53206 Cast

We are 3/4 of the way through the 2025 We Got This summer program. This week Meg and Alex give a recap of the week and talk about changing mindsets and the team's evolution.

The 53206 Cast is 200 episodes old. This week, Meg and Alex reflect on the last 5 years of podcasting and give some advice on how to organize your life in a way that allows you to make the changes you hope to see in the world. 

We Got This has hit the half way mark for the summer. This week, Meg and Alex recap a rainy Saturday at the garden and discuss some of the ins and outs of running a non-profit. 

Signs of change are everywhere if you know what to look for. This week, Meg and Alex talk about changes in the neighborhood and the recent influx of rabbits in the neighborhood. 

This week, Meg and Alex recap week 6 at We Got This. With over 160 coming out to the garden to work this week, it was a busy one. Food was produced and given away for the first time this season and the kids had plenty of opportunities to learn life lessons and practice working. 

This week, Meg and Alex talk about the heat, leadership, winning at work, and week 5 at We Got This. 

This week, Meg and Alex discuss the idea that someone or something can be all good or all bad and the traps that this line of thinking can lead to. 

This week, Meg and Alex recap week 4 at We Got This. The two talk about reaching capacity early in the morning and some of the lessons taught and hopefully learned in the garden. 

This week Meg and Alex recap week 3 at the garden. This week there were a lot of opportunities to work through adversity and reframe thinking around work and doing hard things. 

Protests aren't new but have been in the news lately. Typically protests take one form. This week Meg and Alex talk about expanding the definition, or at least broadening what activities we consider to be a protest. 

This week, Meg and Alex give a week 2 recap of what happened at the garden and the two talk through some highlights including the exciting opportunity to resolve conflict in the community. 

When doing any kind of advocacy work, it is easy to assume that everything will work in your favor or anyone with a similar set of values will see your vision and support the actions you take to make your vision a reality. However, that rarely happens. This week, Meg and Alex talk about unexpected adversity and how to think about instances when people you assume are on your side push back on what you are doing. 

It's garden season. This week, Meg and Alex recap week 1 at We Got This and talk about the muscle known as responsibility and how kids at We Got This get to grow that muscle throughout the summer. 

Correcting societal inequities is point of social justice work. One of the major inequities found in the inner city is the lack of financial capacity found here. This week, Meg and Alex talk about one pathway to building financial capacity in the neighborhood. 

The economic opportunities for the poor are few and far between. This week, Meg and Alex talk about one of those opportunities and talk about some of the factors that lead up to someone choosing to take advantage of that opportunity. 

This week, Meg and Alex talk about the power that perspective has when trying to understand what we see in the world around us. 

Solving complex problems requires a nuianced understanding of the problem. This week Meg and Alex talk about the psycology of the dumper and give a quick We Got This update. 

Sometimes in life, the opportunity to do good in the world stems from aggrivation around a circumstance. This week, Meg and Alex talk about how to spot opportunities to be the change hidden within circumstances you may not love. 

This week, Meg and Alex discuss differing viewpoints on solving the cities litter problem.