August 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Have you ever experienced a moment so perfectly orchestrated by the universe that it left you breathless with wonder? That's exactly what happened to me this weekend, and I'm still reeling from the sheer magic of it all.
After spending a sweltering day at a battle reenactment with my son, we stopped at a local general store where I met a friendly elderly gentleman buying lottery tickets. Something compelled me to purchase tickets myself—something I never do—and he carefully selected two for me. Later that day, those tickets yielded a $50 win, putting an unexpected $40 profit in my pocket.
Meanwhile, at my daughter's friend's birthday party, disaster struck when the birthday girl's favorite Laboo Boo doll went missing, leaving her in tears. Though my intuition said not to intervene, I heard a distinct voice urging me to buy a replacement doll. This wasn't my guides speaking—it was the birthday girl's great-grandmother, a spirit I'd channeled briefly a year earlier. Despite my reluctance to spoil children, I followed this spiritual guidance and purchased two dolls totaling almost exactly $40.
When the full picture emerged, I was astounded. The grandmother had orchestrated everything: influencing the old man to select a winning ticket, ensuring I had exactly the right amount of money, and pushing me to buy the gifts. She had effectively found a way to give her great-granddaughter a birthday present from beyond the veil.
Most remarkably, this happened just days after I told another client that if spirit wanted to help with altruistic endeavors, "they will find you the money and you'll know what to do with it." The grandmother had proven this point with stunning precision.
This experience reinforces what working with spirit truly means—staying open to magical possibilities, following intuitive nudges even when they contradict our logical minds, and recognizing the extraordinary ways our loved ones continue to participate in our lives from beyond. What synchronicities might you be missing in your own life? I encourage you to pay attention to those "coincidences" that just might be loving messages from the other side.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, welcome back to Empower your
Soul.
I am so excited to tell thisstory today.
This is a story episode aboutwhat happened to me this weekend
and how I got played by adeparted grandmother and all of
the steps leading up to it.
It really blew my mind and, assomebody who lives fully in the
metaphysical world, or as muchin alignment with spirit as I
(00:21):
can, even this one made me go.
That's the sound of my mindexploding, by the way.
So let's get to it, and what'sgonna be cool is I'm gonna tell
you exactly kind of how ithappened along the way, so
you'll start seeing the signsand synchronicities that I
clearly missed in the course ofmy day.
So, to set the stage, I took myson to a battle reenactment this
(00:46):
weekend.
We live in New England.
These things happen.
I have been to them a milliontimes.
My son is obsessed with themand although I would rather not
be there, you know like the goodmom I am I took him and stood
out in the middle of this fieldwhen it was supposedly 74 but
felt like 97, with no wind, noshade, no clouds, and it was
(01:07):
straight sun.
I was hot, I was dehydrated andonce this battle was done, we
hightailed it to the car anddrove out of there so fast to
avoid all of the traffic thatwas about to be following us on
that road.
Now we were both profuselysweating, drinking about a
(01:28):
gallon of water, so we decidedto stop at a local general store
, general market, to grab an icecream and just use the restroom
on the way out.
So we end up stopping there, Ipark the car and I walk in, and
on my right as I'm walking inthis door is this register area
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and nobody's at the register.
It's a tiny little space there,nobody's at the register to do
the checkout.
But there was an old man,probably a 75, 80 year old man,
at the other side, like directlyfacing me, with a few items
waiting for the cashier to showup at the register.
He was just waiting verypatiently.
So I walk in, I look up, welock eyes and in hindsight I
(02:11):
immediately recognize his warm,playful energy.
He just feels like a safe space.
I love old men.
Can I just say that they just Ilove old men, always have,
always will.
And so I yell across thecheckout area.
I say, hey, it's just you, huh,do you want me to check you out
.
And he just started laughingand he said, yeah, but give me a
deal.
So I'm looking at what he has,I'm kind of giving him the eyes
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and I'm squinting and I'm like,oh, I'll sell you all of that
for two pennies.
And he laughed and he told methat's a great deal.
And so at about that time thecashier comes running around the
corner ready to cash him out,and I kind of wave at him and
keep walking, following my sonthrough the store.
Now, when we're walking aroundthe store grabbing our ice
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creams, we grabbed a couple ofthings on the list that I didn't
expect to be there, like windfrom spirit.
One last stop later and then Igo to checkout and that man is
there at the checkout again infront of me.
This time he's buying somelottery tickets.
Not the cheap lottery tickets,mind you.
These are the ten dollar apiece ones.
You know which ones?
