April 21, 2025 • 54 mins
Today's special guest, Travis Holp, has been featured for his work as a Medium and Inspirer on Entertainment Tonight, Us Weekly, Elle Magazine and more. You can find him as @TravisWarriorUnicorn on Instagram and TikTok with over 750k combined followers sharing is uplifting and empowering light that he shines so well!
In this open-hearted conversation, Travis shares his own journey to becoming a working psychic medium, his tips for healing, personal growth and developing your own spiritual gifts and SO much more. You'll leave this chat feeling uplifted, inspired and maybe even like more of a Unicorn yourself!
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Travis's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to spiritual connection, garnering widespread acclaim for its sincerity and transformative impact.
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Hey beautiful soul Welcome toSpirit Speakeasy. I'm Joy
Giovanni, Joyful Medium. I'm aworking psychic medium energy
healer and spiritual giftsmentor.
This podcast is like a seat atthe table in a secret club but
with mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our time
so come behind the velvet ropeswith me and see inside my world
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is I chat insider style withprofoundly different souls we go
deep share juicy stories laugh alot and it wouldn't be a
speakeasy without great insidersecrets and tips you might even
learn that you have some giftsof your own. So step inside the
spirit speakeasy Hey beautifulsoul Welcome to another episode
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of Spirit Speakeasy. I am soexcited to share today's guest
with you. He is an incrediblemedium he has been featured on
Entertainment Tonight, US WeeklyElle Magazine and so much more.
You can find him on Instagramand Tick Tock with over 750,000
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combined followers sharing hisuplifting and empowering
messages and just shining hislight. His handle on the socials
is Travis for your unicornand his name is Travis Holp. So
without further ado, I reallyjust want to share this
conversation with you.
We had an amazing time chattingabout things mystical and
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mediumship and his journey andso much more. So without further
ado, welcome into the Speakeasywelcome in for another episode
of Spirit Speakeasy. Today, ourguest is medium Travis Holp.
Travis is a celebrity lovedpsychic medium and spiritual
guide. Known for his authenticand evidential messages from the
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spirit realm. He has aremarkable ability to deliver
profound insights filled withhope, healing and joy resonating
deeply with audiences worldwide.
Travis's unique approach bringsa fresh perspective to spiritual
connection, garnering widespreadacclaim for his sincerity and
transformative impact. Help mewelcome Travis hold.
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Thank you so much for having me.
Joy. I'm so excited to be here.
I'm so excited to have you, Ihave to just kick off with a
compliment you to me when I cameacross you on social media
probably last summer or so. Iwas just so drawn into the
messages you share, which is notalways the case for me, but you
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just feel so authentically openand honest. And just being your
I know, it's kind of like abuzzword, but being like your
authentic self, which I just sawadmire about
you. Well, I appreciate that.
Actually, I had my very firsthuman design reading today. And
my friend that did the readingtold me that because of like my
human design type thatauthenticity is like what makes
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me magnetic. So there you go.
Yeah, I'm like, No, you'reright. So I appreciate that
validation. And, yeah, you know,social media is such an
interesting landscape, because Ithink anyone can show up and
present kind of whatever storythey want. But I find it's just
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more fun if we're just, youknow, being real and showing up
as ourselves. So thank you forthat.
I think I think you do anamazing job of it. I am so
excited to hear about yourstory. It's one of the things I
am a little nerdy researcher andI did a little research on you.
And it's one of the things Icouldn't find a ton about your
journey as a medium. I knowyou've said that it's been with
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you more or less your wholelife. Would you mind sharing a
little bitabout that? Absolutely. So you
know, when I was younger, I likea lot of mediums I could sense
and feel spirit. And you know,my parents. When I came out to
them as a medium, they're like,that makes sense, because you're
always talking to somebody, butwe didn't see anybody with you.
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So like, they're like, you know,a lot of things are kind of
clicking. But you know, I didn'tlean into mediumship and in
fact, when I started doingreadings, I started with Tarot.
And I was very adamant about notdoing mediumship and actually
like, kind of like whistling Iwas super resistant to and so
when I started I started doingreadings for money. I have, you
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know, I've always had like tarotdecks around and I've always
done readings for friends. I'vealways been just very empathetic
and can sense other people'semotions, all those great
beautiful, juicy intuitivethings, right? But when I
started giving readings, it wason tick tock in 2020. I'd left
like my corporate job in thebeauty industry after like 17
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years. And I was like, I don'tknow what I want to do yet, so
I'm just gonna read tarot Tiktokbecause I don't have an employer
that is monitoring what I'mposting. And that can tell me
no. So I'm just going to do it.
And so yeah, it was great. Andso I start giving readings and
then, or I start doing videoswith just quick little channeled
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messages based off of what cardspopped up. And then I would have
people reach out and they'relike, Hey, do you give readings?
And I'm like, Sure. And soat that point, you had been
really reading for like, familyand friends and yeah,
privately family and friends andyou know, reading Tarot. And I
was like, you know, I was like,I understand I have a good
understanding of tarot. And I'vebeen, you know, I've been in
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like management and leadershipfor 17 years, what could go
wrong? And so So I startedgiving readings without, you
know, really knowing anythingabout energetic protection and
cleansing and all of thosethings. So kids, listen, don't
don't do as I don't do as I do,as I say, so, you know, so, but
once I really kind of decided,like, Okay, I want to keep doing
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this, and I, you know, I startedreading every single book, I
could get on psychic work, and Ifound a mentor, and, you know,
started studying and mediumship,for me was something that, I
don't know, it just, it justkind of started happening when I
was with people reading cardsfor them and be like, do you
understand this, like,Grandfather that's coming
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through and he's giving me thisname. And here's how he passed
and people would start likecrying in the middle of, you
know, their Tarot reading. Andso I was, I guess, I guess we do
this now. And that's just beenmy, my journey with spirit. It's
like, I guess we do this. So Iyou know, so I've studied at the
I take classes through ArthurFinley. Yeah, yeah. I always
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call it lovingly the Hogwarts ofmediumship. Absolutely. It is
like, it's a call. Yeah,absolutely. It is. And then, you
know, and then, you know, somesome notable mediums that I
really look up to, I've taken,you know, a bunch of their
classes. And I think I've gotalmost every mediumship book
known to man in my homesomewhere. And so, you know, for
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me, mediumship has just kind ofbecome this thing that I have
fallen in love with so deeply.
But, you know, it didn't, it wassomething that I had to kind of
allow myself to access and getout of my own way with. Yeah,
because I say I didn't want toconnect to connect to spirits in
a mediumistic way. And that itwasn't necessarily I didn't want
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to is that I didn't know if Iwas worthy of that.
I think that's such an importantthing to talk about. Just
because it's I didn't realizeour journeys were so similar. I
came in to kind of came into itlater in my life as well, I was
available for it. But it juststarted, like you said to start
happening, and I was like, oh,or what's like, we're doing this
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now. And then having to I cameto me during Reiki sessions, and
I was a massage therapist. Andso with clients, I really
trusted I would be like, okay,like, I know, this could be
across the line, but like, Ihave to say this thing to you.
And just like you said, they'dstart crying and knew exactly
what I was saying. And I justwas like, alright, what it like,
what what is happening? So, Ilove that you sought out
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mentors, and I do think that'sthe best path because we don't,
I think that's commonlymisunderstood, is that we don't
always understand, like, what amI doing? How am I doing this?
What do I do with this? Am Isupposed to be doing this? Or in
your, in your words, you know,am I worthy of doing this? Like,
is this gift for me? How did youstart to like, unpack all that
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and navigate it?
You know, I I think that findingmentors was really big for me
and reading reading books onmedium ship and really talking
to people who you know, like youare very grounded and humble and
are willing to kind of sharetheir stories, right? And so,
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whenever I would ask anothermedium, like, hey, I want to ask
you questions about you know,how's this feel for you? Then,
of course, like, I'm gettingreadings too, and I'm in the
readings and the psychics arelike, you're a medium and I'm
like, I don't know what thatmeans. And, and so, you know, it
was a lot of it. Like a lot ofthings in life. Just hearing
other people's stories andexperiences made me feel less
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alone. It made me feel like Iwasn't like losing my mind. It
made me it gave me a lot ofvalidation of okay, here's why
throughout my life, I'veexperienced at times high levels
of anxiety or just knowingthings, but I have no way of
knowing or, you know, and so I,I say that I and I make a very
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clear distinction. I starteddoing mediumship for money at a
certain point, but I've alwaysbeen connecting I just time to
do Yeah, I just didn't know itand now and now I do so it's
been it's been quite thejourney, but I think the biggest
turning point for me was meactually doing In my own
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healing, and taking care of thehealer behind the services, and
it was I started doing readingsfor other people that weren't my
friends or family in November of2020. And earlier that year, I
decided to get sober I startedmeditating, I started, like,
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really taking therapy serious. Ihad been in therapy for some
time before that, but it wasreally just, you know, can I
show up to my therapy session?
And how many times can I make mytherapist laugh, you know, and,
and so really started divinginto my own healing. And when I
did that, I found myself beingable to connect deeper and
deeper and deeper to, to thisability. So that's
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such an important point, too.
I'm so glad you're so openlysharing all this with us.
Because I feel like when we acouple things like
congratulations on yoursobriety, that's a big deal and
a huge part of your journey. Andfor what it's worth, I'm so
proud of you. But I feel like wedo one have to continue to do
personal development, becauseit's through the emotion that
these gifts work. And if we're,you know, kind of stuck in our
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own patterns, or not focusing onwhat we need to focus on the
work is only gonna go so far.
The second thing that I'mexcited to talk to you about is,
it's your freewill contribution.
You You said like, I'm going toshow up, I'm going to show up
sober, I'm going to do thispersonal development, I'm going
to really see what I can, youknow, work on myself. And it's
kind of what I'm always tryingto explain to people is like, we
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don't predict the future becauseno one can, we can see your
potentials like, yeah, you havethe potential to be this
amazing, medium and leader andbut it was your freewill
contribution of saying, like,I'm gonna do the hard work and
show up that made that potentialbecome your reality. Do
you know what I mean? Yeah. Andfor me, I've always been the,
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you know, my energy is very mucheither like a heck yes, or heck,
no kind of energy for me. Andwhen I really learned to listen
to that, and trust me, I am, Ido not have this perfected I am
working on, I'm committed, I'mcommitted to showing up for
myself every single day. Andsometimes I get it right. And
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sometimes it's just anopportunity to do better next
time. But when I lean into that,like I did with mediumship, and
other things in my life, it hasalways served me and it's always
been just an amazing, amazingjourney and ride. And so for me
when mediumship happened, it wasreally just like, yeah, we're
doing this, and this is what'shappening. And we're just going
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to move forward with it andallow it to grow and allow it to
develop.
