Christi Clemons Hoffman – Real-Life Angel Encounters

Air Date - 04 June 2025

Are Angels real? Do they appear to us in different forms during difficult times with comfort and ideas for resolution? Do we all have Angels with us? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Christi Clemons Hoffman, says Angels are there for all of us and sometimes manifest in the most unexpected ways! Christi is the host of the Real-Life Angel Encounters Podcast on the MindBodySpirit.FM network. She is also the host of the Radiate Wellness Podcast, which is in its sixth year on the MindBodySpirit.FM network and dedicated to bringing thought leaders, authors, practitioners, and inspirational guests to radiate light, wellness, balance, creativity, and much more to an international audience. Christi is a lifelong intuitive, channel, teacher, consultant, and Reiki Master, whose passion is connecting people with their spiritual “team.”

Her website is https://www.radiatewellnesscommunity.com/ and she joins me this week to share her new book, Real-Life Angel Encounters: Real People Share Real Stories of Miraculous Encounters.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
My name is Victor Furman. Some call me the Voice.
I've always been fascinated with human nature, spirituality, science and
the crossroads at which they meet. Join me now and
we will explore these topics and so much more with
fascinating guests, authors and experts who will guide us to

(00:27):
Destination Unlimited. Are angels real? Do they appear to us
in different forms during difficult times, with comfort and ideas
for resolution? Do we all have angels with us? My

(00:50):
guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Christy klemens Hoffmann, says
angels are there for all of us and sometimes manifest
in the most unexp ways. Christy is the host of
Real Life Angel Encounters podcast on the Mindbodyspirit dot fm network.
She's also the host of Radiate Wellness podcast, which is

(01:12):
in its sixth year on the Mind, Body, Spirit FM
network and dedicated to bringing thought leaders, authors, practitioners, and
inspirational guests to radiate light, wellness, balance, creativity, and much
more to an international audience. Christy is a lifelong intuitive
channel teacher, consultant, and reiki master whose passion is connecting

(01:36):
people with their spiritual team. Her website is radiatewellnesscommunity dot com,
and she joins me this week to share her new book,
Real Life Angel Encounters. Real people share real stories of
miraculous encounters. Please join me in welcoming to Destination Unlimited.

(01:57):
Christy Clemens Hoffmann. Welcome, Christie, Thank you, Victor.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Christy. Your bio described you as a lifelong intuitive channel
and teacher. Please share with us your early path and
how these gifts manifested for you.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes, that's an excellent question. Well, first of all, let
me preface this by saying that we're all born intuitive.
We all have this ability to tune in with our
senses and our heightened awareness, and some of us just
are more developed in that than others. Right off the bat,
I must have been a little bit more heightened in

(02:35):
my sensitivities because I was seeing ghosts as a baby.
My dad tells the story of when he was a
night watchman at this huge WPA era high school here
in Kansas City. My mom was an X ray tech
at a local hospital work tonights. He worked nights putting
himself through college, and he would take me in my

(02:57):
playpen and set up and study while he was there.
At the school and take me with him on his rounds. Well,
apparently one night I stood up in my playpen and
I must have been maybe about a year old, and
I was waving at somebody in the corners. I said, hi,
mister man, and he Dad swears that he quit the

(03:19):
job the next day. But then I would see more
and more things as I grew up, and I would
know things. And so there are four of these spiritual
gifts that we can all have. One is clairvoyance, which
we all know. Then there's Claire audience, Claire sentience, and
Claire cognizance. Claire cognizance, of course, being the knowing, and

(03:41):
then Claire sentience being the feeling, Claire audience being kind
of like clairvoyance, except it's through hearing. So as I
grew up was mostly clairvoyant and Claire cognizant. I would
just know things, who you could trust, who was going
to break up, what was going to happen before it happened,
And so grew up that way. But growing up in

(04:03):
the suburbs of Kansas City, I quickly learned that that
was weird, and so I didn't express it fully. I
just kind of kept it to myself. But then as
I got older, I found that, oh, this is actually
a desirable quality. But now I didn't know to do
anything with it. I didn't know what to do or
how to develop it and make it better. But then

(04:25):
I went through I guess, the dark night of the soul.
My husband decided he wanted to leave the family, and
it was a devastating blow. And I started searching, looking
for soulmates and karma and life path and soul family
and these type of things. I wound up with Dolores Cannon.
All roads pointed toward Dolores Cannon, which I'll talk about

(04:49):
in a bit. But Delors Canon, of course, was a
very well known metaphysician and was doing this type of
hypnosis technique called quantum healing hypnosis technique. And I found
out about that. To learn about past lives, to learn
about path, to learn about soul family, all in karma,
all of these things, and I said, oh, that's what

(05:09):
I need to do. I need to do this session
the hypnosis with Dolores, and then I can answer all
my you know, get all my questions answered. Well. I
called her office and I asked for an appointment with
her and she was booked up for four years, and
her staff was wonderful. They said, well, she's just started
teaching her methods, so you might be able to find

(05:32):
someone who has trained with her near you, which I did,
and my husband and I both went to see this gentleman.
He was the head of the Psychical Studies Institute here
in Kansas City. And neither one of us could get
very far with this, and so he was actually a
psychologist and doctor Jones. He said, well, this doesn't happen

