Welcome to the Wild Heart Podcast where we explore the divinity woven into daily life, the beauty, the grief, the mystery of being alive. Through conversations with wisdom keepers, artists and seekers, we listen for the truths that crack us open and the stories that bring us home.
Wild Heart Podcast
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Welcome to the Wild Heart Podcast where we explore the divinity woven into daily life, the beauty, the grief, the mystery of being alive. Through conversations with wisdom keepers, artists and seekers, we listen for the truths that crack us open and the stories that bring us home.
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March 28, 2026
Awakening Through Partnership: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Love with devon + nico hase
<p>Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.</p><p>In this episode, I’m joined by married Buddhist teachers nico + devon hase who help couples face—and blossom in—the truth about long-term romance. nico lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming a full-time Insight Meditation teacher. devon has practiced intensively in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions of meditation and teaches at Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and more. They are co-authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess and their new book<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781649634375/thismessygorgeouslove/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> This Messy Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership</a> coming out April 14th, 2026. In their community Refuge of Belonging, they support the living Buddhist traditions in ways that feel accessible, inclusive, and deeply relevant to our complex times. For more, visit <a href="http://devonandnicohase.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">devonandnicohase.com</a></p><p><strong>Preorder their book here: </strong><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781649634375/thismessygorgeouslove/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>This Messy Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><p><br></p><p>If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to <strong>join an upcoming event with our community at </strong><a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">wildheart.space</a></p><p>Holy Lament: The Transformative Path of Loss & Longing with Mirabai Starr</p><p>A spiritual container for those ready to turn toward loss and reclaim it as something sacred in a community of companionship, creativity, and soul-deep transformation. Through the alchemy of reflective writing, poetry, shared witnessing and sacred song, we invite you to explore the healing landscape of grief in a circle of loving presence. </p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.wildheart.space/holylament" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">wildheart.space/holylament</a></p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p><strong>Connect with devon & nico:</strong> <a href="http://devonandnicohase.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">devonandnicohase.com</a></p><p>IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/devonandnicohase" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@devonandnicohase</a></p><p>Order your copy of <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781649634375/thismessygorgeouslove/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">This Messy Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership</a> today!</p><p><strong>Connect with Wild Heart:</strong><a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> wildheart.space</a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wildheartspace/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @wildheartspace</a></p><p><strong>Connect with Willow</strong> for 1:1 sessions focused on love:<a href="http://soulinvocation.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> </a><a href="https://www.willowbrook.love/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">willowbrook.love</a> </p><p>IG<a href="https://www.instagram.com/willow__brook/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @willow__brook</a></p><p><a href="https://www.lamafoundation.org/teen-mindfulness/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Teen Mindfulness Camp</strong></a><strong> with Willow</strong> at Lama Foundation July 9-12, 2026</p><p><strong>Connect with Mirabai:</strong><a href="http://mirabaistarr.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> mirabaistarr.com</a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mirabaistarr/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @mirabaistarr</a></p><p>Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart Podcast!</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/themannyfesto/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@themannyfesto</a></p><p><a href="http://playmultitudes.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">playmultitudes.com</a></p><p><br></p>
December 13, 2025
The Womb of Love: Feminine Wisdom & Embodied Islam
<p>Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I’m joined by Omid Safi, beloved teacher and scholar of Islamic spirituality. Together, we explore <strong>feminine wisdom at the heart of Islam, embodied spirituality and the role of sexuality, and the way love rises to meet us,</strong> especially in seasons of grief and collective unraveling. We speak of <strong>women as carriers of spiritual lineage, </strong>of <strong>radical love</strong> as taught by <strong>Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.</strong>, and the intertwined nature of love, spirituality, and the human experience.</p><p><br></p><p>Omid Safi is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. A leading Muslim public intellectual, Omid is committed to the intersection of spirituality and social justice.</p><p>Omid has published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (published by Yale). </p><p>Omid is also deeply committed to liberationist prophetic traditions in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Rabbi Heschel, and Malcolm X. He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for today’s America, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote in the annual national MLK service.</p><p>Omid often appears as an expert on Islam in the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, BBC, CNN and other outlets. He is a recent columnist for On Being, and now has a podcast (“Sufi Heart”) at Be Here Now. His <a href="https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/tours"><u>Illuminated Tours</u></a> have taken more than a 1,000 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey and Morocco since 2002, and he is now offering <a href="https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/"><u>Illuminated Courses</u></a> for online offerings on spiritual traditions open to seekers of all backgrounds.