I love that you share aboutmentorship, too, because I do
feel like that's another commonmisconception is that these
gifts, either rise to thesurface, or we have them and
people think we automaticallyknow how to work in a very
specifically evidential giving,you know, specific details kind
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of a way and it's not the case.
And I think it's what puts a lotof gifted people off mediumship
because, for me anyway, I waswhen my first mentor was like
your psychic, I was like, Whoa,you're crazy. Because, yeah,
don't do that, like you'retalking about. And but then when
she explained to me what it whatthat meant. I was like, Oh, I'm
doing that all the time. Like,of course I'm doing like, Yes,
I'm definitely feelingeveryone's emotions all the
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time. And yeah, so it's, it'ssuch a, I don't know, I think it
takes a level of humility toreceive training, but also it's
that excitement and those, likelittle carrots that we get, you
know,when I think you know, even
Olympic athletes have coaches?
Totally, you know, I think, youknow, and I think for me,
mediumship you know, it's anability, like a lot of other
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things, just like singing is anability, right? Like, some
people should go out and beprofessional singers. And some
people just need to sing intheir car. And that's okay.
Like, you know, I think, for me,it's really been, you know, I
want to show up and serve andthe best way that I can because
we're dealing with people'semotions we're dealing with I
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mean, I've had readings donefrom when I was younger that I
still remember that I hang on toright so we're we're not only
are we connecting to people'sloved ones, but we're leaving a
lasting impression on people andso, you know, I'm, I'm a Virgo
through and through and, youknow, my inner perfectionist
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needs to read all the books anddo all the classes and do all
the things right are used to atleast. And one of the things I
appreciated about mediumship isthat it's allowed my inner
perfectionist to just kind oftake a backseat and just be more
present with my own unfolding.
And, but if it were left up tome my own devices, I wouldn't
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have gotten to that conclusionlike I needed a mentor to tell
me it's okay to like,misinterpret something. It's
okay to be wrong. It's okay toyou know, learn different ways
of risks. sieving. So I thinkmentors are such a gift because
they help us feel seen. And theyhelp us really truly understand
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that it's, it's an evolvingpractice. Mediumship is so I
think, you know, a good mentoris worth their weight in gold.
Well, and I think to your point,it does kind of feed that,
especially for someone who'sdriven or Virgo esque in our
quality. Mediumship is the everunfolding gift. We never often
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talk about a mentor I had for awhile Mavis patella, she was in
her 80s. And she would say, I'mnot done developing and like,
how delicious is that to do youknow what
I'm so good, so good. Like, I'mhelping people, you know, as
mediums we help people withtheir own spiritual development.
But like, it's so fun, becauseI'm also developing still
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spiritually, and I'm stilllearning. And it's, you know,
it's really, it's kind of fun.
And in a way it takes thepressure off of like, needing to
be perfect.
Yeah. And there's no, I mean, aswe know, there, it's there's no
perfection. And it's always justworking. And even as we're
working with the spirit worldand with clients, it's like,
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we're continuously working everyinch of the way through so in
the moment to be understandingwhat's happening. Yeah,
yeah, I don't know about you.
But it's funny when I'mreceiving information, and I'm
used to receiving it a certainway, and I'm with a client, and
then that information justsuddenly just shifts, and now we
receive in a different way. Ilaugh about it. Now, I'm like,
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well, well, spirits, apparentlyputting me through training day
today. So we're gonna, we'regonna learn here on the job
together, both of us. So, youknow, I've learned to just kind
of laugh it at, you know, thelittle bumps that pop up are the
things that you know, kind ofthrow you for, for a loop, which
I can honestly tell you that,you know, me three or four years
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ago, would have freaked outabout those things. So it's been
such a fun journey of justliberation and authenticity.
And I think it's, it is one ofthose things, too, we have to
continue to, like, you know,back to the personal development
side, we continue to, like, lookat ourselves look at think
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people think we just jump intothis, yet, yes, we're excited.
But like, it's a little scary tobe doing all this on the job
training. Even when you youknow, taken all the courses and
read all the books and areworking and all that it's like,
it's so challenging, and we haveto continue to explore, you
know, our resistance our fears,our worthiness, as is a lot of
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the work that you do publicly,too.
Yeah. And it's funny because Ithink sometimes people think
like, just because you, youknow, you're a spiritual
teacher, or you're a medium oryou're a psychic that you
magically have everythingfigured out. And like, I don't
like I, I, like, trust me, and Iasked the universe, I'm like,
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Listen, I'm out here doingservice work. I'm out here doing
the things. Can you like, cut mea break today? Can I just be
spoon fed the answer today,please. And it doesn't work that
way. But, you know, I think thatcan be a common misconception
sometimes is that, you know, weall have it figured out and we
we certainly don't actually,I like that one. I think it's it
goes on her show that she saidit. Oprah says sometimes she's
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saying like, God, don't teach meanything today. It's so true.
And well, in your thirst foradvanced education. I read about
you that you're pursuing a PhDis that? Yeah,
so that program has been put onpause a little bit. I think that
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may have been like an older biosomewhere. I think that's like
my Frequently Asked Questionspage. I did. I did start a PhD
program. I stopped at thebachelors in metaphysics
slot still, that'syeah, it was fun. I mean, you
know, I have this really funability to, like, just take on
all of these projects at once,because I get so lit up. So the
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PhD, it's still a work inprogress. You know, I'm, I'm
laughing I'm like, Oh, I've beenwriting my master's thesis for
like, two years now. So that'sgreat.
Time to contract.
Yeah, yeah. But you know, I didfind University of metaphysics,
and I did it just to like,explore and have have some fun
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and just kind of see where, youknow, see where I could kind of
take things and so you know,it's not a it's not off the
table, but it's just on pause atthe moment backburner
a little bit? Yeah. I mean, Ithink that's part of the beauty
of this spiritual work too, isthat people don't always realize
we don't have to be only in onevein, we can have something that
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we're working with for a whilethat's educating us and
expanding us and then we canfocus pivot to focus of like,
now we're doing bigdemonstrations. Okay, now I'm
back to personal development.
out there's like a flex in thiswork that I think a lot of
people don't realize is kind ofhappening behind the scenes all
the time. Absolutely,there is absolutely because you
know, like we were talking aboutearlier the work is never done.
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We're constantly expanding.
So with your tick tockpersonality I know you from
Instagram I'm not I'm not thebiggest on Tik Tok. I'm trying
to get better about exploringthat platform. I think it's
probably a lot of the same stuffon both platforms. Do you draw
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inspiration for your for thosewho don't know, please go follow
Travis. He is Travis warriorunicorn and I tell all my
friends about you because I justlove your posts. You bring so
much light and your soul justsuch shines through in such a
big way? Are you drawinginspiration for those little it
feels like a snippet of like aninspirational talk packed into
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like 60 seconds or less? Yeah,like to me? Yeah, you
know, I'm just you know, Istarted making those videos.
Again, you know, spirit isspirits funny. That way, I
didn't have this intention ofhaving a large social social
media following. It was not onthe manifestation list. Other
things were, but that wasn'tand, you know, I got on to I
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started on Tik Tok. And I waslike, you know, what, let me
just post a video with a messageon it and just see what happens.
And of course, you know, thosevideos, they start taking off
and, you know, get all these allthis amazing engagement and all
of these folks, you know, reallyresonating with the message. And
then, you know, I converted thatover to Instagram, maybe about a
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year and a half ago. And, youknow, because my, my content
before, spirituality was justlike, me, my life, I was like,
take my shirt off, you know,like the typical like that,
right? So it's like, well, Ifind the good stuff, right? It
was just like, my light. Itwasn't anything like, you know,
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spirituality connected. Andthen, you know, once it started
happening, and I and like, allof these kind of followers came
in, you know, people wouldcomment and DM and stuff I was
like, Oh my gosh, this is itlike this is totally yet. But
those messages that I share,it's funny I laugh I'm like, I'm
you know, I grew a reputation asa medium without actually
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posting spirit mediumship orevidential mediumship right
because they're inspirationalmessages and I'm aware that you
know, channeled messages aren'tnecessarily aligned with
mediumship with connectingpeople to their loved ones
although facet of them rightjust different. But um, but it's
been it's been really fun and sothose messages I'm usually I'm
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channeling I'm asking you know,what is something that me at the
beginning of my spiritualjourney needed to hear what
something that maybe my nephew'sbecause I intro with you know,
if you don't believe in mediumsjust consider me your gay uncle
and I do have two beautifulnephews and I just think you
know, what something they mightneed to hear if they're working
through things with like selfesteem or worth or connecting to
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who they are and or just ask youknow, what's what's the energy
in the world right now what'shappening that people need to
hear and so and then I just kindof open up my energy and let her
fly and just whatever comesthrough comes through and I put
captions on it and post it andcall it a day. I
got so great and it's it's Imean your courage and just going
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with what spirits giving you anddoing it that way really does. I
think help to in a storytellingway open up that permission for
other people to just say whatinspired words that come to them
or you know, if it feels inalignment with who you are and
with for about lack of betterword like positivity and
empowerment, then put it outthere like why not? Why not just
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give it a go like you did? Yeah,I mean, you know, one of the
things that really inspired meto post those messages, there's
a medium ship training deck thatwas put out by John Holland and
Lauren rainbow and you know, inone of the, in their training
deck, it's like these awesomecards you can look at and kind
of like use them as as adivination tool for just what
you can work on as a medium andone of the things one of the
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cards in there was channeledmessages of wisdom and and so
that's kind of what inspired itand I you know, I look back at
when I first started posting, Iwould see people like Tabitha
Brown, who if no one's familiar,she is this just this amazing
woman of color who posts these,this wonderful inspirational
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content. She also puts a lot oflike cooking and vegan things
and but I remember watching avideo of hers and she, it was
like, right before I startedposting anything, it was right
before it was during thepandemic. We're all at home and
she's like, looking into thecamera and she's like, I know
baby, you're hurt and they hurtyou. That's all right. And then
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And then she's like, finishes itwith I love you. And I'm sitting
there on my couch like crying atthis stranger who I've never
met. I don't know who she is,but she's really touched my soul
in some way. Yeah. And she'sjust like, touched my soul in
this like deep way. And so, youknow, it was like, I was like,
why can do that? Like, I want todo that and how can I
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incorporate in things that I uselike, like, tarot or other other
tools to kind of, you know,inspire those messages. So they
started with Tarot, and now it'sjust just me channeling and I
don't use tools, I love tools,but I don't I don't use them in
my practice anymore for clientsor videos. But, um, but yeah, so
that's kind of how it all justkind of started. And, you know,
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a couple years later, here weare having this conversation
today.
