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Wild Geese

Anna Howard | Podcast Strategist

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. Every other Tuesday, I’m doing deep dives on creativity, community organizing, activism, and more. I want listening to Wild Geese to feel like night in a fluffy chair, cat purring at your feet, warm light creating a glow, and all of your friends in one room together.

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00:37:38

35. Your Life Is Not An Optimization Problem | Q&A

Wild Geese ·

2025/09/16

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 Skillshare! Get started today! https://skl.sh/annahoward09251Favorites mentioned: Books:- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer- Hunger Games (lol) by Suzanne Collins - Giovanni's Room by James BaldwinMusicians: - Muna - Yana- Abba - The Weepies - Samia- Devon Again Substacks: - Rayne Fisher Quann- Ayan Artan- Jamila Bradley- Henrik Karlson- Heather

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00:34:38

34. A Writing Practice to Help You Meet Yourself

Wild Geese ·

2025/09/02

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

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00:30:40

33. How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually...

Wild Geese ·

2025/08/19

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

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00:29:52

32. How Life Changes When You Realize the Rules are...

Wild Geese ·

2025/08/05

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:

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00:29:31

31. Reclaiming the Lost Art of Sensuality

Wild Geese ·

2025/07/22

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

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00:25:59

30. Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the...

Wild Geese ·

2025/07/08

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

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00:26:44

29. What We Can Learn From 3000 Years of Love

Wild Geese ·

2025/06/24

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 -

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00:23:36

for those who need a gateway to radical imagination

Wild Geese ·

2025/06/10

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

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00:31:16

27. growing a digital garden to end my doomscrolling...

Wild Geese ·

2025/05/27

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 -

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00:24:48

26. the life design process that changed my art (&...

Wild Geese ·

2025/05/20

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

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00:26:00

25. How to Be An Artist Without Selling Your Soul on...

Wild Geese ·

2025/05/06

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

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00:31:59

24. how to fall down a curiosity rabbit hole &...

Wild Geese ·

2025/04/23

"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

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00:26:03

23. why are we afraid of LOVE? 🥀reflecting on...

Wild Geese ·

2025/04/08

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

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00:22:57

22. how to be a better villager

Wild Geese ·

2025/03/25

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: -

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00:28:13

21. You are the Altar. Not the Sacrifice.

Wild Geese ·

2025/03/11

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

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00:26:04

20. Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses

Wild Geese ·

2025/02/25

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

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00:28:55

19. creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling

Wild Geese ·

2025/02/11

"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

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00:38:55

19. How to Decenter Men *BUT Still Enjoy Dating Men*...

Wild Geese ·

2025/01/28

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

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00:44:55

18. The Mom That Shows Up

Wild Geese ·

2025/01/17

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

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00:23:37

17. How We're Ritualizing Everything and Turning Our...

Wild Geese ·

2024/12/31

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

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