Afternoon Pint
Afternoon Pint is a laid-back Canadian podcast hosted by Matt Conrad and Mike Tobin. Each episode, they invite a special guest to join them at a pub or microbrewery to get to know them a bit better. Conversations cover a wide range of topics, including Entrepreneurship, business, Arts, pop culture, music, science, society, Life stories, experiences, you get the idea...
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Afternoon Pint
Psychic Medium Laura Warren - Mike gets a reading and Matt connects with departed loved ones.
In our 100th episode of The Afternoon Pint, we welcome back experienced psychic medium Laura Warren! Laura brings us up to speed on what she's been up to, including parenting, her new book and her very own podcast called 'Circle of the Sacred Flame,' with her partner Kimberly Arsenault.
This episode takes a twist when Laura performs live readings for both hosts. Laura reveals some piercing insights about Mikes tendencies and Matt connects with departed loved ones.
This episode has a lot to offer, including Laura's practical wisdom about navigating our increasingly polarized world, raising spiritually aware children, finding faith in a changing world, and understanding the purpose behind our existence. Even 'possibly?' some winning lotto numbers?
Spiritual seeker and curious skeptics are welcome in this anniversary episode, that reminds us how we do have the power to choose our own adventures in life, we just have to fight the fear and go take it.
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Cheers, cheers, cheers. Welcome to the Afternoon Pint. I'm Mike Dobin.
Speaker 2:I am Matt Conrad.
Speaker 3:And I'm Laura Warren Laura.
Speaker 2:Warren, welcome back.
Speaker 3:Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2:Thank, you Very popular guest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were really popular early on when we started this thing, so I mean we wanted you to be back as.
Speaker 2:Sooner, yeah, at Christmas time in fact.
Speaker 1:There was an easter egg in our christmas special. If you listen to it at the very end uh, we, we wanted low, you weren't. Uh, you were supposed to be in our show but you didn't make it because of the snowstorm right, so, as promised, I'm back did you listen that terrible show?
Speaker 3:I did hear some of it. Yeah, the music the terrible song.
Speaker 1:Well, the other thing is a special announcement this is our 100th episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100.
Speaker 3:So another cheers to that. That's a great accomplishment.
Speaker 1:Awesome and we're wicked company. So, Laura Warren, to folks who don't know who you are or may not, hear that episode from a year and a half ago. I think our audience got a little bit bigger.
Speaker 3:Just a little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who are you?
Speaker 3:So I'm a psychic medium and I was born in Halifax here in Nova Scotia. I've been doing readings now for about 18 years and I used to do all local stuff and in about 2019 I expanded everything and now I do readings for people all over the world that's pretty, yeah, pretty awesome amazing the, the amazing thing of the internet, and zoom and right all that's such a
Speaker 1:gift yeah so so psychic and medium, meaning she speak to the dead and maybe she could have potentially almost spoke to you today.
Speaker 2:Tell us what happened on your way here, buddy yeah, on my way here, this was very, almost very different. Uh, yeah, we uh I almost had an accident. I had someone uh pull over into my lane and almost pinned me against the wall and took off my mirror and if I wasn't, if I didn't react the way I did, I would have lost a lot more than a mirror.
Speaker 3:So he just came over into my lane, 18 wheeler, didn't even know I was there, basically I have a saying that doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does at the same time, and I always say when big things are happening, big things happen, and you had a really big thing happen today yeah, my heart is still pumping a little bit fast.
Speaker 1:Do you believe in that final destination movie?
Speaker 2:like close calls and now death's gonna like chase. Yeah, is death gonna chase me now?
Speaker 3:because I don't feel like that you know I feel like um accidents like that or like a major event or trauma. I just feel like it. It's a mark, it's a turning point. So a lot of times they pop up when something in your life has to change all right.
Speaker 2:Well, there you go better though.
Speaker 1:Could also be the fact that I already did die, and this is just me living out my fake reality or whatever, or you just need to lay off on the craft beer. You're going too hard. You know, baby, I don't think that was it One of the two. No, maybe it was a second.
Speaker 2:No, no, I'm going to go with the fact that this is the parallel matrix universe that you know maybe.
Speaker 1:I am still lying back there and I've just continued on. There's endless, endless realities, right, exactly, it could be that so yeah, so welcome back.
Speaker 2:Why don't you update us a little bit on, like, what has happened since and, yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 3:Well, after I left here, I mean we did, my partner and I we've talked about our own podcast. Life kind of got in the way with that, but that's still coming. So we're hoping to launch by the end of March, which would be really great. But I've been writing a book and also I have developed a mentorship course that teaches mediumship.
Speaker 2:So what's writing a book? So the book is it about your craft or is it about your life? Is it about like what? So the book is it about your craft or is it about your life?
Speaker 3:Is it about? Like what I like to think of it. Like it's like a transformational spiritual book. So it's about my journey and how I got to this place, how I learned, what I learned, the spiritual awakenings I've had. So it's kind of like my life and some of the really cool experiences I've had.
Speaker 2:Okay. So it is kind of, yeah, a little bit of like about you, a little bit about your craft and all that other stuff. So that's cool, yeah, Awesome. When do you expect that to come out?
Speaker 3:Well, the plan is to. I'm about halfway through my rough draft, and so the plan was to have the full draft done this year, and we've already decided between Kim and I we're going to open our own publishing label and publish it. Oh, self-publish, yep, self-publish. So we should hopefully be ready for that by next spring. Oh, cool it should be out.
Speaker 1:What do you hope people get out of this book?
Speaker 3:spring should be out. What do you hope people get out of this book? Really, what I want people to understand and see is that a lot of things can happen in your life and you can decide. You get to choose how you deal with it. You get to decide how you handle it, how you behave, um, and what you take from it, and there's lots of things that had happened to me in the beginning of my journey that somebody might say that's really scary or that's really negative, but what it did for me was it showed me exactly where I wanted to go what I wanted what I didn't want.
Speaker 3:And so, if you know, the first spiritual awakening I had, I was nine years old and I had a very high fever and heard voices and that kind of thing. Afterwards Anybody would say that that is really scary for a little kid. It was, but what I learned from it was that I was really strong and that. I didn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.
Speaker 3:I didn't have to listen to anything that made me feel bad and I grew. I grew from that experience. So this has been kind of like a journey of amazing things, overcoming challenges, but also this expansion of who I am and what I can, what I hopefully can help other people with.
Speaker 2:I don't remember if we asked you this the last time, but where you said you had that fever, and then you kind of heard things like is that normal for someone to have? Like is it normal for someone to just have like a natural, like a reaction in terms of knowing and hearing and developing this gift after something traumatic? Or do you see it that some people just have it and they just develop it, or like yeah, I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 3:Like in my case, I could say I was probably a pretty intuitive kid but until that experience I was sick for most of that school year. Um, and one night just got really sick and then I got better but then I was hearing voices afterwards on a consistent basis that I didn't understand. Um, and then throughout my life there's been other things that kind of correlate with other mediums. Like I've had two head injuries, um, I've had uh, it's not a near death experience in the sense that I died, but I have gone to the other side. So those are kind of common themes to have to be a young person and have a spirit of a loved one, talk to you after they've passed. These are all common themes that a lot of mediums have experienced. This and when you talk to this is a question that was asked when I did the talk at the symposium, the Halifax Paranormal Symposium.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had Elliot on the show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was a question that was asked. Is this what happens in a person's physical body or in their energy when they have a serious accident? Why do they change in this way? A serious accident, why do they change in this way? And the only thing I can figure or how I answer it is I feel like it breaks down the resistance, it breaks down the walls of belief that hold you back from your potential so if you can, overcome these terrible things.