Amazing how it's amazing howsynchronicity and the universe
and Spirit works. One thing youmentioned is that you kind of
came out of that medium shipbroom closet, so to speak. I
know for me and my journey, andfor lots of other mediums that
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I've met along the way, thattends to be a real scary pivot
point for us. Will you share alittle bit about how that was
for you? How you will receivewhat you said even like, yeah,
to tell family and friends like,No,
I equate it to me coming out asa as a gay person. It's, you
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know, it for me it. And Iunderstand why it's scary for
people it is asking some it isbaring your soul to someone and
saying, here's who I am. Andknowing that they're going to
have perhaps some type of eitherresistance to it, or there's a
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potential for rejection. And,you know, you being brave enough
just to go, here's what it is.
And if you are down with itamazing. If you're not, it's
really going to hurt myfeelings, but I have to be in
this truth. And, you know, itwas the same thing when I was
coming out as a gay person. Itwas scary. It was terrifying.
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But it's funny, because when Icame out as a medium to my
family, they were like, oh,yeah, we can see that. And I was
like, okay, great, you know,perfect. And then you know, and
then they're like, Yeah, youknow, come to think of it. Your
one grandmother used to carrycrystals around all the time.
And you know, your other one, weused to really love getting
tarot readings. I'm like,awesome, amazing. glad this is
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glad we're all having thisexperience together. But I
understand people's hesitationor trepidation around coming out
of the broom closet or whatevercloset, you know, I think, I
think we all can identify, maybeit's not specific to mediumship
for being gay, but we can allidentify in some way of sharing
a piece of ourselves withsomeone and understanding that
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they may not be welcoming to it,but doing it anyway. Because
living in that truth is so muchmore important than what someone
else thinks of you.
It's such a good point. Was ityour family that you started to,
like verbally open up to aboutat first or friends or what
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approach did you take? Yeah, somy first the first folks I kind
of cave out to it was so Ididn't plan on coming out.
Right? Because my parents aren'ton Tik Tok, you know? And so I
was like, I'll just post thesevideos, and then then you have a
couple that hit over a millionviews. And then eventually, you
start getting like, the textmessages with the phone calls.
Like, I didn't know you didreadings, that's amazing. And
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then you're like, Well,eventually, my parents are gonna
find out about this eventually,you know, and so, I first told
my friends, and they, you know,they had never really
encountered someone like me andtheir life that they knew of.
And so I say that they knew of,because there's a lot of us out
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there. And you know, and so,they at first were like, okay,
like, Sure. And then, you know,after some time passed, they
were like, okay, he's serious.
Like, this is not like, he's,he's serious. This is actually
happening. Yeah, yeah, this ishappening. And so, you know,
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they were all apprehensive atfirst. And now I have to tell
you, my friends, they come to,they come to every live event,
they are so supportive, theylike cheer me on, they're, you
know, they're just so wonderful.
And I've made new friends aswell in the spiritual community.
And, and, you know, and, and myparents, I told them, I was I
was actually at Target and I wason the phone with my mom and I
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was like, Mom, I gotta tell yousomething, and she goes, Okay,
and I was like, I'm a medium andshe was what does that mean? And
I was like, it means I talkedto, I talked to dead people. And
she was like, the They're notactually dead. But that's a
whole nother debate for anotherday, I'm just gonna keep this as
simple as I possibly can forthis conversation, she goes,
Well, nothing you do reallysurprises me anymore. So that's
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fine. And so, you know, it was,it was great, but, you know, but
then I did have friends in mylife who were like, you know,
they're like, that's demonic,or, you know, you're, you're
going to hell and and, you know,I grew up gay in Ohio, and I,
you know, I just I came out at avery young age, and so I'm kind
of used to people just resortingto that, while you're going to
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hell, if it's something thatthey're not really educated on,
or their fear fearful of. Sothat doesn't really bother me
when people go there. I've youknow, I feel very fortunate that
I learned that a long time agothat that has nothing to do with
me, and I don't need to ownthat. But you know, it's it. But
again, it's like that I wouldrather be out as a medium and
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help people and live into mypurpose and live in that truth
than not do that. Yeah, Ithink it's such a good point,
because it's unfortunate thatyou've had to go through
rejection here and there. Butalso, you know, you make a great
point that we don't have to takeon board. Anything that someone
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says about us, this isn't justbecause someone says it, or it's
their paradigm or belief systemdoesn't mean it has to be true
for you. And it doesn't makesomeone any less of a person or
you know, any better or worse orwhatever. Because of it. Like
your family received you prettywell.
They do. And they're so funnythat my mom is so funny. She's
like, do you still do yourlittle readings, like she's
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really funny, like, I don'tthink she my mom really
understands, like, what I do, orlike the internet kind of
success that I've had, and, youknow, she sees things in like,
you know, like US Weekly, andEntertainment Tonight. And she's
like, Well, how did thathappened? And it's really, it's
amazing, though, because, youknow, I love that my family is
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just, they don't treat me anydifferent. It's, you know, it's
still list, I still get, youknow, I still get the same kind
of treatment, which is nice. Ineed that. And I love that so
much.
Because I mean, it's still whoyou are. And like you said, it's
always been a part of you. Andmaybe you didn't identify
earlier on as like, Oh, I'mtalking to these invisible
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people. Maybe it just came outas you being a little woowoo Are
you liking? Yeah, you know, apretty rock here and there or
whatever. Yeah, whatever itmight be. So yeah, are there
things like that, that you canrecognize? I think you kind of
alluded to earlier inretrospect, where you're like,
Oh, I've especially in if youhave like a high powered career
in the beauty industry, you mustrealize, like, Oh, I've been
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reading people in thesemeetings, all along,
that my whole life like there'slike been, like, so many moments
where I'm like, oh, like, my, mymom's uncle. Oh, ran a
graveyard, he ran a cemetery.
Wow. And I would go and play inthe cemetery as a kid because it
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felt so welcoming to me. Like apark, like setting dates are not
beautiful, but like just theenergy of just, you know, even
though I know, that's where thephysical vessels are something
about the energy of that, to me,always just felt so loving and
so inviting. And, you know, Ilook back at like movies I used
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to watch and like books that Iwould just, like, love to read.
And, you know, but andespecially in the beauty
industry, you know, I started asa makeup artist, and, you know,
you just end up receiving justsomething like, you know,
someone's telling you theirtheir problems are they're in
theirphysical space to close in their
auric field, essentially, iswhat's happening. Yeah,
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and so you just get these, likelittle bits that you think they
need, and you share it, andyou're, you know, next thing,
you know, they're crying, you'recrying, you're hugging it out,
you know, and, and so, you know,or, you know, if I had, I was in
leadership for a long time. Andso, it was always great. I can
always tell when somebody waslike, wasn't being truthful with
me, or somebody was trying tohide something from me. And I
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would always find it and I know,like, right where to look. And I
get these like little intuitiveknowings of like, look here or
look here. And, you know, soit's yeah, it's sprinkled all
throughout my my life. And it'sfun to look back now and be
like, oh, yeah, that'swhat that was, I think is such a
great point, too, because we allhave, I know you believe this.
I've heard you say it before, weall have intuitive ability. And
it's just, I don't know, tell meyour opinion. But for me, I feel
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like it's just about starting topay attention to those nudges or
I have a friend the way she usedto say it is when something
hangs a little lower in the air.
Like if you ever had aconversation and one line just
sticks out to you. It's like,just kind of following that
hunch or feeling or nudge. Isthat how you would say that
people should start kind ofpaying attention to it?
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Yeah. And you know, getting outof our head and into our
physical body is so important. Ithink you know, our head in our
mind is It never tells anaccurate story. But your
physical body, the way you feelyour gut, that's always telling
you the truth. And I think thatwe, we live in this society that
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like now. And when you've gotthe head and the gut and
alignment, oh my god, watch out,you are just like, all powerful,
right? But like we live in asociety that, you know, it keeps
us in our head, and it tells usto separate those two and that
we have to listen to what ourmind is telling with logic and
reason. And I gotta be honestwith you, I think that that sets
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a lot of people up, not just toonly disregard their intuition,
but just separate themselvesfrom their sense of worthiness.
Like, I gotta tell you, like ifI think about myself, right, and
I start analyzing myself, I cantell you 10 things that are
wrong with me right off the bat.
But if I ease into my knowing ifI ease into my body, I know I'm
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whole. I know, I'm worthy. Iknow everything is exactly as it
needs to be. Yeah. So like, bothof those things are existing,
only one of them is true. Now,when I get those thoughts about
myself in alignment with how I'mfeeling that Oh, my God, watch
out, I am just Supercharged. Andyou can't tell me nothing. But
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you know, but I think that'strue for a lot of people. And I
think our intuition it, youknow, it, it, we feel it, it
comes through our solar plexus,we, you know, when we're in our
bodies, when our nervous systemis regulated, when we're calm,
and we're receiving the knowingsthe nudges, listen to those,
listen to those every singletime they're not going to steer
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you wrong. It's just when westart to get up here in our
heads. It's a dangerousneighborhood.
Do you have any tips or likerecommendations for people who
are listening to you andthinking like, Okay, well, I
want to be more my body, butlike, how do I do that? How do I
discern the difference betweenthose way? I say it is like the
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chatter in your mind versus thatintuition in your body.
Yeah. So you know, breathing isalways a great place to start.
If you know and it's it's it'sthe, in my opinion, I think
sometimes it's the thing thatgets overlooked the most.
There's power in our breath.
Because if you think about it,you're breathing in lifeforce
energy, air. Yeah. And so ifyou're just breathing in, and
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you're just focusing on yourbreath, feel it fill your belly,
fill your lungs, and thenbreathe it out and just focus on
that you're going to drop fromyour head into your body. So
quickly, you're going to noticeyour heart rates are too slow,
you're going to notice yourselffeel more calm. That's one way
another way. But that doesn't,but being still doesn't work for
everyone. Yeah, that's true. Soyou have to honor that, right?
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And so if you're somebody whomaybe you need movement, maybe
you just need to dance it out.
Like maybe you just need to playyour favorite song, put on some
headphones, wherever and justmove your body without all that
a kitchen dance party over here.
Exactly, exactly. Or, you know,or maybe it's yoga or stretching
whatever, right, I think thebest for in my opinion, I think
the easiest place to place tostart is breath, and then kind
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of playing with, you know, whatgets you into feeling your body
or feeling like your quoteunquote, in your body.
That's a great way to think ofit too. And then I guess the
next layer is back into personaldevelopment of them. It's
exploring those emotions or theresistance and what's sometimes
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we resist being fully present.
And it's such a, it's such aneasy thing to just get on the
phone or get on the computerand, you know, detach, right?
Yeah,absolutely, it is. And I think
that's always a good kind ofindicator that it's time to
maybe pull ourselves back in thepresent moment, or just, you
know, observe like, you know, Inoticed when I get anxious, I
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like to fidget or clean or I'vegot to move things and not
trying to fix it or judge itjust to observe it. But I think
that once we have that awarenessof what we do, when we're either
feeling anxious, or we'reavoiding an emotion, then we can
correct it, which then helps usto lean into our intuition. You
know, I always say, you know, Itell my clients who want to
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focus more on listening to theirintuition. I'm like, never asked
your guides the universeyourself a question, while your
mind is like racing, likeever mind wants to fill in that
blank space? Of course, never.