(05:56):
very much, very often, but if it does, then I
refer people to someone who can tell you about your karma,
tell you about your life path, tell you about soulmates.
And he referred me to a psychic and she's here
in the Kansas City area, and I had a wonderful
reading with her. I sent many of my friends to

(06:17):
her and they also had wonderful readings. And she started
teaching classes, and I started taking her classes and learned
that I was actually pretty good at what I was
experiencing and what I was doing, and learned how to
channel it, learned how to work with it and develop it,

(06:37):
and so I started working with clients, probably around twenty
ten twenty eleven maybe started working with clients, and at
that time it was still mostly the clairvoyance and Claire cognizance.
I had a client and I was working out of
my house at the time. I had a client come
to my house for a reading, which you know, all
my clients did, and he had a great reading. It

(06:58):
was very informant. If he really enjoyed it. He wanted
to bring his family back, and I said, that's great,
let's schedule you for a couple of weeks out. He
came back with his family, but a few days before
that victory. It was the strangest thing. I was fearful.
I thought, what am I doing asking these people into
my home. They're going to beat me, They're going to

(07:20):
abuse me. This is just madness. I almost canceled, and
I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no. This gentleman,
this young man was very nice. He was very sweet,
and it sounded like his family was wonderful as well.
I'm sure it's going to be okay. I'm not sure
what's going on. But they showed up to my house
and the first thing I said, this is going to

(07:40):
sound crazy. Is there a history of domestic violence and
domestic abuse? And maybe even sexual abuse in the family.
And the father said, yeah, that's my dad, and immediately
the feeling left me. So that was my first introduction
to Claire sentience, which I've been working ever since. So,

(08:01):
you know, we can have these gifts and then they
can develop and change and shift and new gifts come in.
So that was that was my experience. You know, after
working with people for maybe a couple of years, I
started meeting folks in this realm, the metaphysical realm, and
I was meeting so many people who were doing energy

(08:21):
work and reiki and I had no idea what any
of that was. I had no idea about energy work.
Reiki was a completely unknown concept to me, and the
more I learned about it, spirit just said this is
what you need to do. You need to study this stuff,
you need to start practicing it. I was actually doing

(08:42):
readings in a integrative holistic like metaphysical center and there
was a teacher there who was teaching reiki and I
took reiky. Yeah, I took reiky one, two, three, and
then master Actually know, my first teacher was outside of
the center, but this teacher at the center encouraged me

(09:04):
and then I did my master with her, and so
then I added reiki to what I was practicing.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
We have a lot in common, including childhood experiences. I'll
tell you one of mine. Quickly. I would report things
that I would see, hear, or feel to my parents,
and I was told that I had an over active imagination.
I was very close to my paternal grandfather, and one
day when I was around six and a half years old,
I'm sitting in my room looking at a book and

(09:34):
I look up and my grandfather's standing and I said, Grandpa,
when did you come in? And he didn't say a word,
just smiled at me and sort of dissolved, disappeared, and
I went into the living room and I said to
my parents, Grandpa was just here, and they looked at me,
they looked at each other, and they both knew, which
I was not aware of, that my grandfather was in
the hospital at the time, And within a couple of
minutes the phone rang with word of my grandfather's passing.

(09:57):
And so from that point forward, it wasn't about having
an overactive but they kept their eyes on me, and
they told me not to share anything with anyone else
other than them. If I had any other experiences. So
I sort of had that similar experience as a child,
and then the other thing, Reiki became a major factor
in my life. In my late thirties, I had a

(10:18):
number of events which led me to reiki, and reiki
became life changing for me, including leading me to leading
me to interfaith ministry later on. Because in those days,
if you wanted to go into a hospital and do
laying out of hands, you either had to be a
licensed massage therapist or ordained in a faith where laying
out of hands was part of the sacraments. And so consequently,

(10:39):
that's why I chose to pursue the interfaith ministry, and
that changed my life in so many wonderful ways. But
sharing all that experience with you tell us a little
bit about your radiate wellness community and what it offers.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
So the reading a wellness community is a virtual wellness center,
and I started it that way in twenty sixteen. I'd
been laid off from my corporate job at Hallmark Headquarters
in twenty fifteen, and I knew that I didn't want
to do another corporate job. It just that had a

(11:15):
visceral reaction to working corporate again. So I decided I
wanted to open another metaphysical wellness center like the one
that I started in, but I knew that I didn't
have the capital for a physical location, so I started
it as a virtual practice, and this is a group practice.
The website is radiate Wellness Community dot com and that's

(11:39):
basically our office. So you can go to radiate Wellness
community dot com and find out about our practitioners, our practices,
you can schedule an appointment. You can check out our
blog and the podcasts all on that website and our
shop tab, so you can do everything that you would
in an office there. And so we are four practitioners.