Like the giant ones that arelike the size of a book area,
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not area wise, like they're huge, these ten dollar check, these
$10 lottery tickets.
And so, of course, because he'sso friendly and I'm so friendly
, I'm like, hey, big spender,how much have you won so far?
And he tells me.
He's won like five or ten buckshere and there.
But if you know, you know he'sone of those serial scratch
ticket guys that just comes inand spends money after money
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after money, scratching,scratching, scratching, like he
would make a killing on TikTokhe should definitely go do that.
So he checks out, he takes histickets and he kind of scurries
to the side to go scratch himand see what he's won.
And out of nowhere I just feltthis urge to say, hey, wait a
second, can you pick me out acouple?
I'd like to get some too.
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And he said, oh, you're goingto buy some.
Like'm like yeah, you inspiredme, can you pick them for me?
And he says 20 bucks.
And he said, yeah, I'll spend20.
That's fine.
So he comes over and he furrowshis brow right and he's kind of
looking at all of them.
He's taking his time and he'slike well, not that one, because
I won on that one a little back.
So you're, we're not going towin on that one, don't pick that
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.
And so he ends up like goingthrough all them.
He's like two, two Monopoly,two Monopoly ones.
And he says sometimes you winback to back.
And I'm kind of chucklingbecause my aunt used to own a
video rental store back in theday where we had video rentals
like not DVDs, like VHS rentals,and she lived in a little
podunk town.
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So, needless to say, she wouldspend most of the day scratching
lottery tickets.
So I learned a thing or twoabout when to win lottery
tickets.
And he's absolutely right.
When there's a winner, there'slike okay, great.
So he, he says those, he goes,he scurries off to go scratch
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his tickets.
I say thank you, I say nice tomeet you, and I'm hopping the
car and I'm on my way.
Now, lo and behold, we get homeand my son who's 11, by the by
the way is so fucking excited toscratch these.
He calls it gambling, whichtechnically I guess it is, but
he's like so excited, he keepssaying I love to gamble, I love
to gamble in true 11-year-oldform.
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So I give him a quarter and hestarts scratching it and then
he's scratching and he'sscratching and I have to tell
him, kind of, how to match it upand he's like because I never,
ever, buy lottery tickets ever.
And so he says he reads thecards and he's like hey, mom, we
won.
And I'm like, oh, that's cool,buddy, we won five bucks.
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I'm like, oh, that's great,fantastic.
And then he's still scratching.
He's like, no, we won 10 bucks.
I'm like, oh, awesome, no, wewon 15.
We won 15 bucks, mom.
And I'm like it's freakingamazing, bud, great, great,
great.
We like made our money back.
So I come over, I look at thescratch ticket and I start
adding up the numbers, but he,he didn't add them all, right,
because there were more than oneof each number that had won.
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So when I add up all thenumbers and then I look at the
code because there's that nicelittle easy code on the on the
ticket, the code says 50, we won$50.
And my son, he literally lookslike we just hit the fucking
jackpot, like he's just like soexcited that we won 50 bucks.
So I start laughing.
I'm like, huh, that's reallyfunny that literally the first
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scratch ticket I bought in yearsis a $50 winner.
And I just kind of in my headlike start laughing and I'm like
, oh, I wish I scratched this atthe store because I would have
given 25 bucks to the old man,like would have split it with
him because he's so sweet, right.
So, yay, 50 bucks in my pocket,fantastic.
So I go about my day and I haveto go drop some stuff off at my
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the part of the birthday partymy daughter had gone to, so she
was going to have a sleepoverwith her friends.
Sorry, let me phrase thatdifferently.
The birthday girl wanted mydaughter to sleep over but we
had to be quiet about it becausethere were other girls at the
party.
So I ended up going up late,like half an hour after the
party ended, to drop off hersleepover stuff.
Ding, thanks for showing upspirit.
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So I show up late so as to notarouse any suspicions of the
other girls at the party, andthe parents are already taking
starting to take down all thedecorations, and I'm happy to
help.
I love mindless tasks, I'm allabout that.
So the birthday girl is goingthrough all of her stuff and she
can't find one of her Laboo Boodolls, which are the latest
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craze.
In case you haven't heard ofthem or seen them, they're
fucking terrifying.
10 out of 10.
Don't recommend them.
They're like the newest versionof all these dumb other dolls,
like it was trolls when I wasgrowing up.
I digress because they're gross.
I don't like them.
They have creepy faces, I'm allset.
So she's looking for her Laboodolls and, oh my god, one is
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missing.
Her favorite one is missing.
