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Trusting Your Intuition: Signs That Guide Us - Psychic Medium, Isabeau Maxwell
What happens when a skeptical mathematician with a precise, analytical mind encounters her deceased grandmother standing in her living room? For Isabeau Maxwell, this unexpected spiritual encounter transformed her from a self-described "type A Taurus skeptic" into a renowned psychic medium and intuitive teacher.
Isabeau takes us on her remarkable journey that began in 2005 when her grandmother materialised before her just hours after passing away. This pivotal moment cracked open her perception of reality, though it would take nearly two years of gradual development—working extensively with spirit guides and learning the mechanics of intuitive abilities—before she fully embraced her unexpected calling.
With refreshing candour, she shares the challenges of reconciling her new spiritual awareness with her formerly analytical worldview, including the amusing awkwardness of essentially telling strangers "I see dead people." Her story illuminates how our innate intuitive abilities often become buried beneath life's distractions, stress, and societal expectations rather than truly disappearing.
Through The Sage Method, Isabeau now teaches others to reclaim their intuitive gifts, emphasising that each person's intuition manifests uniquely. She offers fascinating real-world examples of intuition in action—from receiving warning moments before her car broke down (conveniently in a mechanic's parking lot) to following specific signs that led her to her perfect home. These practical applications demonstrate how developing intuition can create smoother, more aligned life experiences without promising unrealistic perfection.
As we navigate the transformative energies of the Age of Aquarius, Isabeau suggests that developing intuition is more important than ever. She describes our current period as one of significant shift from being controlled by external forces to creating reality from within—a challenging but ultimately liberating transition toward greater unity, balance, and feminine wisdom. By simply asking ourselves daily, "Does this align with me?" we begin activating the intuitive guidance that's always been available to us.
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Welcome to Life, health and the Universe, bringing you stories that connect us, preventative and holistic health practices to empower us and esoteric wisdom to enlighten us. We invite you to visit our website, where you can access the podcast, watch on YouTube and find all of our guests in the guest directory. Visit lifehealththeuniversepodcastpageio. Now let's get stuck into this week's episode. In 2005, today's guest had a visit from her grandmother that changed her life purpose. You see, her grandmother materialized in her living room just hours after passing away and Isabeau Maxwell discovered that she was a powerful psychic medium. Since her first experience, isabeau has been transformed from a skeptic into a visionary leader, combining spiritual wisdom with practical strategies that help to empower her students worldwide. Welcome. There are a whole bunch of other things that I could say. I mean, you've got a book, you've been on Gaia, like the list goes on. But it can kind of feel a little bit awkward if someone's just like talking about you when you're there.
Speaker 2:Rambling them all. Well, thank you, I'm so happy to be here with you right now.
Speaker 1:I'm really looking forward to our conversation. We were just sort of saying offline that sometimes you just kind of know when someone's got the same vibe and I really appreciate you sharing that and really looking forward to our conversation. So I've kind of done a little bit of a spoiler alert by talking about your story, how it all began, and I'd love if you were able to share a bit more about that, because obviously there was after you had that visit from your grandmother. There must have been some kind of process that you went through before you kind of decided to do what you're doing. What was that?
Speaker 2:Absolutely yeah. So back in 2005,. I'm going to age myself here, but I'm rocking 50 in the best ways anyway. So yeah, I'm loving the fifties. I was 32 when it happened and my grandmother was across the country from me and I wasn't able to be there with her when she passed, but my family made sure I was on the phone with all of them, you know, as she passed. And now, mind you, I have a math degree from university.
Speaker 2:Like I am, like I was a complete skeptic. I wasn't against anything, but I had no time of day for that foolery and that stuff. That's just, you know, woo, woo, whatever. If for through, if it's not, one plus one equals two, then it's not right. So I'm standing in my living room and my husband at the time and my two kids went to the grocery store to get me wine and chocolate, because I had just lost the most important woman in my life and I was alone.
Speaker 2:It was the middle of the day, it was like two in the afternoon and I was trying to figure out if I fall apart or if I book a flight right, and she showed up in front of me and I think this was the thing that was so frightening for me and, to be honest, it was frightening. She was about 70% solid. Now, mind you, when I do mediumship, they're not solid. They're not like a solid formation that shows up in the room. I've only seen a spirit in solid form maybe four or five times in the last 20 years, so this one was really impactful.
Speaker 2:So mostly solid. I could just barely see through her. She turned. She was standing sideways, which was odd turned and looked at meed, smiled and then disappeared, and I was shook Because the only thing that ran through my mind was all the horror movies that I grew up watching right and so like I was instantly in this like terrifying thing and my brain went there instead of the joyous wonderfulness that she was with me and I went to bed that night didn't say a word to anything.
Speaker 2:The next morning I woke up and my husband, again at the time, said I had a very realistic dream about your grandmother last night and this is exactly what she was wearing. And it was what she was wearing when she showed up in the living room the night before. And now I'm spooked. Now I'm like I'm like creeped out. I'm like, okay, hold on. And to be very, very open about it, with all these years and being able to reflect back on that moment, it was my grief, I wanted her back. I wanted her back so bad that that was the thing that allowed me to open that door of it maybe being real. It was the only thing that was going to do it and it ended up being real. She ended up finally giving me proof. It took months, right. So immediately after that there was nothing.
Speaker 2:I found a local Tai Chi instructor that I had a business interaction with earlier and such a kind man, because back then I was a little bit more rough around the edges and I remember walking up to him and saying you're the weirdest guy I know, can you help me? He was like he just loved me unconditionally, even though that was very rude. And I've gained a lot more compassion, which you which is impossible not to when you're in the spiritual realm and you start to understand love at its purest form. But with that said, back then I was very corporate, I was very boxed in, and he helped me with yes and no pendulum work, with asking yes and no questions, and that's how I was able to establish a communication with her again. Now I know there's stories out there where people say, oh, it just turned on, and then it was on. And that wasn't the case for me. It took me a good year to be able to, on demand, reach out to her or reach out to someone else, and then it took another year for me to fully develop my intuition.