Speaker 3:It's almost like your, your energy and your mind can open up to everything that's possible for you it's kind of like having too many beers.
Speaker 2:The inhibitions are kind of the confidence yeah it's kind of like suddenly it's spiritual to do anything.
Speaker 1:So for you now like I have to ask like you're raising kids, or you've raised kids, you said you had one going to college.
Speaker 1:Now yeah um, like teaching the spirituality to your, your kids. Yeah, how does that work? How are they managing life? Because you know, you just said something when you're talking that like click with me. When you said you don't have to listen to those nasty things that you know other people say about you, and I mean, you know, raising a teenager right now, I immediately think about that yeah, kid, and feeling bad about what other people have to say all the time.
Speaker 3:Right, right so it's interesting because I think there's an idea that spirituality is like crystals and beads and yoga and mantras and and those things are wonderful, but really spirituality is just knowing exactly who you are and what you're connected to. And so my kids, it's been a very simple, in some ways, a simple journey to say you need to be whoever you are, you need to find who you are and I will always support you, and that you are connected to a higher power and that higher power can support you, can help you, and that you have control. So you have control over your thoughts, you have control over your behavior, and you have now I have a 14 year old that this is an everyday conversation.
Speaker 1:Are they rejecting that notion? No, he's.
Speaker 3:He's actually very. He listens, he trusts me, he's very open. It's just very um. He listens, he trusts me, he's very open. It's just he's going through all those fun stages where he he is very immediately like he'll be snappy or cranky or whatever, so a teenager teenager, yeah, and so this is an everyday conversation that you get to choose you get to choose.
Speaker 3:You choose your thoughts, you choose your reality. You choose where you get to choose. You get to choose. You choose your thoughts, you choose your reality. You choose where you want to go.
Speaker 2:What's it like to be the kid of somebody who has the abilities that you have?
Speaker 3:It's funny because my youngest he didn't understand what I did. I mean, in the beginning I was doing lots of different things I was studying Reiki, I was studying foot reflexology and I was doing readings and I was making jewelry. So I was doing all these different things and he didn't know what I was doing. So you know those things that kids fill out the Mother's Day, the kind of information page with the little pictures on it. He did one at school and he didn't even know.
Speaker 1:I mean, he didn't know how old I was either, so I guess I can't be too upset about this, but he said I was 62 and that I was a massage therapist.
Speaker 3:So as we, as they got older, I could explain to them. When they were younger, I could support them because I knew what they were going through. So my youngest well, both of my kids had connections with, with spirit, like actually kind of some scary things and some ghostly things, paranormal things, and I could support them and help them because they have abilities like me. They just don't want them.
Speaker 1:So, it's.
Speaker 3:I could support them, but I didn't scare them, I didn't tell them I was. Oh, don't worry about mommy, she's just going to do an exorcism. I'll be back in you know two hours. Like I. I didn't do that to them when they were little Mother's conversations yeah.
Speaker 3:So I waited until they were older and we had the conversation that you know, if you don't have to believe what I believe, but if you believe that that the spirit lives on, that's what I do I do. I talk to spirits to help the living, so the living can get past challenges and problems that they might have had or things that they didn't get to say to their loved one yeah, are they, are they?
Speaker 2:like. Are they receiving that kind of thing or?
Speaker 3:yeah, like they, they have lived a very interesting life.
Speaker 1:I would say yeah so you, neither one of your kids rejected.
Speaker 3:I think they're both kind of supportive and yeah they don't reject it, it's just always been part of their life and I didn't introduce things in like a scary or immediate way. It was sort of like. The first conversations we had was sort of like what do you think God is? And my oldest, at five years old, said I think God is the fire in your heart and I think. God is the fire in your heart and I think God is everywhere. That's cool so at five years old, that was the analogy.
Speaker 3:That was you know, and I was like, okay, we're on the right track, because I grew up in the church, I grew up Bible stories and you know fables and all these things, and I didn't feel like that was necessary with them. I just felt like we like that's my background and that's okay, but I left things open for them to decide and the kids are so intuitive, they know anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, I actually had this conversation not that long ago with with my mother and uh, cause she's still very religious and um, I, uh kind of how I explained it to her is like I don't, I don't, I'm open for my son to be open to whatever. Let him decide it. And the conversation kind of was like well, you know, if you don't introduce it to him, how will he ever know? And stuff like that. Well, I'll introduce it to him in a in a different way. Right, yeah, I'll introduce him in a way that, like, I'll educate him on like, like you know, these are Christians, these are Muslims, these are Jewish people, these are whatever. And it's like these are the people.
Speaker 2:And they're all at a bar.
Speaker 1:They all walk into a bar, but it's like it's one of those things where it's like yeah like they exist.
Speaker 2:This is what they believe in, this is what I think, and you can make up your mind. Whatever you think, right, it's let them kind of. I want to go about teaching faith from, I guess, more of a. Holistic, holistic, but also like in a it sounds weird, but in a factual way, where it's like these are the facts, these are what they believe. You figure out your faith. You figure out what you believe. I'm just going to give you the information yeah, well, we know religion.
Speaker 3:It comes from man you know, and so that's the difference between religious and being religious and being spiritual yeah, being spiritual means that you're completely comfortable with who you are and completely comfortable with what you believe and your own connection. So you're familiar with how you feel about that energy that surrounds us, that we can't see or that unseen force.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And so I know my kids, at least my oldest, has quite very opposed to organized religion.
Speaker 1:It's there is a generational thing too what do you think that is um just just as commonplace today?
Speaker 3:I think it's um, it's recent events, it's history, it's the things that have come to surf, come to the surface and, um, my oldest journey has been very different. So they are a beautiful soul, but they are gender fluid, so they don't claim to have any um gender, gender marker, anything like that, and so they know or have felt that a lot of organized religions wouldn't accept them.
Speaker 3:And they do have more countries at this point, unfortunately, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going backwards yeah, in a lot of places someplace it's going the other way and it's, it's sad, because if anybody knew, if anybody knew, val val is such a beautiful person, just a beautiful person if you know anybody, your perspective changes immediately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as soon as you realize they're human beings yeah, and you sit down, talk to to somebody, like okay, wait a minute, that's it.
Speaker 2:I think that's the biggest thing is, like you know, when you're personally connected with somebody. But I think in the end it's one of those things where we have the freedom crowd quote unquote that spouts off about freedoms and yet they seem to be the folks that don't believe in bodily autonomy, aka freedom, and it's uh ironic we're in a very backwards time, very, very strange, I was listening to black sabbath today.
