A Contagious Smile Podcast
Stop surviving and start thriving. A Contagious Smile is a globally ranked podcast providing a safe haven for abuse survivors and special needs families navigating the journey of trauma recovery. Whether you are healing from domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, or the daily challenges of disability advocacy, our mission is to turn your pain into power.
Each episode features raw, authentic conversations with survivors, mental health experts, and advocates who share actionable resources for PTSD healing, resilience building, and emotional wellness. We go beyond the struggle to highlight the triumphs of the special needs community, offering support for caregivers and individuals with disabilities who are rewriting their own narratives.
Hosted by Victoria Cuore, an award-winning trauma advocate and survivor, this podcast delivers the "blueprints" for recovery—not just Band-Aids. Join our community to find hope, humor, and the unstoppable spirit needed to rekindle your inner light.
A Contagious Smile Podcast
When A Medium Nails The Details with special guests Danniel Worthen Cullumber and Gvnage Mishipeshu
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A stranger says one word that stops us cold: “hands.” Danielle Worthen Columber has never met us, never heard our backstory, and we give her nothing to work with. Then she describes what she’s sensing and I lift my arm and she realises I’m an amputee. That moment sets the tone for a conversation that’s equal parts psychic medium reading, trauma-informed care, and the kind of grief honesty most people avoid.
Danielle brings her lens as a licensed clinical social worker and trauma therapist who also practices mediumship, and her husband Ganonge Mishapeshu adds his perspective as an intuitive medium grounded in practicality, culture, and lived experience. We talk about how intuitive messages arrive as fragments, why trusting them is hard, and why the delivery matters when someone has a history of abuse, hypervigilance, or deep loss. We also share the story behind my amputation and what it means to mourn a body part that held my daughter through surgeries and held my grandparents’ hands at the end of life.
You’ll also hear about raising a child with complex medical needs, the resilience it takes to survive repeated ICU crises, and the surprising joy that shows up through pranks, dark humour, and family rituals. We touch on creativity and purpose, what “age 22” might signal for building a bigger future, and why accessibility matters if you want your books, messages, or healing work to reach more people.
If you’ve ever wondered whether psychic readings can be real, or you’re simply looking for a grounded conversation about grief, trauma recovery, and spiritual healing, press play and stay curious. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave us a review, then tell us: what would it take for you to believe?
Welcome And Why This Matters
SPEAKER_00Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of A Contagious Smile Unstoppable. I don't even know where to begin. If you listen to the last episode that we just released, I told you with, you know, my husband that I had a amazing opportunity to sit down with this beautiful woman, Danielle, who did something for me that I can never repay her for. And that was to give me an opportunity to speak. And I am not choking up already. God bless America. To already speak with my grandparents. And everybody knows that they were the light and love of my life and my guardian angels. And she said things that she could not have known. Even my husband did not know some of the things that she stated to me. And I've known my husband 25 years. So I talked about you, Danielle, and I it was like everybody, if you even are skeptical, questionable, wondering, whatever, tune into this episode, listen to it for yourself. I will be the guinea pig again. I I've got to beg you, plead. I would put my hands in a praying motion. By the way, everybody, she didn't know I was an amputee. I'm going to ask her to tell that little part again when she she had, I can't even do it. So I'm going to ask her to come back on multiple times. Her husband, this other beautiful golden ticket, just joined in at the last minute of my request. And we're going to just have an amazing experience today. I'm still trying to learn how to pronounce his name, and I don't want to insult him. So I have to have him identify himself. And for that, I am sorry. Welcome both of you guys. Give us your name. I'm going to get it, I promise.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm Danielle, Worthen Columber. I'm a LCS Dumbo. I'm a trauma therapist and owner and founder of Willow Medello Wellness. And not just a trauma therapist here in Utah. I am also a psychic medium. And I will this my lovely husband and I will let him introduce himself.
SPEAKER_03So I'm Ganonge Mishapeshu, and how it's spelled is G-V N-A-G-E. Ganange. It's actually Cherokee for black or void. I know I'm a I'm a person who just doesn't want to be around. So I'm Ganonge Mishapeshu, which is both tribes of Cherokee and Chippewa. It comes from my father's side. My mother is actually Irish or Italian, so that's why I'm a little white-skinned a little bit, but my skin's actually more olive than anything else. But anyhow, I am also a medium and psychic and intuitive and a menace man and Disney and very practical with with how the earth works. And I'm very familiar with Wicca and different religions like Judaism and Christianity. I grew up in the church.
SPEAKER_01Much church.
SPEAKER_03Much church. Very much church. And so I've learned to kind of adapt my culture, my my my ancestral culture into what I have learned growing up, going through like Boy Scouts and different trainings like that. I've I've gone to college. I didn't really go to college. Like Danny here. I went to a public school and end up going to over to a technological school where I got a few degrees, not really degrees, more like certificates and stuff. Just like in Ray K, I've I've learned how to learn how to use the energies around me and use the animals as different forces because everything has a spirit.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yes. I love that. And one of the things is, and my husband will tell you, I do not have the ability to lie. When I try to lie, I smile, my face shows it. It is not a I even in school growing up, I couldn't. And it was really not fair because, you know, I couldn't be like, yeah, I did my homework. I didn't. You know, I could never get away with it. So the reason I'm saying that is because I'm gonna just put myself out there. We're doing this on video. I'm gonna put myself out there, and I want everybody to see the amazing, heartwarming things that I saw when I had Danielle for just a minute earlier on. And because there are a lot of skeptics out there. There are people out there that think this is hogwash and it's not real. And at one point in my life, I believed it too. And I shared with Danielle about an incident when I was 19 when I had gone with a coworker out of state and I had an interaction with my grandfather. And that was my first interaction of this nature. And I was like, but then I was like, oh wow. And over the years, I've had you know mediums come on and I've talked to them, and I was like, oh, that's great. This is what you do. But inside I'm like, no, I'm I don't, I'm still not there. She blew me away, like she blew me out the water. I think the best way to start is you gotta like kind of summarize the whole thing that you and I shared and about the hand and all, and then we can we can just start from there.
The Cold Read And The Hand
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, Victoria was so welcoming, and I I ended up connecting with her grandparents and had things messaged to her that she'd been so needing and wanting to hear. Now, I don't know anything about her, I really don't. So this was a complete cold read. And for those of you who don't know what cold reads, basically blank slate, blank slate, blank slate. And at one point I asked her, I go, I I don't know what this is, but it's something I I put my hands on top of that, something about the hands. I was like, I like somebody was like trying to hold hands. I didn't know, it was kind of confusing because everything's cryptic and I have to kind of put puzzle pieces together. And then Victoria hold out held up her arm and I go, shut the front door. I did not know about her hand. And even for me, as that's gifted, I'm still uh flabbergasted with some of the information that comes through, and and it's kind of like uh you got the trick, but then they give you the real information that validates it, so it validates the the information I'm getting is not just made up out of my head, right? So that's I think that's the biggest thing when developing my gifts was trusting the information that was coming in and not questioning it and just kind of gone with the flow. And even that was like, okay, I I told my I told them I got going.
SPEAKER_03A lot of us struggle with that one once we get into a type of mediumship or even just meditating. Because a lot of people they when they sit down and meditate, they they think, oh I gotta think about this one particular thing when I meditate. No, you don't have to think about anything when you meditate or doing yoga or just stretching, or it's it's an exercise that we constantly do on a regular basis to help strengthen our hearing, help strengthen our sight, help strengthen our our our vocals, help them strengthen our thoughts. It's an exercise that we do on a regular basis that sometimes we don't even think that we're doing, and suddenly we get in tune with someone, and then they're like, wait, I'm actually being triggered now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And then they start looking at you and like, wait, do you see me? Like, I see you. Do you see me? I see you.