Speaker 2:And then this was done because after her came my first what we would say spirit guide, and he was somebody I was just fascinated. I could see him, and so I was just excited because I could see him and he worked with me for almost two years, giving me instructions on how everything works, how past lives work, how intuition comes through, how it goes through your five senses. And I was devouring all this information because at this point I was on board. My grandmother had given me enough proof that I was like all right, this is real, let's see what happens. But he was also giving me instruction on boundary setting.
Speaker 2:On boundary setting, emptying my mind, balancing, not overwhelming, and I was a very unbalanced human being. I was a type A Taurus, stressed out, fight or flight human being and he helped me get out of that and that was a huge part of opening up my intuition. So here we are, two or three years into it, and now I'm working as a professional intuitive because a friend of a friend found out, and then I read for a friend of a friend and next thing, you know, I'm just doing readings and this is when my guide said it's time for you to take everything I taught you and put that together and bring it out into the world. And that's what I did and that was the beginning of the Sage Method course and I've been teaching people to hone their intuition ever since. Wow.
Speaker 1:I have to say that just you mentioning that you're a Taurus, like I just think it's so funny when Taurus because Taurus, I feel, are the biggest skeptics yeah, and it's just like, well, yeah, that's typical Taurus, like when they don't believe in astrology, and it's like, yeah, yeah, you're basically just proving that you're a Taurus. Nadine.
Speaker 2:I swear, now that I've been into this for 20 years, I swear they picked me to do this because I am the poster child of if I can do this, you can do it. So literally like let's take a tourist type, a stressed out fight or flight, corporate, non-believer skeptic. And here I am.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool that you had like a friend of a friend who you know people are interested. It's kind of. It's almost like do you feel like it's like a secret society at first, because there's some people that you talk to or I talked to about this woo, woo stuff and they're just like like because I'm like, oh yeah, you know, I've been to astrology and a couple of other, you know esoteric things and and they're like you just sort of see them go. How are you talking about?
Speaker 2:For me it was really. It was really fun, because back then pop culture wasn't really caught up yet with mediumship, right, we didn't have all the all the medium shows and everything were out yet. So people would ask me what I do and I was also raised very strictly to be very concerned about what other people thought of me. Appearance was super important, all of that achievement, achievement, achievement, right. So now here I am, right In my circles, having to tell people I see dead people. This was like a huge.
Speaker 2:I had a therapist for the first two years just because I had to figure out how to get over that. And so I would tell somebody I'm a medium, I would start to get the courage to say that a stranger, like if somebody I ran into and they'd say what is that? And I would explain it to them, because a lot of times they didn't know and their response would be I don't believe in that at all. And then they would always follow it up with but there was this one time. And then they would always tell you a story and you're like I feel like everybody's had one time where something happened, but then we just don't believe.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so your, do you still see your grandmother, do you still call on her from time to time?
Speaker 2:Or do you? Do you still call on her from time to time or do you? I do? I do? There was a period of time where I didn't right, so I was with her. Um, it was a very tumultuous, kind of flipping me inside out kind of time, because it was a pretty big transition from where I went to where I, where I am now. But she was with me for the first couple of years and then I worked with that guide, kind of overlapping, for a couple of years.
Speaker 2:I remember the day that I took my first speaking gig and it was a library which was wonderful, but I was very much you wouldn't know it today but I was really behind the scenes. I'm not a front of the stage person and I'm an introvert and I hide my cave. I'm very Taurus. I am snuggled up on the couch snacking on something, so. But I finally did it and I spoke and there was only like 20 people there, but it was really.
Speaker 2:It was a huge obstacle for me to overcome. I went back and I sat down with my grandma and with my guide and I said to my grandma I said I'm so excited I did it, I did it, I actually did, I got the courage and she's like that is wonderful. And she says I'm going to go for a while now and I'll be seeing you in the future, and I'm like wait a minute, where are you going? No, no, no, that's not how this works. I should for a while, and I soon figured out that she was my comfort blanket, she was my security and she needed to kind of break away from me for me to get that courage on my own and not kind of be coddled through it. So I didn't see her for a number of years after that five or six years I think and then I started to see her again and she pops in and out all the time now.
Speaker 1:And so, okay, that's cool. I dream about my grandparents. I feel like they visit me in my dreams Not very often and, yeah, sometimes less regularly than others, but it's always very feels, very meaningful when they're there. I feel like that it's not just I'm dreaming about them, but it feels like they're visiting. So, yeah, are you getting that interaction? And it's not just I'm dreaming about them, but they're, it feels like they're visiting.
Speaker 2:So yeah, are you getting that interaction? And yeah, and it just feels really real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's just like, oh, they've been, you know they've been, they're still, they're kind of still with you in some way. Yeah, what about your guide? The first one? Did you like this? This is quite a massive thing to do, right To have a guide for first up. So, like you're, you're tapping into something, a different realm that you haven't done before, but that then is kind of leading you into this whole other journey. Um, like that's hectic.
Speaker 2:Did you did, you feel like yes, this is it.
Speaker 1:This is like you did. You feel like that was your purpose or is that kind of evolved and you've like sat into it over a period of time.
Speaker 2:Um, I didn't feel it's so fun to look back at these things because I've changed so much. And it's comical because, if you went back to that time with me, to be very honest, I was really self-absorbed and I didn't see it as, oh, I wonder how I'm going to be able to use this to help people. And I'm being just very honest about it, right, I was raised to be that way and I am that person that I want to understand everything. So I now look back and I can see how that guide taught me so much, because it fed my desire for knowledge and information and it was kind of like candy. It was like, wow, he would teach me something and then within the week, I would see it unfold somewhere out in my day to day and be like and I was fascinated, I was absolutely fascinated to go from being a skeptic to what do you mean? All of our lives are happening at the same time. Like my brain was just so happy and little did I know that, in conjunction with the kind of healing work he was having me doing, he was getting me ready for it.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't until like at least two years in that he said you need to go out there and do the work. And when he said that I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no, that's not, that's not what this is about. And he's like what do you think this is about? And I was like, well then, people are going to have to know when I'm able to tell people. So I was doing some of the readings, but it was a friend of a friend and then a friend of a friend, and so it was pretty safe. Took me a long time to start talking to strangers about it, but there was nothing in me that said, oh, I wonder what this is going to do. Today I just live, eat and breathe the joy of being able to cheerlead people and help them and lift them up, and I just think this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. But I was really naive.
