October 7, 2025 • 44 mins
Theresa Caputo, known as the Long Island Medium, sits down with Jennie for a powerful conversation about intuition, faith and healing. Jennie takes Theresa back to her childhood; revisiting uneasy, early encounters with the spirit world and the challenging path she faced in learning to embrace her unique gift. Listen to Theresa feel “hellos from heaven” from some of Jennie’s friends and family and share stories of how she has turned her gift into a source of comfort and connection.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garle. Hi. Everyone,
welcome back to I Choose Me, the podcast about the
choices we make and how they shape us. Today, I'm
joined by Teresa Caputo, who has touched millions through her
extraordinary gift. She has built her life around helping others
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find out what it really means to trust your own intuition.
Teresa is the star of Long Island, Medium and Raising Spirits.
She's a best selling author, she's a jewelry designer, you
name it. I love her and I know you will too. Teresa,
we met recently in Santa Monica when you joined the
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Quintessential fifty Yes, and I was so happy that you
were there being a part of this just amazing group
of women who are taken names and kicking ass. Is
that how you say that, I guess so yeah, or
kicking ass and taken names. I think that's how it
is after fifty So you're like the perfect example. I
love it how you just keep thriving, keep driving so wonderfully. Okay, So,
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in addition to your podcast and your tours, which I
know are a lot of work, You've also decided to
launch your jewelry line on QVC.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That just happened, right, amazing, It just happened last week.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
How did it go?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Phenomenal? Really, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
QBC is like very overwhelming, Like you get there, it's
a compound.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's in a whole world.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know, you're watching QBC on TV. It is like
a compound. And everyone is so lovely and so nice.
And the support that you get from everyone there, I
love that. I love that the more when you were
talking about when we went to the q fifty like women,
you know, yeah, they're kicking ass and taking names, but
they're also supporting and uplifting.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
People, Yes, which is so important especially today.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know when I met my friends at QBC and
like immersed into that world. Well, first of all, you
do you get immersed, like when I go to the
work there for three days in a row, like there's
nothing else in the world, Like I'm barely checking my phone.
It's just really all consuming. So but it's it's the
first time in my life that I had that feeling
(02:17):
of support from other females. Yes, And I just was like,
oh this is nice.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I like it really is a beautiful family.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, who was your host for your Solberte
ALBERTI I did that, did a couple of live hits
with him.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I did the TikTok shop right right with the young ladies, okay,
and then I did an owl with Mallie fifty fabulous. Yeah,
oh yeah, you guys have fantastic Did you get crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh? My god?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Crazy? She's crazy? And then crazy and how crazy with her?
Right this kicks in you have to be crazy with her.
It makes you feel so good though, it does, it does, Yeah,
it's just camaraderie. So you had been communicating with spirit
since you were four years old?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, I didn't realize that four that that what I
was doing. I had no idea what I was doing.
I just like sensed and felt things that other people didn't.
And I would always just say like random odd things.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No one ever made a big deal about it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And I would always say to my mom, I don't
feel right. I feel different than everyone else. I don't
feel like I belong here. And my mom literally said
to me one day, She's like, Teresa, you're not adopted.
You belong to this family, so stop feeling that way.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Like this is you know.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I was always so fearful about a lot of things.
And my mom never forced me to do anything, and
you know, pushed me like if I didn't want to
go on like school trips or because I would always
be afraid.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yet, and it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Wasn't until I was almost thirty that I realized that
not only was I able to communicate with my own
departed loved ones, which I believe everyone has that ability
to do. Really, yes, I believe in because that's a
soul bond that can never be broken. So we all
have that connection. Those little things we get, I say,
they're little helloes from heaven. Those little signs, symbols or
things that just happened that remind you of your loved
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ones that have died.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Know that that's them.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I love that. Yeah, I'm a true believer in that.
In the wind and the wind chimes anything, Yeah, do
you feel.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just had this odd thing, like I switched wallets
from traveling and everything, and my assistant she took everything out,
and I took the wallet and I opened it up
and a dime fell out of it, Like who has changed?
I literally had my healthcare card, my driver's license, a
credit card, and I think like.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Two twenties and one it was a single die.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And that's my grandmother. Yeah, she she always shows me.
She always shows me dimes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah, it was a little as all. We both looked
at each other and she was like, op Gram's here.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh I love that. You just don't. You're not scared
by it. You just know except that that's how it
should be. I feel like too, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I tell you, it was a little scary like when
I was younger, because I really didn't know what was happening,
you know. And that's where a lot of like my
anxiety had come in growing up, because I feel the
way someone passes, so they bring me through their departure.
So like I feel very heavy right now in the
chest and my head hurts. So that's usually someone passed
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from something of the chest, heart, lungs, chest or breast,
and then the head could be like an aneurysm, brain
tumb or something where something happens with the brain.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So they bring me through that departure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So I'd be like out in the food store and
this stuff would be happening to me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So when I be freaking out.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You're just walking around feeling all the.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Feeling way that the way that people have departed, So
they only make me feel things if for a reason,
like I just don't randomly feel those things, So they
would have to be souls that pass to people connected
in this room that passed in that way.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Are you so you're feeling a headache, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I got like the head So when I get like
a pain, like in the front of my it's different,
So I have different symbols.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So in the front of the head.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Is like aneurysm, brain tumor at Alzheimer's dementia is something
that would affect the brain. And then I'm having a
lot of difficulty breathe, so it'd be hard long chest.
But there's two souls, so that passed in that each way.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They passed in that way.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, you're already freaking me out.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But like I always say, souls, I always say not
everyone wants to or needs to hear from their loved
ones that have died. So there's always certain things that
souls have to show me. They have to show me
several things before I would actually say something really like
what they show like they would have to show They
would have to make me feel the bond of relationship
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like how you knew them. Then they bring me through
the departure, which they already did, but then they will
show me whatever it is that you might be holding
onto that might be making you feel better sad about yourself.
So there was a young gentleman, so young for me,
is anyone that left the physical world before we feel
their time?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And I don't know, did you not get to see him.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Before he died? Oh? Or we're going there?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I don't know. I guess, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Okay, yeah, no, Okay, does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I'm not sure which one? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I felt now cut both of them, but more than male,
like I felt like there was I don't know, did
you not were.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You supposed to see him?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then and then he passed and you didn't get
to see him?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Huh Okay, so he would not want you to carry
that burden A feeling like I never should have canceled,
or I should have went there, or I should have
done this.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Because this is why I do the work that I do.
I always say I don't care if people believe in
what I do. I want them to believe in an afterlife,
and I want them to know that our loved ones
do not want us to carry burdens or gils. Did
you just feel something like on the side of your cheek,
like a warmth or like a like a like a chill.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I just watched him kiss you on.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh yeah, that is just crazy. Yeah, how's he looking?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't see the way we see here in the
physical world. But I felt very very strong, features, very handsome,
and very strong. So usually when souls show me that,
it means that they weren't themselves in the end. So
whatever that may be, if they were ill, or maybe
they were going through a rough whatever it is to
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remember them strong, maybe striking, very very well, very well dressed,
very dapper. If I would say, I don't know, he's
showed me something with his shoes, So I don't know
if there's something with shoes with him that you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If he liked shoes or if you, I don't know,
bought them a pair of shoes. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Okay, Usually a father would show me that, or like
someone will like the wingtip shoes, but I so like
more of like a loafer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't know what kind of shoe it is.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Wow, does this happen? Do you like walking through the airport?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I could get things, but like I said, a
soul has to push me enough to say something, and
it's usually of whatever the person is holding onto that
is making not for them not being able to heal.
Do you have something with handwriting or were you looking
at something with someone's handwriting on it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I have a tattoo of my dad's handwriting. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, okay, perfect.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I just wanted to make sure that I was interpreting
all the information correctly.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're pretty good at this.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The filing, I might got something.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, oh gosh, well yeah, it's a lot. I should
think about taking this up. Okay, So when you were
a little girl and you had to face what I'm
sure felt like skepticism or criticism, Well.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
When I got older, once I got on TV, Okay,
that's where all that came from. But I get it,
like I respect if someone doesn't. If someone is skeptical,
and I always say they don't understand what I do,
you know, and I get it and I respect it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But that's why I have spirit validate.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Things with such unique things, things that you would never
expect them to bring up and talk about I want
them to channel with that personality, to really show that
from the moment the soul left the physical body, they
lea they leave all of the ability or ailment. They
don't take it with them on the other side. So
I have them validated with such crazy things. And you're like, wait,
how would she know that? Nobody would know that?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What kind of I'm just curious, Like when you're in
high school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, school was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Very difficult for me because being trapped in a classroom
was very very difficult. You know, once they closed that
classroom draw door, I immediately fell. I was now trapped in
a room with energy. But you also have to understand
at that time, I was blocking it because at the
age of sixteen, when my dad's mom had passed away,
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my nanny, that was the first time that I was like,
wait a minute, something is really different about me because
I like literally freaked out at her wake because I
was looking at her in the casket, but I could
hear her talking to me. Oh gosh, So I that
is when this and that's when I completely shut down
and when my anxiety started going through the roof because
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now I was. I wasn't allowing them to come in.
