What if billionaires are the new kings — and the real revolution is making them obsolete?

Remember, we are the species that invented billionaires before we ended world hunger. We are the species that built super yachts before we built universal healthcare. We subsidize private jets while children go hungry in lunchrooms. And whenever someone suggests balancing the equation by taxing the ultra-rich, they clutch their pearls and warn that fairness will destroy innovation and incentives.
As politicians debate whether people deserve affordable healthcare, billionaires are working on launching rockets to Mars. What if we’re debating the wrong things?

In this thought-provoking solo episode of The Everlutionary podcast, host Hawah Kasat delivers a powerful reflection on the state of society, focusing on democratic socialism, capitalism, wealth inequality, and the seismic political shifts highlighted by Zohran Mamdani's win in the recent New York City mayoral election. Hawah dismantles the fear-based narratives that label common-sense policies like universal healthcare, affordable housing, SNAP benefits, and debt relief for college students as “radical,” exposing how billionaire-driven media and political elites weaponize words like “freedom” and “choice” to preserve inequality and control.
Through humor and sharp political analysis, Hawah celebrates the unapologetic leadership willing to call out a wealth gap that depends on prioritizing profit over people. He reframes success as contribution rather than accumulation, arguing that real prosperity and fairness emerge when societies invest in the well-being of all—not just the wealth of a few.

Listeners are invited to challenge misinformation, support bold leaders, and draw lessons from nations that have successfully balanced economic stability with social justice.


What We’ll Explore:

• Why policies like free public transit and universal healthcare are framed as radical apocalyptic threats.

• How the words "socialism" and "communism" are weaponized to shut down conversations about fairness.

• The powerful symbolism of Zoran Mamdani's unapologetic victory speech and its implications for modern politics.
  
  
• The billionaire delusion and how greed masquerades as genius.

• The stunning contrast between American economic anxiety and the common-sense policies already thriving in parts of Europe.

• How extreme wealth inequality is not a bug of capitalism, but its core engine.

• Why healing our world means making the billionaire class obsolete.

In This Episode:

• (00:00) Apocalyptic satire of progressive policies
• (01:27) Podcast introduction & community call
• (05:09) NYC mayoral election & media reactions
• (06:25) New York City’s cultural significance
• (07:44) Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech
• (08:42) Twisted narratives around socialism
• (09:42) Trigger words & the reality of democratic socialism
• (11:08) Billionaires’ fear of fairness
• (12:40) Comedian Josh Johnson on capitalism
• (16:06) European social policies vs. U.S. narratives
• (17:16) Labels, identity, and democratic socialism
• (20:11) Billionaires as modern kings
• (21:52) The magic show of wealth & inheritance
• (23:12) Common sense policies & distraction tactics
• (24:42) Symbolism of Mamdani’s win
• (26:21) The obsolescence of billionaires
• (28:11) Staggering wealth inequality
• (29:28) Josh Johnson on billionaire opposition
• (30:58) Redefining success & pandemic profiteering
• (32:21) Billionaire power & resistance to socialism
• (34:02) The engine of inequality
• (35:46) Linguistic manipulation of economic terms
• (37:22) Absurdity of U.S. economic priorities
• (39:03) A new common sense & empathy
• (40:39) Podcast closing & call to action

Notable Quotes

• (11:39) “Billionaires break out in hives when they hear words like wealth redistribution, even though all redistribution means is returning what was already taken.” — Hawah Kasat

• (21:41) “When billionaires say the economy, what they really mean is our profits. When they say freedom, what they really mean is freedom from accountability.” — Hawah Kasat

• (22:54) “I believe in clean air. I believe in affordable college education. I believe in taxing corporations and the ultra-rich, and I believe in regulating them so they don't destroy the environment in the search for profits.”— Hawah Kasat

• (23:38) “While billionaires are working on launching rockets to Mars, we're debating whether people deserve affordable healthcare. We are debating the wrong things.”— Hawah Kasat

• (25:12) “Fairness once considered an American virtue might still be one if we stopped calling it communism.”— Hawah Kasat

• (26;21) “I think our evolution as a human species and our collective survival depends on billionaires becoming obsolete.”— Hawah Kasat

