Wild & Waking

In this episode, Making It Without Losing It: Holding Ambition, Success, Motherhood, Joy, and the Pressure to Do It All, I sit down with bestselling author and entrepreneur Jess Ekstrom to talk about what success really looks like in a world that never seems to slow down. Together, we unpack the tension so many women feel between ambition and inner peace, and why hustle culture often convinces us...

In this episode, Raising Kids Who Can Think for Themselves: How We Teach Discernment, Belief, and Self-Trust, I’m sharing a conversation that has been coming up again and again inside my Coven, and likely in your home too. What does it look like to raise children while your own beliefs are evolving? When you’re asking bigger questions, challenging old assumptions, and learning to trust yourself in...

In this episode, Let It Be Easy: Healing Money Splinters, Self-Worth, and the Fear of Going First, I sit down with money mentor and author Dr. Ezzie Spencer for a powerful conversation about what happens when success stops responding to effort, and starts asking for something deeper. Together, we explore the hidden patterns that shape our relationship with money, work, and worth, and why so many c...

In this behind-the-scenes solo episode of Wild & Waking , I’m inviting you into a very real moment in my life — the night before stepping onto a stage to deliver a keynote to hundreds of women in agriculture. Instead of standing in front of a mirror or typing out a perfectly polished speech, I did what felt most natural to me, I hit record. What started as a way to practice turned into a power...

In this episode of Wild & Waking , I sit down with productivity coach and creator of the Cosmic Productivity Method, Chelsey Newmyer, for a conversation about what it really means to build routines that support your real life. Together, we explore the idea that productivity is personal—and why so many traditional productivity and time management systems fall short when they ignore our energy,...

In this powerful and thought-provoking episode of Wild & Waking , I sit down with Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP—UCSF-trained Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Life Coach, and author of the groundbreaking book End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits and Reclaim Your Life . Together, we explo...

In this special reverse interview episode, the tables turn as Emily Reuschel, host of the Wild & Waking podcast, sits in the guest seat for a powerful conversation with Master Life Coach and Internal Family Systems practitioner, Andrea Tessier. Together, they explore the deeper forces shaping women’s leadership today; from the rise of self-trust and inner authority to the collective awakening...

In this solo episode of Wild & Waking, Emily explores the many conversations happening right now around the divine feminine, and why so many of them feel incomplete. From “trad wife” narratives circulating in rural and online spaces to aestheticized versions of feminine energy centered on softness and passivity, the concept of the feminine has often been reduced to a narrow role. But what if t...

In this episode of Wild & Waking, Emily sits down with Hope Pedraza, a functional wellness practitioner who works at the intersection of science, energetics, and embodied healing. Together, they explore why burnout isn’t a personal failure or a productivity problem, it’s a signal that old paradigms of success, worth, and wellness are no longer sustainable. This conversation is a powerful invit...

This episode marks the powerful finale of the four-part Wild & Waking Journey series — and we are closing with the phase that changes everything: The Rise Throughout this identity evolution series, we’ve walked through The Unraveling, The Remembering, and The Reclamation; the sacred undoing, the return to intuition, the courageous choosing. Now, in this final installment, Emily brings language...

In this episode of Wild & Waking , Emily sits down with business coach Sara Dann for a bold, honest conversation about what happens when the “good girl” way of succeeding stops working. Inspired by Sara’s viral reflection on why good girl behavior won’t be rewarded in 2026, this conversation explores the deep unraveling many women experience when overfunctioning, overachieving, and self-abando...

The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation is Part 3 of a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework—a cyclical, soul-deep map for identity evolution, embodied leadership, and aligned living. In this episode, Emily guides the listener into The Reclamation , the phase where everything begins to click. After Unraveling what no longer fits and Remembering your deeper truth, Recla...

What if the challenges you face today didn’t begin in this lifetime? What if the patterns, wounds, and fears that keep resurfacing are echoes of your soul’s past? In this fascinating and deeply healing conversation, Emily sits down with Leyla Bavi — also known as Leyla the Healer — a licensed therapist, hypnotherapist, Reiki master, and global intuitive who bridges psychology, spirituality, and an...

