From Live TV to the Akashic Records: Finding Clarity Beyond Fear

A live TV director doesn’t get the luxury of overthinking, because the show keeps moving. That’s why this conversation with three-time Emmy Award-winning director and author Mary Madeiras hit me so hard: she’s spent 30 years making split-second decisions in news, sports, talk shows, and daytime drama, and then life delivered a pivot she didn’t plan for. When her contract isn’t renewed on a major production, the floor drops out and a different kind of directing begins, one focused on clarity, intuition, and spiritual truth.

Mary walks me through what Akashic Records actually are in practical terms: not a fantasy “library with floating books”, but a divine quantum field and vibrational imprint of the soul’s journey. We connect the dots to modern consciousness language like the “field of possibilities”, and to older traditions that describe a Book of Life. The heart of it is simple and grounded: when you raise your vibration through intention, prayer, or meditation, you can access guidance that feels steady, loving, and free of judgement.

We also go straight into the questions people are afraid to ask. Can you change what’s in your records? What role does the ego play in suffering, self-doubt, and feeling stuck? Mary explains the difference between a larger soul theme and your day-to-day free will, and we talk about transmuting trauma by reclaiming the energy it locked away. You’ll also get an easy practice you can do even in a busy life: write down what brings you joy, no judgement, and use imagination as a clean portal back to your power.

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Choosing Your Soul’s Path

SPEAKER_00 0:00

But I like to remind everyone, we made the choice. So there's nothing in the records we're not going to like, because then that would mean we don't like ourselves. Because it's mirroring the love, beauty, and power that we are. We are such powerful light beings, every one of us, and we're all the same. And then we navigate third density, third dimension, and then and then the whole other conversation is the ego.

Meet Emmy Winning Director Mary

Losing The Job That Redirected Her

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Welcome to the Heart of Show Business. I am your host, Alexia Melocchi. I believe in great storytelling and that every successful artist has a deep desire to express something from the heart to create a ripple effect in our society. Emotion and entertainment are closely tied together. My guest and I want to give you insider access to how the film, television, and music industry works. We will cover Dreams Come True, The Roadlike Travel, Journey Beginnings, and a lot of insight and inspiration in between. I am a successful film and television entrepreneur who came to America as a teenager to pursue my show business dreams. Are you ready for some unfiltered real talk with entertainment visionaries from all over the world? Then let's roll sound and action. What if the same instincts used to direct live television at the highest level could also guide you in your life decisions? Today's guest, Mary Madeiras, is a three-time Emmy Award-winning director with 30 years of top-tier television, spanning from news, sports, talk show, daytime drama. She was in LA, she's also in New York. She's had major broadcast productions with nearly half a billion dollars in budget and directed live programming like CBS This Morning, also brought her storytelling expertise to one of the most iconic series, General Hospital. And she also won her first Emmy during the Seoul Olympics. She directed her own short film, Water Balloon, and music videos with Brian Austin Green. So her career is built on powerful storytelling. However, this time she comes to me as an author, and she actually written an amazing book, which brings that to a completely different dimension, helping people access clarity, intuition, and a deeper truth through the work and her book called The Akashic Way. Welcome to my show, Mary. Thank you. That was such a lovely intro. So, Mary, you spend decades making split second decisions. So what was happening in your life when you started feeling a shift, which brought you to discover the Akashic way books, themes, workshops.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

