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So a little bit more about Stephanie Banks.
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She is a.
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Highly sought after intuitive channel mentor and guide who helps
people connect on the soul level. She channels from the
perspective of any soul currently on the planet, souls on
the other side, purely non physical beings such as spirit
guides as well as trees animals in Guya. Connection and
communication are the common themes in Stephanie's professional endeavors as
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a speech language pathologist, a birth doula e lactation consultant,
an infant massage instructor, and an intuitive channel. When her
mother's dementia made verbal communication impossible, Stephanie found ways to
communicate with.
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Her mother's soul.
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This was the beginning of her channeling journey. As a
conscious channel, Stephanie is both the vessel to receive the
messages as well as guide to provide depth and context
for the information coming through. She uses her keen sense
of humor, love, and compassion to join her clients and
their spiritual experiences. Stephanie also mentors clients and discerning their
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own inner voice of wisdom, enhancing their confidence and self trust,
improving their relationships, and clarifying the soul's purpose, and finding their.
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Laughter and joy.
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Author the best selling Joining Joni Staying Connected to Your
Loved One Through Dementia and Beyond, Stephanie is completing her
second book about her spiritual journey and her ted X talk.
I Am an Intuitive Channel. She shares her unexpected experience
with channeling and invites others to discover their own intuitive gifts.
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If you want to learn more about today's guest, Stephanie Banks,
you can get the links off our social media pages
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com and you'll see a nice beautiful picture of Stephanie
about channeling wisdom for personal global transformation and what would
your soul want to know for today's episode.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So, Stephanie, welcome to Inspired Levy. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Thank you so much for having me Mark. I'm really
happy to be here with you and see where we me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Andrew yes, And so I want to start because I
you know, the message I got this week is we
are the sum of our experiences, right, all of we
sum up what our experiences are. And for you to
be a channel I'm sure you know, like myself, you
didn't set out to be a channeling guide or mentor.
I know that I did not years ago, but our
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experiences lead us down these paths.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And I want to talk about your mom that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That was probably so difficult with you know, when we
talk about dementia, when we talk about the mind and
the mental you know, a cognitive breakdown of not even
able to have verbal communication. You found a different way
to communicate with your mother's soul. And tell us a
little bit about that, and tell us a little bit
about how this experience really sums up who you are
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today and what you are doing today.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah. Yeah, I really do credit my mother's dementia with
so many unexpected gifts. So it's difficult. As you said,
it's heartbreaking and gut wrenching and just a constant daily
experience of loss when you love someone who has Alzheimer's
or dementia or any progressive neurological or cognitive decline. And
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I was trained for this, so my background is as
a speech pathologist. I have worked in hospitals and medical
settings for decades helping people who have dementia. And yet
when it was time for me to figure out how
to stay connected to my mother when she had hers,
and hers was a type that affects younger people. She
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started to develop her symptoms in her fifties, and she
had it for over fifteen years by the time she passed.
So this was a long, ongoing, drawn out process, and
I was not doing as well as I expected myself
to do in terms of being able to understand her
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or communicate well with her, or have her understand me.
So at the time I had a dear friend I
said had because she's on the other side now, but
when she was in body, she used the channel. She
was a very, very gifted, intuitive channel, and as I
listened to her channel other living beings, I asked her
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if she would please meet with me privately and channel
my mother because I really was not. We were struggling,
you know, just as anybody does, and most of our
interactions were frustrating. So my friend old my mom's soul
and I got to ask all the questions that were
on my heart. What is my role with you right now?
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How do I support you in this journey? What type
of protection do you need from me? How do I
how do I keep us keep us afloat while you
traverse this unknown space in her you know, in her decline,
and her soul was able to tell me very clearly,
this is what I need you to do. This is
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what I need you to stop doing. This is how
our souls are meant to be in service to one another.
And it changed everything. It changed my relationship with my mother.
It actually changed my relationship with myself because once I
understood how far reaching this type of soul connection could
be and how many different applications it could have across
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all relationships in my life. How could it not change everything?
So I decided I needed to learn how to do
this for myself, and I did and and I've figured out, well,
if I can do this for myself, I really want
to teach other people how to do it as well.
And so I do that too.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, and thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And there's just so many diamonds in that, you know,
first talking about dementia, as you know, science and medicine.
I've been in medicine for over twenty five years, and
we're seeing the rise of dementia, even starting in people
as young as thirty now. And I think a lot
of it's based on you know, I think of it
like a computer screen. We have just too many browser
windows open. The brain can't process, and we have so
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much coming at us in our society, from you know,
social media, to news cycles to your cell phone.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, your smartphone.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Everything is just coming at us and the brain in
a sense is that it's a form of evolution. Unfortunately,
it's it's not a positive form of evolution because dementia
is so sad. But science is showing us through medicine
that people are actually getting on set dementia in their thirties.