Speaker 1:War pigs driving gracie to school, that's. That's kind of a cool guy I am, and she's listening to the song and like getting into it, I'm like, I'm like yeah, I'm like, I'm like you hear these lyrics, you hear what it's all about, and like the politics and all that. Anyway, scrazy, I'm like. I'm like think about today.
Speaker 2:It's the exact same yeah this was 55 years ago no, some things don't change in a way. Some things don't change, they just kind of it's that pendulum right, kind of like back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the thing and I mean transgender people have been around for a millennia, we just didn't have the words we didn't have the words we use now. Yeah, language caught up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, morally I don't understand the discomfort with. I mean, I think what it is is you have to learn how to be comfortable with not understanding something. It's the yeah basic, the uppermost basic building block that a lot of people don't seem to have. It's's like, I mean, this show's coming out in March, but you know Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl. I mean a lot of people didn't like that performance. Now I'm a Kendrick Lamar fan. I'll tell you I love that performance.
Speaker 2:I'm not a Kendrick Lamar fan and I love that performance.
Speaker 1:I was ear to ear smiling the entire show. Andrea sitting beside me, she loves it too, because every time he comes up with a new thing, I'm showing her his song, I'm explaining it. I'm a total hip-hop nerd right so our family loved that performance right. But, like you know, some people were so upset before they even wanted to pay attention with it or couldn't be at peace with it because they didn't understand it yeah, and a lot, of, a lot of what we're seeing is this contrast, so there's no gray area anymore. Right.
Speaker 3:And there's a lot of people either. It's not that you can't be wishy-washy anymore because you wouldn't fit in anywhere. You're either this side or this side and there's nothing in the middle.
Speaker 3:And so it's interesting because years ago this was a message that came forward for where we were going as a human race, what was progressing, and it was probably about 12 years ago. I got this sort of a message through meditation that the world was moving towards black and white type of thinking and nothing in the middle, and that creates a lot of conflict, because then it ends up that you have no common ground but the idea that some people will elevate to an understanding and some people can't. They just can't.
Speaker 2:I think, if you kind of like dance in the gray, which I feel like I often am, because I feel like I'm fairly in the middle um for a lot of things, oftentimes I get called a conservative or I get called a liberal yeah, we both do right in, sometimes within the same day, right, and it's kind of like, oh right, so if you dance in the middle and you try to see from both sides and you try to like come be that common ground, you're right yeah, it's, it's different.
Speaker 1:There's different ways. The black thinks you're white and common ground. You're right. There's different ways of thoughts too.
Speaker 2:The black thinks you're white and the white thinks you're black.
Speaker 1:Thinking and growing and getting knowledge and gathering information. A lot of it's ones and zeros or, like you say, blacks and whites, certainties and yeses and nos to get to a conclusion, right.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So it is challenging to take in both sides. So you have to say, okay, this requires a hundred percent rational mindset. You know, don't go on a rap and cursing to raid on your instagram profile just yet, and uh you, you have to carry a certain logic about you as a human right. But then with that there's also that fear. That's in that, like in all of us right like we don't know what's safe to say or what's safe to do anymore.
Speaker 2:It's getting really confusing right, which is kind of crazy, because that's what I think I like about our show is that we can sit down and talk with different people from different perspectives and we can talk about things, sure, and we can be corrected if we say something wrong or whatever it may be. Like you know, we have discussions from people who have different beliefs and all that stuff, and we just listen to them. Right, we listen to them. They tell their story. It doesn't matter if we agree with them or not, whatever right, but it's about sitting down and talking to people, right?
Speaker 3:I always felt like what if we just introduced a different space, so the space that because I don't see? I don't necessarily see the two of you in a gray area what?
Speaker 1:I see is your above, so above, viewing from above, like the mop, it's on the balcony.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, like you can you can view it all, you can criticize if you want to, you can pump it up if you want to, but you don't have to engage it, and that's that's what I've been trying, because I have a lot of clients that are very upset right now and they feel scared you know scared in this world, Families feel scared, Families are ripped apart and that's that's where I am with it, as I usually say. You know what?
Speaker 3:We can act as observers or bystanders if we need to to protect ourselves. So we can stand back from the battle. You can observe it, you can collect your data um. You don't have to engage all the time because it's too tiring um, that's something I need to learn.
Speaker 2:I've been practicing it a little bit.
Speaker 3:It's tough it is tiring, I mean to choose, to use discernment, to choose when you know you want to engage. That's good. We all have to stand up for what's right, but there are times when you don't have to. There are times when you it's it's better to be the observer and collect the information and not emotionally engage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's tough to call that too, though, because sometimes I think standing by is a bit of a weakness, because when there's really terrible transformations happening to your own nation, right, and you're idly just watching and you don't believe it yeah you can't believe it's happening, but you didn't vote I know, you know or or whatever.
Speaker 2:Right, you didn't actually take a stance against it, like so many celebrities with a voice, kind of just stopped talking yeah so many people just gave up I had someone say something to me recently and I don't know, I don't, I, I reject it, but I mean I, I, I heard it, but I reject the thing and they said that, uh, silence is basically a form of agreeing like acceptance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's it is, but I don't agree with that because like what you said, laura, is that?
Speaker 1:no, I kind of agree with that, I mean no, but it's picking and choosing right. So discernment, it's discernment, so that's the thing it's like I don't think I'm silent all the time.
Speaker 2:I say things, when I need to say things and pick and trying to pick and choose, but something that I needed to learn and this is what I said back to this person is something that I am still learning to do is that when you argue with a fool, all other people will see are two fools arguing, yeah for sure. So sometimes you have to just know I'm not going to change this person's mind, right? So you know what? Just don't yeah, no, that.
Speaker 3:I agree with. Yeah, it's like how hard is it to walk away from a Facebook fight?
Speaker 1:right. Oh yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 3:That's why it's a Facebook fight right, you want to be in and everybody wants their voice to be heard, but I have learned that there are things to invest my energy in.
Speaker 1:No, I don't draw myself into that stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, never have social media kind of drawn myself into arguments that there's things to pay attention to and to invest your energy in that matter right and I think that's the point is to take this, take something into your heart and ask yourself is this worth my energy? If you're fighting for your country, it is it just is there's.
Speaker 3:There's not really any question there, yeah, but there are a lot of things going on in this world that do not deserve our energy no, and it just feeds the fire certain things, but even the things that do deserve our energy.
Speaker 2:Some people don't deserve our energy.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, you can't talk to somebody if they don't have capacity to understand you. So this was something I learned this many years ago that there was no point in trying to explain myself to somebody who did not want to understand me right they don't. If they don't want to, then you can make them.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I think we had this talk the last time.
Speaker 1:I was here about skeptics.
Speaker 3:And I said how skeptics are actually really good If they're a fair skeptic, because they will open up. A true skeptic is somebody who opens themselves up to all possibilities and they just want to hear all the information and then weigh it out and make a decision. Wherever their decision falls is up to them. But they're willing to hear all the information and then weigh it out and make a decision. Wherever their decision falls is up to them. But they're willing to hear all the points and weigh them equally. Somebody who's closed will not do that they don't want to change.