• (28:23) “Jeff Bezos could give every one of his 1.5 million Amazon employees a $100,000 bonus and still have more money left than he did when the COVID-19 pandemic started.” — Hawah Kasat

• (30:23) “Zohran himself has said, y'all are spending way more money on ads trying to campaign against me than I was even gonna tax you.” — Josh Johnson

• (33:29) “Inequality isn’t a byproduct of capitalism, it’s the engine. And the Ultra rich need inequality in order to exist” — Hawah Kasat

• (39:39) “We are ready to measure wealth not by accumulation, but by contribution.” — Hawah Kasat

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/
  
  

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

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We’re all carrying stories, wounds, and moments that have shaped us, and the question becomes, what does it truly take to heal them? Healing isn’t just about fixing what’s broken or chasing some perfect version of ourselves. It’s about weaving ourselves back together – and weaving ourselves back to one another. In the latest episode of Everlutionary, Hawah Kasat sits down with therapist, somatics teacher, and bestselling author, Prentis Hemphill to explore what healing means, why it’s inseparable from justice, and how the work of personal repair can ripple outward into collective transformation.


What We Explore:

• Why healing is not a destination but a daily practice of reconnection
• The difference between boundaries and walls, and how real boundaries protect both you and others
• How trauma, when unprocessed, shows up in our organizing, leadership, and relationships
• Why conflict isn’t a sign of failure, but an inevitable part of any collective effort, and how to prepare for it
• How embodiment helps us move beyond performative culture into real, grounded presence
• What Prentis sees as the “narrow path” toward a future worth living – and why hope still matters
  
  

Find Prentis Hemphill:

• Prentis Hemphill’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prentishemphill/
• Prentis Hemphill’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill/?hl=en
• Prentis Hemphill’s Website: https://prentishemphill.com/
• The Embodiment Institute: https://www.theembodimentinstitute.org/
• What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726173/what-it-takes-to-heal-by-prentis-hemphill/
• Becoming the People Podcast: https://pod.link/1519965068?utm

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website: https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack: https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What does it mean to “walk on a feather” in a world weighed down by history, systems, and inherited wounds? How do psychedelics—once outlawed and feared—become teachers of tenderness, reciprocity, and healing? And what wisdom emerges when a lawyer rooted in both Anishinaabe and European ancestry braids modern law with Indigenous wisdom?

Ariel Clark has spent nearly two decades navigating the intersecting worlds of cannabis, psychedelics, and Indigenous rights, all while carrying the complexity of her biracial identity.

In this episode of Everlutionary, Hawah Kasat sits down with attorney and advocate, Ariel Clark to explore how colonization has shaped our systems, why her identity and legal work are inseparable from questions of justice, and how the “red road,” a path of devotion, humility, and balance, offers another way forward.

What We Explore:

• How Ariel’s biracial identity informs her worldview and work in law and advocacy
• The role of boarding schools in attempting to sever Indigenous peoples from language, kinship, and prayer
• Why treaties like “One Dish, One Spoon” offer living models for shared stewardship
• Lessons from cannabis legalization—and the pitfalls for psychedelic commercialization
• Ariel’s caution for the psychedelic movement: what we risk if we replicate Western medical and corporate frameworks
• Why process is the product, and how law and business structures must embody values of care
• “Solutionism” vs. sacred slowness—what it means to resist urgency and move with tenderness
• A closing reflection on water as life, memory, and teacher

Find Ariel Clark:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariel-clark-97366a3/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561946277553
• Psychedelic Bar Association website: https://thepsychedelicbar.org/board-scroll/

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com

Music Credit:Alo White 
Album: Kiibiimii' ayatSong: Manitou Healing: Manitou nanadewaa’iye


Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

Did you know a single childhood moment can shape how we see ourselves for years? Picture yourself at ten years old,  pressured to reveal your crush, only to be humiliated when classmates say you could never date her because your children would be “half black and half white.” How does racism follow a child into adulthood, and what does true healing look like decades later?