And I believe in the future that there's some cutting
edge technology through medicine that they will find a cure
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for the cognitive decline of the brain is really what
it is, right, And so I love that you were
able to not be a victim of your circumstances but
rise above. This wasn't happening to you. This was happening
for you to find a new way to communicate with
your mother. And channeling is not anything new, right, Stephanie.
Channeling has been around for centuries. This goes all the
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way back to Indigenous times of channeling the spirit, the soul.
You know, your spirit guides, the assended masters, the.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Inspires if you will.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And I just love that you took the flexibility of
your circumstance, which I'm sure it is, just it just
feels heartbreaking to me. I've worked with people that have
you know, seen their loved ones going to mentionia and
then pass over, and as a medium, have actually done
readings to you know, say.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The information that needs to be said, but for.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Our listeners kind of take us through channeling from a
layman's term, because I always remind people, how do you
talk to somebody that doesn't no longer have a voice box,
doesn't have a You know, we're speaking right now because
this is a vibration off my vocal cord, right, So,
how would you explain to people how do you communicate
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channeling when there's no voice or vibration off a vocal
cord in the physical world. Tell us a little bit
on the spiritual side and the channeling and what you've experienced.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
As a channeler.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Wow, well, I hope I can explain it. The truth
is that it's still a mystery to me and we'll
probably always remain so. But the best way I can
speak from my own experience of it is as vibrational beings,
we do not have to have vocal cords in order
to communicate. We don't even have to have faces for
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facial expression. There's lots of different ways for communication. So
vibrationally speaking, we are always emanating some sort of energy.
And for those of us that are that feel very
highly sensitive, we can do a lot of communicating with
absolutely no words and without even seeing another person if
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we are if we attune ourselves to that subtlety, and
with the channeling that I do, I channel the souls
that are here on the planet and body, as well
as those that are on the other side, as well
as those that have never incarnated ever. And so it
doesn't really matter that one has had or not had
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any physical lifetimes. We have all of us the ability
to connect on an energetic level with any any being
really that we wish to. And it does require devotion
to a practice, many practices, spiritual practices, meditative practices, attunement practices,
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whatever brings you into that highest vibrational loving frequency. That's
what I understand to be a match at least to
the dimension that I'm channeling from, which is fix dimensional consciousness,
unity consciousness. So all of that, you know, jargon aside,
we can connect with one another much better and much
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more profoundly than what we have been doing all along.
What we have seen from the time that we're infants
being instructed in this is a ball, this is a dog,
labeling things and using language and sounds. And we can
do that by getting really still, really quiet, really attuned,
really open hearted, and allowing for what needs to be
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felt and seen and understood to come through. And that's
kind of how I started in the learning how to
channel my mom as I sat alongside someone who was
bringing through the words in the language, it wasn't coming
through me, but it resonated so deeply, and that was
like the foundational level is ah, okay, this feels true
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to me, these words that are coming through the sense,
the meaning, the intention behind these words, this all it
was giving me the chills. That's my signal for what's
true and deep connection. And it allowed me to start
somewhere with the communication with her that really did transcend
whatever I could garner from her outer expressions, which we're
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starting to become more less and less obvious, and she
was going more and more inward. I don't know if
that answered your question at all, but.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
No, no, that's a really great explanation. And a couple
key points that you pointed out was energy. Right, everything
is energy moving. You know the laws of physics dictate
that energy always has to travel somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We know the energy in your heart that makes your
heart beat. From a medical standpoint, when that energy leaves
the heart, we decarnate. You use the word incarnate, which
means coming into physical form and vibration. And when we
decarnate we leave the physical form, but our energy our mannerisms,
our love, our memories. Move to that next source. Now,
of course, the million dollar question is where is that
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next source? And I always remind my students and my
listeners when people ask me where is Heaven, I say,
Heaven isn't a location. Heaven is a vibration. Whatever your
belief system is, whether that's the afterlife, the summer land, heaven,
or maybe you have no belief in the afterlife, and
that's okay. But when you think in terms of energy,
frequency and vibration, as Nicko La Tesla talked about back
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in the you know, we're talking back eighteen hundreds, late
eighteen hundreds, you'll start to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And one key point that I really.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Was really stand out to me when you use the
word devotion, because when I'm teaching people, whether it's my
students or doing a lecture or workshop, I always tell
them you have to start with trust and patience, and
you have to move into that place of silence and stillness,
and you have to have that devotion, that discipline, and
that dedication because the brain is constantly going, the ego
is constantly in the physical body, and when you get
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into that place of silence and stillness, and Roomy talked
about this. Lao Sue talked about this, Confucius talked about this.