Yeah, calm yourself down first,and then ask the question. Yeah,
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yeah. I think that's a great agreat thing to think about too,
just because it's the access isthere, but it doesn't mean we
know yet always how to do itimmediately, or it can be
something someone's working on.
It's a process and it's not aprocess that once you do at one
time, you've got it perfected.
It's like anything else. Youjust have to keep committing to
showing up and committing toyour own awareness. And if you
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you know, if you can do it, themore more you do it, the easier
your needs. uric acid, but it'slike anything else. You know,
it's, it just takes thatconsistent showing up.
Do you have any personalpractices as a medium that you
do like regularly for yourselfthat help you right now?
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Yeah, so I am I love. And I'vebeen seeing this, like, make the
rounds on social media more issitting in the power, which I
know you'll know. Because yes,like I love seeing sitting in
the power like coming backbecause for me like sitting in
the power. And for thoselistening that don't know
sitting in the power is ameditation technique that helps
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mediums connect to spiritenergy, or the energy of the
universe, whatever word you wantto put there. Yeah, but it also
what a lot of people don'trealize is it helps clear your
energy and offers you energeticprotection and connection. And
so essentially, what it does isit helps you kind of clear your
container so that way you canfill it with yummy, yummy,
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universal energy and be in thatspace. So I love sitting in the
power. You know, energeticshowers are great when I like
hop in the shower, and I justpicture clearing away my energy
or when I'm washing my hands.
I'm in Washington State. And sowe're getting back into like
spring is kind of peeking aroundthe corner. So I've been I've
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been able to go to the beachmore like just being just going
and sitting at the beach just bythe water just does something to
me that I just I can't explain.
And then I've actually beenincorporating it in hot yoga
regularly. So there's I know youasked for like one thing and I'm
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giving you like, Oh, Ilove it. I mean, I think we all
want the thing. It depends, youknow, it
just depends on what I feel likeI need but before clients, I
always do a sitting in the powerand then I you know, just just
work with my guides and angelsjust on keeping my space, as you
know, uplifted and filled withlight as possible. And and that
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always serves me well.
That's wonderful I, I learnedsitting in the power for my
mentor, primarily under AndyBing. And he teaches a whole
separate course on that which Ithink a lot of mediums and for
myself too, I always thought itwas more Oh practice exercises
and practice reading and all ofthat. And really, the truth is
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it's 90% of development happensin that sitting in the power or
sometimes called sitting in thepresence exercise where you're
just our human tendency is whatalways be doing something
nothing really always happeningin that meditation. It's a lot
of just stillness and expansion.
And you know, sometimes thingshappen, but not always. And I
think people are surprised byhow we say like, it's not the
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sexy part of the work, you know,but it's so foundational
important.
The so my friend who did myhuman design reading this
morning, she actually sharedwith me, I will share this
because I love the synchronicityof this conversation. Is that
who's to say there isn't doingin the being? Yeah. And there
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really is a lot of doing thathappens to be like sitting in
the power sitting in thepresence. It's, it kind of goes
back to the being in your body.
It's an exercise that helps yoube in your body and get out of
your head. Yeah. And so I thinkthat there's a lot of power and
sitting in the power for sure.
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There really okay, all youmediums in developing mediums
out there. You heard it. Yeah,you heard it here many times.
But I love that you're saying itagain. You're
so right, though, but here's thething, it's like, it's like kind
of like when someone goes to artschool, and they make the art
students draw like the fruitbowl, or the chair or the things
it's like, they're like, I wantto draw the really cool things
or I want to paint the reallycool things and, and like you
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have to have those basicfoundational things in order to
be able to really fly and soarand make mediumship your own.
Which I'm really grateful thatyou know, I'm grateful for the
mentors that taught me a lot ofthis core foundational things
but also just me as a human likewhen I when everything is kind
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of getting complicated. In myworld. I just go back to my
breath, right and sometimesthat's I'm going to be honest,
sometimes that's easier toremember than other times. But
when everything is kind of likechaotic, I just go back to that
kind of that basic like just sitand breathe, just be allow the
universe to respond to you don'trespond to what's all the things
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that are happening. And not onlyhas it just made me a better
medium, it's also helped with myown mental health.
I think that's great and soimportant to remember that you
know, we have so many thingsgoing on besides the unseen
world. There's our day to daylife and our physical health and
are mental health and all theseother things that it's important
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to also attend to. So thank youfor saying that. That's right.
Yeah, college. Yeah, I didn'ttell you this when we hopped on,
but when we do guests here onthe pod, we do something called
Spirit Speed Round towards theend. Okay. Okay, so I was hoping
you're gonna have that reaction.
It's for easy, fun questionsthat I would love to hear your
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thoughts on that? Okay,I would love that. Let's do it.
Good. Okay, thefirst question is share one
thing that really shocked you orwas unexpected about your gifts
as a medium,that it would require me to do
my own deep work. That in orderfor me to see, for me to be like
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a solid practitioner and not berattled by what I hear or not
take it on, like, I have to domy own shadow work.
Yeah, that's a good point, willyou quickly just explain, I feel
like we talked about it a lot.
But I don't think everyoneunderstands what Shadow Work is,
when you just give a little likeyour definition of that.
My definition of Shadow Work isbringing light to the pieces of
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myself that have shame or guiltattached to them.
I love that there woulddefinitely be Brene Brown
approved, I'm sure. I lovelistening to her podcast this
morning. She's She's relaunchedit. So if you got to spend a day
in the spirit world, you got thefull tour, you got to spend time
with everyone you've ever knownwho's crossed over, it's almost
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time for you to return to yourhuman life. And your guide tells
you you have one hour left andyou could spend it with anyone
who's on the other side. Who doyou choose? And why?
Does it have to be just oneperson? No, no rules. I would
visit with my grandmother's youknow, I both my grandfather's
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are here, but both of mygrandmother's are non physical,
and I would spend some time withthem. And you know, I would want
to spend time with Jesus. I hadthis like weird, like religious
trauma thing. And then now Idon't have it. And I say I've
like the best relationship withJesus I've ever had in my life.
And, you know, I would want tospend some time with him. I
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don't know. I just think it'd bekind of fascinating. I
love that. I think that's such acool answer. And I do think it's
valid. A lot of us havereligious trauma and fear from
man getting involved inspiritual things, really, I
think is is that maybe what'shappened. Even though we have
very spiritual gifts, we havevery human lives. What's one
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quirky thing about you thatpeople might be surprised to
learn?
I just got back into playinggame or a Nintendo I bought a
Nintendo Switch. And I they havethis new Super Mario game that
is so fun. Iwas gonna ask what's your jam?
Yes, Iplease I'm not like into like
the I have no problems withpeople that want to play like
the gun games. And I it's not mything I love like our yoga
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because it's like so silly. Andlike, it's just so fun. So yeah,
I love playing Super Mario. It'sreally fun. I think that's a
really cool Quirk. It's so Iwould love to see you playing
because I'm sure you're soanimated. And
my inner. My inner child hasjust gone ham the past couple of
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weeks. Like it's like I wake upSaturday morning, and I'm like
bowl of cereal video games,having the best time
very nostalgic. Yeah, we get towe get to have fun as adults
too. And it's important to giveyour inner child some release.
Yeah.
I love it. Will you leave uswith a pearl of wisdom? What's
one piece of advice you wishthat you'd had early on in your
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understanding of your gifts?
Don't rush it. It's okay thatsometimes we feel impatient. Or
sometimes we just wish we wouldyou know progress faster, move
along faster. That's a goodthing. It means that we're,
we're picking up on there is somuch more we're picking up on
the energy that there is more,but just have fun where you're
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at because it's just that's justyou know, it's a part of it. You
have to there's so muchexpansion, a lot of expansion
happens when we're in states ofjoy. That's where the true
expansion happens. So just havefun. It's great advice.
I love that you actually have alive event that's coming up just
around the corner. I would loveit if you would well, of course
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we'll put everything in the shownotes so people can easily just
link to it. But thanks.
Yeah, I'll be doing a platformmediumship event on May 16 at
the blue mouse Theatre inTacoma, Washington. So I'll be
for those. For those who havenever been to an event like
that. It's where a medium takesthe stage and just you know, I
call it point and shoot we juststart pointing people start
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giving readings and connectingtheir loved ones out out in the
spirit world and so it's areally great event filled with a
lot of just love, hope andhealing and, and joy and what I
really enjoy about these eventsis even if you don't get a
reading, personally, the energyof healing that is present is so
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big and powerful. And so I'mreally excited to do that'll be
my second event at that venue.
And it's just it's a venue thathas such a rich history. It's
called the blue mouse theater ifI didn't say that already. And
it's, it's the theater has isthe oldest Playhouse Theatre in
the state of Washington. Andit's a gorgeous space. So I'm
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really excited to do that theevent is called Travis Holp
Live, nothing, you know, pretty,pretty quick and simple. And to
the point of what it is, yeah,yep. So and that's, that can be
found on my website as well atTravis holt.com.
I love that you share too abouteven if someone doesn't receive
a personal communication fromtheir own loved ones I didn't
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use to understand until I wentto my first demonstration how
unique it is of an experience.
And even if you're not receivinga reading, you can feel so many
things that shocking.
It's it is like I and I'm withyou I never understood until I
went to my first my first livemediumship demonstration was
John Edward. And I've been totwo of his events. And I've been
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to a lot more sense but that wasmy first one. And you know, you
could not tell me that mygrandmothers were not sitting
right next to me that entiretime even if he didn't connect
with them just the energy that Ithat the the energetic portal
that a medium is, is such abeautiful thing. And to just be
(51:39):
in that energy is just it's it'sdelightful.
Well, thank you so much for whatyou do for your work in the
world for being who you are, andfor being here with us today.
And thank you for shining yourlight.
Thank you for having me joy.
It's been my honor. Well, whatdid you think of that
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conversation with the beautifulsoul that is Travis Holp, how
generous of him to really shareabout his journey and his
process. I love the tips that hegave us and I'm so excited for
his event coming up inWashington that Live platform
mediumship demonstration groupmediumship reading whatever
you'd like to call it. I willput all the info in the show
(52:22):
notes. Of course, be sure tocheck out his social media
platform Travis warrior unicornis his handle on Instagram and
tick tock. Of course he takesprivate bookings. And if you
want to find out even more abouthim or learn how to book with
him, I'll again put it in theshow notes but his website is
TravisHolp.com. So I am sograteful to Travis for sharing
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his time and his energy and hisbeautiful soul with us. I hope
that you have enjoyed thisconversation and that you found
it inspiring or enlightening insome way I'm always grateful to
have you here with us. InsideSpirit Speakeasy, Big hugs, lots
of love. Bye for now.