(12:03):
There's myself and I do basically reading's reikiing regression, which
is an easy way to remember it. And then there's
Jen Watts who is our embodiment coach. She does transformational
embodiment coaching primarily for women going through paramenopause and menopause
and trying to figure out your life after you know,

(12:24):
the young womanhood and how to move into the next chapter.
And then there's Heather Cotton who is an energy worker
as well. She does another type of reiki that she
calls body wisdom, and she's an excellent, excellent healer. She's
here in the Kansas City area as well. And then
there's Mary Jane Stodenman, who is our resident astrologer and

(12:46):
tarot person, and she lives in Geneva, Switzerland, so she
sees people either there in Switzerland or online. And then Heather,
Jen and I we can all see people in person
or online as well.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Tell us a little bit more about the quantum healing
hypnosis technique.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh, it is something else so developed by Dolores Cannon
back in probably the early seventies maybe mid seventies, and
quantum healing hypnosis technique is hypnosis, but it's more of
a metaphysical bent to it. I also do clinical hypnosis,

(13:27):
which is the weight loss and the smoking cessation and
anxieties and phobias and you habit correction, that type of thing.
But Qahht, as we call it, is the big Kahuna.
It can take us to other lifetimes and those could
be what we would consider past, what we might consider

(13:49):
as future. It can take us to between lives when
we need to see that. It can take us to
the current life if there's something that we need to
see from earlier in the current life. It can take
us to concurrent lives, which gets a little strange living
more than one current life or what we would consider
contemporary lifetime. And sometimes it just takes us to other

(14:13):
dimensions where we can receive healing. But then it also
puts us in touch with our higher self. We call
it the subconscious in Qaht. That's what Dolores called it.
It's not necessarily the strict psychological way that we would
see the subconscious. It's more our higher self, the consciousness

(14:33):
that is behind our waking consciousness. And when we speak
to our higher consciousness, we can ask all types of questions,
what is what was this chapter of my life about?
What was the meaning behind it? What do I need
to know about certain relationships? What are my next steps
in my career or in my life? Can I receive

(14:57):
healing for various maladies and dysfunctions in the body. And
it's amazing what we can achieve with the higher self
in terms of healing. You know, the body is very
intelligent and really can heal itself, but we need to
get out of its way and we need to allow it.
And when we're working with the higher self, they will say, yeah,

(15:19):
there's a lesson behind this situation. Is there a lesson
behind this and you know the client has gotten the
lesson out of it, or this is what the client
needs to know in order to have this healed and
then they can resolve it. You know, I don't like
to usually say that it's healed during a session, but
I do tend to refer to it as it's resolved

(15:42):
or it's no longer a problem. And I've seen all
kinds of things be resolved. People walk in with a limp,
they walk out and they don't have a limp. They
walk in and they've got a rash all over their face,
and they walk out and they don't have a rash
all over their face. So can I see these things
actively dealt with in suchon It's quite amazing.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
And how does this relate to Akashak record readings?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's an excellent question. The Akashak records are literally in
etheric hall of records, and it's our records lifetime after
lifetime after lifetime thoughts, words and deeds that we've experienced.
And how it has to do with the current lifetime,
which is the most important one that we could examine,

(16:27):
because that's where our point of references. That's where our
point of action is is in the present, but we
would want to know about other lifetimes, just in terms
of what do I need to know now right? How
does this affect me now? So the Akashak Records is
basically it's a history book of our soul. And I'll

(16:50):
see sometimes clients will go to the Akashak Records. They
describe it in various terms, but kind of similar as well. Now,
when I do Akashak Records work, I see it as
a type of a Parthenon type of structure, and there
will be loved ones and guides and elders and masters

(17:12):
lined up in front of it, welcoming the client, welcoming
me and showing me what I need to know, pulling
from that large Parthenon type of building that has stacks
and stacks and stacks of books. And I will have
clients go to the records very interestingly enough, they'll describe

(17:33):
it in terms of it's a vast library, huge, there's
just all of these filing cabinet, there's all of these books.
And then if we're lucky, we'll find one of the
masters of the records who will show us around. But
we always find information there always.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Prior to your soon to be published new book, Real
Life Angel and Counters, you were co author of the
best selling book The Gap, Simple Steps to Reclaim your
health and reverse most chronic diseases. What inspired that book
and what do you share with readers.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yes, so that book is a collaborative effort. There is
myself who wrote a chapter, but then doctors of chiropractic, herbalists, psychologists,
all types of people in their fields would write from
their perspective about simple things that we can do to
reclaim our health. My particular chapter was about energy in

(18:34):
the body, which is the foundation of so much that
I do. Because emotion is energy. Energy comprises our body.
Our body is very little physical matter. In fact, atoms
have very very little physical matter. It's all energy, and
that's true of our bodies as well. So when we

(18:56):
hold emotions in our bodies, when we hold trauma in
our bodies and we don't move it along, then it
can develop into disase. We can even receive injuries and
accidents that correspond to where we're holding our trauma and
holding that energy in our bodies. So we'll find things

(19:17):
that are very symbolic, such as you know our shoulders.
If we have problems with our shoulders, it's because we're
taking on too much responsibility, you know, carrying the weight
of the world on our shoulders. And so you know,
I'll ask somebody who's having shoulder problems. Well, I can
see if it's the right or the left, and I'll
ask them because I know that each side of the
body has to do with our feminine people in our

(19:41):
lives that are or our masculine people in our lives,
has to do with excuse me, the way we go
about things, what we take on, how we choose to
express and so I can see what's going on with them,
so I'll start to decode it with them. Okay, so
what's going on. You've got some left shoulder problems. Are
you dealing with things from your mom? Are you taking

(20:02):
on power of attorney or dealing with some of her papers?
Are you having to take her to the doctor a
lot and having to deal with responsibility related to your
mother or an important woman in your life. So helping
clients to unlock that and un decode it, I should say.
And then in my reiki practice, you know, I work

(20:24):
directly on those energy blocks in various ways. I've got
a bunch of different tips and tricks and things like
that to work on energy in the body. So that
chapter in the Gap has to do with a simple
map of the body and what we tend to hold where,
And then also it walks us through the chakra center.