A lot of the gurus from the past always talked
about the more silent and still you become, the more
you will actually hear. And so for the listeners out there,
you know, I can't make anybody hear a message of
what Stephanie and I are talking about today, But this
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is an opportunity for you to go practice sitting in
that stillness, sitting in that power, sitting in that silence,
and see where your brain takes you, see where your
thoughts take you, because thoughts are portals, and if you
think in terms of the energy, you can go through
some pretty amazing portals and connect with your loved ones,
your friends, your family, your fur babies. But you have
to find that place of stillness, whether that's meditation, being
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out of nature, doing something you love, in clearing that mindset,
because awareness is the greatest agent for change. If you
want to start getting into channeling and connecting with whatever
it is you're searching for that diamond within and the
many diamonds that I talk about in our world. So
for our listeners in the second part of the show,
and if Stephanie, if you're okay with this, we'll get
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We'll provide.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
The phone number.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You can go to our social media pages as well
and get the phone number to call into ome Time's
radio the call in lines. My producer Chris will put
you in a waiting room and you can give this
a go if you.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Want to experience what channeling is.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And that number to call is one two zero two
five seven zero seven zero five seven. I'll give that
right before we go to our break as well here
in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And this is an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
We haven't open up the phone lines here on Inspired
Living for a while, so if you are listening live
right now and you want to call in and get
the experience of channeling. It's always remind people it's like
a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get,
but you usually get something. And Stephanie, you said the
chills for our listeners out there, those are tying into
your claires, your clear sentience, your clare voyance. The clear
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voyance is what you get in your mind, and the
clear sentience is what Stephanie is describing as feeling those chills.
So your body is tonically an antenna to what is unseen.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And I always remind people we have three eyes in life.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The two eyes physically look into the physical world, and
the third eye, or the browse chakra, that sees beyond
our physical limitations. So with you, Stephanie, how was it
when you got to tell me about talking with your
mom after she made her transition, her energy moved and
she decarnated to the spiritual side, and she.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Was able to come back and talk with you. How
did that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Because that, in as sense, is not just channeling, that's
also mediumship with your ancient forms of communication. How did
that make you feel when she came back and said, Hey, Stephanie,
I'm still very much alive and very much in a
great way.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well? I feel like that was a point of great
improvement in our relationship. Then you get a lot more
cleaner and freer and more expansive when you're no longer
trying to drag along the earthly responsibilities and roles that
we have. So my mom and I are great now.
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You know, she's been on the other side for eleven
years and I see her all over the place in nature.
She is a big fan of sending male cardinals to
my mom. They are almost a harassing nature. They just
not go and so it's really beautiful. But you know,
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what really transformed the relationship that I have with her
is being able to even in the moment as we're
sitting having a meal together in the three dimensional world,
knowing that we might be struggling right now, but what's
true is that there were bigger than this than this moment.
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There's more to us than this moment, and we can
We eventually got to the place where we could laugh
about all of the nonsense that we were waiting through,
and there was a lot of nonsense. So we would
just laugh, and we wouldn't be laughing anything in particular,
just just sharing that beautiful energy that laughter brings, because
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that is a very elevating energy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, I love that you make a good point there,
because some relationships are actually healed on when they make
the transition over, right, Because you're right, they leave all
the earthly mindsets and ego and opinions and judgments. When
they move over, there's still that same person, right, They
still have their same mannerisms and their love and their memories.
But I've witnessed myself relationships that have been healed after
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they've passed over, including COVID. In COVID, I had a
series of readings and bookings that I had done where
people didn't get to say goodbye, and that person made
their transition because they couldn't be in the same space
and they came back through to say, now I can
say my goodbyes. But there really is no goodbyes if
you think about it, that bigger picture you're talking about, right,
it's just until we see each other again, or I
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see it down the road. And I love that she
comes to you with the male cardinal because I always
remind the listeners look for the signs, look for the symbols,
look for the synergy, and the synergy is your energy
and the energy that's all around you. When it blends,
you can have some pretty cool experiences. And of course
the synchronicities in life, which Einstein always said, synchronosities and
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coincidences are.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
God's way of remaining anonymous. Whatever your viewpoint is on God,
but when.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You see the signs, the symbols, the synergy, and the synchronicities,
nature is probably the number one way that it's delivered
to let you know that your loved ones are only
ever a thought away.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So I love that you get the cardinal.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That's very being, very like, hey, pay attention to me,
not that your mom is a cardinal, but it's enough
to trigger your mindset to go, oh hi Mom. That's
how the communication works. So for the listeners out there,
if you want to give it a go, I always
say ask, believe, take that deep breath that we did
at the beginning of the show, because breath is very
important to the journey, and then you're going to receive
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and you're going to proceed based on your own experiences
because again you're the sum of your experiences. So before
we go to the break, I'm sure some of the
listeners out there are saying, can we learn to channel
and connect to our loved ones on the other side?