In this solo episode of The Everlutionary Podcast, host Hawah Kasat takes you behind the curtain of his own story. He shares the moment, as a ten-year-old kid, when a classroom betrayal left him standing alone and questioning whether he belonged. He brings you to the soccer fields of suburban New Jersey, where racist slurs became part of the soundtrack of childhood. And he opens up about the day he shouted at his mother never to speak Hindi to him again, trading language and culture for the false promise of acceptance.

But this isn’t just a story of wounds. Hawah also recalls an encounter years later with a former bully, this time not hurling insults, but offering an apology that cracked open the possibility of healing.

Through raw storytelling, Hawah invites us to see how internalized racism shapes identity, how reconciliation can emerge in unexpected places, and why belonging is a form of liberation that we all deserve. Let’s dive in!

What We Explore:

• The hidden ways childhood racism can quietly shape who we believe we are
• How shame and silence turn into internalized racism and how to break free from it
• Why being told “you don’t belong” as a kid can echo for decades
• What it feels like to silence your own language and how to reclaim it years later
• The powerful lesson one unexpected apology taught about forgiveness and reconciliation
• Why healing racism isn’t just for people of color, it’s work that liberates all of us
• The surprising ways personal stories can turn pain into connection and repair

In This Episode:
(00:00) Introduction and series context
(02:18) Defining internalized racism and oppression
(03:36) First experience of racial difference – Fourth grade
(06:02) Betrayal and public shaming
(10:45) Internalizing shame and difference
(12:56) Internalized racism and its effects
(14:12) Racism in soccer – Sixth grade
(18:37) Assimilation and language loss
(22:56) Long-term impact and reclaiming heritage
(24:18) Neighborhood diversity and bullying
(27:30) Years of racial bullying
(28:28) A surprising apology and hope
(33:44) Reflections on healing and reconciliation
(39:01) Call to action and closing

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What if the very systems that built wealth could be transformed to heal the harm they caused? What if money, so often a driver of inequality, could become medicine for our collective liberation?


In this revealing episode of The Everlutionary Podcast, host Hawah Kasat sits with Edgar Villanueva, Lumbee tribe member, award-winning author of Decolonizing Wealth, and Founder of the Decolonizing Wealth Project, to explore how we can move from colonial extraction to reparative giving.


Edgar shares how confronting the origins of wealth, telling the truth about harm, and centering Indigenous ways of healing can transform both communities and those who hold resources. From the $1.8 trillion sitting in philanthropic endowments to his bold $1 trillion “moonshot” for racial and economic justice, this conversation unpacks the tangible and spiritual work required to liberate capital. Along the way, Edgar opens a window into his personal journey, from a church-centered childhood and rediscovery of his Lumbee roots, to building a global movement that challenges philanthropy to align its actions with its values.


A strategist, storyteller, and healer, Edgar’s work has already influenced more than $1 billion in philanthropic investments toward repair. His latest initiative, a $20 million youth mental health fund, prioritizes culturally responsive care for youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth, recognizing culture itself as a protective factor for wellbeing.


This episode is both a critique and an invitation: to see wealth not as something to hoard, but as a living force capable of restoring dignity, repairing relationships, and building a future rooted in equity and shared humanity.


What You'll Learn:

• Why confronting the origins of wealth is essential for real change
• How colonization still operates today and what it takes to undo it
• The difference between “big P” philanthropy and the “little p” love of humanity
• How the Decolonizing Wealth Project’s $1 trillion moonshot is designed to unlock reparative giving
• Why culture is a vital component of youth mental health
• How truth-telling, repair, and redistribution can be acts of spiritual liberation
  
  
  

Find Edgar Villanueva:

• Edgar Villanueva’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgarv/ 
• Edgar Villanueva’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/villanuevaedgar/?hl=en
• Edgar Villanueva’s X: https://x.com/villanuevaedgar 
• Edgar Villanueva’s Company: Decolonizing Wealth

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What does it mean to face the truth of your ancestors’ role in colonization and take responsibility for repair?

Hilary Giovale has spent the last decade tracing her family history back to stolen Indigenous land and the enslavement of African people, and transforming that reckoning into a lifelong practice of reparations, solidarity, and truth-telling.

In this episode of Everlutionary, Hawah Kasat sits down with writer, community organizer, and author of Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, Hilary Giovale, to explore the personal and collective work of becoming a “good relative” to the land, to one another, and future generations.