I was just holding onto all this anxiety.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
What did that do physically to you?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was exhausting.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I didn't I'm very difficult to live my life and
right but right after I had my daughter at the
age of twenty seven is when I was afraid to
leave my house.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I wouldn't even go to the store.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So you shut it off from the age of sixteen
to time about twenty seven, twenty seven, Yeah, then it
started to really come out.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And then I was kind of saying, Okay, this is great.
God's blessed me with this gift. Who's going to want
to come to a medium? And then nine to eleven happened.
And then that's when I had a spiritual experience where
it was shown to me and told me that thousands
of people perished that day and people didn't know what
happened to their loved ones, and they deserve the gift
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of healing. So I put my gift in God's hands.
I should say I am a practicing Catholic. I share
that with people because people wonder if I have a
religion or a faith, and I put it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
My gift in God's hands.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And I said, look, if this is my soul's journey,
then you open the doors and I will walk through
them with my gift. But I only want to use
my gift for healing purposes. And I reminded God that
I was afraid of.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The dark and I don't like to be scared.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I didn't want to see scary things.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's good. Yeah, and it's worked on badelines.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's worked so far, like this has now been for
like twenty five years, so it's been working good.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, you've protected yourself going in. Yep, absolutely, Yes, that's smart.
Do you remember your first session with like a paying
customer or someone bought you out?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I believe it was the first person. It was a
woman and her son committed suicide. And then the same
day because I read two people in one day, and
it was a.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sister that lost her brother also to he died tragically.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I'll never forget that because that morning I kept
seeing I would I was brushing my teeth that I
look up in the mirror and I would see a
man standing behind me in like he looked like the
brawny paper towel guy. Yeah, and then I would go
down that I look up and he'd be gone. So
this is how I used to see spirit before I
started doing this for a living. And then I said,
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I can't this is too overwhelming. I can't be walking
around and you know, see people looking through my window, right,
so I said to the young lady, I said, oh,
I said, And then I saw the brawny guy again
from the pane, and I go, did your brother wear
like a flannel shirt and look like that?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
She goes.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We used to call him the guy from the brawny
paper towels.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
We used to say that that's what my brother looked like.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So good.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, So like those are the little things that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Are like odd that you would never think that Spirit
would talk about bring up to really validate their presence.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I wonder about that because you said that you just
kept feeling seeing people and you had to like set
some ground rules. Because I was wondering while you're talking,
can you just turn it off?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, like I said, have to show me things.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I just can't feel something and then just say it,
does that make sense? Like they have to show me
several things before I will actually say something. So sometimes
if I'm out and about and say the real world
say I'm at the store, I will and if I'm
feeling things, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Just say, present the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And then usually some random person will just start talking
to me for no reason, and then I'll say something.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Wow, okay, I'm getting the whole divinely guided messaging of
your jewelry line that you don't I'm wearing. By the way,
I'm wearing your beautiful bracelet. What does it say because
I can't see it?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay, well, these are the little posies. I believe this
one says the soul bond can ever be broken.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh so we did the posies because it's that little
like remember back in the medieval days where they had
those little met hidden messages.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That's what a poesy bracelet is like.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't know those press or they used.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
To be in rings, they used to be in jewelry,
little messages. So these are just little gentle reminders.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Careful, okay, may a soul a soul bond and never
be yes, I see it now, see okay, thank you
for that. I needed that help. So sometimes when someone
wants to come through with a message from you, it
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makes people really happy, and sometimes it causes a lot
of pain and grief. Sure, how do you manage that? So?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I always say spirit brings us on this emotional rollercoaster, right,
They allow us to feel the pain, the sorrow, the
loss and the grief. But then I want them to
communicate with laughter because we need the levity and it
kind of gives us permission in a sense to find happiness.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's almost like they're giving us that permission.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It's like it's okay, hey, to not breave, All's right, yeah,
And it's okay not to be okay also, but they
don't want us like grieving and stop living because they die.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And I and that's really really hard.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's really hard to like juggle in my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, for so many different Is it the family that
loses a child. Is it someone who loses their spouse.
Is it someone who loses their partner, their parents or
their grandparents you know there maybe there their their adult,
their pet, Because to people, our pets are like our children,
it's like.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Losing a child. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So and we struggle with that too because we don't
know what's going on with them, especially if we have
to put them down right the worst, the the worst,
the absolute worst. So I know I have this most
amazing and beautiful gift, and the fact that people trust
me with the souls of their loved ones means the
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absolute world to me. I bet because to show and
to watch someone heal right in front of you, like
if you come to one of my live shows, or
like like even on the on the TV show You,
or even if you're listening to my podcast, you can
literally hear it in their voice that something's lifted, something
has changed, They're looking at life differently.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So just to make tomorrow a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Not easy, I mean, Teresa, I walk around with so
much going on in my head that I wouldn't even
know if I was getting a message that meant something,
because I'm just always in my head. No, you know,
do you feel like you're always in your head? If
this is how it's happening for you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, listen, I'm out on a day pass.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You know you have to be back in about an
hour or not.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
But I say this because people are always like to me,
oh my god, you create your schedule is insane.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
How do you find time?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And I say, listen, we're all busy because no matter
what we do in life, whether we're retired, whether we
have young children, older children, We work part time, we
fill our lives with things, so we're all busy, right,
So it's just getting those little gentle reminders. It's like
when you put the radio on and you hear an
old song that comes on and it reminds you of
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your loved one that has died and it's not a
current top footy hit, right, that's them. Or if you
see something and you feel it, you just think of them,
know that that's them. You might smell something that reminds
you of them, that's their soul and there's no reason
why you would smell it. Like if we sort of
just smelled old spice, why would we be smelling cologne?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Is there a reason you said old spice?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But this was a reason why I say stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I always say things because I always I That's why
I always say I'm good at what I do. So
I always feel like, especially whatever I'm doing, I'm always
I don't look at it as work though, but people
say you always in work mode.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's not work. This is who I am. I don't
know how to be anything else but who I am
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Growing up your kids. I'm just imagining what it must
have been like for them.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, my kids were like, yeah, my dad's an Italian importer,
and my mom talks to dead people, you know, those
phone calls from school, like you know there's something wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You know your kids are like telling tales.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh that's pretty much it. Yeah, you know my kids.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Didn't know any different.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah. And my son, he even says like he cracks
me up.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He goes, Ma, he goes, I don't know who you're
talking to, but you're talking to somebody because the things
that you say you don't know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So you know, either of them have the gift.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So I so gifts, I believe are very abilities are
very different. My daughter shows more potential that I have.
But what I do, but it's a big task to
take on, take on. So and I think I like
to say that because I say to people, just because
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you might get other people's loved ones messages, that doesn't
mean then.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have to do what I do, because it is
alive and it's I was built to do what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, my son is very sensitive, very intuitive.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And I say the same thing about my brother.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
My brother is a physical therapist and everyone that goes
to my brother.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They're like, I've never been to a physical therapist like that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Your brother has magic hands because my brother's a healer.
I feel with the words that I speak, and my
brother has I always say he's a healer.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How did your husband feel? So in the.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Beginning he was very like yeah, okay, yeah, right, you
know Italian, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then as he saw people coming to the house
and then seeing people and seeing how people would say,
you know, your wife changed my life, that was huge,
and then he just like jumped on the on the bandwagon.
