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 home life, at work, and everywhere in between.
This is not just another parenting podcast. Raising Wild Hearts is the best parenting podcast for real life, grounded, and expert-backed parenting tips.
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.
The biggest change starts small in the chaos and the calm, the messy and the mundane, and most importantly, in your own heart.
Calling all cycle breakers, trailblazers, and change makers—this is Raising Wild Hearts.
✨ Topics include: happiness, mindfulness, parenting tips, 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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Raising Wild Hearts with Ryann Watkin
How to Be Confident in ANY Room with Kathryn Woods
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Today we're diving into confident communication. Kathryn Woods—a Communication Trainer and Speaking Coach with over twenty years of experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist—is here today to teach us not only public speaking tips but how to be a better communicator, how to handle a high conflict situation, and how to be confident.
Kathryn shares her journey from painfully shy child to confident communicator, revealing how our nervous system, posture, and breath affect not only how we sound — but how we feel when we speak.
Together they explore:
🌿 Why confidence follows courage — not the other way around
🌿 The real reason posture and breath change your brain chemistry
🌿 How to build communication confidence through “baby steps” and body awareness
🌿 The four nervous-system responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) — and how to find calm when you’re stuck in one
🌿 How to reset your body before high-stakes conversations
🌿 Why listening is as vital as speaking — “People aren’t really listening to you until they feel heard.”
If you’ve ever waited to “feel ready” before speaking up, this conversation will remind you that confidence is built one breath, one posture shift, one brave sentence at a time.
🎧 Tune in for the calmest, most practical communication coaching you didn’t know you needed.
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