Hello Universe
Welcome to the Hello Universe podcast. We’re your hosts, Kyley and Eva—two spiritual besties obsessed with weird, trippy conversations and stories that make us feel alive in our human mess. If you want to expand your mind, open your heart, and feel better about life, you’re in the right place.
How Eva finally decided NOT to have kids - With Kyley and Eva
Eva’s spent years wrestling with one of the most loaded questions in a woman’s life: Do I actually want kids? In this episode, she finally names her answer—not from pressure or panic, but from a deep exhale that arrived when her real life (and real relationship) reflected the truth she’d been circling for years. She and Kyley trace the grief, conditioning, cultural expectations, plant medicine visions, and tiny moments of clarity that led her to choose a childfree path—and the freedom, tenderness, and community that decision opens up.
What we cover in this episo...
Returning Home to Our Bodies with Abigail Rose Clarke
Abigail Rose Clarke is a somatic teacher and author whose work invites people back into honest relationship with their bodies, and the world around them.
Abigail speaks about somatics in a way that’s refreshingly un-branded. She reminds us that the body isn’t a self-improvement project but a whole ecosystem that includes our relationships, histories, communities, and the ground beneath our feet.
🌿 What We Talk About
🌱 Living in the Ecotone
Abigail’s discovery of the term ecotone—the meeting place between ecosystems—and how it mirrors the emotional edge where grief and joy can exist...
Love is the Answer with Eduardo Rombauer
This week, Eva and Kyley sit down with Eduardo Rombauer, a Brazilian “soul scientist,” activist, and healer whose work begins and ends with love — not as an idea, but as a living force.
Once a political organizer trying to change the world from the outside, Eduardo now guides others in what he calls “the revolution of the heart.” He believes that love is both our original nature and our most advanced technology — and that remembering it is the real work of our time.
Eduardo’s work is about finding those barriers and learning to stay with them — no...
Spiritual Labels in Real-Life Relationships
In this week’s listener Q&A, Eva and Kyley unpack a deceptively simple question:
"Do you resonate with the idea of “emotionally immature” people, or the framework of “old souls” vs “younger souls”? Sometimes these labels help me soften toward challenging people in my life (like parents, in-laws, or bosses). Other times, I worry they’re just ways to avoid looking at my own patterns.
So my bigger question is: when you’re in relationships that really test you, do you find frameworks like this useful? Or are they just the mind trying to control things?"<...
Joy & Grief in Resistance with Shahem
In this heart-opening conversation, we sit down with Shahem - Black queer therapist, content creator, and community organizer whose work bridges grief, joy, and resistance.
Together we explore how to grieve in a culture that doesn’t make space for loss, how joy can be a radical practice of survival, and how resistance can look like choosing authenticity when the world wants you numb. This episode is a reminder that balance is about staying connected to ourselves and each other through it all.
In this episode we explore:
✨ Grief as more than death—why losing a...
Love Without Self-Abandonment with Susan V
In this episode, we sit down with Susan V, Eva's dear friend and facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, to discuss how to stay connected to yourself — in conflict, in love, and when you’re single.
They unpack how shame turns into perfectionism, how to take responsibility without collapsing into guilt, and making peace with being single. Susan shares how she released the idea that love would “save” her, and how that shift made space for her to stay connected to herself when she found herself in a loving relationship.
This episode is for anyone wh...
How to surrender AND commit to your dreams!
In this week’s episode, we dig into the paradox at the heart of the spiritual path: how to surrender to life’s unfolding while still staying fiercely committed to your dreams.
This conversation was sparked by a listener question that felt so alive for both of us right now:
"Hello universe. I keep circling around the same dilemma. How do I balance surrender with my own will and desires? I have clear dreams for my life and business, and I feel called to pursue them, but how do I know when I'm gripping too tigh...
