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Join Our Community: https://asayee.substack.com About this Episode If you've ever felt the pressure to show up the same way every single day, force yourself into formats that don't fit, or follow a system that was never built for you and wondered why you keep burning out, this conversation is for you. Today I'm welcoming Michelle Breana to Monsoon Season. Michelle is a The Rhythm Archi...

Get weekly doses of MONSOON SEASON: https://asayee.substack.com/ This week I did the thing I've been too scared to do. Not because the fear left, but because staying stuck finally cost more than the fear did. In this solo episode I talk about what happens when you shoot your shot anyway, the external momentum it creates, and the internal clarity that opens up underneath it. Turns out shooting...

Sign up for our newsletter: https://asayee.substack.com/ What if the best way to build your life, business, or creative work is to think less like an influencer and more like an undercover agent? Inspired by the film Dhurandhar, this episode explores vigilance, patience, identity, and the quiet power of moving through the world without needing everyone to know your next move.

Join the Monsoon Season newsletter: https://asayee.substack.com/ A raw and honest solo episode where I open up about the chaos of building in real time, from repricing my coaching offer and navigating my first hate comment to refining my story and figuring out what is actually on my list this week. 🧡

Join the Monsoon Season newsletter: https://asayee.substack.com/About this episode:We don't want what we think we want — we want the feeling underneath it, and until we learn to name that feeling, we will spend our whole lives chasing the wrong things.

Subscribe to the newsletter on Substack for weekly podcast breakdowns, free guided meditations, and vulnerable weekly newsletters.https://asayee.substack.com/ 💌 About the episode :A dented candle in a cluttered garage looks like trash. Place the same candle in a gallery with intention and it becomes art. The candle did not change. The context did. In this episode I am talking about why so many ta...

Join the newsletter → https://asayee.substack.com/ The most dangerous place you can be as creator or someone building a personal brand is almost committed. Not checked out, not fully in. Almost. Because almost gives you just enough activity to avoid confronting the fact that you have not actually decided yet. In this solo podcast episode I am pulling back the curtain on every content mistake I mad...

About this episode: I spent decades identifying as someone with zero discipline who could not be consistent. That was my story and I wore it like a badge. This year that all changed. In this solo episode I am pulling back the curtain on what actually made the difference, and it has nothing to do with motivation, willpower, or getting your life together. It starts somewhere much quieter than that....

You are not a broken, incomplete, unfinished project. In this episode I get personal about spending a lifetime trying to fix myself. This one is about learning to create from wholeness instead of from the wound of lack, and what it actually feels like in your body when you finally do. Join the community on Substack for free guided meditations, offerings, deep dives, and a weekly newsletter sharing...

Most of us think we have a competence problem. We don't. In this episode, we break down why you're likely misdiagnosing yourself, how fear shapeshifts into "I need more training" or "I'm just not ready," and the five questions that will tell you exactly what's in your way. Subscribe to the newsletter for weekly nuggets of wisdom, daily dharma, and free guided me...

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Most of us are living on autopilot without even realizing it. Meditation and breathwork teacher Kat Ladcani joins Monsoon Season to talk about what it costs us to go through the motions, the intuition that led her to teacher training without knowing why, and the small practices that can wake us back up to the life we are already living. We also talk about grief, impermanence, th...

You were taught that needing help was weakness. That holding it all together was strength. This episode is for the children of immigrants, the high performers, the quietly suffering ones who say "I'm fine" and mean it less and less. We explore where self-sufficiency becomes armor, why receiving is a muscle most of us never built, and the unexpected reason your business might not be g...

About this Episode Jiva Smith left a corporate executive career at NBC Peacock managing teams of 50 and $120M budgets and stepped into transformational coaching. But the real story started before that. In this conversation we explore fatherhood as a spiritual practice, what it means to take 100% responsibility for your own regulation, the concept of honey on a razor blade, and how the hardest seas...

If you've ever held back a teaching, a post, or an idea because you thought someone else already said it better — this episode is for you. Join my newsletter and community: https://asayee.substack.com/

In this episode of MONSOON SEASON, we explore the powerful idea of "new choice" — the sovereignty to pivot, change your mind, and move completely differently at any given moment. From improv class to meditation teacher training to finding my way back to the podcast after a layoff, this episode is a permission slip for anyone who has been waiting to start over. Subscribe to the newsletter...

if you're a good person, self-promotion probably feels gross — even manipulative. but what if that discomfort is the very thing keeping your work hidden from the people who need it most?in this episode, we get into why good-hearted people struggle to be seen, and what it actually looks like to promote yourself with integrity.if this episode hit home, come deeper into the world → i write about...

in this episode of monsoon season, we’re diving into week 02 of the artist’s way and the 10 rules every true artist must follow. if you’ve been feeling creatively blocked, stuck in overthinking, or afraid to begin before you’re ready, this is your gentle but honest reset. i share the key takeaways from week 2, how these rules actually show up in real life (and business), and why creative recovery...

I’m starting The Artist’s Way again. This episode is a grounding conversation on why now, how I’m approaching it differently, and what this work has meant to me in the past. If you’ve done The Artist’s Way , I’d love to hear what it brought up for you. I’m doing this slowly, honestly, and for real this time. More reflections along the way on my Substack .

A raw reflection on breaking addictive patterns by refusing the reflex to fix, numb, or distract. This episode sits inside the discomfort — where false problems dissolve, and stillness reveals what was never broken to begin with.

Inspired by Thích Nhất Hạnh, this episode explores how real love creates freedom—not attachment—and how abandonment wounds distort love into clinging, vigilance, and fear of being left. A reflection on choosing presence over possession, and trust over grasping.

In this episode of Monsoon Season , Asa sits down with Keiron Miller — Transformational Coach, TEDx Speaker, and host of The Inner Game Podcast for a raw and honest conversation on what it truly means to rebuild yourself from the inside out. Keiron opens up about his own “monsoon season”: grieving the loss of a loved one navigating post breakup awakening to sexual healing as a pathway back into th...

A reflection on processing flowers, clarity, and the tiny things that disrupt our inner ecosystem. In this episode, we explore how a single “leaf” — a habit, a decision, a project, even a well-intentioned creative idea — can cloud the water of your mind and your work. This is a dharma talk on attention, care, and the art of keeping your inner bucket clean enough to hear your life clearly.

When we stop forcing, life begins to breathe. Inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein , this 20-minute guided meditation invites you to soften your grip and let life work through you. When we surrender control, what we’ve been trying to shape finally starts to move — the energy, the creation, the healing. Breathe. Surrender. Remember: you don’t have to make yourself; you only have to meet yo...

A raw reflection from a vulnerable session with Maggie McCall . In this episode, I explore the hidden cost of managing other people’s inner state, the pressure to always “get it right,” and what it means to release that weight in entrepreneurship and in life. Book a session with Maggie: maggiemccallcoaching.carrd.co