Meg and Alex answer a couple of listener questions regarding Meg's business. Then the duo talk about what has changed in the 53206 zip code since George Floyd's murder and talk through one of the symptoms of systemic racism.

Meg and Alex finish up their Sunday Morning conversation around two quotes:

1. Equity is about reducing the predictability of who succeeds and who fails.

and

2. The neighborhood gave up on me so I gave up on myself. 

The We Got This Garden was mentioned a couple of times and is linked here. 

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room to talk about the design thinking process and how to take all of the information learned while empathizing with our neighbors and use it to begin to define one of many problems that exist in 53206 - educational outcomes.

Show Notes:

Measuring Success - Riding from North Division to Fox Point

Interviewing 1000 Failures

6 Anti-Karen Attitudes for The Next Time You Want to Get a Pizza

Meg and Alex are back and talking about some of positive aspects of living in a place that can be highly unpredictable. 

Meg and Alex talk about the eye opening and heart breaking experience of walking through their first rental property.

Meg and Alex share some tips and tricks for your next visit to the inner city. 

Meg and Alex are back in the sitting room talking about the only negative pushback they have ever gotten about living in the inner city. Gentrification is a big concern in urban planning circles and the duo has some thoughts about the potential for gentrifying the 53206 zip code. 

Meg and Alex share some big news about Ms. Maggie's house and give another example of why life is more exciting if you have an alley. 

Meg and Alex finish up their three part series on potential responses to the notion that they live in a bad neighborhood. In the conclusion the two talk about "bad" as wrong or not right and that maybe the bad actually means injustice is being perpetuated. 

Historically, 53206 has gotten a bit of a bad rap. In part 1, Meg and Alex talked about how their neighborhood not only isn't that bad, but actually really great. That was the first of three rebuttals the two have to offer when someone thinks of where they live as a bad neighborhood. In part 2, the duo gives the second rebuttal - maybe bad actually means something different.