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Stephanie Banks · Postcards to the Universe

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Capria. Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe in magic? What if you were told that
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  Speaker 1: all you had to do was get a little creative
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  Speaker 1: and work a magic spell to bring anything you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine into your life. Here on Postcards to the Universe,
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  Speaker 1: we will share manifesting tips, postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Melissa Capria.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everybody, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with
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  Speaker 2: Melissa creating the life you crave. How are you guys doing,
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  Speaker 2: Happy holiday season? Whatever you celebrate. I love this time
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  Speaker 2: of year. Christmas is my favorite, so I got super excited.
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  Speaker 2: Actually it starts right Halloween and then like this is
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  Speaker 2: my favorite time. Like I love I love the celebrating,
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  Speaker 2: I love the decorating, I love the.
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  Speaker 3: Lights, I love the movies, all of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope wherever you are listening, that you are
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  Speaker 2: having a wonderful holiday season with the people that you love.
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  Speaker 2: And I know how stressful how the holidays can be, and
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  Speaker 2: I know for many people it's difficult, especially if you
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  Speaker 2: are missing someone Like this is I think our second Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Is this our second Christmas without my sister or third Now,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, time is just flying. Yeah, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's always that, but I still choose to celebrate with
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are here that I love, and she
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  Speaker 2: would want me to do that, and I talk to
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  Speaker 2: her every day, so I still feel very, very connected
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  Speaker 2: to her, So I wish that for you.
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  Speaker 3: Also. I have a really cool show today.
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  Speaker 2: I have Intuitive Channel Stephanie Banks as my guest, and
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  Speaker 2: she's going to join me in just a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Just found out that Stephanie lives really close to me,
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  Speaker 2: so her and I are going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: together and meet in person.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So to my regulars, I just want to say
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming back week after week.
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  Speaker 2: I get your postcards, I get your messages. It means
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  Speaker 2: the world to me. And if you're joining me for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, I want to say welcome, thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for being here. I hope you enjoy the show,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope that you come back.
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  Speaker 3: And listen to more of my shows.
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  Speaker 2: I usually, probably ninety nine point nine percent of the
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  Speaker 2: time have a guest, almost one hundred percent, and I
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  Speaker 2: find the coolest people to be on my show that
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  Speaker 2: are doing such amazing work. So you can always go
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  Speaker 2: go back and listen to old shows. We put them
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  Speaker 2: up on Home Times Radio Archives and there's a description
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  Speaker 2: in each show. And I also take the show and
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  Speaker 2: put it on Postcards to the Universe dot com under podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing, description about what the show is about is
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  Speaker 2: about the show is on there, and yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: love it if you guys would keep listening and share
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  Speaker 2: it with your friends as Also, the shows go on
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  Speaker 2: all the podcasting platforms, so you don't even have to
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  Speaker 2: go to my website or own time. So you can
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  Speaker 2: be on Apple, you can be on Google Play, you
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  Speaker 2: could be at Spotify, whatever your choice is.
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  Speaker 3: We are everywhere, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 2: So a little bit about me before I talked to Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an author, I'm a photographer. I'm an artist, and
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  Speaker 2: I had a book come out five years ago already
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  Speaker 2: and it's called Postcards to the Universe Univers's Power and
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  Speaker 2: manifest Your Dreams. I like to talk about manifesting and
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  Speaker 2: I like to use creativity as a tool for manifesting,
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  Speaker 2: and I use photography. So what I do is I
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  Speaker 2: have people create manifesting postcards kind of like a vision board,
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  Speaker 2: but like a postcard size, and people send them to me.
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  Speaker 2: I photograph them, and when they're manifestation shows up in
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  Speaker 2: their reality, I share their story.
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  Speaker 3: And that's basically what the book is about.
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  Speaker 2: There's thirty postcards that I photographed and stories in the book,
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  Speaker 2: and it's broken up in love, money, health, career, and
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  Speaker 2: abundance in so many areas. I have fun writing exercises
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  Speaker 2: and tools and fun games to manifesting more money or
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  Speaker 2: to bring love into your life or health.
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  Speaker 3: So that's all in the book.
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  Speaker 2: As the five years has been coming up, I rephotographed
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  Speaker 2: the postcards because it's changed the way I was photographing
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  Speaker 2: them very much during COVID, and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: when I do the second edition that will have the
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  Speaker 2: new photographs with the stories. So that has been fun
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  Speaker 2: to go back and see how much it's changed for
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  Speaker 2: me in the last five years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the five years went by like so fast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you guys, but I swear I
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  Speaker 2: feel like time.
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  Speaker 3: Is moving faster. I really do. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I just want to say that I love getting
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  Speaker 2: manifesting postcards. You can find out how to make one
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  Speaker 2: and how to send one or where to send one
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  Speaker 2: on postcards to the universe dot com. I have the
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  Speaker 2: information there. It's a perfect time to create one. What
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  Speaker 2: do you want to bring in in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: So think about it, make a postcard on it and
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  Speaker 2: send it and just send me a little email let
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  Speaker 2: me know that it's in the mail.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, there's so much fun to do.
