For The Wild - Stepping Into Wilder Form, 2025

00:00:00.000 hey for the bald community it's ayana here i am currently sitting in this windy bay

00:00:19.340 watching the seagulls fly over the herring run that's just arriving and i thought this is the

00:00:26.560 right moment to check in with y'all. It has been a while. Gosh, so much has been moving in my life

00:00:33.500 personally, and I have grown up and refined what I want to share with you all. As much as I have

00:00:40.540 loved the classic digital episodes over the past decade, I've had a real yearning to be in person

00:00:47.860 with the flesh of the land and eye to eye with the guests. So as you probably noticed, we have

00:00:53.900 not been releasing weekly episodes. Instead, we have been on the road spending deep time with some

00:00:59.600 of our favorite people, having intimate, edgy, raw, funny, just beautiful and challenging

00:01:07.580 conversations. Although we wanted to keep the secret a little longer, we will be releasing

00:01:14.300 our first season of our new walking series with beloved Sophie Strand. We have also been in the

00:01:20.820 works of creating a printed anthology and Sophie is one of the authors of that along with 20 others

00:01:27.200 and art and design and combination of 10 years of conversations. This book is weird. It's the

00:01:35.340 study of oddness. It's not meant to be easy or prescriptive. It's meant to get dirty. It's meant

00:01:42.500 to be used in the archive of this time and we're planning on printing it this year as well. But in

00:01:50.400 order for us to birth these new creations into life, we need you. We're looking for funding,

00:01:56.760 partners, and sponsorships, and we are considering either self-publishing the book or working with

00:02:02.260 the publisher. We're also hoping to go on tour and would love to be hosted from the west coast,

00:02:07.720 the east coast of this continent, and across the pond in Europe. If you're an individual or a

00:02:13.420 foundation or an aligned company who want to sponsor the show with Sophie, hit me up. You can

00:02:19.320 email us at connectatforthewild.world. If you are a publisher or work in the literary world,

00:02:26.160 also please reach out. I would love to hear from you. And if you would like to host some live

00:02:32.060 conversations for our book tour, we would love to run into your loving arms and share some good

00:02:38.160 food and company and have some deep ass conversations with y'all. So thanks for hearing

00:02:43.720 me out, I noticed my heart racing while sharing this all with you. It feels risky and nerve-wracking

00:02:52.240 and also so exciting to be stepping into this new era with you all. I'm so grateful for those of you

00:02:59.220 who have been with me from the beginning and those of you who have joined recently and are sticking

00:03:04.200 with us through this transitional time. I'm really passionate about these conversations and I think

00:03:10.420 you'll be too now in the meantime before these new shows and book drop you can spend some deep

00:03:16.980 time with us by purchasing our earthly reads book series or you can hang out with bio and his we

00:03:23.780 will dance with mountains course that you can purchase on our website and of course there are

00:03:28.440 still over 350 episodes that you can listen to on your favorite streaming platform cannot wait

00:03:35.820 to continue this journey with y'all.

00:03:37.820 Happy spring.

00:03:46.900 Thank you for listening to this announcement

00:03:49.020 from For the Wild.

00:03:50.540 For the Wild is made by Ayanna Young,

00:03:53.120 Erica Ekrem, Julia Jackson,

00:03:55.820 Jackson Kroof, and Viva Whitman.

00:03:58.160 The music you hear in this announcement

00:03:59.740 is from Fabiano Donazamento,

00:04:02.540 courtesy of Leaving Records.

00:04:04.420 Thanks for listening.

00:04:05.820 Thank you.

00:04:35.820 You

For The Wild - May 14, 2025