Send us a text my lovely wife, joylily, is an enneagram #2 ("the helper") through & through. wherever she goes (which, geographically speaking, has been all over). her loving support of the people in her life was one of the biggest factors in not-so-slowly falling in love with who she is, nearly a decade ago. along with her constant desire to pursue adventure & ability to bring light to dark places, it's easy to admire so many things about her. for me, she is the chaos to my ord...

Send us a text it's funny looking back now, having grown up in so many of the same circles (youth group, friend groups, etc.), & only after officially meeting a couple years back realizing just how much collin & i have in common. & yet, beyond similar childhood experiences, overlapping tastes in music, and shared beliefs/interests, there is something absolutely unique at the core of my friend...and that's exactly what we get to dig into this episode. just like co-working on a musi...

Send us a text my very FIRST "bouquet episode!" 💐 (the idea being inspired by kevin, my brother in law, who makes up 1/2 of this episodes' guests!) trust me when i say that it has always been a dream to have these two on this podcast...at the time i started this project, my sister and brother in law, melanie & kevin, were still living in germany waiting oh so patiently for kevin's green card to go through...a process that from the time they were married, would be a total of 26 mont...

Send us a text with my friend scott, who is a lawyer, you have to put all the usual lawyer jokes aside…cause if there’s one thing that makes him stand out from the usual bunch (or more so the lawyer stereotype), it’s the amount of heart he brings to the table. i’ve always walked away from conversation with scott feeling enlightened & this one is no exception! we deep dive aspects of scott’s life that play into his uncanny ability to pick up on people/vibes, his “better call saul” origin s...

Send us a text life is a process. & yet, somehow, so is death. everyday we live, we exist in the tension between the two…for every breath, we die a little more. poets, theologians, songwriters, philosophers of every sort alike have tried to put words to this experience that we all know deep in our very bones. & still, there is so much unknown & so many questions to be asked. i think of child loss…for me, having had lost our firstborn oliver at just 2 days old, it came as a ...

Send us a text ya know, sometimes for the sake of reminiscing, it’s easy to get lost in nostalgia or looking back on days passed as “the glory days..." however, rarely has that been the case when i look back at the last half of my life in light of one of my closest & best friends, because though the past (with so many good times!) has given context, our present tense friendship has always been in focus. 👀 ian & i are like brothers. we’ve been friends since we were around 15 (like, ju...

Send us a text well, i'm back & it feels sooooooo good! 🌻 it's been...a year. yes, since last season, but also, this year, man...it has held A LOT! so, like a couple friends catching up over a cup of *insert preferred beverage,* this episode is a quick life update, for both myself & a handful of season 1 guests, sharing the goal & mission statement of our brand new house + studio space (yay!) & "sonder"--a word on the heart-space this season is built around. last season i (s...

Send us a text the wildflowers podcast has been so so good to me (& hopefully to you as well)! 🌻 i’ve been wanting to do some kind of “wrap-up” episode, reflecting on the goodness of this project, a dig into each episode released thus far & where i’m going from here now that season one has officially ended...so, here it is! season 1 = 10 episodes. 6 guests. & about 10 hours worth of content/conversations. with more to come in season 2…💛 photo by: kayla (episode one guest!) thi...

Send us a text if you’re willing to pay attention, there’s often something beautiful waiting in the mundane right in front of you…like a barista at the local coffee shop who becomes a friend?! my friend zion is a bright spot to anyone who knows him, & not just because he is instantly friendly to anyone & everyone that walks into the coffeeshop or because he has such an upbeat outlook on life…it’s something deeper. in fact, underneath an exterior of skateboarding &am...

Send us a text my wife joylily & i have grown very close to our friend ik (pronounced “ee-kuh”) the last several months—& not just because she lives in our upstairs lol 👀. we are like family & it's so so good to be here for each other, esp. because ik has been in an extremely challenging season of life for almost 3 years now—one that's hard to wrap the head around let alone the heart…she is here in the states & her husband, lemuel, is in colombia (where ik is originally from)....