Speaker 3:They don't want to change what they think, they don't want to change their behavior or they're afraid yeah, ready for a segue, perfect segue.
Speaker 1:Skeptics. We talked today about doing a couple different. I'm going to how do I say it? Get a reading.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to get a reading here right now on the show Are you ready?
Speaker 3:I am.
Speaker 1:I'm scared, I'm nervous, I don't know why. So, after I do this, matt, it's on you, so I'm going to do the psychic part of it. And, matt, it's on you, you're going to. So I'm going to do the psychic part of it, okay, and Matt, you're going to do the medium part of it. Oh great, okay, I love this.
Speaker 2:I didn't know this is how you were going to do it.
Speaker 1:That's what I told you on the message. I don't read your text. You didn't read it, jeepers.
Speaker 2:No, I sent it to you on the text.
Speaker 3:You remember that part I was still texting.
Speaker 1:Don't text and see. Don't text and drive. This is the thing I didn't read your message because you sent it and then I almost died and we would have had to have done this with a Ouija board. That would have been wicked if I got to talk to you.
Speaker 2:Thanks, I mean just cool once. I mean I would be sad after you only die once, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, all right, so, uh, yeah, so I don't know how this works. Like. So, if someone's coming to visit you, I mean, do they usually have a reason to come and visit you?
Speaker 3:yeah, like a lot of people do, but some people are just curious some people just want to have the experience but, more. More often it's there's a problem. I usually get people at the end of the line that have tried everything else and they don't know where else to turn.
Speaker 1:You know I'm not at the end of the line that have tried everything else and they don't know where else to turn.
Speaker 2:I'm not at the end of the line. I don't think, but not yet he's at the end of his rope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll see Heart's still ticking, but I guess what I want to learn right now is I mean, Matt and I have been extremely busy doing work or full-time jobs, families, and we've got a lot on the go. I know I personally take on a lot and seem to take on more and more and more and more. I never say no because I want to grow. I want to grow this business that.
Speaker 1:I'm working with and I want to grow everything. I want to succeed wherever I'm at Right. But it's exhausting, yeah Right, and some days I really kind of want to just kind of crawl into a hole.
Speaker 3:But I can't and hide.
Speaker 1:Right crawl into a in a hole. But I can't right now. You got too much to do. I want to do that you usually have to have something to get something done right. So very short naps, right. You know kind of deal just recharge, yeah so I mean uh, I mean no, uh, I mean my. My thought on it all is sometimes is it all worth it?
Speaker 3:all the work you're doing. You mean yeah, yeah, okay. So if that's your question, that's good. That's good and I'm going to get into that. Normally I have a little routine I do, but I knew this was going to happen. I actually showed up today. They asked me what I wanted to drink. I don't drink and read, so I got a coffee and I'm all jazzed and ready to go.
Speaker 3:She took three lines of cocaine before she said it. We'll leave that out. So what I want to say about you is that, yes, you do take on a lot, but I would say that the issue is not how much you take on, it's more how hard you are on yourself getting the things done. So you're a little bit of a perfectionist Sometimes. It depends If it's a passionate thing, I'm a little bit of a perfectionist. Sometimes it depends If it's a passionate thing.
Speaker 3:I'm an uber perfectionist, we can say there's a hyper focus in some areas.
Speaker 1:I think it's ADHD.
Speaker 3:Sure Could be, but the feeling is that there is I'll find a way to explain this but there is a personal commitment that you make to yourself. You take on the responsibility to get a certain amount of things done or to cover your relationship responsibility, your you know parenting responsibility, your work responsibility. You actually take on a lot, and I think that your friends would agree with me that sometimes you're hard on yourself about how much you think you should do.
Speaker 2:Nailed it. Yeah, he hates everything we do.
Speaker 1:I don't hate everything.
Speaker 2:we do Literally hates everything until he thinks about it for a week, and then he comes around.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, okay yeah. So what it is is, I think, everything's terrible. Yes, all all.
Speaker 3:So is that the truth?
Speaker 2:Like I always said you hate everything. No, no, no, that's not it. I just think everything's terrible.
Speaker 1:No, but what it is is it hasn't worked out yet. So I want everything to come out as good as it can every project. Want everything to come out as good as it can, every project. So like I'll song, notice it on the shelf for two years like if I wrote a song or if I wrote any kind of artistic creation. I I hate it forever.
Speaker 3:Right but when you, that's the perfectionism though because, when you put so much of yourself and your energy into what you do, sometimes what happens is you begin to resent how much work you put into things. So I'm just trying to find a way to explain this properly. But if you have 10 things to do and you have put a lot of your effort into the first nine things and you had those 10 things you had to do in the day, when you go to bed at night you can't stop thinking about that 10th thing no, last night I couldn't stop thinking about one thing I had to do today.
Speaker 1:Then I got done today, but yeah, but then you don't sleep.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's right and you're not getting recharged because your mind is busy and it doesn't rest. So don't take this as cliche, because it's going to come out that way. But you need quiet time. Your mind needs time to shut off completely. It doesn't have to be a long time every day, but you need 15 minutes in a dark room to let your mind do nothing.
Speaker 1:I hate that, so I can't even do that. I I mean, the only way I can really pacify my mind is if I can play a video game down the base for 20 minutes. So it's like that is not, but it's not really quiet in my mind.
Speaker 3:We'll see what that does, still doing something that is distraction yeah and I understand distraction, because my mind's very busy too, so I often do the same thing, so I can move my mind from where it is. I'm totally distracted and focused on this mundane thing for a little while, and I understand that too. But this is different. This is the hamster on the wheel doesn't stop. So you are getting a little resentful of everything you have to do, and there's things that you have to do. You can't stop it. So, there's things that you, you have to do, you can't stop it right.
Speaker 3:So there's that, but I wanted to um bring forward this to you. What would happen, what's worst case scenario, what would happen if you took time, if you stopped?
Speaker 1:oh, I think my phone rang a lot.
Speaker 3:You think your phone rang Maybe.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just think it would probably nothing.
Speaker 3:Would it bother you though?
Speaker 1:Probably bother me more than anybody else.
Speaker 3:Because my thinking on this is that doing mundane things can help you have inspiration 100%. Yeah, it can bring things in creativity and those things and that works really well for you. But actually resting the mind and not feeling like you have to run and go do anything could be very valuable and make you more productive. So I didn't realize I was doing this myself, but I thought I was always a procrastinator.
Speaker 1:And then I realized, because I thought I am too. I feel like I'm always behind on everything.
Speaker 3:I think, I'm saying this for a reason because I realized I'm not procrastinating. I actually do planned procrastination. So what happens with me is I'll think about something and plan it out all in my mind, because I'm so much like that type A personality. I don't actually want to bring it into existence until I'm sure it's right. So I do this thing where I actually have it all worked out in my mind.
Speaker 1:That's why it took you two years for this freaking podcast. Right, I had to think about it.
