Wild Geese
Episodes
53. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction: In Defense of Gathering
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If domination and conflict are not central components of narrative, what is? Today we're chatting about the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursul...
52. When I Accept Myself Just As I Am, I Change
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Email [email protected] with any questions you want answered on the show! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Rulerless Casey Tiktok- Tiktok- Let Them Tiktok-...
52. When I Accept Myself Just As I Am, I Change
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Email [email protected] with any questions you want answered on the show! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Rulerless Casey Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@...
51. become the creative director of your career
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Artist's Guide to Making Money Online (Without Falling For Scams or Scamming People)Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription...
50. Your Obvious Idea Is Your Best Idea
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We all need to collectively decide to stop stopping ourselves from making things because they've been made before!! Also, stop sh*tting on people ...
49. Performance vs. Intimacy: I Changed My Mind Mid-Episode
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RESOURCES MENTIONED & MEMES INCLUDED: https://sublime.app/collection/ep-49-...CHECK OUT MY NEW VLOG CHANNEL ON YT: https://www.youtube.com/@annaho...
48. What Carried Me Through The Confusion of My Early Twenties
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RESOURCES MENTIONEDCONNECT WITH ME: 📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquir...
47. How the Role of the Lover is the Same as the Role of the Artist
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To try everything Sublime has to offer, visit https://sublime.app/?ref=anna & use code: wildgeese for 20% off at checkout! "The role of the l...
46. How to Use Writing To Take Back Your Attention & Focus
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Instructions for Living a Life: Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It. - Mary Oliver Resources Mentioned: Henrik Karlsson essayWe've Always ...
45. Becoming Unpunishable: Love & Worth Are Not Connected
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Love and worth are not connected. We don't have to earn love by maintaining our innocence. So, now what? RESOURCES MENTIONED: https://en.wikipedia...
44.How Plants "Think" & What It Teaches Us About Consciousness
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RESOURCES MENTIONED: - AID FOR MINNEAPOLIS- The Conscious Universe by Joe Zadeh- Kristianna Smith's Tiktok- The Light Eaters...
44. How Plants "Think" & What It Teaches Us About Consciousness
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RESOURCES MENTIONED: - AID FOR MINNEAPOLIS- The Conscious Universe by Joe Zadeh- Kristianna Smith's Tiktok- The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger- Con...
43. my year of magical underthinking
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What will happen when we stop hoarding our ideas from ourselves? RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Diabolical Lies- Madeleine Voge’s Reel- The Writing Life by ...
42. The BEST books and essays I Read in 2025!
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Books Mentioned: - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Martyr by Kaveh...
41. Self-Led learning Ceremonies: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've seen the "personal curriculum," trend online but didn't feel like you could implement it in your own life, here's my t...
40. How to Discover What You Want & Actually Ask For It
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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39. How to Bring Joy & Whimsy Back Into Your Life
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reconnecting with our inner child is a collective responsibility and it should be FUN! Resources: - Syllabus by Linda Barry- If We're Lucky, We Never ...
38. Creating in the Age of Distraction & A.I Slop
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I experimented with a media consumption break & it had my reflecting our relationship to art. TLDR: everyone's freaking out about AI stealing our ...
37. The Critical Thinking Crisis: Choosing Curiosity Over Certainty
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critical thinking skills require all of us to let go of our need for certainty. Are we willing to do that? RESOURCES: - Eliza Day's Tiktok- Some o...
36. how language shapes the way we think
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does language shape the way we perceive reality? Can Indigenous wisdom shine a light on a different way forward??! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Lingthusiasm...
35. Your Life Is Not An Optimization Problem | Q&A
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Skillsha...
34. A Writing Practice to Help You Meet Yourself
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
33. How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To try everything Sublime has to offer, visit https://sublime.app/?ref=anna & use code: wildgeese for 20% off at checkout! Sublime is the tool I u...
32. How Life Changes When You Realize the Rules are Made Up
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
31. Reclaiming the Lost Art of Sensuality
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After poet Andrea Gibson passed away this week, I realized that poetry and sensuality are deeply intertwined. Both require "masterful sensitivity...
30. Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
29. What We Can Learn From 3000 Years of Love
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 indust...
