When a child commits a crime, it's easy to blame the kid. It's easy to blame the parent. But that doesn't lead anywhere productive, because nothing ever changes. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex give a different take in an attempt to create actual change.

Meg and Alex are back for season 2 of the 53206 Cast. On this episode, the duo breaks down some wild events they witnessed during their son's little league baseball game. From drug use to car crashes, the inner city never fails to provide interesting interesting life experiences. 

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room talking about a practical application of empathy and how you can harness the power of empathy to better understand the inner city. 

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room finishing up their two part series on poverty and the idea that someone can or cannot be ok with poverty existing in our inner cities. The two talk through their own growth in understanding the effects of poverty and talk through some of the various levels of understanding around poverty. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast Meg and Alex talk about different levels of understanding when it comes to processing through the effects of poverty on an individual. We can understand that poverty is bad (surface). We can internalize the what the effects of poverty have on an individual to the point that our mindsets are changed (deep) and we can allow this understanding to move us to change (transfer).

For 15 years Alex and Meg have lived in the 53206 zip code - the poorest zip code in Wisconsin. Naively, the thought they were moving in to change the world. Predictably, that didn't happen, but the desire to create lasting change in their neighborhood never left the two. On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex share what they they have learned about creating social change and offer three areas to focus on. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast, Meg and Alex get a little controversial and talk about white saviors or, more specifically, how they interpret and interact with the idea that someone could be a white savior.  

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room talking about creating change through system disruptions and how that might actually play out. 

School, everyone has to go, but not everyone has the same results when they are done. On this episode of the 53206 Cast Alex and Meg talk about education, specifically whats working, what isn't, and what the point of all of it is. 

On this episode of the 53206 Cast Meg and Alex talk about passing our girl scout cookies and how something simple in one area becomes complicated in the inner city. Then the two make the correlation between decreasing personal comfort and increasing purpose and share how that can be done in an intentional way to increase diversity in inner city spaces.