Wild Geese

Wild Geese

By Anna Howard | Podcast StrategistSociety & Culture
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  • 44. The World Is Re-Enchanted When We Pay Attention To Trees

    RESOURCES MENTIONED:

    - AID FOR ⁠MINNEAPOLIS⁠

    - ⁠The Conscious Universe⁠ by Joe Zadeh

    - Kristianna Smith's ⁠Tiktok⁠

    - ⁠The Light Eaters⁠ by Zoe Schlanger

    - ⁠Consciousness⁠

    - Alex Hanna's ⁠Tiktok⁠

    - ⁠Silicon Valley’s Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion⁠

    - Animism ⁠Essay

    ⁠-⁠ Well Being Economy Alliance


    ⁠📓 Anna's Substack ⁠Newsletter⁠

    ⛅ Wild Geese ⁠Instagram⁠ 💌 Anna's Podcast ⁠Production Services ⁠To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]: 00:00 Intro 02:49 Rosetta Stone Sponsorship04:13 Anthropomorphism 07:00 The debate about plant intelligence 07:46 Coping with "unnatural" systems 09:35 Choosing an advocacy 11:13 The Unique Survival mechanisms of plants 12:52 Plant behavior fun facts! 16:31 What is the role of metaphor in science communication? 17:52 What is consciousness? 19:18 Bridging the gap between art and science 21:50 Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer23:20 People are worshipping AI? 25:00 Animism27:00 Well being economies

    29 min
  • 44. How Plants "Think" & What It Teaches Us About Consciousness

    RESOURCES MENTIONED: - AID FOR MINNEAPOLIS- The Conscious Universe by Joe Zadeh- Kristianna Smith's Tiktok- The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger- Consciousness- Alex Hanna's Tiktok- Silicon Valley’s Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion- Animism Essay- Well Being Economy Alliance📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter

    ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]: 00:00 Intro 02:49 Rosetta Stone Sponsorship04:13 Anthropomorphism 07:00 The debate about plant intelligence 07:46 Coping with "unnatural" systems 09:35 Choosing an advocacy 11:13 The Unique Survival mechanisms of plants 12:52 Plant behavior fun facts! 16:31 What is the role of metaphor in science communication? 17:52 What is consciousness? 19:18 Bridging the gap between art and science 21:50 Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer23:20 People are worshipping AI? 25:00 Animism27:00 Well being economies

    29 min
  • 43. 2026 creative impulsivity challenge: making art out of curiosity, not fear

    What will happen when we stop hoarding our ideas from ourselves?


    RESOURCES MENTIONED:

    - Diabolical Lies

    - Madeleine Voge’s Reel

    - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

    - Zoe’s TikTok

    - The Hand by Annabelle Dinda

    - Literally Just Do Things by Erifili Gounari

    - Analyzing “The Hand” by Annabelle Dinda

    - The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    - JB’s Tiktok

    - Francina Simone's Tiktok


    📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services


    To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]

    33 min
  • 42. The BEST books and essays I Read in 2025!

    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 Akbar- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin- The Book Thief by Markus ZusakEssays Mentioned: - In defense of pretension by Ayan Artan- Fake Fairness is Killing Our Relationships - And It's Everywhere by Jamila Bradley- Erotic Decisions by Museguided- On Agency by Henrik Karlsson- The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser- No One Told Me About Proust by Celine Nguyen- Democracy was founded on the legal suppression of grief, and why politics without art is death by Ellie Robins- Write for Your Life by Emily Rapp Black


    📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter - https://annacorinne.substack.com/⛅ Wild Geese Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wildgeesepod/#💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services - https://www.annacorinneproductions.com/production

    32 min
  • 41. Self-Led learning Ceremonies: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot
  • 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 take on it! It doesn't need to be a direct mirror of school!


    RESOURCES MENTIONED:  

    • Dahlia’s Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dahliaquintanilla?lang=en

    • Learning Ceremonies Guide: https://liberatedlearning.org/download-free-learning-spirals-guide/

    • Are You Asking Enough of Your Brain?: https://substack.com/@naomialderman/p-175410802

    • The Once and Future King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King

    • How to Start Researching as a Hobby: https://substack.com/home/post/p-168506463

    • Turning Towards the Wound: Examining Unprocessed Grief in White European Descended Settlers and Finding Ancestrally Supported Pathways Back to Wholeness: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162000427

    • How Can We Prioritize Decolonization? What Makes an Initiative Decolonial?: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162000427

    • Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/research-is-ceremony-shawn-wilson

    • “It Feels Fake”: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in “It Feels Fake”: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in Predominantly White Institutions Predominantly White Institutions: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1469&context=occasional-paper-series

    • Learn for Fun or Free Or Fun & Free : https://substack.com/@sarahschauer/p-175242020


    34 min
  • 40. How to Discover What You Want & Actually Ask For It

    I believe desire is a map & we can start using it to actually improve our relationships with others WHILE seeing our dream life come into our physical reality!!