What We Explore:

• How Hilary’s life changed after uncovering her family’s colonial past
• Why grief and shame are necessary, but not enough, on the road to repair
• The difference between performative apology and radical apology
• How “white innocence” is constructed, and what it takes to dismantle it
• Why personal storytelling can open conversations that lectures can’t
• The role of discomfort in building meaningful solidarity with Indigenous and BIPOC communities
• How wealth redistribution ties into becoming a good relative
• Why Hilary is donating all book proceeds to the Decolonizing Wealth Project and Jubilee Justice
• A hopeful reminder that healing begins from the inside out and ripples outward

If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend and subscribe, rate, and review it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.


Find Hilary Giovale:

• Hilary Giovale Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarygiovaleauthor/
• Hilary Giovale Website: https://www.goodrelative.com
• Becoming a Good Relative - The Book: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Good-Relative-Calling-Settlers/dp/B0C8CBFXG7
• Guide to Making a Personal Reparations Plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-ufl_8ixdquMGrDziiBUBAANYKXrN7eHtjiE5aKTfw/edit?usp 
• Jubilee Justice: https://www.jubileejustice.com/ 

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What does it mean to live inside patterns that refuse to die? In this solo episode of Everlutionary, Hawah Kasat reflects on colonization—not as history, but as a living system of domination. He shares the struggle of staying informed through the news while protecting his spirit, offering raw reflections on Washington, D.C., the city that raised him and now feels under siege. From the Trail of Tears to ICE raids, plantations to prison labor, colonization moves from land to bodies to memory. Even the Smithsonian museums are being pressured to soften or erase exhibits on slavery, racism, and police violence—an act of cultural genocide that sanitizes America’s blood-soaked roots. With urgency and tenderness, Hawah calls listeners to resist this erasure, to hold grief with joy, and to root deeply in lineage.

What We Explore:

• Why colonization is not in the past tense but a recurring pattern
• How ICE raids, mass incarceration, and museum censorship mirror historic systems of control
• The emotional toll of consuming news and strategies for balancing grief with joy
• Why Washington, D.C. represents both Hawah’s deepest roots and a current site of occupation
• The three stages of colonization: seizing land, controlling bodies, rewriting stories
• How historical parallels (Trail of Tears, plantations, Jim Crow) echo today’s injustices
• Global perspectives on colonization, including the British Raj in India
• Ways to cultivate resilience: connecting to lineage, nature, and community fellowship

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary 
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What if the stretch marks on your skin and the scars in your memory weren’t just reminders of pain, but living proof of your ability to heal and your resilience?


In this expansive, important conversation, “Everlutionary” host Hawah Kasat sits with Chris Pearson, an educator, licensed acupuncturist, bodyworker, and founder of Be Well Natural, whose life’s work spans nearly three decades of somatic practice, and community healing.


Together, they explore what it means to view wellness as a lifelong journey, rather than a destination, how language influences our health, and why the stories we tell ourselves matter just as much as the treatments we seek. From the “issues in our tissues” to the deeper truths acupuncture helps unlock, Chris shares how healing is as much about narrative, presence, and perspective as it is about technique. A master orator, he weaves in stories that range from his first bodywork class in 1996 to raising three sons, one with cerebral palsy, and the disciplined work of founding a nonprofit organization that uses basketball and social-emotional learning to teach self-mastery. 


This episode is an invitation to rethink what healing really looks like and to see the marks we carry not as flaws, but as evidence of who we’ve become.

What We Explore:

• How acupuncture stimulates the body’s own ability to heal
• Why Chris says we’re “already whole” even when we feel broken
• The difference between human being and human doing and why it matters
• How stretch marks, scars, and even pain carry wisdom
• The role of narrative in personal and collective healing

Find Chris Pearson:

• Chris Pearson’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/be_well_chris/  
• Chris Pearson’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poppaoso/ 
• Chris Pearson’s Non-profit Organization: Elevated Legacy

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hawahkasat
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@everlutionary
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Podcast Merch -  https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

Have you ever desired a sunset the way you may desire a lover? What if falling in love with the earth is our first act of healing?