And so you can imagine anine-year-old girl cue, massive
fucking meltdown.
So we looked everywhere forthis doll.
And it's her birthday, so Iwant her to be happy.
And so my daughter says, hey,there's a store in town that
sells them.
We could go get her one tocheer her up.
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And I'm like, no, you know likeit's gonna show up.
I remember seeing it, I'm sureit'll show up.
So we just keep looking andwell, needless to say, it didn't
show up.
After about 30 minutes oflooking literally everywhere,
the birthday girl is in tears.
I'm fucking exhausted becauseI've been standing in 100 degree
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heat.
Right cannot reset my ownenergy, cannot get hydrated for
the life of me, excuse me.
So I'm wiped.
So I just I decide I'm justgonna go like, hey, I helped
what I can.
I can't help find this doll,but I'm gonna go.
So I give my daughter big hugand kiss and say have fun.
Um, the birthday girl is stillin tears, mind you.
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But I start heading home from mybusy day and wish her luck
finding the doll.
I'm sure it will turn up.
Excuse me, my throat chakraneeds some clearing right here.
So on the way home, I askSpirit and I literally open up
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to my team and I'm like, hey,should I go grab one for her?
I would hate to see her sad onher birthday.
And my intuition felt no, okay.
So here's where it gets alittle bit interesting.
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On my way home, I get in thecar and I'm pulling out of the
spirit of the driveway and Iasked spirit, I open up and I'm
like, hey, should I go get onefor her?
I really really hate to see hersad on her birthday.
And even though my intuition andmy body and everything in me
said no, I heard loud and clearin my head yes, you should.
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It was so loud and so abruptand so not at all what I was
expecting.
And so because of that, I knewit wasn't my guides, it was not
the tone of my guides, it wasnot the energy of my guides.
So I just started laughing andI'm like, okay, who is this?
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And in my head all I could seewas this grin, this little
Cheshire cat grin, and I knewexactly who it was.
It was like this one, this,this woman behind the curtain
not not showing me her energy.
She's totally fucking maskingit, but she was the one who said
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, yes, yes, you should.
So this woman, this loud, loving, authoritative voice in my head
, is the grandmother of myfriend, so the birthday girl's
mom.
So I'm going to call her thegrandmother.
So this is, mind you, thebirthday girl's great
grandmother coming through.
And I had read this grandmotherprobably about a year ago, and
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this, by the way, for likeliterally 10 minutes.
I read her for 10 minutes at agroup reading about a year ago,
and this for, by the way, forlike literally 10 minutes.
I read her for 10 minutes at agroup reading about a year ago.
But this is what happens,because in the moment that I'm
bringing these spirits through,even though I don't necessarily
remember the message or what wassaid or what I channeled in the
in the reading, as soon as Ipull in a spirit, I start
recognizing that spirit and itmight take me a minute to place
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them, but as soon as Iunderstood the context of what
the situation was, with thisbirthday girl and my friend
being there, I knew it wasabsolutely her grandmother
coming through and I couldremember her energy as soon as I
realized it was her.
So I feel my guide startlaughing.
I'm laughing.
This departed grandmother isjust like stomping her foot,
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stubborn as fucking could be.
And I was just like, oh my God,are you fucking kidding me?
And I said, fine, okay, youtold me I should, I'll listen to
you, I'll go.
I will go get it.
The store is open for another30 minutes.
I will go buy another littleboo-boo for the birthday girl.
So I drive down and I pick outtwo dolls from the store.
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That gives me the creeps.
I hate the store, I hate thedolls.
Like literally nothing of whatI wanted to do at like six
o'clock at night, after I've Ihave sweat, a gallon of sweat
today.
I pick out two of them, one forthe birthday girl and one for
my daughter.
I pick out two of them, one forthe birthday girl and one for
my daughter.
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I drive back to the house and Ido voice to text on the way back
and I'm like texting the momlike hey, I forgot to drop
something off for my daughter.
I'm going to pull into thedriveway and beep the car Do you
mind sending the girls out togo get it?
And she's like, yeah, noproblem.
So I arrive, I beep and thegirls come running and they're
kind of like excited but likekind of like, wait a second, we
have everything.
What do you mean?
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You forgot something.
So my daughter kind of comes upand she's like mom, what did
you forget to give me?
And then I proceeded to pullout these two boxes of these
Laboo dolls and I give one to mydaughter and I give one to the
birthday girl, and theyimmediately lit up.
Their faces were giant smiles,excited, oh my God.
