Choosing Joy Over Chaos: The Art of Becoming with Heather Wilde
Have you ever had someone show up in your life so many times in one week that you just know the universe is up to something? That’s how Heather Wilde arrived for both of us—first as a name we kept hearing, then as a woman whose presence felt like she’d always been in our circle. In this episode, we talk with Heather about the big, holy leap she took from a stable teaching career into the vulnerable world of memoir, boutique publishing, and soul-led art… all guided by intuition, spirit, and a deep desire to help others tell their stories.
Heather shares how a hospice patient’s final wish to become a published author quietly launched Hesi Mae, her publishing house, and how her work has grown to include a monthly art club, a heart-centered podcast, and an upcoming book connected to George Floyd’s legacy. We explore what it means to follow the breadcrumbs, to regulate our nervous systems instead of living on chaos and cortisol, and to embrace a season of “wintering” before the next big chapter unfolds. This conversation is an invitation to trust your timing, honor your story, and believe that joy—and creative work that feels like you—isn’t just possible, it’s your birthright.
“I realized I could be all the parts of myself—and the world wouldn’t fall apart.”
In this episode, we cover:
00:00 – Meeting Heather, the human who arrived like a ripple
02:28 – The moment her name kept showing up everywhere
06:10 – Leaving teaching + the intuitive cliff dive
08:58 – The hospice book that changed everything
13:21 – Claiming the Hesi May identity
22:18 – Scarcity, abundance, and the courage to expand
31:23 – Regulating the nervous system + the power of doing nothing
48:29 – The birth of the Monthly Art Club
56:09 – The George Floyd book: a friendship, a legacy
01:04:22 – Wintering and the season of rest
01:07:03 – Why her podcast, Starting Some Ripples, matters
Learn More about Heather
Website: HezzieMae.com
Podcast: Startin’ Some Ripples
Hey Heart and Soul Collective!
There are people who slip quietly into your life, and then there are the ones who arrive like a ripple you didn’t see coming—soft at first, but undeniable. A name you hear once, then twice, then suddenly ten times in a single week. A person who makes you wonder, how the heck did I not know you before now!
We met Heather Wilde through different portals—art, board work, book conversations, spirit nudges—but the moment she stepped into our orbit, she never stepped back out. And honestly? We wouldn’t have it any other way.
Heather isn’t just a publisher. She isn’t just an artist. She isn’t just a creator or a healer or a woman building something brave from scratch. She’s all those things PLUS is the kind of human who brings both storm and stillness. Ferocity and softness. “Female badass energy,” as we said in the episode… times ten.
And in this conversation, she let us into the season she’s in right now: the wintering, the unraveling, the rebuilding, the quiet rebellion of choosing joy and nervous system peace over the dopamine chaos we all know too well.
Her story is a reminder of what happens when you leap before the net appears—and how sometimes the leap is the first moment you realize you even deserved a net at all.
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