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Does language shape the way we perceive reality? Can Indigenous wisdom shine a light on a different way forward??! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Lingthusiasm - The Hatred of Metaphor - Briana Ní Loingsigh's Substack - WordsatWork Tiktok - The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet - Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang - Hopi Time Controversy - Our Language, Our World - Braiding Sweetgrass 📓 Anna's...

little Q&A moment today! The first 500 people to use my link in the description or scan the QR code will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! Get started today! https://skl.sh/annahoward09251 Favorites mentioned: Books: - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Hunger Games (lol) by Suzanne Collins - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Musicians: - Muna - Yana - Abba - The Weepi...

I've found real magic in thinking on the page in the last year. I'd love for more people to experience this with me. "When I sit down to write, the meadow is still engulfed in darkness under a sky where satellites pass by, one after the other. My thoughts are flighty and shapeless, like dreams; they morph as I approach them. But when I open my notebook and write, it is as if I pin my...

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For ourselves and for our neighbors, let's build up our sense of agency, shall we? Please note, while this episode does touch on political topics, that is NOT an invitation to argue about politics in my comment section or DMs. Engaging in that behavior will get you blocked. Donate: - Amal for Palestine: https://amal4palestine.org/ - The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject?fbclid...

After poet Andrea Gibson passed away this week, I realized that poetry and sensuality are deeply intertwined. Both require "masterful sensitivity" and the courage to feel everything, including pain. I believe most people don't realize they're poets, and by tuning into all nine of our senses (not just the basic five,) we can live more sensually and honor the brief, beautiful time...

How can you share what you're working on and get through the fear of judgement? Let's chat about it! Resources Mentioned: - Unfiltered Courage: The Radical Act of Being Yourself by Musguided - Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation by Willem Van Lancker - Get Numb Before You Get Good by Cedric Chin - The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativ...

Why is love SO intertwined with ownership? Let's cut that sh*t out! Resources mentioned: - All About Love by Bell Hooks - what the self help industry has wrong about...everything by Jamila Bradley - Love is Not Enough by Museguided - Fake Fairness is Killing Our Relationships -- And It's Everywhere - George Akolade Coker's Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord Timestamps: 00:00 - intro 00:5...

Reading is the powerful tool we have to unlock our imaginations. And right now, I believe it's time to use our imaginations to see a new world. Maybe one that's not dominated by "obsessive technologies," as Ursula K Le Guin so aptly put.  Resources Mentioned:  - American Library Association - Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits  - Celine Nguyen's "No One Told Me...

I'm back for part 2 of the digital gardening episode! You wanted to see more of my garden, soI'll give you some behind the scenes today, plus tips on how to turn your notes into art. Join my newsletter! Timestamps: 00:00 - coming up 03:24 - these things AREN'T digital gardens 07:40 - platforms you can digital garden with 11:04 - answering your Qs about the process of digital gardening 24:32 - why...

We all need to understand what our greater values are & why we're pursuing what we're pursuing in order to get through the muck of ✨ the process✨. So let's chat about the plan I've been using for the past 4 quarters to change my life and my art! Resources mentioned: - Big Paper Planning Day - The Anatomy of a 'Why' by Museguided - Novelty Wanes, Then What? by Lexi Mer...

Let's talk about public vs. private narratives and the pressure put on women to exploit their personal lives!! Yay! Resources Mentioned: - In and Against the Personal Essay by Kate Bugos - Be on your own side by Sophia Theories - Standing on the Shoulders of Complex Female Characters by Rayne Fisher-Quann - Why My Podcast is Called Wild Geese Timestamps: 00:00 - coming up 01:17 - what makes a good...