The Remembering is the second chapter in a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework — a cyclical, soul-deep map for personal growth, identity evolution, and embodied leadership. Unlike linear self-help models or rigid step-by-step systems, the Wild & Waking journey is a living spiral. It’s a rhythm you move through again and again, learning to recognize where you are rig...

Change is the one constant we can’t escape, and as author, poet, and speaker Arielle Estoria reminds us, it’s not something to fear, but to honor . In this soulful and deeply resonant conversation, Emily and Arielle explore what it truly means to come home to yourself through the ongoing process of unfolding . Together, they reflect on the courage it takes to shed old identities, question inherite...

The Wild & Waking Journey: Unraveling marks the beginning of a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework — a cyclical, soul-deep map for personal growth, identity evolution, and embodied leadership. Unlike linear self-help models or rigid step-by-step systems, the Wild & Waking journey is a living spiral. It’s a rhythm you move through again and again, learning to rec...

In this powerful continuation of our conversation, Annie Bertrand returns to take us deeper into her signature work: ancestral astrology, mother wounds, karmic cycles, and the soul-level patterns that shape our families across generations. In part one, we explored the foundations of astrology and how to understand your chart. In part two, we turn toward the lineage-level healing work — the real-li...

In this grounded solo episode, Emily shares five transformative truths to support you at the edge of any new season, identity shift, or fresh start. Whether you're beginning a new habit, exploring a mindset change, considering a business pivot, or simply feeling the pull toward growth in the new year, these insights offer clarity, encouragement, and direction. Emily unpacks why we often overcompli...

What happens when you’ve done everything right , hit the milestones, followed the plan, built the “good life” and still feel like something’s missing? In this week’s episode, I’m joined by transformational coach and spiritual mentor Hélène Caniac for a powerful conversation about what it really means to move from achievement to fulfillment . Together, we explore the embodied, lived-in practice of...

This week, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my own evolution through one of my favorite portals: reading. In this end-of-year solo episode, I walk you through all 26 books I read in 2025. These are the ones that cracked me open, challenged my assumptions, expanded my worldview, and quietly shaped the way I’ve shown up on the podcast, in my work, and in my life this year. Rather than sharing a q...

​​In this conversation, Emily sits down with author, educator, and speaker Caroline J. Sumlin to explore the ideas behind her groundbreaking book, We’ll All Be Free: How a Culture of White Supremacy Devalues Us and How We Can Reclaim Our True Worth. Together, they unpack the systemic and cultural roots that shape our identity and self-worth, and how the beliefs we’ve inherited from society have ke...

If astrology has always felt like a foreign language full of symbols, glyphs, houses, nodes, and mysterious lines running across a wheel you are in exactly the right place. In this episode, I’m joined by ancestral astrologer, Annie Bertrand, for a true beginner-friendly walkthrough of the basics. Instead of staying conceptual, Annie reads directly from my birth chart, so you can follow along with...

In this powerful and multi-dimensional conversation, Emily sits down with intuitive healer, medium, and spiritual mentor, Nicolle Merrilyne, to explore the deeper layers of spiritual awakening, energy work, and feminine reclamation. Nicolle shares the origins of her intuitive gifts, the mediumship opening that transformed her life, and the profound initiations that led her into the work of shadow...

So often we expect transformation to be loud, dramatic, or instantly recognizable. But the truth is that personal evolution rarely happens in one defining moment. In this intimate solo episode, Emily reflects on the quiet, incremental, almost imperceptible shifts that have reshaped her entire inner world over the past year, while her external life has looked almost exactly the same. Through the le...

What if your desire isn’t dangerous, but divine? In this deeply transformative episode, Emily sits down with Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton , an intimacy coach, scholar, and founder of UNCOVER , to explore what it means to heal from purity culture and reclaim your body, your voice, and your power. Together, they unravel centuries of conditioning that taught women to equate goodness with obedience and...