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Hello Universe

Kyley Caldwell, Eva Liaohello-universe.simplecast.com
Welcome to Hello Universe, a deep dive into what it means to be an ever-expanding spec of cosmic space dust. Equal parts irreverent and esoteric, Kyley and Eva host vulnerable, down-to-earth conversations about this messy, electric human journey.
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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. https://victoriajane.co/ , https://www.instagram.com/victoriajane.hd/ Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering! Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell...

Jun 25, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 216

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 - Instagram.com/kellymahalak Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell...

Jun 18, 20251 hr 32 minEp. 215

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 t...

Jun 04, 202558 minEp. 214

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. https://www.instagram.com/caratruth/ https://www.caralai.org/ Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Pocket Mento...

May 28, 20251 hr 43 minEp. 213

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 pow...

May 21, 202523 minEp. 212

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 question: ...

May 14, 202535 minEp. 211

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...

May 07, 20251 hr 13 minEp. 210

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 planttoprofit.com Money & the Fawn Response Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Kyley's TikTok: @thekyleycaldwell...

Apr 23, 20251 hr 47 minEp. 209

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 fierc...

Apr 16, 202559 minEp. 208

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 be...

Apr 09, 20251 hr 15 minEp. 207

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...

Apr 02, 20251 hr 13 minEp. 206

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 🔥 https://www.kyleycaldwell.com/firebrand Enter Your Villain Era https://www.kyleycaldwell.com/villain-era Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest ...

Mar 26, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 205

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) Enter Your Villain Era https://www.kyleycaldwell.com/villain-era Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering! Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop...

Mar 19, 20251 hr 53 minEp. 204

Hope is for Dopes

Enter Your Villain Era https://www.kyleycaldwell.com/villain-era Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering! Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop...

Mar 12, 20251 hr 36 minEp. 203

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 https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Enter Your Villain Era https://www.kyleycal...

Mar 05, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 202

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 https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Enter Your Villain Era https://www.kyleycaldwell....

Feb 26, 20251 hr 23 minEp. 201

Eva's Back- Surrendering to resistance

Love is the power, Brazil https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Feb 12, 20251 hr 38 minEp. 199

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. Contact Emily www.emilynachazel.com https://www.instagram.com/emilynachazel/ https://www.facebook.com/emilymnachazel Love is the power, Brazil https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's ...

Jan 29, 20251 hr 30 minEp. 198

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. Alicia - https://www.instagram.com/mycelticroots Love is the power, Brazil https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Jan 22, 20251 hr 33 minEp. 197

Motherhood as a Mystic with Jessica Belardi

One of Kyley’s witchy besties, Jessica Belardi, comes on the show to talk about motherhood and magic….like sending reiki to your chicken, the witch wound as a mom, and asking chaos gods to get you to school on time. We also talk about paradox and the intersection of vulnerability and power. Enjoy! Find Jessica here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/multifaceted-mama/id1567270819 https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21662851⁠ instagram.com/jessicabelardi⁠ Love is the power, B...

Jan 15, 20251 hr 37 minEp. 196

Microdosing Confidence with Jean Mandel

This week we’re joined by philosopher/brand coach, Jean Mandel, to unravel the trap of the inner critic and pour ourselves into the possibility of trust and confidence. Jean Mandel @jean.herself jeanmandel.com jeanmandel.com/tarot Love is the power, Brazil https://www.theworkwithtom.com/brazil2025.html Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Jan 08, 20251 hr 22 minEp. 195

Peace in the Unresolved with Kyley & Eva

In this episode, Eva shares a recent mushroom journey that unearthed big emotions around family, responsibility, and the unresolved. Kyley and Eva dive into the tension between wanting answers and finding peace in uncertainty, exploring themes of guilt, freedom, and the paradox of holding both joy and suffering. Together, they ask: Can we be truly happy even when the world is not? Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Busi...

Dec 18, 20241 hr 2 minEp. 194

Age, Regret & Relevance with Kyley & Eva

In this episode, we dive into our emotions around aging. Is Kyley having a midlife crisis? How hot is Eva allowed to be? As our bodies show the passing of time, what are our feelings about it all saying?" Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Dec 11, 20241 hr 54 minEp. 193

Undoing Overwhelm, Part II

We’re back on the topic of overwhelm. This time asking how to make discipline feel loving and build structure that is generous. Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Dec 04, 20241 hr 29 minEp. 192

EVA IS IN LOVE

One year in, Eva finally lets us into the delightful, delicious inner world of a whirlwind romance that has surprised her over and over again. How do you fall in love with someone you’ve put on a pedestal? (Spoiler alert: You’ve got to take them off!) And what does it mean to find out just how good life can get? Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Nov 20, 20241 hr 42 minEp. 191

Trump, Again….

Kyley and Eva respond to the results of the U.S. election (only 30 mins after Kyley woke up to the news) and process how to move forward, for now Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Nov 13, 202444 minEp. 190

Undoing Overwhelm, Part I with Kyley and Eva

In part one of this two part series, Kyley brings a long-standing issue to Eva: How to navigate overwhelm when you just don’t have enough time. The answers we found surprised us both! Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Quantum Leap Your Business - Free Workshop Pocket Mentor(Friend)ship- Eva's Newest Offering!...

Nov 06, 20241 hr 37 minEp. 189

Loving People, When It’s Hard

Eva is in Taiwan, caring for aging parents and caught in the intensity of loving them, loving herself, sorting out the care they need while trying to figure out what the hell she needs, too. In Eva fashion, she comes to this pressure-cooker of a situation and asks "what the hell even IS love, really?" Spoiler alert: Kyley & Eva both cry by the end. Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Kyley's free mini-course...

Oct 30, 20241 hr 34 minEp. 188

We’re Back, Bishes!!!!!!

After a lengthy & luxurious summer break, Kyley & Eva are back with Season 5! Eva’s been on a world tour of magical retreats & Kyley has been at the beach and back-to school with the kids, and blowing up business. Life is teaching us how to really receive and how much we actually do not know. Plus, the regular contenders of joy, love, and letting the f*ck go.

Oct 23, 20241 hr 17 minEp. 187
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