Speaker 3:So what happens is that I did this all through university and thought I was a procrastinator.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:So I'd not do the paper, not do the paper, not do the paper. One day before this 20 page paper is due, I sit down and pound it out. Why does that happen? It happens because you already did all the work. Yeah, you just haven't actually produced it.
Speaker 1:Right, I get that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's amazing when you get creatively writing or something you're like I spent that out in like a night, what the hell. And then you realize, no, you thought about that for two years.
Speaker 3:So what Matt is picking up on when you say everything's terrible, what it actually is is you are a true creator, you are a true artist. True artists are very hard on themselves.
Speaker 1:I mean I feel bad because sometimes I'm even hard on Matt. I don't like that Like. I mean I feel bad because sometimes I'm even hard on Matt.
Speaker 2:I don't like that, like I mean it's just. I'm like he's just kind of shit on everything.
Speaker 1:I don't think he does. I don't think he does. That's why I love working with Matt, because he's so frigging chill when I'm like not good, right, yeah, because he knows your process. Yeah, so, just like any great artist you have a process.
Speaker 3:You have a process process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and your process is. I'm not good.
Speaker 3:I'm always like I didn't like this, I don't like exactly, so change everything you're critical, you're critical and everything's terrible until it's not he already knows that yeah, he knows how to just let this whole thing blow over and happen.
Speaker 3:He's like let him have his little temper tantrum and then everything will be fine there you go but on a on another note, I just want to say that I think you don't give yourself enough credit. I think that's what's really happening, is there's not enough reward within what you're doing. You're not rewarding yourself. It's like if something is successful, you're very humble and grounded and that's really nice. But when things are successful, it's okay to take credit, it's okay to say sit back and understand it and take it in and say I did that no, I'll ask you this other bit here now too, because I mean, like, what the regret of this too is.
Speaker 1:I mean, matt, I'm sure you see this as well all the time we spend doing all this extra stuff outside from our regular jobs, yeah right, I mean, uh, my family still gets a lot of time, like you know. Thankfully, I get a lot of family time, and I think they see that they're satisfied with how much they see me.
Speaker 1:I think they don't want any more, but no more so, like my parents and stuff outside of my household is something I feel tremendous guilt about, like all the time Right, like you know, I see my dad enough my mom and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:They're still alive, and they're still very healthy.
Speaker 3:see my dad, enough my mom and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:They're still alive and they're still very healthy, right, you know? And they're, they're great people I love them right?
Speaker 3:have you talked to your parents, like, have you ever asked them if they're missing you or if you're not around enough? Because I think you'd be surprised what they say oh no, what about that?
Speaker 1:I am around enough.
Speaker 3:No well, I feel like they would understand. Oh, I think they do, yeah they do.
Speaker 1:No, my parents are really good about it, but I still feel guilty anyways.
Speaker 3:It doesn't matter, I'm always going to feel terrible. This is what I'm talking about right, this is how we play these games with ourselves and you're doing the very best you can do, and your parents know that, so they're not upset. Sure, they would love to have their kids. I'm sure every parent wants their kid around.
Speaker 1:This is a therapy. This isn't the psychic, this is therapy.
Speaker 3:This is therapy, every good therapist is psychic, okay, but I'll say to you that if you were to go to a therapist, they wouldn't tell you what's happening. They would ask you to tell them.
Speaker 3:That's the difference so I can see the energy around you of the creator the artist, the person who is trying so hard to be other people's everything in a sense, and that you're hard on yourself to the point where sometimes it tortures you, it keeps you up, you know. Sometimes it it's it tortures you, you. It keeps you up, you know, or it keeps you, keeps your mind in a place that is not always so healthy or energizing, um, but also you care a lot about your friends. You're very loyal, um, you would do anything for anybody you loved. You're very careful, though you have very good intuition about crappy people. So, 100 when you meet people, you pretty much know right away if they're good, if they're a good person or not that's how I feel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're pretty much you're reading me like 100. You pretty much can say like a tea leaf yeah, actually my grandmother used to read tea leaves.
Speaker 3:But yeah, like I feel like you meet people and you just know and you can see things.
Speaker 3:It's like in your I would say more in your like artistic endeavors it feels like you're able to meet people and see almost like where you're going with them. It's like you can meet somebody and say we're going to do a project together, I just know it. Or we're going to do like these three things over the next year together, like it's just going to happen, like you already know, even though the person might not quite understand. They might feel like I don't know, I just met this guy, you know. So I think if you trusted your intuition I don't I think you may be out of the insurance game sooner than you think, because I had to bleep that part of it. Because you can follow your passion when you trust that you have everything that you need within you to make it work on every level financial, social, for family responsibility, all that.
Speaker 1:Okay, I got to ask a question back to you and I know this is about me here and I appreciate everything you said and I think it's dead on, like, how do you go?
Speaker 1:and and I'm asking this like heart to heart, okay, not rudely, without any disrespect, but how do you go out there and put yourself out there as a psychic medium? Because I mean, if I think of the vulnerability, like I can't put myself out there as like, uh, yeah, like I I want to make a rap video or I want to do a hip-hop thing or I want to do something. That's not supposed to be the box that you see me and the fear of failure. Doing that is like it's just crazy.
Speaker 3:Oh my god right, I had serious imposter syndrome yeah, I started serious.
Speaker 3:I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know I was doing anything. And here's the thing within you, you don't realize how talented you are because it's you, you're used to you, you know you, you spend a lot of time with you, so you don't see what other people see. And I didn't realize that sometimes, even before I was reading people before I was like a reader, that I was doing this, I didn't realize that I was hitting on all these things with people, um, things about their life that I shouldn't know. And then, when I did get into reading, at first I didn't tell anybody I was teaching. Um, I remember't tell anybody I was teaching.
Speaker 3:I remember I was teaching. I was teaching at Rockingstone Heights, just down the street, and I was doing a radio show and it was like a blog talk radio type show and one of my teacher friends heard it and I remember I was mortified. I was just like, oh my God, they're gonna find out what I do, Like I was hiding it. And it's because I felt like you know, I had to separate theified. I was just like, oh my God, they're going to find out what I do, like I was hiding it. And it's because I felt, like you know, I had to separate the two.
Speaker 3:I'm a professional teacher, the administration, the parents are not going to understand. You know all these things and I probably wasn't wrong. But when the teaching ended for me and I realized that this was going to become my full-time profession, I was told like that, you know, maybe internal voice, maybe from spirit, but my feeling was, if I didn't own who I was, I was never going to get to where I wanted to be. So I had to own it and I can promise you that once you own it and you own everything you are, people feel your authenticity and they know. They know it's true, they know it's you. People actually do have a pretty good bs meter. You know, like most people, and they can tell when somebody is doing something that's from their true essence or not but, if you can't own it, then it just holds you back longer.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's okay, it's a process. I can't. I can't tell you that I didn't jump right out there and say, hey, I'm a psychic reader, you know um, it took me a while, so it's it's hard to own the most important thing in your life yeah, it really is cool.