In this episode of The Everlutionary Podcast, our host, Hawah Kasat, sits with Dr. Lindsay Branham—environmental psychologist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Buddhist-trained eco‑doula—to explore the sensuous, radical invitation of erotic ecology.

Lindsay shares how desire, grief, and interoception—the body’s capacity to feel itself—can reconnect us with the living Earth, not as concept, but as lived relationship. From psilocybin journeys and somatic awareness to ancient forest wisdom and the heartbreak of climate collapse, this conversation is a return to empathy through intimacy.

Over the last two decades, Lindsay has worked at the intersection of storytelling, trauma healing, and planetary justice—producing over 40 acclaimed documentaries for BBC, National Geographic, and others. She now offers nature-based workshops and teachings at institutions including UC Berkeley, Esalen Institute, and the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.

This episode is an invitation to remember: the Earth is not a resource to be used—it is a lover, a mirror, and a relationship to be nourished.

What You'll Learn:

• What erotic ecology means and how it invites intimacy with nature through the body
• Why interoception is a key to ecological reconnection
• What it means to be an eco-doula and how grief is a portal to planetary healing
• The role of psilocybin and plant medicine in cultivating long-term ecological awareness
• How Lindsay’s background in journalism, trauma work, and psychology informs this emergent field
• A preview of her upcoming book, “Heartwood,” on forest wisdom and climate repair

About Dr. Lindsay Branham:
Dr. Lindsay Branham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, holding a PhD in environmental psychology from the University of Cambridge. Over the last two decades, she has worked at the intersection of storytelling, trauma healing, and planetary justice—producing over 40 acclaimed documentaries for BBC, National Geographic, and others. As President of NOVO, she led global media campaigns that reached over 200 million people and raised more than $80 million USD. Today, she is a trained Buddhist eco-doula and the author of “Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees” (forthcoming, 2026).

If this conversation resonated with you, share it with someone you love. And please subscribe, rate, and review Everlutionary on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
Find Lindsay Branham:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaybranham
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaylaurenne
• Substack: https://lindsaybranham.substack.com
• Novo Film: https://novofilm.co

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hawahkasat
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everlutionary
• Substack - https://everlutionary.substack.com
• Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@everlutionary
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Everlutionary Podcast Merch -  https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com
  
  

Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

Have you been feeling overwhelmed? What do we do with the weight we carry when the world feels heavy and hope feels thin?

In this intimate solo episode of “Everlutionary,” our host Hawah Kasat invites us into a season of transition—one shaped by solitude, silence, and the hallowed grounds of the Appalachia Mountains. Broadcasting from Roots to Sky Sanctuary, he reflects on what it means to slow down and listen differently when everything inside and outside feels in flux.


Moved by the recent I.C.E. raids in the United States, Hawah shares what’s been stirring in his heart, speaking honestly about the danger of silence, and how not naming injustice becomes its own form of violence. He weaves personal reflection with political truth, honoring the grief of these times while also making space for beauty.


The episode closes with his spoken word piece “Sunrays and Moonbeams,” a poem he wrote while staying in a Shaolin monastery while in China. The poem is a stirring reminder that joy is our birthright and that even in moments of uncertainty, love will always find us.

What We Explore:

• Why transitions can open up new emotional and creative spaces
• How change, solitude, and novelty influence our relationship to time
• What inspired Roots to Sky Sanctuary and its vision for land justice
• How Brave New Voices amplifies youth-led healing through poetry
• The story behind Hawah’s spoken word piece “Sun Rays and Moonbeams”
• How experimenting with daily habits like washing dishes can spark renewal

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Previous guests include: Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth"; Kute Blackson, national bestselling author of "The Magic of Surrender"; Kerry Docherty, co-founder of the "Faherty Brand"; Prince Haru, the recognized leader of the Kuntanawa Nation; and Noor Tagouri, award-winning journalist and storyteller.

Check out the most downloaded episodes: 

• E5 - Radical Love with Sonya Renee Taylor
• E21 - Honoring Women and Healing Men with Hawah Kasat
• E22 - Fashion Waste and Conscious Capitalism with Kerry Docherty co-founder of Faherty Brand

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