NO. 237 Ambitious but Spiritual with Kyley and Eva

Kyley and Eva explore the real roots of burnout, the difference between desire and proving, and why so many people feel torn between achievement and inner alignment. They unwind the cultural belief that you must choose between being connected to your soul and creating a successful life, and offer a grounded alternative: ambition becomes nourishing when it’s linked to desire instead of fear.

A listener asks: 

Hello Universe. I'm feeling overwhelmed by hustle culture and the constant push to achieve more. I'm ambitious and I want a life that feels successful, but I also feel like I'm burning out. Can ambition and spirituality actually coexist, or am I trying to merge two things that don't fit? How do I find balance when one part of me wants to go  big and another part just wants to breathe? Signed Ambitious, but Spiritual.

What we cover in this episode:
✨ Why burnout is a signal, not a personal failure
🌱 The difference between ambition and desire (and why one drains you while the other fuels you)
🌀 How proving-energy pulls us into chasing, urgency, and depletion
💭 Relearning how to listen to your desire when it’s buried under productivity culture
🔥 Why the stories we carry about success often trace back to capitalism, colonialism, and old survival strategies
💗 The emotional vulnerability of receiving, resting, and telling the truth about what you need
💫 How presence creates the kind of impact hustle alone never can
🛑 The role of safety: why rest, desire, and “being” can feel uncomfortable at first
🌿 What it looks like to let parts of your identity crumble so something truer can take shape
🌈 How clarity about who you are shifts your definition of success
🎢 Parenting, intuition, and the small everyday initiations that mirror the bigger spiritual journey
🌙 Why being comes before doing, and why everything changes when you let that become your internal compass  

This episode is a conversation about returning to yourself, honoring the truth of what you want now, and letting being - not doing - become the source of your impact.