He's like, Okay, she talks to dead people. But it's
so interesting. And even my ex husband's parents very devout Catholics, right,
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My mother in law's brother was a priest, and they always.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Embraced what I did.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Really yes, yeah, hm, that's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Because I think we all feel it, right, yeah, and
we believe it in afterlife, right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I was going to ask you, so you think there's
an afterlife? Absolutely without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Listen, I say this to people. If there is nothing,
we're not going to know about it, so it doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I was going to ask you, what do you think
happens when our hearts.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just I believe and my spirit has shown me this
because they will describe. I mean, I'll be reading someone
and they will say to me, I reached up and
I was calling for my husband, that my husband was
coming from me, that I was going to go with him.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And the people will say, yeah, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
My mother didn't speak for weeks, and she was calling
my father's name, and my father had passed years before her,
and she said that.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
He was in the room, and then she passed.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So I can't make these things up right, No, And
these are experiences that people have. I know that when
we leave the physical world, we are greeted by our
loved ones that have gone on before us, and that
those left here in the physical world are going to
miss us terribly.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Do you believe that we come back?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I do believe in past lives.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I do believe that I've done past life regressions, and
in one of them, I was shown that this is
my last lifetime here. Let my soul won't come back
in the physical world again.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, because the past lives that I was brought through
were not very good ones.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And I always say I have Champagne problems.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Is that I don't mean to.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I mean, everyone has things, right, everyone has stuff, but
you know what I really and yeah, there have been
hard things. I mean I've had family members suffer from
addiction and pass away. But I have the most amazing family,
very close family, and I was very very blessed to
have the life.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Like you've fat, you've gotten to that point where you've
lived your best life, living my best life.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So but I feel like I always have, you know,
even with all maybe my struggles with anxiety and you know,
being a mom right for the first time and those
struggles too, but I always felt so loved and supported
you know, and I always felt very blessed for that
because I realize I thought everyone I thought, you have
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to realize. I thought everyone saw someone standing at the
foot of their bed at night. I heard people speak
to them in a room and there was no one
else in the room but themselves. I thought that everyone
had grandparents who loved them like their own children, and
would have sleepovers and go away on camping trips, and
had parents that would do anything that My mom asked me,
I'm going to say maybe about ten years ago. She
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was like, and I said, Mom, we were talking about
something and I said, she said, I said, Mom, I go,
I never felt like we were poor, like.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We didn't have anything. I said, there was never a
moment in my life that I ever felt that I
didn't have what I wanted or needed. And my mom
cried and she says that, you know, it was. It
was tough at times, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And my brother feels the same exact way, like we
never felt that we were doing without.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That sounds like a really nice way to live your life.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, wow, I am.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I mean, I'm a little sad here.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
This is it for you?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, I'm not. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'll find out, that's what you know. Who knows, I'll
find out when I get there.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
If anyone knows, it's you.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
So well, I don't know anything. I just talked to
dead people.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh my god, you were you when that movie came
out where the little kid said I talked to dead people?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So the sixth sense was literally like, I watched that
movie and I knew right off the bat that Bruce
Willis was dead, and I ruined the movie for everyone.
I'm like, why he's dead, and they're like, Trisa, what
are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I'm like, I'm the guy's dead.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh god, Okay, note to self, don't watch it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Don't watch movies, and I like to watch movies with me.
When I saw I forgot where I was.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It was what is that song? Lady Gaga just did
the movie?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, the with the singers. Yeah,
what's that called Star is Born? Star is Born?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, So I never saw the movie before we all
was we had a day off on tour. We all
went to the movie and they showed the point where
the guy goes in the garage and go, oh, he's
gonna kill himself. I literally yelled it out in the.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Movie theater, you yeah, do that?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And yet these two women turned around and looked at me.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
And then every month.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
My old crew was like, I think you ruined the movie.
After it happened, they're like, you ruined the movie for
every single person in this movie theater. We need to
leave now, get out.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But I was like, how could you not know that?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I mean, I'm gonna be honest, I kind of knew
it was gonna happen. But I think that's.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Because I never saw the movie before.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I never saw the movie before either. But the guy
goes into the garage and he's really miserable.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, sometimes people cuts around in the garage basically men.
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, Well I don't know. Maybe I have maybe you
might have had a little forgift yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
People don't like to watch movies with me.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, I Can'tno, Dan, how do you stay connected with
your spirit when you're constantly being taken by other people's spirits, emotions,
energies like how do you touch in with Teresa?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh that's hard.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So I a lot of times it's like most women do.
I think we put ourselves on the back burner, right,
But I've learned, especially in my fifties. I really started
in my forties to really take care of myself. That's
certain things weren't luxuries or pampering or selfish or bougie.
They were they were necessities for me. So like a massage,
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massage is it's great for me because and a lot,
like most of us, we carry so much stress on
our shoulders and in our lower back, especially for me
with the energy and things like that. So and going
to the gym working out, I need to sometimes sweat
it out.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Listen, who likes going to the gym? Let's face it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, I'm tired, Like I don't want to be
getting up at six thirty in the morning to go
to pilates or go to the gym because it's when
I'm out on the road.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I like to run.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I sprint because I want to sweat out, like case
if I have anything attached or things like that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So there are things that are that aren't are necessities.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, I do believe that. Yeah, because sometimes people see
the concept of I choose me, and I talk about
it so much, then there are people that are like, well,
that just sounds like she's really selfish. She's talking about
telling other people to be selfish too. But I don't
feel that way at all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
No, you're not. You're not being selfish.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When you take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Think about it. What do they tell you when you're
on an aeroplane.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yes, yes, you got to put the mask on yourself
first so you can help others.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's why don't we apply that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
In our everyday life.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You have to take care of yourself so you can
be one hundred percent for the people around you, whether
it's your children, friends of markers.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Right, I talk about it every day all day long.
I've built my business around Yeah, it's my life. Yes,
And just this morning, I did not practice what I preach.
I didn't put I didn't I was taking care of
someone else when I knew I needed to be taken
care of, and then I ended up not feeling great
from it, and so it was like duck knock knock hellou.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean there are times, but like so like for me,
it's very important. Like when I get up in the morning,
I choose to get up a full hour before or
I would start my day with anything, because I like
to have my cup of coffee, I say my rosary,
I say my prayers, and I take that time. I
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sometimes and then read. So I take that hour that's
what I do, and then I read.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I became into how do I say this?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I would say reading is new to me because I
was never a big reader, and I've learned how to
still like kind of quiet myself enough to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Does that help your brain? Yes, kind of like check
out for a little bit and go yah.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, I get so into it, and so I take
that time for myself in the morning every single morning today,
I didn't read, but I read on the plane. But
you know, there are certain things that I will not
give up that I have to do.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, So say, like, for example, this morning, you got
up at two.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I got up at my alarm went off at two am.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Two am.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I got up, I went in the shower, I went downstairs,
I made my coffee, I said my rosary and said
my daily prayers, and then I started to get ready.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
So I didn't read.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You didn't read, okay, So that one sid that day, okay,
but I read.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I read on the plane for a little bit. What
about exercise, I did not exercise.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So it's so hard when you're traveling all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's very, very hard. And sometimes I also realized that
sometimes meditating and being still and sleeping an extra hour
is more beneficial for me at the age of fifty
eight than it would be pushing myself to go to
the gym because it was just too I just had
too much.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Like when I went home, I had all.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
My plates classes scheduled, but I ended up having to
cancel them because I was like, I'm not doing myself
any good because I'm either going to hurt myself or
I'm not going to feel good.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So I chose I chose me in a different way,
Like I realized, like what was more important staying in
bed for an extra hour or just doing something else.
I spent time with my grandson instead.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So you know, tell me about your grandson. You have
these years telling me you have three grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So the first thing was that my daughter and my
son in law lived with me for the first two
years of their marriage and they had Michelina. So she
lived with me until she was like almost a year
and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh my god, that's the best time for her to
live with you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So I made a joke saying when my daughter in
law my son had Nico, I said, you know, Nico's
got to live with grandma for a year.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And a half.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, be careful what you wish for, Jenny, because now
they bought the house on one house away from me,
so it's my parents I live. I still live next
door to my parents where I grew up. So it's
my parents, me, my neighbor, and now Larry and Leah.
So they just moved in with me because they're going
to start renovation on their house.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
There.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You go, so they're going to be there at least
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I love that. Wait, you just said you have to
be careful what you asked for. Do you see that
for other people? Do you see that for yourself? Because
you can just be really general and say I want
to be sick successful. But success comes in so many
different ways for everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But you know what, I don't think I ever wished
for you know, I don't think I've ever wished for success.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Does that make sense? Like I didn't.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I didn't wake up one morning and say, you know,
I think I'm going to talk to dead people for
a living. It seems like a really good career choice.
