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Episode #152 LadyPhyllis Okon The Medium's Journey: Finding Your Path
Lady Phyllis Okon never imagined she'd become a medium at age 67. After losing her husband during the pandemic, loneliness led her to explore mediumship as a way to connect with him. What began as personal healing evolved into an unexpected second career—one that would eventually earn the endorsement of renowned medium Thomas John.
From her fascinating background as CEO of a global transportation company she built with her late husband to her remarkable ability to connect with those who have crossed over, Lady Phyllis brings a refreshing practicality to the spiritual world. She demystifies common misconceptions about mediumship, explaining that connecting with spirit is not an innate gift but a skill anyone can develop with practice and awareness.
"Spirits are quite polite," she explains with the casual confidence of someone discussing dinner guests rather than the deceased. "They're not going to interfere with your everyday life." This balanced perspective stems from her unique journey through yoga, writing, and self-discovery—practices that heightened her sensitivity to energies around her long before she formally embraced mediumship.
Lady Phyllis offers crystal-clear insights about the difference between psychic abilities (connecting to the universe for guidance about past, present, and future) versus mediumship (connecting specifically with loved ones who have passed). For those curious about developing their own abilities, she shares practical advice about starting with automatic writing, reading transformative books, and establishing an online presence.
The warmth of the mediumship community surprised her, providing not just a new career but a healing space after losing her husband of 48 years. "It's like falling into a down comforter," she describes, encouraging listeners who feel called to this path: "Don't think—do."
Ready to explore your own intuitive abilities or connect with departed loved ones? Visit Lady Phyllis at www.ladyphyllis.com or follow her journey through her books, courses, and readings that have helped countless people find comfort and closure.
hyllis Okon co-founded BLS Limousine Service with her late husband almost fifty years ago. A former social studies teacher, she quit teaching to run the back office from her tiny kitchen in Syosset, Long Island. The company grew to three offices, and after her husband's death, she and her two sons expanded to eleven more, including a flagship office in London. BLS stands today proudly woman-owned and world-renowned.
After her husband passed, she ventured into mediumship classes, eventually being singled out of her mentorship and endorsed by Seatbelt Psychic Thomas John.
As Lady Phyllis, her ability to connect and give evidential information has built this new venture to many monthly sessions and a steady clientele. Combining her love of teaching with her many talents, she has now opened several courses sharing her knowledge and demystifying mediumship to enable a new generation to embrace it.
Phyllis has traveled many roads; a teacher, CEO, best-selling and award-winning author, wife, mother, and grandmother. Her biggest fear was becoming irrelevant as she got older. Her unique experiences have made her a compassionate and understanding medium, CEO, and author, proving you don't have to give anything up because of age!
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This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than a host, as I too am traveling, learning from others and supporting others as well on this journey, and with that said, I am your guide, Tracy C Wright, and joining me is Phyllis Okun. Now she co-founded BLS Limousine Service with her late husband almost 50 years ago. A former social studies teacher, she quit teaching to BLS Limousine Service with her late husband almost 50 years ago. A former social studies teacher, she quit teaching to run the back office of her tiny kitchen in Long Island. The company grew to three offices and, her husband's death, she and her two sons expanded to 11 more, including a flagship office in London.
Speaker 2:Bls stands today proudly women owned and world renowned. After her husband passed, she ventured into mediumship classes and eventually been singled out for her mediumship and endorsed by seatbelt psychic Thomas John as Lady Phyllis. Her ability to connect and give evidential information has built this new venture to so many more monthly sessions and a very steady clientele. Combining her love of teaching and her many talents, she has now opened several courses, sharing her knowledge and demystifying mediumship to enable a new generation to embrace it.
Speaker 3:Welcome, Phyllis, to Ready Set thank you for having me great name, by the way wonderful.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you so much for joining me on this journey. So so let's begin together. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3:Well, um, I'm doing mediumship now about three years. I started during the pandemic. I started studying mediumship. I lost my husband and I was stuck in the house. My kids couldn't come over. You know we were washing bananas, washing, you know, mail when it came in. So we were keeping separate and I was lonely and I was missing my husband. So I started studying mediumship. I took a lot of online courses and in Thomas's John's class there were 86 students and I was the only one he endorsed. Well, my sons have a podcast and they put me on their podcast and they brought people on and they said go ahead, mom, read them. And so I did. And the next day they they set up a shingle Lady Phyllis. And that's how I became Lady Phyllis.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, wonderful. So would you say that mediumship found you or you found mediumship.
