Of Dirt and Wildflowers

Season 2, Episode: 7

“Building Wings”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Building Wings,” we will dig into the dirt of life found in the aftermath of courage and of following dreams. This is the conversation about what happens after you jump. There is a free fall and then the hard work of building wings. 

Seeds to take with you from today’s episode:

∙Fear will keep you safely on the ground and never let you experience flying.

∙There is beauty in the fall–it is the thing you cannot do safely standing on a cliff.

∙The jump is exhilarating, and the wings require grit. 

This episode is paired with a longer reflective companion essay on my Substack. If you would like to sit with these ideas a little longer, I kindly invite you to continue there. https://substack.com/@kyleejeanmarshall

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected]. 

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode. 

1. Where are you standing comfortably on cliffs?

2. Are you afraid of jumping or afraid of building wings?

3. How can you quiet the voice of fear?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!! 

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

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Season 2, Episode: 6

“Gifts to Yourself”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Gifts to Yourself,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to discover the seeds of self-love. Just before I entered what I knew would be a heavy and busy season of life, I heard a voice. I imagine it was probably God speaking to me, but the voice was mine. It said, “I know you’re coming. I will make this easy for you.” 

Seeds to take with you from today’s episode:

∙Gifts of self-love build a trusting relationship with yourself.

∙Gifts of self-love are often found in the reframing of daily, ordinary tasks. 

∙Removing the friction from your life is your present and future selves loving one another. 

This episode is paired with a longer reflective companion essay on my Substack. If you would like to sit with these ideas a little longer, I kindly invite you to continue there. https://substack.com/@kyleejeanmarshall

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected]. 

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode. 

1. Where do you feel friction in your life? Things just don’t have a flow?

2. Do you feel loved by you? Do you keep your promises to yourself? Do you trust yourself to show up for you? Explain why or why not.

3. What are five ordinary gifts you can give yourself today?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!! 

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Season 2, Episode: 5

“The Pace That Healed Me”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “The Pace That Healed Me,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to better understand the juxtaposition of life is too short, so I need to do it all. In the last year, I learned that a peaceful life wasn’t just about saying no and shedding and minimizing what was on my calendar. I learnedthat it is more about finding a rhythm, a peaceful pace in the life that is already mine.

Seeds to take with you from today’s episode:

∙The opposite of peace isn’t busy, it is hurry.

∙It takes courage to choose the pace that fits your season oflife.

∙Life doesn’t need less, it needs slower.

This episode is paired with a longer reflective companion essay on my Substack. If you would like to sit with these ideas a little longer, I kindly invite you to continue there. https://substack.com/@kyleejeanmarshall

 If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.

 1. Write about what it means to have a full life.

2. Read over your musings of a full life. Are there any parts of that life that also feel busy? How do you see that as a messageabout your current pacing?

3. When do you feel your life racing? Is it in your mind? In the car to appointments? How can you intervene in these places and spaces to change up the pace?

 Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Visit her website for more information on her writing course Into Your Wild: Authoring Your Own Story HERE www.kyleemarshall.com

Season 2, Episode 4

“Shedding and Unraveling”

Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Shedding and Unraveling,” we will diginto the dirt of life to better understand the that in order to make room for new growth, for any growth at all, we must shed. We must clear. We must allow there to be possibility.

I don’t know if I realized what was happening until it hadalready happened – this shedding that left me both raw and also floating, free. Maybe I didn’t know it was happening because what was happening felt like complete destruction and how can destruction and devastation and loss feel likeanything other than ember weight, like sable darkness. But it was there all along, in the shedding and the unraveling, in the clearing out and the cleansing, in the pruning. It was there – it takes one hell of a fire for a phoenix to grow wings from the flames. It requires a clearing – we must create clearings in our lives – prune away all that attaches us to a season passed, past – in order to make space, make room for the impending bloom.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts fortoday’s episode.

1. Take time to reflect on a moment when you felt devastatedby loss, by something outside of your control. How has this moment shaped you and altered the way you live everyday life?

2. What things could you prune from your everyday life thatwould make space for more joy?

3. What brings you joy that you currently feel like you don’t have time or space for? How can you choose to make space and time for those things?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growingthe Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Visit her website for more information on her writing course Into Your Wild: Authoring Your Own Story HERE www.kyleemarshall.com

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Season 2, Episode: 3

“Dancing with Life -- My 45th Birthday Tribute”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Dancing with Life,” we will dig into the dirt of midlife. In this special reading of my recent blog, I will share with you 45 sacred truths.

