Today I want to share some thoughts about how I’m navigating some financial constriction personally and how it fits into our collective journey inside of capitalism. 

How can we make the tiny area of life that we inhabit more caring, less transactional, and free from extraction? In this conversation with Toi Smith, we discuss strategies for embodying more beauty and less exploitation, whether it’s in our parenting, work, relationships to one another, or our relationships to the wider world.

In this episode with anticapitalist, nature-loving co-conspirators Heather Dorfman and Megan Hayne, we discuss what the term “village” means to us, what needs might be met in a village setting that aren’t met in our modern way of living, and accessible ways to re-village right where we are, with what we’ve got.

In this first episode of the Spring 2024 season of the A Wild New Work podcast, we’ll be discussing what our actual, original needs are, the extraneous needs put upon us by capitalism, why it’s so hard to meet our needs in this culture, and why we need fresh strategies for meeting the needs that will actually help us become who we deeply are.

It’s painful to feel like you’re stuck in a stage that’s less empowered and resourced than you want to be. 

Adolescence is beautiful, but it needs to be integrated and intentionally passed through - we don’t want to stay in that inner heat and angst forever. There are many people in our culture who are technically adults because of their age, but who were never given the chance (or who never made the choice) to fully step into a meaningful adulthood.

We can sense how chaotic, disconnected, and troubled our world is, and many of us feel the need for sturdier skills that can help us be with these times.

In this conversation with Carmen Spagnola, we explore the poignancy of being alive right now as well as the frameworks and practices that can help us metabolize what’s happening and find the deliciousness that’s available.