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Ever scroll for an hour and feel like everything online has started to look, sound, and feel the same? In this episode of Monsoon Season, I talk about a strange, steamy fable about a fisherwoman and the husband she asks a basket maker to make her, and the storyline in it that nobody is talking about. If you’re a creative who’s tired of the sameness and quietly wondering whether your own taste is worth betting on, this one is for you.

CHAPTERS

00:00 | Opening

00:59 | The Film I Can’t Stop Thinking About

03:23 | The Storyline Nobody Talks About

06:41 | The Price Of Choosing A Different Path

11:08 | They Secretly Want What You Have

12:35 | Double Down On The Weird

16:05 | Everything Is Practice

17:07 | The Fisherwoman Gets The Happily Ever After

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Asa Yee is a meditation teacher, writer, and host of Monsoon Season, a podcast exploring self-mastery, radical vulnerability, and the messy, nonlinear process of becoming who you’re here to be. With over 20 years of meditation practice and 15 years in the creative industry, her work lives at the intersection of culture and consciousness, rooted in the belief that vulnerability is the path to true self-mastery.

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Ever feel like you're putting your work and creativity into the world, but nothing is coming back? In this episode, I share a kismet moment while walking my dog that arrived just when I needed a reminder to keep creating, trust the vision, and let go of the need for immediate validation. If you've been wondering whether any of it is landing, consider this your sign to KEEP GOING.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 | Opening

00:58 | A Slow Morning Walk

01:43 | The Neighbor Who Found My Substack

03:31 | Why I Refuse To Write For One Avatar

08:03 | Ask For A Sign

10:03 | We Are Creating To Connect

12:14 | Somebody Needs Your Words

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Monsoon Season is a self-mastery podcast for sensitive creatives and founders.

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What if building a business is the most honest meditation practice you’ll ever try? In this episode of Monsoon Season, I share the quote that let me stop treating my work and my practice as opposites, and the five things your business will keep revealing about your mind, from how you handle outcomes to how you handle not knowing. If you’re a sensitive creative building something big and noticing how much of it is really inner work, this one is for you.

CHAPTERS

00:00 | Opening

00:58 | The Quote That Reframed Everything

03:31 | Lesson 1: Your Business Reveals Your Mind

05:21 | Lesson 2: Detach From The Outcome, Keep The Vision

12:07 | Lesson 3: Be Present With Uncertainty

18:03 | Lesson 4: Discover Who You Are Beneath Your Conditioning

23:28 | Lesson 5: Learn The Difference Between Forcing And Allowing

30:20 | Take One Nugget With You

32:53 | You Are Deeply Seen And Deeply Loved

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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 CODA's Oscar winner Troy Kotsur's 35-year journey taught me about resilience and mastering your craft, why the urge to change strategy is loudest when you're doubting yourself, and what Dancing with the Stars reveals about the cost of half sending your goals. If you're doing the work and not being seen for it yet, this is your reminder to stay the course, trust the process, and keep going. I see you. I love you.

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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 return to our old identities, how to gradually “turn up” your internal thermostat, and what it actually takes to stop identifying with the thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs that no longer belong to you.

I share what my meditation teacher training taught me about choosing how you show up, how I slowly learned to call myself a podcast host, and why I’m currently working through this identity shift around my health and fitness.

Because sometimes the resistance to becoming someone new isn’t a sign that you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes it’s grief for the version of you that got you here.

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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 very little external evidence that your effort is working, and how to keep going without losing faith in yourself. Through the metaphor of bamboo and Doechii’s creative journey, I’m exploring invisible growth, staying open to evolution, and what it means to keep your light on when doubt starts creeping in.

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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 about creative work, starting again, and why sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is simply get the rep in.

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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 calling. We talk about the emptiness that can live inside recognition, even the kind you spent years chasing. We talk about her grandmother, and what it means to inherit someone's unshakeability. We talk about leaving New York without a plan, about what she calls the founder flu, and about building a meditationwear brand that asks a simple, disruptive question: what would it look like to build an institution around wisdom instead of around whatever we're currently worshipping. It's a conversation about fashion as portal, and the long practice of becoming someone you don't need proof to believe in yet.

*This episode was recorded on July 10, 2026.

Chapters

• 00:00 | Welcome & Anchoring Ritual
• 04:46 | Introducing Anushka Joshi & Sovereign Studios
• 07:52 | Her Grandmother's Unshakeability
• 13:07 | Skills Borrowed From a Girlboss Past
• 15:34 | Forbes 30 Under 30: The Emptiness of Arrival
• 20:15 | "You're Not Supposed to Feel Like You Have to Faint"
• 26:32 | Leaving New York Without a Plan
• 38:01 | Founder Flu: Fear, Doubt, and Expansion That Hurts
• 46:15 | Sovereign Studios as the Patagonia of Meditation
• 50:59 | Clothing as a Portal Into Practice
• 55:19 | Returning to Practice When You've Fallen Off
• 57:51 | Future Self Meditation & Closing Wisdom

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