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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 thoughts to the table. I can examine them." - Henrik KarlsonTo try everything Capacities has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit: https://capacities.io/?via=anna ❤️Resources Mentioned: - Why I Write by Joan Didion- On Abandoning Capitalistic Achievement to Seek the Freedom of Play- 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing- A Life in Constant Potential- the one about ai- don't get it f*cked up fr- Why You Should Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop- Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog- If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying- Henrik Karlson: One of the World's Most Under-Rated Writers| How I Write- Writing as Autonomy- Writing Hack: Write it Just Like That- Squibler.io Dangerous Writing Prompt- In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching🫶 Join my newsletter (weekly media roundups) ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack (personal essays) 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.comTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Writing as Thinking02:40 Capacities Sponsorship04:03 Joan Didion 05:19 Communicating when you're NOT a verbal processor07:10 Childhood hints that you're a writer08:43 Writing Holds Your Questions 10:06 Spotting Intrinsic Artistic Mediums 10:49 Addressing AI Slop Writing14:02 Writing as Pathological Caring 16:16 Writing is about Power 17:32 Writing in a Memoir Style20:55 Writing Essays23:30 Being willing to be stupid in public25:39 Calling out Conflicting Thoughts 26:59 Approach "I Write to Know What I'm Thinking" With Caution28:28 The Value in the Rewriting Process

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 use everyday to help make more interesting connections between one idea to the next. If you're stuck in distracting algorithms & having a hard time falling down the rabbit hole, this episode is for you :) RESOURCES: - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert- How to Research Niche Ideas on Literature and Philosophy- Your digital gardening should be communal! (anna howard, artistic isolation, and wilding the web)- The Science of Mind Mapping: A Visual Way to Make Sense of the World - Follow the White Hot Fire Inside of You- Slaughterhouse FiveTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 intro 00:55 From research to creation02:14 Sublime Sponsorship 03:11 How my digital gardening process has changed 04:55 How to fall down the rabbit hole without distraction 05:35 The 3 states of attention 06:36 Addressing the inability to focus 07:22 How to store inspiration & ideas in one place 08:29 Creating collections 09:24 public vs. private 09:52 finding related cards (sources) 11:14 How to let your curiosity lead the ship instead of someone else's algorithm 13:35 How to research niche ideas in literature and philosophy 14:08 How to research in a way that expands YOUR writing 16:05 turn your digital garden into a community garden 18:28 turning your rabbit hole into a project 20:00 BTS of creating a canvas for a new project27:30 BTS of a canvas I made for a past episode 28:55 having a visual of your curiosity 29:19 ways this process can be helpful for non-writing projects This episode is sponsored by Sublime.app🫶 Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.com

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=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeBmkekTb6T5myMZL76q9wI1ZKbPi_nMm-OgBBrKJzXHBhVnmGbE7UFvIutmw_aem_NnVYIwFqxRv0jGGyrNgs1g- Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.com/Resources Mentioned: - On Agency by Henrik Karlsson: https://substack.com/home/post/p-167633827- Untamed by Glennon Doyle: https://untamedbook.com/- Maybe You're Not Actually Trying by Cate Hall: https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-actually-trying- The Flinch by Julien Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23786061-the-flinch- Relationships are Co-Evolutionary Loops by Henrik Karlsson: https://substack.com/@henrikkarlsson/p-137775492- Eliza Day's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elizadaylight/video/7529648599647538462?_r=1&_t=ZT-8yPW4bjEauk- Do What You Can't by Tommy Dixon: https://www.tommydixon.ca/p/do-what-you-cant- Deyonna's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deyawnuh/video/7519137264933424415- The Happy Urbanist's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonjon.jpeg/video/7335171695277264170?_r=1&_t=ZT-8ySqYZ6sUC7Related Episodes: - #8 with Lexi Merritt: https://open.spotify.com/episode/48k2ya4UQVtQUE1YMVCHd9?si=b08f5b1f13a94206- #15 with Eliza Day: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZZv2z3tmXuA5Dzlspid99?si=aa8e494ad1d44961- The Life Design Process that Changed my Art: https://youtu.be/pV59nzzwNWI?si=nMiUkKCoNGJ3mwZe🫶 Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.com