How to Feel Empowered Instead of Hopeless
We’re back for Season 6 of Hello Universe! 🎉
We kick off this season with a listener question so many are asking:
”Every time I open the news, I feel like I'm hit with another wave of heartbreak. Part of me wants to stay awake and engaged, but another part of me just feels so tired. But then I turn away to preserve my sense of self and protect joy, and I feel guilty and maybe irresponsible. How do you hold hope in a moment that feels so dark? How do I find the balance in a moment l...
Welcome to Season 6!
Welcome back to season six of Hello Universe. We have been working together all summer to improve the show and bring you topics we think you will love to make this truly, I think what is going to be the most epic season ever!
Kyley’s Adoption Story - With Kyley and Eva
Kyley opens up about a story she never tells.
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Anti-Capitalist Abundance with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener
This week is a deep dive on money, anti-capitalism, and ethical business with artist and author Sarah Faith Gottesdiener.
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Love and Limits with Melody Beattie
Melody Beatty wrote a number of really important books, including most famously Codependent No More, and she actually passed away in February of 2025, which makes this really moving interview so much sweeter. I am happy for you to get a chance to experience some of her warmth and honesty and courage.
Bestselling author Melody Beattie comes on the show to teach us about codependency, loving yourself more than others, setting limits, and generally being a badass.
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Kyley Has a Drug-Free Psychedelic Trip, Part 2
What does it all mean & spiritual awakening. Kyley has a drug free psychedelic trip. She trips on “mushrooms”—without taking any drugs Eva and Kyley dissect what the hell happened
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EVA IS IN LOVE
In this deeply personal and vulnerable conversation, Eva is pulling back the curtain on her relationship with her partner, Tom, an incredibly special and unique human by all accounts. He’s also the man she once had on a spiritual pedestal, who also happens to be 26 years older than her, a wildly private human. In other words… not your average “how we met” story.
In this conversation with Kyley, Eva spill’s on all the odd and beautiful circumstances that come with their love — from navigating projections (“isn’t that the cliché of the teacher dating the student?”) to dism...
Loving people, When it's Hard
This episode is an honest look at difficult relationships in all their paradoxical glory. It will touch anyone navigating complex family dynamics, caregiving, inner conflict, or the slow, radical return to self.
Eva opens up about the intense push-pull dynamic with her mother—someone who is mentally ill, disabled, and fiercely challenging, yet also one of the people she loves most in the world. From the tropical beauty of Brazil to the ancestral weight of being back in Taiwan, Eva unpacks the spiritual and emotional reckoning of caretaking, resentment, cultural expectations, mortality, and what love actually asks of u...
Sunsets in Life's Parking Lot with Diana Harper
One of Eva's favorite conversations from last year! We sat down with Diana Harper—relational astrologer, poet of the cosmos, and philosophical firestarter—to explore a radically different take on healing, belonging, and what it means to be in true relationship.
This isn’t a conversation about “doing the work” in isolation. It’s a remembrance of your interconnectedness with everything: your ancestors (yes, even the weird ones), your neighborhood spiders, the trees on your block, the grief in your belly, the granite boulders in your backyard.
We explore:
Diana’s definition of h...
You’re Going to Die with Ned Buskirk
This week, we’re bringing you a deeply real, wildly tender conversation with Ned Buskirk — founder of You’re Going to Die — an artist, grief guide, and all-around wise soul who is not afraid to look directly into the darkness… and still choose love.
Together we dive into:
How grief work can be healing — but also a sneaky trap for self-worth
The quiet ways life tries to harden us, and how to stay (or become) soft
Parenthood as a portal to awe, heartbreak, and presence
What it means to dissolve the...
How to Feel Safe and Loved with Amma Thanasanti
In this very special episode, we sit down with Eva’s personal mentor of two years, Amma Thanasanti. Formerly living as a fully ordained Buddhist nun for 28 years, today Amma guides others in the path of embodied awakening—bringing together deep meditation, nervous system repair, and attachment healing to help people feel truly safe, seen, and at home in themselves.