Speaker 1:I was really, really naive in the beginning. Don't they, whoever they are, say it like when it, when we do sort of start tapping into?
Speaker 2:our spirituality. It can be quite sort self-absorbed. That's all part of that process. Yes, yeah, so it's kind of part of the cycle so, because we're so used to looking outside and taking care of everybody else and making sure that everything is all right. How do we, how are we perceived in the world, right and how is all this? And so, when we open up to spirituality, it is a very much a deep dive within. It's very much a deep dive within yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you've got, uh, the, you've got your program, the sage method, which we're going to talk about, and and like some of the things that you do in there. But before that, when you did start out, I'm just really nosy and like do you sort of, let's say, practice mediumship now, or is your main focus the SAGE method, like working in that space?
Speaker 2:I still practice mediumship, now in a very unique form. I do sessions with students in the sense of helping them learn about how their intuition is wired, because everyone's wired very differently. So I will do one-on-one sessions with students and I will use my intuition, talk to their guides and to their loved ones to help them increase their intuition. So I'm not doing so much like the crossover readings as I used to do. I'm doing much more intuitive development readings that I do tap in for um and I also uh tap in within I. I have a online spiritual community and I'll do card readings in there and mediumship readings in the sense of trying to um, do teaching examples and help other people improve their skills in those areas. So I still use it all the time, just in different ways now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and when you, when you talk about your guides, do you see them or feel them, or hear them, or what's?
Speaker 2:I mostly see them and hear them. Okay, so I don't feel very much. It's very rare that I'll get a feeling. I do, you know, but it's more often that I will either see or hear, and at this point that's a 50-50, 50% of the time I'm seeing and 50% of the time I'm hearing. When I first started, I only saw, so I would see little images or little blips or things like that. So it felt a little bit like charades, like I was trying to figure out what they're showing me, kind of thing. And over time my hearing started to develop and so I tell people all the time all five of your senses are kicking pretty strong, intuitively, so don't kind of pigeonhole into one. Let the other ones come in whenever they want to come in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so when you see things, you don't see it, but, like you mentioned before, I see dead people.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I've had a handful of situations.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Where, where they were either mostly solid. I've had two situations that were completely solid.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I wouldn't have known that it was. And even then, nadine, let me tell you one of them I'm still not sure Because there was like no way of proving it right, but the one that I was sure of was actually a man in a small store and he was being creepy. There's no way around it. He was solid, he looked like he was a living person and he was, you know, just. You know that uncomfortable creepiness that a man can do toward a woman, right? And so I was kind of trying to avoid him. I went to the cashier, which was almost blocking the exit and an entrance. So I'm checking out to get out of there soon, because he had a really creepy vibe and nobody left there, the store, while I was checking out. So in my mind, he's still in the store and I'm going to be able to check out, go right out this door. That's right in front of me, it's the only door and I'm going to be able to get to my car and go, and I'll come back another day to finish my shopping. And nobody left. So I check out.
Speaker 2:I walked out the front door. Off to the side is a park bench sitting on the front sidewalk and he's sitting there And'm like there's no way this was a very long strip mall, there's no way. He went out a back door, came around the side and I looked at him and I went you are, aren't you? And he disappeared, oh right in front of me and I'm like jumped at because it was. I know I'm a medium, but that's still still scary when, because you know, yeah, something is there and then it's gone. So that was, that was the one that was really solid. But most of them, most all of the time, the first sensation is that you know someone's in the room. That's the first sensation. That's the first sensation. From there, for me it looks like a heat wave. So you know, when you see a wave of like transparent energy, it's not transparent energy, but you know, over a hot road or something.
Speaker 2:It looks like that. So it's transparent. But it's in sort of a human form. Yeah, when I'm interacting with them, when I turn my attention to them to say okay, I can see that you're here and you're trying to get my attention. When they show me things, it's almost like they kind of come slightly into form and then pull back again. So if they want to show me that they're five foot two, they'll come in just long enough to show me that they're a woman who's five foot two. So it's not necessarily like in the movies, where I'm sitting there chatting with somebody and it's a full-on, like hey, what's going on? You see this word name, you know it's that. So it's more like they will push forward what they want to say or show me, um, and it's a little bit more of a dance, like that do you ever have um moments where you where, uh, someone comes in that's less favorable.
Speaker 1:Let's say, like that guy that you saw in the shop, like how do you deal with that energetically if like someone with bad juju?
Speaker 2:comes in. He was creepy, yeah, and I just didn't. I didn't realize I didn't deal with anything. When it comes to working one on one with, like a client or a student, I set up boundaries in my room so strongly at, and the work I've been doing for probably like 17 years now is doing clearing work which is helping spirits that are lingering, messing around, stuck, that type of a thing.
Speaker 2:And that work I will do until the day I cross over myself, I'm sure. So if I'm running an errand and I run into a spirit that is struggling a little bit, I'll be present with them and I will let them know that I see them and I'm here and they're not alone with this process and what can we do? And I'll do crossing over work with that. I've done crossing over work with buildings that had a hundred in there, you know like. And then I've done crossing over work where there's a house with just one person and it turned out to be their aunt, march, you know, who just was struggling crossing over. So crossing over work is something that is really meaningful to me and that's stuff that I do all the time. Today, if I saw that guy, I would have been like oh no, you're not going anywhere, get back here. We need to cross you over.
Speaker 2:You got to stop doing that Right, but I was really new when that one happened.