Can we do this or do I have to go
to a certain person that's had this, this trauma of
dementia or loss.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is there a way that I can channel or learn
to channel?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yes, one percent. I believe that with every fiber of
my being, if I can learn to do this, then
anyone can learn to do this because there's really nothing
unique or special about me that would place me in
a separate category to say, oh, she's born with something
that no one else or very few others have. I
actually don't believe that that's the case. So I learned
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to do this through certain practices, trial and error, and honestly,
I do believe that most of channeling is self trust,
trusting what's coming through, Trusting that you know you actually
are hearing or sensing something, because what we tend to
do is immediately discount it and say that's not real,
I'm just making it up. It's just wishful thinking. But
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that's actually conditioning and societal stuff coming in. You can
trust from a loving energy what is coming through, so
real quick, I would like to put a container around
those who want to call in so I will be
able to channel for their higher self, for their guides,
for anything that mediumship orients that that would be better
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done in a different session.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, sure, of course.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I just appreciate you being willing to have us open
up the phone lines, because I think hearing that is
a great experience as well, right as people want experiences
hear it, and so yeah, so we'll open the phone lines.
After we come back from our break again. That number
to call for ome Times Radio is one two zero
two five seven zero seven zero five seven. My producer
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Chris will put you in the waiting room until we
can bring you on. Please let us know what your
name is, where you're calling from, and then stepping out.
Will just continue with this interview. If we don't have
any callers, you know, calling, that's okay because we have
a lot to talk about when it comes to channeling
in the history of channeling, and I would say the
healing aspects, right, I know, I'm sure you feel the
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same way, Stefphanie when you are doing a session of channeling,
whether it's for the higher self or like you said,
the difference of medium connecting to someone that lived a
physical life. There's healing that takes place at so many
different levels for the medium, for the channeler, for the
person that has sought us out, and for the spirit
world and those that reside there. There's a healing triangle
that takes place, and I believe it's very beautiful work.
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But yeah, again I didn't anticipate doing this, let alone
doing a radio show, you know, and doing readings. But again,
our experiences open us up to start searching and exploring
and prospecting for those many mysteries of life, the mystical,
the ancient wisdom of channeling and mediumship, and how to
connect to our loved ones, whether it's your friends, your
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family members, or your fur babies.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
A lot of people want to.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Connect to their animals sometimes, I think more than humans
at times. But what we're going to do is we're
going to go to our first break again. If you
want to call in, we'll open the phone lines in
the second half. When we come back that number to
call again for Home Times one two zero two five
seven zero seven zero five seven. You can also get
those that number off of our any of our social
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media sites.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So we're gonna come back here in just two minutes.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Our special guest today Stephanie Banks, talking about what does
your soul want to know in the ancient practice of channeling.
We'll be right back here in just a few minutes.
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Hey everyone, welcome back to Inspired Living. Our special guest
today Stephanie Banks, who is a highly sought after intuitive
channel mentor and guy who helps people connect on the
soul level. And before we get back into the second
half of the show again, just a reminder to our
listeners that the phone lines are open live. If you
want to call in and have an experience of channeling
with Stephanie, you can call in at one two zero
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two five seven zero seven zero five seven. You can
also get that number off of our social media pages.
I want to read a couple of quotes when I
was doing this right up, Stephanie from your website, you
talked about how quote, we have all been heavily influenced
by societal, familiar and cultural conditioning. Sometimes that conditioning runs
so deep that we disconnect from our soul's purpose. And
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then you went on to say, how much more fun
could you have if your spirit was your guiding force?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
End quote.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
So let's talk about that, because I think that's very
impactful for today's very connected society. But also history teaches
us that we're more connected more than ever now, but
we're also more disconnected from one another than we ever
have been in our technology. So talk to me a
little bit about that. Conditioning and that disconnect from our
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soul's purpose.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Sure, yeah, it's sort of like what I was alluding
to before, in that when you're learning to channel or
learning any new skill, actually you can apply this too.
We have this tendency to immediately doubt ourselves and to
discount what we're getting and to really not believe that
we are as spectacular, miraculous and expansive as we are.
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And this has learned because if it wasn't, we wouldn't
have it. You think about different moments in your childhood
where you were told what you couldn't, could not do,
what wasn't wasn't available to you, where your maybe even
where your skills were or did not lie. And we've
been getting messages, these messages from the time we were
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very very young, that have really shaped us as individuals,
the choices and decisions that we've made, the paths that
we have chosen to take. But if we were to
strip all of that away, who we all are are
these beautiful designe beings, sparks of spirits, this glowing activated
spirit that is here to co create and manifest amazing,
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amazing things, much of which we don't even know that
we're here to do because this gets revealed to us
during our journeys. Just like Mark, you were saying you
had no idea that this type of work was in
your future. I didn't know it either, But through a
series of incredible events and amazing teachers and synchronicities and
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the like, here we are doing this following the past.
