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MONSOON SEASON
by Asa Yee
Monsoon Season is a weekly podcast hosted by meditation teacher and writer Asa Yee. Each episode is a cozy corner of the internet where we explore culture, consciousness, and the courage to be seen. Through honest conversations, solo reflections, and guided meditations, we do the deep work of clearing what's holding you back so you can reclaim your gifts and build what you're meant to build in the 21st century.
Episodes
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Feeling Like a Loser Is Part of Getting Great
Sign up for my newsletter: https://asayee.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips About this episode: Feeling like a loser while chasing your dream? In this episode of Monsoon Season, I talk about what to do when failures stack up, growth feels slow, and you want to quit or pivot. I share what...
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You’re ready to let your old self die.
Join our newsletter & Substack ! About the episode What if the version of you that got you here can’t come with you where you’re going? In this episode, we’re talking about identity, conditioning, resistance, and the grief that comes with becoming someone new. I’m exploring why we instinctively...
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What Doechii taught me about the excruciating slow growth phase
About the episode What do you do when you’re showing up, putting in the work, and still feel like nothing is happening? If your business, creativity, relationships, or life feels painfully slow right now, this episode is for you. We’re talking about the excruciating phase of growth where there’s...
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What you avoid most is what you need.
What happens when you stop pushing, take a break, and come face-to-face with the thing you’ve been avoiding? In this episode of Monsoon Season, I’m talking about perfectionism, burnout, procrastination, rest, and the fear of falling behind. I share what four weeks away from the podcast taught me...
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You owe it to your future self to be good at sales
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Burn the backup plan
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How What We Wear Transforms Our Attention feat. Anushka Joshi
Join our newsletter + community → https://asayee.substack.com/ About this Episode This week on MONSOON SEASON, I sat down with Anushka Joshi, founder and CEO of Sovereign Studios, for a conversation about what happens when you stop performing your ambition and start living from your actual...
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Unconventional reasons I started a podcast
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You're at the threshold. Don't backslide now.
This episode is about how expansion hurts. Let's get vulnerable.
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The Gift of Desperation feat. Cara Matsukane
Join our cozy Substack community!→ https://asayee.substack.comAbout this Episode This week on MONSOON SEASON, I sat down with writer and Integrative Trauma Coach, Cara Matsukane for a conversation that moves through chaos, forgiveness, and the particular ache of staying steady in the in-between.…
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How Olivia Wickstrom Took Her Substack Full-Time (And You Can Too!)
Join our cozy Substack community for free guided meditations, daily wisdom, podcast breakdowns and weekly newsletters that I don't share anywhere else.→ https://asayee.substack.comAbout this EpisodeHow do you rebuild your life after addiction? What does it actually take to become a full-time…
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The fig tree
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Find Your Rhythm with Michelle Breana
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...
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shoot your shot
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...
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5 Unexpected Life Lessons From Dhurandhar
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...
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Building with vulnerability
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…
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You Don't Want What You Think
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.
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Build the room
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...
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No half measures
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...
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How to become consistent after years of failing
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...
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You Are Not A Problem To Be Fixed
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...
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Start Messy
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...
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Today Is a Gift feat. Kat Ladcani
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...
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There Is No Reward for Doing It All Yourself
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…
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Honey On a Razor Blade | Jiva Smith
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%...
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Your Version Is the One They're Waiting For
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/
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new choice
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…
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the real reason you hate promoting yourself
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...
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10 rules every true artist must follow
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…
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the artist’s way (for real this time) | week 0
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...
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the courage to not fix
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.
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freedom in love
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.
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reinvention, cosmic orgasm, and the courage to speak — with keiron miller
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...
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the leaf in the bucket
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...
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20-Minute Guided Surrender Meditation
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…
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the cost of keeping the peace
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:...
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twist your timelines
Time isn’t linear — here’s how to bend it, reclaim it, and step into the future waiting for you now.
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night light
A reflection on the small, steady lights that carry us through the dark nights of the soul.
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new operating system
Why your old ways of running life no longer work — and how to install the inner software that actually serves you
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future you non-negotiables
The standards your future self refuses to compromise on, and how to start living them today.
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face off
What happens when the mask finally slips and you’re left with nothing but the raw face of your truth.
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dichotomic
A meditation on the split lives we live — and what it means to bring the halves back into wholeness.
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unpacking people pleasing
rebecca mcneill is a researcher and writer exploring people-pleasing and perfectionism. in this episode, we switch it up — rebecca interviews me as part of her research process. what started as a research call became a rich conversation worth sharing, filled with insights on how people-pleasing...
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pulling back the veil feat. maddi mincey
Pulling Back the Veil on Spirituality & Channeling In this milestone 30th episode, I sit down with psychic medium and Akashic Records reader Maddi Mincey (@chronicallyclairvoyant) for a conversation that feels like opening a door into the unseen. Together we explore the mystical, the grounded…
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backslide
What happens when our old programming ripens as we step into a new identity?
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i got laid off
A little life update — I got laid off from my big corporate job. But honestly? It feels like divine timing. In this episode, I reflect on what it’s like to be cracked open, let go of old versions of success, and finally say yes to the version of me I’ve been dreaming about. If you’re in a season…
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feel the storm
A heartfelt raw reflection through a difficult time.
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33 divine downloads from silent retreat
Fresh from a 7-day silent meditation retreat, I’m sharing the insights that cracked my heart open. These aren’t just lessons—they’re invitations. To soften your grip, attune to the quiet, and return to what’s always been within.What’s one insight that stayed with you? Or—if you’ve ever longed to...
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George Poulos: Shedding Season
Creative Freedom & the Courage to Let Go What does it really mean to be free? In this tender, truth-filled episode, I sit down with meditation teacher and freedom coach George Poulos to explore what I’ve come to call his shedding season — a time when the heart knows what must be released before…
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delululemon
We all have our version of the $90 leggings — the thing we think will finally make us whole. This episode is about illusion, identity, and walking away from the dream that never truly belonged to us.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Monsoon Season is a weekly podcast hosted by meditation teacher and writer Asa Yee. Each episode is a cozy corner of the internet where we explore culture, consciousness, and the courage to be seen. Through honest conversations, solo reflections, and guided meditations, we do the deep work of clearing what's holding you back so you can reclaim your gifts and build what you're meant to build in the 21st century.
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