Everlutionary: Healing and Transforming the World

What happens when a culture forgets how to initiate its young people? What can matriarchal cultures teach us about centering women, children, and future generations? And what would change if we stopped defining manhood through status, dominance, and accumulation and began teaching men to become stewards of generations?

In this deeply personal conversation, Hawah sits down with Kale KaaleKahi, Native Hawaiian culture keeper, ceremonialist, and co-founder of Sacred Sons (a pioneering men’s group), to explore what modern manhood has lost and what ancestral wisdom might still have to teach us about becoming fully human.

Kale shares about growing up without his biological father, the profound influence of his mother, and how becoming a father to his daughter radically changed his relationship to love, grief, ancestry, and responsibility. His work with Sacred Sons and N.O.W. Academy is rooted in a belief that men need more than self-improvement: they need elders, brotherhood, ceremony, and rites of passage that teach them how to carry power without being controlled by it.
What We Explore:

• Why the disappearance of rites of passage has left generations of men searching for models of adulthood
• Why grief may be one of the most important, and overlooked, initiations into mature manhood
• Why apology, restraint, reciprocity, and accountability are essential practices for men
• How brotherhood, ceremony, prayer, and ritual can restore belonging in a culture of disconnection
• What matriarchal cultures can teach us about protecting women, children, elders, and future generations
• Why ancestral wisdom and re-indigenization offer something radically different from modern masculinity and self-optimization

This episode invites you to rethink what it means to become a man, not through domination, status, or power, but through grief, responsibility, relationship, and service to the generations still to come.

Welcome to Everlutionary.

Social Links for Kale KaaleKahi:

• Website - https://www.kalekaalekahi.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kale.kaalekahi/
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• Sacred Sons - https://www.sacredsons.com/
• N.O.W. Academy - https://www.skool.com/now-academy/about
  
  

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Patreon (Bonus Episodes) - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Everlutionary
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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

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

The Great Forgetting: What We’re Losing in the Age of AI, Technology & Convenience

What have we forgotten in our relentless pursuit of progress? And what might we need to remember before it’s lost for good?

In this solo episode, Hawah Kasat begins with a story from his own life. In December 2004, he left the southern coast of India just hours before one of the deadliest tsunamis in modern history struck. While hundreds of thousands of people were caught by surprise, the Moken people of the Andaman Sea recognized what was happening. An ancient story passed down for generations had taught them that when the ocean suddenly retreats, you run for higher ground.

From there, Hawah explores what he calls “The Great Forgetting,” the slow loss of knowledge, relationships, and human capacities that can happen as technology and convenience increasingly do things for us. Moving from Indigenous knowledge and Aboriginal Australian Songlines to AI, GPS, grocery-store strawberries, and our everyday dependence on technology, this episode asks whether evolution is always about acquiring something new, or whether sometimes the most evolutionary thing we can do is remember something old.

This episode invites you to notice what may be disappearing from your own life without you realizing it, and to reclaim some of the attention, knowledge, connection, and relationship that modern life can make easy to lose. You’ll come away with a different way of thinking about progress, and some simple ways to begin remembering what matters.

What We Explore:

• How ancestral knowledge helped the Moken people recognize the warning signs and survive a tsunami
• What we gain and lose in the exchange between ancient intelligence and modern technology
• How AI, GPS, and convenience can replace capacities we once practiced ourselves, and ways to still cherish the old ways of being
• Why access to information is not the same as carrying knowledge or wisdom
• The Seven Sisters story brought to us through Aboriginal Australian Songlines
• How modern systems disconnect us from the relationships behind our food, water, energy, and possessions
• Why remembering our relationship with place, ancestors, and future generations matters
• How attention may be one of our most important tools for remembering
• What it means to become a bridge between ancient wisdom and artificial intelligence

Maybe our role today isn’t to choose between the ancient and the modern. Maybe it is to create a conversation between them and to ask what deserves to survive us, and then live in such a way that it does.