Through Amma’s stories—including an unbelievable near-death encounter with a bear—this conversation explores the ways early attachment wounds shape our nervous systems, how safety can be reclaimed through somatic practices, and how reimagining our origin stories ca...
Eva’s Epic Road Trip
Two years ago, Eva packed up her life in Portland, left a breakup in the rearview mirror, and hit the open road to start over in Austin, Texas… solo. What followed was an epic road trip, equal parts grief, healing, awe, and badassery. In this reissued episode, Eva shares the behind-the-scenes of that transitional season—one where everything was falling apart, and somehow also coming together better than she ever could’ve planned.
It’s summer. People are road-tripping. Maybe you’re also in a season of upheaval. Maybe you're grieving, starting over, or wondering if it's possible f...
Anger that Is an invitation with Ellen Wong
What does it mean to hold the unbearable complexities of the world without shutting down or lashing out?
In this rich, heartfelt conversation, Eva and Kyley sit down with Ellen Wong, entheogenic death companion and host of the Mum podcast, to explore how we can stay present with grief, righteous anger, and the impossible paradoxes of life.
Together, we grapple with questions like:
How do we show up when the world is on fire?How do we stay human when social media, activism, and politics feel polarized and violent?Is it possible to hold b...Do we really have a choice? with Victoria Jane
This episode got meaty & esoteric fast. We wound up discussing free will and the grace of choicelessness with the brilliant and wise Victoria Jane.
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Free Your Inner Teen with Kelly Mahalak
This show is brought to you by our inner teenagers. With surprise and delight, we wound up reminiscing about the 90s, reveling in fashion-as-play and power, and generally invited our inner teen selves to run the show this week.
Kelly -
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Season Finale: Death, Snacks, and Action Hero Accessories
It’s the Season 5 finale(!) and we’re celebrating by asking each other some big, weird, and delicious questions, including:
-End-of-life wishes
-What our teenage selves needed to hear
-The worst snack food
-Our super-hero figurine selves, and what they are bringing into battle
✨ Plus, all summer long we’re re-releasing some of our most beloved episodes—so whether you’re new here or a longtime listener, there’s magic coming your way. Meanwhile, we're scheming up BIG things for the fall, so stay tuned.
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Screaming into the Void with Cara Lai
This week, dharma teacher Cara Lai joins us on the show to explore the misunderstood power of yin (or feminine) energy—and what it really means to do less without abandoning yourself.
We cover rest, rage, spiritual bypassing, chronic illness, and the sacred art of screaming in the woods and putting our boulders down.
Also: why Ali Wong is the medicine for us all.
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Spiritual FOMO with Kyley and Eva
What if you don’t see anything when you meditate? What if your intuition doesn’t show up the way everyone says it’s supposed to?
This week, we answer a question from Spiritual FOMO—someone who’s craving a deeper connection to their intuition but feels stuck when it comes to visualization.Re: intuition.
If you’ve ever felt like the only one not “seeing things” during meditation or wondered whether you’re doing it wrong—you’re not alone.
Dear Eva and Kyley,
I keep hearing people talk about how powerful visualiza...
Q&A- Can I truly love myself and still want to look hotter? with Kyley and Eva
Can you truly love your body and still want to change it?
This week, we answer a listener question from someone who deeply loves herself… but also kinda wants to change it.
Does getting Botox or hitting the gym mean you’ve sold out your self-love? Is there room for both radical acceptance and the desire to feel even hotter?
We dig into vanity, desire, body politics, and why self-love doesn’t have to mean self-stagnation.
Re: body image:
Hi Eva and Kyley! I love your show and here’s my questio...
Astrology Isn’t the Boss of You with Sofia Adler
What happens when astrology starts to feel like a rigid set of rules, instead of a tool for self-discovery? Sofia Adler joins us to talk about how astrology can create anxiety instead of insight, and how it can become a box we feel stuck inside, rather than a relationship to ourselves and the stars that we are living. Sofia also shares about her current work with Emotion Code and energy work, and how it’s changing everything for her. If you've ever felt afraid of Mercury Retrograde or trapped by your birth chart, this one's for you.
