the wildflowers

will young

an indy-based indie podcast of interview-style conversations hosted by will young...feat. friends & flowers alike 🌻🌞🌿

  1. joylily young: "nomadic: burrowing the roots of home into hearts"

    12/05/2025

    joylily young: "nomadic: burrowing the roots of home into hearts"

    Send us Fan Mail 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 order (that's positive, believe me). the beauty of our home. the mother to our sweet children (3 present and 1 on the other side of this life). we have been through so much together...ya know, only making this one of the most loaded and also most daunting episodes. how do you take a step back & even try to convey the essence of someone so dear to you, that you literally wake up next to every morning, in a measly 2 hours of a podcast? well, this is my attempt at just that. :) for being someone so nomadic, with an uncanny ability to pick up, leave & go where being lead almost effortlessly, it has been so beautiful seeing firsthand the fruit of joy's putting roots down. these days, she embodies "grow where you are planted." i want that to be an encouragement to you, the listener, to really dig in where you are right now...hard as it may be, you are here for a reason 💛   Support the show any & all support is so so appreciated!  peace. -will follow the wildflowers podcast over on instagram intro music by yours truly at the young band

    2h 10m
  2. melanie & kevin miller: “transplanted: in-between the waiting & leaps of faith”

    11/07/2025

    melanie & kevin miller: “transplanted: in-between the waiting & leaps of faith”

    Send us Fan Mail 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 months. it. felt. like. FOREVER. in this episode, naturally, we forage (wink) the goodness on the trail of their relationship: from a conversation i had with melanie in a parking lot about a german guy she met online who wanted to visit (a protective older brother's worst nightmare lol 👀), how a worldwide pandemic couldn't keep them a part (i mean, c'mon! perfect romcom material, right?), to them leaving their home just miles away from the black forest to settling in & finding new rhythms here in the states since arriving in early 2024…all that to say, dream fulfilled! a note: i have spoken with sooooo many friends recently who are waiting on something...a breakthrough, a change (in job, a relationship, etc.), a dream. if that's you, take hope. 💛 Support the show any & all support is so so appreciated!  peace. -will follow the wildflowers podcast over on instagram intro music by yours truly at the young band

    1h 56m
  3. taylor logsdon: "roots: a life, a death & being born again"

    11/22/2024

    taylor logsdon: "roots: a life, a death & being born again"

    Send us Fan Mail 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 shock (to put it lightly) when not even a year and a half after our loss we got the call that our good friend taylor had lost her sweet little boy elijah—who was only 5 at the time—in a car accident. 💔 heads up, because this is not an easy one…in this episode, nearly 5 years after her loss, taylor & i discuss her story. taylor so graciously & bravely retreads her life, from growing up, working through faith & doubts alongside jesus, having a little boy enter her life & dramatically change it, his traumatic exit from this earth & the journey to get to where she is now. there is such a beauty here in taylor’s story…one of roots put down to hold firm. one of life, death & even of rebirth.  a word: loss. it’s a touchy subject for many. whether you have or not (yet), it is something we will ALL have to become familiar with. if you’ve lost, i see you & i am so sorry for your loss…& if you haven’t, let this episode give you insight to those around you who have…lead with love. listen. & be. 💛 Support the show any & all support is so so appreciated!  peace. -will follow the wildflowers podcast over on instagram intro music by yours truly at the young band

    2h 4m

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an indy-based indie podcast of interview-style conversations hosted by will young...feat. friends & flowers alike 🌻🌞🌿