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  Speaker 2: They work, They really do because because I get people
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  Speaker 2: tell me all the time, oh my god, You're never
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  Speaker 2: gonna believe it. I manifested what I wrote on my postcard,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, yes, I do believe it.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 2: And then I get to have this show and meet
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  Speaker 2: amazing guests, like this person who I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking to right now. So let me tell you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about Stephanie Banks. She is a highly sought
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  Speaker 2: after intuitive channel mentor and guide and she helps people
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  Speaker 2: connect on the soul level. She channels from the perspective
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  Speaker 2: of any soul currently on the planet. Souls on the
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  Speaker 2: other side purely non physical beings such as.
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  Speaker 3: Spirit eyes as well as trees. I love that so much.
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  Speaker 2: Animals and gaia connection and communication are the common themes
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  Speaker 2: in all of Stephanie's professional endeavors as a speech language pathologist,
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  Speaker 2: birth doula, lactation consultant, infant, message and massage instructor, and
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  Speaker 2: intuitive channel. When her mother's dementia made verbal communication impossible,
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  Speaker 2: Stephanie found ways to communicate with her mother's soul, and
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  Speaker 2: this was the beginning of her channeling journey. As a
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  Speaker 2: conscious channel, she is both the vessel to receive the
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  Speaker 2: messages as well as a guide to provide depth and
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  Speaker 2: context for the information coming through. She uses her keen
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  Speaker 2: sense of humor, love, and compassion to join her clients
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  Speaker 2: in their spiritual experience. Stephanie also mentors clients in discerning
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  Speaker 2: their own inner voice of wisdom, enhancing their confidence and
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  Speaker 2: self trust, improving their relationships, clarifying their soul's purpose, and
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  Speaker 2: finding their laughter and joy. She is the author of
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  Speaker 2: the bestseller Joining Jonie, Staying Connected to Your Loved One
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  Speaker 2: Through Dementia and Beyond. Stephanie is currently completing her second
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  Speaker 2: book about her spiritual journey, and she has a ted
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  Speaker 2: talk called I Am an Intuitive Channel, where she shares
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  Speaker 2: her unexpected experience with channeling and invites others to discover
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  Speaker 2: their own intuitive Gifts, So to learn more about her,
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  Speaker 2: you could go to her website, which is soul.
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  Speaker 3: Insight dot com. Welcome Stephanie, thanks for being here with
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  Speaker 3: me today.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Melissa.
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  Speaker 5: I love the work you're up to you in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so fun like mine is the fun stuff, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like I always tell everybody, you got to do the
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  Speaker 2: inner work. You got to find out what story you're
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  Speaker 2: telling yourself, see the right people, see the right healers, clear.
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  Speaker 3: All that out.
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  Speaker 6: And then once you do all that, then you come
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  Speaker 6: to me, and then we go into the playground and
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  Speaker 6: we have some fun and we make some magic. Right,
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  Speaker 6: That's what we have to do because we do have
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  Speaker 6: to know what's going on inside, right, what our subconscious
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  Speaker 6: is really doing, because we may say we want things,
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  Speaker 6: but then subconsciously if we don't think we deserve the
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  Speaker 6: things we say we want.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that doesn't it doesn't come right. But a
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  Speaker 2: lot of programming a lot. I am super interested in
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  Speaker 2: your story about where you got into the channeling with
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  Speaker 2: your mom. Can you share a little bit about like
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  Speaker 2: how that unfolded for you?
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  Speaker 4: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'll just define channeling in my definition of
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  Speaker 5: it okay. To me, channeling is just connecting to divine
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  Speaker 5: energy and wisdom, and that is something that flows within
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  Speaker 5: all of us. But again, we're sometimes oftentimes conditioned away
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  Speaker 5: from it. And I didn't grow up with any you know,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't grow up seeing people on the other side
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  Speaker 5: or having any kind of out of the ordinary experiences.
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  Speaker 5: So when my mother was diagnosed with dementia, she was
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  Speaker 5: actually quite young. Her dementia started in her fifties, and
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  Speaker 5: it took a while before we got the proper diagnosis.
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  Speaker 5: So there was a lot of struggle in our relationship
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  Speaker 5: just to sort out what all of these personality changes
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  Speaker 5: and cognitive changes and difficulties were.
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  Speaker 4: But with dementia, eventually.
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  Speaker 5: What typically happens is you start to lose your ability
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  Speaker 5: to communicate clearly, either what you express or what you understand,
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  Speaker 5: and sometimes both. So I knew from being a clinician
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  Speaker 5: with my speech pathology background, that I didn't have a
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  Speaker 5: lot of time to have a good relationship with my mom.
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  Speaker 5: You know, soon we were going to find ourselves where
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  Speaker 5: communication at all was just going to be too difficult,
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  Speaker 5: and I needed to find a way to stay connected
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  Speaker 5: to her that transcended traditional communication. So Lucky for me
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  Speaker 5: at that time, I had a best friend who was
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  Speaker 5: an intuitive channel. I'd never heard of channeling before, but
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  Speaker 5: this woman was absolutely gifted with connecting to souls and
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  Speaker 5: bringing information and messages and imagery through that would help
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  Speaker 5: with whatever you needed, help with a relationship or making
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  Speaker 5: a decision or anything. So I asked her if she
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  Speaker 5: would please channel my mom's soul while my mom was
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  Speaker 5: still living, so I could ask all those questions that
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  Speaker 5: she could not answer clearly for me anymore. I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to know how can I support her. I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: know where am I getting in her way because we
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  Speaker 5: were bumping heads over such ridiculous things. I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: know how I could let go of some of the
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  Speaker 5: resentments that I had so that we could have more
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  Speaker 5: of a clear and loving relationship. I had a lot
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  Speaker 5: of questions, and my friend channeled for me, and I
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  Speaker 5: learned what my mom needed, what our souls were here
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  Speaker 5: to do together.
