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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.html
As 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 Russell
To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.org
To 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.org
To 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.org
To 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 Russell
To learn more about the Neighboring Movement, go to www.neighboringmovement.org
To 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.
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?
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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.
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