the wildflowers

Send us Fan Mail my lovely wife, joylily, is an enneagram #2 ("the helper") through & through. wherever she goes (which, geographically speaking, has been all over). her loving support of the people in her life was one of the biggest factors in not-so-slowly falling in love with who she is, nearly a decade ago.  along with her constant desire to pursue adventure & ability to brin...

Send us Fan Mail it's funny looking back now, having grown up in so many of the same circles (youth group, friend groups, etc.), & only after officially meeting a couple years back realizing just how much collin & i have in common. & yet, beyond similar childhood experiences, overlapping tastes in music, and shared beliefs/interests, there is something absolutely unique at the cor...

Send us Fan Mail my very FIRST "bouquet episode!" 💐  (the idea being inspired by kevin, my brother in law, who makes up 1/2 of this episodes' guests!) trust me when i say that it has always been a dream to have these two on this podcast...at the time i started this project, my sister and brother in law, melanie & kevin, were still living in germany waiting oh so patiently for k...

Send us Fan Mail with my friend scott, who is a lawyer, you have to put all the usual lawyer jokes aside…cause if there’s one thing that makes him stand out from the usual bunch (or more so the lawyer stereotype), it’s the amount of heart he brings to the table. i’ve always walked away from conversation with scott feeling enlightened & this one is no exception! we deep dive aspects of scott’s...

Send us Fan Mail life is a process. & yet, somehow, so is death. everyday we live, we exist in the tension between the two…for every breath, we die a little more. poets, theologians, songwriters, philosophers of every sort alike have tried to put words to this experience that we all know deep in our very bones.  & still, there is so much unknown & so many questions to be asked. i think...

Send us Fan Mail ya know, sometimes for the sake of reminiscing, it’s easy to get lost in nostalgia or looking back on days passed as “the glory days..." however, rarely has that been the case when i look back at the last half of my life in light of one of my closest & best friends, because though the past (with so many good times!) has given context, our present tense friendship has alwa...

Send us Fan Mail well, i'm back & it feels sooooooo good! 🌻 it's been...a year. yes, since last season, but also, this year, man...it has held A LOT! so, like a couple friends catching up over a cup of *insert preferred beverage,* this episode is a quick life update, for both myself & a handful of season 1 guests, sharing the goal & mission statement of our brand new house +...

Send us Fan Mail the wildflowers podcast has been so so good to me (& hopefully to you as well)! 🌻 i’ve been wanting to do some kind of “wrap-up” episode, reflecting on the goodness of this project, a dig into each episode released thus far & where i’m going from here now that season one has officially ended...so, here it is! season 1 = 10 episodes. 6 guests. & about 10 hours worth of...

Send us Fan Mail if you’re willing to pay attention, there’s often something beautiful waiting in the mundane right in front of you…like a barista at the local coffee shop who becomes a friend?! my friend zion is a bright spot to anyone who knows him, & not just because he is instantly friendly to anyone  & everyone  that walks into the coffeeshop or because he has such an upbeat outlook o...

Send us Fan Mail my wife joylily & i have grown very close to our friend ik (pronounced “ee-kuh”) the last several months—& not just because she lives in our upstairs lol 👀. we are like family & it's so so good to be here for each other, esp. because ik has been in an extremely challenging season of life for almost 3 years now—one that's hard to wrap the head around let alon...

Send us Fan Mail a small portion of dapo & i's convo from a while back that didn't quite make the cut for the main episode, but that was still too good not to share! 🖤 Support the show any & all support is so so appreciated!  peace. -will follow the wildflowers podcast over on instagram intro music by yours truly at the young band

Send us Fan Mail trigger warning: suicide & other subjects surrounding death & all his friends this one is heavy. in this second part of jesse & i's conversation, we are looking for the goodness of god out on the frontlines of life, somewhere in the bloody, violent places of existence...in the aftermath of loss, where either our faith grows or our doubts drown us. on battlefields...

Send us Fan Mail trigger warning: suicide & other subjects surrounding death & all his friends if we are being honest, life more often than not feels like being down in the trenches.  so, we all need a brother-in-arms...one of those "in it for the long haul" kinda friends you want by your side when it gets REAL like i've found in jesse. every time him & i get together, w...

Send us Fan Mail at times, it can be so tempting to chase title & recognition or to split hairs over differences, but what if what we really want is to know & be known?  even with a few years between us, my good friend/mentor dapo & i have found a lot in common these past several months...mostly, a desire to step fully into the present tense, to take up responsibility in our midst &amp...

Send us Fan Mail trigger warning: suicide to have a blooming friendship with a fellow artist is so inspiring...even more so when you mutually respect each other's work & truly appreciate the heart behind it. zach has quickly become a close friend of mine & every time we interact, i see a new side of the world (or planet *wink*) that i hadn't before. it's like a continual sha...

Send us Fan Mail pandemic wildflowers, living with a ghost, carl jung's "shadow" & narnia are all topics my sweet friend kayla & i dive into in this episode. really, no topic is safe...bouncing between the light & the dark, the beautiful & the heaviness, all with the gravity of a hope we are wrestling to find in this life & our Maker is commonplace when conversin...

Send us Fan Mail welcome to the wildflowers podcast! this intro episode serves to give you an idea of 1. who i am (hence the "identity" bit in the title) & 2. my goal in this series aka to have & record a conversation with a beautifully, uniquely gifted friend of mine...for this one, i locked myself in my studio, talked to myself about myself for 20ish minutes & here we are....