28. for those who need a gateway to radical imagination
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
27. growing a digital garden to end my doomscrolling (part 2)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
26. the life design process that changed my art (& actually, changed everything)
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
25. How to Be An Artist Without Selling Your Soul on the Internet
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's talk about public vs. private narratives and the pressure put on women to exploit their personal lives!! Yay! Resources Mentioned: - In and Agai...
24. how to fall down a curiosity rabbit hole & reconnect to your creativity
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"creativity is just connecting things," & how living a project based life will save you from the robot-ization of society! Reading mentioned: - ...
23. why are we afraid of LOVE? 🥀reflecting on creativity + eros 🌹
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
you can transmute romantic preoccupation into an artistic vision that can literally change your life. resources mentioned: - Audre Lorde's Uses of...
22. how to be a better villager
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
21. You are the Altar. Not the Sacrifice.
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Men gain sacredness and transcendence through a loss of ego and self. Women gain sacredness and transcendence when they claim themselves and gain an e...
20. Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the thing you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing (watch the full episode on youtube). Reaching for convenience is understand...
19. creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ac...
18. How to Decenter Men *BUT Still Enjoy Dating Men* | Stop Worshipping the Male Gaze
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
17. The Mom That Shows Up
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
16. How We're Ritualizing Everything and Turning Our Lives Into Art in 2025
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
15. Grounded Spirituality, Releasing Dogmas and Finding Home with Eliza Day
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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."...
14. What Your Dreams Are Telling You With Jared Ray Gilmore
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
13. Girlhood, Shame, and Self-Optimization with Hailey Noecker
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
12. How to Talk to Strangers, Soft Animal Series #2: The Summer Challenge
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. An...
11. Dancing in Public for Somatic Relief and Strengthening our Spiritual Discernment with Anna AKA The Fake Guru
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if you started living your life like you begged God to send you back so you could feel again? That's certaintly what today's guest, Anna ...
10. Networking Online WITHOUT the Ick with Anastasiya, Online Business Manager and Founder of The Sunshine Revolution
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, okay I KNOW the word "networking" can be freaky. And by freaky, I mean it can bring out the freaks. You know the ones - they're co...
9. The Ecological Self: Creating a Reciprocal Relationship with Nature with Chloe Parsons
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if life for the sake of life was enough? What if we were operating off of a state of abundance, instead of scarcity? What if every human being re...
8. How to Achieve Your Goals Through Design Thinking with Lexi Merritt, Founder of The Pretty Decent Internet Café
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of answers, and none of them are wrong. Does that freak you out or tickle your fancy? Today, I'm sitting down with Lexi Merritt, w...
7. Healing Your Inner Child (Choir Kid) with The Founder of Gaia Music Collective, Matt Goldstein
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know that feeling when you're sitting around a campfire singing with friends and you think to yourself "why don't humans do this more...
6. How to Build a Time Machine with Adrianne Lenker’s Music, Soft Animal Series #1
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a little bit ironic that the words "I don't wanna talk about anything" have been circling around my head for weeks, right as I launch this podcas...
5. You Are What You Want: Untangling Compulsory Heterosexuality and Finding New Hobbies with Madeline Qi
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you friends with your desires? Or do they scare the hell out of you? If they do, that's okay! You're normal babe, I promise. But today&#...
4. How to Create Community and Learn How to PLAY Again with Tali Dee, Ph.D.
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you comfortable making BAD art? It might be the antidote to burnout! Today I’m chatting with Tali Dee, a former therapist who went from helping ...
3. Navigating Grief Through Body Liberation with José San Miguel, Founder of Playground Movement
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you wish the wellness industry was a bit less puritanical, this episode is for you. I'm talking - you don't need to forbid yourself from go...
2. How to Become a Better Conversationalist and Content Curation Vs. Creation with Miriam Tinberg
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a good conversation? I know we've all stepped away from a conversation feeling like "oof, I did not nail that one." It doesn&...
1. Let The Soft Animal of Your Body Love What it Loves! The Ethos of the Pod and A Love Letter to Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why should you listen to a podcast called Wild Geese? Well, maybe because you want to feel the wonder of a Mary Oliver poem strewn throughout your mor...
Welcome to Wild Geese!
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, silly goose! Welcome to Wild Geese - a supportive space to consider the question: "tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild an...