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They were so freaking excitedthat I just gave them the
hottest thing that I couldpossibly give them and, you know
, quelched the tears of the poorbirthday girl.
So they're so excited.
They're like oh my God, this isthe best.
I love you, mom.
And so I'm like, hey, noworries, have fun.
They go back in the house and Istart driving home and my
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friend texts me and she says, ohmy God, you didn't have to do
that, that was too much.
And as soon as she sent thislike you shouldn't have done
that text to me no-transcriptplaylist was Macklemore's song
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called Sorry.
So I knew it was thegrandmother saying sorry, I got
you in trouble.
Because this is what I'mtalking about.
Working with spirit is that Ichose to do this and follow the
lead of spirit, but my human isdeeply uncomfortable with this.
My human says they don't needthese dolls.
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My human says this is a wasteof time.
I'm spoiling them.
They're learning.
If they cry, they get their wayRight.
This is like the typical momguilt coming through of.
Like my job is to raise politechildren that have ethics and
integrity and like this isn'thelping them with that.
So like my human didn't want todo this either.
So like I'm literally on theside of my friend, that's like
you didn't want to do thiseither.
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So like I'm literally on theside of my friend, that's like
you didn't have to do.
This is too much.
I'm like I know it was too much, I know I shouldn't have done
that, but what, what?
I?
How I responded was thankfully,you know who I am and what I do
.
And so, even though Ipersonally didn't want to do
that, I could hear yourgrandmother telling me that I
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needed to.
So I just listened to her andmy friend started laughing or I
assume she laughed, it wasthrough text and she sent me the
little laughing, crying emojiyou know what I'm talking about.
And she said I believe you,that sounds just like her.
And as soon as I saw that text,it's just like that grandmother
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opened up the curtain andshowed me exactly what happened
that day.
I finally put two and twotogether from what had happened
earlier in the day, because Inever, ever played a lottery and
I won $50.
After the $10 cost of theticket, I netted $40.
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Her grandmother told me to buythe gifts for my daughter and
her friend, but her grandmotherallowed me to win the ticket.
I know this sounds crazy.
She allowed me to win the $50to pay for the gift, right.
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So this grandmother fucking setit up that in the general store
earlier today that I would seethis man.
She set it up that he would bescratching lotto tickets that he
would pick.
I didn't pick it, he picked it.
She influenced this gentlemanto pick out the winning lottery
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ticket and she gave me exactlythe right amount of money to buy
the Labubu gifts for mydaughter and her friend Ding.
Her great-grandmother, thebirthday girl's
great-grandmother, her greatgrandmother, the birthday girl's
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great grandmother, bought hergreat granddaughter a fucking
birthday gift through me.
And if this story is not wildenough, earlier this week I was
chatting with a favorite clientof mine, pam and she.
In the reading earlier thisweek this was Tuesday she talked
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about how she sold her houseand she came into an unexpected
large amount of money, a nestegg that needed to last her
through retirement.
And she said she could easilysee herself giving away money to
help others who need it andburning through that money so
fast because she loves helpingother people.
And in our reading, spiritspecifically told her that nest
egg is for you.
It is for you to staycomfortable, for you to live out
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your retirement with ease,without any burdens.
And if Spirit wants to help youwith altruistic endeavors,
spirit said they will find youthe money and you'll know what
to do with it.
Boom, mic, drop right the factof all of this shit coming
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together on a Saturday afternoon.
So you bet, not only was herabuela, her grandmother, sending
me up that entire day for me tobuy a gift for her
great-granddaughter, but she wasalso listening in on that
conversation on Tuesday, fuckingtaking notes and saying okay, I
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know how to work the system, Iknow how to work Nicole, now she
can buy the gift, but I need toget her the money.
So she found a way to get me toget the money and then also set
me up so that I could go andbuy the gift at the same day.
So this is my crazy fuckingstory about how a grandmother
bought her great granddaughter apresent for her ninth birthday
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party.
All through me, and I have totell you, even though I live
with spirit I'm in constantcommunication with them all day,
every day they still somehowfucking surprised me in ways
that I could never, ever,imagine or expect, and so I want
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you to realize this is what itis like working with spirit.
This is what happens when youtrust spirit, when you follow
the leads, when you follow theintuition.
Right, and I want you to know,or walk away with from the story
is that you need to believe inthis magic, like literally
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anything is possible workingwith spirit, and like take
fucking notes about what'shappening in your life, because
if this had happened days apart,there was no way on earth I
would have connected the two thefact that I won the lottery
ticket and the fact that it wasthe same exact amount of money
to buy these dolls.
She even covered the ticket forme.