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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

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

The first technology that transformed humanity wasn't the wheel. It was fire. For thousands of years we gathered around it—not simply for warmth, but for story, ceremony, silence, and belonging. Perhaps the question of our time isn't how intelligent our machines become, but whether we remember the ancient intelligence that first gathered us around the flame.

In our latest episode, Hawah sits down with world-renowned yoga teacher, author, and sacred activist Shiva Rea to explore what it means to tend the "heart fire"—the inner source of vitality, compassion, creativity, and resilience that keeps us fully alive even in uncertain times.
Drawing from decades of study in yoga, tantra, dance, somatics, indigenous traditions, Ayurveda, movement, and pilgrimage across India, Africa, and beyond, Shiva invites us into a radically different way of understanding healing. Rather than searching for answers outside ourselves, she reminds us that wisdom has always lived within the body—in breath, rhythm, ritual, and our relationship with one another.
Together, Hawah and Shiva explore the science of the heart's electromagnetic field, why the heart may be leading the brain more than we realize, the forgotten role of fire as humanity's first meditation teacher, and how movement, music, drumming, dance, and ceremony have helped cultures around the world metabolize grief, restore belonging, and remember their humanity.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with the pulse of life, and rediscover the ancient practices that help us move from fragmentation toward wholeness.

What We Explore:

• Why tending the "heart fire" may be one of the most important practices of our time
• Ancient intelligence in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence
• The heart as its own field of electromagnetic coherence
• The science of flow states, and embodied awareness
• Fire as humanity's original meditation teacher and symbol of community
• Why authenticity may be even more powerful than gratitude
• Breath, rhythm, movement, and ceremony as pathways to healing trauma and restoring connection
• What India, Ghana, and Indigenous traditions teach us about community, elders, and sacred daily practice
• How dance, drumming, ritual, and collective movement help transform grief into resilience
• Finding spirituality beyond religion or belief systems
• What it means to become a firekeeper for yourself, your community, and future generations
  
  

This episode is not just a conversation about yoga; it is an invitation to return to the wisdom of the body, the pulse of the earth, and the fire that has always united humanity around the world. It asks: In an age of artificial intelligence, are we ready to listen to our ancient intelligence?

Social Links for Shiva Rea:

• Website - https://shivarea.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shivarea108/
• Facebook - https://web.facebook.com/shivarea108?_rdc=1&_rdr#
• Book: Tending the Heart Fire: Living in Flow with the Pulse of Life
  
  

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• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
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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

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

What if the world outside of us is a mirror of what we have collectively imagined, denied, and disowned? And, what if the figures and systems we condemn are reflections of the shadow parts of ourselves?

In this episode, our host Hawah Kasat sits down with Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of The Body Is Not an Apology, poet, activist, teacher, and visionary voice in radical self-love and collective liberation, for her second appearance on Everlutionary. Their first conversation explored home, belonging, Israel and Palestine, possessiveness, ego, and radical love. This time, they return to the thread they left open: POWER.

This episode is not just about imagination as fantasy. It is about imagination as power. From Elon Musk and extreme wealth to the stories we tell about scarcity, separation, and who deserves what, Sonya and Hawah ask what we are unconsciously creating together and what it would take to create something else. 

What We Explore:

• The difference between surrendering by choice and surrendering by collapse
• Evolutionary love as the force reconciling life back to wholeness
• The role of free will in how we participate in evolution
• Why power lives in what we are able to imagine
• How collective imagination shapes the people, systems, and realities we live in
• Is Elon Musk a manifestation of collective desire and disowned shadow?
• The difference between power over and power with
• What it means to become intimate with complicity
• How shadow work invites us to love the parts of ourselves we reject in others
  
  

This episode is a reminder that imagination is not passive. It is creative, collective, and alive. If we are powerful enough to manifest the systems and figures we fear, perhaps we are also powerful enough to imagine something more whole.
Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Patreon (Bonus Episodes) - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Everlutionary
• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
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Social Links for Sonya Renee Taylor:

• Website - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/
• Book - The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
• Book - The Book of Radical Answers

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 almost everything we've been taught about peace is wrong? What if the greatest threat to our future isn't political polarization—but the trauma beneath it?

