22 episodes
Are You There, Universe? areyouthereuniverse
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5.0 • 20 Ratings
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Are You There, Universe? explores the path to achieving true joy -- the path of healing ourselves from both an oppressive system and our own traumas. Through this inner work, we pave the way to self-love, purpose, and mastery over our own realities. We find fulfillment from within. What we’ve really been searching for is emotional freedom -- a spiritual awakening -- one that has been within us all along, just beneath the self-doubt, harmful and inherited habits and thoughts, and our ancestral burdens.
This podcast is a coming-of-age story of Jaimie and Sunny, two high-achieving Asian American women recovering from burnout. Join us as we embark on a journey to reclaim ourselves and inner power, unpack the meaning of social change and justice at the level of the spirit, and heal our past traumas by exploring our present. When you heal yourself, you heal the world. When you evolve, the world evolves with you.
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Cherishing Friendships in Adulthood
How do friendships evolve as we get older? And what did it mean to be accountable to our friends during a pandemic? Jaimie and Sunny discuss their philosophies on friendship and how it may have transformed over time.
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Follow and subscribe to some of our favorite podcasts, also featuring badass Asian women duos!
Spotify: Add to Cart Podcast with SuChin Pak & Kulap Vilaysack
IG: @addtocartpod
Spotify: Bitch Talk with Erin & Ange
IG: @bitchtalkpod
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Using Tarot to Enhance Your Self-Awareness
In this episode, Jaimie and Sunny explore the history and uses of the tarot as both a divination and self-reflective tool. Listen to Sunny give a tarot reading for both Jaimie and the AYTU collective!
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The COVID-19 crisis in India has not gotten much better, as it nears a total of 25.5 million infections and nearly 300,000 deaths. With overcrowded hospitals and massive shortages of oxygen and other lifesaving supplies, India still needs our help.
If you have the ability to donate, we encourage you to do so at covid.giveindia.org
During this episode, Sunny delivers a tarot reading using a deck by Barbara Walter, who reflects a uniquely feminist perspective of tarot along with multicultural religious and pagan symbols from around the world. What you won’t hear, though, is that Sunny did another separate reading for Jaimie using a specifically AAPI deck, created by the Asian American Literary Review. Check out that full reading, which will be posted on our IG live!
And if you’re interested in other tarot decks, check out Brown Girl Tarot, created by Amanda Michelle Jones, a healer who uses social work, tarot, and astrology to help people through art therapy. You can find out more at browngirltarot.com. -
Practicing Sisterhood as Self-Care
Jaimie and Sunny interview one another as they reflect on both their self-care rituals and the evolution of their friendship since starting the podcast together. They share the lessons of language, purpose, and heritage that they’ve learned along the way as well as their interpretations of sisterhood.
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The Mindfulness Conspiracy
After engaging in another 21-day mindfulness journey created by Deepak Chopra, Jaimie and Sunny delve into critiques laid against the mindfulness industry and how it has been co-opted by capitalism. They share their own conflicting experiences and thoughts about how mindfulness has become a multi-billion dollar industry.
Specifically addressed in this episode are the following articles:
“The Mindfulness Conspiracy” by Ronald Purser, published by The Guardian;
“Fuck Mindfulness Workshops” by Tithi Bhattacharya, published in Spectre Journal
Sunny and Jaimie also reference The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies’ mindfulness practices, as well as Dr. Gail Parker’s book, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma. -
What We Buy Into with SuChin Pak
In this previously recorded interview episode, Jaimie and Sunny talk about the joys and pitfalls of being a high-achiever with special guest SuChin Pak, veteran journalist and co-creator of the podcast “Add to Cart.” In exploring the “hungry mindset” that could potentially lead to burn-out, they also reflect on the material and immaterial things they turn to that help nourish our spirit.
Check out the podcasts Add to Cart (@addtocartpod) and The Other Story with Jenn Gottesfeld wherever you listen to podcasts! -
What Fuels Creativity?
Complex problems require creative solutions, but what does it mean to really think outside the box? How can we remove the barriers that prevent us from experiencing creative fulfillment? Jaimie and Sunny delve into how the mind is already geared for creativity and how mindfulness can enhance this gift that is within us all.
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Learn more about #CreatorsForJustice at https://www.creatorsforjustice.com/.
Some organizations to follow, amplify, and/or donate to:
Stop AAPI Hate
CAPE
Gold House
NextShark
Dear Asian Americans
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta
Trainings:
Bystander Intervention Virtual Trainings (Hollaback and AAJC)
Various Harassment training see below (Hollaback)
Stand Up Against Street Harassment, March 26 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Bystander Intervention Training To Stop Anti-asian/American And Xenophobic Harassment, March 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Customer Reviews
Inspired to be more mindful and change the world!
Sunny and Jaimie’s podcast finds a way for me to better understand myself in a way that I didn’t know I needed - but so desperately did!
I’m in a place where I’ve been grappling with my identity, processing the traumas of being Chinese American and at the same time, finding space to rise up and create the change I want to see for me, my family and the world (ambitious goals, I know). This podcast inspires me to do that every day.
Thank you, Sunny. Thank you, Jaimie. You are creating so much goodness in the world and I’m so grateful to have found this podcast. Keep it going, please!!
What a fantastic dynamic!
I am so impressed with their breadth of knowledge about mindfulness and neurology. They have the most fantastic and engaging rapport!
Can’t Recommend Enough
It’s not every day you come across a podcast that is entertaining, informative, and meant to help others but AYTU checks all those boxes and more. Jaimie and Sunny are amazing hosts who start with a topic so many of us know all about — burnout — and then share with us the tools they used to grow from it. I can’t recommend this podcast enough. Whether you’re experiencing burnout yourself or are just looking for ways to learn more about self love and self care, or simply curious about a different way to tackle our inner problems — Are You There Universe is a must listen.