Speaker 3:It's been a journey, because I've gone to mediums since I was 30. You know, it's not what it was. It was not part of my family's dogma. We never really thought about life after death. We never thought about those things. And then when my father passed away well, it was when my grandmother passed away we started going to mediums and I really started getting into it. But I never thought that I could do it. I never, it never. I figured people had to be gifted. You know, they had the gift Right. I never realized that everybody has the ability to do it. It's just a matter of finding, identifying it and then amplifying it.
Speaker 2:Wow, activating it Right. Right, and I'm sorry for the loss of your husband. It's, you know, when we have loss like that, it's amazing how a loss can just put us in a completely different direction. I mean, it's just, you know, I lost my sister and that was a turning point where I completely changed my whole life and went towards energy work. Yeah right, well, you had touched upon something that you thought, something that mediumship was, that you had to be born with it. So this, you know, what is a common misconception that you find about mediumship?
Speaker 3:Well, the common? There's a couple common misconception is that you have to be born with it. A common misconception is you're walking around with, with, you know, with souls bothering you all day, that you have to sleep at night. It's like I turn it on and off, like I used to turn my kids on and off when I didn't want to hear them. My husband, you know what, what, what you know you? Just you turn them off. It's um, you activate what you want when you want it, but they're actually spirits, quite polite, and they're not going to interfere with your everyday life, Right, Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure seeing these psychic medium shows where they're in the grocery store and they walk up to you and they, you know, give you a reading. They think you're always on all the time. So that's what I found it is but it's kind of like.
Speaker 3:I went to the bank yesterday and I was changing the address and the there were three women. You know that one was training another woman and then manager was there and it's always there, it's always in back if you want it. And what happened was they asked me what is the business, that they were changing the address? And I said, well, I'm an author, you know I've written 80. I've written and published 83 books. And then you know I'm a medium, and that was that particular business. And they said, Okay, so tell me something right now. So I invited spirit in and proceeded to give them. I gave like four people a reading. So it's there if you want it, and when you don't, you just, like I said, you just block it. Wonderful.
Speaker 2:Now do you find that people ask you are you able to see things for yourself? Are you? Some psychics have that blockage? I know that I do, so I have a friend and we do trades. I see things for her. She thinks for me are you able to do that as well for yourself?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, the important thing is like my husband's always there for me. Well, you know, the important thing is like my husband's always there for me. And I was just explaining on another podcast. So the thing is we were partners. I knew him since I was 16. We were partners in a business. I run the business now and when he died we were together for 41 years. It was really hard for me not to be able to lean over and say, well, what do we do? Of course, connecting with him now kind of validates my decisions, whatever I'm doing in the business. But I still do go to mediums because just to make sure that I'm not interpreting things to my own vanity.
Speaker 2:Sure, sure, I have one that we trade and she's like I need a sign to your sign. I need not one card, I need 20. So she needs that, that backup. So many people come to you for a variety of reasons. Many come to you because they're seeking guidance. They're having challenges, they're having struggles and they want to look ahead of what exactly they need to do.
Speaker 3:Well, that's more psychic. That's what I teach in my class. There's a big difference between psychic and medium. You connect to the universe, right. You can see past, present and future, and you pick up information from the universe, from the person's higher self, whatever it is. When you're a medium, you connect directly with a loved one that's past or an identity that's past, that this person needs comfort and closure, healing, and and that's usually the delivery you know, in a mediumship, sometimes things will come up Like I'll say your mom says that you know you're changing your job, that she's you're not going to be happy there, but she sees you finding something else. So sometimes that will come up, but for the most part it's more like thank you for choosing the blessed mother as my, you know, as my mass card. You know I really you really picked a good dress, sure.
Speaker 2:So for clarification for the listener, so say like, for instance, I'm thinking about whether I'm going to sell my home or rent my home, I would go to someone who is a psychic. Versus a mediumship. Where the mediumship I would go to just to check in to say if my sister's saying hello from the other side, right?
Speaker 3:Very good Sister might give you that information Correct, you know, yeah, but if you want to know, do I, you know, break up with the guy or stay with him? You go to a psychic. Very good, very good but my own feeling is you know what the answers are to most of those things Of?
