What if a voice in your head told you to drop everything and leave — and it ended up saving your life?
In EP 8: Escape from Lahaina, host Justin Gearheart speaks with Michaela, a cruise ship bartender whose mysterious intuition led her to quit her job in Hawaii just one week before the deadly Lahaina wildfires. Without warning, a clear voice in her mind urged, “Leave now. Get off the ship. Don’t come back.” She listened — and days later, every hotel, restaurant, and street she’d stayed in was gone.
Michaela shares her journey from heartbreak in Maryland to an unexpected calling in Maui, and the strange guidance she’s felt ever since. She describes the moment she touched the ancient banyan tree in Lahaina and felt an electric surge assuring her she made the right choice, and the deeper connection between intuition, consciousness, and quantum mechanics that continues to shape her life.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Michaela’s inner voice returned after Lahaina — offering messages of reassurance and warnings about “what’s to come” — her perspective on the New Jersey drone and orb sightings, her belief that the mind and universe are connected through frequency, and the life-changing effect of Moldavite, a green meteorite crystal she swears awakened her senses.
This is a story about intuition, fate, and the unseen forces that protect us, raising questions about whether these inner voices come from within — or from somewhere far beyond.
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