So a lot of what I feel our work is
to do is to unlearn. This is the time of
a great unlearning, and when we can create that opportunity
to really question, not from self doubt, but question is
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this true about myself? Can I know this to be
absolutely true? Or is this likely just what I've been
told or shown repeatedly enough that I've come to believe it.
Then things start to fall away. We can shed layers,
we can open to something bigger than ourselves. And that's
that's what I do believe all of us are craving,
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is to be in service to something that's bigger than us.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I love that, and you're exactly right. We have to
in this journey. We have to unlearn a lot of
those things that we've been learned or programmed or taught
to believe.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
And I still after this day, you know we were talking.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
About this, and I reflect back on you know, my
sum is all of my experiences, right, and it led
me down this path. But for your listeners out there too,
this isn't going to be enforced upon you. This is
a free will and this is a choice that you
choose to go down. And you know, for the listeners
out there, a lot of times my students asked, well,
how do I know that I'm getting a message?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
How do I know it's not my imagination?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
And I always remind them that we're the only species
that measures are like by time. So if you get
something that drops into your mind, or you get those
chills like you were talking about Stephanie, the clear sentience,
and you just know something to be true, there's no
time for that message. It usually drops in. Whether it's
into your mind or on your skin, you don't have
really time to think about it. If it's more than
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two to three seconds, then it's usually your imagination or
you're thinking about it. So I always tell people if
these messages start dropping in, it can come from different
channels too. It can come through free writing, It can
come through dreams, It can come through mirror gazing, water gazing, fire, gazing.
I've seen it all when it comes to channeling, but
a lot of times it will usually pop in. I
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don't know if you've had this, Stephanie, where you're just
driving and all of a sudden, driving is a great
meditation if you don't have the road raging, you're not
in a heavy traffic, but if you're out driving in
the countryside. I've had so many downloads where a message
will just drop into my mind.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
And I'll be like, where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I didn't have time to imagine it or think about it,
and so that's you know, for the listeners out there,
they may ask, well, how do I know I'm getting messages?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
How do I know that I'm getting those signs or symbols.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Well, you have to be aware of it, but you
also have to choose and free will, and then the
spirit world and those that reside that will start to
work with you, but they'll never, you know, overstep your
free will in your choice, because that's your greatest power.
Whey you hear in the incarnate physical form is the
power to choose and your free will to choose. I
just wanted to point that out to our listeners.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
So when we receive intuitive messages.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Again, this is kind of going back, This is kind
of I'm leading to the next question for you, how
from your perspective, because I believe spirituality is our ability
to shift our perspectives. How do we know that we're
not making them up? What's your definition for imagination versus
an actual channeling message?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
So this is interesting because I celebrate that we're making
this up. We are making this up all the time.
Everything that exists in your home, every object that you own,
was first imagined before it came into form. So I
don't know why as a society we are we diminish
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the power and the spirit of the human imagination because
it is definitely something to be celebrated. And if I,
if I didn't have imagination, I would not be able
to channel. This is my belief. We might differ on
our opinions here, but the imagination is what allows me
to have the connection. It allows me to see the
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imagery that I see. It allows me to have the
understanding that's the place from which I believe that I channel.
So I do teach people to say, if your question is, well,
what if I'm just making this up? Then jump up
and down and pump your fists in the air and say,
I am making this up because it's true about our lives,
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it's true about our relationships. We are creating this, we
are designing this, we are divining this all the time.
And yeah, the imagination is a beautiful space from which
that takes place.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yeah, And I wanted to offer I kind of keep
that up because I wanted to give I wanted you
to give us a different perspective, because you're right, imagination
is very important and some of the you know, the
best historians, writers, scientists. If I'm thinking of Einstein, you
know where he talked about you know, I'm not enough
of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination
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is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, but imagination
and circles the world, right, And so it's important to
have that imagination. But when you're channeling, you know, especially
when it comes to the mediumship, people want that validation,
they want that evidence, right. But as Oscar Wilde teaches us,
anyone who lived within their means suffers from lack of
imagination as well. Right, So imagination, inter right, is very
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important to have. I just was pointing out, you know,
because people ask us all that, how do I know
that it's not my that I'm making this up? Or
is it a real communication? And belief is going to
be a part of that as well. And sometimes when
I'm working with somebody, I will let them know that
some of the best evidence will come after the reading
because you've said an intention, you are now manifesting to
connect something bigger than yourself and the spirit world and
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those that reside there are much more intelligent and loving
than we are here on the physical plane, and they
will give you those signs of symbols, of synergies and synchronicities. So, yes,
imagination does play a big part of this journey when
it's channeling. Even Mark Twain talked about you can't depend
on your eyes when your imagination.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Is out of focus.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
So this is a This is bringing us back to
moving into that stillness, moving into that dedication and devotion
of connecting to something bigger than yourself. And there are a
lot of reasons people don't experiences because they just don't
make the time to do it, whether it's.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Early in the morning, mid afternoon, or before bed.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
But I always remind people take the time to disconnect,
so you have the time to reconnect, reconnect to yourself,
to know thyself, but also to connect to things that
are much bigger than us, because this is only temporary,
right what we see right now, this communication we're having
right now, this is all temporary right now. It'll be
recorded for you know, a legacy down you know, somebody
may listen to this, you know, fifty years from now.