Speaker 2:course, of course, right. You have that inner inner knowledge, that inner wisdom, of course. So you know big challenges and struggles. What are some of the challenges and struggles you faced in your own healing journey?
Speaker 3:You know what? I never see them as challenges or struggles. I see them as learning curves, beautiful. You know I. You know I'm 70 years old, so I've been through a lot. You know I own a global transportation company with my family, you know. You know we're right now. We're having a kind of a challenge because business has changed since COVID. Yeah, so we go through these things and you just have to always be quick on your feet and be ready to reinvent yourself. I was missing her. She was like my best friend. So I started writing and it turned into a whole career of writing. You know, and here I am. When I lost my husband, who knew I was going to actually open up a shop and be a medium and teach, I started out as a teacher 50 years ago. I was a social studies teacher and I left that to work with him. And here I am, I'm teaching again. So, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2:Circling right back around. I love it. I love it and I love how that you're positive about it Instead of seeing it as a challenge, looking at it as an opportunity to grow or another step right, another building block to it. And that's really probably attributed to you know, your success, your hard work, your positive attitude. So you know, the more you talk to people who are successful in business, it really you know their attitude and how they look at things really makes a difference for sure. Yeah, so very nice. So which do you wish your younger self knew about mediumship?
Speaker 3:You know I'm okay with learning it the way I've learned it, but it's also been a journey. For instance, like I said, we went to mediums, but I started to when my, when my husband and my mother were diagnosed with lung cancer within three months of each other. Wow, I started doing yoga because I knew that I had to-care. I was taking care of them, so I knew I had to do self-care. And when I started doing yoga, she used to come to the house twice a week. It was like I made myself that one hour twice a week I would go away from the struggles of what I was going through taking care of the two of them, and it became a journey of self-awareness. Yoga forced me, or encouraged me, or opened up the idea of looking inside and becoming aware, like you said, that you, I, you have a knowing, you have, you can feel things. It's you know.
Speaker 3:You know yoga made me aware that I had all these feelings, that I was too busy or too preoccupied. I was a mom, I was a daughter, a sister, a wife. I was busy cooking, feeding. Everybody was coming here, running a business that you don't pay attention. You take all these things. You know the little taps on your back. You take that for granted. The little taps on your back, you take that for granted.
Speaker 3:So yoga started to make me look inward and think about what I was feeling. Writing made me realize what was around me because, like when I would write a book and I had to describe how someone felt, I had to really think about how I felt, like if I walked outside on grass. What did it? What did I feel? So it's, it's all been part of this journey of self-awareness and self-discovery so that when I started the mediumship it was like, oh, my goodness, it all kind of clicked that I don't think I could have gotten there without the other stuff. It was all kind of connected and and I realized and, of course, my yoga instructor taught me reiki.
Speaker 3:My yoga instructor taught me sound healing. My yoga instructor taught me about ancestral healing. You know the hellinger, uh, hellinger, uh constellations. So through her she opened up a world and we're still we're best friends and we still meet twice a week, even if it's by zoom, but we meet twice a week. And she, yesterday she spent an hour doing restorative yoga with me and she, I realized things during that session that maybe I wouldn't have realized eight years ago or 10. So we're going on 15 years. So it's all part of this journey it is.
Speaker 2:It is beautiful and I'm glad that you were able to find a resource like that and, you know, just going out there and finding you're just right. And I can relate with the yoga. So I'm a yoga teacher and I began my journey many years ago and because I was always busy, because I was always going and going, it brought in this mindful practice of okay, here I am, I'm on the mat, this is my time to go inward and as long as I've been doing it, it still teaches me. I'm constantly a student and you learn things and as I'm out teaching, you know, know, many people have the misconception with yoga that you have to be flexible or I can't do this.
Speaker 2:And it's not about the asanas, you know, it's, it's really going in and ceasing the fluctuations of the mind and all of those things that you've done together is, you know, created who you are today as a person, as a, a mediumship. So, yeah, beautiful, it's wonderful. So I hope our listeners listen and even if it's something like you go and you try yoga and it's not your thing, try to find something else. You'll find that just right. Yeah, right, but prayer works.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. You know meditation works. I don't. I'm not a meditator, I don't like meditating. I have a little bit of a monkey mind. Yeah, there's, there's all different things. Oh yeah, I you know the power of singing. You know, in fact, with grief, when I lost my husband, I would put on a le xa you know yeah yeah, I would pick a song that I would feel spoke to me the arms of an angel, or hallelujah, or even the sounds of silence and I would.