SPEAKER_00It's so amazing, is you know, and and this is not something I've shared with anyone outside of my husband and my daughter, is that when I went in, like I have a daughter who has special needs, and she's had 54 surgeries. And I I swear on my life that my guardian angels, my grandparents have gotten her through this. And when I got out of the ICU and I finally got to her, she was lifelighted to children's hospital. I had a picture of my grandparents in the incubator
Losing A Hand And Finding Meaning
SPEAKER_00with her, and they've always had a I've always had pictures in every room. But when I had to go in for my amputation, I don't take versette before I go back to the OR. I do not, and I have never taken a single pain medication after any surgery ever. Amputation, I have 26 pieces of metal in my face. I have like all my Frankenstein scars and on both sides. And I'm I'm being wheeled in to the OR and I see all the saws and the devices and the drills. And they even have that device that the men have to hold the tools, you know, that clamp. They put your shoulder in so that it doesn't fall off while they're removing your arm. And I'm in there and I'm no medication, right? And I have the same team. Now I'm one of these people. This doctor, this surgeon has done at this point like 18 surgeries on me. And I go in there and I always bring cookies before I go in, you know, in for an OR because I have the same team and I'm always like, Thank you for what you've done. Thank you for taking care of me. Make sure I get back to my family. And I always keep my composure because, like, especially my daughter, she feeds off of me. And before we went back, my daughter asked the surgeon.
SPEAKER_03And at that time, she daughter's in her teens, right?
SPEAKER_00She is, but mentally, she's like 10, 11. That's what I'm gonna ask.
SPEAKER_03That's what I was gonna ask. Like, she's she seems like she's like 14, but she acts like she's like nine or 10.
SPEAKER_00Yes. She asked the surgeon, she asked the surgeon if he would take her arm and transplant it onto mine. And right before I go back. And I'm like, oh my god, no. And she's like, no, because mom, you've always held me and you've always carried me, and I want you to have my hand, and like everybody is in waterworks. And I said, Absolutely not. So I I'm trying to hold together and I get back into the OR room, and all of the nurses are there, and the team is there, and I lost it. Like I had a moment of like release right before. And I was like, How do I say goodbye to my hand? And they said, You have to grieve it like it's a loss, like it's a death. And I was like, This is the hand that held my daughter's hand when she was in the incubator. This is the hand that held my daughter's hand through all of these surgeries and codes and and seizures and you know, all these operations. This is the hand that held my grandparents' hand when my grandmother died. And how do I say goodbye to that? My surgeon comes in and he is an Asian man, he's bawling. The whole team is bawling. And I am like, and you know, she's gonna say, she said to me when we spoke early last week, she said, Stop saying I'm sorry, Victoria. Stop it. Like she said, I'm saying it too much. And after we spoke, I thought the grandmother, not me. I didn't know what again.
SPEAKER_03After we talked, sorry a lot, and so she had to learn not to do it. I'm like, stop saying you're sorry.
SPEAKER_00But but yeah, so your doctor came in. He comes in crying, and after you and I spoke, I thought about it. I went, Oh my god, because I'm laying there, and here comes my surgeon, and he's all scrubbed up, and and all I see are his eyes, and he's crying. And he's like, I have children, and neither one of my children would ever offer me, you know, anything, yet alone their hand and arm. And I was like, I just need a minute. I'm so sorry. I know y'all have other patients waiting. And they were like, No, you are all we have today, and we are here to take care of you. And I had one lady, one nurse who was wiping my eyes, and she was crying, and she goes, I'm so sorry, I'm washing your face. Like she's over me, wiping my face, and she's crying down on my face. And the other nurses are crying. And I cried, I don't even know how to explain the heaviness of my crying. Like, I couldn't catch my breath. They had to give me oxygen, and I was like, I'm losing my hand that held my grandparents, I'm losing the hand that held my daughter. And I was so taken, and I was like, I'm so sorry, I'm holding y'all up. And I kept saying, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm letting everybody down. I'm so sorry. And they were like, You didn't do anything wrong, you didn't do anything wrong. And they were like, You've got to catch your breath before we can start. And and I just kept thinking, I'm losing this hand that meant so much to me. And when she came on and she was talking about hands, and then she was talking about stop saying you're sorry so much. It was so like, I was just dumbfounded by her gift. And so I, you know, this is amazing. There are so many people out there who say they can do it. You know, it's like making a cake. Okay, I learned how to make a cake. There's 15 ingredients and I did it, and now I'm like, you know, I am the the million-dollar baker now, right? But they're not, they just did it for the first time. You are like the real thing, you are the real, real, real thing. And I am just so in awe. And so I'm gonna just totally open myself up to the both of you, as scary as it is. I want all of the listeners to know this was not suggested or talked about beforehand. This is just spur of the moment. I'm putting myself out there. I have no idea what they're gonna say. I want them to be authentic. I know that they will be. I want to show you how amazing these people are. I'm gonna make sure that you guys can reach out to them. And I think it is so important that they're available to everybody. And I want you to see for yourself just how gifted and amazing these two human beings are. So no matter what comes out, I'm I am putting myself out there and I'm ready for it.
SPEAKER_01Well, first of all, Victoria, the vulnerability is your vulnerability, but in vulnerability in general, is underappreciated. And we want to be respectful to uh any trauma responses that may come in. And that's another thing is we want to be trauma-informed as we're even though we're telling you the truth, right?
SPEAKER_03Absolutely present it in a way that but you also gotta take in consideration that this is also gonna be a type of of a medicine of healing, also.
SPEAKER_00That's why I want to showcase y'all's talents because I'm very open about the drama and trauma I went through in my abuse. I I am very open about that. I am not, I'm very private when it comes to my grandparents and things of that nature. So when whatever y'all find, I'm I'm prepared for it because I'll do whatever I can to help other people. I went through all this alone, and I don't want anybody else to ever have to go through it yet alone go through it alone. So I I have I'm a very ugly crier. I'll tell you all that ahead of time, and I'm so sorry, but I'm doing this on video, so I might get the ugly crier of the Millennium Award,
Parenting Through Medical Crisis
SPEAKER_00but let's just Well, let's start with something I think a little more fun.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna I'm gonna start with something with a little light that came in. And I was like picking up something about your husband about something either I can't decide. It's like you both do something that annoys each other, but it's almost like they do it on per you do it on purpose just to get the laugh because you know it gets your your guts going laughing because it kind of aligns the mood of the seriousness. So it's as like I almost said like this interplaying, but I can't hear what it is. It might be something he's doing, like in actual mirroring off you. I could be. We might be mirroring uh off me, yeah. That's probably true. So he's calling me and he's calling me out too.
SPEAKER_03Keep going.
SPEAKER_01I love it.
SPEAKER_03Keep going.
SPEAKER_01This is up. So but okay, so I'm seeing your husband like playing with the dogs, but like you're trying to like get him to stop playing with the dogs because you need like quiet or something. And he's like, he's like, I'm not listening, I'm playing with the dogs, and and it's like annoying you.