Hey beautiful soul Welcome toSpirit Speakeasy. I'm Joy
Giovanni, Joyful Medium. I'm aworking psychic medium energy
healer and spiritual giftsmentor.
This podcast is like a seat atthe table in a secret club but
with mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our time
so come behind the velvet ropeswith me and see inside my world
(00:25):
is I chat insider style withprofoundly different souls we go
deep share juicy stories laugh alot and it wouldn't be a
speakeasy without great insidersecrets and tips you might even
learn that you have some giftsof your own. So step inside the
spirit speakeasy Hey beautifulsoul Welcome to another episode
(00:48):
of Spirit Speakeasy. I am soexcited to share today's guest
with you. He is an incrediblemedium he has been featured on
Entertainment Tonight, US WeeklyElle Magazine and so much more.
You can find him on Instagramand Tick Tock with over 750,000
(01:08):
combined followers sharing hisuplifting and empowering
messages and just shining hislight. His handle on the socials
is Travis for your unicornand his name is Travis Holp. So
without further ado, I reallyjust want to share this
conversation with you.
We had an amazing time chattingabout things mystical and
(01:32):
mediumship and his journey andso much more. So without further
ado, welcome into the Speakeasywelcome in for another episode
of Spirit Speakeasy. Today, ourguest is medium Travis Holp.
Travis is a celebrity lovedpsychic medium and spiritual
guide. Known for his authenticand evidential messages from the
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spirit realm. He has aremarkable ability to deliver
profound insights filled withhope, healing and joy resonating
deeply with audiences worldwide.
Travis's unique approach bringsa fresh perspective to spiritual
connection, garnering widespreadacclaim for his sincerity and
transformative impact. Help mewelcome Travis hold.
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Thank you so much for having me.
Joy. I'm so excited to be here.
I'm so excited to have you, Ihave to just kick off with a
compliment you to me when I cameacross you on social media
probably last summer or so. Iwas just so drawn into the
messages you share, which is notalways the case for me, but you
(02:42):
just feel so authentically openand honest. And just being your
I know, it's kind of like abuzzword, but being like your
authentic self, which I just sawadmire about
you. Well, I appreciate that.
Actually, I had my very firsthuman design reading today. And
my friend that did the readingtold me that because of like my
human design type thatauthenticity is like what makes
(03:04):
me magnetic. So there you go.
Yeah, I'm like, No, you'reright. So I appreciate that
validation. And, yeah, you know,social media is such an
interesting landscape, because Ithink anyone can show up and
present kind of whatever storythey want. But I find it's just
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more fun if we're just, youknow, being real and showing up
as ourselves. So thank you forthat.
I think I think you do anamazing job of it. I am so
excited to hear about yourstory. It's one of the things I
am a little nerdy researcher andI did a little research on you.
And it's one of the things Icouldn't find a ton about your
journey as a medium. I knowyou've said that it's been with
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you more or less your wholelife. Would you mind sharing a
little bitabout that? Absolutely. So you
know, when I was younger, I likea lot of mediums I could sense
and feel spirit. And you know,my parents. When I came out to
them as a medium, they're like,that makes sense, because you're
always talking to somebody, butwe didn't see anybody with you.
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So like, they're like, you know,a lot of things are kind of
clicking. But you know, I didn'tlean into mediumship and in
fact, when I started doingreadings, I started with Tarot.
And I was very adamant about notdoing mediumship and actually
like, kind of like whistling Iwas super resistant to and so
when I started I started doingreadings for money. I have, you
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know, I've always had like tarotdecks around and I've always
done readings for friends. I'vealways been just very empathetic
and can sense other people'semotions, all those great
beautiful, juicy intuitivethings, right? But when I
started giving readings, it wason tick tock in 2020. I'd left
like my corporate job in thebeauty industry after like 17
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years. And I was like, I don'tknow what I want to do yet, so
I'm just gonna read tarot Tiktokbecause I don't have an employer
that is monitoring what I'mposting. And that can tell me
no. So I'm just going to do it.
And so yeah, it was great. Andso I start giving readings and
then, or I start doing videoswith just quick little channeled
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messages based off of what cardspopped up. And then I would have
people reach out and they'relike, Hey, do you give readings?
And I'm like, Sure. And soat that point, you had been
really reading for like, familyand friends and yeah,
privately family and friends andyou know, reading Tarot. And I
was like, you know, I was like,I understand I have a good
understanding of tarot. And I'vebeen, you know, I've been in
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like management and leadershipfor 17 years, what could go
wrong? And so So I startedgiving readings without, you
know, really knowing anythingabout energetic protection and
cleansing and all of thosethings. So kids, listen, don't
don't do as I don't do as I do,as I say, so, you know, so, but
once I really kind of decided,like, Okay, I want to keep doing
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this, and I, you know, I startedreading every single book, I
could get on psychic work, and Ifound a mentor, and, you know,
started studying and mediumship,for me was something that, I
don't know, it just, it justkind of started happening when I
was with people reading cardsfor them and be like, do you
understand this, like,Grandfather that's coming
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through and he's giving me thisname. And here's how he passed
and people would start likecrying in the middle of, you
know, their Tarot reading. Andso I was, I guess, I guess we do
this now. And that's just beenmy, my journey with spirit. It's
like, I guess we do this. So Iyou know, so I've studied at the
I take classes through ArthurFinley. Yeah, yeah. I always
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call it lovingly the Hogwarts ofmediumship. Absolutely. It is
like, it's a call. Yeah,absolutely. It is. And then, you
know, and then, you know, somesome notable mediums that I
really look up to, I've taken,you know, a bunch of their
classes. And I think I've gotalmost every mediumship book
known to man in my homesomewhere. And so, you know, for
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me, mediumship has just kind ofbecome this thing that I have
fallen in love with so deeply.
But, you know, it didn't, it wassomething that I had to kind of
allow myself to access and getout of my own way with. Yeah,
because I say I didn't want toconnect to connect to spirits in
a mediumistic way. And that itwasn't necessarily I didn't want
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to is that I didn't know if Iwas worthy of that.
I think that's such an importantthing to talk about. Just
because it's I didn't realizeour journeys were so similar. I
came in to kind of came into itlater in my life as well, I was
available for it. But it juststarted, like you said to start
happening, and I was like, oh,or what's like, we're doing this
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now. And then having to I cameto me during Reiki sessions, and
I was a massage therapist. Andso with clients, I really
trusted I would be like, okay,like, I know, this could be
across the line, but like, Ihave to say this thing to you.
And just like you said, they'dstart crying and knew exactly
what I was saying. And I justwas like, alright, what it like,
what what is happening? So, Ilove that you sought out
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mentors, and I do think that'sthe best path because we don't,
I think that's commonlymisunderstood, is that we don't
always understand, like, what amI doing? How am I doing this?
What do I do with this? Am Isupposed to be doing this? Or in
your, in your words, you know,am I worthy of doing this? Like,
is this gift for me? How did youstart to like, unpack all that
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and navigate it?
You know, I I think that findingmentors was really big for me
and reading reading books onmedium ship and really talking
to people who you know, like youare very grounded and humble and
are willing to kind of sharetheir stories, right? And so,
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whenever I would ask anothermedium, like, hey, I want to ask
you questions about you know,how's this feel for you? Then,
of course, like, I'm gettingreadings too, and I'm in the
readings and the psychics arelike, you're a medium and I'm
like, I don't know what thatmeans. And, and so, you know, it
was a lot of it. Like a lot ofthings in life. Just hearing
other people's stories andexperiences made me feel less
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alone. It made me feel like Iwasn't like losing my mind. It
made me it gave me a lot ofvalidation of okay, here's why
throughout my life, I'veexperienced at times high levels
of anxiety or just knowingthings, but I have no way of
knowing or, you know, and so I,I say that I and I make a very
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clear distinction. I starteddoing mediumship for money at a
certain point, but I've alwaysbeen connecting I just time to
do Yeah, I just didn't know itand now and now I do so it's
been it's been quite thejourney, but I think the biggest
turning point for me was meactually doing In my own
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healing, and taking care of thehealer behind the services, and
it was I started doing readingsfor other people that weren't my
friends or family in November of2020. And earlier that year, I
decided to get sober I startedmeditating, I started, like,
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really taking therapy serious. Ihad been in therapy for some
time before that, but it wasreally just, you know, can I
show up to my therapy session?
And how many times can I make mytherapist laugh, you know, and,
and so really started divinginto my own healing. And when I
did that, I found myself beingable to connect deeper and
deeper and deeper to, to thisability. So that's
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such an important point, too.
I'm so glad you're so openlysharing all this with us.
Because I feel like when we acouple things like
congratulations on yoursobriety, that's a big deal and
a huge part of your journey. Andfor what it's worth, I'm so
proud of you. But I feel like wedo one have to continue to do
personal development, becauseit's through the emotion that
these gifts work. And if we're,you know, kind of stuck in our
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own patterns, or not focusing onwhat we need to focus on the
work is only gonna go so far.
The second thing that I'mexcited to talk to you about is,
it's your freewill contribution.
You You said like, I'm going toshow up, I'm going to show up
sober, I'm going to do thispersonal development, I'm going
to really see what I can, youknow, work on myself. And it's
kind of what I'm always tryingto explain to people is like, we
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don't predict the future becauseno one can, we can see your
potentials like, yeah, you havethe potential to be this
amazing, medium and leader andbut it was your freewill
contribution of saying, like,I'm gonna do the hard work and
show up that made that potentialbecome your reality. Do
you know what I mean? Yeah. Andfor me, I've always been the,
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you know, my energy is very mucheither like a heck yes, or heck,
no kind of energy for me. Andwhen I really learned to listen
to that, and trust me, I am, Ido not have this perfected I am
working on, I'm committed, I'mcommitted to showing up for
myself every single day. Andsometimes I get it right. And
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sometimes it's just anopportunity to do better next
time. But when I lean into that,like I did with mediumship, and
other things in my life, it hasalways served me and it's always
been just an amazing, amazingjourney and ride. And so for me
when mediumship happened, it wasreally just like, yeah, we're
doing this, and this is what'shappening. And we're just going
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to move forward with it andallow it to grow and allow it to
develop.
I love that you share aboutmentorship, too, because I do
feel like that's another commonmisconception is that these
gifts, either rise to thesurface, or we have them and
people think we automaticallyknow how to work in a very
specifically evidential giving,you know, specific details kind
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of a way and it's not the case.