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But life is moving and life is temporary. So imagination
does play a big part in that as well. So
thank you for that perspective, Stefane. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
I was gonna say, I love everything that you just said,
and I will answer the question to me. Channeled messages
feel joyful, and they feel meaningful, and they feel very
deeply touching and moving. So if you're getting things coming
through that that resonate in that way with you, I
think that's something i'd encourage people to lean into. If
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you are feeling fear, if you're feeling constriction, if you're
feeling like pulling away. In my experience, those are not
channeled messages. That is a you know, an interference of
either your your mind and your own fearful thoughts and
beliefs or your you know, your frequencies off. You need
to attend to your energetic high and bring yourself into
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a different vibrational frequency to be in the clarity of
the messaging that comes through. But for me, the way
I know that it's channeled from the fifth dimensional consciousness
is based on how it feels around me and within.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, good point.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
I always say thank you Hollywood for your Hollywood movies
because I remember when I first started out, I had
so many different labels of mediumship, you know, the sixth
sense had come out, and you know, seeing people you
know in all of their you know, negative ways, and
I don't find that to be true. I've actually found
that to be quite opposite with you know, channeling and mediumship.
And but I always say thank you Hollywood for the
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movies that you've brought into our culture and into our
our mindsets.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
You know, you could even go back to Jaws.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I remember when I first saw Jaws, I was scared
to go in the water, right, So that fear that
you're talking about. And I agree with you that the
channeling the mediumship should never feel draining, it should never
feel negative or fearful. It's very sacred work, I believe,
and I leave. It's very ancient work. And feeling into
that is a big part of the development, right, knowing
how you feel. Am I feeling this way? Or is
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something or someone or the experience making me feel this way? Right?
And the price of sensitivity is the sensitivity of what
we're trying to develop.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
And so you know, that's where the patient comes in.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Grace and trust and dedication because it is trial and
error as you learn to do this. For our listeners
out there, you may have been doing this for a
long time, you may be just starting. So with anything
in life, you know, we get through our education system,
you go into college or vocation, you have to apply
that and it's no different in development of connecting to
something bigger yourself. So give yourself time, trust patients, grace
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along the way, be graceful with yourself.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
So again, the phone lines are open if you want
to call in.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
The number to call is one two zero two five
seven zero seven zero five seven. If you want to
talk with Stephanie and get the experience of the channeling.
We only have about fifteen minutes left, so if you
want to call, this would be the time to do it.
And why we're waiting for any callers to call in Stephanie,
I was gonna say, what do you what do you
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love most? What is the most in your experience? What
is the most challenging about your work as a channel?
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Okay, So what do I love most or what's the
most channel challenging or both?
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Let's do both.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, I think what do you love most and the
experiences and what do you find most challenging working with
the incarnate in the physical world?
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Okay? So what I love the most are actually the
people that I have had, or I should say the
souls that I've had an opportunity to meet and to
work with. It is there's such an honor. It is
such an honor to me to be asked to peer
into family dynamics, relationship dynamics, inter or intra personal dynamics
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and understand from the deeper soul perspective and be able
to to bring that into some clarity and focus for
those that I'm channeling for. And what I also love
is channeling animals. That's also a great, a great joy.
You mentioned earlier that some people love that a lot
more than dealing with the human variety, and I probably
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should count myself among them, because the animals being such
a pure positive energy, and I include nature in that
as well, because I do channel trees, and trees have
a lot to say to us and a lot of
things to teach us. This is Yeah, it's just a
beautiful thing to be alive on this gorgeous planet with
all of the life that is teeming around. And what's
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most challenging, I think just for me is more like
a personality trait because I can tend towards Type A,
and so I have, you know, fears just like anyone
else does, about getting it right, saying the perfect thing,
presenting myself in a you know, in a way that
I feel reflects close enough to what I'm feeling and
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sensing from spirit, because it's just such an enormous light
that comes through with spirit that words cannot reflect that adequately,
but yet it's what we have. So finding the words
in the language, I find it can be somewhat challenging.