Speaker 3:I would walk around my house and I would just sing out loud and gave relief to the grief. So you know, that's the power of you, know you can, you can sit or you can be proactive. Yeah, yeah, and he picked me up and whatever I told him, I could feel it gave him the peace that he needed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, beautiful, and what a gift to give people. You know when they question and they worry, and, because this is the unknown, where do they go? You know where are they, are they safe? I know, after my sister passed, I waited a couple of weeks and I reached out to a medium that I had used before and, uh, just making sure she's all right, is she okay? And, uh, she had told me things and, just as you share, that sometimes they give you a little bit of future information, my sister shared with the medium that she's like your sister's laughing. She's laughing Cause you're going to get a dog.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I had already, at this point, like six dogs. And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not getting this dog. And I was almost prepared for it. And then, uh, in December, I got a message from one of the uh breeders that I had used and she said, hey, I got the black and tan dog that you're interested in. And I remembered, oh, nope, angel said I was getting a dog. No, no, no, I'm not going to do it. And I said, well, give me a little information.
Speaker 2:And it turned out that the dog's birthday was on my dad's birthday. I'm like darn it. And so, guess what? I got the dog. So yeah, so you never know. You never know what happens. Just keep an open mind to it, an open mind and an open heart. So so, when it's time for you to seek out a medium, what are some qualities that you look for in a medium? You know you're teaching these classes, so is there any guidance that you give your students to look for? How do you know that it's someone who is authentic, right, reputable?
Speaker 3:Well, the first thing I tell them to do is Google them and see if there's any bad reviews. You have to look. Do they honor the time that your schedule? Do they give value? Do they give evidence?
Speaker 3:The first thing I look for in a medium is we usually we have I have two sons and two daughter-in-laws and we have like a little circle. So if somebody gets a reading, we put it up on our family thread saying just had a reading. They were great. You know, this one's father came through this one, you know, whatever it was or don't, don't bother terrible reading, don't you know? So so those are the things I look at and I do a lot with recommendation from friends. You know, I've in my circle, we, we all kind of. You know, I'm getting over COVID, sorry, but my goodness, yeah. So we will talk to each other and somebody will say I had a great reading. So you know. But again, I'm sorry, but what may be a great reading for somebody? I'm kind of a tough. I'm a tough audience. I expect a certain amount of evidence. Yeah, you know, and they're my go-tos. I've been going to a lot of the same mediums for over 30 years. Oh, wonderful, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah. So what advice would you give someone who's just entering this profession? They feel this calling this pool, they want to start, you know, doing the work being of service.
Speaker 3:Well, don't quit your day job because you need an income. And I tell that the same advice to people who write books don't think you're going to write the next bestseller. Oh yeah, and one of my books is a bestseller on Amazon. To this day it's still in the top 100 books on Amazon. But you know it doesn't translate to you. Know, let's put it this way, I'm still working.
Speaker 2:So, oh yeah, Many people think that you're going to be loaded. But I mean, it's the Harry Potter books and things like that where you're getting the revenue. Yeah, cause they'll like oh, you're, I've written a few books and they think you're rolling in money and it's like you sold 40 books and made five bucks or something.
Speaker 3:It's yeah, it's, that's exactly what it is. So I tell them, you know, I in fact I have in my course, um, I spend a whole day on ethics and um, the do's and don'ts of being a medium. So you have to. What I would do is give out my cards at the local yoga studios, the local, uh, um, what do you call? Crystal shops? You know shops that are similar to that. You know, ask them if you can come and you know if they'll set up an evening. In fact, I'm doing one this Friday. I will be going to a local yoga place where they have over 40 people coming. I'll read maybe 10 or 12 people. I usually spend time.
