hilove.one | The Podcast

About hilove.one | The Podcast

🎧  hilove.one | Our way Home 🇨🇦  The Podcast Welcome to hilove.one, a space for real stories, quiet reflection, and the art of being human. Each episode invites you to slow down — to listen, to feel, and to remember what it means to walk this life together. Through poetry, voice, and conversation, we explore love, loss, time, and the beauty of simply being. This isn’t about self-help. It’s about being seen, hearing your own heart, and finding our way home — one moment, one breath, one story at a time. 🌐 Website: hilove.one (https://www.hilove.one) 📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before (https://a.co/d/64pWcJ1) 🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean (https://hiloveone.podbean.com) 🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/hiloveone) 📸 Instagram: hilove.one | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kevinlmackay) 🎨 Art: hilove.one | Instagram Art (https://www.instagram.com/kevinlmackay_art) 💬 Threads: hilove.one | Threads (https://www.threads.net/@kevinlmackay) 📘 Facebook: hilove.one | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kevinleemackay) ✨ Created and hosted by Kevin Lee MacKay Listen anywhere you get your podcasts or visit https://www.hilove.one/ (https://www.hilove.one/) - Kevin Lee MacKay 🇨🇦

Publisher

Kevin Lee MacKay

Category

education · health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Apr 2025

Latest episode

19 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Feb 2026

   Season 2 Episode 4 | The Day I Let Myself Be Ordinary

   Episode 4 — The Day I Let Myself Be Ordinary Season 2 | Our Way Home Episode 4 is about stepping out of performance and into permission. The Day I Let Myself Be Ordinary explores what happens when we stop trying to manage, fix, or explain ourselves — and allow life to be lived without polish or emotional excellence. Set in the quiet rhythms of everyday Canadian life, this episode reflects on neutrality as regulation, ordinariness as honesty, and calm as a form of strength. This is not an episode about giving up.It’s about letting go with grace. Episode 4 speaks to those who have learned to stay composed, to de-escalate, to carry the emotional weight so others don’t have to — and who are beginning to feel the cost of always showing up “well.” It asks what becomes possible when we stop performing clarity and simply remain present. This episode also gently reflects on technology and AI — not as something to optimize ourselves with, but as a mirror for language that can help us hear our own thoughts more clearly, without demanding improvement or speed. If you’ve been tired of translating your needs,if calm has been mistaken for distance,if ordinariness has felt like failure — this episode is an invitation to rest inside who you already are. Discussion Question Where in your life might being ordinary be the most honest thing you can offer right now? 🎵 Music Credit “Easy (Instrumental Version)” — Summer HaizeArtlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/easy-instrumental-version/136318 🔗 Links 🌐 hilove.one — https://hilove.one🕯 Letters by Lantern (Substack) — https://lettersbylantern.substack.com📸 Instagram — @hilove.one — https://www.instagram.com/hilove.one

2. 

   5 Feb 2026

   Season 2 Episode 3 | The Body Kept The Score

   🎙️ Episode 3 — The Body Kept the Score Season 2 | Our Way Home Episode 3 turns our attention from thinking to listening — not with the mind, but with the body. The Body Kept the Score explores how our bodies carry what we postpone: stress, grief, responsibility, adaptation, and the quiet work of endurance. Set against Canadian landscapes and seasonal rhythms, this episode reflects on how we learn to “push through,” how resilience can become silence, and what happens when the body finally asks to be believed. This episode isn’t about diagnosis or fixing.It’s about attention.About learning the language of breath, tension, fatigue, and rest.About noticing the moment just before the body has to shout. Episode 3 also gently contrasts the world of measurement — data, tracking, systems, and AI — with lived experience. While technology can inform and support care, the body remains the final authority. Healing begins not with optimization, but with compassion. If you’ve been tired in ways sleep doesn’t touch,if you’ve adapted without noticing the cost,if your body has been asking for something you haven’t had words for yet — this episode is an invitation to slow down and listen. Discussion Question What has your body been carrying lately that deserves more care — not more endurance? 🌐 hilove.one (Website / Podcast Hub)https://hilove.one 📘 Book — The Moment Just Beforehttps://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moment+Just+Before+Kevin+MacKay 🕯 Substack — Letters by Lanternhttps://lettersbylantern.substack.com 📸 Instagram — @hilove.onehttps://www.instagram.com/hilove.one Music Credits Story & Intro: Homeward — Artlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/homeward/6000066 Additional Soundtrack: Impossible Things (Creative Cut – Dreamy) — Doug Kaufman, Artlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/impossible-things-creative-cut-dreamy/138152 Outro: Epicness — Artlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/epicness/2451

3. 

   23 Jan 2026

   Season 2 Episode 2 | What I Learned When I Stopped Fixing

   🎙️  Season 2 Episode 2 | What I Learned When I Stopped Fixing Set against open Canadian landscapes and quiet threshold moments, this episode explores what happens when we pause in the moment just before action, before explanation, before control, before trying to make everything hold together. Episode 2 reflects on how we’ve learned to live faster over the last hundred years, how technology, AI, has accelerated our thinking, and why this turning point in human history calls us back to mindfulness, authenticity, and compassion. AI is approached not as an authority or replacement for human connection, but as a reflective mirror made of language. It is a tool that can help us access our own thinking more clearly, if we stay present and discerning. As the world moves faster, this episode gently insists on what cannot be automated:real food, real music, real character, real presence and our responsibility to remain connected to one another. Our Way Home is a quiet, cinematic podcast about being human in a world that moves fast. Hosted by Canadian poet, storyteller, and educator Kevin MacKay, Our Way Home explores presence, poetry, ordinary life, memory, healing, creativity, and the shared work of remembering who we are beneath expectation, noise, and performance. Each episode unfolds slowly — in kitchens, quiet rooms, classrooms, open landscapes, long days, and the spaces in between. These are not conversations about fixing yourself or finding perfect answers. They are invitations to listen more closely, to stay with what’s real, and to walk through life with greater honesty and care. Season 2 gently expands the conversation to include living alongside modern technology and AI — not as something to fear, and not as something to follow blindly — but as a companion we learn to walk beside without losing our grounding, our humanity, or our compassion for one another. This podcast is for anyone who feels the weight of becoming.For those learning to slow down without falling behind.For anyone who needs a place to breathe. You don’t have to arrive anywhere.You’re welcome exactly as you are. We’re still walking each other home. — Kevin Lee MacKay 🎵 Music Credits Intro & Story Music: “Homeward” — ArtlistOutro Music: “Epicness” — ArtlistSeason 2 Additional Soundtrack: “Cloud 9” by Louis Island — Artlist 🔗 Links 🌐 Website: https://hilove.one📘 Book — The Moment Just Before: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moment+Just+Before+Kevin+MacKay🕯 Substack — Letters by Lantern: https://lettersbylantern.substack.com

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