And I think it's what puts a lotof gifted people off mediumship
because, for me anyway, I waswhen my first mentor was like
your psychic, I was like, Whoa,you're crazy. Because, yeah,
don't do that, like you'retalking about. And but then when
she explained to me what it whatthat meant. I was like, Oh, I'm
doing that all the time. Like,of course I'm doing like, Yes,
I'm definitely feelingeveryone's emotions all the
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time. And yeah, so it's, it'ssuch a, I don't know, I think it
takes a level of humility toreceive training, but also it's
that excitement and those, likelittle carrots that we get, you
know,when I think you know, even
Olympic athletes have coaches?
Totally, you know, I think, youknow, and I think for me,
mediumship you know, it's anability, like a lot of other
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things, just like singing is anability, right? Like, some
people should go out and beprofessional singers. And some
people just need to sing intheir car. And that's okay.
Like, you know, I think, for me,it's really been, you know, I
want to show up and serve andthe best way that I can because
we're dealing with people'semotions we're dealing with I
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mean, I've had readings donefrom when I was younger that I
still remember that I hang on toright so we're we're not only
are we connecting to people'sloved ones, but we're leaving a
lasting impression on people andso, you know, I'm, I'm a Virgo
through and through and, youknow, my inner perfectionist
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needs to read all the books anddo all the classes and do all
the things right are used to atleast. And one of the things I
appreciated about mediumship isthat it's allowed my inner
perfectionist to just kind oftake a backseat and just be more
present with my own unfolding.
And, but if it were left up tome my own devices, I wouldn't
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have gotten to that conclusionlike I needed a mentor to tell
me it's okay to like,misinterpret something. It's
okay to be wrong. It's okay toyou know, learn different ways
of risks. sieving. So I thinkmentors are such a gift because
they help us feel seen. And theyhelp us really truly understand
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that it's, it's an evolvingpractice. Mediumship is so I
think, you know, a good mentoris worth their weight in gold.
Well, and I think to your point,it does kind of feed that,
especially for someone who'sdriven or Virgo esque in our
quality. Mediumship is the everunfolding gift. We never often
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talk about a mentor I had for awhile Mavis patella, she was in
her 80s. And she would say, I'mnot done developing and like,
how delicious is that to do youknow what
I'm so good, so good. Like, I'mhelping people, you know, as
mediums we help people withtheir own spiritual development.
But like, it's so fun, becauseI'm also developing still
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spiritually, and I'm stilllearning. And it's, you know,
it's really, it's kind of fun.
And in a way it takes thepressure off of like, needing to
be perfect.
Yeah. And there's no, I mean, aswe know, there, it's there's no
perfection. And it's always justworking. And even as we're
working with the spirit worldand with clients, it's like,
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we're continuously working everyinch of the way through so in
the moment to be understandingwhat's happening. Yeah,
yeah, I don't know about you.
But it's funny when I'mreceiving information, and I'm
used to receiving it a certainway, and I'm with a client, and
then that information justsuddenly just shifts, and now we
receive in a different way. Ilaugh about it. Now, I'm like,
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well, well, spirits, apparentlyputting me through training day
today. So we're gonna, we'regonna learn here on the job
together, both of us. So, youknow, I've learned to just kind
of laugh it at, you know, thelittle bumps that pop up are the
things that you know, kind ofthrow you for, for a loop, which
I can honestly tell you that,you know, me three or four years
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ago, would have freaked outabout those things. So it's been
such a fun journey of justliberation and authenticity.
And I think it's, it is one ofthose things, too, we have to
continue to, like, you know,back to the personal development
side, we continue to, like, lookat ourselves look at think
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people think we just jump intothis, yet, yes, we're excited.
But like, it's a little scary tobe doing all this on the job
training. Even when you youknow, taken all the courses and
read all the books and areworking and all that it's like,
it's so challenging, and we haveto continue to explore, you
know, our resistance our fears,our worthiness, as is a lot of
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the work that you do publicly,too.
Yeah. And it's funny because Ithink sometimes people think
like, just because you, youknow, you're a spiritual
teacher, or you're a medium oryou're a psychic that you
magically have everythingfigured out. And like, I don't
like I, I, like, trust me, and Iasked the universe, I'm like,
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Listen, I'm out here doingservice work. I'm out here doing
the things. Can you like, cut mea break today? Can I just be
spoon fed the answer today,please. And it doesn't work that
way. But, you know, I think thatcan be a common misconception
sometimes is that, you know, weall have it figured out and we
we certainly don't actually,I like that one. I think it's it
goes on her show that she saidit. Oprah says sometimes she's
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saying like, God, don't teach meanything today. It's so true.
And well, in your thirst foradvanced education. I read about
you that you're pursuing a PhDis that? Yeah,
so that program has been put onpause a little bit. I think that
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may have been like an older biosomewhere. I think that's like
my Frequently Asked Questionspage. I did. I did start a PhD
program. I stopped at thebachelors in metaphysics
slot still, that'syeah, it was fun. I mean, you
know, I have this really funability to, like, just take on
all of these projects at once,because I get so lit up. So the
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PhD, it's still a work inprogress. You know, I'm, I'm
laughing I'm like, Oh, I've beenwriting my master's thesis for
like, two years now. So that'sgreat.
Time to contract.
Yeah, yeah. But you know, I didfind University of metaphysics,
and I did it just to like,explore and have have some fun
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and just kind of see where, youknow, see where I could kind of
take things and so you know,it's not a it's not off the
table, but it's just on pause atthe moment backburner
a little bit? Yeah. I mean, Ithink that's part of the beauty
of this spiritual work too, isthat people don't always realize
we don't have to be only in onevein, we can have something that
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we're working with for a whilethat's educating us and
expanding us and then we canfocus pivot to focus of like,
now we're doing bigdemonstrations. Okay, now I'm
back to personal development.
out there's like a flex in thiswork that I think a lot of
people don't realize is kind ofhappening behind the scenes all
the time. Absolutely,there is absolutely because you
know, like we were talking aboutearlier the work is never done.
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We're constantly expanding.
So with your tick tockpersonality I know you from
Instagram I'm not I'm not thebiggest on Tik Tok. I'm trying
to get better about exploringthat platform. I think it's
probably a lot of the same stuffon both platforms. Do you draw
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inspiration for your for thosewho don't know, please go follow
Travis. He is Travis warriorunicorn and I tell all my
friends about you because I justlove your posts. You bring so
much light and your soul justsuch shines through in such a
big way? Are you drawinginspiration for those little it
feels like a snippet of like aninspirational talk packed into
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like 60 seconds or less? Yeah,like to me? Yeah, you
know, I'm just you know, Istarted making those videos.
Again, you know, spirit isspirits funny. That way, I
didn't have this intention ofhaving a large social social
media following. It was not onthe manifestation list. Other
things were, but that wasn'tand, you know, I got on to I
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started on Tik Tok. And I waslike, you know, what, let me
just post a video with a messageon it and just see what happens.
And of course, you know, thosevideos, they start taking off
and, you know, get all these allthis amazing engagement and all
of these folks, you know, reallyresonating with the message. And
then, you know, I converted thatover to Instagram, maybe about a
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year and a half ago. And, youknow, because my, my content
before, spirituality was justlike, me, my life, I was like,
take my shirt off, you know,like the typical like that,
right? So it's like, well, Ifind the good stuff, right? It
was just like, my light. Itwasn't anything like, you know,
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spirituality connected. Andthen, you know, once it started
happening, and I and like, allof these kind of followers came
in, you know, people wouldcomment and DM and stuff I was
like, Oh my gosh, this is itlike this is totally yet. But
those messages that I share,it's funny I laugh I'm like, I'm
you know, I grew a reputation asa medium without actually
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posting spirit mediumship orevidential mediumship right
because they're inspirationalmessages and I'm aware that you
know, channeled messages aren'tnecessarily aligned with
mediumship with connectingpeople to their loved ones
although facet of them rightjust different. But um, but it's
been it's been really fun and sothose messages I'm usually I'm
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channeling I'm asking you know,what is something that me at the
beginning of my spiritualjourney needed to hear what
something that maybe my nephew'sbecause I intro with you know,
if you don't believe in mediumsjust consider me your gay uncle
and I do have two beautifulnephews and I just think you
know, what something they mightneed to hear if they're working
through things with like selfesteem or worth or connecting to
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who they are and or just ask youknow, what's what's the energy
in the world right now what'shappening that people need to
hear and so and then I just kindof open up my energy and let her
fly and just whatever comesthrough comes through and I put
captions on it and post it andcall it a day. I
got so great and it's it's Imean your courage and just going
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with what spirits giving you anddoing it that way really does. I
think help to in a storytellingway open up that permission for
other people to just say whatinspired words that come to them
or you know, if it feels inalignment with who you are and
with for about lack of betterword like positivity and
empowerment, then put it outthere like why not? Why not just
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give it a go like you did? Yeah,I mean, you know, one of the
things that really inspired meto post those messages, there's
a medium ship training deck thatwas put out by John Holland and
Lauren rainbow and you know, inone of the, in their training
deck, it's like these awesomecards you can look at and kind
of like use them as as adivination tool for just what
you can work on as a medium andone of the things one of the
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cards in there was channeledmessages of wisdom and and so
that's kind of what inspired itand I you know, I look back at
when I first started posting, Iwould see people like Tabitha
Brown, who if no one's familiar,she is this just this amazing
woman of color who posts these,this wonderful inspirational
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content. She also puts a lot oflike cooking and vegan things
and but I remember watching avideo of hers and she, it was
like, right before I startedposting anything, it was right
before it was during thepandemic. We're all at home and
she's like, looking into thecamera and she's like, I know
baby, you're hurt and they hurtyou. That's all right. And then
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And then she's like, finishes itwith I love you. And I'm sitting
there on my couch like crying atthis stranger who I've never
met. I don't know who she is,but she's really touched my soul
in some way. Yeah. And she'sjust like, touched my soul in
this like deep way. And so, youknow, it was like, I was like,
why can do that? Like, I want todo that and how can I
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incorporate in things that I uselike, like, tarot or other other
tools to kind of, you know,inspire those messages. So they
started with Tarot, and now it'sjust just me channeling and I
don't use tools, I love tools,but I don't I don't use them in
my practice anymore for clientsor videos. But, um, but yeah, so
that's kind of how it all justkind of started. And, you know,
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a couple years later, here weare having this conversation
today.
Amazing how it's amazing howsynchronicity and the universe
and Spirit works. One thing youmentioned is that you kind of
came out of that medium shipbroom closet, so to speak. I
know for me and my journey, andfor lots of other mediums that
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I've met along the way, thattends to be a real scary pivot
point for us. Will you share alittle bit about how that was
for you? How you will receivewhat you said even like, yeah,
to tell family and friends like,No,
I equate it to me coming out asa as a gay person. It's, you
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know, it for me it. And Iunderstand why it's scary for
people it is asking some it isbaring your soul to someone and
saying, here's who I am. Andknowing that they're going to
have perhaps some type of eitherresistance to it, or there's a
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potential for rejection. And,you know, you being brave enough
just to go, here's what it is.