Speaker 3:I wrote a book all 366 affirmationsations and Inspirations, so I will have every person in the room pick a page and I'll read it and see if it serves as a message, so that everybody walks out with something. You know they have to get acquainted with social media. You have to make yourself a presence on social media. You have to be on Facebook, tiktok, instagram. You know we're constantly putting out content and it can't be just use me. You know. It has to be stuff like do you know what clairvoyance is? You have to get people interested in you. For instance, when I sell a book, I don't talk about the book per se, but I'll talk about subjects connected to the book. So we do interviews, you go on podcasts, you do set up your own podcast, set up a YouTube channel, so there's tons of stuff. I think. Also, you have to have a book associated with you. Yeah, doing mediumship, you should have a book on your website.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right. And for those listening, I also think, if you, you know, if you don't feel called to write a book, for some people that's, that's overwhelming. Start out with maybe an article, write an article.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm on Medium, mediumcom, which is a blog, a worldwide blog. Sure, sure, I'm on Medium as Carol P Roman. That's the name I write under, that's one of my pen names, so I put up articles on there and I'll write, like, about you know what I did to become a medium, or what's the difference between mediumship and you know all kinds of things, so that there are people that are interested in that builds your mailing list. You have to put out mail at least once a week. Right, you have to give discounts. You have to be in people's face. If you don't have a forefront, you have to find a way to get into everyone's face, and so that's what I do. I make myself known, I go on podcasts, I, yeah, I write articles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because when my sister passed, I see a lot of things in dreams, and she would come in the dream and tell me she wanted me to write a book, and I just wasn't there. I guess emotionally, to write the book I was capable, but I wasn't there. And so I remember in dreams negotiating with her hey, I'll just write an article about you. And then it'll be like, okay, well, I'm gonna write this book, but I'll dedicate it to you, because I wasn't. I couldn't in my mind figure a way to write it about her where it didn't, you know, spill over into something about me. And so that was my little negotiation. But yeah, it's just, it's a hustle, isn't it? It's just, but I mean, it's something that you enjoy as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what I've learned about writing is every day. If you just sit down and that's like in the first in my course, that's the first lesson is automatic writing, very often from a higher place. Sure, sure, all you have to do is write two or three lines. Oh, yeah, yeah, by the end of a month you've got, you know, 90 lines.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, like I was always like 15 minutes a day, just 15 minutes a day, and I journal too, and even if I come in the morning and all I write on that page is thank you, thank you for anything that's being assisted or helping, supporting me, yeah, and it just gets into a habit with it, yeah. So, at least 15 minutes a day and keep writing and you can bring it together. Wonderful. So that leads into our next one. So what books do you recommend? So you had shared 83 books. My goodness.
Speaker 3:But you're talking about books that I would recommend to read for a person, or anything that has served you on your journey.
Speaker 2:You can also miss, uh mention, your books as well.
Speaker 3:So whatever you feel called to do, so well, the first book, one book that changed my life, was many lives, many masters, by Dr. Yeah, I read that book 30 years ago and it and it changed my life, the idea that we're here to live out a life to learn something. We go back, we come back. You know that book really, and he was such a skeptic. So reading this book really did change. Eben Alexander's book I don't know the name of it, but he's a neuroscientist or whatever a doctor who had meningitis, died, went to the other side and came back. They're all books. I also love the 72 books of magic, the 72 angels of magic, by damon brand. That book taught me to have faith. That spirit was going to be here for me. You know, you know we read all the time. I've got dozens of books all over the place, but my affirmation book is a great book.
Speaker 3:I wrote Mediumship Made Easy and Expanding Mediumship, which are two of the books that cover my course. So I basically wrote these so that, as people were taking the course, they could mark passages and of course they could mark passages that they can go back to, because mediumship, you don't learn it all, you don't walk in, it's kind of linear, where you know you do something and you're doing it, and you're doing it, and then all of a sudden, lesson three, you go oh, that's what that meant. You know you have to go back. Which is also why when I, when someone pays to take my course, they're kind of enrolling for a lifetime because they can continue to take the course over and over again without charge. Yeah, it's all about discovery. You may not get it here, but you know so. A lot of my students just sit in and keep taking the course over and over.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I allow that too. So I do yoga trainings and I do Reiki trainings and one of the things that I do different is I do let them come and observe again if they need to, especially if it's online. They can just turn the camera off, they can just listen, because it may be something they didn't pick up the first time or maybe something happens and you know, you really want to give them the best tools possible and I've had students I've had for years now and it's an open door policy. They can text me, message me, you know, and have that conversation if they need help and support. Yeah, so I let them come again and observe. I just had someone that I was teaching a class this past week and she came again and she's like are you sure? I'm like, yeah, come and sit because we're practicing with energy. So that's another person to help the new person as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like you said, they may not get it. You know it just may not make sense. Piaget teaches you that you learn only when your brain is ready to accept it.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. Yeah, yeah, and especially with, well, the energy work. You know you get that placement or attunement and then you're having to cultivate this relationship with the energy and you may not have been focused on one particular thing and you may come back to that class and say, oh, like I forgot that and oh, that's interesting, maybe I'll try that. So, yeah, well, that's very nice that you offer that. What a blessing. So what other services do you offer? You mentioned, you know, your courses, events, trainings.