So I followed Abraham Hicks. I would go to those workshops. The secret had come out. And Oprah Winfrey was doing one of Eckhartoli's books, Every Chapter. So I was I was doing that and still directing, still being in television. And I think what was happening for me in retrospect, we don't always see things as we're going through them. But I was feeling still happy in in television. So I wasn't feeling like, okay, time to go over here. I think my ego, to be honest with you, was like, no, I gotta stay over here. It's money, more awards, it's fun. Who doesn't want to work in television? This was on General Hospital. My boss, the executive producer, so all of a sudden she like calls me up to her office and she's like, I'm not renewing your contract. The floor dropped out from under me. And there wasn't really an explanation. It was very nebulous. So I went to the actors and I remember conversation with Tony Geary, who plays Luke on, who played Luke on um General Hospital. And I asked him, I asked them, is there something I'm missing? And they thought I was joking. And they said, What are you talking about? And I said, I'm leaving. I'm not, I'm not being renewed. They were like, Are you kidding? You're one of the best directors we've worked with. Well, that was all I needed to hear. So I knew something else was going on. In retrospect, I think I was being nudged by creator source, whatever we want to call that, to where I am now, to this other dimension, as you said. And I realized that the dimension that I work in, I knew it from when I was very little. But, you know, we get into go into life and we we do third-dimensional things and we get exciting careers and we want to make money and we have our own apartments and then we buy a house, all those things. And I was at a psychic reading, a woman that I used to go to, and she saw a being over my shoulder, and she said, There's this being here, and he looks like a genie. And I'm like, Well, who is he? And she said, He says he protects your Akashic records. And I said, Well, what are those? And she said, I don't know, but that's what he says he does. So I went home, looked it up, felt a gentle knowing. I kept trying to get back into television, and soap operas were going off the air. So then this the second sign was I was in a metaphysical bookstore in Los Angeles. So I was in a back room by myself, and my attention was drawn to above me, there was a book sticking out off the shelf. And I pulled it down, and the name of the book was How to Read Your Akashic Records. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna listen. I bought the book, read it, and in that book, the author has you opening your records using a sacred prayer, which is what was downloaded for her. And I started, I began to hear blocks of thought that were not mine. They were beautiful, similar to Neil Donald Walsh. So then I started to listen. And so I decided to study the author of that book, Linda Howe, who runs a Center for Akashic Studies outside of Chicago. And so I began working with her. She had online classes, which was great. And that's where I got my accreditations to practice as a practice reading the Akashic Records. And my own records then enlightened me to the fact that I was to be writing. So there was an imprint in my own records that showed me as a writer. And I remember disagreeing with my own records. I would sit at my computer and I'd be like, no, I'm not a writer. I'm a director. And the records were like, well, because they're not going to tell us what to do. But it was like there's an imprint here of you as a writer. And when you begin to write, you will, it will be so easy that you will question it. And that's what happened.

What Akashic Records Really Are

SPEAKER_01 7:07

What an amazing story. And you know what? I totally relate to that because to me, it said, you got to use your voice to heal. And I'm like, what does that mean? I'm like, I'm not an actress, I don't care about acting. So but then I thought I always wanted to be like the white opera for show business. And so I'm like going, maybe this is what I'm gonna lean to, but it's always been a scary journey, which is why I haven't fully let go of everything else. But the people that ask me about it, and I have no idea how to answer it, and maybe you do like people here Akashic Records, and I think it's something that is very mystical and something like out of reach. I feel like a Harry Potter thing, like we're gonna go to like woo-woo. Yeah, like books floating, and then there's gonna be like a wise man who's gonna try like to tell you with a beard. And so what are they in practical terms? Maybe you can enlighten my listeners or well, sure, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Because you know, if you're you can feel me, I'm very grounded, I'm very relatable. Like I'm I don't run around like woo-woo. I'm just not that kind of person. Um, but you know, when you know, you know. Yeah. Because when I first opened my records, I knew it was an affirmation about so much. So what is it? So the Kashik records are a divine quantum field. I equate it to it's similar to, I'll say, Joe, Dr. Joe Dispenses' field of possibilities. Yeah. You know, what is that, right? And I've done those meditations and gone into the field of possibilities. It feels the same. It is this higher dimensional space, higher vibrational space, I should say. And it it's quantum. Now, science is now proving the existence of a quantum space that can hold on to things that can record. So the idea is that the records are a vibrational record or an imprint, vibrational imprint of every soul's journey, lifetime after lifetime, meaning everything we have as a soul reincarnating, have thought, experienced, lived lifetime after lifetime. And it's all imprinted, it's there in the records. So when we, through intention, prayer, raising our vibration, it could be through meditation, it's it's different for different people. But when we raise our vibration to the vibratory state of divine consciousness, that's when we can begin to hear. And it's our intention for clarity or to remember who we are, find out why we're here. It is that intention that ignites the I'll say there are energies that oversee our records in what I've learned, the masters, teachers, and loved ones, and they're light energies. And so they protect the sanctity of our records, so nothing can can harm them, right? So throughout history, this is such so interesting. The more I dug in, I found it so interesting. They've been known as different things. So, in in the Bible, the book of life. The book of life in the Bible talks about a space where everything we've done as souls is get becomes recorded. The Tibetan Book of the Dead of So Hinduism has its version, the Quran's got one. The Veda, the Veda in India, too. Yes, yeah, yes, yeah. So this is not this is not new. That's why I like to say this idea, this existence of this has been around since the beginning of time. And so, you know, Akash, the word Akash means it's a Sanskrit word, and it means that from which all things are formed. So it's as if life on the planet or humanity, let's say, began as this blank slate in this field. And then as you all living things begin to move about and live in lifetimes, their actions become imprinted into this field. So it it's hard to not look at it. It is metaphysical. A lot of people ask me, well, is it a library with books? No, but that's just our need to sort of, like you said, like Harry Potter it out. Like we want to like show me what it is, right? Because we're visual and we've both been in the industry. Tell a storytelling. We want to storytell. What does it look like? So for me, it's a sensation, it's a knowing. And when I'm working in the records, my ego is is not present. I'm there, but my ego is not present. I cannot have an opinion when I'm working with people, I cannot have an opinion. I tried once to have an opinion in my mind when I was working with a client. I could not. I could not. Yeah.

