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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 ...

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 encounte...

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...

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 d...

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. Mea...

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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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 alon...

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 imag...

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 he...

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...

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 mean...

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, instea...

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? 

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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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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

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