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I mean, it'd be great if shegave me another 10 to cover the
other ticket, but maybe thatwasn't part of our little soul
contract here.
So that is my crazy ass storyfrom Saturday.
I'm still fumbling over mywords, my thoughts, my thoughts,
my awe.
I'm so grateful that I havethis platform to like, honestly,
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record this for my ownposterity and for my own notes,
because I would have totallybreezed right past this and
forgotten this like a year downthe line.
But how fucking wild is that?
How fucking wild.
I'm gonna leave it there.
I promise to share future crazyass stories from Spirit, but
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again, I don't know if anyone'sever going to ever measure up to
this.
So bravo, abuela, you did good,you did good.
I wouldn't expect anything lessfrom her.
So that's my crazy story.
I hope you enjoyed it and Ihope you have a wonderful,
wonderful day.
Take care.
Hello everyone, welcome back to Empower your
Soul.
I am so excited to tell thisstory today.
This is a story episode aboutwhat happened to me this weekend
and how I got played by adeparted grandmother and all of
the steps leading up to it.
It really blew my mind and, assomebody who lives fully in the
metaphysical world, or as muchin alignment with spirit as I
(00:21):
can, even this one made me go.
That's the sound of my mindexploding, by the way.
So let's get to it, and what'sgonna be cool is I'm gonna tell
you exactly kind of how ithappened along the way, so
you'll start seeing the signsand synchronicities that I
clearly missed in the course ofmy day.
So, to set the stage, I took myson to a battle reenactment this
(00:46):
weekend.
We live in New England.
These things happen.
I have been to them a milliontimes.
My son is obsessed with themand although I would rather not
be there, you know like the goodmom I am I took him and stood
out in the middle of this fieldwhen it was supposedly 74 but
felt like 97, with no wind, noshade, no clouds, and it was
(01:07):
straight sun.
I was hot, I was dehydrated andonce this battle was done, we
hightailed it to the car anddrove out of there so fast to
avoid all of the traffic thatwas about to be following us on
that road.
Now we were both profuselysweating, drinking about a
(01:28):
gallon of water, so we decidedto stop at a local general store
, general market, to grab an icecream and just use the restroom
on the way out.
So we end up stopping there, Ipark the car and I walk in, and
on my right as I'm walking inthis door is this register area
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and nobody's at the register.
It's a tiny little space there,nobody's at the register to do
the checkout.
But there was an old man,probably a 75, 80 year old man,
at the other side, like directlyfacing me, with a few items
waiting for the cashier to showup at the register.
He was just waiting verypatiently.
So I walk in, I look up, welock eyes and in hindsight I
(02:11):
immediately recognize his warm,playful energy.
He just feels like a safe space.
I love old men.
Can I just say that they just Ilove old men, always have,
always will.
And so I yell across thecheckout area.
I say, hey, it's just you, huh,do you want me to check you out
.
And he just started laughingand he said, yeah, but give me a
deal.
So I'm looking at what he has,I'm kind of giving him the eyes
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and I'm squinting and I'm like,oh, I'll sell you all of that
for two pennies.
And he laughed and he told methat's a great deal.
And so at about that time thecashier comes running around the
corner ready to cash him out,and I kind of wave at him and
keep walking, following my sonthrough the store.
Now, when we're walking aroundthe store grabbing our ice
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creams, we grabbed a couple ofthings on the list that I didn't
expect to be there, like windfrom spirit.
One last stop later and then Igo to checkout and that man is
there at the checkout again infront of me.
This time he's buying somelottery tickets.
Not the cheap lottery tickets,mind you.
These are the ten dollar apiece ones.
You know which ones?
Like the giant ones that arelike the size of a book area,
(03:19):
not area wise, like they're huge, these ten dollar check, these
$10 lottery tickets.
And so, of course, because he'sso friendly and I'm so friendly
, I'm like, hey, big spender,how much have you won so far?
And he tells me.
He's won like five or ten buckshere and there.
But if you know, you know he'sone of those serial scratch
ticket guys that just comes inand spends money after money
(03:39):
after money, scratching,scratching, scratching, like he
would make a killing on TikTokhe should definitely go do that.
So he checks out, he takes histickets and he kind of scurries
to the side to go scratch himand see what he's won.
And out of nowhere I just feltthis urge to say, hey, wait a
second, can you pick me out acouple?
I'd like to get some too.
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And he said, oh, you're goingto buy some.
Like'm like yeah, you inspiredme, can you pick them for me?
And he says 20 bucks.
And he said, yeah, I'll spend20.
