Raising Wild Hearts with Ryann Watkin
A soulful podcast to help parents and educators create fulfilling lives and guide the next generation with patience, presence, and purpose. Wherever you're at in your journey, these conversations will meet you there, offering culture-shifting, revolutionary, and simple ideas you can weave into your home life, at work, and everywhere in between. This is not just another parenting podcast. Raising Wild Hearts is the best parenting podcast for real life, grounded, and expert-backed parenting tips. We're a community of conscious creators, devoted caregivers, and passionate educators, changing the world by starting at home in our own minds and hearts. The biggest change starts small in the chaos and the calm, the messy and the mundane, and most importantly, in your own heart. Calling all cycle breakers, trailblazers, and change makers—this is Raising Wild Hearts. ✨ Topics include: happiness, mindfulness, parenting tips, sacred motherhood, holistic self-care, women’s wellbeing, courage, confidence, EQ, conscious parenting, creativity, how to create boundaries, stress management, positive psychology, feminine leadership, spirituality, consciousness, and holistic success. 🎧 Listen in for: grounded wisdom, practical rituals, inspiring guest interviews, solos shows and soulful inspiration—all reminders to help you live and lead with heart. 💌Join the community: https://www.raisingwildhearts.com/rise 🎙️Want to be a guest on Raising Wild Hearts? Send Ryann Watkin a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/raisingwildhearts
Episodes
What if peace isn’t something you have to chase… but something waiting right outside your front door?
In this Best Of episode of Raising Wild Hearts, Ryann Watkin revisits a grounding conversation with Danisha Dumournay—author of Teachings of the Great Outdoors and Exploring Nature: Robin Finds Herself—about self-discovery, identity, and the healing power of nature.
Danisha shares how growing up Haitian-American—shaped by her grandm...
What if the thing you need most right now… is to do less?
In this Walk With Me episode, I’m reflecting on something that doesn’t come easily for many of us: slowing down. In a culture that celebrates constant productivity and hustle, choosing rest or spaciousness can feel uncomfortable—even unsettling. But what if learning to listen to our inner rhythm is actually the key to more clarity, energy, and alignment?
For our 150th episode, we’re bringing back one of the most powerful conversations ever aired on Raising Wild Hearts.
Ginny Luther — international speaker, parent educator, and author of Blue Star Grit — joins us to explore what happens when we stop trying to control our children… and start regulating ourselves instead.
This episode dives deep into:
- The true meaning of discipline (hint: it’s not punishment)
- Conscious discipline and ...
What if your frustration, your child’s struggle, or your career tension isn’t something to fix — but something your soul is trying to tell you?
In this deeply thought-provoking conversation, Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner — developmental psychologist, Jungian scholar, astrologer, and creator of Noble Energy Maps® — shares how subconscious energy patterns shape our lives, relationships, and parenting.
With over 50 years of clinical exper...
In this episode of Raising Wild Hearts, I sit down with Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey (AKA Nell 3D)— a Subtraction Strategist, Harvard-trained leader, and equine-informed coach — to talk about burnout, ambition, and what it really means to make an impact without losing yourself in the process.
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After missing her father’s funeral and burning out in high-stakes nonprofit leadership, ...
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What if forgiveness isn’t about being kind, spiritual, or morally “good” — but about getting your life back?
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In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, Ryann sits down with bestselling author, transformation mentor, and forgiveness expert Katharine Giovanni to explore forgiveness as a selfish, embodied, and energetically freeing practice. Together, they unpack why for...
What if the thing we’re most afraid of isn’t the fear of dying, but the quiet resistance to fully living? In this episode of Raising Wild Hearts, I sit down with Alan Lazaros to explore how to build integrity, what it really means to live from the inside out, and how defining success differently can change everything.
Alan is the CEO and host of Next Level University, a global top-100 show listened to in more than 180 countries. Aft...
If worldschooling, family travel, and global parenting are on your radar—grab your earbuds! In Episode 144 of the Raising Wild Hearts Podcast, Ryann Watkin sits down with Monica Virga Alborno—Founder of Wanderwild Family Retreats and former Fortune 500 engineer— to gently reframe family connection, vacation and true presence!