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  Speaker 4: Where I was stepping in her.
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  Speaker 5: Way of her relationship with my father. Where I thought
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  Speaker 5: I was just wearing my superhero cape and making it
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  Speaker 5: better for everybody, but actually I was interfering with their
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  Speaker 5: soul agreement and This changed everything for me. It allowed
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  Speaker 5: for me to have a close and sweet and deeply
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  Speaker 5: connected relationship with my mom through the remainder of her
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  Speaker 5: earthly journey and now with her on the other side,
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  Speaker 5: we are the best of buddies.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. I love that so much.
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  Speaker 2: So when you started, so what a gift that you
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  Speaker 2: had a friend who did that and could help you
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  Speaker 2: in that process, because I can only imagine what that
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  Speaker 2: must experience must be like. Luckily my parents I have
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  Speaker 2: both of my parents. They're still here and both very
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  Speaker 2: clear of mind. You know, they're not you know, they're crazy, they're.
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  Speaker 3: Italian, but they're fine like in that way.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't imagine what watching your mother decline like that,
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  Speaker 2: especially being so young, you know, must have been Like,
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  Speaker 2: so from your friend helping you, did you say, can
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  Speaker 2: you show me how to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Like? How did it go? From her?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So the sound cut out for a minute, But I
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  Speaker 5: think I know what you're asking and the process. The
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  Speaker 5: trajectory was when I saw what effects has had on
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  Speaker 5: my relationship with my mom, I immediately knew I have
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  Speaker 5: to figure out a way to be able to do
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  Speaker 5: this for all my relationships and in all the areas
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  Speaker 5: of my life.
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  Speaker 4: So that's when I.
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  Speaker 5: Started to study and learn from mentors. I went to
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  Speaker 5: the mentor that taught my friend who is actually was
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  Speaker 5: actually local to us, Melissa, and took her in person
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  Speaker 5: classes for a while. This is many years ago. She's
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  Speaker 5: on the other side at this time, and so is
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  Speaker 5: my best friend. Actually she's on the other side as well.
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  Speaker 5: And I took classes from Sonya Choquette, who is a
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  Speaker 5: world renowned.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Soria, you've probably yeah, I know, and yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I read everything, studied everything, practiced, really took it
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  Speaker 5: as far as I could with what was available at
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  Speaker 5: the time, which was quite a wonderful array of teachers
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  Speaker 5: and guides and information. And at some point I realized
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  Speaker 5: when I was actually looking for another class to take,
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  Speaker 5: because you know, you can kind of get addicted to
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  Speaker 5: csidentials and to trainings and everything, and because of my
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  Speaker 5: left brain clinician background, I do like to be trained
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  Speaker 5: in different things. I was asking my guides in a
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  Speaker 5: conversation in a carpool line, where's my next class, Like,
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  Speaker 5: who's my next feature? And they very clearly said to me, no, no, honey,
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  Speaker 5: you're you're done with your studies. Now you must go
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  Speaker 5: and serve the people. And I wasn't really thinking that
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  Speaker 5: that's what I was going to do, but I realize now,
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  Speaker 5: of course, of course it's the next step. And I
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  Speaker 5: haven't looked back. And within an hour of agreeing with
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  Speaker 5: my guides to do that, my phone rang with my
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  Speaker 5: first real client. And so I might as well have
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  Speaker 5: just sent you a postcard way back then, Melissa, I'm
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  Speaker 5: telling you what. I didn't even realize I was manifesting
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  Speaker 5: at the time because it was that instantaneous.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard that happens a lot for people.
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  Speaker 2: Once you are on your path of where you're meant
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  Speaker 2: to be and you're and you say yes to it,
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  Speaker 2: things just click right into place. It's like, I'm you'll
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  Speaker 2: meet the right person, You'll you'll sign up for the
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  Speaker 2: right course, somebody will introduce you to somebody. It just
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  Speaker 2: it just happens like that all the time. So I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: how do you I've had many channelers on my shows
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  Speaker 2: throughout the years, and everyone is very different on how
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  Speaker 2: they receive their messages. I'm curious, how do you. How
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  Speaker 2: do you get the messages? You hear it in your
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  Speaker 2: head like it is it a feeling that you get.
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  Speaker 2: How does it work for you?
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  Speaker 4: It's like a stream.
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  Speaker 5: For me, I would say I'm hearing it, but I
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  Speaker 5: don't want people to think that there's actual you know
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  Speaker 5: that the hair cells in my ears are moving from
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  Speaker 5: sound vibration because it's not that, but I am I am.
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  Speaker 5: I am hearing it and also speaking it concurrently, and
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  Speaker 5: I also at the same time that's going on and
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  Speaker 5: receiving imagery that goes along with the information and the
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  Speaker 5: insight and the guidance, so that when I'm done receiving
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  Speaker 5: and speaking the message, I can then add the extra
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  Speaker 5: layer with my client and say, and this is what
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  Speaker 5: else I was seeing. This is how we can pull
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  Speaker 5: it more comprehensive in its kind of story together. So
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  Speaker 5: it's very hard to describe the how of what I'm experiencing.
