What will happen when we stop hoarding our ideas from ourselves?
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- Madeleine Voge’s Reel
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- Zoe’s TikTok
- Literally Just Do Things by Erifili Gounari
- Analyzing “The Hand” by Annabelle Dinda
- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- JB’s Tiktok
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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
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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
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!!
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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
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
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 hello@annacorinneproductions.com
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
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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
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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
little Q&A moment today!
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Favorites mentioned:
Books:
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Hunger Games (lol) by Suzanne Collins
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Musicians:
- Muna
- Yana
- Abba
- The Weepies
- Samia
- Devon Again
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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 Karlson
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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
- 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 Hack: Write it Just Like That
- Squibler.io Dangerous Writing Prompt
- In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
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TIMESTAMPS: 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-8ySqYZ6sUC7
Related 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
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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 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
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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
- 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
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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 Brown
Timestamps:
00:00 intro
02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat?
03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting
05:45 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
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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.
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 writer
26:04 - how to turn notes into something new
29:10 - how to find great sources for your garden
30:34 - my personal takeaways from digital gardening
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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 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:
- https://friendola.com/
- https://ita.toys/scans/milkbar/milkbar2
- https://cloudhiker.net/
Bonus websites:
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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