Speaker 2:I was just trying to kind of find my way. But I had a funny one a couple of years back where, for the most part, I communicated my mind with them instead of out loud. If I'm in public and I went to a federal building, I needed to get some tax forms, and when you go to a federal building you have to go through security. I get on the elevator, I go upstairs, I get tax forms, I get back on the elevator to exit the building and there's a man in spirit form in there and he said I knew he was stuck because he said I'm looking for my wife. She told me to meet her here and I was like okay, okay, I gotcha, you know, we're just going to be present right now. What I want you to think about her hair color? I want you to think about something that you two have you did together, you know. So you try to get them to think about something bigger than their fear. And he's like I see her.
Speaker 2:And so I'm standing there in this elevator by myself saying okay, good, can you feel it? Good, good, good, this is wonderful. And then I look up and I realize that the elevator has come all the way down to the ground. The doors have completely opened, two police officers have watched me having this full-on conversation with myself and the doors are now closing again and I'm standing in the elevator going, oh, this is going to be good, this is going to be good. So he crosses over and I open the doors again with the button and I just walked out and I said have a good day. And they were like yeah, so that one was funny because I, yeah, but crossing over work is something that's very close to my heart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. It made me recall ages and ages ago my husband and I had a gym and it was in kind of an old building, but there was this one corner where you would kind of walk in and you'd be like something's in there kind of thing, and I never wanted to be in that building on my own at night locking up, like I just didn't. So I talked to someone about it, someone who was used to clearing, and she came in and she was like, yeah, there's three of them in there, and she kind of did what you're talking about and and she sort of I think she said that sometimes we carry those energies and then they kind of just hop off. Would that be right? And I've just signed up for your five-day freebie and you talk about the aura and cleansing your aura. And is that kind of what's happening when, like, do we carry that energy with us through spirits, kind of trying to get in? What's going on? Sorry, I've just went all over the place there?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I love this question. These all kind of wrap in together. We have three bodies. So traditions all over the world talk about the three bodies, right. The way that I talk about it, you know, I like the directness about the three bodies. We have the physical body. We know what that is right. We've got the spiritual body, which is our spirit, it's our soul, and then we have something called the programming body, which is our mind on linear time. So it's kind of like body, mind and soul, right. And then we have something called the programming body, which is our mind on linear time. So it's kind of like body, mind and soul, right. So the spiritual body actually is within the physical body but it extends outside of the physical body.
Speaker 2:So when we're walking through this world, when somebody interacts with us, we will energetically pick that up before we ever see it or hear it. It's why when you walk into a room, you kind of know something went on in here, right Before somebody comes up and says something went on in here. So we feel stuff energetically and we pick it up before we actually physically experience it. So that first practice in the in the free course that you're taking is called GCP. It's ground you clear and then you protect, right? What this is is just a practice of you recognizing that your energetic body is walking through the world first, and when we recognize that we don't pick up as many unwanted energies as we normally do. Now, when I say unwanted energies, people go that's spooky. No, what it is is when you're standing next to a crabby person at the grocery store and the next thing you know you're crabby. That's what I mean is that we share space, we share energetic space. So when you have somebody who's deceased, who hasn't crossed over to the other side yet, they have still two bodies, they still have their spirit, but they have that programming body, the mind. So if somebody hasn't crossed over yet, they're the exact same person they were in life. They just don't have a physical body. So now when that stuck spirit who's still named Earl is standing next to you, you're going to have the same reaction as that example in the grocery store. You're going to feel Earl's vibe because you're sharing space. He's next to you, right? What this looks like is this looks like you will start to have, you will start to react to things or make choices in ways that you normally don't, so you might cry more easily about something that you would never cry about before, or you might get mad, right.
Speaker 2:An example of this would be a wonderful mom. She was a young mom. She had like three young kids. She was living.
Speaker 2:She called me to clear her house and there was a female spirit in the house that had I mean, this house was 200 years old, right, and there was a female spirit in the house who was the head of the household when she was alive and she was older and she was mean, there's really no other way around it. She was not a good mom. She was from like years ago, and when I went to go, clear that the woman said children should always be put in a closet if they're bad. And I was like, wow, okay, so you've got some pretty strict beliefs on how to raise children and they're not very nice, right?
Speaker 2:Then I turned to the living mother who was really struggling, just struggling, and I said have you had feelings recently of punishing your kids in ways that you would have never, ever, would do?
Speaker 2:And she looked at me horrified. She goes, yes, and I feel so bad about that. And I'm like don't feel bad about that that's not you. You're sharing space with this woman and that's her, not you, that's not you. And so once we cleared it, the living mom was like, oh, thank you, I'm not angry at my kids for no reason anymore. And so it can really affect people. So crossing over work is really important to do, and years and years and years ago we cleared houses when people moved into them. We cleared land when we moved into it. We energetically checked in on each other land when we moved into it. We energetically checked in on each other. Um, if a spirit was struggling with crossing over, people would know it and they would sit with that spirit's energy to help them cross over. So in today's world, we've lost a lot of that tradition which affects the living yeah, wow, we will get on to your actual.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, like I've got more questions it's bringing up all those things like where you, you know you were saying people always go, oh, there's that one time, and I yeah, and so I have, I have and this is really relevant with the course that I've just followed your, your five-day course, because, um, you talk about, like, when you see things, out of the corner of your eye, yeah, out of your corner of your eye.
Speaker 1:I've been getting that quite regularly recently, but I've it made me remember some times in the past when I have where I had um. I was sitting on the phone. I was in the house on my own, I was sitting on the phone, um, and my boyfriend the house on my own, I was sitting on the phone and my boyfriend at the time came in, walked in, shut the door, went into the kitchen and then I was still on the phone and I got off the phone and I went to the kitchen and he wasn't home yet.
Speaker 2:That's, that's, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there was a couple of things and you of things and seeing someone walk past. When there was a mirror in the same house, a mirror in the hallway, and you'd get someone walking behind you, you'd just see their reflection, kind of thing, and I never felt bad. I never felt and I always use that as a bit of a gauge. But would you say that that is kind of possibly a guide rather than just any old spirit or like depends?