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  Speaker 5: But what I'm actually doing is getting out of my way.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I'm creating the space for the information and
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  Speaker 5: the connection to be made, and that is I believe
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  Speaker 5: we can all learn how to do that.
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  Speaker 4: I believe we're all.
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  Speaker 5: Channeling all the time, and there's so many different ways
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  Speaker 5: that we channel. And art is channeling, and so's photography
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  Speaker 5: and writing and all these things that you're up to.
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  Speaker 5: This is just how we connect to the beauty and
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  Speaker 5: the gift of divine energy and spirit, all with our
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  Speaker 5: different flavors. And it's beautiful that you have found, you know,
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  Speaker 5: your many flavors. I have found mine, and and there's
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  Speaker 5: so much out there to discover. But that's how I
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  Speaker 5: kind of receive it and transmit it. It's really beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: My voice does change a little bit when I'm channeling.
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  Speaker 5: I do speak a lot of times. The messages come
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  Speaker 5: through very quickly, so I do like to go back
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  Speaker 5: and process them with my client sort of to highlight
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  Speaker 5: the key points because it's a it's a significant download
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  Speaker 5: that comes through.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about that, if it's
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  Speaker 2: like you feel like some other light being is coming
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  Speaker 2: through you. Because I have a guest who comes on
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  Speaker 2: my show on a regular basis and he's a channeler, and.
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  Speaker 3: He completely leaves.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't even really realize a lot of times what's
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  Speaker 2: being said, and he channels like the angels or the
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  Speaker 2: Palladians or the Master Teachers, and like Gregory, he like
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  Speaker 2: he's gone, you know, and then he comes back when
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  Speaker 2: the channeling is done, but then I have other channels
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  Speaker 2: who are similar to you that are present as the
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  Speaker 2: channeling is happening.
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  Speaker 3: Also yeah, like yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So the difference is conscious channeling versus trance channeling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know, Thank you, delineation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I learned this in a channeling interview. If you can
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  Speaker 5: imagine when I was applying for a channeling job at
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  Speaker 5: a new age store locally and she had me channel
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  Speaker 5: for her, and when I was done, she said, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm really glad to see that you are a conscious
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  Speaker 5: channel because that's what I prefer to use in this
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  Speaker 5: in her business. And I said, oh great, what is that?
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  Speaker 7: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What is that evring?
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  Speaker 4: But it's just what you described.
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  Speaker 5: I'm fully aware of what coming through, what's there. I'm present,
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  Speaker 5: and there are even moments where I will be given
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of additional information that the guys will say,
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  Speaker 5: this is for you, this is not to share because
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: they know what the person I'm waiting for is ready
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: to hear or what will be in the high end service.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: So and I'm there's nothing that is like that kind
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: of inhabits my presence, my body, and I remember, for
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: the most part, what I've said.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah, then he is, that's
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: what he is.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: He's a trance channel because he's like, he's like, no,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I kind of sometimes kind of know a little bit,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: but not really. I'm like, well where are you? He's like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know where I go. I'm just not like, Okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: but what you're right. I do agree that we are
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: all channeling all the time, and most of us don't
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: realize we are. So my question to you is for
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: those of us that are, because the people that listen
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: to my show are totally like into all this stuff,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: they believe in all this stuff, they read about it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: They connect with spirit on their own, you know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: And how do we know though, if it's the voice
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: in our head that we are creating the answer, or
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it's the voice of our intuitive higher self that's giving
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: us messages.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's a great question. And what I say
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: is that everything, all the channeling, I believe, comes to
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: the place of imagination. So people, we've learned as a
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: culture that like, if it's imagined, it's somehow not real.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: But actually there is nothing that you can no object
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: in this world that you can find that wasn't first imagined.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, what a man made object.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: So the imagination isn't real thing.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: It's what we used to create. It's what we used
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: to see and understand beyond, and without it, I wouldn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: be able to channel. So if you think you're making
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: it up.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Yay you are.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: We are making this up every moment of every day.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: So I love that. Okay, from it, Let go.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: What you want to pay attention to in terms of
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: discernment of is this the voice of ego and restriction
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: and fear or is this the voice of intuition? Is
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: how do they feel? Because the egoics voice will always
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: feel tight, constricted, fear based, worry, anxiety, grasping, grip being
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: we all know what it feels like when we're in
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: fear or anxiety, and the voice of intuition is soft,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: it's subtle, it's certain. We might not always follow it,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: but it is certain. And our job is really to
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: attune our energy to that subtlety so that we're just
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: constantly in the flow of that intuitive energy and information
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: that's coming through.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: But that's how.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: You tell if you're you know where it's coming from,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: is based on how it feels and you can always
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: trust that, you always trust how you're feeling.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So when you were channeling and you're connecting
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: with your mother, you know that it's your mother's consciousness
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: because of the way the messages are coming through to you,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and that it's not you giving the voice to your
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: mother and what you would want her to say.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: You're able to discern the difference.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: So there is no way and no instrumentation that we
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: have to give one hundred percent on.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: That, right, right, And.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I would suggest that anyone like this, this is kind
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: of what you keeps people from even connecting, is like, well,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: unless I can be absolutely perfectly sure that this is
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: only and only my mother's soul and that there is
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: no other influence here, not even my own, then we
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: talk ourselves out of the possibility of having this beautiful,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: healing connection. So what I like to think of it
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: as is, there is a blending that I'm doing when
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I'm channeling, when I'm channeling my mom, the beauty and
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: expansiveness of me and my soul and spirit is inviting
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: and connecting and melding with hers, and together we are communicating,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: And is there influence there on what I what I
