Wild Geese

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 Geese

Timestamps: 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:

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"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

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Timestamps:

00:00 - introo

01:18 - why do we want to fall down rabbit holes?

02:42 - personal branding & niching down

05:21 - how to be so interesting you beat AI

08:11 - living a project based life

12:15 - projects as a curiosity incubator

13:05 - how I fall down rabbit holes

15:42 - research as a leisure activity

21:48 - work/life balance

25:57 - 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 Longings

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Timestamps:

00:00 - new music incoming??

01:25 - why do women need to approach spirituality differently?

03:54 - discernment disclaimer05:56 - conspirituality

07:42 - 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 Hammurabi

11:18 - The Axial Age

12:35 - Why spiritual advice from hit the same way for women

17:40 - Drawing a circle of sacredness around yourself

20:40 - personal essay

23:14 - why "i don't care" is empowering

23:59 - Bell Hooks wisdom

27:26 - 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!

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"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 person
• Why 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 tutorial
• Ayan 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:

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...

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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.

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!

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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!

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