Can You Change What’s Written

SPEAKER_01 11:56

That is so fascinating. You know, I I love what you talked about in terms of clarity. And I still believe clarity in every way is currency, and so many people are bankrupt in it. Yeah. Um, and uh, you know, what I like to think about the Akashic Records, the way that I explain it, and not as well as you do, because clearly you've done the work and I still am discovering it. No, we're all the same. We're all the same, that's true. But I call it a soul agreement. It's like I call it a collection of soul agreements that you've we've made through our, you know, our soul's DNA that kind of show up and we may not be aware of when we come incarnated into this life. And and you know, and the thing that I've always wondered, and and I know the answer, but of course, you know, I need you to tell me because you're my guest, and that's the whole purpose of having you on the show is can we change those records? So if there is something though that we do not like, can you transmode and having the awareness of it? Can we transform them and be more self-determined, shall we say?

SPEAKER_00 13:05

So we have a hundred percent freedom. Divine does not swoop in and tell us to do anything. And there's there's never going to be anything we don't like when we're in our records. When we're in our records, we are being shown the mirror image of each one of us as divine, whole, balanced beings of light and love. That's what we're being shown. And to answer your question about changing things, my understanding is, and I resonate with this, is that as a soul, when we're on the other side before we incarn incarnate, we make a choice. The soul chooses to incarnate into a specific lifetime. And and and the the choice falls, I like to call it like a bigger theme. We don't choose to come into creepy families and suffer and things like that. We choose to incarnate onto a planet, maybe like in who why are we all here right now in this chaotic planet? We obviously made a choice about bringing a bigger idea of things, right? Self-love, um, compassion, love of humanity. I believe those are the kinds of choices that the souls make. Then we incarnate, and then how we carry that out is our choice. We can do whatever we want, really. And so that part of the records are fixed. But I always like to remind everyone we made the choice. So there's nothing in the records we're not going to like, because then that would mean we don't like ourselves. Ah. Make drop moment. Love that part. Yes. Yeah, because it's mirroring the love, beauty, and power that we are. We are such powerful light beings, every one of us, and we're all the same. And then we navigate third density, third dimension, and then and then the whole other conversation is the ego, which Eckhartolle beautifully talks about. The ego, the collect the ego conscious, and the collective ego conscious. And so the ego, what happens is if somebody is not happy about something, two things, several things are happening. Probably, if they're unhappy in their lives, they're probably not listening to something that their soul is reaching out about that it chose, right? That's you know, we can't be linear about it. We have to, this is deep. So we might feel uncomfortable about maybe it's a job we're in. We're hated. And we've learned as a humanity, no pain, no gain. We're supposed to suffer and then go have fun and vacations and retire. And it's like divine says, oh no, that was constructed, that's a perception constructed by by mankind. You we're not supposed to suffer, we're not here to suffer. And and so when we visit our records, we remember on a very deep level, something triggers, and it's this like uh there are a bunch of aha's, right? Like, oh yeah. We start to feel different or good or better. That's where we get affirmations, it could be really shut down or bullied. Then we the subconscious records that and our subconscious runs things from the our life behavior from the so this comes up a lot in records, in record readings. So trauma, right? We do ex we do have it, it does happen, a lot of us. And what that does, that the the the records say, let's look at the what did the energy of that feel like? Well, usually if you were shut down, it's power because somebody's taking your power away. So if you look at it that way and you go, Oh, very powerful energy. Now, what if you could harness that energy, pull it into your life now? It transmutes the trauma, not the events. The trauma, the events are still there, and they always play a role towards our own soul's chosen journey. They always do. There's nothing in our life that is random or a mistake, you know, that those are also older concepts, old paradigm concepts. The old paradigm is just breaking away. And stories, yeah.

