Go Cultivate!
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Go Cultivate!
A podcast for community builders. Discussing ways to grow financially resilient, resource-conscious, and people-friendly cities.
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Season 3 Wrap Up — with Kevin Shepherd
We’ve reached the end of Go Cultivate! Season 3! To wrap us up, Kevin details the impacts that the suburban experiment has had on our country and asks...
Meet the Verdooners — with Matt Meals
In this episode we are sitting down with Matt Meals, the newest addition to Verdunity’s engineering team. He and Kevin discuss Matt’s journey to Verdu...
Leadership and Inclusive Prosperity — with Dr. Kaye Monk-Morgan and Shaun Rojas
In this episode, AJ interviews Dr. Kaye Monk-Morgan and Shaun Rojas of the Kansas Leadership Center (KLC) where Kaye is the President and CEO, and Sha...
Meet the Verdooners — with Maddie Bonney
Time to roll out some new Meet the Verdooners episodes to introduce y'all to the newest members of our team! In this episode, Kevin sits down with Mad...
Plangineer to Storyteller — with Andy Boenau
Moving communities beyond status quo is hard. Entrenched practices in zoning, transportation planning, and road design have created places that are un...
Development Bills at 2023 TxLEG—with Michael Kovacs and Tom Yantis
There are a number of bills working their way through this year’s session of the Texas Legislature that will impact cities’ ability to guide developme...
Rural Community Transformation — with Julianna Dodson
Rural communities are a focus for us here at Verdunity. In this episode, AJ interviews Julianna Dodson, Deputy Executive Director, and Radically Rural...
Place and Prosperity — with William Fulton
William Fulton is one of America’s most established thought leaders in urban planning. From 2014 to 2022, he served as Director of Rice University’s K...
2023 Podcast Survey
Whether you're a long time follower of our Go Cultivate! podcast or just started listening, we'd love some feedback. This annual survey guides our tea...
Enabling Desirable Neighborhoods - with Melissa Milton-Pung
Melissa Milton-Pung is a Policy Research Labs program manager at the Michigan Municipal League. As a Federally-qualified architectural historian, her...
Bridging Infrastructure Gaps — with Mark Funkhouser and Liz Farmer
Fiscal policy, municipal finance, thoughtful budgeting, and infrastructure maintenance. If you ever wanted to know where and why your city's money get...
Engaging Youth in Planning — with Mara Mintzer
We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Mara Mintzer, a co-founder and the Executive Director of Growing Up Boulder, an initiative to engage wit...
Meet the Verdooners — with Kevin Shepherd
Kevin Shepherd, the founder and CEO of Verdunity is here to talk about where the company has been, where it might be going in the future, and what gif...
Meet the Verdooners — with AJ Fawver
Episode 5 of “Meet the Verdooners” introduces us to AJ Fawver, who leads Verdunity’s Community Consulting Program. In this episode we learn what initi...
Meet the Verdooners — with Tim Wright
Tim Wright's work spans the gamut from missing middle housing to incremental development and infrastructure right-sizing. He has been an engineer on t...
Meet the Verdooners — with Mari Austin
Mari Austin is Verdunity's Process and Communications Coordinator. Her work is too varied to adequately explain in a podcast blurb – but it ranges fro...
Meet the Verdooners — with Karina Castillo
Episode 2 of "Meet the Verdooners is back with Karina Castillo, a planner here at Verdunity. If you are a young planner, ready to go out and change th...
Meet the Verdooners — with Marshall Hines
We are heading into this holiday season with a little series of episodes called "Meet the Verdooners. You'll get to hear from each of our team members...
Community Branding and Engagement — with Ryan Short
Ryan Short is the CEO of CivicBrand, a firm that blends together branding, communications, and direct engagement with communities. As we think about t...
Neighborhood Evolution in South Bend - with Mike Keen and Monte Anderson
How sustainable is any system which requires the agreement and buy-in of those with the deepest pockets and largest portfolios to be successful? Can m...
Navigating Different Stages of Growth - with Kent Cagle
Kent Cagle has been a city manager in Texas for over 20 years, and has worked in local government in Texas for nearly 35. He has worked in cities that...
The Rosetta Stone of Zoning - with Sara Bronin
If just about anyone tells you that they totally understand zoning codes, they are probably lying to you. Well, unless they are today's guest. Sara Br...
Embracing Incrementalism - with Colleen Askew
Incremental improvement is a key element to the success of any place. The biggest projects, developments, and infrastructure also come with the bigges...
Resurrecting a Dying Downtown - with Jason Duff
Jason Duff is the Founder of Small Nation which encompasses a group of companies, leaders, and investors who develop places, spaces, and dreams for sm...
Rethinking Budgeting – with Andrew Kleine & Shayne Kavanagh
Andrew Kleine is the author of "City On the Line" and is working tirelessly toward a future in which municipal budgeting produces the results that lea...
Demystifying Affordable Housing — with Deborah Myerson
Have you ever heard the phrase "affordable housing" used by 5 different people, but it seems like every one of them is talking about something slight...
The Battle Over Broadway – with Kea Wilson
In the heart of San Antonio, Texas lies 2.2 miles of 7-lane stroad that connects to I-35.
Originally part of a state owned loop, the Texas Trans...
Vibrant Downtowns - with Catherine Sak
What makes a great downtown? What do we sometimes miss that can influence the way new visitors feel about our downtown? AJ interviews Catherine Sak, E...
Serving You Better: 3 Reflections from 2021 and Initiatives for 2022
In this first Podcast of the year Kevin takes an introspective look look back at Verdunity’s last year and gives a preview of what we expect to be up...
Fiscally Informed Planning - with the City of Taylor, Texas
Does your community say it values fiscal responsibility but continue to make development decisions that increase infrastructure and service liabilitie...
"Buckle Up, Baby" – with Chuck Marohn
The Go Cultivate! podcast is back! In this episode Kevin introduces Marshall Hines who will be helping out with episodes going forward and they talk a...
Aligning City Budgets with Desired Outcomes – with Andrew Kleine
Andrew Kleine is the Former Chief Administrative Officer for Montgomery County, MD, and before that, he was the budget director for the City of Baltim...
2020 Wrapup & survey
2020 is almost over, and it's time for our annual assessment of how we're doing and what we want to focus on in the upcoming year. In this short updat...
Infrastructure funding! – with Jim Proce
Kevin speaks with Jim Proce, City Manager for the City of Anna, Texas, about a pressing issue many cities are facing: the struggle to find the money n...
Are We Doing This Right? // Sidewalks Edition
In this installment of the 'Are We Doing This Right?' series, we take on the humble sidewalk. We packed a lot into this episode, including:
Want...
'Smart growth' and fiscal sustainability
In this episode, Kevin is joined by a trio of folks from Smart Growth America: Vice President for Economic Development Chris Zimmerman, Deputy Directo...
Reflecting on 40 years of growth in North Texas – with John Lettelleir
Kevin sits down with John Lettelleir, Director of Development Services for the City of Frisco, Texas. John has been with the City of Frisco since 1998...
Building a culture of fiscal sustainability – with Noel Bernal & Helen Ramirez
Noel Bernal and Helen Ramirez, are the city manager and assistant city manager (respectively) for the City of Brownsville, Texas. In this wide-ranging...
Are We Doing This Right? // Budgeting Edition
This time on our ‘Are We Doing This Right?’ series, we take a look at the local budgeting process. Here’s what you can expect from this episode:
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Safeguarding small business during the pandemic – with Kennedy Smith
In this episode, Kevin speaks with Kennedy Smith, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), about strategies that city leader...