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: know of her, feel of her, sense of her with
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: regards to what I'm receiving from her.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Of course I'm influencing you right now.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: And the questions and where you're guided to ask me,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: you're influencing me right now. You know, like, this is
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: a good thing, this is a beautiful thing. It's part
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: of the exchange.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: So I really I get.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: I totally understand the question, and I would encourage everybody
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: to acknowledge what we're really trying to do is meet
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: up in the place of love.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, oh no, I can definitely see your left
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: brain the way you answer the questions because it's true.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And yeah, there's no one hundred percent definitive way to
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: measure it, but we can on some level. If you understand,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and you know a little bit about physics, that energy
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: never dies, it just changes form. So if you follow
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: that thought process, why wouldn't you be able to connect
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: on an energetic level with someone else? Because we do
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: know that we're all and everything vibrates at a certain
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: energetic level. We know this, and science is able to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: is backing it up now it's catching up. So it
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: makes sense to me that you would be able to
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: connect with her consciousness even though she's not on the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: earth plane anymore.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So I love that that's just yet fascinating.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: And we have Yeah, and we do have, you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: evidence based mediumship work, tons and tons and tons of
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: data there that has been studied and have been measured
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and people can validate yes, that was You know that
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: the reader will not know anything about the person and
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: will state their favorite color or how they passed, et cetera.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So there's lots of different this.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: This has already been proven in terms of the ability
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: to connect with those on the other side, in terms
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: of do you know, can you is this really my
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: mom coming through? I guide myself back to well, how
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: does it feel? Does it feel good? Does it feel warm?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Does it feel like love? Does it feel like her love? Yes, yes,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: it feels like that, or does it you know, does
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: it feel the opposite? Then I might be influencing this
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: or in a place of fear. So I'm going to
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: go take a nap and walk away from this herbit
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: and come back and try again.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: And I always feel like I always get like a hit,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: feel it in my physical body, and I always know
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: that that's not coming from an ego place, and you
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: know it's just a sensation. But that's because I'm always
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: practicing now in my meditations and everything.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: But I want to take I just looked at the clock.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's already that we're already about the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: halftime mark. So let's take our break here because I
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: have a bunch more questions for you. All right, everybody,
• 27:24
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  Speaker 3: So, Stephanie, I was thinking and.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: During the break and you actually have this as one
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of the bullet points when I was getting all the
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: information about you about being a speech pathologist and working
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: with communication disorders has taught you about you know, the
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: human connection and channeling and your intuition. And this question
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: really hit home with me because I have a nephew
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: who is on the spectrum and he is nonverbal.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Well he's very verbal, but he can't tell us what
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: he if he wants something or he needs anything. So
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: how how could you share a little bit about being
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: a speech pathologist and how that's helped you with the
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: communication disorders when you're working with somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Sure, one of the things that's important in being a
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: good speech pathologist is that we are not simply assisting
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: people with traditional verbal communication. We actually have to find
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: what's going to work best for that patient or that client,
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: And so that pulls in a lot of different things.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: There's body language, gestural communication, there's augmentative communication like with
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: devices and computers and things of that nature.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: But one of the.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Beautiful things that I found that my speech pathology practice
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: afforded me was to be able to attune a really
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: deep layers, kind.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Of like the beyond of what we might just be
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: seeing with.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Our clipboard and checklist of what a client or patient
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: can or can't do. And so when you talk about
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: individuals who are on the spectrum or non speaking or nonverbal,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: there's a lot going on with you know that there's
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: there's a person there, and a lot of people forget
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: that that they see our job as a culture and
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: a society is not to require them to meet us
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: and speak with us as we are accustomed, but to
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: sign them to meet them see what works you know,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: for for them. And I don't know, Melissa, if you
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: have ever heard of this podcast called the Telepathy Tapes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Have you heard of No?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: No, I haven't, but I'll check it out.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: So, okay, Pill, it's exactly what you're asking about. She
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: has it's very science based and evidence based. She's interviewing
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: people who have autism and our non speakers on the spectrum,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: and there is such a rich life going on and
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: they have their own communication with each other. That's why
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: it's called the Telepathy Tapes that Tran goes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: You know, nobody can understand.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: But them, and I learned so much. I just listened
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: to it recently and I'm a little bit obsessed with
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: it waiting for the next episode to drop because it
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: is a fantastic deep dive into what we tend to miss.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: And as a speech therapist, I felt constantly ineffective at
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: working with certain populations and that was one of the
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: ones I would really have a hard time with because
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: at the.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Time I was practicing, we did not have enough to.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Offer for ways that they connected and give them ways
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: to communicate how they needed to in the manner that
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: they could communicate with us. So, yeah, there's a lot
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: more to that, but that's what I will say. Definitely
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: listen to that podcast. It's brilliant.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll send it to my sister my mom too.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: But when you're channeling, since you're also you're practice at
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: channeling and you're working with. And this also works if
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you have children under the age where they can't communicate
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: with you, like babies, for example, can't tell you if
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: they don't if they have a belly ache or whatever.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: What can someone who's listening do to try to connect
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: on a level where they can communicate with a child
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: or a baby who can't communicate their needs back to you.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: What should what could we do?
