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 life with ease.

This is not just another parenting podcast. Raising Wild Hearts is the best podcast for real-life, grounded, and expert-backed tips for raising emotionally healthy kids, communicating with more intention, breaking generational patterns, building self-trust, and creating a more peaceful, connected life at home, at work, and everywhere in between

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.

✨ Topics include: happiness, mindfulness, parenting tips, mental health for moms, 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.

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Contributors

Host

Ryann Watkin

Ryann Watkin is the host of the top 3% globally ranked Raising Wild Hearts podcast, where she explores the intersection of psychology, spirituality, parenthood, education, and personal growth. With more than a decade of experience in higher education, admissions, career counseling, and leadership, Ryann is an education and human potential advocate passionate about helping people think differently about how we learn, lead, parent, and grow.

She is also the co-founder of Rise & Flourish, a community and live experience created to support women in reconnecting with themselves while navigating motherhood, ambition, relationships, and the many seasons of becoming.

Through her conversations, writing, and community-building work, Ryann explores what it means to create meaningful generational change—while living with more presence, purpose, curiosity, and joy.

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Guests

Guest

Cam F. Awesome

Cam F. Awesome is a former Team USA boxing captain and is credited as the winningest boxer in USA Boxing history. His record includes multiple national and Golden Gloves championships. He appears in the Netflix documentary CounterPunch, and his story has been covered by ESPN, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone. Today he's a keynote speaker on building a champion mindset: self-talk, resilience, gratitude, and turning setbacks into growth. He joined Raising Wild Hearts for "Life Lessons from the Boxing Ring: Persistence, Gratitude, and Empowerment."

Guest

Dr. Anna Yusim

Dr. Anna Yusim is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in New York City and a clinical faculty appointment at Yale. She wrote Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life, published by Hachette. Her work brings together psychiatry and spirituality to help people find meaning, purpose, and lasting wellbeing. She joined Raising Wild Hearts for Happier Summer Series Part 2: "The Two Types of Happiness and the Science of Fulfillment."

Guest

Hunter Clarke-Fields

Hunter Clarke-Fields is a mindfulness mentor and the author of Raising Good Humans and Raising Good Humans Every Day. She hosts the Mindful Mama podcast, one of the top parenting podcasts, and created the Mindful Parenting course. Her work helps parents stay calm instead of reactive, communicate more kindly, and break old patterns so they can raise kind, confident kids. She joined Raising Wild Hearts for "The Art of Raising Good Humans."

Guest

Jenn Drummond

Jenn Drummond is a Guinness World Record holder and the first woman to climb the Seven Second Summits, the second-highest peak on every continent. She's a mom of seven and the author of BreakProof. She started climbing after surviving a life-threatening car accident, and her story has since been turned into a documentary. Today she speaks on resilience, grit, and going after big goals without waiting for perfect conditions. She joined Raising Wild Hearts for "Becoming BreakProof: Resilience, Grit and Overcoming Challenges."

Guest

Robert Ahdoot

Robert Ahdoot has taught math for about 20 years and founded Yay Math, a movement built on the idea that learning math can be joyful and connected instead of something to fear. He's known for tackling math anxiety head-on and for his playful classroom characters. He gave a TEDx talk on overcoming the fear of math and is an instructor for Carnegie Learning's MATHstream video program. He joined Raising Wild Hearts for "Why Some Kids Hate School (and What To Do About It) | Making Learning Feel Human Again.