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Recorded live at the Rise & Flourish event, this heartfelt interview — guest hosted by Danielle Neufeld — dives into subconscious healing, motherhood, and the energetic ripple effect of community. Stasia Jaramillo shares how 95% of our lives are run by the subconscious mind, how childhood experiences shape us, and how healing yourself as a mom can heal generations to come.
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In this episode of Raising Wild Hearts, Ryann Watkin sits down with chiropractor and nervous system educator Dr. Kristina Guerriero, founder of StillPoint, to explore how true healing happens when the body feels safe.
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Together, they unpack what neural tension really is, how living in survival mode impacts our emotions, creativity, and physical health, and why ...
What if the hardest parenting moments were actually invitations to heal yourself?
In this Rise & Flourish Series conversation, guest host Danielle Neufeld sits down with Jessica Hausknecht, conscious parenting coach and founder of Parenting with Heart and Science, to talk about how we can move from chaos to connection in our homes — and in ourselves.
Jessica shares her own journey from overwhelm and yelling to creating deep, peac...
In today’s episode, Ryann takes you into the real heart of mindfulness — not the tidy, think-your-way-to-calm version — but the embodied, lived-in, messy human version. This episode is a grounding breath for anyone who feels stretched thin, rushed, overwhelmed, or stuck in their head.
This episode covers:
- Mindfulness is helpful, but mental awareness alone won’t ground you — true presence requires somatic awareness too.
- ...
In this powerful self-development conversation, Ryann sits down with Ian Chamandy, Chief Purpose Officer of PurposeU, to explore the deeper purpose of life and why your answer to “What is my purpose?” can be expressed in just seven words or less. Ian breaks down a simple but transformative process for discovering your unique gift — the inner thread that’s been living inside you all along — and how it becomes a practical decision-ma...
In this walk-with-me-Wednesday episode of Raising Wild Hearts, Ryann is exploring the science — and the lived experience — behind compassion, intuition, and the frequencies we carry into our daily lives.
You’ll hear:
• The museum moment that revealed how “electric” we truly are
• How meditation strengthens empathy centers in the brain
• What to make of energetic frequencies like love and compassion
• Why belief shap...
In this powerful live conversation from the Rise & Flourish event, guest host Danielle Neufeld sits down with Brooke Musial, founder of Musical Breathwork, to explore how our bodies are instruments of intuition — and how sound, breath, and play can help us move through fear, find flow, and reconnect to joy.
Brooke shares her philosophy of embodied intuition, explaining how the body’s electromagnetic field, breath rhyth...
Ever hit a goal and still felt empty at the top? If you need a reminder that doing, proving, and pushing will never bring the fulfillment your souls is craving—this episode is it.
Ryann opens up about her own journey from hustle to holy, sharing stories of self-trust, surrender, and the quiet moments when God whispers our next step.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
🌿 Why chasing success can still feel empty
🌿 The difference betwe...
What if our schools actually taught kids how to think, not what to think? In this episode, we explore Montessori teaching methods, the Socratic Method, and the real-life benefits of alternative education — plus practical Montessori-at-home ideas every parent can use.
In this Raising Wild Hearts conversation, host Ryann Watkin sits down with educator and philosopher Marsha Familaro Enright, founder of Reliance College and The Great ...
Getting real about overcoming imposter syndrome in motherhood, your business and everywhere in between—those moments when you’re doing the work but still hearing the whisper, “Who am I to talk about this?”
From holding space for tantrums and tween feelings to chasing dreams outside the home, this episode is a gentle call to remember that you are all the the proof you need.
Ryann shares how to balance purpose, parenting, and self-dou...
Motherhood can sometimes make us forget who we are—but it can also be the catalyst that brings us home to ourselves.
In this short but powerful Rise & Flourish series episode—recorded live at Rise & Flourish 2025 with Raising Wild Hearts guest host, Danielle Neufeld host of The Most Important Thing podcast— we explore what it means to trust your intuition, reclaim joy, and remember your wholeness after years of giving every...
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