Sometimes it sometimes feels like it's scratching the surface, but
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there's so much more that's there.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Thank you for sharing that perspective.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
And you're right, you know, when I was developing years ago,
I would move into that fear right and I always
remind the listeners and my students that fear when you
move into that fear based on your learned behavior, recognize
that energy of fear and remind yourself that fear is
false evidence appearing real. And I always like to switch
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it to be face everything in Rise right, Like, it's
okay to have that fear, work through it, but acknowledge it.
Become aware to that because it's going to help you
find your authentic self and it's going to help you
become a more authentic connected chance or medium or psychic
or healer or whatever the work that you're following.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And again, don't be afraid to fail. You know fail,
you know in.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Our society, I remind people that fail we're here to learn.
Life is a university and in failure should happen every
single day of our lives. And that's first attempt in learning.
So a ddress the fear, acknowledge it, move through it,
and be okay to fail because you're learning, just like
everything in life. And through that process, that's how I
find my authentic ability to communicate as a medium. And
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I'm sure you feel the same way as a channeler
that you can you experience those those failure moments or
those thoughts or the ego or that fear of what
if I don't get this right? What if this person
is not happy with my message? You got to put
that all behind you, just move into that authentic connection
of channeling. And you talked about the natural world. Let's
talk about that real quick. How is the natural world
a resource of our energetic health, our well being, and
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our connection to something bigger than ourselves.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
Well, it's really everything, actually, because everything we need to
sustain life we take from the natural world. And of
course there's great suffering going on in the natural world
right now, do the human behavior and greed and et cetera.
So we're really being asked by Mother Nature, mother Earth herself,
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to go to rise, really to rise in service to
what is going to be a total change in the
way humans have been using the planet or exploiting resources,
and moving from the individual perspective of what's for me
or mine and into the collective of the fact that
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the truth that if one of us is not free,
none of us are free. And if one of us
is suffering, all are suffering. And if there's not enough
food or resources for some, then we all need to
be in response to that. So that's the seriousness with
which I take my devotion to channeling the planet and
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what messages tend to come through. But the tree beings,
the plants, the insects, all of the life around us,
they are messengers for us. I mean, we all have
animal messengers. So if you're awake and you're paying attention,
and you go outside with some regularity, you will see
animals will come to you. They will cross your path,
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they will be in front of you on the sidewalk
that you're you know, step on, so look that up.
They all have different meanings and significance, and that can
be really fun. There's entire websites dedicated to animal totems
and what they mean. And then sometimes many many of
us are drawn to certain particular animals, Like I am
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passionate about elephants. I don't exactly know why, but my goodness,
they just I could weep when I think about elephants.
So getting more connected to what is what draws you,
what speaks to your heart, and finding a way to
be in service, in loving service to that is really important.
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And you know, nature has a way of clearing and
cleansing us. So in between sessions. What I like to
do is go out to my garden and anything I
might have absorbed, anything that might have kind of stuck
around my energy field, Nature will just drain that for me.
She will sloop that off with a breeze that comes by.
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I can go hug a tree, I can do some
grounding and earthing and send that energy through the soles
of my feet and then draw up just the most beautiful,
nourishing energy, because that's what nature is.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah, I agree with your.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Nature's our greatest healer, our greatest engineer, our greatest teacher.
And it's funny and you said total animal because when
I first started down this journey real quick, I had
an experience where I came face to face with a
mountain lion up in above Kalastoga, California, just one tasting.
Didn't have it, you know, didn't anticipate come and face
to face with a mountain lion. She was beautiful, but
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we talked about fear, and I was like, there's a
lot of fear because she turned towards me and we
had a start because she was actually hunting a baby
fat so I saw the fond coming in off the
deck I'm like, oh, there's a baby fawn that looks beautiful.
And then I thought the mom was coming and hope
it was a mountain lion. And then she turned and
faced me and we had about a twenty second stare off.
Now what's interesting about that is I did exactly what
you said. I went and looked that up. Okay, what
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does it mean when you have a face to face
encounter with a two hundred pound mountain lion? And the
website that I actually went to it led me to
doctor Stephen Farmer, who wrote the book Animal Spirit Guide.
You can get that book online. And then when you
know it, six years later, he was actually on Inspired
Living and sent me his newest deck for children based
on total animal spirits. And so you just never know
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where the day is going to bring you. Right, So,
you know, nature is just such an amazing connection and
resource for your spiritual healing, your transformation and your development.