Speaker 1:So, um well, jump to the end of this, I guess, uh session now. What do do you recommend? The path forward is for someone like me, or how can? I don't know how I can that's probably not a fair question to ask. You can rephrase that however you want. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I would say that the first thing is trying to correct some of the ways that you perceive yourself because, um, what's within is without, so nobody can trust you, nobody can understand your gift or your ability if you're, if you don't accept it or understand it yourself. So it's like this process of accepting, surrendering, getting to know yourself, and the universe has this funny way It'll push you right to the cliff, right to the limit, before the net appears Right. So this feeling like you, may you may choose to wait a little bit longer, but at some point, if your gift is ready to be received by the world, you could be pushed into it without your, without choice. I'll say your path actually is quite interesting, um, because I sometimes see almost like a diagram, like your soul path okay and you could choose.
Speaker 3:You could choose to stay on the path you're on, like, stay in something reliable and sensible and all that. But what's going to happen is you're going to become probably more tired, more disinterested in life in general, maybe a little bit crankier.
Speaker 2:That's not good for anybody.
Speaker 3:He's already a cranky old man, but that's what I mean. Doing things that you love feeds you, and so we always have a choice.
Speaker 1:It certainly does.
Speaker 3:We always have a choice.
Speaker 1:We're 100 episodes of this show. I couldn't be happier with this show.
Speaker 3:We're so proud of it.
Speaker 1:I mean. That meant the whole world to me To make this work and to do it with a friend.
Speaker 3:It means the world to me and you both have done an amazing job, and that's what's here, what's happening. This is all from your, strictly from your heart.
Speaker 1:This is something you really want to do. Genuine enthusiasm it's ADD, adhd squared is what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Genuine enthusiasm on both sides.
Speaker 3:There is this feeling like you don't have to be hard on yourself. I'll ask you this Do you believe in past lives? Do you believe you've lived other lives? No, so you just think you just appeared here with all this infinite wisdom?
Speaker 1:Just flats and space, dust and grossness and that's it and death. Yeah, I don't really think a lot about stuff like that and I probably am afraid to like, you know, I'm saying like it's like I don't, I don't know, I just don't know if I want to go. You know, I don't explore those roots of possibilities, okay, very often which is okay.
Speaker 3:Um, my, my feeling is that if you just came here from stardust, yeah, and you were walking around in this world, I think you'd be pretty lost. And I don't feel like you're lost. No, I don't feel lost. I feel like you're found in so many ways.
Speaker 1:I love my partner andrea, and, uh, everything's great like in life. I mean, the only thing that's missing is, like you know, am I on that career path or whatever. Right like right.
Speaker 3:So you know, you know science, you know energy is neither created nor destroyed, so you have always existed in some form. Whether you believe in past lives or not, it's okay, Okay cool, but think about how long energy has existed in this universe. You had to have absorbed some knowledge, some wisdom.
Speaker 1:This water's been around.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, Water as memory, right as memory right, so so here's the thing yeah you are this soul, this being with infinite possibility, and really, what's what? The only thing that's holding you back is fear I'm sure I got a lot of it and fear doesn doesn't really.
Speaker 3:it's not really real. Yeah, it's. It's there to be, like the bumper pads in the in the bowling alley, in a sense to prevent you from you know major disasters and things, but at the same time, it's not there to to stop you from living your life. It's not there to stop you from living your purpose. And if your purpose is to create, then sometimes we just have to jump and let the net appear.
Speaker 1:I love it. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I really love that. That was really nice. So, matt, do you want to talk to a dead relative?
Speaker 2:Sure, I'll talk to a dead relative?
Speaker 1:Or would you rather just do the same thing I just did, and just do it for you, because it's going to be whatever entirely different.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:do you want to do? This is this is our 100th episode, buddy, it's 101. Whatever we want celebration.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm down with ever. I don't know. I'll leave it up to laura, okay. So, yeah, you can do whatever I'm down for anything. I think this stuff is all pretty interesting to me.
Speaker 3:I love it so this is interesting because you're open to whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And when that happens, sometimes we have a bunch of spirits show up. Amazing. So let's do this. Do you have a grandfather like grandfather energy? So, um, he wouldn't have passed too long ago and there is. I'm not sure if it's him or another spirit that's coming in, but there's, um, almost a feeling like a very organized life, like I want to say military, but that's not really the right thing. But military families often have this feeling like they look at life in a very like cut and dry kind of way. So the energy is similar, but I can't tell exactly if there's, because it might be behind your grandfather Like there's something military coming through, okay, but it again might not be connected to. So this is the grandfather on the recently passed grandfather. Is that on your mother's side?
Speaker 2:No, not on my mother's side, on your father's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is Okay. What's his first name?
Speaker 2:On dad's side. Yeah, walter.
Speaker 3:That's odd. It must be a pride in the family. I keep seeing recognition or awards, and that's why it leads me down that path. But you don't have a military connection, or do you? Well, I?
Speaker 2:mean yeah, sort of. I mean I was in the military for three years okay um, but also um, my grandfather. So I guess it depends on a timeline, but, uh, my grandfather, who passed away in 2001, was fought in the war, okay, and he actually never got to see me join the military. I joined the military a year after he passed away.
Speaker 3:Ah, okay, so is this Walter, or is this the other?
Speaker 2:grandfather. No, that's JJ.
Speaker 3:Okay, so that's probably part of the confusion. So we have both grandfathers here standing together, but I couldn't pin down who was connected to military. So let's talk to jj for a second. Um, very proud, very proud of the family line, very proud of the legacy. It's very important to him. Um, he talks about a baby coming into the family. We're not going to be super specific because I don't know who knows what and what's going on if it's been announced, but there's a baby coming. He's excited.
Speaker 3:He said that this is really funny. He said said you have become a better man than him. So he's watching you grow, he's watching you grow and change and he's, he said, in in a family. It's almost like people pick a figurehead and they look up to that person. And he said I don't feel like I want to be that person anymore because I want to pass on the torch. So it's like he wants to pass to you this family legacy of continuing.
Speaker 3:So, um, sometimes, because even spirits sometimes think in the way of sort of like an older generation, how they would think about carrying on a legacy and and there's a baby boy coming and that kind of thing, so that energy is there, right, um, and I can again like this might be kind of like this might be kind of too new information, in a sense, where it's coming.
Speaker 3:I can't tell when it's going to happen, but it's it's like very soon, um, and he said um, he said not to worry, because you have a lot. You're very protective of your family, very, very protective of your like immediate circle. And he said he wants you to understand that you have so much protection from the spirit world and that, yes, it's good Like you want to protect your family. That's very noble. But he said don't feel like you have to do it alone, because there's some things about you, in particular within yourself, that you actually take the responsibility of kind of helping everybody, kind of being there for everybody. And he said it's very honorable and he's very proud of you, but he doesn't want you to burn yourself out either.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's true.
Speaker 3:Right, because you're everywhere all the time and you're trying to make sure you keep track of everybody and you know do you need anything and you know you're very protective over your wife, which is good, yeah. But he said that she is strong. She is stronger than anybody knows and the two of you are a team more equal sometimes than I think anybody knows.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And you. I think your wife would agree with me on that one. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:We, we have our strengths. We each kind of rule the roost in different ways, that's true.
