Closer to Venus

After a motorcycle accident put him in a coma for three weeks, guest Stephen Weber didn't just have one life review during his near-death experience — he had several. Author of The Place Between Here and There: A True and Beautiful Near Death Experience, Steve joins Johnny to unpack what surprised him most: it wasn't the highlight-reel moments, it was the painful ones.

• How repeated life reviews raised his awareness each ti...

New Orleans-based psychic and past life regression practitioner Kelly Davis joins Johnny Burke to unpack soul contracts, karmic relationships, and how the Akashic Records hold the history of every life you've ever lived. Kelly explains how dreams, déjà vu, and unexplainable "knowingness" can be clues to agreements your soul made before you were born.

• How to recognize a soul contract or karmic relationship in your own life
• Why dre...

What if every choice you've made—and every one you haven't made yet—is already recorded somewhere? Akashic Records reader Erin Celise joins Closer to Venus to break down what an Akashic Records reading really reveals: your soul's origin, its past-life karma, and the soul contracts quietly shaping your life right now. 

In this episode: 

• What the Akashic Records actually are (and aren't)
• How soul contracts and ...

Johnny Burke interviews soul alignment coach and podcast host Ann Marie Grace about her work combining astrology, human design, and Gene Keys into what she calls the  “soul’s unique blueprint,” alongside guidance from spirit guides to clarify purpose. 

She describes how breathwork and meditation beginning in 2008 helped her shift from depression into yoga and esoteric interests, with a pivotal 2012 astrol...

Shamanic healer Rebecca Keating joins the show to share how a personal crisis in nursing school led her to shamanism, and how that path eventually became Soul Frequency Healer — a modality blending ancient shamanic practice with quantum root-cause healing. She also opens up about a spontaneous, out-of-nowhere past life experience that permanently changed how she understands time and trauma.

In this episode:

• How shamanism an...

Chris Nielsen, past life regression practitioner and author of Being Pyotr Ilyich, joins Johnny Burke to share her uncanny past-life connection to composer Tchaikovsky. Drawing on over 20 regression sessions, Chris explains what she experienced in the "life between lives," why parallel lives can split from a single soul, and what actually keeps a spirit earthbound after death.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the afterlife phas...

Christi Clemons Hoffman — intuitive Reiki Master, channel, and Level 3 QHHT practitioner—returns to Closer to Venus for a deep dive into how buried emotions and unresolved trauma manifest as physical illness and even pass down through families and lifetimes. Christi shares real client stories of chronic pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and even cancer resolving once the higher self is invited to heal.

Takeaways:

• How unproc...

Psychic medium and intuitive healer Allison Carmany joins the show to unpack evidential mediumship — the specific, verifiable details from spirit that go far beyond a vague reading. She also talks about her work healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and the collective awakening she believes is unfolding across the planet.

In this episode:

• What evidential mediumship is and how it differs from a typical psychic read...

In this episode of Closer to Venus, Johnny Burke sits down with shaman, "site whisperer," and theater/film director John Paul Eaglehart to explore what it really means to move between worlds. John Paul shares how his 27th-birthday Saturn return launched him into decades of communicating with ancestors, guardians, and land spirits at sacred sites across six continents.

• Why shamanism is about purpose, not curiosity—every jou...

Host Johnny Burke interviews Dr. Carol Talbot, founder of the Possibility Hub, about “multidimensional intelligence,” described as accessing information beyond linear thinking through a quantum field of intelligence and strengthening a “glitchy” human signal. Talbot distinguishes it from intuition, noting that many additional senses can be safely activated through structured methods that emphasize grounding ...

Host Johnny Burke interviews Danielle Worthen Cullumber, a paranormal investigator, psychic medium, clinical social worker, and founder of Willow Medella Wellness, about blending trauma therapy with mind-body-spirit healing. Danielle describes realizing her mediumship at 19 through precognitive and lucid dreams, then deepening it after a post-death dream conversation with an aunt who died by suicide, followed by ongoing communicati...

Certified clinical hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether, author of The Past Lives Guidebook and founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy, joins Johnny Burke to talk past life regression, life-between-lives work, and why some emotional wounds don't seem to start in this lifetime. A self-described skeptic, Craig shares client stories that pushed even his own doubts aside.

In this episode:

• Why Craig calls the brain a "receiver," not a memo...

Isabella Skrypczak is a lightworker, medium, and author of A Polish Girl in Siberia, who spent years translating her grandmother's memoir of the Soviet gulag system — and along the way began seeing the traumas her ancestors lived through. In this episode, she and Johnny explore how unprocessed generational and war trauma gets stored in the body, passed down through DNA, and repeated in modern conflicts and relationships.

• H...

Crystal Cassidy is a biochemist-turned-mystic and founder of the spiritual wellness app SoulPod. In this episode, she joins Johnny Burke to unpack her kundalini awakening, a near-death experience she survived during a severe 2020 illness, and the extraterrestrial and interdimensional contact that followed—including guidance tied to the Pleiades, ancient Egypt, and the oracles of ancient Greece.

In this episode:

• How a kundal...

Lorraine Kane was 26, trapped in a car after a head-on collision, when she died — and found herself out of her body, watching rescue workers cut her free. In this episode, the Reiki master, author, and elementary school teacher shares what she experienced during her near-death experience, why it upended her traditional religious upbringing, and how it launched her into a life of intuitive healing.

You'll learn:

• What Lorrain...

This week on Closer to Venus, host Johnny Burke sits down with certified hypnotherapist and Reiki practitioner Jonathan Robinson, who guides clients through past life regression and spiritual hypnotherapy to uncover the roots of fear, anxiety, and recurring patterns. Jonathan shares some of his most unforgettable sessions—from clients who were once energy beings on other planets to a client who lived through the fall of Atlan...

Host Johnny Burke interviews post-trauma growth coach and “somatic alchemist” Elizabeth Stauder about integrating somatic trauma reprocessing neuroscience, shamanic ritual, and energy medicine to restore balance and “wake up from the matrix.” Stauder explains somatic alchemy as body-based transmutation of symptoms across physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual levels, and links it to dreamtime consciou...

Psychic medium, channel, and healer Jennifer Rose joins Johnny Burke to talk about her journey from quietly intuitive kid to full-time trance channel — plus the intense spiritual awakening and living near-death experience that reshaped how she sees reality. It's a candid look at what actually happens behind the scenes of mediumship work.

In this episode:

Why anyone can develop mediumship—but not without re...