That's fine.
So he comes over and he furrowshis brow right and he's kind of
looking at all of them.
He's taking his time and he'slike well, not that one, because
I won on that one a little back.
So you're, we're not going towin on that one, don't pick that
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.
And so he ends up like goingthrough all them.
He's like two, two Monopoly,two Monopoly ones.
And he says sometimes you winback to back.
And I'm kind of chucklingbecause my aunt used to own a
video rental store back in theday where we had video rentals
like not DVDs, like VHS rentals,and she lived in a little
podunk town.
(04:41):
So, needless to say, she wouldspend most of the day scratching
lottery tickets.
So I learned a thing or twoabout when to win lottery
tickets.
And he's absolutely right.
When there's a winner, there'slike okay, great.
So he, he says those, he goes,he scurries off to go scratch
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his tickets.
I say thank you, I say nice tomeet you, and I'm hopping the
car and I'm on my way.
Now, lo and behold, we get homeand my son who's 11, by the by
the way is so fucking excited toscratch these.
He calls it gambling, whichtechnically I guess it is, but
he's like so excited, he keepssaying I love to gamble, I love
to gamble in true 11-year-oldform.
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So I give him a quarter and hestarts scratching it and then
he's scratching and he'sscratching and I have to tell
him, kind of, how to match it upand he's like because I never,
ever, buy lottery tickets ever.
And so he says he reads thecards and he's like hey, mom, we
won.
And I'm like, oh, that's cool,buddy, we won five bucks.
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I'm like, oh, that's great,fantastic.
And then he's still scratching.
He's like, no, we won 10 bucks.
I'm like, oh, awesome, no, wewon 15.
We won 15 bucks, mom.
And I'm like it's freakingamazing, bud, great, great,
great.
We like made our money back.
So I come over, I look at thescratch ticket and I start
adding up the numbers, but he,he didn't add them all, right,
because there were more than oneof each number that had won.
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So when I add up all thenumbers and then I look at the
code because there's that nicelittle easy code on the on the
ticket, the code says 50, we won$50.
And my son, he literally lookslike we just hit the fucking
jackpot, like he's just like soexcited that we won 50 bucks.
So I start laughing.
I'm like, huh, that's reallyfunny that literally the first
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scratch ticket I bought in yearsis a $50 winner.
And I just kind of in my headlike start laughing and I'm like
, oh, I wish I scratched this atthe store because I would have
given 25 bucks to the old man,like would have split it with
him because he's so sweet, right.
So, yay, 50 bucks in my pocket,fantastic.
So I go about my day and I haveto go drop some stuff off at my
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the part of the birthday partymy daughter had gone to, so she
was going to have a sleepoverwith her friends.
Sorry, let me phrase thatdifferently.
The birthday girl wanted mydaughter to sleep over but we
had to be quiet about it becausethere were other girls at the
party.
So I ended up going up late,like half an hour after the
party ended, to drop off hersleepover stuff.
Ding, thanks for showing upspirit.
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So I show up late so as to notarouse any suspicions of the
other girls at the party, andthe parents are already taking
starting to take down all thedecorations, and I'm happy to
help.
I love mindless tasks, I'm allabout that.
So the birthday girl is goingthrough all of her stuff and she
can't find one of her Laboo Boodolls, which are the latest
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craze.
In case you haven't heard ofthem or seen them, they're
fucking terrifying.
10 out of 10.
Don't recommend them.
They're like the newest versionof all these dumb other dolls,
like it was trolls when I wasgrowing up.
I digress because they're gross.
I don't like them.
They have creepy faces, I'm allset.
So she's looking for her Laboodolls and, oh my god, one is
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missing.
Her favorite one is missing.
And so you can imagine anine-year-old girl cue, massive
fucking meltdown.
So we looked everywhere forthis doll.
And it's her birthday, so Iwant her to be happy.
And so my daughter says, hey,there's a store in town that
sells them.
We could go get her one tocheer her up.
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And I'm like, no, you know likeit's gonna show up.
I remember seeing it, I'm sureit'll show up.
So we just keep looking andwell, needless to say, it didn't
show up.
After about 30 minutes oflooking literally everywhere,
the birthday girl is in tears.
I'm fucking exhausted becauseI've been standing in 100 degree
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heat.
Right cannot reset my ownenergy, cannot get hydrated for
the life of me, excuse me.
So I'm wiped.
So I just I decide I'm justgonna go like, hey, I helped
what I can.
I can't help find this doll,but I'm gonna go.
So I give my daughter big hugand kiss and say have fun.