In a world increasingly defined by outrage, division, and "us versus them" thinking, peace can feel naïve. But what if we've misunderstood peace all along?

In this conversation, Hawah sits down with peacebuilder, author, and nonviolence trainer Kazu Haga to explore why violence is more than war or physical harm—and why healing our collective trauma may be one of the most important forms of activism available to us.

Drawing from the legacies of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Buddhist philosophy, and decades of organizing for social justice, Kazu offers a radically different vision of nonviolence: not passive resistance, but an active practice of remembering that we belong to one another.
Together, Hawah and Kazu explore what it means to move beyond binary thinking, why justice requires more than simply ending conflict, and how fierce vulnerability can transform the way we engage with our families, communities, political opponents, and ourselves.

This conversation also ventures into one of the most inspiring parts of Kazu's work: his practice of the gift economy. By publicly sharing his family's finances and inviting people to give according to relationship rather than obligation, Kazu offers a living experiment in building communities rooted in trust and reciprocity, while directly challenging the engine of capitalism.

Whether you're exhausted by political division, grieving fractured relationships, working for justice, or simply searching for a more hopeful way to be human, this episode offers something increasingly rare: Not easy answers—but a different way to see.

What We Explore:

• Why political polarization is often a symptom of collective trauma—not simply ideological disagreement.
• The difference between "negative peace" and "positive peace," and how this important distinction creates the foundation for healing our communities
• How trauma pushes us into binary thinking—and what it takes to recover nuance, compassion, and connection.
• Why the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence remains one of the most relevant frameworks for today's world.
• How ancient traditions like “Ahimsa” continue to offer practical wisdom for modern crises.
• The role of nervous system regulation, grief, and emotional healing in creating lasting social change.
• What the gift economy can teach us about generosity, interdependence, and reimagining our economic systems.

If you've ever wondered how we move beyond outrage, beyond polarization, and beyond simply winning arguments, this conversation offers another possibility. Not a path toward defeating one another—but toward healing together.

About Our Guest:

Kazu has spent over 25 years teaching nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, and mindfulness in prisons, high schools, universities, and faith communities across the United States. His newest book, Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma and Emerging from Collapse, brings together the ancient lineage of nonviolence with cutting-edge science on trauma, the nervous system, and collective healing.
Bonus Practice:
After listening, be sure to check out the bonus meditation where Kazu guides a contemplative practice on interdependence and the gift economy, helping transform these ideas from philosophy into lived experience. You can unlock the bonus episode by becoming a member of the Everlutionary Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Everlutionary

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Patreon (Bonus Episodes) - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Everlutionary
• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hawahkasat/
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Insight Timer - https://insighttimer.com/HawahKasat
• Everlutionary Merch: https://everlutionary.creator-spring.com/
  
  

Social Links for Kazu Haga:

• Website - https://www.kazuhaga.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kazu_haga
• Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/kazuhaga
• Book - Fierce Vulnerability Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
  
  

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 happens when an injury becomes a teacher?
After a six-month hiatus from the podcast, Hawah returns with a deeply personal reflection on healing, shame, grief, and our profound interdependence with one another.
What began as a seemingly ordinary day in the ocean turned into a serious accident, months of hidden pain, and the discovery of a fractured collarbone that had been missed on initial X-rays. But this episode is not really about a broken bone. It is about the stories we tell ourselves when we are hurting. It is about isolation, self-reliance, vulnerability, and the ways many of us try to carry our burdens alone.