SPEAKER_00We've never had an argument in 25 years. Uh, we're best friends, and he does. He he we always like my daughter and him prank each other every single day, every day. And it is hysterical from the outside, like the movie Grumpy Old Men. That's the two. I mean, like she'll walk by him and be like, Reformed whore, reform select tramp, you know, and and he'll be like virgin, and she's like, you know, and and she's mentally like right on, like even in middle school, she was reading on a college level, but cognitively she's you know delayed. But she is hysterical, she's written books and she does all these things, but we'll be out somewhere. And like we went to the drugstore the other day, and she's like, Dad, dad, they don't have any suppositories for constipation. Do you also need any depends while we're here? And then she'll be like, Is your STD beds ready? I have to go. Like, you know, these are things that we do. Like the best one was they went to and Eric Winter from the rookie and her are friends, and they talk about all the time how to prank my husband. So she was like, Uh-oh, I got a gift card and I want to give it to my dad because he's the best dad ever. So he FaceTimes her and he was like, Oh, sweetheart, this is so sweet. I'm going through Dunkin' Donuts. I'm gonna get a coffee. And I don't know about it. She won't tell me because she's like, You'll your face will tell that it's a prank. So she's FaceTiming and she has the straightest face. And she was like, Dad, I really want you to enjoy your coffee and your donut, have a good breakfast, whatever. And then he was like, My baby girl, give me this. And he hands the the card over, and they're like, Sir, this isn't even activated. There's nothing on the card. And he and she's cracking up now. And he goes, What? And she's like, Yeah, there's nothing on the card. This isn't active. And he's like, Peanut. And then she raises up and goes, I bet you want your wallet. This is stuff that she does all the time. They do this to each other all the time. And so, yeah, when I can, I try to get in there and do it. You know, my husband went right after my amputation. I I didn't want to go anywhere. I was embarrassed and ashamed. And my husband's like, Come on, let's just go for a walk. So we went into a store and he was like, Where are you going? And I pointed like this, I'm like, I'm going over there. And he goes, Oh, is that all half off? Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_00And I was like, I can tell you there's no more handouts. Oh, you guys are sassy like us. Oh my gosh. We are, and that's what makes it fun.
SPEAKER_03You know, what year is uh your daughter born?
SPEAKER_002006.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. I was like, so she's she's gotta at least be like close to 20, 21.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yes. She's born my youngest son's a 2006. So yeah.
SPEAKER_03What month?
SPEAKER_01August.
SPEAKER_03August.
SPEAKER_018th.
SPEAKER_03She's a Leo.
SPEAKER_01He's biased, he's a Leo.
SPEAKER_03I'm a bias, I'm a Leo.
SPEAKER_01When your birthday.
SPEAKER_03But she she's gonna be a little bit. I'm July 20th. I'm I'm I'm the superstar.
SPEAKER_01I love it. I love it.
SPEAKER_03But no, with your daughter, she she's uh very I don't want to say autistic, but she's very in the in in that in that frame of she she she has emotions and feelings that she can express, but she doesn't know how to express it unless she actually writes it down.
SPEAKER_01Did your face at a lot right there?
SPEAKER_03Unless she writes it down, she doesn't know how to express her feelings. And that is normal for Leos in the beginning of of like because there's there's three different Leos, there's three different Aquariuses, there's three different Cancers. These are emotions and feelings that people go through. Like for me, I as I said, this superstar, the guy who goes out and like huzzah. Well, she's like, I want a huzzah, but I'm gonna do it like Freddy Cougar, huzzah. Like, like it it's almost like where in the world did that come from? It's like it's it's out of the blue, like bulb, I just hold it. Ha ha! Got your nose! Ha ha! Because that's how she is, and that's and that's why what what what what month is your husband born? May so that is a Taurus.
SPEAKER_02No, he's a Gemini.
SPEAKER_03Oh, even May.
SPEAKER_02He's about to have his birthday, okay.
SPEAKER_03So he knows how to flip the switch with her.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Oh my god, he always says that phrase. I'm flipping the switch.
SPEAKER_03Six seven. He knows how to flip the switch. He he knows how to he knows how to play the game. He he's the guy who because Gem Knights know how to do that. They they're one motion one minute, then they're another motion another minute. They look like they're they're um on some type of spectrum. But in reality, they're not. They that that's how they are. They they know how to play the part in one in one area, and when they go to another area, they know how to play that part. They know how to adapt very, very easily.
SPEAKER_00He has never met, I've never met this man before today. I he's never met my husband, he's never met my daughter, and he is so spot on that I am like And you were like dumbfounded by me, and now you're like there's two of us. I want y'all on retainer. Like, I mean, seriously, because he wow, oh my god. Like, yes, because my daughter is a such a strong advocate. She won an Emmy for her story. She doesn't like to be in the limelight, but like she has all of these celebrities that come out and say, Would you interview me? She has her own show. And you know, we were in the ICU and she had the cast of Blue Bloods on. And she told the doctor, do not come in while I'm on my interview. And, you know, she's talking to them, and but it's like, and when we're there at the hospital, she'll see somebody and she'll be like, Oh, when you get your trach taken out, it'll look like this because she had a trach. But she's so shy. And she said, like every single day I tell her how beautiful she is and how she'll they told her she'd never talk, she never walked, she wouldn't survive, she wouldn't live. Two years ago, we almost lost her again. Like, I take her into the emergency room and they told me we're gonna keep her comfortable and let her go peacefully. And I was like, Listen, I'm gonna ship you. To the hospital across the street because she's going nowhere. And she ended up being so sick that she had to have over 24 surgeries in the ICU at bedside. They couldn't even take her down. They left her open. They left her stomach open. They took 70% of her intestines. She has a scar from her breastbone to her pelvic bone, and it's this wide all the way around. Like she doesn't even have a belly button anymore. And I'm like, I'm so jealous. That is such a badass scar. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_03Because I have two belly buttons.
SPEAKER_00See, you're gonna have to meet her. So like I'm like, you are so amazing. They put her into medically induced coma. She went into full organ failure, complete organ failure. I'm already in the process of doing my kidney donation. I'm going through the whole thing. I'm going through the whole thing. And all I did was pray and pray and pray. I was talking to my grandparents like nonstop. Like, I'm praying I have a direct line. I'm like, I'm so sorry. I know you're so busy, but I am like, I can't. I, you know, and that and we had the chaplain coming in going, she might not be able to let go until you tell her. And I'm like, Well, I'm not letting go. I can't let go. I cannot.
SPEAKER_01I started to interrupt, but I was like, I literally heard we had it in the bag. It's almost like they're like, we had it's almost like because the ancestors do, they have it in the bag, they have it in the back, and they're like going, it's also we had to make the bells and whistles go off to get the attention of what is about to come.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So we fought and fought. And when she came through, I had a board for her so she could write. And the first thing she wrote is I miss my mom hugs. And I have a picture of it. And so they were like, You cannot get in the bed with her. And I'm like, What's it gonna, what's gonna happen if I get in the bed with her? You know, I'm not gonna stimulate her, but she can feel me. That's what kangaroo care is, and it's so critically important. And I'm getting in that bed. And if you don't like it, you can round over and kiss my bedonka dog because I'm getting in the bed. So I got in the bed with her when they came, when she came out of the coma, like she told me, Mom, I remember you singing over me. And she told me what I sang. She said, I remember your tears on my face, you know, and then she wrote a book for other kids who have been through something like this, and it became a bestseller. And it was like, and it's written at that level for them to understand too. And like it just would you sit there and I'm like, I can't imagine life without her. Like, I tell her, my greatest honor in life is being her mom. There's not a doubt in my mind. Like, she is the most amazing. Like, she came home one day, she had gone out with my husband, and she came home. She goes, Mom, I did something for you. And I was like, Okay. And I'm like looking around, and she got this most beautiful tattoo on her arm, and it is a heart, and the heart has scars on it, and it has wings around it, and it says, She calls me her Karamiya, and she goes, My Karamia, and it says, My idol, my hero, my warrior. And it's on her arm, and she got it tattooed for me. And I had no idea. So we went to her gastroenterologist two weeks ago, and she had a feeding tube for 16 years of her life. They told her she'd never eat by mouth. She has a non-functional, basically non-existing tongue. So people couldn't understand her. Her tongue's about two millimeters. The anatomy is completely different in her mouth, way in the back. She's eating, she's drinking. We got rid of the feeding tube after having it for 16 years. They gave it back to her when we almost lost her, and they told her that's it. She's gonna have to keep it. It's gone. So we went to the gastroenterologist not even two weeks ago, and we walk in and she hates him. She calls him Dr. Diarrhea. And we go in there, and he's like, You don't need me anymore. Like, we told you you were gonna be followed by this for the rest of your life, and and we're we're discharging you. You don't need us anymore. And he's like, the only thing she has kidney disease now because of kidney failure, but we were at a stage four kidney disease, and then when we left, we were at a stage one, and nobody can understand. Like we were in we were on dialysis 24 hours a day in the hospital. We were trying to figure out how we were gonna do dialysis four days a week. We were getting me ready to do a transplant. We come home and she's at a stage one, no transplant, no dialysis, no broccoli, no swan, no nothing. She's eating like you and I, like, can't even begin to
Humor And Pranks As Survival
SPEAKER_00understand.