Speaker 2:It could be either. It could be either. Chances are very good. It's going to be your guide. What I love when people have those experiences is that you can use that experience to tap in more effectively on demand for yourself, because when we see something out of the corner of our eye, we will turn to look for it and it's gone right. That's because when we turn to look for it, our physical eyes are looking at physical things in the room, the wall, the chair, like where are you? And so when we're searching through the physical world, we don't see what we're looking for. And this is, with some small exceptions, like creepy guys at stores, right, but those are flukes. Those are very strong, kind of more of a haunting situation.
Speaker 2:When it comes to picking up things intuitively, seeing spirits, seeing our guides, seeing our loved ones, it's really important to know that it's in that defocused state that you see them. Your peripheral is defocused. It's why you saw so clearly. And people say I'm looking ahead and I'm looking and I'm looking. I don't see anything. It's because you're searching in the material world. So when we let go of that, we relax our sight. This is why, um, historically, we have people that do scrying. We have, you know, the crystal ball. Yeah, just gazing into the crystal ball, that's what they're doing. They're letting go of the world around them and they're um relaxing into it. So that's a practice that I tell people to do all the time, if you felt really good and you didn't feel like creeped out, chances are really good.
Speaker 1:That's one of your guides, and they're with you all the time. Well, that's good to know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, as I said, I do go by feel Like, um, I do go by, feel like if something like in the gym situation it was like, oh, there's something in there, I don't want to be in here with that thing, like, whatever it is, it feels bad, I want to get out of here. Um, but with the yeah, the other experience it was like, well, I feel all right, like I wasn't frightened or anything. It was just like, oh, that was weird. Um thing. It was just like oh, that was weird.
Speaker 1:Um, my, my daughter, she's um, nine. I'm kind of want to sort of lead this into why it's important to have intuition and how we lose it. Um, but my daughter, she's nine, and she doesn't like the dark, and I know that just sounds so like, well, most kids don't like the dark and it's like, well, yeah, that's because they actually do feel all of the things and there's things in there and they don't know what they are. So I kind of really just respect that for her and just say, yeah, you probably are experiencing those things, because I don't want her to tap out of that capability. And I think that's what happens for most of us, right, we get told to you know, there's no such thing, and so we lose the power of, or the power, the skill of relating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the ability of being able to relax into what's around you. That's really what intuition is. Is relaxing into what's around you or, in the gym case, not relaxing, yes, into what's around you, because it's not a relaxing feeling. But, um, I've worked with many, many, many, many kids over the years and they come in hot, they come in completely, completely open, and it takes time for it to start to shut down and it's rare that you have somebody in the teen years having experiences, even if they're fully supported by their parents. Because when it comes to intuition, think of it as like, like a scale. On one side of the scale is is your intuitive abilities and on the other side of the scale is your human life. When your human life gets heavy or overloaded and all of our attention is going toward it, we lose. We don't lose the ability, but we distance ourself from our intuitive abilities.
Speaker 2:So teenagers who I don't know if you remember when you were one, but we went through some stuff right and we were constantly on heightened alert who's saying what to who and what am I doing with this right? And there's so much developmental change for them in their human lives that it's harder for them to be balanced into that and access their intuition. So I tell people, it's not that they necessarily lose it, especially when a parent is so supportive of it. They're still going to have moments of it, just not as many. It's going to come back. It's going to come back when they settle into who they are and it's not so much heightened human effort on just existing. Then they'll be able to access more of it and then, even as an adult, if you're going to, if you're putting out a party for 300 people, your intuition isn't really going to be kicking because your brain is. You know what I mean, yeah, so you got to balance that out, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I guess when you're a teenager as well, there's that whole, the whole kind of like being judged by your peers for being a weirdo right, if you?
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:If you're doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:And I've even seen kids lose their way a little bit. They can find their way back, but I've seen them lose their way when they take on intuition as the thing that makes them special. And the losing of the way with that is that they're missing the other things that make them special and valuable just the fact that they're here and that they're incredible human beings, right. So they lose track of some of that and sometimes and this is true for some adults as well too we call it the special factor when that becomes what makes them special and they lose track of the fact that they're special just because of who they are, that they just are an amazing person. People can get lost in that, and I think it's easier for teenagers to get lost in that, because they're trying to figure out who they are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and have you got? You've got two kids. You said how old are they?
Speaker 2:They are adults now, so we're like 26, 28. Yeah, they're, they're independent, they're amazing, both amazing young men, do they um?
Speaker 1:what do they think about your uh job?
Speaker 2:Let's call it a job. Your ability, it's my job, right, am I calling? Neither of them have any doubts, because they were like, well, let's see if it was 2005, right? So they were around seven and nine. Yeah, okay, and I opened and I think I was just, I just talked about it openly as if it was normal. Yeah, um, and one of them is very psychic, um, and one of them is very much a medium. Neither of them are interested in utilizing it or bringing it into their life, which is totally fine, um. But yeah, we had the teen years where you know it was like whatever mom, and then if they lost something, they'd go hey, mom, can you tap in and find my fill in the blank? So it was very, it's just very, very normal for them to know what mom does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:When you live with a medium or a psychic that is really active and that's their world, there ends up being enough experiences firsthand that you know the family members that you're with at some point. Just can't deny it. Yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, the sage method. Okay, the Sage Method. Your work in the world, your main work in the world right now and has been for some time, right, you've written a book. You've got some other accolades. Your book hit number one on Amazon in its category. You've been on Gaia, so your work with the SAGE method is teaching other people how to tap into their intuitive intuition and intuitive ability. Before we get into that, just dragging it out, no, it's okay. Why is it important? Why is it important for people to be able to do it?