So I think because my intention was always to help people,
and it really was never about the money. You know,
there's a lot of things that people don't know and
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realize about me, about the work that I do, how
much we give back, what my fan club is really about.
And you know, so people that are on my podcast,
they don't pay for their reading. You know, I don't
charge people for their readings.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You know. So it was never about the money or
right success.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And they say that that's true success when it's coming
from a place of love and a passion, a purpose
inside that you just can't keep in. Then yeah, it
grows into this.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I can't imagine doing anything else. Like it's the most normal,
Like I feel normal now. Once I embraced my gift,
I felt complete. So I feel because I don't think camera,
you know, having cameras in your face all the time,
even whether doing a live show or being around people, and.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Just that's to me, that's normal.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
That feels normal to me, And I think to the
average person, it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my gosh, what would Theresa Caputo be if she
weren't who she is?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Like what, I don't know, who would you do? I
wanted to be a legal secretary.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That sounds funny.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, that sounds fun I want to be one of
those stenographers.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh yeah, I wanted to be the grocery store checkout girl.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I wanted to be a Dallas cowgirl cheerleader. That was
my number one dream.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Oh I can see that.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, I want it to be that, but that never happens.
But yeah, I don't know. I don't think. I feel
like I really did do everything except be a cheerleader.
But I feel like I'm my own cheerleader, so and
I'm a cheerleader for everyone else around me. I feel
like I really did achieve everything that I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
What about like normal people, like just real people, every
day people us. Yeah, but no, yeah we are. We
are all the same, Yes we are. But what about people?
How how can you help people listen to their own instincts?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Well, that's what I want people to do when whatever
it is, maybe it's someone listening to your podcast right now.
I am not asking anyone to believe in mediums. That's
not what this is about. I want them to believe
in themselves and an afterlife. That's it to Like, no
one can tell someone. I can't tell someone how to
connect with their loved ones. That's something that you have.
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That's your connection, your soul bond. You'll know it, you'll
feel it.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And I want people to embrace that. Is that what
you were kind of hey?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah? Yeah? Like to get them to tune in to
themselves a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Just be aware, just.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Be open to the possibility of an afterlife, you know,
because there's also that other side, Jenny of people that
they could be the most faithful person, right, such strong faith,
so spiritual and then they lose a loved one and
all of that goes out the window. And I always say,
my gift is so much more than just communicating with
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people that have died. My gift and channeling the souls
of the departed has restored people's faith and has even
brought families back together. So I can't I wouldn't trade
what I do for anything here in the physical world.
I can't even imagine myself doing anything else.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I cannot either. I'm curious. Are there things sometimes that
come through that you hold back on telling the person no,
Like if you get a message that's you know it's
going to be upsetting, or you know, because.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Okay, so let me let me I always deliver things
with dignity and grace, so I might have to find
a way how to say.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Something, but I will never.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
If spirituals me something, I have to say it and
to show I'm gonna This just happened probably about two
years ago, was doing a live show. I was channeling
someone's loved one of me, and all of a sudden,
I turned and I looked at this woman and I
said to her, just this came right out of my mouth.
I said, God took your child. And I then said
to myself, I literally that. I put my hand over
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my mouth and I was like, what did you just
say to this woman? And the woman looked at me,
hysterical crying, and she said, I've been carrying this.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
For thirty years.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
She says, I was raped by my uncle and I
became pregnant and my family did not believe me, and
they were forcing me to have this baby, and I
prayed to God to take my baby, and that night
I miscarried my child, she said.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And I felt guilty for that for thirty years. Like
who says that to someone?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Teresa Computo, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
But like there's something that I also like, I trust
the souls. I have to trust them knowing that what
they're going to have me say is going to help
this person. And something like that was very I didn't
even have time to think about. It just came out
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of my mouth. But that's exactly what she needed to hear.
She had actually sent an email to my fan club
after that saying on how that changed her life. I
bet because she was so afraid and she felt so guilty.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm much shame. I'm sure so much. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And then she said to me. She goes, and I'm
gay on top of it. So she says, so, now
I'm really going down below. I said, listen, I go,
I talk to dead people. So if there is a hell,
we're going together and a handbasket.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Do you think there's help?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Spirits never said to me that it's hot down here,
so I go with that there is no help, right, I.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Would think it would have come up.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Do I think there's a level, a lower level, yes,
because I've seen that you have. So, like I told
you earlier, I only want to channel souls in God's
white life. I don't want to know anything else. And
I know that I can only lower my I can't.
This is the only way that I can explain to
I lower my vibration. Sometimes I raise my vibration. I
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can only lower my level so low. And how I
know this for a fact is one time I was
childing a woman's daughter and the young lady had me say,
please tell my mom that he is remorseful and that
he's sorry for taking me from her and for killing me.
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So this young girl, her boyfriend had killed her and
then killed himself, and I could see the soul below her.
But I couldn't hear anything from him, I couldn't feel anything.
She was channeling for him. And the mother looked at
me and she says, that's why I came here. I
wanted to know if he was remorseful and if he
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knew what he did to my life and to me
by killing my daughter.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Would not think that that's why someone would come right.
And this was in like a theater of like four
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And interesting that you couldn't see him, but you could
couldn't hear because she was in a higher life.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
So what they also say is that souls can lower
their vibration to help other souls channel or to be
with them to channel, but that soul here cannot raise
that vibration until the soul learns lessons. Lessons so like,
so like, let's just say you had someone that wasn't
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very nice to you, right, okay, and then they pass.
They if they say and they say, I'm sorry for
my choices, actions, decisions, the pain that accors you.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I'm sorry. That's my sign that that person had.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
To relive their life through your eyes, so they had
to feel what it was like for you, for their
choices and decisions, and then that's how the soul. It's
like a life review. The soul goes through a life
review and it learns lessons and then the soul grows,
I say, closer to God.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So you know, people will also that's the other thing
that I love, like spirit will validate and acknowledge. They'll
show me like that their soul actually moved through their
loved one's physical body after they died. So usually when
they show me the holding of the hand and the
whispering of the ear, it means nothing was left unsaid.
Then I actually feel like this wave of emotion that
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runs right through me, and then the person will most
likely get like a goose bump. That's my symbol for
that they felt the soul leave the physical body and
knowing that they did get the opportunity to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I want to know. I want to go back to
the beginning of this. Yeah, and I want to know
what you're hearing, what you're feeling.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, what I just said to you about I heard
you say goodbye. I felt that was free.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Right, Yeah, yeah, that was definitely for me.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
See, I can do things with dignity and grace.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
This is how I always say.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
It doesn't always I will sit I will even at
my life shows. I'll say to people, I'll stand here
and make it look like I don't know what I'm
talking about, but I know the person that I'm standing
in front of and the things that I'm saying is
healing them. This isn't about me getting it right right,
That's not what it's about.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah. What a gift you have. And I'm so happy
to get to sit down and talk to you. And
I was so.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Excited because I know we could have done this over
zoom yeah, and I was like, after meeting you at
the Q fifty, I was like, no, I want to
do this in person.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I love that. Yeah, so much better.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, it really is, And especially when you're in someone's
energy as so beautiful as you.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Oh wait. I have one last question. What This is
the question that I ask everyone. Theresa, you know, what
was your last I choose me a moment?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Oh, I don't know. I choose myself every day. You
that's it, you have to I am I think I do,
I really do. I feel like I do. I choose
me and at the smallest moments every day.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
So it's not like big.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I have a big well, I.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Think because I learned that. I learned that it's important
for me to choose me. And I think I learned
that through embracing my gift.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And also I.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Think more so with you know, my divorce. You know,
I never thought in a million years that I would
ever get divorced, right, And I even say it today.
I didn't want to get divorced, so I had to.
And I'm even going to also say, for like, we
chose ourselves in that moment, right, So I think when
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you go through something like that, for me, that was
where I chose myself. That was the biggest where I chose,
I choose me.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
You said you didn't want to get divorced.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I I love Larry still, but we're just not good
together anymore. We're better friends, if you want to say,
you know, we're able. We have family gatherings, were still
together for family.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah that's good. Yeah, I can see because we're still a.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Family even though we're not married, we're still a family.
So and here and for me, here was someone that
I was really afraid of, my own shadow, couldn't leave
my home and to be independent and to be on
my own.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah huge, that is trusted. Yeah, the universe, the God, whatever,
the spirit. But I still live next door to my
parents so well, I've loved having you here. Thank you,
thank you, thank you for choosing me to you on
your podcast.