SPEAKER_01So I did get something. I don't this would this is gonna be a weighted delay, so you might have to put this in your bank, memory bank. I heard something about 22. I don't know if it's something's gonna happen when she's 22 or something happened when you were 22, but I heard age 22.
SPEAKER_00Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. It's kind of like the hand thing, it's kind of like this mystery feeling that I have, and it's like something huge. But I feel it's more her.
SPEAKER_03Not really huge, huge, but it it does it it is gonna have some small impact.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. We don't know if it's her health or or there might be a no, it has nothing to do with her health. See, this is why we work together.
SPEAKER_03So has nothing to do with her health. Her health will actually pass at 22. Than normal when she's 22. When she does turn 22, there is gonna be a lot of things that she's gonna start building.
SPEAKER_01She's not gonna pass, right? This is a no no no that's what that's what I was trying to tell you. Something is gonna shift, like it was it's kind of like not a word.
SPEAKER_03For example, she writes a new book, the book explodes more than what's more than what she was writing before. Or maybe she starts a podcast, the podcast explodes. Something around when you turn 22, you learn to build, you learn to be the master builder of your own reality of what you actually want. Like for me, when I was 22, I moved out, I was in my parents' basement, and I moved out to Salt Lake and I met my my ex-wife, and I learned about crystals, I learned about Wicca, I learned about all these spiritual things. Even though I was in Dignas and I went to powwows and rendezvous and stuff like that, and I've learned so much when I was 22, where I was like, oh my gosh, this is actually my company. Like, no, this is actually what I'm supposed to be doing, even though I've worked in kitchens, I've worked in factories, I've worked in different restaurants just to pay bills just to get by. But I've slowly learned over time of okay, this is how this works, this is how that works. Start connecting the dots, and suddenly you're like, oh. Once you start manifesting this, you start manifesting this, and huzzah you get this. For example, I was camping up near uh South Willow Lake.
SPEAKER_01It's it's down by Great Salt Lake, it's down by Great Sall Lake.
SPEAKER_03It's it's almost like 15 minutes out of well out of Wendover. It's a little small town called Grantsville, and they have this big, huge mountain, and it has a canyon and everything. So I decided to go. She freaked out. She's like, you don't go this last weekend.
SPEAKER_02I've heard about this.
SPEAKER_03Don't do it. You're gonna die. And all the kids are like, You're gonna die, Dad. Like, thanks. So I went up there.
SPEAKER_01I'm still human, I'm gonna have my own. Of course.
SPEAKER_03Human too. I'm gonna have my own thoughts and feelings about this too. And I went up there, I'm like, okay, ancestors, I'm here. What do you want to say me? What do you want to tell me? I had one Navajo guy come up and just welcomed me. He's like, Welcome. Spirit wise, spirit wise. Okay. He told me welcome in in Navajo. I was like, okay, because I had I heard the word in my head, and I was like, okay, I have to look this up, and I had to look it up. And it's like, it's greetings. You're here. I'm like, okay, I'm here. What do I suppose to be doing, ancestors, of this land or this land, or that land?
SPEAKER_01Utah's as is a lot of Navajo, so that makes sense.
SPEAKER_03Utah has a lot of Navajos and Utes and the Shoshone Oprah and Idaho and northern Utah. But going back to my story, so I'm traveling through the woods, pretty much getting lost. I'm lost in the wilderness for two days. Literally lost. Literally lost. I'm trying to figure out what my purpose is. And I already have a purpose, but my next goal, my next achievement. I'm 33 years old. What do I supposed to be building? What do I suppose to be doing here? Because we have these big and big um events that happen through our lives on certain periods of our life, 22, 33, 11. We have these special moments or special birthdays, some people call them gold birthdays or something, silver birthdays. We can get that later. But when I was up there, I was like, okay, ancestors, what am I supposed to be doing? Like, how do I supposed to help the world? What do I supposed to understand? And the understanding when I was up there is being not so much true to yourself, but being true for the people around you. Because in in Ashanabe or Ojibwe or Chipua, my tribe, we believe in the seven grandfather teachings of love, honesty, truth, bravery. And we we label and it's not labels, they're they're lessons. And when we when we once we get into these lessons of how can we be truthful to ourselves? How can we be more loving to ourselves? How can we show bravery to other people of, hey, this is what I do, and this is how I can help you. Instead of, yeah, I do this and this and this, and you get those people like they kind of nitpick at everything, but they don't really stay on that one task, like they have ADHD or something. And when I was up there, I was like, okay, I don't want to be that type of person that had ADHD and go dot dot dot dot dot and just throw my hands up and just like whatever. No, I wanted to go up there and learn and absorb the earth and what it needs to teach me, and it taught me a lot. How to be brave, how to be strong, how to be up there by myself, spooked out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Because I'm there by myself. It's starting to snow. I'm like, okay, ancestors, show me the way. And they did. It's like, follow the ridge, and once you get down to the ridge, you're gonna get down to this dry bed, you're gonna climb down it, and that'll leave that'll lead your way home. I'm like, man, I'm like almost out of water, I'm thirsty, I'm dehydrated, I'm like almost dying from hypothermia while I was up there. It's so cold. It was so cold. Even my kids told me, he's like, you shouldn't have done that. I'm like, it's a lesson I needed to learn. And these are the things that we personally go through of losing an arm or losing a hand or losing your mind over the small things, just so we can learn the lessons of, oh, what did that really teach me? Of I don't, I'm not weak. Right. I'm strong either way. It doesn't matter if if I have one foot, two foot, three foot, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. It doesn't matter of where I'm at with my life, I can absorb the energy. And every time you hold up your arm, I think of uh of uh Doctor Strange when he was like, Well, I can't do it because my hands are broken. And he pulls out this other guy who has no hands, and he does the magic just perfectly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I tie my own shoes, which blows people's mind. Like I tie my shoes, I open a bottle, like I open a you know, a bottle of jelly or jam or whatever. But I have to tell you, I have to validate something that you said. When you were talking about my daughter, like she writes, she writes poetry, she writes her feelings through poetry, and it's all based in horror. Like, and she loves Freddie Krueger. I'm not kidding. She loves horror. Every Saturday night is father-daughter movie night, and they watch horror movies. So, like, one night they're like, Oh, you gotta come watch it. And I'm like, No, no, thank you. I'm I am not a horror movie fan. So like, no, and they pranked me, little turds, and they're like, Oh, you gotta come down here. So I'm like, no, but I'll come get some more on sweet tea. So I go downstairs and they had stopped the movie waiting on me to come down, and it was so. And when I came down, they had it paused where the man got amputated arm. I'm like, that's very great.