Speaker 2:Most of the people that I teach a good 95% of them are taking the course for personal reasons, to open up their own personal intuition. Taking the course for personal reasons, to open up their own personal intuition. I think that, in a nutshell, life either happens to you or you navigate life, and intuition is going to be a big factor in that. I find that and I work with students all over the globe at this point, which is absolutely fascinating to me because I get to meet all these really cool cultures, and I want to move to Australia or New Zealand but that's another story, joe because I really love the people there, but I get to meet all these different cultures. But one thing I see in the similarities is people who are drawn to the SAGE method and to opening up their intuition. They've had something kind of taken from them, they've had something that has sort of displaced their self-esteem or their courage or their own self-empowerment, and they're looking for answers. So, with that said, I am that sneaky teacher who and I can admit this now who, by offering this course, I'm offering you to be able to see how you can tap in, how you can connect with your guides, how you can ask questions about your life path and get guidance, absolutely. That part of it is so fun. It's ridiculous. The signs that come in are just you can't make it up.
Speaker 2:The information you end up getting is just it can be magical at times, right, but the Sage Method course is going to kind of demand of you to balance certain aspects of your life, because it's the mental clutter, the emotional clutter and those blockages that are actually blocking your intuition.
Speaker 2:Your intuition is already 100% strong. It's just been blocked, and so the Sage method approaches it differently than many other courses, in that it approaches it by removing those blocks. Well, what happens when you do that inner work and you remove those blocks, right? All of a sudden you look around and you're like I need to make some life changes, I want to do this and I don't want to do this anymore, and you start standing up for yourself and you start setting boundaries and you start bringing more love and light into your life with the things that make you joy, bring you joy.
Speaker 2:So I'm that sneaky teacher that's like, yeah, come on, open up your intuition. And then, when someone's done with the course, they're like wow, my life is better and it's like it's because you did the work to open your intuition and the work you did to do it is hugely. It just, it just changes people's lives and so I get I'm, I get to be that, I get to watch that, I get to be around it all the time and it's really inspiring, it's really uplifting well, it's a pretty good gig.
Speaker 1:So you've kind of talked. You've talked um, about um intuition in terms of like, uh, your mediumship right, so like, um. But when we hear the phrase use your intuition or I follow my intuition, how does that differ, or doesn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, me, my hunger for understanding how everything works is also, you know, like attracts, like. So if somebody is attracted and interested and feels pulled to do the sage method, I can tell you a few things about that person right out of the gate. First off, they like a very direct teaching style. They like they don't need it flowery or anything, they just want to learn right and they want to understand how it works, because that's also how I teach. So for me, some of the components that I teach is intuition is always happening and once we uncover it right, which is the first couple of weeks of the course, is the uncovering. Then we learn how it works. In the middle of the course and at the end of the course there's experiments that you get to try and walk through to see if you're more of a psychic or more of a medium and how that works. So you learn all of that about yourself.
Speaker 2:But intuition in itself is always working and the most popular thing that happens that comes across my table is people say I don't know how I know, I just know.
Speaker 2:And the course invites you to allow your sixth sense to utilize the other five senses, to start coming into awareness. So we train the five senses in the course in a way to kind of open up that pathway for the knowing to not only be a knowing but also be a visual of something, also be a sound that you hear or something you smell or something you feel. So what we do is we take that normal knowing of intuition and we expand it so that it comes into this you know three-dimensional world so we can experience it with all of our senses and by the end of it, the other big thing I want to say is that I love the course because it instantly dispels this idea that this is how intuition works for everyone. And then one of the first things said in the course is every single person reads differently. Every, every person reads differently. Your intuition is absolutely different than the person standing right next to you. So if you try to read the same way as that other person, it's not going to work. It's not going to work.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there would be what different tools and skills that you can use? You mentioned cards and the pendulum earlier. Is that the sort of examples, those sorts of things where someone can sort of bring in messages, or yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's symbols and scrying work and pendulum work, um, and it doesn't land in any one um type of practice. So the sage method itself is like a giant toolbox of tools that I kind of make you try all of them and then you you go, oh well, this one works for me and then this one doesn't work for me so well. So, like, pendulum works great for me, scrying not so much, um, what's scrying like runes? Or scrying is um, when, when people stare into like a reflective surface, like a mirror or like a black reflective surface, and then things show up on that mirror.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, every time I've tried it, I always end up having my guide next to me, tap me on the shoulder and be like I'm over here and it's like okay, so it's in the course because it works for many people but it doesn't work for everybody. So the course is going to have you sample things and try things, and then there are core techniques in there of like yes and no intuition. And even in that tool it'll have you try it in 18 different ways, which will help you understand. Do you pick up things quickly or do you have to sit with them for a while? Do you see things outside of yourself or do you see things inside morning, night, full stomach, empty stomach, all that kind of stuff. So really it's a giant course of holding yourself in different ways.
Speaker 1:Self-awareness, how yours works, yeah, yeah and real, real listening as well, I guess. Yeah, I've got some notes here. Let me have a look, okay. So, real world applications of using your intuition let's get into that because, like we kind of um, it does sound pretty woo-woo, um, and you know, people might say, well, I don't know if I want to be a medium, or you know why do I need this um, and we, there is that there's also.
Speaker 1:There's there's kind of like that inner knowing isn't there and I don't know like what you're. Like, the people that you work with are mostly women or a mixture of women and men, but, um, like I think women definitely know, have a knowing of it. Yeah, um, we're, we're cyclical beings, you know we're, and more fluid, I guess, than the linear man Like, um, where am I going with this? Yeah, so, but we want to know how can we use it in our real life. How is it going to work for me? I love it, just because it's like what the hell's going on? I want to know what's going on and it's just fascinating that there is so much else going on. But what are those real life applications that we can use our intuition for?
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, the couple of the big ones that I love is, uh, asking for signs to help guide your way right. I'll give you an example of that. That just happened to me. Um, I felt pulled to move to a different location. Um, I went there. I was going to be looking for different rentals, just until I got to know the area, and then then you move forward with hopefully buying a property, but anyway. So I was looking for a rental in a new area that I wasn't familiar with and before I went, my guide said look for this. And showed a statue that was about a foot and a half tall, and next to the statue is this giant bush and he says it's going to be right in front of the house. And I said got it.