(20:44):
The chakra system, which are the chakras, are just energy
centers within the body. Each one corresponds to different emotions, beliefs,
and attitudes as well as physical function within the body. So,
for example, the root chakra occurs at the base of
the spine and has to do with our hips, our
external genitalia, has to do with the rectum and different

(21:09):
things of the physical body, but it also has to
do with it's our root chakra, so it has to
do with our roots, our foundation. So early attitudes toward
do I have safety, do I have trusted people with me?
Are my needs met? And if as an adult later

(21:30):
on we're feeling unsecure, insecure in our job, in our home,
and our relationship, that might show up in the root chakra.
So that my chapter also highlights the chakra system and
how our energy affects that. And then I show a
model that I like to use for dealing with physical

(21:53):
disease and injury. So I see this physical disease and
injury as the model of a mountain that we're trying
to dig tunnels through. Now, I spent some time in Switzerland.
I'm actually a Swiss citizen as well, and there's lots
of tunnels going through the mountains there, so I'm very
familiar with this model. And so if we're trying to

(22:16):
dig a tunnel through this mountain, on one side, we're
going to start digging through using all of the physical things,
physical therapy and drugs and treatments, maybe even surgery if
it's warranted. We want to address the physical thing because
we have physical bodies and it just makes sense. But
then on the other side of the mountain, what we

(22:38):
want to work on is the factors that led to
this disease in the body in the first place. Issues
with our parents, issues growing up, trauma that we've not
dealt with. We want to work on that because that's
what created the situation. And what we want to do
is we want to meet in the middle, and when

(22:59):
we meet in the middle, then we achieve lasting healing.
Of course, QHT can get us there much faster, but
there's other things that can help us, like getting regular
massage for the physical, plus reiki for the energetic. Doing
those regularly that can help us a lot. Psychotherapy that
can help us a lot to unpack if we're with

(23:21):
the right therapist who helps us understand and put our
trauma in its proper place. So what we wanted. I
always want to work in tandem and work in conjunction
with the physical and the metaphysical, because if we're only
looking at the physical side of it, we can achieve
some relief, but it might not be lasting because we're

(23:43):
still creating the situation as we go. However, if we
only look at the metaphysical, the energetic, the emotional, and
the trauma work, we're going to get there as well.
But it could take us just as long to untangle
the situation as it did to create the situation like
this tandem approach. And I always consider myself something of

(24:04):
a practical mystic, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Absolutely absolutely. My guest is Christy Clemens Hoffman. We're going
to be talking about her new book, Real Life Angel
Encounters when we come back. Christy, please share with our
listeners and get your books and find out and find
out more about you and your wonderful work.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Thank you, Victor. The book will be out in all
places July first. It comes out a little bit earlier,
maybe a week and a half earlier in the UK,
but in the US it will be available July first,
but you can pre order right now. In fact, pre
orders help a lot because it boosts the book in
the algorithms, and that's a huge thing. So the pre

(24:43):
order link is available on my website. The website is
Radiate Wellness Community dot com slash shop. Scroll down to
the real Life Angel Encounters link and then that will
take you to the pre order links. So pre order
the book now, right now, and it'll be hot in
your hands as soon as it comes off the presses

(25:04):
and is available for everyone to purchase. It'll be in
your mailbox early.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
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Speaker 1 (25:44):
Back on Destination Unlimited. My guest this week Christy Clemens Hoffman.
Her new book, Real Life Angel Encounters.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Real Life Angel Encounters is a book that I created
after my podcast of the same name, Real Life Angel Encounters.
This podcast can be found anywhere you would find podcasts,
including YouTube and Real Life Angel Encounters was born out
of the pandemic. Actually, you know, everyone was turning to

(26:13):
YouTube and metaphysical books. They were studying things that they'd
always maybe were interested in, but never had time to do.
And so all of these people were going through what
I call a post COVID awakening. And in this post
COVID awakening, there was a demand for things that were
positive and uplifting. Around this time. This was twenty twenty one,

(26:34):
mind you, So we were, you know, past the biggest
part of the pandemic of twenty twenty, but we were
still dealing with it. And my GUIDs started tapping me
on the shoulder and saying, you need to tell people
about us, You need to tell our story. And I said, well,
that's awesome. I had done a series on YouTube called

(26:55):
fifty two Weeks of Angel Connection, in which I tuned
into a different archangel or ascended Master every week for
a year because my guides told me, you need to
learn how to do YouTube, and so that was my
project that they gave me, was to do this fifty
two weeks of Angeling Angel Connection. So when my guides
tapped me on the shoulder in twenty twenty one, I said, okay,

(27:16):
I've already done a series on you guys. What else
do you want me to do? They said, you need
to start another podcast, and I said, no, I've already
got a podcast and I'm very busy with that and
I don't really want to do another one. They said.
So then they said, okay, that's fine, that's fine, and
let me go on for a while, and they tapped
me again. They said, okay, seriously, we need to talk