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garle. Hi. Everyone,
welcome back to I Choose Me, the podcast about the
choices we make and how they shape us. Today, I'm
joined by Teresa Caputo, who has touched millions through her
extraordinary gift. She has built her life around helping others
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find out what it really means to trust your own intuition.
Teresa is the star of Long Island, Medium and Raising Spirits.
She's a best selling author, she's a jewelry designer, you
name it. I love her and I know you will too. Teresa,
we met recently in Santa Monica when you joined the
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Quintessential fifty Yes, and I was so happy that you
were there being a part of this just amazing group
of women who are taken names and kicking ass. Is
that how you say that, I guess so yeah, or
kicking ass and taken names. I think that's how it
is after fifty So you're like the perfect example. I
love it how you just keep thriving, keep driving so wonderfully. Okay, So,
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in addition to your podcast and your tours, which I
know are a lot of work, You've also decided to
launch your jewelry line on QVC.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That just happened, right, amazing, It just happened last week.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
How did it go?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Phenomenal? Really, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
QBC is like very overwhelming, Like you get there, it's
a compound.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's in a whole world.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know, you're watching QBC on TV. It is like
a compound. And everyone is so lovely and so nice.
And the support that you get from everyone there, I
love that. I love that the more when you were
talking about when we went to the q fifty like women,
you know, yeah, they're kicking ass and taking names, but
they're also supporting and uplifting.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
People, Yes, which is so important especially today.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know when I met my friends at QBC and
like immersed into that world. Well, first of all, you
do you get immersed, like when I go to the
work there for three days in a row, like there's
nothing else in the world, Like I'm barely checking my phone.
It's just really all consuming. So but it's it's the
first time in my life that I had that feeling
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of support from other females. Yes, And I just was like,
oh this is nice.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I like it really is a beautiful family.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, who was your host for your Solberte
ALBERTI I did that, did a couple of live hits
with him.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I did the TikTok shop right right with the young ladies, okay,
and then I did an owl with Mallie fifty fabulous. Yeah,
oh yeah, you guys have fantastic Did you get crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh? My god?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Crazy? She's crazy? And then crazy and how crazy with her?
Right this kicks in you have to be crazy with her.
It makes you feel so good though, it does, it does, Yeah,
it's just camaraderie. So you had been communicating with spirit
since you were four years old?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yes, I didn't realize that four that that what I
was doing. I had no idea what I was doing.
I just like sensed and felt things that other people didn't.
And I would always just say like random odd things.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No one ever made a big deal about it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And I would always say to my mom, I don't
feel right. I feel different than everyone else. I don't
feel like I belong here. And my mom literally said
to me one day, She's like, Teresa, you're not adopted.
You belong to this family, so stop feeling that way.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Like this is you know.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I was always so fearful about a lot of things.
And my mom never forced me to do anything, and
you know, pushed me like if I didn't want to
go on like school trips or because I would always
be afraid.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yet, and it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Wasn't until I was almost thirty that I realized that
not only was I able to communicate with my own
departed loved ones, which I believe everyone has that ability
to do. Really, yes, I believe in because that's a
soul bond that can never be broken. So we all
have that connection. Those little things we get, I say,
they're little helloes from heaven. Those little signs, symbols or
things that just happened that remind you of your loved
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ones that have died.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Know that that's them.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I love that. Yeah, I'm a true believer in that.
In the wind and the wind chimes anything, Yeah, do
you feel.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just had this odd thing, like I switched wallets
from traveling and everything, and my assistant she took everything out,
and I took the wallet and I opened it up
and a dime fell out of it, Like who has changed?
I literally had my healthcare card, my driver's license, a
credit card, and I think like.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Two twenties and one it was a single die.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And that's my grandmother. Yeah, she she always shows me.
She always shows me dimes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah, it was a little as all. We both looked
at each other and she was like, op Gram's here.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh I love that. You just don't. You're not scared
by it. You just know except that that's how it
should be. I feel like too, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I tell you, it was a little scary like when
I was younger, because I really didn't know what was happening,
you know. And that's where a lot of like my
anxiety had come in growing up, because I feel the
way someone passes, so they bring me through their departure.
So like I feel very heavy right now in the
chest and my head hurts. So that's usually someone passed
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from something of the chest, heart, lungs, chest or breast,
and then the head could be like an aneurysm, brain
tumb or something where something happens with the brain.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So they bring me through that departure.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So I'd be like out in the food store and
this stuff would be happening to me.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So when I be freaking out.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You're just walking around feeling all the.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Feeling way that the way that people have departed, So
they only make me feel things if for a reason,
like I just don't randomly feel those things, So they
would have to be souls that pass to people connected
in this room that passed in that way.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Are you so you're feeling a headache, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I got like the head So when I get like
a pain, like in the front of my it's different,
So I have different symbols.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So in the front of the head.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Is like aneurysm, brain tumor at Alzheimer's dementia is something
that would affect the brain. And then I'm having a
lot of difficulty breathe, so it'd be hard long chest.
But there's two souls, so that passed in that each way.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
They passed in that way.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, you're already freaking me out.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But like I always say, souls, I always say not
everyone wants to or needs to hear from their loved
ones that have died. So there's always certain things that
souls have to show me. They have to show me
several things before I would actually say something really like
what they show like they would have to show They
would have to make me feel the bond of relationship
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like how you knew them. Then they bring me through
the departure, which they already did, but then they will
show me whatever it is that you might be holding
onto that might be making you feel better sad about yourself.
So there was a young gentleman, so young for me,
is anyone that left the physical world before we feel
their time?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And I don't know, did you not get to see him.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Before he died? Oh? Or we're going there?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I don't know. I guess, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Okay, yeah, no, Okay, does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I'm not sure which one? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I felt now cut both of them, but more than male,
like I felt like there was I don't know, did
you not were.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You supposed to see him?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then and then he passed and you didn't get
to see him?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Huh Okay, so he would not want you to carry
that burden A feeling like I never should have canceled,
or I should have went there, or I should have
done this.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Because this is why I do the work that I do.
I always say I don't care if people believe in
what I do. I want them to believe in an afterlife,
and I want them to know that our loved ones
do not want us to carry burdens or gils. Did
you just feel something like on the side of your cheek,
like a warmth or like a like a like a chill.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I just watched him kiss you on.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh yeah, that is just crazy. Yeah, how's he looking?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't see the way we see here in the
physical world. But I felt very very strong, features, very handsome,
and very strong. So usually when souls show me that,
it means that they weren't themselves in the end. So
whatever that may be, if they were ill, or maybe
they were going through a rough whatever it is to
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remember them strong, maybe striking, very very well, very well dressed,
very dapper. If I would say, I don't know, he's
showed me something with his shoes, So I don't know
if there's something with shoes with him that you.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If he liked shoes or if you, I don't know,
bought them a pair of shoes. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Okay, Usually a father would show me that, or like
someone will like the wingtip shoes, but I so like
more of like a loafer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't know what kind of shoe it is.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Wow, does this happen? Do you like walking through the airport?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So I could get things, but like I said, a
soul has to push me enough to say something, and
it's usually of whatever the person is holding onto that
is making not for them not being able to heal.
Do you have something with handwriting or were you looking
at something with someone's handwriting on it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I have a tattoo of my dad's handwriting. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, okay, perfect.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I just wanted to make sure that I was interpreting
all the information correctly.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're pretty good at this.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The filing, I might got something.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, oh gosh, well yeah, it's a lot. I should
think about taking this up. Okay, So when you were
a little girl and you had to face what I'm
sure felt like skepticism or criticism, Well.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
When I got older, once I got on TV, Okay,
that's where all that came from. But I get it,
like I respect if someone doesn't. If someone is skeptical,
and I always say they don't understand what I do,
you know, and I get it and I respect it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But that's why I have spirit validate.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Things with such unique things, things that you would never
expect them to bring up and talk about I want
them to channel with that personality, to really show that
from the moment the soul left the physical body, they
lea they leave all of the ability or ailment. They
don't take it with them on the other side. So
I have them validated with such crazy things. And you're like, wait,
how would she know that? Nobody would know that?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What kind of I'm just curious, Like when you're in
high school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, school was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Very difficult for me because being trapped in a classroom
was very very difficult. You know, once they closed that
classroom draw door, I immediately fell. I was now trapped in
a room with energy. But you also have to understand
at that time, I was blocking it because at the
age of sixteen, when my dad's mom had passed away,
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my nanny, that was the first time that I was like,
wait a minute, something is really different about me because
I like literally freaked out at her wake because I
was looking at her in the casket, but I could
hear her talking to me. Oh gosh, So I that
is when this and that's when I completely shut down
and when my anxiety started going through the roof because
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now I was. I wasn't allowing them to come in.