April is always the idyllic reminder of the beauty in a dance. The two steps forward and the one step back. We throw open windows to welcome a soft breeze sliding down off mountain tops and release layers from our shoulders to let the sun drape itself over our winter skin. And in the next moment, we are holding onto anything not secure, not tethered to keep it from blowing away in the unrelenting wind. Two steps forward and one step back. We saunter into the wild to witness the first blooms brave the barren ground of a sleeping Earth, and we turn our faces up, eyes closed, to take in deep inhales of air broken free from winter’s hold. And in the next moment, we are running for cover as the chilled rain pelts against our exposed skin. We watch the windowpane become a kaleidoscope of watercolor and are reminded that without this, we cannot have the other. Two steps forward and one step back.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].  

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.  

1.  What is a sacred truth you would add to this list?

2. Why is it an important piece of how you show up in your own life?

3. How did this truth come to be?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Season 2, Episode: 2

“What Am I Supposed to Be Learning?”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “What Am I Supposed to Be Learning?” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to better understand the messages behind the stories that reside deep in our bones, in our past.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.

1.     What is a reoccurring memory or moment that comes to you often? Describe it in the vivid or blurry way it appears.

2.     What are the initial thoughts, emotions, narratives you attach to this memory?

3.     After sitting with the memory and peeling back the layers, what is actually there?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Visit her website for more information on her writing course Into Your Wild: Authoring Your Own Story HERE www.kyleemarshall.com

Sign up for her Blog HERE https://substack.com/@kyleejeanmarshall

Episode: 1

“Recommit Every Day”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Recommit Every Day,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to understand alignment in our goals, resolutions, and visions. We will discuss how to recommit and how to get out of a slump.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.

1. When you take a look at your goals, how do they make you feel? What is your gut reaction to them?

2. How can you break your goal or vision down into manageable pieces? How do those pieces align with your intention?

3. What will progress look like and feel like for you as you move forward with your goal or vision?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: AMe moir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Visit her website for more information on her writing course Into Your Wild: Authoring Your Own Story HERE www.kyleemarshall.com

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Episode: 14

“Creating a Vision Board”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s special NEW YEAR episode, “Creating a Vision Board,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to create a vision board with intention, purpose, and gratitude.

Wishing you a beautiful 2025, my friends.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.

1. What are you willing to let go of in order to receive what is meant for you?

2. Looking at your vision board for 2025, what is your word or phrase guiding you?

3. How has this 9-step process changed your thinking about what is possible in the next 365 days in your life?

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

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Read her Blog HERE www.kyleemarshall.com/kylees-blog/ 

Episode: 13

“The Balance of Looking Back”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall 

In today’s episode, “The Balance of Looking Back,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to better understand how our past can provide light, direction, and clarity.  

Join me in releasing 2024, so we can openly receive 2025.

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please sendme an email at [email protected].

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.  

1. What are your comfort zones? Are they healthy or toxic?

2. Be brutally honest about yourself – self-awareness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves.

3. What patterns and routines in your daily life are serving you well? Which are not?

4. What repeated lessons have been presented to you? What is it you are needing to learn or change?

5. Write about your growth, healing, self-love, and progress. Go back 10 years, 5 years, and to January 1st.

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

Stay connected with Kylee Jean!!

Buy her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6BWMHNP

Listen to her book on Audible HERE https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CFMPSJRR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-363162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_363162_rh_us

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Episode: 12

“Slipping into Autumn”

Of Dirt & Wildflowers: A Podcast

Hosted by Kylee Jean Marshall

In today’s episode, “Slipping into Autumn,” we will dig into the dirt of life in order to better understand the unreasonable and often ill-serving expectations we place on ourselves, especially in autumn and the last months of the year.   

Autumn signals that change is upon us, and we welcome her with open arms and bid adieu to summer; but almost without noticing we let her slip away instead of slipping

When you finish listening, you will have a better understanding…of how you can slip into Autumn with ease and gratitude, how you can gift yourself and your family by being present.  

If today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at [email protected].  

I truly believe in the power of journaling and its power to help us in making personal connections and in creating meaning to help us grow. Below are connected journaling prompts for today’s episode.  

1. What does Autumn signal to you? How do you see not only the world around you shifting in this season, but how do you notice yourself moving differently as well?  

2. Instead of thinking about all you have not accomplished this year, write down every little thing you have accomplished? How does this shifted perspective make you feel?    

3. How can you gift yourself and your family this season?    

Be well! Love you, my friends.

Kylee Jean

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