"creativity is just connecting things," & how living a project based life will save you from the robot-ization of society! Reading mentioned: - ⁠Be More Confusing, Actually⁠ - ⁠A Project of One's Own⁠ - ⁠Research as a leisure activity⁠ - ⁠What does it mean to study independently in 2025?⁠ Websites: - ⁠Are.na⁠ - ⁠ pudding.cool ⁠ - https://friendola.com/ - https://ita.toys/scans/milkbar/milkbar2...

you can transmute romantic preoccupation into an artistic vision that can literally change your life. resources mentioned: - Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Rue Yi's Tiktok - Rozie Ramata's Tiktok - Vanessa | LifeisArt Tiktok - "Love, Love, Love, and Everything In Between" By Still Yearning - Attachment Theory is White Supremacy in a Lab Coat 💌 Podcas...

The sentiment "everybody wants a village but no one is willing to be a better villager" is going around the internet right now (if you know the OG source, lmk. Right now, it's lost in the internet sauce for me). I'm talking community organizing, beyond friendships. If you have great friends, that's amazing. But we should all be focused on cultivating a wider sense of communit...

Men gain sacredness and transcendence through a loss of ego and self. Women gain sacredness and transcendence when they claim themselves and gain an ego. Resources mentioned: - The Divine Feminine: Elizabeth (Liz) Gilbert at Archangel Summit in Toronto, Canada - Jamila Bradley's "What the Self-Help Industry Has Wrong About...Everything" - Bell Hooks "Women Artists: The Creative...

Sometimes the thing you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing (watch the full episode on youtube ). Reaching for convenience is understanding and often necessary. It often satiates our desire for answers and quick solutions. But it's becoming an obstacle to all of our flourishing. Today, we have to talk about how an addiction to convenience is killing our creative impulses. The algori...

"create more than you consume." Okay...but HOW!? We're all addicted to scrolling already. How do we stop the cycle for long enough to actually create something? Well, we start taking notes. This episode is all about following your string of curiosity and getting serious about your interests. We've all heard the phrase "in order to be interesting, you need to be interested.&q...

There is no time like the present to re-evaluate your relationship with men. The cost of centering men in your life: Never truly meeting yourself because you're stuck in a cycle of appealing to the male gaze Lack of autonomy and self-expression Loss of female friendships Missed opportunities And so, so much more... So what are we going to do about it? Some people are all about divesting from men c...

Today, I'm sitting down for a completely off the cuff conversation with my mom❤️‍🔥 If you've never met my mom, you'll definitely be obsessed with her by the end of this conversation. After literally 3 days of trying to upload the video to Spotify with nothing but "failure to load" messages, I'm opting for audio only for this episode. Womp womp. Please go check out the Youtube video if you want to...

You can't be yourself until you know yourself and you can't know yourself if you're constantly abandoning yourself in pursuit of other people. You can watch the full episode video on Spotify and ⁠ Youtube⁠ (the memes really add to the experience if I do say so myself)! That's the heart of today's episode wrapped up in a sentence. Going into 2025, I hope we can all find the space to be a bit selfis...

"I don't know why we feel the need to look for things that aren't here instead of just looking more deeply at what already is here." Today's guest, Eliza Day sums it all up in that one sentence. Eliza is an artist, speaker, and intuitive guide who is sharing so many nuggets of wisdom that ground spirituality and releases dogma. Connect with Eliza: Check out her website Tiktok...

We've all had incredibly vivid dreams where we stumble out of bed and immediately try to recall everything we can. But what do we do with the bits and pieces we remember? Most of us stop at retelling the juiciest bits to our friends. But what if our dreams were the key to understanding ourselves on the deepest level? Today, I'm chatting with Jared Ray Gilmore, a Jungian depth coach, audio...

Girlhood is a state of constant embarrassment. Not to mention the feeling that you're just...always in trouble? So how the hell are we supposed to become well-adjusted adults when most of us have been raised to have a deep shame rooted in our bones? Well today, I've got Hailey Noecker, self-published author that's absolutely killing it on Substack right now and a prevention specialist...

This is such an unserious episode, the dramatics of my intro music are making me laugh. But ya'll! It's time to start talking to strangers. And if you already do that, tune in to this episode to laugh at me for all the ways in which...I do not. Find all the resources mentioned + the spotify playlist my lovely guests are creating HERE . And leave a review or share the show!! This is the per...