I was just holding onto all this anxiety.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
What did that do physically to you?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was exhausting.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I didn't I'm very difficult to live my life and
right but right after I had my daughter at the
age of twenty seven is when I was afraid to
leave my house.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I wouldn't even go to the store.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So you shut it off from the age of sixteen
to time about twenty seven, twenty seven, Yeah, then it
started to really come out.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And then I was kind of saying, Okay, this is great.
God's blessed me with this gift. Who's going to want
to come to a medium? And then nine to eleven happened.
And then that's when I had a spiritual experience where
it was shown to me and told me that thousands
of people perished that day and people didn't know what
happened to their loved ones, and they deserve the gift
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of healing. So I put my gift in God's hands.
I should say I am a practicing Catholic. I share
that with people because people wonder if I have a
religion or a faith, and I put it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
My gift in God's hands.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And I said, look, if this is my soul's journey,
then you open the doors and I will walk through
them with my gift. But I only want to use
my gift for healing purposes. And I reminded God that
I was afraid of.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The dark and I don't like to be scared.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I didn't want to see scary things.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's good. Yeah, and it's worked on badelines.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's worked so far, like this has now been for
like twenty five years, so it's been working good.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, you've protected yourself going in. Yep, absolutely, Yes, that's smart.
Do you remember your first session with like a paying
customer or someone bought you out?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I believe it was the first person. It was a
woman and her son committed suicide. And then the same
day because I read two people in one day, and
it was a.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sister that lost her brother also to he died tragically.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I'll never forget that because that morning I kept
seeing I would I was brushing my teeth that I
look up in the mirror and I would see a
man standing behind me in like he looked like the
brawny paper towel guy. Yeah, and then I would go
down that I look up and he'd be gone. So
this is how I used to see spirit before I
started doing this for a living. And then I said,
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I can't this is too overwhelming. I can't be walking
around and you know, see people looking through my window, right,
so I said to the young lady, I said, oh,
I said, And then I saw the brawny guy again
from the pane, and I go, did your brother wear
like a flannel shirt and look like that?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
She goes.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We used to call him the guy from the brawny
paper towels.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
We used to say that that's what my brother looked like.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So good.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, So like those are the little things that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Are like odd that you would never think that Spirit
would talk about bring up to really validate their presence.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I wonder about that because you said that you just
kept feeling seeing people and you had to like set
some ground rules. Because I was wondering while you're talking,
can you just turn it off?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, like I said, have to show me things.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I just can't feel something and then just say it,
does that make sense? Like they have to show me
several things before I will actually say something. So sometimes
if I'm out and about and say the real world
say I'm at the store, I will and if I'm
feeling things, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Just say, present the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And then usually some random person will just start talking
to me for no reason, and then I'll say something.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Wow, okay, I'm getting the whole divinely guided messaging of
your jewelry line that you don't I'm wearing. By the way,
I'm wearing your beautiful bracelet. What does it say because
I can't see it?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay, well, these are the little posies. I believe this
one says the soul bond can ever be broken.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh so we did the posies because it's that little
like remember back in the medieval days where they had
those little met hidden messages.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That's what a poesy bracelet is like.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't know those press or they used.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
To be in rings, they used to be in jewelry,
little messages. So these are just little gentle reminders.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Careful, okay, may a soul a soul bond and never
be yes, I see it now, see okay, thank you
for that. I needed that help. So sometimes when someone
wants to come through with a message from you, it
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makes people really happy, and sometimes it causes a lot
of pain and grief. Sure, how do you manage that? So?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I always say spirit brings us on this emotional rollercoaster, right,
They allow us to feel the pain, the sorrow, the
loss and the grief. But then I want them to
communicate with laughter because we need the levity and it
kind of gives us permission in a sense to find happiness.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's almost like they're giving us that permission.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It's like it's okay, hey, to not breave, All's right, yeah,
And it's okay not to be okay also, but they
don't want us like grieving and stop living because they die.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And I and that's really really hard.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's really hard to like juggle in my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, for so many different Is it the family that
loses a child. Is it someone who loses their spouse.
Is it someone who loses their partner, their parents or
their grandparents you know there maybe there their their adult,
their pet, Because to people, our pets are like our children,
it's like.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Losing a child. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
So and we struggle with that too because we don't
know what's going on with them, especially if we have
to put them down right the worst, the the worst,
the absolute worst. So I know I have this most
amazing and beautiful gift, and the fact that people trust
me with the souls of their loved ones means the
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absolute world to me. I bet because to show and
to watch someone heal right in front of you, like
if you come to one of my live shows, or
like like even on the on the TV show You,
or even if you're listening to my podcast, you can
literally hear it in their voice that something's lifted, something
has changed, They're looking at life differently.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So just to make tomorrow a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Not easy, I mean, Teresa, I walk around with so
much going on in my head that I wouldn't even
know if I was getting a message that meant something,
because I'm just always in my head. No, you know,
do you feel like you're always in your head? If
this is how it's happening for you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, listen, I'm out on a day pass.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You know you have to be back in about an
hour or not.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
But I say this because people are always like to me,
oh my god, you create your schedule is insane.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
How do you find time?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And I say, listen, we're all busy because no matter
what we do in life, whether we're retired, whether we
have young children, older children, We work part time, we
fill our lives with things, so we're all busy, right,
So it's just getting those little gentle reminders. It's like
when you put the radio on and you hear an
old song that comes on and it reminds you of
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your loved one that has died and it's not a
current top footy hit, right, that's them. Or if you
see something and you feel it, you just think of them,
know that that's them. You might smell something that reminds
you of them, that's their soul and there's no reason
why you would smell it. Like if we sort of
just smelled old spice, why would we be smelling cologne?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Is there a reason you said old spice?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
But this was a reason why I say stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I always say things because I always I That's why
I always say I'm good at what I do. So
I always feel like, especially whatever I'm doing, I'm always
I don't look at it as work though, but people
say you always in work mode.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's not work. This is who I am. I don't
know how to be anything else but who I am
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Growing up your kids. I'm just imagining what it must
have been like for them.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, my kids were like, yeah, my dad's an Italian importer,
and my mom talks to dead people, you know, those
phone calls from school, like you know there's something wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You know your kids are like telling tales.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh that's pretty much it. Yeah, you know my kids.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Didn't know any different.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah. And my son, he even says like he cracks
me up.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He goes, Ma, he goes, I don't know who you're
talking to, but you're talking to somebody because the things
that you say you don't know nothing about.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So you know, either of them have the gift.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So I so gifts, I believe are very abilities are
very different. My daughter shows more potential that I have.
But what I do, but it's a big task to
take on, take on. So and I think I like
to say that because I say to people, just because
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you might get other people's loved ones messages, that doesn't
mean then.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have to do what I do, because it is
alive and it's I was built to do what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, my son is very sensitive, very intuitive.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And I say the same thing about my brother.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
My brother is a physical therapist and everyone that goes
to my brother.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They're like, I've never been to a physical therapist like that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Your brother has magic hands because my brother's a healer.
I feel with the words that I speak, and my
brother has I always say he's a healer.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
How did your husband feel? So in the.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Beginning he was very like yeah, okay, yeah, right, you
know Italian, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then as he saw people coming to the house
and then seeing people and seeing how people would say,
you know, your wife changed my life, that was huge,
and then he just like jumped on the on the bandwagon.