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 we have in these bodies ⚠️Content Warning: Death/Mortality Discussion, Grief/Loss, Mental Health, Body Image Resources Mentioned: - Etymology of Sensuality- Royal Heart by Andrea Gibson- SENSUALISM: Being Sensual is a Lifestyle- How Many Senses Do We Have- Andrea's Instagram- How Cancer Transformed My Crushing Anxiety Into Boundless Bliss | Andrea Gibson | What’s Underneath- “I will not fight:” Viral poet says accepting cancer gave them more life- Tincture by Andrea Gibson- Poetry Watching by *me*- Carlitos Tiktok- Charlie's Tiktok🫶 Join my newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 intro 01:48 Craftsy Sponsorship 02:50 Sensuality and Sexuality are NOT the same thing 05:55 Royal Heart by Andrea Gibson 07:09 Choosing Poetry over Self-Help 09:30 We have more than 5 senses!10:30 Pain is a sense 10:55 5 counterintuitive mental health tips 12:50 it's about letting go, not adding more 14:15 Poetry watching 19:31 we're drowing our senses20:21 sensuality requires you to come in contact with your shame 23:48 exercises to get in touch with your sensuality 26:00 savoring the time we have 26:50 Tincture by Andrea Gibson29:58 lightening the mood lol

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 Creativity by Anne-Laure Le Cunff- Following the White-Hot Fire Inside of You by Kieran O‘Hare- your perfectionism will not save you. by Ayan Artan- Self-Doubt is the Creative Process by Zack Evans- Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia UrbaniakTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction00:32 Listener Feedback02:21 Brilliant Sponsor03:21 Quote on Bravery04:00 Love Island Sidebar 06:14 Role of Fear in Creativity10:22 Kurt Vonnegut's Advice07:49 Art vs. Content16:30 Importance of Integrity, Neutrality, Conviction, and Curiosity18:18 Getting Numb Before Getting Good20:45 Qualities Needed Before Sharing Your Work26:36 ConclusionConnect with me: ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

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 SmorgasbordTimestamps: 00:00 - intro 00:53 - Brilliant Sponsorship 02:03 - The flaws in our language around romantic relationships03:30 - pathologizing desire 06:10 - extracting ownership from love 11:20 - Why we're all afraid of commitment14:11 - A brief and incomplete history of love & marriage 17:00 - How to introduce equity to romantic relationships 22:00 - Relationship Anarchy 24:25 - Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.com

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 About Proust"- Carl Hendrick's Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us- Rayne Fisher-Quann's Poser Ethics-Museguided's Freedom’s Fragility, Democracy’s Decline- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie BrownTimestamps: 00:00 intro02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat? 03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting05:45 Ursula K Le Guin's art versus profit motive 09:10 Literacy IS quality of life 11:17 Stop blaming students - this is a systemic issue 12:29 taste is formed through love 15:09 reading as resistance 20:45 public libraries are being defunded. Here's what we can do about it!21:07 why you should care about libraries 22:11 All organizing is science fiction Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

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 this process is for you, even if you're not a writer26:04 - how to turn notes into something new29:10 - how to find great sources for your garden 30:34 - my personal takeaways from digital gardening⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

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 Merritt- Oblique Strategies for Starting a New Project by Celine Nguyen- Are You Bored Enough to be Successful by Layla ShaikleyTIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Coming up 01:00 - Join Craftsy for $1.4902:03 - rethinking our the creative process 03:45 - Big paper planning day 05:04 - Finding your "why" 10:12 - creating action menus 12:24 - giving yourself credit 13:13 - finding your next project 14:55 - strategies for starting, continuing and finishing 16:35 - obstacles that come up in the creative process 23:01 - finishing is a skill 💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram

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 GeeseTimestamps: 00:00 - coming up 01:17 - what makes a good artist? 01:45 - where is the line between vulnerability and exploitation? 02:55 - my personal writing on Substack 04:11 - the benefits of confessional writing06:00 - the risks in sharing personal stories 07:05 - what society values in women's art 09:00 - the dangers in parasocial relationships 10:30 - are you on your own side? 11:15 - standing on the shoulders of complex female characters 12:59 - performing your own life 14:37 - the joy of knowing who to turn to - beyond the algorithms suggestions 15:05 - building expertise through your parasocial besties 18:00 - how i'm finding the line between vulnerability and exploitation for myself 20:00 - Art should be for YOU, not an audience21:45 - How to ground yourself, even if you're performing for the audience in your head 23:30 - Why i'm not interested in "stop consuming, start creating" Connect with me: 💌 Podcast Management Website - https://www.annacorinneproductions.com/⛅ Wild Geese Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wildgeesepod/#

"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- https://cloudhiker.net/Bonus websites: - ⁠Make music??⁠-⁠ Play Ispy⁠- ⁠Write fiction⁠💌 ⁠Podcast Management Website ⁠⛅⁠ Wild Geese Instagram⁠Timestamps: 00:00 - introo01:18 - why do we want to fall down rabbit holes?02:42 - personal branding & niching down05:21 - how to be so interesting you beat AI 08:11 - living a project based life12:15 - projects as a curiosity incubator13:05 - how I fall down rabbit holes 15:42 - research as a leisure activity21:48 - work/life balance25:57 - resources to spark curiosity

