free to skip this episode.All of this being said, we are so very excited to present this episode to you all! You will definitely want to read more of Anna's work when you are done, and you can do so by visiting her author page here. You can also get in touch with her via Twitter @annaalmendrala. Thank you, as always, for listening!"

In the episode Matt and Adam discuss the importance of remembering in a process they call "recycling." It is important to remember our experiences over the past year (and beyond) so that we know where we are in the present and where we want to go moving forward.

Matt and Adam are joined this week by Kristopher Swanson who shares with us an important neighboring tip during this 2020 holiday season.

In this weeks episode, Matt and Adam briefly discuss the highlights of the 2020 year for the Neighboring Movement and are excited to talk about what is in store for 2021 and beyond. Where is the Neighboring Movement headed and how can you help?Find more information about the future of the Neighboring Movement HERE.You can make a donation to the Neighboring Movement HERE.

In this episode, Matt and Adam discuss what we can be doing to "restore the civic soil" of our communities and find some common ground with each other that stems from our humanity instead of  our politics.Quotable Moment: "We during an election get hyper focused on this left/right spectrum and the things that you are naming, that spectrum doesn't apply. That's what we need." Adam Barlow Thompson in response to Matt Johnson.

Matt and Adam practice remembering the little things for which they are grateful every day and have some gratitude exercises that you can do wherever you are. What are you grateful for? That first cup of coffee in the morning... the extra hour of sleep you may have gotten the other night... the neighbor down the road raking the leaves in your yard... Gratitude comes in all shapes and sizes and it can balance our grief for what this holiday 2020 season may bring. Quotable Moment: "Abundance begins to appear when people start to say there is enough. We can live into having enough when we seek satisfaction rather than accumulation."- John McKnight

Matt and Adam have a very exciting announcement to make this week! Hint: Partnerships + Hard Work = $$$ Tune into this exciting conversation with David & Katie from the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund.To find more information about the Lilly Grant, click here.To find out more about the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, click here. Find more information about the Neighboring Movement at www.neighboringmovement.org 

Matt and Adam discuss the Netflix film, "The Social Dilemma" and talk about how the film relates to our relationships with the people around us. What are the things that we can do today to improve those relationships? (Hint- The answer is NOT better AI...)For more information about the movie and HumaneTech.com, click HERE.For more information about what we do at The Neighboring Movement, click HERE.

Matt is joined this week by a familiar voice, Kristopher Swanson, who shares a Neighboring Tip- Check in With Your Neighbor! Covid times get lonely and kinda crazy so let's check in with our neighbors so that we can all come through this pandemic together.  For more neighboring tips, go to our blog at www.neighboringmovement.org/blog. 

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 is that the neighborhood is the smallest and most important unit of democracy."- Cormac Russell in "Rekindling Democracy"You can find the entire video of this episode on our Facebook page.People/Books Referenced in this episode:John McKnight www.johnmcknight.org "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathon Haidt, find the book here."Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World" by Vivek Murthy, find the book here."Rekindling Democracy: A Professional's Guide to Working in Citizen Space" by Cormac Russell, find the book here."Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can  Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the  Decline of Civic Life" by Eric Klinenberg, find the book here.As always, find more information about us at www.neighboringmovement.org.

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, healthy neighbor relationships."www.neighboringmovement.org

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 Neighboring; Justin Moore: Neighboring for Health; Joy Lenz: Transformative Neighboring; Building Social Capital, Block by Block; Social Fabric: Becoming a Tight-Knit Neighborhood; And More...We will be back with new episodes in a few weeks! Until then, enjoy revisiting the key ingredients of what makes a great Neighbor Soup! 

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 HarrisTo learn more about Riccardo, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/riccardo. If you missed Part 1 of this conversation with Riccardo, click HERE to listen.

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 is the beginning of a dialogue."- Riccardo HarrisTo learn more about Riccardo and check out a couple of his videos, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/riccardo.

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 environments where persons of all embodiments can work for leadership and equity throughout the whole of human life together. Quotable Moment: "What The Julian Way is trying to do on a daily basis is invite curiosity around the disability experience- and what I mean by curiosity is the ability to admit we don't know everything, to move forward and honestly ask questions and engage- and do so with a spirit of charity and without fear."To learn more or donate, go to  https://neighboringmovement.org/the-julian-way

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 experiment for connecting with your neighbors - even in the midst of a pandemic. We hope you not only enjoy listening to this episode but also experiment with the tip presented, and we hope these ideas might be helpful for doing so! As one final caveat, which is mentioned at the start of the episode, because things are changing so rapidly in the world due to the pandemic, this episode is already a bit outdated, and some of our language reflects this. Despite this, we think there are still helpful ideas present, and honestly, this was the most relevant neighboring tip we could re-release. We hope you still find it helpful, and don't forget to tune in next Tuesday for an original episode! Happy listening and happy neighboring!