And if you are down with itamazing. If you're not, it's
really going to hurt myfeelings, but I have to be in
this truth. And, you know, itwas the same thing when I was
coming out as a gay person. Itwas scary. It was terrifying.
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But it's funny, because when Icame out as a medium to my
family, they were like, oh,yeah, we can see that. And I was
like, okay, great, you know,perfect. And then you know, and
then they're like, Yeah, youknow, come to think of it. Your
one grandmother used to carrycrystals around all the time.
And you know, your other one, weused to really love getting
tarot readings. I'm like,awesome, amazing. glad this is
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glad we're all having thisexperience together. But I
understand people's hesitationor trepidation around coming out
of the broom closet or whatevercloset, you know, I think, I
think we all can identify, maybeit's not specific to mediumship
for being gay, but we can allidentify in some way of sharing
a piece of ourselves withsomeone and understanding that
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they may not be welcoming to it,but doing it anyway. Because
living in that truth is so muchmore important than what someone
else thinks of you.
It's such a good point. Was ityour family that you started to,
like verbally open up to aboutat first or friends or what
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approach did you take? Yeah, somy first the first folks I kind
of cave out to it was so Ididn't plan on coming out.
Right? Because my parents aren'ton Tik Tok, you know? And so I
was like, I'll just post thesevideos, and then then you have a
couple that hit over a millionviews. And then eventually, you
start getting like, the textmessages with the phone calls.
Like, I didn't know you didreadings, that's amazing. And
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then you're like, Well,eventually, my parents are gonna
find out about this eventually,you know, and so, I first told
my friends, and they, you know,they had never really
encountered someone like me andtheir life that they knew of.
And so I say that they knew of,because there's a lot of us out
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there. And you know, and so,they at first were like, okay,
like, Sure. And then, you know,after some time passed, they
were like, okay, he's serious.
Like, this is not like, he's,he's serious. This is actually
happening. Yeah, yeah, this ishappening. And so, you know,
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they were all apprehensive atfirst. And now I have to tell
you, my friends, they come to,they come to every live event,
they are so supportive, theylike cheer me on, they're, you
know, they're just so wonderful.
And I've made new friends aswell in the spiritual community.
And, and, you know, and, and myparents, I told them, I was I
was actually at Target and I wason the phone with my mom and I
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was like, Mom, I gotta tell yousomething, and she goes, Okay,
and I was like, I'm a medium andshe was what does that mean? And
I was like, it means I talkedto, I talked to dead people. And
she was like, the They're notactually dead. But that's a
whole nother debate for anotherday, I'm just gonna keep this as
simple as I possibly can forthis conversation, she goes,
Well, nothing you do reallysurprises me anymore. So that's
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fine. And so, you know, it was,it was great, but, you know, but
then I did have friends in mylife who were like, you know,
they're like, that's demonic,or, you know, you're, you're
going to hell and and, you know,I grew up gay in Ohio, and I,
you know, I just I came out at avery young age, and so I'm kind
of used to people just resortingto that, while you're going to
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hell, if it's something thatthey're not really educated on,
or their fear fearful of. Sothat doesn't really bother me
when people go there. I've youknow, I feel very fortunate that
I learned that a long time agothat that has nothing to do with
me, and I don't need to ownthat. But you know, it's it. But
again, it's like that I wouldrather be out as a medium and
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help people and live into mypurpose and live in that truth
than not do that. Yeah, Ithink it's such a good point,
because it's unfortunate thatyou've had to go through
rejection here and there. Butalso, you know, you make a great
point that we don't have to takeon board. Anything that someone
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says about us, this isn't justbecause someone says it, or it's
their paradigm or belief systemdoesn't mean it has to be true
for you. And it doesn't makesomeone any less of a person or
you know, any better or worse orwhatever. Because of it. Like
your family received you prettywell.
They do. And they're so funnythat my mom is so funny. She's
like, do you still do yourlittle readings, like she's
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really funny, like, I don'tthink she my mom really
understands, like, what I do, orlike the internet kind of
success that I've had, and, youknow, she sees things in like,
you know, like US Weekly, andEntertainment Tonight. And she's
like, Well, how did thathappened? And it's really, it's
amazing, though, because, youknow, I love that my family is
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just, they don't treat me anydifferent. It's, you know, it's
still list, I still get, youknow, I still get the same kind
of treatment, which is nice. Ineed that. And I love that so
much.
Because I mean, it's still whoyou are. And like you said, it's
always been a part of you. Andmaybe you didn't identify
earlier on as like, Oh, I'mtalking to these invisible
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people. Maybe it just came outas you being a little woowoo Are
you liking? Yeah, you know, apretty rock here and there or
whatever. Yeah, whatever itmight be. So yeah, are there
things like that, that you canrecognize? I think you kind of
alluded to earlier inretrospect, where you're like,
Oh, I've especially in if youhave like a high powered career
in the beauty industry, you mustrealize, like, Oh, I've been
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reading people in thesemeetings, all along,
that my whole life like there'slike been, like, so many moments
where I'm like, oh, like, my, mymom's uncle. Oh, ran a
graveyard, he ran a cemetery.
Wow. And I would go and play inthe cemetery as a kid because it
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felt so welcoming to me. Like apark, like setting dates are not
beautiful, but like just theenergy of just, you know, even
though I know, that's where thephysical vessels are something
about the energy of that, to me,always just felt so loving and
so inviting. And, you know, Ilook back at like movies I used
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to watch and like books that Iwould just, like, love to read.
And, you know, but andespecially in the beauty
industry, you know, I started asa makeup artist, and, you know,
you just end up receiving justsomething like, you know,
someone's telling you theirtheir problems are they're in
theirphysical space to close in their
auric field, essentially, iswhat's happening. Yeah,
(33:43):
and so you just get these, likelittle bits that you think they
need, and you share it, andyou're, you know, next thing,
you know, they're crying, you'recrying, you're hugging it out,
you know, and, and so, you know,or, you know, if I had, I was in
leadership for a long time. Andso, it was always great. I can
always tell when somebody waslike, wasn't being truthful with
me, or somebody was trying tohide something from me. And I
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would always find it and I know,like, right where to look. And I
get these like little intuitiveknowings of like, look here or
look here. And, you know, soit's yeah, it's sprinkled all
throughout my my life. And it'sfun to look back now and be
like, oh, yeah, that'swhat that was, I think is such a
great point, too, because we allhave, I know you believe this.
I've heard you say it before, weall have intuitive ability. And
it's just, I don't know, tell meyour opinion. But for me, I feel
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like it's just about starting topay attention to those nudges or
I have a friend the way she usedto say it is when something
hangs a little lower in the air.
Like if you ever had aconversation and one line just
sticks out to you. It's like,just kind of following that
hunch or feeling or nudge. Isthat how you would say that
people should start kind ofpaying attention to it?
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Yeah. And you know, getting outof our head and into our
physical body is so important. Ithink you know, our head in our
mind is It never tells anaccurate story. But your
physical body, the way you feelyour gut, that's always telling
you the truth. And I think thatwe, we live in this society that
(35:09):
like now. And when you've gotthe head and the gut and
alignment, oh my god, watch out,you are just like, all powerful,
right? But like we live in asociety that, you know, it keeps
us in our head, and it tells usto separate those two and that
we have to listen to what ourmind is telling with logic and
reason. And I gotta be honestwith you, I think that that sets
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a lot of people up, not just toonly disregard their intuition,
but just separate themselvesfrom their sense of worthiness.
Like, I gotta tell you, like ifI think about myself, right, and
I start analyzing myself, I cantell you 10 things that are
wrong with me right off the bat.
But if I ease into my knowing ifI ease into my body, I know I'm
(35:52):
whole. I know, I'm worthy. Iknow everything is exactly as it
needs to be. Yeah. So like, bothof those things are existing,
only one of them is true. Now,when I get those thoughts about
myself in alignment with how I'mfeeling that Oh, my God, watch
out, I am just Supercharged. Andyou can't tell me nothing. But
(36:15):
you know, but I think that'strue for a lot of people. And I
think our intuition it, youknow, it, it, we feel it, it
comes through our solar plexus,we, you know, when we're in our
bodies, when our nervous systemis regulated, when we're calm,
and we're receiving the knowingsthe nudges, listen to those,
listen to those every singletime they're not going to steer
(36:39):
you wrong. It's just when westart to get up here in our
heads. It's a dangerousneighborhood.
Do you have any tips or likerecommendations for people who
are listening to you andthinking like, Okay, well, I
want to be more my body, butlike, how do I do that? How do I
discern the difference betweenthose way? I say it is like the
(36:59):
chatter in your mind versus thatintuition in your body.
Yeah. So you know, breathing isalways a great place to start.
If you know and it's it's it'sthe, in my opinion, I think
sometimes it's the thing thatgets overlooked the most.
There's power in our breath.
Because if you think about it,you're breathing in lifeforce
energy, air. Yeah. And so ifyou're just breathing in, and
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you're just focusing on yourbreath, feel it fill your belly,
fill your lungs, and thenbreathe it out and just focus on
that you're going to drop fromyour head into your body. So
quickly, you're going to noticeyour heart rates are too slow,
you're going to notice yourselffeel more calm. That's one way
another way. But that doesn't,but being still doesn't work for
everyone. Yeah, that's true. Soyou have to honor that, right?
(37:43):
And so if you're somebody whomaybe you need movement, maybe
you just need to dance it out.
Like maybe you just need to playyour favorite song, put on some
headphones, wherever and justmove your body without all that
a kitchen dance party over here.
Exactly, exactly. Or, you know,or maybe it's yoga or stretching
whatever, right, I think thebest for in my opinion, I think
the easiest place to place tostart is breath, and then kind
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of playing with, you know, whatgets you into feeling your body
or feeling like your quoteunquote, in your body.
That's a great way to think ofit too. And then I guess the
next layer is back into personaldevelopment of them. It's
exploring those emotions or theresistance and what's sometimes
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we resist being fully present.
And it's such a, it's such aneasy thing to just get on the
phone or get on the computerand, you know, detach, right?
Yeah,absolutely, it is. And I think
that's always a good kind ofindicator that it's time to
maybe pull ourselves back in thepresent moment, or just, you
know, observe like, you know, Inoticed when I get anxious, I
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like to fidget or clean or I'vegot to move things and not
trying to fix it or judge itjust to observe it. But I think
that once we have that awarenessof what we do, when we're either
feeling anxious, or we'reavoiding an emotion, then we can
correct it, which then helps usto lean into our intuition. You
know, I always say, you know, Itell my clients who want to
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focus more on listening to theirintuition. I'm like, never asked
your guides the universeyourself a question, while your
mind is like racing, likeever mind wants to fill in that
blank space? Of course, never.