Speaker 2:So I set up with the, with the realtor, and we went to go look at four different houses, and then the next day there was going to be three more and the second house we looked at on the very first day. Instantly and I already forgot, nadine, that my guy had said this, like two days earlier right, and instantly we fell in love with the house. It was like this is perfect, it's everything that we wanted. This is great, this is the one that we want. And the realtor was like, well, that's awesome, that's great. And we wrapped up the day and then she went to go drive by it again and she goes do you just want to see if there's a statue about this tall in the front? And there was, there was a statue of a dog, it was this tall and it was right next to the bush and I was like, hmm, and it was like middle front of the property and I was like, oh, there you go, so you can ask for signs, for guidance. Now I tell people that when you open up your intuition and you start to get signs and you start to inquire about things, number one, you're not going to know everything. You're not going to get every single answer, because if you would, you probably screw things up. They know that, I know that, you know that right, but they're going to give you the guidance that will help you stay on the path of least resistance and on the path of the most forward momentum. Now, this doesn't mean that bad things aren't going to happen. It just means that the lows will be a little less low and the highs will be a whole lot higher.
Speaker 2:And let me give you a second example in like real time, using your intuition, in real time. I had a car that was just super old it was a Saab and I had this just strong belief that this car was a tank and that it would never die and it would never break down and I would brag about that as a joke to people, right. So this was my solid belief and for a long time I drove it. Nothing wrong with it. That thing should have broke down all the time, but it didn't.
Speaker 2:And I'm driving along, I'm going to an appointment about 15 minutes out and I get to a stoplight and I stop and my intuition says very loudly to me the car is going to break down. And it was so contradictory to what I always joked about that I was like I should listen to this and I look off to my right, and off to my right is a mechanic. And I was like, okay, that's odd. So instead of going straight and continuing on, I took a right and I pulled into the mechanic shop. I pulled into the parking spot, I was stunned, I put it in park and it died and it broke down in the parking lot of the mechanic and I was like you can't make this stuff up, man, this is just weird, right. And I went in and the mechanic was like, yeah, we just had somebody cancel, we can totally get you in right now. It was this plastic piece. We replaced it. It was like 10 bucks or something like that and I was back on the road in 15 minutes.
Speaker 2:I was late to my meeting. My car broke down. It did cost me money, but can you imagine, if I wasn't listening to my intuition, I would have had to get a tow truck, I would have had to spend money on that, I would have never made it to my appointment. So I tell people, intuition just makes things a little smoother, right, and it gets you to those opportunities that you want with more confidence and with more ease. And you have a team. You have a team. So it doesn't make any sense not to utilize that team. Who's watching out for you to make sure you get from A to B? Cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I reckon that there'd be a few people right now listening who might go with. It's all very well for Bo to say you know, these things have happened to her. She's a psychic medium. Um, what are some? Do you have any like standout stories from people that you've worked with that have followed the, the program, the sage method? Um, that popped mind like there's probably hundreds, but there is.
Speaker 2:So my brain just started going through the whole cycle of all of them. Um, yes, I have one woman that took. I have a um create your destiny course that I do at the beginning of every year and what we do is we project out into the year what we want to bring into our lives, Right, Um, and she owned a house and she needed her roof replaced. She sent me an email after doing that meditation and her sitting down and asking her guides where should she go? Who should she contact? Because she couldn't afford the price of a roof. But the guides guided her and I got an email later and she said I did it. I manifested a roof and it was practically free and they're going to install it, like next week or something. And it was just. Those are the things I hear all the time of people saying you can't make this up, but this just happened to me and it's beautiful and it's stunning and people are able to ask questions and have more confidence.
Speaker 2:Setting boundaries. Another one would be well, this, I mean this happened to me, so it's just another example. But you know, somebody said you have to set this boundary with someone and I was nervous to set the boundary. I got in my car and I said to my guides if the person that I was just talking to is telling me the truth, that I have to do this, please give me a sign. And I pulled out on the road and the license plate in front of me said truth. And it was like, okay, I got it. I'm listening. So, and we don't always get signed. So so many times when we talk about this it does sound like it's this just magical floating world, but there are many times that you will ask and you'll get nothing because you're not supposed to get anything. You know what I mean? Um, but asking, at least you do sometimes get the guidance that you need. Really, yeah, and there's so many, there's just so many examples that's hard for me to kind of come up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, sorry, I've entirely put you on the spot.
Speaker 2:No, no, no it's, um, I'm trying to think of, uh, like really impactful ones, people who have met like the love of their life, because they left a job, because their intuition told them, told them to leave a job. That happens quite frequently. People meet the people that they're supposed to finally meet when they actually listen to their gut and their intuition that one's very common. Listen to their gut and their intuition that one's very common. People who meet people from other towns and then they end up, you know, connecting and working together that one's very common as well. I've had people who have woken up in the morning and got a message to go drive 30 minutes and just go to some sort of a park or something, and then somebody walks up to them and says it's nice to meet you. Do you happen to know anything about? Blah, blah, blah. And the next thing, you know that they've got a new client and they've got a new door that's opened. Wow.
Speaker 2:One of my favorites is there was a woman who worked at a post office and she was really, really. She opened up her intuition and she had guides that told her there are locations around the globe that need energy, work done, and this sounds really woo, woo right, but there are locations around the world that we need you to physically go to and put energy into the earth. And I was talking. So this is a client and I'm talking to the best friend of this client and the best friend is telling me this story. The guide said to this postal worker the next place you need to go to is Italy. Now, postal workers in America don't make a lot of money, and I mean they make a decent amount of money, but not like jump on a plane to Italy money. And she said okay, and she trusted that the signs would come through.
Speaker 2:Shortly after that, an elderly married couple came in that were regulars at the post office and said we have a fully paid trip to Italy that we can't go to. Would you like to go? And gave this postal worker, this client right, the tickets and the hotel. And the client brought the best friend Then, still following her guides, listening to what they're telling her. They go to Italy. The guides say go to this train station.
Speaker 2:Her and her best friend went to the train station and stood there for two hours right, you gotta be patient, didn't happen instantly. And all of a sudden a woman walked up to her and said I see the necklace you're wearing, I'm glad you came. I'm supposed to bring you to a certain place to do this work. Oh my God, yeah, so these things happen and I'm getting this second hand from the best friend right. Both of them you know well.