Speaker 3:Well, I do one on one. You know, book, a zoom, and and um, and I I do one-on-one, I do them in person or I do them on a zoom. I also I just did a party um, a zoom party. It was like girlfriends and they were all over the country. One was in texas, one was in north carolina, one was in chicago, and they all got on and I I read each one of them. So it makes for great evenings entertainment.
Speaker 3:You know, they connected with a mutual friend for all of them. So that was really. They had a fun time Okay wonderful when you do the events.
Speaker 2:do you bring in cards, or is it just solely the connection to spirit?
Speaker 3:It's solely the connection to spirit. And, like I said, the book. The book. You could pick a number. Pick a number, one to 366. Any number, don't think, just pick a number that comes to you.
Speaker 2:Three, three.
Speaker 3:Three Changing my mind is a strength and does not show weakness, right? So that's a message from your sister. If you've been feeling like, oh, I'm changing my mind too much, yeah, it shows that I'm weak, it doesn't? She's saying that it takes strength to put yourself back. So I don't know if there's anything going on in your life now. Yeah, that's really what it is, right? Do I stay, do I go? Right? You know, it shows. It shows strength that you're actually not just doing things because other people are telling you or because you feel stuck. Very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So to back up the evidential, I have a home in Pennsylvania because I'm originally from Pittsburgh and we have been moving towards renting it and some things shifted and changed suddenly, where the idea of let's sell it, let's like I have this feeling I got to sell it, I got to, I got to go and my adult children are all you got to rent, you got to rent, you got to rent. So it's making sense that I was originally thinking renting and now I'm pausing and like nope, I think I'm, I think I'm feeling to sell.
Speaker 3:They're going to say oh you're. You know you're waffling, you can't make that.
Speaker 2:So I'm saying you're making a decision, your sister is letting you know. No, you're not a decision that your sister is letting you know.
Speaker 2:No, you're not right, and I have my daughter who's like you should rent it, and I mean all valid reasons. But it's this something where I talked about that innerness that you feel like I'm feeling called to just move on. Yeah, yeah, she had a lot of good concerns. Yeah, but that makes sense with. It's okay to change your mind. I don't look old enough to have adult children, thank you. Well, you don't look old enough, as what you said. You're like hmm, very good, all right. So where can we find you? Are you? You said you're online, you're in person. What if we're hearing this as listener and like this is my person, I'm going to connect with her. How do we get in touch with you?
Speaker 3:wwwladyphylliscom. You can write me at ladyphyllismedium, at gmailcom, and I have a Facebook page. You know I'm on TikTok, I'm on a Facebook page, I'm on Instagram. I don't even know how to get on Instagram, but I know my daughter-in-law puts me on there. Sure, sure, I'm definitely on Facebook. And when you see the red telephone booth from London, that's how you know. Like I said, you know I have a whole menu of things. I do have a Patreon that meets the first Wednesday of every month where I bring in experts in different modalities. I've had a grief counselor. I've had a grief counselor, I've had a shell reader, I've had a health intuitive, I've had a psychic. I've had all different kinds of people, a numerologist that come on and give a lecture, so that I just had somebody do a whole thing on angels. So I you know I, because I can only teach so much, but I bring on people, go and and take classes elsewhere.
Speaker 2:So beautiful you to guide you to the second part, which are questions from listeners and our Reiki students here. So number one now. You touched on this a little bit in the beginning. But what inspired the name, lady Phyllis?
Speaker 3:So my name is Phyllis Oken and it's a. That's my professional name. I I'm CEO of a company. When I became a writer and there's a whole story here I became a writer. When I became a writer and there's a whole story here I became a writer. I chose my parents name and I became Carol P Roman. I'm the P in between, but Carol was my mother, roman was my father and I write as Carol P Roman. Let me see, I have a book here just to show you. Here's a young adult book that I did Grady Will and the Templeton Codex. It's a great little book. So I write as Cal P Roman andI write adult stuff as Brit London, just because it sounded like a nice adult name.