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💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram Timestamps: 00:00 - coming up 00:32 - What is Eros? 01:00 - Dating & Crushing! 04:52 - Creative Satisfaction from a crush 06:25 - Building a creative practice 07:04 - What is Limerence? 08:37 - limerence is about art11:20 - Why attachment theory kind of sucks 14:39 - Creative projects give you something to obsess over 16:35 - not all love stories are romances 18:35 - How to love without abandoning yourself 20:42 - You don't have to invent, you can just see 25:07 - use it as creative fuel #creativity #makingart #selfexpression

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 community and care right now. So, how do we actually do that? Let's talk about it...Resources Mentioned: - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer- Elise Granata's "Becoming a High Agency Person"-Elise Granata's "7 Ideas to Jumpstart Community Practice"- Weenus_Maximus Tiktok💌 Podcast Management Website ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 🐻 Personal Instagram TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Coming up 02:24 Robin Wall Kimmerer on Reciprocity03:30 The Three Sisters 07:25 Finding Your Unique Role in the Village 08:19 Why Urgency Doesn't Bring Community Closer 09:42 Building Up a Sense of Agency 11:06 UN-Branding Community12:58 How to Feel a Sense of Agency in Community 16:45 a Gift Economy17:40 the inevitability of conflict and inconvenience 18:03 starting on a small scale19:42 you can't bypass small talk21:33 the shared calendar

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 Process"- The Book of LongingsConnect with me: 💌 ⁠Podcast Management Website ⁠⛅ ⁠Wild Geese Instagram Timestamps: 00:00 - new music incoming??01:25 - why do women need to approach spirituality differently?03:54 - discernment disclaimer05:56 - conspirituality07:42 - why is "selfless" the ultimate compliment for women? 08:05 - MY experience 09:49 - Liz Gilbert's Divine Feminine Speech 10:40 - The Code of Hammurabi11:18 - The Axial Age 12:35 - Why spiritual advice from hit the same way for women17:40 - Drawing a circle of sacredness around yourself20:40 - personal essay 23:14 - why "i don't care" is empowering23:59 - Bell Hooks wisdom27:26 - The Book of Longings

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 algorithm is constantly serving up answers and interests on a silver platter. It's convenient. And it's eroding our ability to exercise autonomy, surprise ourselves, and live in the tension of creation. Tune in for a little exercise I'm going to be doing in the coming days to combat this issue. And join me if you feel so inclined! Connect with me <3: Follow Wild Geese on Instagram Join my email list Grab the podcast launch Notion hub Follow for podcast production tips and tricks

"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."So let's tap into the power of our own interests with a newfound intentionality. Never heard of digital gardening? Don't worry. Think of today's episode as a digital gardening crash course.In today's episode, we're chatting about:How to be a more interesting personWhy would taking notes help you be more creative?What is a digital garden?How do you create a digital garden?Resources Mentioned:Oddyseas' note taking tutorialAyan Artan's "In Defense of Pretension"A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden

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 completely. I don't think that's the answer for me. So today, we're talking about decentering men WHILE dating them. This episode will still be relevant if you're actively in a relationship with men or never wanted a relationship with men in the first place. We're all living in a patriarchal society - one that seems to be absolutely imploding and targeting women during it's downfall right now... Resources Mentioned: Jamila Bradley's Substack, The Broken Pedestal Society Venus-in-Pisces Red Alert for Genocide: USA

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 see all of the family photos and memes I've included love bugs. Last year for Christmas, I gifted my mom a Storyworth subscription that was meant to turn her stories into a book for my baby niece. But I decided, since my mom is one of the funniest, most insightful people I know, I might as well turn it into a little radio show for her as well. So while a lot of this episode may feel totally random to you if you're a stranger, it's incredibly meaningful to me. I hope you enjoy it :) CONTENT WARNING: Please take care of yourself, this episode does contain a short discussion about mental illness and suicide. If these topics are potentially triggering, consider switching to a different episode! Connect with me: Watch on Youtube Follow Wild Geese on Instagram Follow me on Instagram Check out my Podcast Management services <3

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 selfish. I've been thinking a lot about how I can toggle back and forth between fixer mode and victim mode. In 2025, I want to take a playful approach to being my own parent, ritualizing everything I do so that it's more fun and more beautiful to me, and getting to know myself intentionally. It doesn't have to all be intense goal setting in the New Year. It can be a process of slowmaxxing into the version of you that knows what you need and stops asking permission. We're talking about self-expression, self-exploration and devotion to the self today. If you enjoy the ep, talk to me! Leave a comment, DM me, follow the show, you know what to do my loves! Tiktoks mentioned: ⁠Glitterbones⁠ ⁠Flickman⁠ Connect with me: Subscribe on ⁠Youtube⁠ ⁠Tiktok⁠ ⁠Business Instagram ⁠ ⁠Website⁠

"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 Instagram Resources mentioned: The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck The Raven Cycle Series Connect with me: ⁠⁠Follow Wild Geese on Insta!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Follow Anna’s business insta!