Speaker 2:The woman that did the work went through the process and opened up her intuition, but the best friend was the one telling me this story and she's like I felt like I was watching a movie unfold. It was unreal how it was happening, and that's what it means to open up your intuition. It might not be a journey to Italy, but it might be that your car doesn't break down right, or if your car breaks down, it's like the least bad situation, or where are you supposed to go right? Those are the things that make life a little bit more interesting and remind us that we're so connected yeah, yeah, wow, amazing, okay, we're pretty well, we've we're close to the hour.
Speaker 1:Um, that flew by, I know, and I feel like I've just been going. So what about this? What about that? How does that work? Without really talking about your sage mesh, the sage method, but I feel like, um, you know, that whole conversation has really sort of brought to light what it is you do and you know why it's important to use our intuition. Your book, I think I haven't read it yet, but it sounds like a great opener to like really that, that kind of like going from the skeptic to the, to the person who wants to use their intuition, or, yeah, it would be a really great first step for someone. Um, when it comes. And obviously, the sage method, and we're going to put all of this sorry, I'm um, don't know where I'm going um, when we're going to put all of this into the. We've got a guest directory, so we'll put all of your information, with links and everything, into the guest directory so people can find you easily. But I wonder if you could briefly talk to? You've been doing this for a long time, right?
Speaker 2:but.
Speaker 1:I feel, but a lot of the conversations that I have at the moment are about the times that are changing. Yes, and I wonder if you could talk briefly about how important it is right now to be able to tap into this work and the benefits that it can have like for us collectively, in our communities, environments, relationships Like how might that all be panning out?
Speaker 2:It's pretty big right now. Now, I don't know if anybody you know if that's a surprise to anyone. There's a lot of big stuff happening right now, um, and it's it's happening on purpose, really, and for and for a good reason, right, um? And it's happening, like you said, on all levels, right. Right Within ourselves, in our immediate relationships, within our families, within our towns, within our countries, within the world. So it's all going through the same cycle.
Speaker 2:As you know, we step into this age of Aquarius, right, we're coming into this period of time. Now, if you're like me, go ahead and do a deep dive online about the timelines of the age of Aquarius and line those up with what happened in the world each time the age of Aquarius came around. It will blow your mind. It's wonderful, it's so cool. I geek out on that kind of stuff. But when the age of Aquarius comes in, there is going to be an upheaval in your life, right, and then a reset, and then there's going to be just a time of bliss, a time of like this is I wish my life would have been like this the whole time right, and you're going to kind of level up, I guess, when it comes to intuition and when it comes to what's happening right now, if I could get everybody to just take that, even just taking the free course and just trying the things in the free course, right, that's going to get you started a lot, because it's a pretty big course, yes and no, you know, defocusing talking to guides, things like this what they will be doing is they will be starting to center themselves and go from the inside out instead of the outside dictating their life within. And that's 2025 in a nutshell. This entire year is us stepping into functioning from creating our reality, becoming a conscious creator, deciding I want this and then going for it right, overcoming the things that block us. And that comes from within first. That's where your intuition is, and for many of us, we spent much of our life with the outside world dictating what happens within us. This is where our anxiety has come from, this PTSD, like all that stuff. This is the shift. Now we're literally flipping the entire script, and when we stop giving our attention to those things, big things are going to happen in positive ways for ourselves. So this is going to be a year. It's going to be a year. We just saw an energetic change happen around March 11th, which was just what a week and a half ago, and change in that sense is not an instant flip of a switch. It's a gradual change, but we started to see things turn directions, meaning if you were struggling with your job on March 11th, you started to see things change just enough that it started to get a little bit easier. Right and same with relationships, same with you. Know your life path.
Speaker 2:My big piece of advice to people is proactively, almost force yourself to go within a couple times a day. What do I want? Right? There's no way that anybody, especially anyone listening to your podcast, is ever going to just throw everyone else away and not pay attention to their responsibilities. That's not going to happen. But more often, looking inward and going, does this align with me? Is this what I want? Is this bringing me joy? Just doing that a couple times a day is going to light that up and the intuition is going to start to flow and you're going to be able to get guided toward what you want and away from what no longer serves you. That's this year. That's this year, and I don't know if there's any specifics I can put in there around it, but that's the general feel of what's happening to all of us right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's yeah, that's great. I love that. It's a positive shift right. There may be some disruption, yeah, so to throw out the disruption.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so to throw out the disruption. Let's put that in there because and I'll say it this way the things that are outside of us, whether it's on a small scale or a large scale, that are throwing I don't know energetic tantrums or not getting the attention it needs, or trying to make our lives difficult, or screaming louder, those things which are very much around right now is because it's an extinction burst. They're reacting that way because they're losing their grip on controlling people from the outside in. People are naturally going why would I keep doing that for the first time in their lives? And when you do that, the thing or the person or the system that was asking you to keep doing that is going to get angry and frustrated that you're not continuing to follow their plan.
Speaker 2:So this is not bucking the system. This is just disconnecting from a system that doesn't work for you anymore and that system's going to not be happy about it. Right, so we got to just keep sticking through that, because the end result is is unity. There is just as much as there's disruption happening. There's so much, much unity. There's so many people coming together as a result of the disruptions. So it's a beautiful time and a hard time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, amazing and um, it's just going to keep getting better, though, because the end result is, um, more feminine, more feminine yeah, yeah, the best way to say it. Then result is more feminine yeah, yeah, the best way to say it. That result is more feminine. I was, I was, yeah, I was saying to somebody um, I, I'm looking forward to the, to the day that, um, we witness the creators of life to be exactly what they are, which is the creators of life, and that's coming back, and I'm I'm excited for that love it.
Speaker 1:It Beautiful. What an amazing note to end on. Yeah, thank you so much for joining me. It's been great conversation, loved it, I knew it.
Speaker 2:Time flew by. I absolutely deeply enjoyed myself. Thank you so much.
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