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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-bookLittle Weirds by Jenny Slate: https://www.thejennyslate.com/little-weirdsPleasure 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_SX340AQK9uVHow 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 hello@annacorinneproductions.com00:00 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

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

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 hello@annacorinneproductions.comTIME 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

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 offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit: https://capacities.io/?via=anna ❤️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- the one about ai- don't get it f*cked up fr- 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 as Autonomy- Writing Hack: Write it Just Like That- Squibler.io Dangerous Writing Prompt- In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching🫶 Join my newsletter (weekly media roundups) ⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack (personal essays) 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.comTIMESTAMPS: 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

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-8ySqYZ6sUC7Related 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🫶 Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services To inquire about potential collaborations, please email hello@annacorinneproductions.com

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 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

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 BrownTimestamps: 00:00 intro02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat? 03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting05:45 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 Join my newsletter⛅ Wild Geese Instagram 📓 Anna's Substack 💌 Anna's Podcast Production Services