(27:37):
about this podcasting. And I said, I'm a single mom
and I've got a busy practice and I don't have
time to do another podcast. And they said okay, not sorry.
Third time they tapped me and they said, okay, do
it seriously, do it now, and so I finally started
the work to get this together. I did some opinion pulling.
I came up with the name Real Life Angel Encounters,

(28:01):
and I said, well, how is this going to work?
And I looked to Jim Harold, who is considered the
og of paranormal. He's got the Paranormal Podcast. He's got
a bunch of other podcasts as well, the Cryptid Report.
The other side, he's got a true crime podcast. I mean,

(28:23):
some of these were fairly short lived, but he's done
all of this podcasting. But what really caught my attention
was his campfire, Jim Harold's campfire, and it was real
people calling in telling ghost stories. And I love this podcast.
I really love this show, and it seemed like a

(28:43):
pretty good model. Have real people tell their real encounters
and come to find out so many people have them.
In fact, before we started recording, he told me you
had one as well, Victor. I can't wait to hear it.
So all of these people have stories of synchronicities, of
love ones and min I say, it's not all strictly

(29:04):
angels like what we would think of. They're not showing
up with halos and wings, although sometimes they do. But
there's also stories of near death experiences and the beings
that we meet on the other side or the abilities
that we come back with after a near death experience.
It's also about dreams, prophetic dreams, and dreams of loved ones.

(29:26):
It's about synchronicities and events that just seem to happen
out of the blue and no explanation, and even aliens.
I've got a great story not in the book. It
didn't make it to the book, but it was on
the podcast about alien visits. So anything that's uplifting that's positive.

(29:49):
I like to say, it's for people who love the
positivity with the paranormal and like spirits with their actual spirituality.
So it's anything that is strange, unusual, uplifting but positive,
right loving kind. There's the story of the Koch film

(30:10):
miracle as in the podcast as well as the book,
and then the Joplin the Butterfly people of Joplin after
the tornado that devastated that town. So yes, the podcast
went on originally in the first series forty episodes. Bear
in mind, I was doing that weekly and I was

(30:31):
doing my other podcast, the Radiate Wellness podcast, which we'll
talk about. I'm sure I was doing that one weekly,
So two weekly podcasts plus a busy group practice and
single mom, I was driving myself crazy. Plus it was
getting harder and harder to find people who would willingly

(30:53):
tell me their stories. So the I was meeting many
people who say, oh, yeah, I've got a great story
my great aunt Sally, and I'd say, okay, well when
do you want to record it? And then crickets. It
seemed like there were very few people who wanted to
actually share their stories, and I was having to scramble
each and every week to find stories to tell. And

(31:16):
then I looked to the news, which was great because
there are some super stories out there of miraculous things
like I mentioned the Cookfield Miracle, Joplin, the Butterfly People,
the Little Loretto Staircase. There are stories out there. But
I just was having a hard time sourcing everything and
scrounging and scrambling to get content together for this podcast.

(31:39):
So after forty episodes, I put it to bed. Well,
I'll guess what. The platform that hosts both of the podcasts,
Real Life Angel Encounters and Radiate Wellness. These are both
on the Mindbodyspirit dot FM network. The Mind Bodyspirit Dot
FM network and the network came to me and they said,

(32:02):
what would you think about bringing back Real Life Angel Encounters.
I said, I don't know about that. That was killing me.
It was so hard to find stories and that's two
podcasts going on. And they said, well, it's still doing really,
really well. Even though you don't have new episodes coming out,
you still gain new listeners all the time. And I

(32:24):
know that. I've got a Facebook group called Real Life
Angel Encounters for people to share their stories and to
connect with each other, and that was getting new participants
every week. I was literally getting new people join that
group every week, and so I thought, well, maybe there's
some wisdom in bringing this back. But I thought, oh,

(32:45):
am I gonna do this. I just don't have the
bandwidth for two full time shows, two weekly shows. And
then Spirit tapped me on the shoulder and said, duh,
do them every other week. And so every Tuesday there's
new podcast coming out. It could be Real Life Angel
Encounters and it could be Radiate Wellness, and that seems

(33:06):
to be a very happy compromise.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Christy, why do some people have these experiences and others not?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
I love that question Victor and I get asked that
all the time. Well, you know, I truly think that
we all have these encounters, but we write them off.
But the ones who you know, really believe that as
angels are thinking, oh wow, this is more than just
mere coincidence. I think those are people who are open

(33:39):
to different phenomenon, Who would be open to a loved
one visit or an angel visit, or a synchronicity that
should not have happened except that it was guided divinely somehow.
So people being open to all of that. Plus also
people who have a more positive view. I think that

(34:00):
who don't see the world in negative terms, that they
see the world in terms of what good can happen
to me today, what is possible? So I think those
are two important factors. But yeah, again I do think
that these happen to us a lot and more than
we think. But to recognize it for what it truly is,

(34:24):
I think we need to be open to it and
have a positive outlook toward it. Right, So, people who
are fearful, who might think of a stranger coming to
help them in the time their time of need, they
might be fearful. It's like, what does a stranger want
rather than being open, Oh my gosh, you came at

(34:44):
the exact right time. There is a story of this
in my book. This woman is outside of Lawrence, Kansas,
which if you know Lawrence, Kansas at all, it's a
nice metropolitan city. It's not huge. It's a college town,
but then lots it's the countryside all around it. The
next biggest town is Kansas City. There's also to Peeka,

(35:05):
but you know, Kansas City is really the biggest town
outside of Lawrence. And she had a flat tire on
a one way bridge a foggy morning, no visibility, and
she's like, if anybody comes around this corner, they're not
going to see me in time. It's a one car bridge.
How is this going to work? And she didn't know

(35:27):
how to change attire. She called her parents, and she
called her friends. Nobody could come and help her right away.
And then this gentleman shows up in a beat up
pickup truck and he says, hey, you're in trouble here,
can I help now. Someone who's fearful, who's distrustful, might
say no, I'm calling people they're going to help me,
and might be afraid of this man. But she wasn't.