He's like, Okay, she talks to dead people. But it's
so interesting. And even my ex husband's parents very devout Catholics, right,
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My mother in law's brother was a priest, and they always.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Embraced what I did.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Really yes, yeah, hm, that's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Because I think we all feel it, right, yeah, and
we believe it in afterlife, right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I was going to ask you, so you think there's
an afterlife? Absolutely without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Listen, I say this to people. If there is nothing,
we're not going to know about it, so it doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I was going to ask you, what do you think
happens when our hearts.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just I believe and my spirit has shown me this
because they will describe. I mean, I'll be reading someone
and they will say to me, I reached up and
I was calling for my husband, that my husband was
coming from me, that I was going to go with him.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And the people will say, yeah, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
My mother didn't speak for weeks, and she was calling
my father's name, and my father had passed years before her,
and she said that.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
He was in the room, and then she passed.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So I can't make these things up right, No, And
these are experiences that people have. I know that when
we leave the physical world, we are greeted by our
loved ones that have gone on before us, and that
those left here in the physical world are going to
miss us terribly.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Do you believe that we come back?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I do believe in past lives.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I do believe that I've done past life regressions, and
in one of them, I was shown that this is
my last lifetime here. Let my soul won't come back
in the physical world again.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, because the past lives that I was brought through
were not very good ones.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And I always say I have Champagne problems.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Is that I don't mean to.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I mean, everyone has things, right, everyone has stuff, but
you know what I really and yeah, there have been
hard things. I mean I've had family members suffer from
addiction and pass away. But I have the most amazing family,
very close family, and I was very very blessed to
have the life.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Like you've fat, you've gotten to that point where you've
lived your best life, living my best life.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So but I feel like I always have, you know,
even with all maybe my struggles with anxiety and you know,
being a mom right for the first time and those
struggles too, but I always felt so loved and supported
you know, and I always felt very blessed for that
because I realize I thought everyone I thought, you have
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to realize. I thought everyone saw someone standing at the
foot of their bed at night. I heard people speak
to them in a room and there was no one
else in the room but themselves. I thought that everyone
had grandparents who loved them like their own children, and
would have sleepovers and go away on camping trips, and
had parents that would do anything that My mom asked me,
I'm going to say maybe about ten years ago. She
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was like, and I said, Mom, we were talking about
something and I said, she said, I said, Mom, I go,
I never felt like we were poor, like.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We didn't have anything. I said, there was never a
moment in my life that I ever felt that I
didn't have what I wanted or needed. And my mom
cried and she says that, you know, it was. It
was tough at times, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And my brother feels the same exact way, like we
never felt that we were doing without.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That sounds like a really nice way to live your life.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, wow, I am.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I mean, I'm a little sad here.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
This is it for you?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh no, I'm not. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'll find out, that's what you know. Who knows, I'll
find out when I get there.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
If anyone knows, it's you.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
So well, I don't know anything. I just talked to
dead people.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh my god, you were you when that movie came
out where the little kid said I talked to dead people?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So the sixth sense was literally like, I watched that
movie and I knew right off the bat that Bruce
Willis was dead, and I ruined the movie for everyone.
I'm like, why he's dead, and they're like, Trisa, what
are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I'm like, I'm the guy's dead.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh god, Okay, note to self, don't watch it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Don't watch movies, and I like to watch movies with me.
When I saw I forgot where I was.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It was what is that song? Lady Gaga just did
the movie?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, the with the singers. Yeah,
what's that called Star is Born? Star is Born?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, So I never saw the movie before we all
was we had a day off on tour. We all
went to the movie and they showed the point where
the guy goes in the garage and go, oh, he's
gonna kill himself. I literally yelled it out in the.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Movie theater, you yeah, do that?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And yet these two women turned around and looked at me.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
And then every month.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
My old crew was like, I think you ruined the movie.
After it happened, they're like, you ruined the movie for
every single person in this movie theater. We need to
leave now, get out.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But I was like, how could you not know that?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I mean, I'm gonna be honest, I kind of knew
it was gonna happen. But I think that's.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Because I never saw the movie before.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I never saw the movie before either. But the guy
goes into the garage and he's really miserable.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, sometimes people cuts around in the garage basically men.
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, Well I don't know. Maybe I have maybe you
might have had a little forgift yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
People don't like to watch movies with me.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, I Can'tno, Dan, how do you stay connected with
your spirit when you're constantly being taken by other people's spirits, emotions,
energies like how do you touch in with Teresa?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh that's hard.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
So I a lot of times it's like most women do.
I think we put ourselves on the back burner, right,
But I've learned, especially in my fifties. I really started
in my forties to really take care of myself. That's
certain things weren't luxuries or pampering or selfish or bougie.
They were they were necessities for me. So like a massage,
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massage is it's great for me because and a lot,
like most of us, we carry so much stress on
our shoulders and in our lower back, especially for me
with the energy and things like that. So and going
to the gym working out, I need to sometimes sweat
it out.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Listen, who likes going to the gym? Let's face it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, I'm tired, Like I don't want to be
getting up at six thirty in the morning to go
to pilates or go to the gym because it's when
I'm out on the road.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I like to run.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I sprint because I want to sweat out, like case
if I have anything attached or things like that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So there are things that are that aren't are necessities.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, I do believe that. Yeah, because sometimes people see
the concept of I choose me, and I talk about
it so much, then there are people that are like, well,
that just sounds like she's really selfish. She's talking about
telling other people to be selfish too. But I don't
feel that way at all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
No, you're not. You're not being selfish.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When you take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Think about it. What do they tell you when you're
on an aeroplane.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yes, yes, you got to put the mask on yourself
first so you can help others.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's why don't we apply that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
In our everyday life.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You have to take care of yourself so you can
be one hundred percent for the people around you, whether
it's your children, friends of markers.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Right, I talk about it every day all day long.
I've built my business around Yeah, it's my life. Yes,
And just this morning, I did not practice what I preach.
I didn't put I didn't I was taking care of
someone else when I knew I needed to be taken
care of, and then I ended up not feeling great
from it, and so it was like duck knock knock hellou.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean there are times, but like so like for me,
it's very important. Like when I get up in the morning,
I choose to get up a full hour before or
I would start my day with anything, because I like
to have my cup of coffee, I say my rosary,
I say my prayers, and I take that time. I
(29:09):
sometimes and then read. So I take that hour that's
what I do, and then I read.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I became into how do I say this?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I would say reading is new to me because I
was never a big reader, and I've learned how to
still like kind of quiet myself enough to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Does that help your brain? Yes, kind of like check
out for a little bit and go yah.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, I get so into it, and so I take
that time for myself in the morning every single morning today,
I didn't read, but I read on the plane. But
you know, there are certain things that I will not
give up that I have to do.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, So say, like, for example, this morning, you got
up at two.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I got up at my alarm went off at two am.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Two am.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I got up, I went in the shower, I went downstairs,
I made my coffee, I said my rosary and said
my daily prayers, and then I started to get ready.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
So I didn't read.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You didn't read, okay, So that one sid that day, okay,
but I read.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I read on the plane for a little bit. What
about exercise, I did not exercise.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So it's so hard when you're traveling all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's very, very hard. And sometimes I also realized that
sometimes meditating and being still and sleeping an extra hour
is more beneficial for me at the age of fifty
eight than it would be pushing myself to go to
the gym because it was just too I just had
too much.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Like when I went home, I had all.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
My plates classes scheduled, but I ended up having to
cancel them because I was like, I'm not doing myself
any good because I'm either going to hurt myself or
I'm not going to feel good.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So I chose I chose me in a different way,
Like I realized, like what was more important staying in
bed for an extra hour or just doing something else.
I spent time with my grandson instead.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So you know, tell me about your grandson. You have
these years telling me you have three grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Grandchildren.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So the first thing was that my daughter and my
son in law lived with me for the first two
years of their marriage and they had Michelina. So she
lived with me until she was like almost a year
and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh my god, that's the best time for her to
live with you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So I made a joke saying when my daughter in
law my son had Nico, I said, you know, Nico's
got to live with grandma for a year.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And a half.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, be careful what you wish for, Jenny, because now
they bought the house on one house away from me,
so it's my parents I live. I still live next
door to my parents where I grew up. So it's
my parents, me, my neighbor, and now Larry and Leah.
So they just moved in with me because they're going
to start renovation on their house.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
There.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You go, so they're going to be there at least
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I love that. Wait, you just said you have to
be careful what you asked for. Do you see that
for other people? Do you see that for yourself? Because
you can just be really general and say I want
to be sick successful. But success comes in so many
different ways for everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But you know what, I don't think I ever wished
for you know, I don't think I've ever wished for success.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Does that make sense? Like I didn't.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I didn't wake up one morning and say, you know,
I think I'm going to talk to dead people for
a living. It seems like a really good career choice.
So I think because my intention was always to help people,
and it really was never about the money. You know,
there's a lot of things that people don't know and
(32:39):
realize about me, about the work that I do, how
much we give back, what my fan club is really about.