And I was also going to say, Stephanie, love. You
know there's nothing in your world or mind that can
part those whom love has united. You know, the love
that your mom has for you, the love you have
for your mom. And I always say love like life
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is stronger than death. Love like life is of.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
The spirit, and the spirit can never be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
And so if it can't be destroyed, and that means
that they're somehow connecting with us and it can't be destroyed,
and that means that they're around us and only ever
thought away. And it's about how can we communicate, How
can we channel with them on a daily basis, Because
there is wisdom and guidance that you talked about, So
how can we overcome communication challenges by connecting on the
soul level? What does our soul want to know? And
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how we overcome these challenges of everyday life.
Speaker 4 (50:39):
Well, I like to teach people how to first connect
with their own soul, their higher self, because I feel
like that's an area that we do tend to distract
ourselves away from. It can feel daunting, and again we
can fear that what if we get the wrong message
and we head down the wrong path. But your soul
won't ever ever guide you down the wrong path, even
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if you feel like it's not really what you want.
There's something in where you're being guided that is intended
for your growth and your expansion and your understanding of yourself.
So some key ways to tune into your higher self
is to first release energy, and this is best done
through activity and exercise, because in any given day, we
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bottle up a lot of stuff, and we do tend
to hold a lot of tension and anxious energy and
fear in our bodies. So some simple practices like to shake,
literally just shake your body. I put on some African
drum beats and I just stop about shake my body,
let like release release, get my heart rate up, and
let a lot of stuff just move out. When your
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body's more settled and you release that energy, then you
are a more already a more available vessel for what
your soul or spirit wants to communicate to you. So
then get yourself to a quiet and protected space where
you're not going to be disrupted or interrupted. Don't have
your devices nearby. There shouldn't be anything that's going to
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ring or ping or ding and disturb you. Some people
like to light a candle. Some people like to have
a little bit of an altar, which I do think
is helpful. Whatever you do to create sacred space. Bring
in some crystals, some leaves, some feathers, whatever is meaningful.
Photographs to you and just have a sacred space that
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you go to and then drop into whatever type of
meditative state works for you. And this might take a
while for you to find what works for you. I'm
constantly figuring it out. I'm not the world's best meditator.
It doesn't mean you can't channel, though. You don't have
to be a great meditator in order to channel. You
just have to show up to the practice of meditating
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in order to become a better channel. And I'm a
big fan of automatic writing. You can write down your
question and you can take a few breaths, center yourself
and allow your pen to be guided over the paper,
invoke your higher self. They may I please have guidance
from my own soul as it relates to this question.
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I am open to receiving and just allow that flow.
Some people can do like a voice recording. They can
ask their question out loud and then take a few
breaths and speak whatever comes through. The idea is do
not play the editor here. Let the flow occur. Whether
it's grammatically correct, whether it makes sense, whether you understand
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all of that is irrelevant. Just allow the flow to
be and as you continue with the practice, you will
get more and more honed in and it will make
more sense to you.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I love that, and thank you for sharing those diamonds
at Wisdom.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
Just show up.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Don't be the editor, right, just show up. Don't be
the editor of the information that's flown. Again, Stephanie, thanks
for being our guest today. Thank you for the work
that you're doing, the vibration that you're setting out into
our world.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
We always talk about how we need.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
More you know, teachers and healers and spiritual you know,
guides to help us in this world, and so I
just want to thank you for what you're doing out there.
Look forward to your next book, uh, your your ted
X talks that you're doing. Just just keep going because
I know that your mom is right there with you
and very proud of the work that you're doing and
the lives that you are touching. Again, if you want
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to work with Stephanie, you can get all of the
links off of our social media sites over at all times,
or you can go to Soulinsight dot com. And it's
just been a real pleasure talking with you today, Stephanie.
So thank you so much for sharing your your beautiful
light with my listeners in the world today.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
Thank you so much, Mark, and I'm so grateful you're
doing your soul's work in the world as well well.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Thank you, my friend. And as we get ready to close,
just a.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
Reminder, you know, right, I wanted to close this show
out with going back to the made that Stephanie was
talking about talking about, and imagination is everything is the
preview of life's coming attractions. And that's from the very
knowledgeable Albert Einstein. So get into that preview of life's
coming attractions because life is always going to bring attractions
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and life is always going to bring us change. And
I just want to say thank you to our listeners
for being here today with us. You can always catch
Encore shows throughout the week, and you can always catch
the podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcast, including
this show with our amazing guest today, Stephanie Banks, a
highly sought after intuitive channel mentor and guide who helps
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people connect on the soul level.
Speaker 3 (55:40):
So connect with her.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
If you want to know what your soul wants to know.
This is Inspired Living. Thank you so much for listening.
Have a great rest of your day, week, month, year,
and we'll see you next time here on Inspired Living.
Until our next whole adventure together, be kind, carrying, and compassionate.
Most importantly, wherever you're at, there to dream, there to explore,
there to live.
Speaker 3 (56:00):
Got her. The diamond was then