(35:50):
She said there was something about him he was not.
She describes him as not being attractive, which she later says,
I know that was being kind of shallow of me,
but she said, not somebody that I would necessarily think
was angelic. But somehow he looked kind and she accepted
his help. He changed the tire, no problem. All he

(36:11):
wanted in return was a hug. She gave him a
hug and he went on his way, and she really
feels like he was sent but maybe not that he
was an angel himself. He could have been, but that
he was sent by someone because she needed that. And
you know, someone who's fearful would not accept the help.
Someone who was fearful would shy away from that type

(36:33):
of thing. But she embraced it. She was like, you know,
I can accept the help and I can use that help.
So I think that's the biggest difference. You know. I
think if we all think back over near missus or
synchronous events, you know, we could think of those in
terms of, well, they could be miracles or they could

(36:54):
be coincidence. I choose to think of them as they
could be miracles. Why not.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
There are no coincidences I've experienced so many synchronicities in
my life. I can absolutely say there are no coincidences.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
There are no coincidences.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Everything happens for a reason.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I believe so. And you know, if we choose to
look at these things as miraculous encounters synchronicities, if we
think of them as you know, a visit from a
loved one or a visit from an angel, instead of
just wishful thinking, because a lot of people can write
it off as oh, I was just thinking of Grandma

(37:34):
and here I'm smelling her perfume, and they think of
it just as their imagination, you know, like what you
were told when you were a child. Oh, you've just
got an active imagination. But why not believe? You know,
I always tell my clients and my students that if
it's uplifting, if it's an uplifting encounter, if it helpful

(37:56):
and maybe even answer some questions for you, then why
not counted as miraculous? Why not counted as an intervention? Right?
Why rule that out? Why not look at the wonder
and the aw that's all around us? Naturally?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Absolutely? Yeah, Why is the subject of angels so important
right now?

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Oh? My gosh, We need angels. We need them so much.
There were there are people who are just feeling hopeless,
who are feeling helpless, who are feeling anxious about the future.
There's so much to be anxious about, not just here
in the States, but around the world. You know, Worried
about putting food on your table, Worried about what if

(38:39):
I get sick and I don't have my medicare. There's
just so much to be anxious about. Oh my gosh,
the solar flares and the human residence and the eclipses
and energy has been really bad, and measles outbreak in Kansas.
We've got a tuberculosis holt break. I mean, there's so
much to be fearful of, and we need some hope.

(39:04):
We need to know we're not alone. In fact, I
opened the book by saying, I am on a quest
for world domination, a to let everybody know that we're
not alone. We've got guides and helpers around us all
the time. We don't have to do this by ourselves.
And then b that we're so much more than we

(39:25):
think we are. There is a whole world out there
that we're connected to, whether we realize it or not.
And that's why I think we need to know this
dare I say gospel. Gospel just means good news. We
need to know this gospel that we're not alone and
there's so much more to us than we think there is.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Quick story I'll share with you. When I was in
my first reiki class in my late thirties, the reiki
master teacher of the class gave us an exercise to do.
They said, put your hands over your heart, close your eyes,
and see what comes up for you. And immediately when
he said that, I closed my eyes and I saw
the image of what I perceived to be an angel. No,

(40:07):
I did not have angel consciousness prior to this point.
And he came around the room and said, tell us
what you see and I said, I see an angel.
He said, ask the angel its name, and immediately I
heard Gabriel. I had no reason to think about Archangel Gabriel,
but I heard Gabriel. That night, I went home. My
daughter was thirteen at the time, and she said, Daddy,

(40:29):
can you show me this reiki stuff that you're doing?
And I said sure. She sat in a chair. I
placed my palms above the back of her head, and
immediately she said, Daddy, I see a group of our
family who have passed away, a grandpa and others. And
she started naming people who had actually passed before she
was born, and she said, there's an angel flying over them.
I said, ask the angel its name, and she said Gabriel.

(40:51):
So she confirmed for me that Archangel Gabriel is related
to our family somehow, an angel it looks over our family.
And I was so touched by that.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
The beautiful story. Victor, you'll have to come up, excuse me,
You'll have to come on Real Life Angel Encounters and
tell that story.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
So are there are there personal guardian angels that everybody has.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Absolutely, people have a guardian angel that's with us from
birth to death. These guardian angels are they're contracted to us.
There's a beautiful story of a guardian angel in the
book Real Life Angel Encounters that came out of a
QHHT session. This woman actually had a lifetime where she

(41:36):
was this boy's guardian angel. Oh, it was a beautiful story.
So you got to read the book. So anyway, Yeah,
we do have a guardian angel with us from birth
to death. We have an archangel that's with us from
birth to death as well. So these archangels have different
jobs that they do. They're I think there are fifteen. Now,
different people will tell you different numbers, but I see