Speaker 3:There's a career path. So your grandfather said you have, like, as you talked about, you have switched gears in some ways in your life different times. And he said there is, there's no, there's almost like, no question, no judgment from him, from him, from the spirit world. He said that you have followed what was best for you and it's recognized. It's like almost like, recognized, recorded, and it's okay. It's okay, it doesn't matter, you could change your mind a hundred times and he's still going to love you. It's okay, it doesn't matter, you could change your mind a hundred times and he's still going to love you. So there's not that idea that you have to stay in a track. You know for him he's saying that when he was alive. If he gave you that impression at any time, he's sorry.
Speaker 3:Because he doesn't want you to think that you have to do something and be unhappy doing it. Now I would be. There's somebody that wants to come through that we both knew and he's very fantastical and very on the fringe of some belief systems. I would say, all right, and I think I know. You know who this is, so his name is Tom. I knew him as Tom and he's here. He actually showed up at our last podcast, but we didn't really do the reading thing, so it just didn't happen and he's been very patient. But he is also saying please just do your thing, do what you're best at and love it, enjoy it, own it, because he said, life's too short to do things that you don't want to do or be in places that you don't want to be in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty legit. Yeah, yeah, that would be him so he is um.
Speaker 3:He's like. He's like a champion, like he's like I'm the I've have become the champion of my family because, he said, um, there are people that are still sad and upset, of course, um, and that's normal.
Speaker 3:But he said my duty now has become protecting my family and that I have taken on that superhero. He wants to be that superhero, superhero role and be there for everyone. And he said why would you think I wouldn't be there for you? Yeah, yeah, he's literally everywhere all the time. And he said I know that's creepy, but I am yeah, that's that's fair yeah and he's all love.
Speaker 3:You know, um, people get stuck in places and bad things happen, but he literally is 100 love and he has worked really hard. He stands almost like he stands before us right now and he has all his hair back.
Speaker 3:By the way, I said, um, it comes back there you go good for him, loves his hair um he's got some kind of like almost like a suit I would say on, but he's wearing really like fancy kind of sneakers, like it's like they're sneakers but converse or sneakers or something. But he's got like, uh, he's got like a nice, like an actual suit on and he, you know, he's posing of course so, um, he needs you to know that.
Speaker 3:Um, number one, he's okay, he's like, he's like why he doesn't? So he's been in the spirit world long enough that they kind of get to this place where they're like worried about us and they're like why is anybody worried about me? Like I'm fine, um, but you know it's understandable that we would worry about them. But he's like, oh my god, like I am so fine, but because of how things happen, he is bonded to your entire family and is in service yeah, yeah he said he would spend a thousand lifetimes trying to make up for what he did.
Speaker 3:So if you need something, you know who to ask, because he knows how to make things happen. He said I'm kind of magic that's true, mr crow. So, um, there are. Did you, did you lose a grandmother as well? There's um, both, oh, both, okay, yeah, so there's a grandmother comes through, um, sweet, um, but almost, like you know, when we get older and I know a lot of people do kind of, you know, have their shoulders kind of, but hers are more pronounced, she has shorter hair and she, what's her first name?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, both of them would would be, but one would be theresa, the other would be dorothy. Okay, but yeah so who's? Theresa would be on on mom's side dorothy would be on dad's side.
Speaker 3:Who's the one that loves pink?
Speaker 2:I see pink, pink, pink I don't know uh question for your mom, I guess yeah, mom or dad, I, I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm leaning towards like a lot of your dad's family is coming in today, so I'm leaning towards. It's Dorothy, right on your dad's side yeah.
Speaker 3:So there is. Sometimes they come in with an energy that kind of tells me things. So that might be the pink, and pink tells me that she was a person also all about family, wanting to make sure everyone's okay. Before her she had, I'd say, like small pleasures in her life, but she didn't make a big deal out of anything. She didn't want to spend a lot of money. You know she wasn't that person. She wasn't extravagant, but she liked some small, nice things. So she shows me a few items. It looks like maybe a china set, like dishes, like the teacups, the whole bit. But there's a whole set and this again might be something you might have to confirm with your parents, but but there's like you know what that, if that actually end up, might being on on.
Speaker 2:That might be Teresa, because mom still has, like the china set that we had at her okay so there's this china set.
Speaker 3:There's like this feeling like, oh, and, by the way, they all hang out together. It's like because they're all connected, so they would all hang out together and they'd all be there because they have one purpose. Look after all the people that are still here, right? So I see this um set and I also see um a person that, a grandparent, a grandmother, that when you came over, it was all about you, so she would sit down and completely focus on you. What do you need? Do you want a cup of tea? Do you want to treat a cookie, a piece of cake? What is going on with you?
Speaker 3:yeah and so whichever grandmother that relates to the most, that's who's here. And she is here because she said she said that you. It's so funny. The message is kind of similar, but there's a little difference. And she said that you don't have to carry the weight of the world. You don't have to. You are strong enough to do it and you've proved it. But it's okay to ask for help and that's not something you're very good at no, it's very true, that's very true but she loves you, they, they all, they all love you.
Speaker 3:And I just feel like these grandmothers are friends. I feel like I'm watching a little, a little like hen party and they're talking back and forth and like talking about all different things recipes, you want to play cards? Okay, you know, it's all this really cool, like they're, they get along and, um, they get along. And also, to tell you that you have a very special child that is very bright and you will.
Speaker 3:It will help you to seek out some extracurricular things, some different kinds of experiences, all different types of learning, because their mind is so busy that it will make it easier for you if they have the right kind of stimulation. And I know you're working on that already in some ways, but it's like ways, but it's like um, you know, a intelligent mind can be a gift and a curse and there's a lot of hyperness that um is coming out and it's to take it and use it in, to use that energy, like efficiently, kind of, or do you direct it? And into everything they're interested in, even if it's weird. So so if they're interested in I don't know, like purple ponies, you know, like just to encourage the interest, and the interest is going to change over and over again, but they are learning so much they're like a sponge no, I I agree with that.
Speaker 2:actually, I believe in going to your kids and not having your kids go to you, that's for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so there is because they haven't started school yet right, no.
Speaker 3:So there is it's not anything to concern yourself over. Just when they start school there's going to be some adjustment, but you can navigate that because they're smart enough that you can explain things to them and they're going to get it. Um, but there's, there is some kind of bumps starting school. So your grandmothers are both telling me that your kid needs like outside time. Okay, like it's. It's like if, if they don't get enough at school, they're going to be like rangy, difficult, whatever. But you're going to figure it all out and it's just, it's gonna, it's gonna smooth itself out.
Speaker 3:But I'm supposed to tell you that and also I keep that this is later, so we can't confirm this right now, but I keep that this is later, so we can't confirm this right now, but I'll, I'll just give it to you anyway. Um, something about teeth, so, down the road, some kind of dental stuff, um, and also, much later, there's something to do with glasses, which is odd, cause I don't, I don't know. It almost looks like, um, they don't need them all the time, okay, but it's. It's all very minor things, but just things that kind of popped up in my awareness that I thought I should share.