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Embracing Change with Ellen Polishuk
This week one of Kyley's dearest friends, Ellen Polishuk, joins the show, and we bob and weave through discussions of connection, vulnerability, friendship--and plants!
Ellen
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Money & the Fawn Response
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Is Eva Too Rigid? - With Kyley and Eva
This week, Eva brings a vulnerable and relatable truth to the table: she’s been struggling with the belief that she’s too rigid—too controlling, too particular, too unwilling to let go. Maybe you’ve had that inner voice too: Why can’t I just chill? Why do I care so much? Why can’t I just go with the flow like everyone else? But once we started pulling on that thread, things got interesting. This conversation is part therapy session, part spiritual detective work, and part reclaiming of the fiercely protective parts of ourselves. If you’ve ever been call...
How to Feel Powerful - Part 2 with Kyley and Eva
This week, our conversation about power takes us on a wild ride. We explore:
• What we’re trying to be powerful about (and why)
• How real power feels in the body and heart
• Why power and surrender might actually be the same thing, or at the very least connected
• and what becomes possible when we stop grasping and start allowing
Plus: a fiery little detour into the systems of cruelty we’re witnessing in American politics, what it means to stay powerful living within them, and the difference between power and control.
This on...
How To Feel Pleasure with Kyley and Eva
Why does pleasure feel so scary sometimes?
Why do we crave it—and then push it away?
In this episode, we’re diving deep into the paradox of pleasure: why it’s often the thing we most want and most resist. We explore how pleasure isn’t just about indulgence—it’s a spiritual practice, a doorway to presence, and even a tool for ego dissolution.
Some of the questions we ask:
• What does it really mean to let ourselves feel pleasure, instead of chasing it?
• Why might pleasure be the thing we’ve been...
How to Feel Powerful - part I
Power is complicated—often seeming like a thing people used to hurt others.
But as we discover this week, the truth of power is, for Kyley & Eva, actually tied to silly fun and creative expression.
How can we tell the difference and how can we step into power that is generous?
FIREBRAND 🔥
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Enter Your Villain Era
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Robot Overlords, The Environment, And AI
This week Kyley and Eva talk about AI:
- Eva's resistance and Kyley's exploration
- How we're adopting AI into our lives and why
- Ethical complexities of ChatGPT
- What even *is* sentience and will we have sex with robots (the answer is yes)
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Hope is for Dopes
Enter Your Villain Era
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Am I a spiritual cliche?
This week on Hello, Universe Eva and Kyley discuss:
➖ The challenge of owning and sharing your spiritual work and lifestyle without fear of being a cliche
➖ The tension between authenticity and social expectations
➖ Letting go of external validation and trusting your own lived experience
➖ The freedom that comes from embracing who you are—without fear or the need to prove anything
Love is the power, Brazil
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Enter Your Villain Era
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The Art of Being BOTHERED with Kyley & Eva
This week:
➖Eva gets fidgety and bothered on a mushroom trip, and tries to play it cool.
➖The goddess Kali, raw and wild and without restraint, pours into our conversation
➖We discuss fawning, the pain of having needs, the sensitivity of embodying divine feminine and
➖The dual truth: you are deeply, deeply good and it’s okay to be bad
Plus, trees and birds and skinny dipping
Love is the power, Brazil
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Enter Your Villain Era
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Kyley and Eva- Managing the Manager & When Fear and Excitement are the Same Thing
Love is the power, Brazil
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Eva's Back- Surrendering to resistance
Love is the power, Brazil
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Leadership in Turning Times with Emily Nachazel
Emily Nachazel joins us on the show to talk messy emotions and self-love in motherhood and answering the call to leadership in this moment.
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From Fundamentalist Cult to the Goddess with Alicia Nelson
In this episode, Alicia Nelson shares her story of leaving strict fundamentalism, reconnecting with her Jewish heritage, and finding her home in paganism and witchcraft.
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Love is the power, Brazil
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