(41:58):
fifteen archangels and Gabriel, I call her Gabriel. But Gabriel
has the job of helping us with communication. So message
absolutely right. She delivered news to Elizabeth in the Bible
and Mary in the Bible. She helps us know when

(42:19):
we're going to have a baby. She helps people who
are trying to adopt. She's my daughter's guardian angel. My
daughter was adopted, And I mean, she's not my guardian,
my daughter's guardian angel. She's my daughter's archangel. But yeah,
so she helps with communication and messages and delivering that.
So no wonder that she's with your family. And then

(42:39):
we'll have So those are the two that come in
with us when we're born. So are arch angels with
us birth to death, and then our guardian angels with
us birth to death. But then we can have others
come and go as we need. We'll have loved ones,
doesn't matter if we ever met them or not, doesn't
matter if they died long before we were born. We
can have any ancestor on our spiritual team. Then we

(43:03):
have ascended masters also who can come and go. Ascended
masters are a mixed bag. Some of them have been
human before, like Jesus and Yogananda. Some of them are deities,
not minor deities, they are quick to tell me that.
But some deities like Apollo and lou and Pele. But

(43:26):
they are all in service to humanity and they have
different things that they do according to what their mission was,
either as a deity or as a person, and they
can be with us as well. And then other just
angels and other guides, you know, like the old commercial
set used to say, there's an app for that, there's

(43:47):
a guide for that. You can call in any guides
that we want. You know, if you're working on a
new book, you can ask for you know, I need
a writing guide to help me with this. You know,
we can call on Gabriel, right. We can also call
on Tote, who was the Egyptian Ibis headed god who

(44:07):
taught writing or who brought writing to humanity. We can
if we're going to make a meal, we can call
on Julia Child help make a meal. Absolutely so we
can ask for this help and there's just an unending
stream of assistance that's there for us.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
My guest Christy Clemens Hoffmann, her new book Real Life
Angel Encounters. Real people share real stories of miraculous encounters.
We'll be back with more after these words on the
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Speaker 1 (45:13):
Back on Destination Unlimited. My guest this week Christy Clemens Hoffman,
her new book, Real Life Angel Encounters. Christy, I had
a dream several months ago that was so lucid and
so vivid, and the message had me awaken in tears.
And the dream was I was attending an angel academy

(45:33):
and there was this huge temple and there were eighteen
tables around in a U shape in the inside of
the temple, and we were instructed to go from table
to table, make eye contact with the angel at each table,
and when they nodded their heads to move on to
the next and complete the cycle of all eighteen tables.
And afterwards we were instructed to go to the front

(45:54):
main table where we would receive our angelic name and
our assignment that I was given was Avi l which
in Hebrew means God is my father. And my assignment
was to be an angel to other angels. And I
recognized when I woke up that I've been doing that
for years. I'm not talking about angels in the angelic sense,

(46:15):
but people, human angels. I've been helping others for years
and years and years, and I was so touched to
receive that message.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
It's a beautiful dream, Victor. It's amazing, wow, And I
don't doubt it at all. You know, when we have
these dreams that seem more real than real, but we
can take it to the bank that that has been
a visit, that you actually were there, because you know,
when we're asleep, it's the body that needs rest. That's

(46:44):
when our body heals and repairs itself. But our consciousness
gets bored and we're free to travel around and go visiting.
We'll have loved ones visit as well. That seemed more
real than real and I've had, you know, at least
one of those. But what an amazing experience, and honestly
reminds me a lot of the Guardian Angel I talked about.

(47:06):
That's in the book. You know, she talked about going
back to where she was trained, and you know, I
was fascinated with that. She described the place of learning
in her teachers, in her main teacher, and then how
she learned to do her job. Basically, Oh, that is beautiful.
I don't doubt it at all.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Now does one have to be religious to believe in angels?

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Oh goodness, no, I know that's a common misconception, isn't it.
But no, one does not need to be religious. In fact,
the angels are in all walks of all walks of life,
various religions. In fact, I address that in the book.
As a matter of fact, there's a couple of chapters

(47:54):
just about angels and guides and who they are how
we work with them. But yeah, all of the major
religions do have their angels also, you know, the indigenous
religions as well. They've got their deities, but then they
also have other beings who are not quite deities, but
who are helpful to them. So, no, we don't have

(48:15):
to be religious. It's like, do we have to be
a scientist to believe in gravity? No, it's going to
affect us anyway.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Absolutely. Yeah. You know, it's interesting you mentioned that in
Buddhism they have what's known as the Bodhisatva, which is
a being that had displaced all their karma and was
given the opportunity to move on to Nirvana and had
so much love for humanity that they vowed to stay

(48:41):
within the human realm and dry the tear on every face.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yes, it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Yeah, and I see our
guides that way. Absolutely in Bodisaphas that they assist humanity,
and that is true of the Archean angels. There's a
higher art of angels, and you know, goes from the
hierarchy basically goes from the fifth dimension up to the

(49:07):
twelfth dimension. And we would think that archangels are the
highest form of angels, but they're not. That is reserved
for the Seraphim and the Cherubim. But archangels are mid
level angels. And they are mid level angels because they
work with humanity. They work with humans solve the problems do.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
You communicate with angels during your healing practices.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Yeah, oh absolutely. So when I do reiki, I call
it medical intuitive reiki with healing guides because I am
a medical intuitive, and then I bring in guides. Archangel
Shamuel is ninety percent of the time with me in
reiki sessions. But then ancestors will come in and other guides,