Um, the birthday girl is stillin tears, mind you.
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But I start heading home from mybusy day and wish her luck
finding the doll.
I'm sure it will turn up.
Excuse me, my throat chakraneeds some clearing right here.
So on the way home, I askSpirit and I literally open up
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to my team and I'm like, hey,should I go grab one for her?
I would hate to see her sad onher birthday.
And my intuition felt no, okay.
So here's where it gets alittle bit interesting.
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On my way home, I get in thecar and I'm pulling out of the
spirit of the driveway and Iasked spirit, I open up and I'm
like, hey, should I go get onefor her?
I really really hate to see hersad on her birthday.
And even though my intuition andmy body and everything in me
said no, I heard loud and clearin my head yes, you should.
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It was so loud and so abruptand so not at all what I was
expecting.
And so because of that, I knewit wasn't my guides, it was not
the tone of my guides, it wasnot the energy of my guides.
So I just started laughing andI'm like, okay, who is this?
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And in my head all I could seewas this grin, this little
Cheshire cat grin, and I knewexactly who it was.
It was like this one, this,this woman behind the curtain
not not showing me her energy.
She's totally fucking maskingit, but she was the one who said
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, yes, yes, you should.
So this woman, this loud, loving, authoritative voice in my head
, is the grandmother of myfriend, so the birthday girl's
mom.
So I'm going to call her thegrandmother.
So this is, mind you, thebirthday girl's great
grandmother coming through.
And I had read this grandmotherprobably about a year ago, and
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this, by the way, for likeliterally 10 minutes.
I read her for 10 minutes at agroup reading about a year ago,
and this for, by the way, forlike literally 10 minutes.
I read her for 10 minutes at agroup reading about a year ago.
But this is what happens,because in the moment that I'm
bringing these spirits through,even though I don't necessarily
remember the message or what wassaid or what I channeled in the
in the reading, as soon as Ipull in a spirit, I start
recognizing that spirit and itmight take me a minute to place
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them, but as soon as Iunderstood the context of what
the situation was, with thisbirthday girl and my friend
being there, I knew it wasabsolutely her grandmother
coming through and I couldremember her energy as soon as I
realized it was her.
So I feel my guide startlaughing.
I'm laughing.
This departed grandmother isjust like stomping her foot,
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stubborn as fucking could be.
And I was just like, oh my God,are you fucking kidding me?
And I said, fine, okay, youtold me I should, I'll listen to
you, I'll go.
I will go get it.
The store is open for another30 minutes.
I will go buy another littleboo-boo for the birthday girl.
So I drive down and I pick outtwo dolls from the store.
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That gives me the creeps.
I hate the store, I hate thedolls.
Like literally nothing of whatI wanted to do at like six
o'clock at night, after I've Ihave sweat, a gallon of sweat
today.
I pick out two of them, one forthe birthday girl and one for
my daughter.
I pick out two of them, one forthe birthday girl and one for
my daughter.
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I drive back to the house and Ido voice to text on the way back
and I'm like texting the momlike hey, I forgot to drop
something off for my daughter.
I'm going to pull into thedriveway and beep the car Do you
mind sending the girls out togo get it?
And she's like, yeah, noproblem.
So I arrive, I beep and thegirls come running and they're
kind of like excited but likekind of like, wait a second, we
have everything.
What do you mean?
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You forgot something.
So my daughter kind of comes upand she's like mom, what did
you forget to give me?
And then I proceeded to pullout these two boxes of these
Laboo dolls and I give one to mydaughter and I give one to the
birthday girl, and theyimmediately lit up.
Their faces were giant smiles,excited, oh my God.
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They were so freaking excitedthat I just gave them the
hottest thing that I couldpossibly give them and, you know
, quelched the tears of the poorbirthday girl.
So they're so excited.
They're like oh my God, this isthe best.
I love you, mom.
And so I'm like, hey, noworries, have fun.
They go back in the house and Istart driving home and my
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friend texts me and she says, ohmy God, you didn't have to do
that, that was too much.
And as soon as she sent thislike you shouldn't have done
that text to me no-transcriptplaylist was Macklemore's song
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called Sorry.
So I knew it was thegrandmother saying sorry, I got
you in trouble.
Because this is what I'mtalking about.
Working with spirit is that Ichose to do this and follow the
lead of spirit, but my human isdeeply uncomfortable with this.
My human says they don't needthese dolls.
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My human says this is a wasteof time.
I'm spoiling them.
They're learning.
If they cry, they get their wayRight.
This is like the typical momguilt coming through of.