    RESOURCES MENTIONED:

    • A Woman's Guide to Power Unbound: https://www.kasiaurbaniak.com/unbound-book
    • Little Weirds by Jenny Slate: https://www.thejennyslate.com/little-weirds
    • Pleasure Activism: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/pleasure-activism/


    RELATED EPISODES:

    • Watch this if you're ready to rethink romantic relationships: https://youtu.be/olzuQmLQlSQ?si=T6BJ_SX340AQK9uV
    • How to be a better villager: https://youtu.be/-cNpV9SL6OQ?si=Ib-dv2Y-s3PaQEBg


    📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

    Watch on Youtube To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]


    00:00 intro 01:00 Book of the Month Sponsorship 02:54 How are Desires Different than Goals? 04:54 How can we be ready to answer the question "What do you want?" 05:11 the low maintenance, chill persona is a myth06:25 the most radical thing a woman can do is want07:33 desires about being desired 08:16 You don't choose your desires, your desires choose you08:32 How do we even know what we want?12:51 A prompt to translate desires into asks15:00 Making your asks more specific17:50 Asking for the wrong thing is just information18:11 Satisfying your desires is a highly personal process18:46 Redefining what it means to ask for help 19:53 Maladaptive behaviors we might use to avoid asking for what we want20:22 Yearning can feel like a humiliation ritual21:09 Having conviction in your desires 23:10 How rejection can actually lead to a better outcome24:30 Why I reject wantlessness25:35 How desire can be an empowering community builder27:35 What is pleasure activism? 28:48 Why we all need to talk about what we desire more

    29 min
  • 39. How to Bring Joy & Whimsy Back Into Your Life

    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 Become 'Good' Humans- Interview with Linda Barry- Jamila Bradley's Tiktok- Sarah Schauer's Tiktok📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

    28 min
  • 38. Creating in the Age of Distraction & A.I Slop

    I experimented with a media consumption break & it had my reflecting our relationship to art. TLDR: everyone's freaking out about AI stealing our creativity. I think humans are more resilient than that. RESOURCES: - Art as Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival

    - The Book Thief- Behind the WallRELATED EPISODES: - How Life Changes When You Realize the Rules are Made Up- The Lost Art of Sensuality📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter - https://annacorinne.substack.com/⛅ Wild Geese Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wildgeesepod/#💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services - https://www.annacorinneproductions.com/productionTo inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]

    29 min
  • 37. The Critical Thinking Crisis: Choosing Curiosity Over Certainty

    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 of Your Are Engaging in Cop Behavior- Maybe We're All So Worried About Getting In Trouble Because We Keep Trying to Get Each Other in Trouble by Hannah Glenn- A Hierarchy of Thinking Styles- Key Questions for Media Literacy- Debate Me! by Priya Jain- How to be a critic by Ayan Artan- Twitchy Witch Tiktok- Kristianna's Tiktok


    📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services

    33 min
  • 36. how language shapes the way we think

    Does language shape the way we perceive reality? Can Indigenous wisdom shine a light on a different way forward??! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Lingthusiasm- The Hatred of Metaphor- Briana Ní Loingsigh's Substack- WordsatWork Tiktok- The Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet- Babaylan, Bye Bye Lang- Hopi Time Controversy- Our Language, Our World- Braiding Sweetgrass


    📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services


    To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]


    TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:23 Craftsy Sponsorship 02:23 Learning Spanish 04:44 Comparative Historical Linguistics vs linguistic relativity 05:33 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis06:55 Conceptual metaphors in the english language08:47 The Irish language understanding of time and emotions09:55 How language changes our sense of morality 11:18 the etymology of the word 'culture'12:20 Internet sub-cultures fracturing language14:08 dog whistles 14:54 the grammar of animacy19:20 does language actually change the way we perceive reality?22:35 the somatics of language 25:20 embodying the grammar of animacy

    27 min

About Wild Geese

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Welcome to Wild Geese! Think of this as your little plot in the woods where you can lay down a picnic blanket, gather with your friends, and gab! I’m your host, Anna Corinne - a NYC based podcast strategist and actress.

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