And you know, so people that are on my podcast,
they don't pay for their reading. You know, I don't
charge people for their readings.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You know. So it was never about the money or
right success.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And they say that that's true success when it's coming
from a place of love and a passion, a purpose
inside that you just can't keep in. Then yeah, it
grows into this.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I can't imagine doing anything else. Like it's the most normal,
Like I feel normal now. Once I embraced my gift,
I felt complete. So I feel because I don't think camera,
you know, having cameras in your face all the time,
even whether doing a live show or being around people, and.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Just that's to me, that's normal.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
That feels normal to me, And I think to the
average person, it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my gosh, what would Theresa Caputo be if she
weren't who she is?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Like what, I don't know, who would you do? I
wanted to be a legal secretary.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That sounds funny.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, that sounds fun I want to be one of
those stenographers.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oh yeah, I wanted to be the grocery store checkout girl.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I wanted to be a Dallas cowgirl cheerleader. That was
my number one dream.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Oh I can see that.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, I want it to be that, but that never happens.
But yeah, I don't know. I don't think. I feel
like I really did do everything except be a cheerleader.
But I feel like I'm my own cheerleader, so and
I'm a cheerleader for everyone else around me. I feel
like I really did achieve everything that I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
What about like normal people, like just real people, every
day people us. Yeah, but no, yeah we are. We
are all the same, Yes we are. But what about people?
How how can you help people listen to their own instincts?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Well, that's what I want people to do when whatever
it is, maybe it's someone listening to your podcast right now.
I am not asking anyone to believe in mediums. That's
not what this is about. I want them to believe
in themselves and an afterlife. That's it to Like, no
one can tell someone. I can't tell someone how to
connect with their loved ones. That's something that you have.
(35:00):
That's your connection, your soul bond. You'll know it, you'll
feel it.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
And I want people to embrace that. Is that what
you were kind of hey?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah? Yeah? Like to get them to tune in to
themselves a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Just be aware, just.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Be open to the possibility of an afterlife, you know,
because there's also that other side, Jenny of people that
they could be the most faithful person, right, such strong faith,
so spiritual and then they lose a loved one and
all of that goes out the window. And I always say,
my gift is so much more than just communicating with
(35:34):
people that have died. My gift and channeling the souls
of the departed has restored people's faith and has even
brought families back together. So I can't I wouldn't trade
what I do for anything here in the physical world.
I can't even imagine myself doing anything else.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I cannot either. I'm curious. Are there things sometimes that
come through that you hold back on telling the person no,
Like if you get a message that's you know it's
going to be upsetting, or you know, because.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Okay, so let me let me I always deliver things
with dignity and grace, so I might have to find
a way how to say.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Something, but I will never.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
If spirituals me something, I have to say it and
to show I'm gonna This just happened probably about two
years ago, was doing a live show. I was channeling
someone's loved one of me, and all of a sudden,
I turned and I looked at this woman and I
said to her, just this came right out of my mouth.
I said, God took your child. And I then said
to myself, I literally that. I put my hand over
(36:34):
my mouth and I was like, what did you just
say to this woman? And the woman looked at me,
hysterical crying, and she said, I've been carrying this.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
For thirty years.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
She says, I was raped by my uncle and I
became pregnant and my family did not believe me, and
they were forcing me to have this baby, and I
prayed to God to take my baby, and that night
I miscarried my child, she said.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And I felt guilty for that for thirty years. Like
who says that to someone?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Teresa Computo, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
But like there's something that I also like, I trust
the souls. I have to trust them knowing that what
they're going to have me say is going to help
this person. And something like that was very I didn't
even have time to think about. It just came out
(37:31):
of my mouth. But that's exactly what she needed to hear.
She had actually sent an email to my fan club
after that saying on how that changed her life. I
bet because she was so afraid and she felt so guilty.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm much shame. I'm sure so much. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
And then she said to me. She goes, and I'm
gay on top of it. So she says, so, now
I'm really going down below. I said, listen, I go,
I talk to dead people. So if there is a hell,
we're going together and a handbasket.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Do you think there's help?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Spirits never said to me that it's hot down here,
so I go with that there is no help, right, I.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Would think it would have come up.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Do I think there's a level, a lower level, yes,
because I've seen that you have. So, like I told
you earlier, I only want to channel souls in God's
white life. I don't want to know anything else. And
I know that I can only lower my I can't.
This is the only way that I can explain to
I lower my vibration. Sometimes I raise my vibration. I
(38:29):
can only lower my level so low. And how I
know this for a fact is one time I was
childing a woman's daughter and the young lady had me say,
please tell my mom that he is remorseful and that
he's sorry for taking me from her and for killing me.
(38:51):
So this young girl, her boyfriend had killed her and
then killed himself, and I could see the soul below her.
But I couldn't hear anything from him, I couldn't feel anything.
She was channeling for him. And the mother looked at
me and she says, that's why I came here. I
wanted to know if he was remorseful and if he
(39:12):
knew what he did to my life and to me
by killing my daughter.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Would not think that that's why someone would come right.
And this was in like a theater of like four
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And interesting that you couldn't see him, but you could
couldn't hear because she was in a higher life.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
So what they also say is that souls can lower
their vibration to help other souls channel or to be
with them to channel, but that soul here cannot raise
that vibration until the soul learns lessons. Lessons so like,
so like, let's just say you had someone that wasn't
(39:53):
very nice to you, right, okay, and then they pass.
They if they say and they say, I'm sorry for
my choices, actions, decisions, the pain that accors you.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I'm sorry. That's my sign that that person had.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
To relive their life through your eyes, so they had
to feel what it was like for you, for their
choices and decisions, and then that's how the soul. It's
like a life review. The soul goes through a life
review and it learns lessons and then the soul grows,
I say, closer to God.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So you know, people will also that's the other thing
that I love, like spirit will validate and acknowledge. They'll
show me like that their soul actually moved through their
loved one's physical body after they died. So usually when
they show me the holding of the hand and the
whispering of the ear, it means nothing was left unsaid.
Then I actually feel like this wave of emotion that
(40:49):
runs right through me, and then the person will most
likely get like a goose bump. That's my symbol for
that they felt the soul leave the physical body and
knowing that they did get the opportunity to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I want to know. I want to go back to
the beginning of this. Yeah, and I want to know
what you're hearing, what you're feeling.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, what I just said to you about I heard
you say goodbye. I felt that was free.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Right, Yeah, yeah, that was definitely for me.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
See, I can do things with dignity and grace.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
This is how I always say.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
It doesn't always I will sit I will even at
my life shows. I'll say to people, I'll stand here
and make it look like I don't know what I'm
talking about, but I know the person that I'm standing
in front of and the things that I'm saying is
healing them. This isn't about me getting it right right,
That's not what it's about.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah. What a gift you have. And I'm so happy
to get to sit down and talk to you. And
I was so.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Excited because I know we could have done this over
zoom yeah, and I was like, after meeting you at
the Q fifty, I was like, no, I want to
do this in person.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I love that. Yeah, so much better.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, it really is, And especially when you're in someone's
energy as so beautiful as you.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Oh wait. I have one last question. What This is
the question that I ask everyone. Theresa, you know, what
was your last I choose me a moment?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Oh, I don't know. I choose myself every day. You
that's it, you have to I am I think I do,
I really do. I feel like I do. I choose
me and at the smallest moments every day.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
So it's not like big.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I have a big well, I.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Think because I learned that. I learned that it's important
for me to choose me. And I think I learned
that through embracing my gift.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And also I.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Think more so with you know, my divorce. You know,
I never thought in a million years that I would
ever get divorced, right, And I even say it today.
I didn't want to get divorced, so I had to.
And I'm even going to also say, for like, we
chose ourselves in that moment, right, So I think when
(43:01):
you go through something like that, for me, that was
where I chose myself. That was the biggest where I chose,
I choose me.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
You said you didn't want to get divorced.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I I love Larry still, but we're just not good
together anymore. We're better friends, if you want to say,
you know, we're able. We have family gatherings, were still
together for family.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah that's good. Yeah, I can see because we're still a.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Family even though we're not married, we're still a family.
So and here and for me, here was someone that
I was really afraid of, my own shadow, couldn't leave
my home and to be independent and to be on
my own.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah huge, that is trusted. Yeah, the universe, the God, whatever,
the spirit. But I still live next door to my
parents so well, I've loved having you here. Thank you,
thank you, thank you for choosing me to you on
your podcast.
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