Joy Lists And Imagination Practice

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Oh, and you know, I this is so, I mean, there are like literally so many Instagrammable moments to say this on what you just said. And and it's true, you know, like what my my shaman Debbie, you know, who did my my reading, she calls them spears. You know, you could have anger spears, you could have victimhood spears, you could have, you know, guilt, you know, through like lifetimes where you're running guilt, shame, all of that. Um, what I love in your book, people need to come to expert practitioner, it might be worth doing it at least the first time with someone who knows how to do it versus trying it on their own. Because I think what if they start questioning their own sanity? You know what I'm saying? Because I mean, I know you have a certain procedure that you do and you know, on how to get into a meditative state and get the right ask the right questions so that you can drop the ego and and listen, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:12

But um, do you feel uh call on and remember anything that brings you joy, anything, just take time out, just think about what brings you like happiness, joy, what you lose time over, what you're passionate about. Write it down. Just write it down. There's no to-dos here. This is about getting back to the love and light that we are, and amid this, you know, challenge these challenging times, right? I mean, because some people will say, Well, how am I gonna do that? I can't pay my mortgage and my husband just left me and you know, all stuff going on. I'm gonna say you can. Now, it doesn't mean you're taking a sabbatical for a month. It just means take, you could be doing it while you're driving. Just remember things that you're passionate about or things you've always wanted and thought you couldn't have. Like start doing that. Abraham Hicks talks at a rant, uh, this speaks of a rampage of appreciation. But this isn't appreciation. This is just really stuff that feels great to you that you love, you love doing. Doesn't matter. There's no judgment, right? And there there is no judgment judgment with divine, no such thing. So that's that I'm telling you, really, it could be just listening to a piece of music and you go piece put a piece of music on, and all of a sudden it takes you out. Um, or you know, animals, nature, you know, just give yourself one minute a day to do it, and then it'll be five minutes. And I think maybe something, I think this is in the book. I think there's a chapter, if I can remember, there's a chapter about where the records are saying, just take five minutes every day and write down what brings you joy, no matter what. No judgment at all. And if some judger comes in, you just say, go sit over there inside ourselves and and and use our imaginations, because that's another thing. That's the greatest. We have access, we all have, or I should say, yeah, we have access to our imagination, but it's one of our greatest components as human beings that we kind of gloss over and we think imagination is, oh, go and write a screenplay or go and paint a painting. No, imagination is um, and it this is why Harry Potter was it is still popular because imagination is like um a built-in portal that we have. It has no judgment. If you think about it, our imaginations don't have judgment, they just allow stuff in and out, right? And then our minds can watch it. It's cool. So I suggest that people play with that, play with your imaginations, listen to your imaginations. Yeah, this is all about getting back. This is power. We're being asked to get golden swords out. If a path is blocking you because it's negative, negative people, negative situations. We get to walk around it. We can just write around it because we're not made up of that negative stuff. We aren't. It's a trick, it's a trick of the ego.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

People are starting to see the truth, which is why so many people are open now to knowing more. They're revisiting and they're going to the dispensas and they're going to the people going to all that to the Abraham Hicks. I think, you know, um, when there's a lot of darkness, there's definitely light.

Three Words And Final Takeaways

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Here's one thing I'll add Abraham Hicks has a saying when you walk in a room, there's no dark switch because there isn't dark, there's just lack of light. There is no dark, there is no boogeyman hiding behind the corner. And and there are those who are power hungry and egotistical that that don't know their light, then they want us to be scared of a boogeyman behind a corner. And I think that people are coming. I actually have more power than they're telling me I have. Yep. And that's what I do with the record is empower people. I'm not telling people what to do. They're gonna wait a minute, I don't need to take this crappy boss that's treating me like crap.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

So, in closing, Mary, what's coming right right now? Maybe you had the chance to think about it, but we we talked about whether you want to define yourself in three words, if it's even possible, whatever comes, freestyle, or if there is some sort of life lesson, life mantra, sentence, download something that came that is you know, that little voice that switches the flow for you.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

So I am a lover of humanity. That's it. I always was. I'm being reminded by Divine Source Creator on a daily basis that yeah, we are really love we are love, we are that. So I am a lover of humanity, and I'm proud of it.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

You are indeed Mary. So um thank you to everyone. If you like this episode, you please subscribe, share, review. So thank you, Mary, once again for coming on my show.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Yes, this was an honor to be here, seriously.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

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