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 we decided to take a few weeks off from new recordings and instead re-release some of our all-time favorite episodes from the podcast. We'll be back on August 18th with original episodes, but in the meantime, you won't want to miss the episodes we're choosing to re-release! Last week, we presented a July 2019 episode in which Adam and Matt took a deep dive on the concept of social capital. This week, we're presenting an episode that was originally released on August 13, 2019, in which Adam and Matt continue their conversation about social capital but instead start using the new term of social fabric. Because information from last week's re-released episode is referenced in this episode, we would suggest listening to last week's episode first, if you have not already. Next week, we will re-release a favorite neighboring tip episode, before then returning to original content on the 18th. Until then, we hope you continue to enjoy these re-released episodes! Happy listening and happy neighboring!

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 and instead re-release some of our all-time favorite episodes from the podcast. We'll be back on August 18th with original episodes, but in the meantime, you won't want to miss the episodes we're choosing to re-release! This week, we're presenting an episode that was originally released almost exactly a year ago, on July 23, 2019. In it, Adam and Matt take a deep dive on social capital, which is a concept that can seem confusing at first, but we think we have a fantastic way of talking about it, which Adam and Matt present in this episode. It's a concept that's very important to our work, and hence, we think it's important to share with you all! It's also quite related to the subject of next week's re-released episode, so we would highly suggest listening to both this week's and next week's, as they play off of one another. The following week, we will re-release a favorite neighboring tip episode, before then returning to original content on the 18th. Until then, we hope you enjoy these re-released episodes! Happy listening and happy neighboring!

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 episode with us! Justin and his wife, Lisa, founded The Julian Way, a ministry of community, advocacy, and empowerment for those with diverse embodiments. It's an incredible ministry with the goal of developing an empowered community of discipleship in which disability is not viewed as a hindrance or something to be overcome. We brought Justin on today because we think the work of The Julian Way has a powerful connection to asset-based community development, and we're just so excited to share this episode with you all!As has been the case with some of our other episodes, this episode mentions spiritual and religious topics. Because The Julian Way is centered around concepts of intentional Christian community, Christian spirituality is referenced in this conversation. As always, we want to reiterate that we do not present these episodes to promote any one spirituality or religion, Christianity included, but instead because we think they are helpful and encouraging for all neighbors, regardless of their relationships to spirituality or religion.In the episode, Justin begins by introducing The Julian Way before then sharing some of his own story. We then move into exploring the connection with asset-based community development and talking more about what Lisa and Justin's work looks like today. It's so fantastic!You will definitely want to learn more about The Julian Way, and you can do so by visiting this website: http://thejulianway.org. As Justin mentions in the episode, this website is still in progress, so you will also want to check back in soon in order to learn even more!As is mentioned in the episode, Justin also wrote a book that you should all read! It's called The Julian Way: A Theology of Fullness for All of God's People, and you can buy it on Amazon by clicking here!

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 the Wichita area, Krissy possesses an incredible amount of knowledge around fostering relationships with young people. Krissy is also joined by Adam's wife, Ashley Barlow-Thompson, and it is always a joy to have Ashley on the front porch! Together, the two friends and moms tag team in sharing stories and tips around what setting boundaries with neighbor kids looks like.Recently, a new family with kids moved in a couple houses down from the Barlow-Thompsons. While this was super exciting, and Prescott, Ashley and Adam's son, was super pumped to have neighbor kids to play with, it was also a bit nerve-wracking for Ashley and Adam as they started thinking about the boundaries they would have to set. So, they called up their friend Krissy for advice! This conversation details the story and the advice that Krissy gave them and would give other families.

This is it. The finale is here! Welcome to Part 3 of our three-episode series in which hosts Adam and Matt sit down with the founder of asset-based community development, John McKnight.Hopefully, you have had a chance to listen to the first two episodes in this series. If you have not, we would highly suggest going back and listening to them first, as this final episode builds off of the first two. Plus, they are just fantastic episodes!If you have not yet read a little about John, here is a bit of description...John began community organizing when he was in his early twenties, and since then, he has done everything from training Barack Obama in community organizing to developing an entirely new model of community development. This model that he developed is of course asset-based community development, or ABCD, and we, the Neighboring Movement, consider ourselves asset-based community developers. That being said, John has always been a hero of ours, and over the years, we have followed his work closely and been deeply inspired and influenced by his practices. He is incredibly kind, absolutely brilliant, and a gifted teacher who always tells the perfect story in order to illustrate a point. We are so very honored that John was willing to sit down on the front porch with us, and we are so excited to now share all three of these episodes with you all!In this third episode, John starts by talking about the importance of fostering cultures of connectedness and community consciousnesses. Intrigued already? Yeah, he has that effect on people....The episode only gets crazier from there, too! Next, John outlines how people, in association, can own their power and ask three simple questions in order to start producing their future together. To end it all, he tells one of our favorite stories of his, and then, it is get-up-and-go time! There is a call to action here, and you are invited to join in this work!As one final note, thank you for joining us for this series that has been a dream of ours to produce.  John's work is incredible, so please check it all out! Here are some resources:His website - Here you can learn more about John and access his learnings, publications, videos, and blogs.His instituteHis blogP.S. The Neighbor Next Door isn't going anywhere! In the weeks to come, we will continue to release new episodes every Tuesday, and these episodes will directly address neighboring in the time of coronavirus. Thank you, as always, for listening!

