We recently had the chance to connect with Hector Arencibia and have shared our conversation below.
Hector, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
The first 90 minutes of my day are entirely inward.
I begin with two rounds of japa, moving through a mala of 108 beads—letting repetition quiet the mind and attune my inner rhythm. From there, I sit in Transcendental Meditation for thirty minutes, allowing the nervous system to settle into stillness and coherence.
After meditation, I return to japa for another full round, deepening the sense of presence and alignment. I then write in my gratitude practice and remain there—not rushing, not performing—simply sitting in appreciation and awareness.
During these first 90 minutes, I don’t engage with the outside world at all. No messages. No noise. No demands. It’s a sacred window of internal work—devotion, stillness, and gratitude—where the tone of the entire day is set from the inside out.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m the founder and owner of The Universe Unveiled, a story studio devoted to exploring identity—how who we believe ourselves to be shapes the reality we experience. At its core, the work is about subconscious reprogramming, not through instruction or hype, but through story.
We tell these stories through long-form essays, visual worlds, and unconventional experiments that blend myth, psychology, athletes, artists, and lived experience. Rather than separating spirituality from real life, the studio weaves them together—showing how imagination, belief, and self-concept quietly govern everything from performance to destiny.
What makes the project especially unique is how the stories don’t live only on screens. They move into the physical world.
One of the most meaningful recent projects is Messages from the Universe, a public street-art experiment that turned everyday city landscapes into portals of reflection. Red shoes were hung over power lines—an image often dismissed as urban folklore—and paired with QR codes inviting passersby into a moment of pause, curiosity, and inner dialogue. There was no explanation, no instruction—just placement. Meaning emerged through encounter.
That’s the heart of the work: creating conditions where people recognize something in themselves without being told what to think. Whether through essays, visuals, or public installations, The Universe Unveiled is less about teaching and more about revealing—allowing identity, attention, and imagination to do what they already know how to do.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
The relationship that has most shaped how I see myself is the one I have with myself.
Not in a surface-level or self-help sense, but in learning to sit with the “I Am”—to observe who I am beneath roles, expectations, and narratives I once inherited. That relationship has been built through stillness, attention, and a willingness to listen rather than perform.
As I’ve learned to relate to myself with honesty and presence, everything else has recalibrated. My work, my creativity, and my relationships with others began to reflect that clarity. The more familiar I became with my inner world, the less I needed external validation to define me.
That ongoing relationship—with awareness itself—has become the foundation for how I move through life and how I create.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
If I could say one kind thing to my younger self, it would simply be: I love you.
That’s something I still practice. Whenever memories of my younger self surface, I meet them with love rather than judgment. I speak to that version of me with kindness and presence, allowing what once felt unresolved to soften and integrate.
It’s a way of healing the timeline—not by rewriting the past, but by changing the relationship I have with it. And in doing so, the present becomes lighter, more whole.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes—the public version of me is the real me.
Authenticity has been central to everything I’ve built. I don’t see myself as having separate versions for public and private life; what you see is what’s there. That consistency—being the same in solitude as I am in expression—has been key to my success.
When you stop performing and start being honest, things align naturally. Trust builds. The work deepens. And there’s a quiet freedom in not having to manage an image—just living from who you are.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I’m doing what I was born to do.
For a long time, like most people, I absorbed expectations—ideas about who to be, how to live, what success should look like. But over time, those layers fell away. What’s left now feels like dharma—a natural alignment between who I am and how I live.
No one tells me what to do. I wake up each morning responsible for my own life, my time, and my direction. That sovereignty is deeply fulfilling. There’s nothing louder than clarity, and nothing more freeing than living in alignment with it.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.theuniverseunveiled.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hector_jesus_arencibia/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq__iUSPaZ8bYx4Kpo4IbPQ
- Other: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7I78qRXWvR9Lu44HMr74vP
