Welcome to Raising Wild

This is a podcast about raising kids—and ourselves—a little more feral. On purpose.

In this short trailer, host Ashley Arnold introduces Raising Wild, a new podcast from Wild Idea Media about childhood, nature, freedom, risk and the wild parts of ourselves we don’t want to lose.

Through conversations with writers, scientists, educators, adventurers, leaders, athletes and parents, Raising Wild explores how we give kids a wilder, more connected childhood in the world we actually live in—and how we reclaim it for ourselves—so we can take risks, think independently, and love, value and protect the wild places that shape us.

In this trailer, Ashley introduces the big questions behind Raising Wild:

• How do we give kids more freedom, courage and connection in a world that often feels too structured, too digital and too rushed?
• How do we reclaim wonder, risk, independence and time outside for ourselves?
• And how do we raise people who are capable of navigating complexity, thinking independently and protecting the wild places that shape us?

Coming Up

The first full episode launches in two weeks with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and the forthcoming NOTICING: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World. In that conversation, Ashley and Richard talk about childhood, technology, awe, attention, nature connection and why learning to notice the living world around us may be one of the most important things we can practice.

As Louv says in the episode coming out July 8: “Nothing was ever protected that wasn’t loved. And nothing is loved if it’s not noticed.”

Subscribe to Raising Wild today and follow along as the first season begins.