It's neighboring tip week for The Neighbor Next Door! Host Matt sits down on the front porch with Kristopher to talk about this week's tip: Take an active step towards helping you and/or your neighbors become more prepared for a future emergency.This episode, like our other neighboring tip episodes, presents a simple experiment for connecting with your neighbors. We hope you not only enjoy listening to this episode but also experiment with the tip presented, and we hope these ideas might be helpful for doing so!

Today, we are quite excited to announce Prescott Barlow-Thompson's debut on The Neighbor Next Door!Prescott is the son of host Adam Barlow-Thompson, and recently, Prescott hosted a block party. In this episode, we first take listeners behind the scenes of the party through never-before-heard recordings in order to discover what this creative process was like. Next, Prescott details how the party went before then discussing his own perception of neighboring on his block. You won't want to miss this episode! It's full of lots of laughs and lots of wisdom, and it's also an amazing reminder that neighboring is for everyone.

It's celebration time! Last Wednesday marked the 1-Year Anniversary of this podcast, so this week, hosts Adam and Matt are joined on the front porch by their wives, Ashley and Catherine, in order to both celebrate and reflect upon their neighboring in the past year.In this episode, the group reflects upon the following three questions:Are there any specific highlights for you from neighboring in the past year?What did you learn about neighboring in the past year?What are you thinking about or looking towards for your neighboring in the year to come?Thanks for celebrating the 1-Year Anniversary of The Neighbor Next Door with us!

The Neighbor Next Door is back and here to stay! We are now an episodic podcast, which means, starting today, we will be releasing an episode every Tuesday. So, welcome to Infinity Season!For today's episode, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the front porch to explain the work of our nonprofit, the Neighboring Movement, and detail our vision for 2020. They begin by explaining who we are and what we are called to do, before detailing the two different settings in which we work and what we do, and plan to do, within each of these settings. In the last few months, our staff has doubled in size, and in many ways, our work has been transformed. We are very excited about all of these changes and are also quite excited to share them with you all! Welcome to the front porch!

Transition time! For this bonus episode, hosts Adam and Matt sit down on the front porch to bring us an announcement about the future of the podcast as we know it! 

Just like Season 1, Season 2 comes to a conclusion with interviews with the 4 co-founders of The Neighboring Movement: Catherine & Matthew Johnson and Ashley and Adam Barlow-Thompson. It is a joyful reflection on the second season and a glimpse into season 3. With plenty of burns along the way! Ashley and Catherine have listened closely to every episode, so their insights and additional stories form a perfect review of the season.

Welcome to Episode 16, the first international episode of The Neighbor Next Door! For this episode, Jonathan Massimi, a supervisor of community centers in Kitchener, Ontario, joined hosts Adam and Matt on the front porch via Zoom.Jonathan is an expert in Asset-Based Community Development, or ABCD, and has a ton of experience utilizing, and helping others utilize, an asset-based approach. In this episode, Jonathan explains how ABCD shapes his work supervising community centers, how real change occurs in communities through small connections that foster friendships, and how we must utilize what we have in the present in order to become architects of our own future.We think this is a fascinating episode, and we are quite excited to share it with you all!

Season 2 of The Neighbor Next Door is here! Our hosts, Adam Barlow-Thompson and Matthew Johnson, are back on the front porch to introduce Season 2 and give a sneak peek of the episodes to come. In this episode, Adam and Matt summarize Season 1 of The Neighbor Next Door before revealing the theme for Season 2 and previewing the episodes to come. This episode is perfect for both first-time listeners and seasoned listeners, so grab a chair and something cold to drink, and join us on the front porch for Season 2 of The Neighbor Next Door!

Here's a two-minute snapshot of "The Neighbor Next Door"! This is a great way to share the podcast with people you may know. The simple act of being a good neighbor is a powerful way to change the world for good, and yet, for many of us, this is a daunting task. This podcast helps us along that journey towards becoming better neighbors.

Season 1 comes to a conclusion with interviews with the 4 co-founders of The Neighboring Movement: Catherine & Matthew Johnson and Ashley and Adam Barlow-Thompson. It is a joyful reflection on the first season and a glimpse into season 2. With plenty of burns along the way! Ashley and Catherine have listened closely to every episode, so their insights and additional stories form a perfect review of the season.

Introducing "The Neighbor Next Door" a podcast about good neighboring (and sometimes good folk music). Meet your hosts: Adam Barlow-Thompson and Matthew Johnson. Learn about their work and what got them here. They share about their work at The Neighboring Movement, a non-profit based in Wichita, Kansas. Together they describe the framework for neighboring that they have arrived at, and how it has impacted their lives. This episode also gives some description of what is coming in future episodes. Including what Adam and Matthew are most excited about.