with my friend scott (who has years under his belt in law), you have to put the 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 t...

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 t...

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 c...

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 q...

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 & whe...

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, &a...

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. becaus...

a small portion of dapo & i's convo from a while back that didn't quite make the cut for the main episode, but that was still too good not to share! 🖤

trigger warning: suicide & other subjects surrounding death & all his friendsthis one is heavy. in this second part of jesse & i's conversation, we are looking for the goodness of god out on the frontlines of life, somewhere...

trigger warning: suicide & other subjects surrounding death & all his friendsif we are being honest, life more often than not feels like being down in the trenches.  so, we all need a brother-in-arms...one of those "in it f...

at times, it can be so tempting to chase title & recognition or to split hairs over differences, but what if what we really want is to know & be known? even with a few years between us, my good friend/mentor dapo & i ha...

trigger warning: suicideto have a blooming friendship with a fellow artist is so inspiring...even more so when you mutually respect each other's work & truly appreciate the heart behind it. zach has quickly become a close friend of ...

pandemic wildflowers, living with a ghost, carl jung's "shadow" & narnia are all topics my sweet friend kayla & i dive into in this episode. really, no topic is safe...bouncing between the light & the dark, the beautiful & the h...

welcome to the wildflowers podcast!this intro episode serves to give you an idea of 1. who i am (hence the "identity" bit in the title) & 2. my goal in this series aka to have & record a conversation with a beautifully, uniquely...