SPEAKER_03Mom, you gotta watch this. This guy's getting his arm taken off.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, that's not okay. That's not okay. So this is great because the 22 thing was great because you get to see her progress to this, and you don't have to say a word. You get to be the mom to see this unfolding and go, I'm so glad I got to uh for shadowing, so you can actually sit back and go, That's my baby, that's my baby.
SPEAKER_02Do you think she'll ever find like she's so she's gonna have a boyfriend, but he's gonna be awkward like her. She's beautiful, she's so physically beautiful.
SPEAKER_00And I've told her every single day, you're beautiful, you're you you are such a great person. And then she's like, Who's ever gonna want me? Because you know, I have this small tongue and I eat different, and you know, this is something that you could tell her.
SPEAKER_03First off, she's gonna want herself.
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SPEAKER_00She's gonna want she knows she's hot, she'll tell you she's a beautiful girl. Like, I've made sure that she has that self-esteem.
SPEAKER_03But sometimes when we actually have that self-esteem, sometimes we burn a little too hot with it. Especially Leo's, especially Leo's. We do, we burn a little too hot. We're like, oh, I'm so fabulous, I'm so this. But in in our back of our minds, we think so negative about ourselves, like, oh, I bet that's what people think of me. Yeah, like I'm so hot, I'm so smart, I'm so this, I'm so that. But in reality, we're like, am I? Am I really McGee? Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_00She's very little, she's petite, she's a preemie, and so she's very small. And so, like, we'll go out places and she tries to dress, she's she dresses very gothic to a dis to a degree. And like people will think that she they'll hand her a kids menu, you know, because she she has a very she looks small and she just looks at them, and she's always been spicy and sassy, like always, you know, like when she had a chance. She was in Audible. When she was in Audible, you know, and the doctor would come in and be like, I gotta change your trake. She'd give them the finger at like two. And I used to cover for her. I taught her sign, and then she had a proxia. So B's, P's, M's, you know, she couldn't say. And then with the tongue not being functional, she couldn't say, like, I need because the tongue couldn't touch the roof of the mouth. So I would teach her, I want. So, you know, she'd say, I want a pencil, or you know, something like that. So I remember we were one time at the hospital, we were five, she was five, and the doctor comes in and he's being such a turd, and she was like, Okay, apple. And he goes, What did you say? And I said, She said apple. She said apple. And she goes, Mom, I said asshole. I didn't say apple, I said asshole. And because they couldn't understand her, I'm like, she said apple. She's she she said apple. And you know, she's like, No, mom, no, I said asshole. And so then she starts signing it, you know, to the doctor. And I'm like, see, here I am thinking mommy words, I can sign bad language, and I'm good because, right? So she picked up all mommy's bad word signs, and she goes to the doctor, she's like, asshole, you know, and I'm like, oh, but I've always taught her you protect and defend yourself, you never start it, you finish it, you know. And so she does. And she she is my inspiration, she is the reason that I get up and do what I do because she is just she's such a rock. I mean, she really is, she's just amazing. People who meet her and get around her, they say that their whole life changes just from being around her. So when we're done, I'll have her come in and you guys can just meet her for a minute. But she like her aura is so infectious, it really is. And I feel like she's very old spirit, like that's what you get when you're around her.
SPEAKER_01And and you actually might have noticed this, but she may not have said this. But some of your listeners may be like kind of like iffy about it. I I think she's actually sees like fairy lights a lot. And and I call them fairy lights because of like the the the colored lights. I don't know if they really are fairies or they're spirit fairies, but they're like fairy lights. And she follows them, like kind of like cats can see stuff that's not there. She's aware of them, but she because she's has that broody moody, like almost like a Scorpio. Broody moody. That's a good way to put it. It's like she she has to have her own little secrets that she doesn't share with people. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01And something about Naganga, who's pointing out he's connecting her like deeply with your daughter because he was a preemie. And he almost died because it liked to thrive. And so when he said he has two belly buttons, he actually has three, he has several scars from feeding tubes for his stomach, and he will never have a flat stomach because it's all scar tissue. And he really should not have been here.
SPEAKER_03Nope.
SPEAKER_01What a miracle.
SPEAKER_03If I was born in Africa, I would not have been here. That's what my mother always tells me. Boy, if you were born in Africa, you would never been here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But it's but growing up, he was he would scoot and pull out his feeding tube out of his belly. So he he's like having some uh we call it counter-transfers where you relate to the somebody. So it's really, really cool because as you said, that I had I said something and he came in with all the information. That's one of the things that I guess is kind of the special thing both both of us is we will get two pieces of information and then we'll splice it together and to go, oh, this is what's coming in. Like, I will get like uh he'll get one tone and I'll get the whole reading, or I'll get a tone and he'll get the whole reading. So it's kind of is almost like our we're marrying each other, so we can see a bigger picture. We don't get all the information. It's so neat.
SPEAKER_03For me, it's like looking through a peephole. I can see what is going on in the hallway, but once you start moving this way or that way, I don't I can feel you, I can tell you that there's someone there because I can see like shadows or or little sparkly lights or something. But over time, it's it's just like after working with Danielle, it's like, oh wait, I have another person who has another people.
SPEAKER_01And and and one of my things is I can actually zoom out and see a bigger picture, but not all the details, or if I can zoom in, it's like a camera that goes in and out, so it doesn't hit me in the middle. It's like I can get like feelings of like eyesight or gestures, or even and you saw the words and the words and stuff. And I don't get the full information because I used to be I could see the shape of the person, but I couldn't see their face, or I could see their face, but not what they look like. It's like it's fractal, literally fractal, very fractal. And so we we kind of connected, we're like, wait, I'm seeing it, but I'm seeing it from this lane. During COVID, we had the most amazing conversation
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SPEAKER_01about it because we I knew him, I met him on the first day holistic group that I was learning because I was doing some self-care because of trauma and stuff. And that's another story we can bring in. But I remember hearing him talking about what he was seeing, people falling down like all over, and and it was it was really, really good. I remember being on the other side of that phone call because I we were on a speaker phone, and I start laughing at him, go, it's just a flu. You're people are dying like the flu, and that's how I saw it. And then we actually had a conversation, and I thought it was I was like, I was gaslighting his prediction. I was gaslighting his prediction when I from what I was seeing. But when we finally sat down and go, hey, okay, let's talk about this. I was seeing this, you were seeing that, and when we looked together, I was like, no, we were seeing everything correctly, but we were looking at different perspectives, yeah. From our learned experiences, what we under how our body understood, because we know what COVID was. Yeah, and this is at the beginning, and and but the numbers were equal to how many people died of the flu every year.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, wow, wow, because I was I was driving to a temp job at that at that time, and I saw this guy pass out in the middle of of him working. Is just a normal construction worker. I was ready to pull over. And suddenly I blink and look back again. He was just shoveling away. I'm like, what in the world is going on? I'm like, that was scary.
SPEAKER_01And he called, he called in.
SPEAKER_03I called, I called, I called the group, I'm like, I'm not sure what's going on, but quit eating meat.
SPEAKER_01Keep doing this. He was paddocking me.
SPEAKER_03Keep doing what you're doing, but stay away from the meat, stay away from stay away from this, stay away from that, stay away from this. And uh, and yet she she's looking at me, he's like, Who is who is this person? What is he talking about?