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Great?
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Great, great question. The best process I could suggest is
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: often impossible, and that to get to a quiet space
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: where you are not going to be you know, where
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: where that child or individual isn't going to be meeting
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: you or distracting you, or because you to a tune
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: on that level beyond what your eyes are seeing or
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: your ears are perceiving. Is it requires like just some
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: some quiet, So go for a walk or something and
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: if you know, I do teach some practices for tuning
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: in And for some it's a simple breath work practice
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: and for others it might be a mantra or holding
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: mala beads and moving through the beads one at a time.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: For some others it's a particular song that really puts
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: them in an elevated state where they feel more at
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: peace and like there's a presence, a loving presence surrounding them,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: and then you can ask questions that are just really
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: open and listen for what comes through. So instead of
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: like what should I do about Johnny, you might ask
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: how can I serve Johnny's needs in the highest way
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: right now? Is the real open ended, kind of soft
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: way of asking spirit for guidance or asking Johnny's high
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: yourself for guidance or asking your higher self. You know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: as parents, we have a lot that we can trust
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: within ourselves of what we know about our children's sense
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: about our children, and many, many times, especially if you
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: have a child with special needs, that is sort of.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Not so believed.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: We're taught to put our trust in all the other experts,
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: but we are actually the expert on our own child.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: So I always encourage parents, you know, I asked them,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: what's working for you?
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: What are you sensing? What are you present to?
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: And I do channel for a lot of families that
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: have kids on you know, who have communication challenges or
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: teenagers which for many of us do still fall in
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: that category of communication challenge because that's the nature of teenagers.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Sometimes too, they stop wanting to communicate as openly oftentimes,
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: and there's so much we can do to stay connected
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: at a heart and soul level and really leaning into
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: the trust of what is coming through that feels warm
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: and open and subtle and loving.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: That's great though, that you that you can help parents out,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: especially if they have children who have difficulties communicating, because
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: you know, for whatever reason that you can help assist.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know my sister and my mother both
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: say that they can read his mind, so they always
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: know my stuff back, like I can read his mind.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: And I he's ten, and I talk to him like.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: A regular ten year old, and I explain everything to him,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: and he I know he understands everything I'm saying. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: just talked to him like I would talk to any
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: other ten year old. And if he's like looking around,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: if something's going on, I'll be like, you know, it's
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: all right, buddy. You know so and so is doing this,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: and your dad's going here, and you know pop Up's
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: going over there and they'll be back in about an hour.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: And I just because I know he he can't ask,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: so I always tell him. And then and I notice
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: he's like oh okay, now I know even though he can't,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: you know, express himself back to me.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: You know, it's really interesting, really important.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys just taught a whole class on how
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: we all need to respect and be in shared space
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: with others because absolutely our culture and society makes the
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: presumption of noncompetency if people are not communicating in the
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: way we expect, and that's not it at all.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: They're very competent.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, very Oh.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Now, that kid, he knows what's what and he's always
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: paying attention even when he's on his iPad.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I know it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: He notices any subtle change around him the way his
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: brain works. Maybe mind doesn't work that way, but his brain,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the way it works, he is completely, one hundred percent aware.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I would bet my life on it, on everything. If
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: there's some shift in the energy of the room, he
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: notices it. He's totally even though you think he wouldn't
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: be because he's on his iPad doing his thing, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: oh yeah he does.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Fascinating, you know, it is fascinating. So how can the us,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: like who are listening, who would like to connect with
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: a loved one who has passed to the other side,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: like is there something that you have found that works
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: really well for most people, like a mantra or a
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: certain meditation or you know, because and I know it's
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: really hard, especially when you're in the active stages of
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: just losing somebody, losing someone and you're grieving.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Really, really hard.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: But as some time goes by and you're not in
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: that active hard part of the grieving, is there a
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: place where we can go to that we could feel
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: that connection, you know, without losing it and hysterics basically
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: is my question?
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, exactly, well certainly, and and you're right when
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: you if someone is in acute grief, that's going to
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: be more challenging for them to feel, you know, possibly
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: the connection with their loved one. But we have to
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: go through grief, you like that. That's that's that's the
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: cost of loving deeply, and thank goodness, we have loved
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: so deeply. I find that I make the best connections
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: with anyone, whether they're part of my family or I'm
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: channeling for clients. I make the best connections when I'm joyful,
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: and because that is such a beautiful, expansive, curious, playful,
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: open state, and that's where all the goodness comes through.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: So not pushing yourself to quickly past your grief feel everything.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: But if you're looking to.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Connect with a loved one who has passed and it's you,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: you feel like that's like you're ready to do that.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: You might start by going to the places or having
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: the experiences that the two of you used to do together.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: If there's like a favorite outdoor spot, maybe a park
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: or lake or some place where nature can be utilized,
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: because the energy of nature is super grounding and supportive
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: and clearing and cleansing, and then you can just kind
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: of listen for them, kind of see what you feel,
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: what you pick up, talk to them constantly. I very
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: sadly lost my father just a few months ago.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: And I don't like.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: To say lost, because of course I know he's right
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: here right now, but in my grief, he has felt lost.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Even with what I do professionally, it's still just a
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: gut wrenching loss for me. But I'm talking to him
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: every day and he is responding, and he's funny and
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: he's it's just it's delightful and delicious. So I encourage you, anyone,
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: keep an open mind that your sense for them can
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: be a lot of different ways. But it likely will
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: not feel heavy. That's why I'm saying, if you're coming
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: from a joyful place, an open hearted place, you are
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: likely to feel this joyful connection with them, and maybe
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: even some humor, some laughter, some memories.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Try if you.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: Try to cultivate some other really wonderful memories that you've had,
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: it can also kind of signal or summon that soul's presence.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: The truth is, they're with you. There's not like a
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: time when they're too busy and sorry, can't check in
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: with you right now. I'm visiting Aunt Trudy, but I'll
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: be back later.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: It's not that you can.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: They're always there, always present with us. And again, it's
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: about aligning with the subtlety of that new energy that
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: they're fully inhabiting than anything else.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: But they're there.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: The love doesn't go anywhere, and there the support is ongoing.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they can be everywhere at once because they're not
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: constricted by a physical body anymore.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So Yeah, that's true. So I'm interested about your experience.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: You say that you channel the animals and the trees
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: and mother Earth. So do you connect You can connect
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: with like somebody's so somebody who lost a pet or
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: or and you can connect with that animal.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Does it work like that?