Drawing from his own healing journey, Hawah explores the relationship between individual healing and collective healing, asking what becomes possible when we stop pretending that our suffering is private. Why do so many of us hide our pain? What happens when grief has nowhere to go? And what would it mean to build a culture that knows how to metabolize harm without reproducing it?
Along the way, he reflects on wellness culture, nervous system regulation, trauma, violence, community, and the myth of separation that lies at the heart of so many of our individual and societal wounds.
What We Explore:

• Why healing in isolation can deepen suffering
• The hidden relationship between shame and self-reliance
• The difference between personal healing and collective healing
• How grief becomes addiction, domination, numbness, and violence when it has nowhere to go
• What it means to metabolize harm without reproducing it
• Why no community, culture, or society heals alone
• How repairing our relationship with each other is inseparable from repairing our relationship with the Earth
  
  

This episode is about more than a broken collarbone; it explores the deeper question of whether we can heal the fractures between us.

Welcome back to Everlutionary.

Additional Resource Episode:

"What is Collective Healing" a Podcast hosted by Matthew Green
Special Episode with Hawah Kasat and Reggie Hubbard Discussing Collective Healing in a Time of Collapse
on SPOTIFY - http://bit.ly/4vsHlzi
on Apple - https://apple.co/4g76VoZ

Social Links for Hawah Kasat:

• Patreon (Bonus Episodes) - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Everlutionary
• Linktree - https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
• Website - https://hawahkasat.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hawahkasat/
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@everlutionary
• Insight Timer - https://insighttimer.com/HawahKasat
• 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 

The Everlutionary Podcast - Episode 41Let Go and Let Grow: Breaking Patterns, Resting on Purpose, and a New Year Reset!
As 2025 comes to a close and we cross into 2026, the Gregorian New Year inevitably invites reflection. This is the season of resolutions, big declarations, bold promises, and the familiar hope that this year will finally be different. But what if real change doesn’t come from resolutions at all? What if it comes from the habits we practice quietly, imperfectly, every single day?

And what if, before rushing forward, this moment is actually asking us to pause?
To breathe.
To recalibrate.

In this intimate solo episode, Hawah Kasat returns after a brief pause to reflect on a year shaped by heartbreak, transition, leadership, and deep inner reorientation. Speaking candidly from Roots to Sky Sanctuary in the Appalachian Mountains, Hawah invites listeners into an unscripted reflection on endings and beginnings, and the courage it takes to interrupt old patterns instead of blindly repeating them.

From stepping away from a long-term partnership, to returning east after time in California, to serving as Interim Executive Director of Youth Speaks, this episode traces the often invisible emotional and spiritual labor behind a year of constant movement and responsibility. Hawah explores what it means to release commitments that no longer serve, to redefine success beyond productivity, and to choose rest, not as withdrawal, but as resistance in a culture addicted to urgency.

As the Gregorian year comes to a close, Hawah shares why he’s temporarily pausing the podcast, how revolutionary rest challenges capitalism’s grip on time, and why habits, not resolutions, are the real foundation for sustainable change. The episode closes with a gentle guided breathing practice, offering listeners a moment to ground, soften, and arrive fully in the present.

This is not an episode about having it all figured out. It’s about honoring the in between, the cocoon, the breath, the quiet space where what’s next begins to emerge.
What We’ll Explore

• Why interrupting patterns can be just as important as honoring commitments
• Heartbreak, uncoupling, and choosing growth over certainty
• Living nomadically and the search for home and rootedness
• Revolutionary rest as a challenge to hustle culture and capitalism
• Why habits matter more than resolutions
• Creating space for imagination, discernment, and realistic dreaming
• How slowing down makes room for clarity, joy, and purpose
  
  

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 happens when the wellness industry becomes the very thing we need to detox from? Why are some people more comfortable buying crystals than confronting capitalism? What if your yoga practice, your organic groceries, and your mindfulness apps aren’t actually making the world more just?