Yeah, calm yourself down first,and then ask the question. Yeah,
(39:32):
yeah. I think that's a great agreat thing to think about too,
just because it's the access isthere, but it doesn't mean we
know yet always how to do itimmediately, or it can be
something someone's working on.
It's a process and it's not aprocess that once you do at one
time, you've got it perfected.
It's like anything else. Youjust have to keep committing to
showing up and committing toyour own awareness. And if you
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you know, if you can do it, themore more you do it, the easier
your needs. uric acid, but it'slike anything else. You know,
it's, it just takes thatconsistent showing up.
Do you have any personalpractices as a medium that you
do like regularly for yourselfthat help you right now?
(40:16):
Yeah, so I am I love. And I'vebeen seeing this, like, make the
rounds on social media more issitting in the power, which I
know you'll know. Because yes,like I love seeing sitting in
the power like coming backbecause for me like sitting in
the power. And for thoselistening that don't know
sitting in the power is ameditation technique that helps
(40:37):
mediums connect to spiritenergy, or the energy of the
universe, whatever word you wantto put there. Yeah, but it also
what a lot of people don'trealize is it helps clear your
energy and offers you energeticprotection and connection. And
so essentially, what it does isit helps you kind of clear your
container so that way you canfill it with yummy, yummy,
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universal energy and be in thatspace. So I love sitting in the
power. You know, energeticshowers are great when I like
hop in the shower, and I justpicture clearing away my energy
or when I'm washing my hands.
I'm in Washington State. And sowe're getting back into like
spring is kind of peeking aroundthe corner. So I've been I've
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been able to go to the beachmore like just being just going
and sitting at the beach just bythe water just does something to
me that I just I can't explain.
And then I've actually beenincorporating it in hot yoga
regularly. So there's I know youasked for like one thing and I'm
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giving you like, Oh, Ilove it. I mean, I think we all
want the thing. It depends, youknow, it
just depends on what I feel likeI need but before clients, I
always do a sitting in the powerand then I you know, just just
work with my guides and angelsjust on keeping my space, as you
know, uplifted and filled withlight as possible. And and that
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always serves me well.
That's wonderful I, I learnedsitting in the power for my
mentor, primarily under AndyBing. And he teaches a whole
separate course on that which Ithink a lot of mediums and for
myself too, I always thought itwas more Oh practice exercises
and practice reading and all ofthat. And really, the truth is
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it's 90% of development happensin that sitting in the power or
sometimes called sitting in thepresence exercise where you're
just our human tendency is whatalways be doing something
nothing really always happeningin that meditation. It's a lot
of just stillness and expansion.
And you know, sometimes thingshappen, but not always. And I
think people are surprised byhow we say like, it's not the
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sexy part of the work, you know,but it's so foundational
important.
The so my friend who did myhuman design reading this
morning, she actually sharedwith me, I will share this
because I love the synchronicityof this conversation. Is that
who's to say there isn't doingin the being? Yeah. And there
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really is a lot of doing thathappens to be like sitting in
the power sitting in thepresence. It's, it kind of goes
back to the being in your body.
It's an exercise that helps yoube in your body and get out of
your head. Yeah. And so I thinkthat there's a lot of power and
sitting in the power for sure.
(43:32):
There really okay, all youmediums in developing mediums
out there. You heard it. Yeah,you heard it here many times.
But I love that you're saying itagain. You're
so right, though, but here's thething, it's like, it's like kind
of like when someone goes to artschool, and they make the art
students draw like the fruitbowl, or the chair or the things
it's like, they're like, I wantto draw the really cool things
or I want to paint the reallycool things and, and like you
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have to have those basicfoundational things in order to
be able to really fly and soarand make mediumship your own.
Which I'm really grateful thatyou know, I'm grateful for the
mentors that taught me a lot ofthis core foundational things
but also just me as a human likewhen I when everything is kind
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of getting complicated. In myworld. I just go back to my
breath, right and sometimesthat's I'm going to be honest,
sometimes that's easier toremember than other times. But
when everything is kind of likechaotic, I just go back to that
kind of that basic like just sitand breathe, just be allow the
universe to respond to you don'trespond to what's all the things
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that are happening. And not onlyhas it just made me a better
medium, it's also helped with myown mental health.
I think that's great and soimportant to remember that you
know, we have so many thingsgoing on besides the unseen
world. There's our day to daylife and our physical health and
are mental health and all theseother things that it's important
(45:02):
to also attend to. So thank youfor saying that. That's right.
Yeah, college. Yeah, I didn'ttell you this when we hopped on,
but when we do guests here onthe pod, we do something called
Spirit Speed Round towards theend. Okay. Okay, so I was hoping
you're gonna have that reaction.
It's for easy, fun questionsthat I would love to hear your
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thoughts on that? Okay,I would love that. Let's do it.
Good. Okay, thefirst question is share one
thing that really shocked you orwas unexpected about your gifts
as a medium,that it would require me to do
my own deep work. That in orderfor me to see, for me to be like
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a solid practitioner and not berattled by what I hear or not
take it on, like, I have to domy own shadow work.
Yeah, that's a good point, willyou quickly just explain, I feel
like we talked about it a lot.
But I don't think everyoneunderstands what Shadow Work is,
when you just give a little likeyour definition of that.
My definition of Shadow Work isbringing light to the pieces of
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myself that have shame or guiltattached to them.
I love that there woulddefinitely be Brene Brown
approved, I'm sure. I lovelistening to her podcast this
morning. She's She's relaunchedit. So if you got to spend a day
in the spirit world, you got thefull tour, you got to spend time
with everyone you've ever knownwho's crossed over, it's almost
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time for you to return to yourhuman life. And your guide tells
you you have one hour left andyou could spend it with anyone
who's on the other side. Who doyou choose? And why?
Does it have to be just oneperson? No, no rules. I would
visit with my grandmother's youknow, I both my grandfather's
(46:51):
are here, but both of mygrandmother's are non physical,
and I would spend some time withthem. And you know, I would want
to spend time with Jesus. I hadthis like weird, like religious
trauma thing. And then now Idon't have it. And I say I've
like the best relationship withJesus I've ever had in my life.
And, you know, I would want tospend some time with him. I
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don't know. I just think it'd bekind of fascinating. I
love that. I think that's such acool answer. And I do think it's
valid. A lot of us havereligious trauma and fear from
man getting involved inspiritual things, really, I
think is is that maybe what'shappened. Even though we have
very spiritual gifts, we havevery human lives. What's one
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quirky thing about you thatpeople might be surprised to
learn?
I just got back into playinggame or a Nintendo I bought a
Nintendo Switch. And I they havethis new Super Mario game that
is so fun. Iwas gonna ask what's your jam?
Yes, Iplease I'm not like into like
the I have no problems withpeople that want to play like
the gun games. And I it's not mything I love like our yoga
(47:59):
because it's like so silly. Andlike, it's just so fun. So yeah,
I love playing Super Mario. It'sreally fun. I think that's a
really cool Quirk. It's so Iwould love to see you playing
because I'm sure you're soanimated. And
my inner. My inner child hasjust gone ham the past couple of
(48:20):
weeks. Like it's like I wake upSaturday morning, and I'm like
bowl of cereal video games,having the best time
very nostalgic. Yeah, we get towe get to have fun as adults
too. And it's important to giveyour inner child some release.
Yeah.
I love it. Will you leave uswith a pearl of wisdom? What's
one piece of advice you wishthat you'd had early on in your
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understanding of your gifts?
Don't rush it. It's okay thatsometimes we feel impatient. Or
sometimes we just wish we wouldyou know progress faster, move
along faster. That's a goodthing. It means that we're,
we're picking up on there is somuch more we're picking up on
the energy that there is more,but just have fun where you're
(49:04):
at because it's just that's justyou know, it's a part of it. You
have to there's so muchexpansion, a lot of expansion
happens when we're in states ofjoy. That's where the true
expansion happens. So just havefun. It's great advice.
I love that you actually have alive event that's coming up just
around the corner. I would loveit if you would well, of course
(49:26):
we'll put everything in the shownotes so people can easily just
link to it. But thanks.
Yeah, I'll be doing a platformmediumship event on May 16 at
the blue mouse Theatre inTacoma, Washington. So I'll be
for those. For those who havenever been to an event like
that. It's where a medium takesthe stage and just you know, I
call it point and shoot we juststart pointing people start
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giving readings and connectingtheir loved ones out out in the
spirit world and so it's areally great event filled with a
lot of just love, hope andhealing and, and joy and what I
really enjoy about these eventsis even if you don't get a
reading, personally, the energyof healing that is present is so
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big and powerful. And so I'mreally excited to do that'll be
my second event at that venue.
And it's just it's a venue thathas such a rich history. It's
called the blue mouse theater ifI didn't say that already. And
it's, it's the theater has isthe oldest Playhouse Theatre in
the state of Washington. Andit's a gorgeous space. So I'm
(50:30):
really excited to do that theevent is called Travis Holp
Live, nothing, you know, pretty,pretty quick and simple. And to
the point of what it is, yeah,yep. So and that's, that can be
found on my website as well atTravis holt.com.
I love that you share too abouteven if someone doesn't receive
a personal communication fromtheir own loved ones I didn't
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use to understand until I wentto my first demonstration how
unique it is of an experience.
And even if you're not receivinga reading, you can feel so many
things that shocking.
It's it is like I and I'm withyou I never understood until I
went to my first my first livemediumship demonstration was
John Edward. And I've been totwo of his events. And I've been
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to a lot more sense but that wasmy first one. And you know, you
could not tell me that mygrandmothers were not sitting
right next to me that entiretime even if he didn't connect
with them just the energy that Ithat the the energetic portal
that a medium is, is such abeautiful thing. And to just be
(51:39):
in that energy is just it's it'sdelightful.
Well, thank you so much for whatyou do for your work in the
world for being who you are, andfor being here with us today.
And thank you for shining yourlight.
Thank you for having me joy.
It's been my honor. Well, whatdid you think of that
(52:00):
conversation with the beautifulsoul that is Travis Holp, how
generous of him to really shareabout his journey and his
process. I love the tips that hegave us and I'm so excited for
his event coming up inWashington that Live platform
mediumship demonstration groupmediumship reading whatever
you'd like to call it. I willput all the info in the show
(52:22):
notes. Of course, be sure tocheck out his social media
platform Travis warrior unicornis his handle on Instagram and
tick tock. Of course he takesprivate bookings. And if you
want to find out even more abouthim or learn how to book with
him, I'll again put it in theshow notes but his website is
TravisHolp.com. So I am sograteful to Travis for sharing
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his time and his energy and hisbeautiful soul with us. I hope
that you have enjoyed thisconversation and that you found
it inspiring or enlightening insome way I'm always grateful to
have you here with us. InsideSpirit Speakeasy, Big hugs, lots
of love. Bye for now.
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