Hello Universe

Kyley Caldwell, Eva Liao

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.

  1. AUG 13

    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 dismantling conditioning about what’s “right,” to learning how to actually let ourselves be loved without condition. It’s juicy, hilarious, and rooted in something much bigger than just romance: it’s about self-love, joy, and trusting life enough to let the good all the way in. The meet-cute that took seven years — from a Costa Rica retreat crush to living together in a surf shack in Brazil Love without conditions: how it feels to be in a partnership where both people are exploring whether there’s any limit to love or joy. Pedestals are prisons: how putting someone “above” you is unkind to them and to yourself, and what happens when you smash the hierarchy. Self-love as subtraction, not addition: letting go of self-condemnation, judgment, and the “I” story so Source can pour in. Being willing to be disliked — and why your joy might be the medicine that irritates someone right into their own healing. Living under the influence of good: the simple but terrifying practice of trusting life right now, in this moment.

    1h 37m
  2. AUG 6

    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 us. Kyley, ever the sorting hat of spiritual insight, helps organize the messy candy pile of emotion. Together, they navigate: - How resentment isn’t your enemy, but your flashlight - The difference between love with a story vs. love without one - What it means to love yourself and someone else without abandoning either - How sacrifice can either be sovereign or soul-squelching - The unbearable tension between caregiving and freedom - Why boundaries can sometimes become cold walls - The danger of spiritual bypassing through over-intellectualizing pain - The terrifying (and freeing) question: What if their life isn’t your responsibility? “My needs are generous”—the new mantra for every recovering codependent  By the end, Eva has a mic-drop moment of realization:  What if real love—capital L Love—is loving yourself without a story? Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao Book a discovery call with Eva Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell Kyley's free mini-course

    1h 35m
  3. JUL 30

    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 healing as “increasing the capacity to be in relationship” The grief and rage of being severed from Indigeneity—and how that rupture underpins modern disconnection The deep wisdom encoded in cities, sidewalks, vegetables, and purple carrot soup How creature comforts like herbal tea can reveal our tenderest fears about worthiness and comfort The devastating illusion of separateness—and how spiritual belonging doesn’t mean sameness This episode will leave you soft, wrecked, held, inspired, and maybe a little furious at the Stanley Cup industrial complex. Whether you’re crying in a grocery store parking lot at sunset or whispering thank-you to your morning tea (or giant granite boulder in your backyard), Diana reminds us: you are in relationship. You belong. You’ve always belonged. Diana -  ddamascenaa.com patreon.com/ddamascenaa instagram.com/ddamascenaa

    1h 30m
4.9
out of 5
94 Ratings

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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.

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