SPEAKER_01And mind you though, that was actually a time when I was just really starting to embrace my gifts. I was actually learning how to work with it because I was in my master's program for social work and I was trying to be a trauma therapist, right? But I also had to learn to work with my gifts because I was getting information, but I didn't know how to regulate myself. How to deal with my own traumas and I was supposed to show up for them. And if I can get information, what do I do with this? Yeah. Right. So I was learning these things. And when he came in with over the phone, I was seeing this whole picture. And I realized the way I walk into things is gently. So by reframing it to a flu versus the bigger picture that we all experienced during that time was my way of going, okay, if I had to explain to somebody so I don't put them into shock or into crisis modes or trauma mode, I need to learn how to bridge this communication. And that was one of the beautiful things I learned with work with Nangan Nagange over the years was he says it one way, I say it another, and we figure out a way to bridge that communication for people to understand. Yeah, it's an all it's all connected, it's all weaving and coding, and it's kind of like computers, ones and zeros. We all have vibrations, we all have energy, and there's the science that back it up. And when and we come down to it, everyone has an ability to be psychic or medium because we are born with it. It's just like refining the tune. It's like your daughter has gifts of communicating in the most spectacular way. Yeah. And it's it's refined just for her because she figured it out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And really to get you, she's doing a book. I'm going out to Arizona as a guest speaker, as a speaker of a big event, and she's writing a book for it. And it's called Echoes Inside Your Skull. Whoa, that's poem. And it's all horror poems that she's written.
SPEAKER_01I gotta talk to her. She's gonna like me with because I am a Scorpio.
SPEAKER_00She's gonna love you. I'm getting when we get done recording, I'm gonna bring her in for a minute and let her talk to y'all because she's very skeptical. And I was like, there's no way that Danielle would have known the things that she knew ever. And she was like, Yeah, you know, but but I was like, you gotta meet her, you just have to meet her. But okay, so I gotta ask, because we talked a lot about my husband, we talked a lot about our daughter. What do you get when you read me? What sign am I? Tell me what you feeling you get, because I want the listeners to really this is as raw as it gets. I love how you put us on the spot.
SPEAKER_01That's what's funny as always when somebody goes, put you on the spot and you and then spot on. He's spot on. I'm I'm just as human like anybody else. When somebody goes, do this, you're like, Go ahead, whoa, let's miss it. So like science and stuff. He probably will be able to tell you the sign, but if I was coming in, I could literally diagnose some stuff.
SPEAKER_03You're born in the spring or the summer?
SPEAKER_02Neither one.
SPEAKER_03I see sun. I see a lot of sun.
SPEAKER_01What state were you born in?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, what state?
SPEAKER_01Georgia.
SPEAKER_03There we go. Okay. That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm seeing a lot of sun. I'm like, but the the season's off. I I feel like the season's off. Okay. So you're born in Georgia. Okay. So give me a second. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he let him tune in. I I don't want to. If my energy goes high, it blocks his. We've kind of learned to do this together.
SPEAKER_03So we get quiet. Your father's a Capricorn, wasn't he? Your father was born in December.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03November? January.
SPEAKER_01No. There's only so many months of the year.
SPEAKER_03I know. But you your father was born during the wintertime.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03No?
SPEAKER_01No. Wait.
SPEAKER_03Who was?
SPEAKER_01Grant what about grandfather? This is gonna be fun.
SPEAKER_03Someone was born during like the winter. It wasn't Christmas time, but it was like January? Like February, January. There's still snow in certain places.
SPEAKER_02My grandfather was February.
SPEAKER_03Okay, that's your grandfather's picking up.
SPEAKER_01Did you love how I said grandfather? You said your grandfather was your father.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_01So he doesn't know any of this. No, you don't know anything. I do. Yes.
SPEAKER_03All right. Grandfather, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01He's very dapper, just to warn you.
SPEAKER_00So dapper. He's like a uh Sean Connery, Clark Gable kind of.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's like he has like this he has like this weird physique about him, like Sean Connery, like James Bond kind of.
SPEAKER_00He's very distinct. He was so distinguished. And my grandmother, even in her 80s, she was always put together so beautifully and so classy, but not like snobby and stuck up, you know. But she was just so like radiant and beautiful, like just and their love, oh their love story. I was always like, I want this, I want this marriage. This is kind of what I want, is it is what you guys are so so so Victoria.
SPEAKER_01I have to say before my brain like explodes at me. Sorry, if I have like a knowing and it just keeps tickling me, it will drive me crazy. Sorry. Just say it. So your anxiety as a kid, okay. Your anxiety with my gosh. Gotta breathe into this one. Your anxiety made you almost so squirrely, you couldn't sit still, but it's almost like you could have been having ADHD, but it was actually more trauma response to be hyper-aware to things that just got to the point where people would have to sit you down and go, sit, read. You like they would have to break it down to you without it shaming you because you would have shut down so fast.
SPEAKER_00Yes and no. My biological father, who I call my sperm donor, used to pick me up and put me on top of his armoire in his bedroom and leave me there. And I wouldn't do anything wrong, but he would, I was the black sheep. I got blamed for things that happened when I wasn't even there. And there was an instance like you might be getting where, for instance, he had wanted me to go to the swimming pool with him and I didn't want to go. I'd never wanted he, I didn't like how he was. And so he sneezed and I said, God bless you. And he said, if you talk again, every time you say a word, I'm gonna pinch you for every word you say. And it was like a few minutes later, he sneezed again and I said, Bless you. And he came over and he pinched me twice. And so the next time he wanted to go to the pool, I made myself throw up so I didn't have to go out there with him. And so when I was with my grandparents, like if one of my grandparents were in the hospital and I'm like eight, nine years old, I stayed from beginning to end. And then I went back with the other grandparent and stayed with them at their house all day, all night, which is unheard of for a kid. But I always was right there with them. And I was always like straight A student and you know, doing all of this when I was with them, but I never felt like I belonged with my bio family because I was the black sheep.
SPEAKER_01It it's it's weird because it's like I was getting like two. That's why I was breathing into like having this two conflicting things. Thank you for clarifying. So it's like there was a smartness, and then there's like stay still, and like so. There was this anxiety that you were split, and uh it it calmed down my brain. Thank you. One of the things that I get is that you literally would melt with something your grand would do with cooking. Like you, I don't, I don't know what it was, but it almost smelled I think it's almost breakfast, but I can't tell. It's not they're not giving me smell, but like this melting, like oh like butter or something. You know how some people wake up with coffee, it wasn't coffee, but it's like you'd be she'd be baking something and you knew exactly what she was making. It would like wake you up. You you it's almost like this cozy feeling that only grandma could bring to you.
SPEAKER_03Like for me, my mom makes gingerbread during weird times, and it smells amazing because she makes it from scratch. And so it's it's that sense.
SPEAKER_01That smell, it's like that safety of it's
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SPEAKER_01I'm home.
SPEAKER_00You know, it's so funny you say that because we would do Sunday dinners, and my grandmother had this philosophy that the way to a man's heart is you also feed them. And so there was no men allowed in her kitchen, and so I would be in the kitchen with her and we would be cooking, and then we would every other week every week we went to someone else. Like we went to my biological egg donor and she couldn't cook to save her life. So the joke ongoing was we're gonna eat before we go or right after. And then whatever was on the table, um, my grandfather would put it in a napkin and say I ate, and then you know, we would all be like, Oh, they don't want to go over there because she couldn't cook. Thank you. And uh Stucco just came in. So we I she couldn't cook. And then at night, she would make me rye toast with blackberry and then sometimes bosomberry jelly, which I had never heard of in my life. And to this day, I can tell you where everything was in her house, like everything in the childhood home. And she would give me light and lively milk, which they don't even make anymore. And I would have this toast again every night butter on my toast. Come here, stucco.