Like my job is to raise politechildren that have ethics and
integrity and like this isn'thelping them with that.
So like my human didn't want todo this either.
So like I'm literally on theside of my friend, that's like
you didn't want to do thiseither.
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So like I'm literally on theside of my friend, that's like
you didn't have to do.
This is too much.
I'm like I know it was too much, I know I shouldn't have done
that, but what, what?
I?
How I responded was thankfully,you know who I am and what I do
.
And so, even though Ipersonally didn't want to do
that, I could hear yourgrandmother telling me that I
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needed to.
So I just listened to her andmy friend started laughing or I
assume she laughed, it wasthrough text and she sent me the
little laughing, crying emojiyou know what I'm talking about.
And she said I believe you,that sounds just like her.
And as soon as I saw that text,it's just like that grandmother
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opened up the curtain andshowed me exactly what happened
that day.
I finally put two and twotogether from what had happened
earlier in the day, because Inever, ever played a lottery and
I won $50.
After the $10 cost of theticket, I netted $40.
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Her grandmother told me to buythe gifts for my daughter and
her friend, but her grandmotherallowed me to win the ticket.
I know this sounds crazy.
She allowed me to win the $50to pay for the gift, right.
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So this grandmother fucking setit up that in the general store
earlier today that I would seethis man.
She set it up that he would bescratching lotto tickets that he
would pick.
I didn't pick it, he picked it.
She influenced this gentlemanto pick out the winning lottery
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ticket and she gave me exactlythe right amount of money to buy
the Labubu gifts for mydaughter and her friend Ding.
Her great-grandmother, thebirthday girl's
great-grandmother, her greatgrandmother, the birthday girl's
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great grandmother, bought hergreat granddaughter a fucking
birthday gift through me.
And if this story is not wildenough, earlier this week I was
chatting with a favorite clientof mine, pam and she.
In the reading earlier thisweek this was Tuesday she talked
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about how she sold her houseand she came into an unexpected
large amount of money, a nestegg that needed to last her
through retirement.
And she said she could easilysee herself giving away money to
help others who need it andburning through that money so
fast because she loves helpingother people.
And in our reading, spiritspecifically told her that nest
egg is for you.
It is for you to staycomfortable, for you to live out
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your retirement with ease,without any burdens.
And if Spirit wants to help youwith altruistic endeavors,
spirit said they will find youthe money and you'll know what
to do with it.
Boom, mic, drop right the factof all of this shit coming
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together on a Saturday afternoon.
So you bet, not only was herabuela, her grandmother, sending
me up that entire day for me tobuy a gift for her
great-granddaughter, but she wasalso listening in on that
conversation on Tuesday, fuckingtaking notes and saying okay, I
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know how to work the system, Iknow how to work Nicole, now she
can buy the gift, but I need toget her the money.
So she found a way to get me toget the money and then also set
me up so that I could go andbuy the gift at the same day.
So this is my crazy fuckingstory about how a grandmother
bought her great granddaughter apresent for her ninth birthday
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party.
All through me, and I have totell you, even though I live
with spirit I'm in constantcommunication with them all day,
every day they still somehowfucking surprised me in ways
that I could never, ever,imagine or expect, and so I want
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you to realize this is what itis like working with spirit.
This is what happens when youtrust spirit, when you follow
the leads, when you follow theintuition.
Right, and I want you to know,or walk away with from the story
is that you need to believe inthis magic, like literally
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anything is possible workingwith spirit, and like take
fucking notes about what'shappening in your life, because
if this had happened days apart,there was no way on earth I
would have connected the two thefact that I won the lottery
ticket and the fact that it wasthe same exact amount of money
to buy these dolls.
She even covered the ticket forme.
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I mean, it'd be great if shegave me another 10 to cover the
other ticket, but maybe thatwasn't part of our little soul
contract here.
So that is my crazy ass storyfrom Saturday.
I'm still fumbling over mywords, my thoughts, my thoughts,
my awe.
I'm so grateful that I havethis platform to like, honestly,
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record this for my ownposterity and for my own notes,
because I would have totallybreezed right past this and
forgotten this like a year downthe line.
But how fucking wild is that?
How fucking wild.
I'm gonna leave it there.
I promise to share future crazyass stories from Spirit, but
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again, I don't know if anyone'sever going to ever measure up to
this.
So bravo, abuela, you did good,you did good.
I wouldn't expect anything lessfrom her.
So that's my crazy story.
I hope you enjoyed it and Ihope you have a wonderful,
wonderful day.
Take care.
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