On this special episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex welcome their 11 year old daughter Mae to the show. An avid consumer of podcasts herself, Mae shares insights on what it's like growing up in the inner city. 

Meg and Alex are back to talk about the curious tendency we have to diminish the severity of tragedy based on our pre-conceptions of the inner city. The two discuss a recent mass shooting and give some practical advice on how we can re-think horrific events that take place across our inner cities. 

On this week's episode of the 531206 Cast, we cover pre-teen slumber parties, flat tires, and our unfortunate tendency to judge what we don't understand.   

Sometimes it's hard to be an advocate because the problems are so massive and the entry points aren't clearly defined. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex talk about the adjacent possible and how anyone can shift their habits toward rewriting the narrative around inner cities by making small tweaks to their thoughts and actions. 

A home is a lot more than just a roof over our heads. A home in great condition is blessing. A home in disrepair is a curse. On this episode we talk about the process of re-renovating the first rental property and what has changed on the block since we bought this house in 2016. 

If cities or even neighborhoods have self esteem, what would the self esteem of the inner city be? On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex dive into the topic of macro self esteem and give some practical advice to helping create a greater level of self esteem within our poorest and most marginalized places. 

Meg and Alex are excited to have on their first guests ever to the 53206 Cast. Not only are Phil and Ashley Frahm family, they are former residents of 53206 and currently live in the inner city of Milwaukee too. The four talk about perceptions around living in an inner city neighborhood and talk about how they arrived at the decision to live in a place very different than where they were from. 

One of the best ways to work against systemic inequity is to pay attention for situations where one group is left out more predictably than your own. Meg and Alex tackle how this impacts the inner city and give some practical advice on how you can work toward creating a more equitable society on this episode of the 53206 Cast. 

Like in many inner cities, the neighborhoods in 53206 experience traumatic events at a predictably higher rate than other places outside of our cities. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex sit down and talk trauma and how traumatic events can impact children's ability to be successful in school. 

In part 2 of Meg and Alex's conversation around their house being broken into, Meg processes through the feeling of being a bad mother for putting her children in a situation where they were more likely to be the victim of a crime.