SPEAKER_01So he smelled the butter. I could have smelled be validated that it was so cool.
SPEAKER_03I was like, I'm smelling like sweet butter now again, like like it's like on biscuits or rolls or something. It's just like sweet honey butter.
SPEAKER_00Nice. Oh, stucco and rusty are in here with me. Okay, this is stucco.
SPEAKER_01This is I can't see almost oh there we go.
SPEAKER_00That's my service dog. This is Stucco, who the kids' book Stucco Squad was based on. Oh this is my baby. This is my sweet dog.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, it he has so much love. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00This is my baby. Even when I came home, I was worried when I came home from my amputation because he's only a couple months old. He was so loving, he didn't do anything, he just laid right there. He's a little prankster. Whenever my husband tries to get near me, he shoves him away. He won't let him near me and he pushes him. Come here, Rusty. Rusty is my daughter's service dog, and he's so sweet and loving, he's very protective. He's bigger. Come here. Oh, this is Rusty. Come here, give me the big oh, much bigger. He has a scar going down his nose, and she loves that. And he's got huge paws, but he gently hands them to you every time. I mean, he is the gentlest. We call him the gentle giant.
SPEAKER_01He looks like he's older, but younger than his age and his eyes. Oh my gosh, this is really this is stucco son.
SPEAKER_00Ah, this is Stucco's son. Yeah, the good boy. I'm a good boy.
SPEAKER_01Gosh. Wow. Rusty's a sweet baby. Oh, beautiful. I hope you're I hope your people who get to see this and hear this can appreciate these dogs.
SPEAKER_00And then the two puppies are downstairs and they're sleeping right now. They're four month-old white, pure white golden return.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, we we we we grounded our cats from coming in here. I didn't want them interrupting. Okay, I gotta talk to them. I love you. Give me cases. I love you. He talks. I'll go to my clients' houses and the the dogs and the cats. They're like, they don't ever respond to anybody, but with you, I'm like, Green, of course. I'm not so he talks. He okay, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_00So we're okay. I'm gonna open book now because I I promised the readers that I would let them see how floral I was. Because I'm telling you, I got like all of my read and all of my listeners' stuff are gonna just bombard y'all because I'm like, you this is it. If you ever wanted to know, this is where you go, this is it, this is where you go, this is authentic, this is what you need to hear. I'm telling you, I was dumbfounded.
SPEAKER_01Well, the the cool thing with us is you actually get the full package. We're even if we're not saying we're psychic or medium, we are who we are, and that's and our lived experiences is the important part. And the communication. I mean, your your listeners don't know this. I am a doctoral candidate. I am in my last two semesters before my capstone project. I am getting my doctorate in social work. I opened up my own practice in the middle of doing my doctorate. I I worked with first responders. I used to work child welfare, I used to be a recreational therapist and a habilitation therapist. I mean, I have experiences and yet nobody knows the paranormal side stories of these experiences working with my clients, their family, their the friends that I've made and still listen to. I mean, I have people that have crossed over, they still come visit me. I mean, gosh, how lucky is that? Most of us just want to connect with a loved one or something. I get people that I hadn't spoken to in two decades that will just pop up and say hello to me. I'm like, oh my gosh. It's like and it's funny how you be with an old friend, time melts away. Well, time's irrelevant over there, it's all linear, but it really is amazing how you can actually become reconnected with your history, with who you've known, your ancestors.
SPEAKER_03And like for example, I I saw I saw my cat today.
SPEAKER_01His cat's dead.
SPEAKER_03My my cat's been dead for assume that you're the paw. Oh.
SPEAKER_01So this aww.
SPEAKER_03So that's over here.
SPEAKER_01Tiffany.
SPEAKER_03That's Tiffany.
SPEAKER_01I love it. My daughter ta my daughter's a tattoo artist.
SPEAKER_03And so he died last year, and I'll a year ago, and I'll see his shadow kind of move around the house. Like today, I saw him because I was taking out the garbage. He came out with me with the garbage, and he came back inside. Yeah, I saw I saw his little black shower. He went downstairs. I'm like, oh hiff.
SPEAKER_01We were talking in the garage, and he starts looking around because he feels Tiffany. Tiffany's around, and I have other dad cats here too. But Tiffany loves to make himself known. Yes.
SPEAKER_03He shows up the like this big, huge, flat bulb of an orb, and it's a black orb.
SPEAKER_01He's a black cat.
SPEAKER_03He's a black cat. He's going to show himself as a as a fluffy shadow.
SPEAKER_01And then there's my father, my father passed away two months before Tiffany did, ironically. And my father's part of my father's ashes are her, but my fellow is a trickster and he loves moving things. And I had to tell my dad, please stop doing that.
SPEAKER_03Because he did. Once we came home, her son's picture on the wall was laying on the table.
SPEAKER_01So we went, we we came home, we saw the pictures.
SPEAKER_03We were talking about like Danny, did you move this? She's like, move what? I was in the kitchen. I'm like, we come back out. It's sitting on the coffee table. Your kid's picture is like sitting right here on the coffee table. You didn't have to be able to do that. Not broken. Not broken, not falling off.
SPEAKER_01Now the kids were home to do this. And I go, Dad.
SPEAKER_03Stop it.
SPEAKER_01I go, we love you.
SPEAKER_00But even that freaks us out. Yeah, I'll be in the middle of the night and like he'll say something and the light will turn on. And I'm like, aha, you know, and it happens all the time. And like my daughter would say something and she'll go grab a frying pan. And I really see my grandparents in her so much because my grandmother was always like so, you know, like she would just zing you without a you know the emotion. And my grandfather was the prankster. So like she would grab a frying pan and she goes, Don't make me use this. And like she never hit any, like, she's never hit anybody. My daughter goes and gets a frying pan. She never met her physically and will go get a frying pan and take it to my husband and be like, Don't make me use this.
SPEAKER_01That's funny.
SPEAKER_00What? Okay, so you said something's gonna happen to my daughter at 22. What do you get about me? Because now I'm like nervous and scared and antsy, but excited and well, going back to your birthday.
SPEAKER_03Let's let's start with that so I can at least get the energy. So you're not born in the spring, summer, or or so you have to be born in fall. You gotta be close to at least a Libra. I am you are okay. So August 2 No Libra's in October.
SPEAKER_01No, Libra starts September 23rd. Yeah. So I'm thinking I'm thinking you're an early.
SPEAKER_03Well, I was gonna say October because it's sorry, not October. August sorry.
SPEAKER_01Okay. August is her daughter, so get her daughters sign out.
SPEAKER_03Okay, there we go. I see a one in there somewhere. Like one five.
SPEAKER_00I'm the first day of a Libra. I'm the 23rd of September.
SPEAKER_01I was like, it's like when it's looking like a scaff, yeah. She's she's the she's September 1st. Not September 23rd. 23rd.
SPEAKER_0323rd. So that's what I was saying. I was like, I was seeing a one, but now I was seeing a five. I was like, okay, between one and five, what's between one and five? Two.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that's right. Yeah, there then here's the great part. There are some skeptics going, they're fishing for information just with what we're having.
SPEAKER_03Like, this is really this is this is how I work.
SPEAKER_00This is so so Nagange actually we just have to be patient and listen because I I'm totally believing and I and I'm so Nagangay actually has a actual learning disability as well as I do.
