Real talk + grounded guidance for psychic mediums growing their gifts with Spirit at the center. Hey, I’m Courtney Dawson—an evidential international psychic medium, ordained spiritualist minister and teacher. I created this podcast because mediumship is one of the most transformational paths you can walk… but let’s be honest, it doesn’t come with a map. This show is where we talk about the real journey of mediumship development—the kind no one tells you about in weekend workshops. We get into the doubts, the breakthroughs, the grief that surfaces, the unexpected healing, and what it means to walk this path ethically, intuitively, and in alignment with your own soul. I’ll be sharing stories from my own practice, teaching episodes to support your spiritual growth, and honest conversations about what it actually looks like to live and work as a psychic medium in today’s world. If you’ve ever wondered: “Is this normal?” “Why does Spirit feel quiet right now?” “Where do I go from here?” This podcast is for you. Whether you’re just beginning to explore your gifts or deep in development, you’re welcome here. This is a space where your mediumship gets to evolve in its own timing—without pressure, without comparison, and with full trust in your connection to Spirit. Come sit with me inside The Connected Spirit. We’re going to keep it real, grounded, and Spirit-led every step of the way.
What does it look like to follow Spirit—when you’re not ready, not healed, and not sure who you are anymore?
In this episode of The Connected Spirit, Courtney sits down with Erica Barretto, a psychic medium and retired NYC law enforcement officer, ...
She never set out to be a psychic—or a forensic consultant working with the FBI.
She just knew, deep in her bones: if I don’t teach people how to connect, I’ll die inside.
In this episode, I sit down with Reverend Sheila Marie—a world-recognized forensic medium, spiritual teacher, and form...
You ever feel like the moment you finally stand in your truth, the world hands you a storm?
This episode is a raw, unfiltered look at what really happens when you decide to step into your spiritual gifts—when you stop shrinking and start shining. Together with Amy, we share the ache of betrayal, the heaviness of grief, and the...
She walked into a spiritualist church at 18—and something deep in her body said, finally.
It wasn’t a thunderbolt. It wasn’t a sign. It was a felt-sense of home.
This week, I sit down with Veronica Jenkins—35-year spiritualist, evidential medium, spirit artist, educator, and author—to talk about what happens when Spirit stops being an idea and starts being your compass.
We go deep on the philosophy of spiritualism, the unseen labor...
Feeling blocked in your mediumship? Wondering why your spirit connection feels inconsistent, vague, or even nonexistent during readings? You’re not broken—and you’re definitely not alone.
In this episode, I break down the real reason so many mediums feel stuck, especially after taking classes, sitting in circles, and doing practice readings.
I shares my personal story of sitting in circles with seasoned mediums while silently strug...
What if your intuition isn’t broken—just buried under bad advice? In this honest, grounded episode, psychic medium and shamanic healer Kelly Ferguson shares what it really takes to trust your gifts, build your own energetic toolkit, and stay rooted in integrity. From her first spirit encounter at age 11 to blending parenting with psychic work, this conversa...
What happens when psychic readings become a crutch?
In this deeply honest conversation, returning guest Rory Walkhom—a spiritual teacher, channel, and mentor with The Medium School—shares the kind of truth that stops you mid-scroll. You’ll hear us unpack a very real and often uncomfortable dynamic in the psychic and spiritual world: how repeated readings, while well-intentioned, can slowly disempower the very people they aim to hel...
Heather Bierner didn’t come to mediumship empty-handed. She brought years of spiritual seeking, a Christian upbringing she’d long outgrown, and intuitive experiences that hinted at something deeper. She even went to India in search of soul truth.
But nothing prepared her for the moment when spirit asked her to let go of everything she thought she needed—and just trust. In this intimate conversation, Heather opens up about her journ...
There’s a moment in every medium’s journey when Spirit steps in so clearly, so undeniably, that you can’t go back to who you were before. For me, it was a warm June night outside a little Spiritualist church—a chance meeting with a man in Spirit that cracked my world wide open.
But here’s what I learned in the years after: your mediumship doesn’t grow in a vacuum...
She didn’t grow up seeing spirits. She didn’t spend years in training. But on her very first try, Tosha Link brought through a piece of evidence so specific—a toaster—that it left no doubt spirit was speaking through her.
In this heartfelt conversation, Tosha shares how she went from curious beginner to confident evidential medium in just eight months inside the Connected Spirit Circle. We explore the exac...
She was a nurse in the ICU, raised Baptist, mothering, wife-ing, surviving—until Spirit began whispering louder. Through grief and gut-truths, ancestral dreams and a deep church awakening, Ermi listened. And when she finally said yes, everything changed.
In this raw, magnetic episode, Ermi shares her journey from a strict Christian upbringing to becoming a deeply Spirit-led psychic medium. Her story weaves...
There’s a moment most of us don’t talk about—the quiet, gritty middle of the spiritual path. The part where everything feels heavy, not magical. Where we wonder, “Am I really meant for this?” In today’s episode, Courtney shares her raw experience of navigating these shadows: losing friendships, leaving the church, and questioning her path—yet always finding her way back to spirit’s quiet power.
As a teenager, Kelly Brickell couldn’t sleep. Her body was wired, her mind racing, her spirit trying to be heard. What doctors dismissed, she later recognized as the first signs of energetic sensitivity—an invitation into a world of spirit she hadn’t yet named.
In this soul-deep episode, Kelly opens up about how chronic insomnia cracked open her path into psychic mediumship and numerology.
She shares how a...
It starts with a whisper—an inner knowing, a quiet tug you can’t quite explain. For Connie Gable, it began in childhood with dreams that spoke truths before they happened, and a Tarot reader who came to the house long before it was “normal” to talk about these things out loud.
In this episode, I sit down with Connie—nurse practitioner, empath, and one of the radi...
There’s a moment in this episode when Rickie Avitan describes her time in palliative care—watching a soul leave the body—and everything stills.
You feel it. The truth of the unseen world isn’t something to be proven. It’s something to be remembered. In this soul-deep conversation with psychic trance medium and spiritual healer Rickie Avitan, we explore trance as a sacred state of presence, not performance.
With decades of experienc...
I used to say, “I’m doing my mediumship on Tuesday.” Like it was a thing to fit between laundry and life. And that worked—until it didn’t.
This episode is personal. Not polished. I talk about how society, religion, even our own fear teaches us to split from our sensitivity—to treat it like a job instead of our nature. And I te...
You were trained to get the name.
The relationship.
The cause of death.
But if that’s where your reading ends, you’re missing the part that actually matters.
In this episode, Courtney breaks down why evidence is just the entry point—not the purpose—and h...
You’ve felt it before…
That strange moment where everything aligns and you KNOW Spirit is orchestrating something bigger.
You don’t know what’s coming next… but you know you’re not walking alone.
In this episode, I sit down with Phil Warder for a raw, real conversation about what happens when Spirit completely blows up your plans and delivers something better.
Phil s...
Mediums, this is for you if....
Spirit is waking you up at night…
You’re getting bombarded while out running errands…
You feel drained after your readings and don’t know how to “turn it off”…
In this episode of The Connected Spirit Podcast, I sit down with my student Julia DeGroat — a naturally intuitive woman who always felt Spirit but didn’t know how to fully trust what she was receiving. After a spiritual reawakening during pregnancy, followed by a powerful sitting-in-the-power experience that both opened and overwhelmed her, Julia decide...
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