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And if you're like walking by a beautiful oak tree,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: can you just ask the tree to connect with the
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: tree and you get messages?
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Is that how that works? I love that.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So with regards to animals and people for that matter, yes,
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: I can channel those on the other side. And what
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I really love to channel are those here. So I
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: have clients who will call and say, you know, Fluffy
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: is just not acting right, you know, like I just
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: a love that new family member, and I don't know
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: if she likes the new puppy, you know, something of
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: that nature. So I can tune into the essence of
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: Fluffy and you will tell us what's what does she
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: not like that new family member? What needs to happen
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: for that to go more smoothly, very funny messages. We
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: end up just cracking up because there's just such a
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: realness and a directness that animal channeling eelines has.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I do like to.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Channel animals that are here. I'm not I don't do
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: any medical mediumships. So if there's an ailment or something,
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: I will not be saying, oh, it's it's in the
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: shoulder and you need to go hear this. But there's
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: so much that we can channel from our companion animals.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: And yes, with trees.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Trees are incredible and they are the earth keepers and
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: wisdom holders. And imagine just being steady for so long
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: and how much they've seen. Especially, we have so many
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: old trees on the planet that we really need to protect.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: So we can anyone can go up to the tree,
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: hug a tree, put your heart up against the tree, Listen,
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: you know, connect, feel for what's there, ask for support, guidance,
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: you to be shocked to see what comes through. It's
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: deeply loving and deeply wise.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe you because I get every time I
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: see a tree cut down, I get very upset.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: It bothers me terribly. It does, it always has.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And I love the smell of fresh Christmas trees, but
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I get very I don't like like that we cut
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: them down. And then anytime I see after Christmas and
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: they're just scarted at the end, like in the garbage,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: it really hurts my heart.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Like I'm like, totally agree with you.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I I need we like I love that there's some
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: people that are starting a new trend where they take
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: the tree potted and then you can return the tree
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: to the earth if you want a fresh tree, you know,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: or you know, obviously you could have a candle that
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: smells like a tree and like me and have a
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: fake tree.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: You know, don't to worry about it, but yeah, it
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: really does.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: So I understand how you can feel that connection. And
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I think I have a little bit of that channeling
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: thing with especially with cats.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know why. I always feel like I always
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: know what.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: The cat's thinking and saying, like our cats, So I
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: feel that like on some level.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: That's awesome, and I'm like, I speak cat.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so appreciative that you spoke out about how
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: you feel about trees and the connection that you have,
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: because many people don't realize that there's such a thing
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: as being a plant mpath. You know, you can be
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: an animal EmPATH, you can be a human EmPATH, a
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: physical EmPATH and emotional EmPATH and energetic. There's like endless, endless,
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: it's this m path and I am the same. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: I realize this when I walk by a plant that
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: needs water desperately, I start to feel a little frantic, like,
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: oh my, I have to get that plant water, or
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: if my neighbor throws their unwanted potted plants out for trash. Melissa,
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: I have lost count of how many plants I've adopted
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: that I don't need, I don't even have place, and
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: I just can't. I cannot see a living being discarded
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: and you know, and excommunicated in that way. So it
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: is the same for Christmas trees. And you're not alone
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: and you're not crazy. And we need to speak out
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: about this because everything deserves care and thriving opportunities, and
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: we need not be so wasteful.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: No, we need not be so wasteful.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: And we're creative enough to come up with very good
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: ways of still having the same experiences without taking the
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: life of these beautiful Oh my god, Christmas trees are
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: so beautiful.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, I know, it's just it's just
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: it's crazy.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: So I want to talk about your book too, and
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure we have enough time, but
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you before we get into your book,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: what is it that you like find that you love
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: the most, and that you find the most challenging about
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: your work as a channel.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: What I love the most is its endless application across
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: every area of my life. And the lives of those
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: that I serve. There is nothing as yet that I
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: have found that channeling cannot illuminate, clarify, heal, support transforms.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: It's such a powerful way when you decide I'm just
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: going to go to the full level about this instead
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: of all the personality layers and the old beliefs and
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: the limiting you know, conditioning, et cetera. So that's what
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: I love the most, and let's see, I think what
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: can Sometimes it's less challenging for me now because I've
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: been doing this for long enough and doing the inner work,
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: but it can feel challenging sometimes knowing that I might
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: be in the company of those who it doesn't matter
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: to me if they're non believers, but there are plenty
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: who would disparage or mock this, you know, area of work.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: This aspect of ourselves.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: And I used to get really angry about that, and
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: now it's more like it's just so sad because I
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: feel the emptiness there. What if I didn't have this,
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: What if I didn't recognize that I am a soul first,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: having endless you know, experiences and many many lifetimes I
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: believe of journey that are designed to bring me home
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: to unconditional love and teach me how to grow more
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: in that way. So that that's that can be a challenge.