</p><p><br></p><p>If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to <strong>join an upcoming event with our community at </strong><a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store"><u>wildheart.space</u></a></p><p>Holy Lament: The Transformative Path of Loss & Longing with Mirabai Starr</p><p>A spiritual container for those ready to turn toward loss and reclaim it as something sacred in a community of companionship, creativity, and soul-deep transformation. Through the alchemy of reflective writing, poetry, shared witnessing and sacred song, we invite you to explore the healing landscape of grief in a circle of loving presence. </p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.wildheart.space/holylament"><u>wildheart.space/holylament</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><u>Links:</u></p><p>Connect with Omid: <a href="http://www.illuminatedcourses.com"><u>www.illuminatedcourses.com</u></a></p><p>IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/"><u>@brotheromid</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/books">Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition</a> Translated and Edited by Omid Safi</p><p><a href="https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/books"><u>Omid’s books</u></a></p><p>Connect with Wild Heart:<a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store"> <u>wildheart.space</u></a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wildheartspace/"> <u>@wildheartspace</u></a></p><p>Connect with Willow for 1:1 sessions focused on love:<a href="http://soulinvocation.com"> <u></u></a><a href="https://www.willowbrook.love/"><u>willowbrook.love</u></a><u> </u></p><p>IG<a href="https://www.instagram.com/willow__brook/"> <u>@willow__brook</u></a></p><p>Connect with Mirabai:<a href="http://mirabaistarr.com"> <u>mirabaistarr.com</u></a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mirabaistarr/"> <u>@mirabaistarr</u></a></p><p>Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart Podcast!</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/themannyfesto/"><u>@themannyfesto</u></a></p><p><a href="http://playmultitudes.com"><u>playmultitudes.com</u></a></p><p><br></p>
October 31, 2025
Grief's Wild Invitation with Naila Francis
<p>Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.</p><p><br></p><p>I am so excited to welcome grief coach and poet Naila Francis to explore <strong>honoring loss as a pathway to living with more depth, authenticity and daring.</strong> In our conversation, Naila shares about her personal grief journey and we emphasize the importance of community support, embracing joy amidst sorrow, honoring all forms of grief, including the loss of relationships and pets, and the necessity of resourcing ourselves when tending grief. </p><p><br></p><p>Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an ordained interfaith minister, a poet, and an accomplished writer. As the founder of <a href="https://www.thishallowedwilderness.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">This Hallowed Wilderness</a>, she helps people transform their relationship to grief and loss through one-on-one coaching, workshops, presentations, rituals and community grief tending. Naila is also a co-founder of <a href="https://www.salttrailsphilly.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Salt Trails</a>, a Philadelphia collective <strong>normalizing grief through community rituals</strong>, and a recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art + Change Grant, as well as a Joyful Abundance Emerging Artist Commissioning Award. A former journalist, Naila profiled dozens of artists and entertainers such as Brandi Carlile, k.d. lang, Pink, Bobby McFerrin, and Yoko Ono during her career. She found her way to the vocation of companioning others through grief and dying after suffering several personal losses in her own life, including the death of her father in 2012.</p><p>Since the death of her father, poetry has been a steady companion in Naila's life. A longtime writer who had penned her own poems and delighted in the words of other poets for years, she discovered that with this gaping absence in her life, poetry became a vital balm. Whether writing or reading poems, this creative practice allows her to open up to parts of herself, and to emotions, that can be challenging to access in a world that turns away from grief.</p><p>Her poetry album, "<a href="https://paulitomuse.hearnow.com/wonder-unsung" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Wonder Unsung</a>," a collaboration with guitarist and producer Paulito Muse, is available on multiple streaming platforms.</p><p>We are honored to have Naila woven into our Holy Lament offerings with Naila’s Poetry Cove where she offers selected poems, personal reflections, meditations and writing prompts and to have her beautiful presence in our world!</p><p>Subscribe to Naila's newsletter: <a href="https://nailafrancis.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nailafrancis.substack.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to <strong>join an upcoming event with our community at </strong><a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">wildheart.space</a></p><p>Holy Lament: The Transformative Path of Loss & Longing with Mirabai Starr</p><p>A spiritual container for those ready to turn toward loss and reclaim it as something sacred in a community of companionship, creativity, and soul-deep transformation. Through the alchemy of reflective writing, poetry, shared witnessing and sacred song, we invite you to explore the healing landscape of grief in a circle of loving presence. </p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.wildheart.space/holylament" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">wildheart.space/holylament</a></p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p>Connect with Naila: <a href="http://thishallowedwilderness.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">thishallowedwilderness.com</a></p><p>IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thishallowedwilderness/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@thishallowedwildnerness</a></p><p>Connect with Wild Heart:<a href="https://www.wildheart.space/store" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> wildheart.space</a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wildheartspace/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @wildheartspace</a></p><p>Connect with Willow for 50% off 1:1 sessions before 2026:<a href="http://soulinvocation.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> </a><a href="https://www.willowbrook.love/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">willowbrook.love</a> </p><p>IG<a href="https://www.instagram.com/willow__brook/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @willow__brook</a></p><p>Connect with Mirabai:<a href="http://mirabaistarr.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> mirabaistarr.com</a></p><p>IG:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mirabaistarr/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> @mirabaistarr</a></p><p>Thank you to the amazing Manny Fassihi for editing the Wild Heart Podcast!</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/themannyfesto/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@themannyfesto</a></p><p><a href="http://playmultitudes.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">playmultitudes.com</a></p><p><br></p>
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