Speaker 3:So when we were looking for a name for me to be a medium, my daughter-in-law went out and bought me one square inch of Scotland, oh yeah. And she said you're now a lady. It was like always a dream of mine to get to Europe. Yeah, yeah, I love lords and ladies. And she said let's call you Lady Phyllis. That's how Lady Phyllis was born, because we just were looking for a name to hook people. Yeah, but I have so many names that I have going on. Sure, lady Phyllis it was.
Speaker 2:I love it, I love it. We had gotten one for my daughter and she didn't want to be a lady, she wanted to be a Lord. So she's Lord, jenny. So she's a Lord, so wonderful. So, number two, can you tell me about your class mastering mentorship? The complete series?
Speaker 3:Um, yeah, well it's. It's actually called mastering mediumship and what it's. I've now condensed it down to 10 classes because I did it was first three separate classes, five in each, and then I did 15. And it's just too much for people. It's too big a chunk. Yeah, 10 to 10.
Speaker 3:And I take you through introduction to mediumship, which is, you know, explaining about the monkey mind, about automatic writing, all the Claire's that we start exploring. How are we getting these messages? We do exercises. There's a lot of. You know, it's a, it's a huge group on zoom. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:And then we move into, uh, learning about tarot, learning about signs, learning about different tools to use, like, sometimes people like to use tarot, somebody likes, sometimes they like to use the dowsing rods, crystals, whatever it is. You know you have to kind of discover what works. If, giving a reading, you have to be holding a crystal to feel connected, then that's what works. So we talk about all the different tools. And then the third part goes into past life regression. We do one past. I only have two meditations. One is to meet your spirit guide, one is for past life regression. We learn about past life regression and then the end of the course is about setting up a business. It's about the do's and don'ts of mediumship. So it's A to Z and it covers everything. And if anyone needs help I'm available to them. They can call me. And you know, like I said, most of my students are reading people already They've hung out their lunch table and they are working Beautiful.
Speaker 2:Number three and I went on and checked out your website too, so everyone go check out the website. On your website you have an emergency energy reading, which I thought was quite interesting. I have not come across that, so tell us about that.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, when we were setting up my calendar and the website, my son did it. So he put me up and within a week I was booked up and I work full time. I go to work in the morning, I come home, I do work with the books and then I do readings. I was reading four or five hours a day. I was booked completely for a month. It was exhausting, it was too much. So then he started blocking out time. He said let's come up with a plan where you're not at the disposal of people. So we usually did it, that at least I needed three to five days for a booking. So I knew that because I travel also, I have my business in many different cities around the globe, so I have to travel and I never not show up for a reading. I may call and say look, something came up, we have to move it up or down. But so we set it up and they filled up. But what had happened was people would call me and say I need to speak with you. I need to speak to you right away.
Speaker 3:So my son came up with an idea of an emergency reading. He didn't want it abused, so we charge more for it. Sure, everybody has an emergency, of course. So if they want it, you know, if they're willing to jump the line, so to speak, they're going to. Yeah, and, and I do. I do get at least two to three emergency readings a month. Wow, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2:All right, Well done. So that is our last question as we've been talking. Is there anything you might have forgotten or you feel called to share with our listeners? The floor is yours.
Speaker 3:Well, I just want to say that I started this journey I would say it's 67, maybe 66. And it's been an you're never too old and it's been an incredible journey. The community is fantastic. You know. The community is such a warm, delicious community that it's kind it's like falling into a down comforter. It just everybody is supportive and I was sort of broken when he died. I had been his wife, like together 48 year, total 48 years, and I just didn't know who I was. So this really gave me a chance to get up to know myself and it also helped with the grieving process, of course. So if you're thinking of it, don't think do.
Speaker 2:Do, yeah, yeah, if you have the call, if you feel the calling move forward right One step after the other. So wonderful. Well, thank you, lady Phyllis, for joining me on this journey and taking time out of your very busy schedule. I'm so grateful and appreciative for making this connection with you. Thank you so much. Oh, you're welcome. Thank you All right, my wonderful listeners, if you want your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out wwwreadysetreikicom. I'm Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki. Thank you.
