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Wild Geese
by 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.
Episodes
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62. Your Ideas About How Life Is Supposed to Work Are Holding You Back
"If you’ve achieved a bunch of your goals, and you’re still not happy with your life, consider giving up on self-chosen plans. Instead, listen to your life, inner and outer, and see if you can feel a current. Then fall into it, especially if it has nothing to do with the story you had about where...
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61. You Don't Have to Suffer on the Altar of Beauty
What would we do with our time & money if we didn't feel the need to be beautiful? Join us on Patreon for bonus content and the Wild Geese bookclub!RESOURCES MENTIONED: Ishaswords tiktok:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8EAgSeQ/The Botox Psyop:...
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60. Why You Don't Love What You're Reading Anymore
"i remember the feeling of teenage obsession, and i miss it desperately." - Rayne Fisher-Quann JOIN US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/annacorinnehoward Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription! https://promo.notability.com/wildgeese Resources:...
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59. How to Trust Yourself When Your Body Sends Confusing Signals
Join me on Patreon!!: https://patreon.com/annacorinnehoward?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink RESOURCES MENTIONED:...
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58. how to be yourself by thinking about yourself LESS
“Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” - Glennon Doyle Resources Mentioned: -...
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57. How to Ask Questions That Make Your Life More Interesting
I basically form all of my creations around questions I'm asking myself right now, not around the things I already know. So here's how I use my creative practice to continuously leave room for serendipity! RESOURCES MENTIONED:- Eliza Day's Tiktok- Notes on Coming Back to Your Self- Emma…
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56. The World Is a Museum of Passion Projects
I went abroad & came back with an urban planning obsession. Is anyone surprised? Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription! https://promo.notability.com/wildgeese RESOURCES MENTIONED: - everything is a win when the goal is to experience - Why Don't Animals Have Wheels?…
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55. who is the voice in your head? are they actually helping you?
RESOURCES MENTIONED:-Immigrant Defense Network: https://immigrantdefensenetwork.org/- AID FOR MINNEAPOLIS: https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid?brid=0dx4mAhjTdqT7TpmK3GOpQ Minneapolis is absolutely not the only city who needs this type of support. I highly recommend looking up mutual aid networks in...
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54. You've Built an Altar of Suffering. Where Is Your Altar of Enjoyment?
Do you only write when you're sad?? Let's change that! Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription! https://promo.notability.com/wildgeese RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Enchantment by Katherine May- Against Narrative by Rayne Fisher-Quann- An Interview with Richard Siken- Strangers by...
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53. How Stories Shape the Way We Think About Love
If domination and conflict are not central components of narrative, what is? Today we're chatting about the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula Le Guin and love as a way of gathering and sharing the world. I hope you enjoy! REFERENCES: - The carrier bag theory of fiction- inventing the...
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52. When I Accept Myself Just As I Am, I Change
Email [email protected] with any questions you want answered on the show! RESOURCES MENTIONED: - Rulerless Casey Tiktok - Tiktok - Let Them Tiktok - Martyr by Kaveh Akbar - Mad Men clip - 4000 Weeks: Time Management For Mortals - The Diary of Anais Nin 1931-1934 CONNECT WITH ME📓 Anna's...
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51. become the creative director of your career
The Artist's Guide to Making Money Online (Without Falling For Scams or Scamming People) Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription! https://promo.notability.com/wildgeeseRESOURCES MENTIONED:- WTF Is a Portfolio Career- How to Make Money on the Internet (Pt.1)- Offer Design…
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50. Your Obvious Idea Is Your Best Idea
We all need to collectively decide to stop stopping ourselves from making things because they've been made before!! Also, stop sh*tting on people for making things that have been made before! Use code WILDGEESENB for a 25% off Notability subscription!! https://promo.notability.com/wildgeese...
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49. I Changed My Mind About Intimacy
RESOURCES MENTIONED & MEMES INCLUDED: https://sublime.app/collection/ep-49-... CHECK OUT MY NEW VLOG CHANNEL ON YT: https://www.youtube.com/@annahowardvlogs CONNECT WITH ME: 📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services
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48. What Carried Me Through The Confusion of My Early Twenties
RESOURCES MENTIONED CONNECT WITH ME: 📓 Anna's Substack Newsletter ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email [email protected]
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47. Become Your Own Muse
To try everything Sublime has to offer, visit https://sublime.app/?ref=anna & use code: wildgeese for 20% off at checkout! "The role of the lover is exactly the same as the role of the artist. If I love you, I must make you aware of the things you do not see." - James BaldwinRESOURCES:...
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46. Let It Linger: Ritualized Note-Taking To Take Your Attention Back
Instructions for Living a Life: Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It. - Mary Oliver Resources Mentioned: Henrik Karlsson essay We've Always Been Distracted You're Shaped By What You Pay Attention to Becoming Wise All the Ghosts You Will Be Related Episodes: Rituals Sensuality Digital...
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45. Forget about being lovable. Love will find you anyway.
Love and worth are not connected. We don't have to earn love by maintaining our innocence. So, now what? RESOURCES MENTIONED:...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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:...
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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…
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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-...
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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...
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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…
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35. Your Life Is Not An Optimization Problem | Q&A
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/annahoward09251 Favorites mentioned: Books: - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Hunger Games (lol) by...
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34. A Writing Practice to Help You Meet Yourself
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;...
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33. How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
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...
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32. How Life Changes When You Realize the Rules are Made Up
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...
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31. Reclaiming the Lost Art of Sensuality
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...
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30. Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
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…
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29. What We Can Learn From 3000 Years of Love
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-...
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28. for those who need a gateway to radical imagination
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...
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27. growing a digital garden to end my doomscrolling (part 2)
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…
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26. the life design process that changed my art (& actually, changed everything)
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...
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25. How to Be An Artist Without Selling Your Soul on the Internet
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...
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24. how to fall down a curiosity rabbit hole & reconnect to your creativity
"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?…
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23. why are we afraid of LOVE? 🥀reflecting on creativity + eros 🌹
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...
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22. how to be a better villager
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…
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21. You are the Altar. Not the Sacrifice.
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…
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20. Convenience Culture is Killing Our Creative Impulses
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....
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19. creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
"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.…
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18. How to Decenter Men *BUT Still Enjoy Dating Men* | Stop Worshipping the Male Gaze
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...
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17. The Mom That Shows Up
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...
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16. How We're Ritualizing Everything and Turning Our Lives Into Art in 2025
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...
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15. Grounded Spirituality, Releasing Dogmas and Finding Home with Eliza Day
"I don't know why we feel the need to look for things that aren't here instead of just looking more deeply at what already is here." Today's guest, Eliza Day sums it all up in that one sentence. Eliza is an artist, speaker, and intuitive guide who is sharing so many nuggets of wisdom that ground...
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14. What Your Dreams Are Telling You With Jared Ray Gilmore
We've all had incredibly vivid dreams where we stumble out of bed and immediately try to recall everything we can. But what do we do with the bits and pieces we remember? Most of us stop at retelling the juiciest bits to our friends. But what if our dreams were the key to understanding ourselves…
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13. Girlhood, Shame, and Self-Optimization with Hailey Noecker
Girlhood is a state of constant embarrassment. Not to mention the feeling that you're just...always in trouble? So how the hell are we supposed to become well-adjusted adults when most of us have been raised to have a deep shame rooted in our bones? Well today, I've got Hailey Noecker,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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Anna Howard | Podcast Strategist
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