22. On The Track

After nearly three years away, I’m back to the mic with a rebirth and recommitment to claiming the title of Artist in my life. I share honestly about falling off track, the difficult seasons that came with it, and the powerful devotion that brought me home again. This episode is an invitation to witness my journey — and to feel inspired to return to your own deepest path, no matter how far you’ve strayed.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.

Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.

This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.

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About Alexis:

Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.

From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.

Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.

And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

TRANSCRIPT

All right. Welcome back! Maybe welcome for the first time. If you have seen or heard episodes before this one, you'll maybe have noticed that many of them were from several years ago and. I'm back and it feels good. And. To claim. A title in our lives is so. Powerful and the title I claim is artist, and that includes speaking to you here, and it definitely includes making the gorgeous devotional work I create and includes inviting you to witness me in the.

Opening and doing the receiving and in? One thing at a time. One thing at a time steps. And it includes being imperfect. It includes leaving that mistake in this recording that I just made and. It also includes looking at. Where I have gone off track and the last episode before.

This one was in 2022. Almost three years ago from now. And. Yesterday, I was collating. For an artist's resume, all of the exhibits I've been part of, and all the different projects. And there is a many, many year Gap. From about 2019. To 2023. And. What I think about that?

It feels like man, why, why, why? And I can feel. A bit of Shame. A bit of guilt. And my body feels a little heavy in my shoulder, as it feels like. Some grief, some sadness for? That many years of? Not being in Devotion to? Artist to being creative to being.

Witnessed by you in this. Not everybody wants to be. As public as I. But for me to have gone so many years. Without this type of sharing. I feel. Intrigued and curious and really alive. To notice where I got off track and to? Put those 21 podcast episodes back up.

Finally, build an online shop where people can pay me for things I make. And to hit record again and to be. A human person in life, striving for things because I know with absolute certainty that they're mine. And. What's cool about being on a track? Is the track will stay there for us?

The track will stay there. And so, if we run off of track? Maybe we were distracted by something else that seems beautiful? Maybe we have to do some caretaking? Whatever gets us off the track. This track will always be there. My desire to deeply sink into? The role of artists as title in my life has always been there.

If you would have asked me seven years ago, what do you want to master in your life? I would have said being an artist. And. I can look back. And look at all the different things that pulled me off the track. Gosh, so many things. So many things. Starting different companies.

Writing different events that had nothing to do with my mission. And. When I look at those many years of of being off track? I can see that. There was still a bit of a weaving in there. A bit of a whispering of, hey, this thing, still important. But other things became so much bigger.

It was really, really. Interesting is when I look at that Gap. That Gap directly correlates to the most difficult times of my life. Times when I was calling suicide helplines times when I? Couldn't parent. Well, times when I was so disconnected times where I was losing friends. Times where?

I didn't even want to be here. And it's interesting to look at that. And to just wonder just to just to ponder. If I wouldn't have gone off the track? Would that have happened? Or is it because I was off the track? And allows all of those things to happen.

That are able to feel so much strength in my conviction to stay devoted now. Because I've gotten to experience how painful it is to be off the track. The. Might not be easy. It might be incredibly challenging. The, when it's the race that we are meant to run when it is our deep passion when it is our purpose.

The track will always feel better. They're running through some random field. Always. And. As I share with you more of my. Heart and my lessons and my offerings again and. Lean into vulnerability and lean into asking and leaning to showing. I'm excited to. Hit record again and be in your ear every week and listen to your stories back.

It was. Such a gift and such a surprise. In my first round of this podcast that people anticipated this every week. And. I think. The magic. A human voice. Is that we are able to connect story to story? I can share with you. Hey, this was painful. And now, it's not.

This was a challenge, and I got through it. And then, I think. When you hit those challenges too. It doesn't feel so alone. And then you get to have your own experience of. Oh, this was painful, and now it's not. And that's really magical. And so thank you for listening to this.

Rebirth relaunch. This commitment to utter devotion. To Artistry and? The claiming of the title of artist in my life includes. This filed permission. This podcast this. Opening. And it includes. Being in my permission. So, you feel more inspired bit by bit to stay in yours. And that's what it's about.

Wild permission. And we've always had it, but I feel really honored to get to remind you. It's good to remind you that you've always had it. To thank you. Even in the times when we're off track. We can get back, and thanks for being here. I hope you feel blessed.