In this unflinching, gloves-off episode, host Hawah Kasat sits down with movement artist, community organizer, and wellness activist Kerri Kelly, author of American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal. Together, they dive headfirst into the uncomfortable—but wildly necessary—conversation about how Western wellness has been built on the same inequities it claims to fix.


Kerri shares her deeply personal awakening: from losing her stepfather on 9/11, to falling into the wellness industry, to realizing she was replicating harmful systems she thought she was escaping. She breaks down how myths like separation, supremacy, and scarcity seep into our bodies, our spirituality, and our “self-care,” and how real healing requires confronting the systems making us sick—capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism.


Hawah and Kerri also explore collective care, the collapse of old changemaking strategies, the limits of personal wellness, the rise of mutual aid, the politics of abundance vs. scarcity, and the cultural importance of boycotting extractive corporations in favor of community-based economies.


This episode is a masterclass in expanding our definition of wellness from personal optimization to collective liberation.

What We’ll Explore:

• Why Western wellness often reinforces the same inequities it claims to heal
• The myths of separation, supremacy, and scarcity — and how they shape our bodies
• What “detoxing from America” really means (hint: it’s not just juice cleanses)
• The story of Kerri’s stepfather, a 9/11 firefighter whose legacy shaped her activism
• Why the spiritual abundance mindset can actually feed capitalism
• How personal healing is inseparable from collective healing
• Why self-care without structural change is insufficient
• Where we still hold entitlement in our bodies—even when our minds “know better”
• How consumerism, corporate wellness, and political apathy keep us unwell
• The ways to direct our spending and purchasing power to support smaller economies and businesses
• How to build new systems of wellbeing in a collapsing world
• Why discomfort, conflict, and messiness are essential to transformation
  
  

Notable Quotes:
(12:35) “We don’t need more juice fasts and yoga fads. We need to detox from white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism.” — Kerri Kelly


(14:55) “America has exported wellness culture across the planet — and in doing so, has damaged traditions, indigeneity, and ancient ways of being.” — Hawah Kasat


(18:48) “Abundance culture is often just capitalism in spiritual drag.” — Hawah Kasat


(22:42) “My body has been trained to believe it is innocent, superior, entitled — even if my mind knows that’s not true.” — Kerri Kelly


(27:35) “Mindfulness is not going to end racism. Eating organic won’t feed hungry people.” — Kerri Kelly


(29:30) “If I’m only focused on my Ayahuasca retreat and not on the community I return to… I’m missing the mark.” — Hawah Kasat


(33:50) “We’ve been told to reach for the power ‘out there’ instead of cultivating the power in here.” — Kerri Kelly


(39:50) “How do we take care of us? Because the government is not coming to save us.” — Kerri Kelly


(54:05) “None of us can be well when so many people are suffering.” — Kerri Kelly


(56:35) “The work is building the capacity to hold messiness, discomfort, contradiction — because that is the reality of this moment.” — Kerri Kelly


Social Links for Kerri Kelly
Website - https://www.americandetox.co/ 
Book - https://www.americandetox.co/book
CTZNWELL - https://www.ctznwell.org/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/ 


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/
  
  

Episode Music Credit:
Wu-tang Clan, “C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)”
https://youtu.be/4yNQ7_7I5aE?si=Opcyq31js4ckwHuK



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 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
• (05:09) NYC mayoral election & media reactions
• (06:25) New York City’s cultural significance
• (08:42) Twisted narratives around socialism
• (11:08) Billionaires’ fear of fairness
• (12:40) Comedian Josh Johnson on capitalism
• (16:06) European social policies vs. U.S. narratives
• (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
• (28:11) Staggering wealth inequality
• (29:28) Josh Johnson on billionaire opposition
• (30:58) Redefining success & pandemic profiteering
• (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

Notable Quotes:

• “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

• “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

• “Our evolution as a human species and our collective survival depend on billionaires becoming obsolete.”— Hawah Kasat

• “Zohran Mamdani 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

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

• “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

Check out the new Everlutionary Podcast Merch 

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