(49:56):
other archangels, other ascended masters will come in to reiki
sessions and clients will say, I know you were at
my feet, but man, I felt somebody's hands on my arm,
and you know, I was like, oh, that's right, arm YEP.
I know they were there. They help all the time.
And then of course I do readings for people, and

(50:17):
the guides always show up for that as well.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
We had talked about synchronicities earlier that Carl Jung coined
the term synchronicity as a meaningful coincidence without causal connection.
And I've had several of these throughout my life. Literally
almost every year or a couple of times a year,
I've had a major synchronicity. In nineteen seventy five, I

(50:40):
was in the United States Air Force and I was
stationed in Soul, Korea and I would write to my
mother back in New York every month, and she would
write back, and I had no reason to think anything
was wrong. And then one morning I woke up and
the voice told me, you got to call your mother
in New York. She needs to hear from you. And
whatever that voice would show up for me, I would

(51:00):
always respond to it. And I called my mother back
in New York. And back in those days, for those
of us old enough to remember, we had things called
extension phones, which were wired telephones that you could pick
up one phone in one room and the same phone
in another room. And my sister and my mother answered
the phone simultaneously, and I said, Mom, is there anything wrong?
And my sister exclaims, oh my god, how did he

(51:22):
find out? She was scheduled for major surgery the next day?
And the voice told me to tell her that the
surgery would be a complete success, she'd have a full recovery.
She had nothing to worry about. She needed to hear
those words. And I'm forever grateful for that message of
that communication, that synchronicity.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
That amazing. You see, people have those type of things happen,
and they might write it off, right, So why not
just act on it. And if it's something that's helpful
and useful, awesome. If it's just it was nice to
talk to your mom, that's great too, right, not act

(52:00):
on it.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Absolutely, So many of our listeners are thinking, how can
they open themselves to having an angelic or miraculous encounter.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
First of all, know that you don't have to be special,
you don't have to be Joan of Arc to be
visited by an angel. It's for everyone, for everyone, And
then so being open, but also believe that it can happen.
And then, third of all, I would say our guides
and our angels, and I use these terms interchangeably, victor,

(52:30):
because they're all these angelic beings that are around us.
They want to help us. They are here for us,
they're for our benefit. They they earn their wings, if
I may borrow a phrase from It's a Wonderful Life,
they earn their wings by helping us. And they can
move up in their ranks by helping us. And this
is especially true of our loved ones. And you know,

(52:52):
the random guides who come around and help us. They
need to help us. They want to help us, and
we need to let them. And we but we do
also need to act ask them they're not going to
come in and swoop in and just save the day.
They can, but they usually don't. The only exception would
be if it was not our time to die and

(53:13):
they need to come in and do something, which we
hear stories of that all the time. But we have
to ask, and so it's just as simple as talking
out loud or in your mind saying, hey, guys a team,
I need some help here. I need to make a
difficult call and I don't know what to say. Please
help me to know that I'm going out to a

(53:37):
dangerous part of town. I need to run an errand
please keep me safe. I'm having problems with my car.
Please make my car at least function until I get
to the repair shop. We can ask for all kinds
of things, and then the trick is to set it
and forget it. So we ask for help and then
we release it. We know that the help is coming

(54:00):
and know that it can come in a variety of ways. Yes,
an angel could just show up and save the day,
or there could be a person showing up on a
foggy road outside of town in a beat up truck
and come and change your tire.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Absolutely, and what we're doing is setting the intention and
then being open to receiving.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Absolutely. What would you like readers to take away from
real life angel encounters?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
That this is something that can happen to any one
of us, That when we look back over these events
in our lives, that we just kind of scratch our
head and say, huh, that was really cool. What if
it was an angel encounter. I want people to come
away with hope that we're surrounded at all times by
loving beings who want to help us, and that we're

(54:51):
never alone. That's really my most fervent wish that people
would take away from real life angel encounters. Real people
share real stories of miraculous encounters.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
The wisdom of Christy Clemens Hoffmann. Christy, please share with
the listeners one more time where they can get your
books and find out more about you and your amazing work.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Thank you, Victor. The book will be out in all
places July first. It comes out a little bit earlier,
maybe a week and a half earlier in the UK,
but in the US it will be available July first,
but you can pre order right now. In fact, pre
orders help a lot because it boosts the book in
the algorithms and that's a huge thing. So the pre

(55:31):
order link is available on my website real life am
I'm sorry. The website is Radiate Wellness Community dot com
slash shop. Scroll down to the Real Life Angel Encounters
link and then that will take you to the pre
order links. So pre order the book now, right now,
and it'll be hot in your hands as soon as

(55:52):
it comes off the presses and is available for everyone
to purchase. It'll be in your mailbox early.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
And the podcasts and all of the wonderful services that
your organization offers are also on that website.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yes, Radiate Wellness Community dot com.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Christy, thank you so much for joining us and sharing
this amazing and wonderful wisdom and words that people need
to hear today.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Thank you, Victor, I appreciate it, and.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Thank you for joining us on Destination Unlimited. I'm Victor
the Voice Firman. Have a wonderful week.