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: If someone says to me, well, so what do you
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: do for a living, I do a quick scan and
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I take in, Okay, what are they? How are they
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: appearing to me right now? If they appear like more
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: of a younger soul, I will say, I'm.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: A speech therapist.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: And if I'm here as the one who you know
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: is open spiritually or more, I guess I would call
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: it soul evolved.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Then I'll say, oh, I channel.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I love that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that That's how I am when I when I
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: describe When people ask me, how what is your podcast about?
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: It depends on who's asking the question. Yeah, how I answer,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: So I totally I totally get that.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: And we don't have.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: To Yeah, we don't have to.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't have to bring everyone on board
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: with me, right, We're all having our own journey here.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Our own journeys. Yeah.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: So, now, so you have this experience and it opened
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: up with your mom in her journey of going through
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: dementia and your journey together, your contract together, How did
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: you just get an idea like I need to write
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: this book. Was your mom's name, Janie.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: My mom?
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: Correct?
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of feel like the book just had
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: to write itself.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: I don't even really think about the book hardly anymore.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: I rarely talk about it. I just it was something
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: that I had learned so much in the process of
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: being in service to my mom during that part of
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: her lived journey. And the book does not It's not
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: very spiritually based, to be clear. It's it's much more
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: pragmatic and practical in here's what you'd say if your
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: loved one says or does this, Here's what you don't say,
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: here's what you don't do, Here's how you can nurture this,
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: and here's how you can cultivate that. Because I made
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: a lot of mistakes, even with all of my clinical training,
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: I made a lot.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Of mistakes because the mother daughter.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: Relationship is oftentimes complicated and mine was no different. So
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: I really wanted people to know how to join their
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: loved ones in the walk journey, rather than enforcing that
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: they join them.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Well, that's very helpful though for people who are listening,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Because more and more people are getting to an age
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: where they have elderly parents and maybe not even elderly anymore,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: who are showing signs of dementia and Alzheimer's, And so
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: having something out there that is helpful is always a
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: good thing to let people know that that's available to you.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: So it's called joining Joni, staying connected to your loved
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: ones through dementia and beyond. And I'm assuming they can
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: get it at Amazon and Barnes and Noble in all
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: the book places. Yeah, and now I'm curious, how was
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: your experience doing the Ted talk?
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Did you enjoy it?
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I think one day I would like to do one,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: But then I'm like, do I do I want to
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: do one?
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Do I want to get on the stage?
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: You want to do one?
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: I actually have my second one ready to go. I'm
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: just looking for the great stage for now.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: It changed my life, not maybe not in the way
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: you might think. I I actually was most afraid that
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: I would forget my you know, part of my talk
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: when I was doing it, and I rehearsed it constantly, constantly,
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: and I knew it backwards and forwards. And then the
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: day before I performed it on the stage, I heard
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: my guides say, you are going to make the mistake
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: you most fear making, and I said, no way, no way,
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: I am not I'm not going to forget my seat.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: Sure enough, Melissa, that's what happened. There was a point
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: in my talk where I was speaking about my best
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: friend who taught me channeling. She was in the audience.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: She had been diagnosed with brain cancer very recently, and
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: I looked out in the audience and I saw her,
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: and I forgot my next part of my speech. And
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: so that actually happened, and I lived to tell and
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: it was not the worst thing ever. And there was
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: someone in the front row who had my script who
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: whispered my lines and I recovered.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it changed me.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: It takes a courage that I wanted to know if
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: I had to be able to speak at that in
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: that sort of way. And so do it, girl, you
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: go for it. You do want to do it.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Ah, thank you, I'm glad you said that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: No, I'm always I think it's so fantastic when people
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: get up and do these talks and they talk about stuff,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: and it takes a lot of courage. So I admire
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: that that you did that, especially talking about being a channel,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: which is.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, exactly. It's also what you're talking about too.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Sammy, it's been so great like sharing
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: and talking.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: To you today.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Is there anything that you want to leave us with
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: and do you work directly with people one on one
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: and how can they reach out to you?
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: I would want to leave people with the belief that
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: they are also a channel and that this is a birthright.
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: And certainly I do private sessions all the time. You
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: can schedule those through my website soulinsight dot com. And
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: I also teach people how to channel, and I have
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: a six month program coming up where we are really
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: going far and deep with channeling skills.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that sounds amazing. All right, everybody check
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: her out, Stephanie Banks, and you can find you at
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: what's the name of your website again, soulinsights dot com.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I got it, I got it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Check her out, all right, Everybody, Happy holidays and I
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: am sending everybody so much love. Thank you for listening
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the life
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: you crave, And I'm wishing.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: Everyone a wonderful week. He'll enjoy abundance and love. Peace
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: come