SPEAKER_01So we were constantly working with our gifts, but we also have to work with our deaf. I call them deficit, but superpowers with it.
SPEAKER_03Deficits.
SPEAKER_01But with me, I have just ADHD, undiagnosed ADHD, uh distacula, so I flip numbers consistently, so I see mirror ear, which is really good, and dyslexia.
SPEAKER_03And I have a learning disability, which is it's documented, it's documented and everything. I've I've I've struggled with it my whole entire life. Like the the comprehension of reading, if you tell me a word, I'll understand the word, but if you try to tell me to spell it, I have to look it up. I mean, I probably maybe get half it correct or half not
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SPEAKER_03correct.
SPEAKER_01So so regardless of this, so so you're Libra?
SPEAKER_03Libra.
SPEAKER_01My daughter, my my daughter is a Libra. And oh my gosh, you're all about justice, but with those Kate, your scales are kind of funny. I'm gonna laugh at this one. It's not even a balance scare. It's like we're gonna tip it to make it look like justice, but I'm gonna weight it down a little just enough to give you a little how can I put it? It yeah, the pressure's a good one to, but it's almost like it's not like your daughters where she'll kind of get you, but it's kind of like, oh, we're you down so you feel like you're drowning, but you don't know.
SPEAKER_03Who's Virgo? Do you know anybody with Virgo in your family? Who's the Virgo? They're born like between like August 22nd to September 21st.
SPEAKER_01I don't know anyone. You're picking up my brother.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I am.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my brother Jeff's here.
SPEAKER_03Oh, hi Jeff. The dead people just once we start clicking in, they start coming in, they start coming in.
SPEAKER_01There's not even a there's no boundaries.
SPEAKER_03There is absolutely no boundaries for that.
SPEAKER_01So so I mentioned my bro, my dad, so my brother came in. I'm like, they're like, we want to see they're like they're gonna be too. So but with you, so with the scales, there's there's still balance, but it's like almost like you have a little bit more weight on one side, so you kind of tip the the energy towards what you need, so it's almost like you manifest it, like going, I would like it to go this way, so the energy kind of pushes it that way, even though you want it to be fair and just, but at the same time, you do it in such a way where you do it. I don't want to be held accountable for anything that I may cause to hurt anybody, but if it can go my way, I'm gonna set it that way. Okay, let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase that. You are gentle, you don't cause harm, but you know when something's not right, you want it corrected, and so you're going to do everything in your ability to support that without causing it to pull out your mom a bear. Yeah, you pull your mama bear. That's a good way, thank you.
SPEAKER_03That's the best way to explain it. With with Libras, they are very protective of what their pack is or what their community is. But once once they're kind of off in their own head, same with Leos, we we Leos and Libras, we we kind of work together on the same mental capacity. Once we start doing something, we get into it, and once that negative talk starts talking, we we can't you pull back, we pull back.
SPEAKER_01So so there's this that balance, but you it's like it is a balance in scales, but when you have to put pressure on one of the scales, it will come and do it. And then when it's not it doesn't benefit the reason, you're you put it balances back out, you take the pressure off.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, can you guys see anything? happening in the next few years.
SPEAKER_03Like yeah,
Books, Accessibility, And The Next Part
SPEAKER_03when is the next book gonna come out?
SPEAKER_00I've produced I did one two I've done like five already this year. I did another one that just was Amazon bestseller. I have probably three or four more coming out this year.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01That was a simple validation either.
SPEAKER_03I heard when's next book coming out.
SPEAKER_01It's like you almost have like another one like three you haven't written yet.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Do you have any of them that are audible? No you might consider doing two or three as audible because I feel that there is a need for it. And and I think a lot more people are going going back to like that.
SPEAKER_03And there's not not to put this out there but there's a lot of people who are you know the deaf people and the and the and the blind they want to read your book but there isn't really any access to it. And so there needs to be a structure where there needs to be access to it either having a book written in braille or the possibility of doing the audio thing you have you have a uh a group you have a community that listens to you but what you want is you want everybody to listen to you not just have access to you. Not just the blacks or the whites or the Chinese or the or the South Americans it's not like not just putting different languages one people it's not just one language it's everybody if you could put it in like a lot of different languages I think it'll be a very very helpful and very it's more inclusive.
SPEAKER_01Inclusive there we go he agrees who agreed that's Rusty oh Rusty Dead. Thank you Rusty thank you Rusty because what's happening is it's almost like so you were asking future things what's gonna happen is because your daughter has her phone platform they want her to look at your platform and vice versa you kind of support each other it's like these bookends that do a thing but at the same time the people like me who's ADHD the the even reading and having audio actually like speech speechify does speech reads it helps us maintain the words and helps us process better and faster. And so those those things are being asked for and called for more especially real voices versus somebody doing AI where they're just reading it to you.
SPEAKER_00They want real yeah actual person yeah doing it like my daughter you know we started we did the stucco squad which is an 11 book series and these are for kids four to eight years old and we have stucco in it and she is the one of the main characters that my daughter is and in every single book and here's the irony especially since I spoke with her every single book goes through something different. They're all real life situations. Like one of them is when home is too loud and the child hears and sees the abuse at home and thinks it's their fault. Well if I did this better maybe dad wouldn't yell at mom or or things like that. Or another book is when you know you're being bullied at school how to handle that. And then they're the all of them we got out and and they are on the level of a four to eight year old so they can comprehend it understand it. It's at their level and the one book that I kept trying to get out and get out is called the fading color and it is about a loved one who's crossing over and how to understand the loss of that and no matter how many times and it was the same exact format that I put together time and time again I couldn't get it I self-published and I couldn't get it to go out and I was like oh my goodness because the title's wrong well it just went live like I just got it out. You just got it it did finally go out after I tried it and submitted and submitted and submitted and then I spoke with Danielle and you know and the next thing I know this is about the passing and I based it on the passing of a loved one and it was a grandmother. There's a part two of that book oh okay it's called the Rainbow Bridge did you just get freaked out or something just with your face the rainbow bridge is already oh my god the rainbow bridge is already done it's in the stucco squad and it's about kind of like an invisible string and it's for the child that has to go from one home to another because of a broken home. Yeah there's there's a part there's a part two to that the rainbow bridge is about the child understanding that there's that visible that the invisible connection hey the invisible connection to the parent that they want to be with and that the child doesn't want to go with the other parent because that other parent's abusive and hurting and you know really upsetting the child and the child doesn't want to go because of that reason and therefore there's that rainbow bridge.
SPEAKER_01But what I'm kind of hearing it's kind of funny because we keeps going back to the rainbow bridge. It's almost like the story of the other rainbow bridge like the other rainbow bridge and because you have the dogs when they pass over they say they go over the rainbow bridge. So we're talking about loss on even that that connection so you that that thread you're talking about it's almost like that story but that on the other side of the veil.
SPEAKER_00Well we have really run over I want to both promise me you're gonna come back. No right you both have to promise me you're gonna come back like absolutely okay so I'm gonna make sure we have everywhere to find you guys out there I am going to tell everybody they have to tone in for the next part two of this it's gonna be amazing. I cannot thank you both for all that you do and I'm sorry there it is when you get bombarded from everybody in my my tribe that's like I want I want I want I want I want I want and they're reaching out to you and you're like okay Victoria for the love of God like you know because there's only so much in a day. I'm gonna enjoy that though just remember us little people. So we were gonna have you guys back again. Thank you so much for being here I really appreciate it.
SPEAKER_03Thank you thank you.
SPEAKER_00Thank you everybody