Speaker 3:so okay, glasses do you fear, do you feel overloaded?
Speaker 1:yet that's what happens sometimes no, no, I don't know, I'm pretty.
Speaker 2:I almost died today, so everything's fine.
Speaker 3:After that, everything's okay. Everything is okay, this is awesome.
Speaker 1:It's really cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool.
Speaker 1:Well, cheers, this is a wicked way to do a 100th episode it is, yeah, really wicked. I don't know where to go from here. How do we top that?
Speaker 2:Just shell-shocked.
Speaker 1:Should we go to our stupid questions? We can go to our stupid questions Are you ready for stupid questions?
Speaker 3:Is there more stuff you want to talk about? I'm ready for the questions.
Speaker 1:Let's bring it on, cool. Well, let's get that camera set up out there and I'll try to get some of this stuff off the table. Last time we filmed the 10 questions, like we're doing now, somebody thought I had a pack of smokes on the table. It wasn't a pack of smokes I quit a long time ago. It was a pack of batteries. So I'm just letting that person know, I just thought about that.
Speaker 2:No cigarettes, here we are 10 questions.
Speaker 1:All right, 10 questions with me, laura.
Speaker 3:Warren Psychic.
Speaker 1:Medium.
Speaker 2:Laura.
Speaker 1:Warren, psychic medium. Laura Warren, psychic medium. Okay, so I will just say that, if you are only seeing the video portion of this show, we just had a really crazy chat where Matt and I both had psychic readings and a medium reading for you. She talked to some of your relatives. Yeah, that was crazy, yeah, yeah, so anyways, you guys both was crazy. Yeah, yeah, so, anyways.
Speaker 3:You guys both look like a little bit like yeah, we're like way different than we normally are.
Speaker 1:We're usually like way more, just kind of relaxed.
Speaker 2:Just soaking it all in Our brains are all fried now, so okay.
Speaker 1:So 10 questions is a silly part of our show. Okay, yeah, all right, want me to do question one, buddy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 1:Okay, laura, if your life was a movie, what would you call it?
Speaker 3:Oh my God, that's actually kind of a hard question. If my life was a movie, what would I call it? How to make lemonade out of lemons? I don't know, that's so hard there you go that's a good answer. That's that's good we'll take it, we'll take it, go ahead all right.
Speaker 2:So question number two how can people connect more deeply with their intuition and spiritual wisdom?
Speaker 3:I think the first thing to ask yourself which is kind of a seems too simple and people don't understand how powerful it is, but you just have to ask yourself what do you want? Because there's a lot of people that are doing a lot of things in their life, whether they're in a relationship they don't want to be in, or they're in a town they don't want to be in, or they're working a job they don't want to work. And why are you doing those things if you don't want to do them? So what do you want? It's a harder question than you think.
Speaker 1:No, that's true. Question number three who would win in a fight between Freddy Krueger and Jason from Friday?
Speaker 3:the 13th.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God Big old death match.
Speaker 2:Who do you think would win? They did a movie on that.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:There was a movie, there was a movie.
Speaker 3:I stopped watching horror movies about I don't know, probably 15 years ago. They just affected me weirdly.
Speaker 2:But I would say I have to go with Freddy Krueger, who would you go with?
Speaker 3:Probably Freddy, me too. He seems more vicious to me. He does for some reason.
Speaker 2:Even though he's a skinny dude and Jason's like this unstoppable strong force.
Speaker 1:He owns nightmares with the knife fingers. It's just kind of got them on lock. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Question number four. Question number four is what is a terrible question to ask a psychic.
Speaker 3:Oh wow. What is a terrible question to ask me. You know, when people ask me about how they're, I hate it when people ask me when they're going to die.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I hate that because I don't really know you know, like like there's things that I I'm given a lot of information and sometimes I can see if somebody is going to make it through a health crisis or they're going to live to. I can see like an old age or whatever, but when people ask me what their death date is, I don't understand why that information would help anybody. So I guess, because I don't feel like it would help somebody, I don't get that kind of information. I kind of work in the field where everything is for your good like for the betterment of your life and I don't see how that would help anybody.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'd want to know that answer anyway.
Speaker 1:No me neither.
Speaker 2:Because you'd just be counting down the days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that'd be terrible. Know that answer anyway.
Speaker 1:No, you just be counting down the days, yeah it's literally an actual thing, though a lot of people want to see a psychic to know what their yeah, what their death date is, and I'm like I don't, I don't do that stuff yeah, yeah, okay, question number five if you woke mike from the dead, he'd be pissed off. Have you ever had a spirit super angry that they were awake?
Speaker 3:oh, I like this you know it is funny. It's not that've awakened them, but it's sometimes how it happens. So I did a group reading a few years back and this has happened in different ways, different people, but this lady at the group reading, she wanted to know if we could connect to her niece's husband who had passed. And he came through and he was so angry and he must have had something with her like in life because he said I'm not going to talk to her before I talk to my own wife, okay, and he stomped out in. If spirit can stomp out and slam the door, I'm sure he did all right, that was it.
Speaker 2:that's definitely you, mike. All right. Question number six. So this is a big one as a psychic medium. What insights could you share about the purpose of our existence? Wow, that's a big one. That's big.
Speaker 3:Honestly, we mimic the universe. The universe is always expanding, and so our job here is to expand our soul, expand our awareness, our knowledge. But also we, our main purpose, is to live the life that keeps us in the higher vibrations. So every emotion, every feeling has a frequency, has a specific vibrational frequency, and we are meant to stay in the higher frequencies, which is like gratitude, enlightenment, love, peace. We're meant to try to stay there as much as possible, because that is the frequency that broadcasts the loudest. So it's often said that you can reach 750,000 people with a positive thought, rather than just reaching, you know, 100,000 people with negative thought, because it's the way that frequency kind of broadcasts the airwaves. And that's exactly how sometimes we have a thought the phone rings and you haven't seen the phone yet, but you know who's calling. You know who's calling because they've already transmitted over the frequency waves that they're calling you and your mind has picked it up. So we're receiving and transmitting all the time. And if the universe is constantly expanding, how is that happening?
Speaker 1:It's happening partially through us, that our energy continuously expands have you ever heard the song world of vibrations by gift of gab from blackalicious?
Speaker 3:I haven't, but I should listen to that song out. Okay, yeah, you'll. You'll give it to me after we'll send it to you, yeah percent cool, cool song.
Speaker 1:So it talks about the higher frequencies question number seven I lost thing again. Is it my turn to?
Speaker 2:read. It is your turn to read number seven.
Speaker 1:What is the perfect sandwich to you? If you just made a really good sandwich, what would be on it?
Speaker 3:My perfect sandwich is ham and cheese, a little bit of tomato, a little bit of lettuce, mustard and mayo on like a rye bread.
Speaker 1:Simple, smart, like it. Yeah, quick. Yeah, you were quick on that I like sandwiches.
Speaker 3:Actually, food is my thing, I love food.
Speaker 2:I love sandwiches. Sandwiches are the greatest. Okay, so question number eight I don't think I have a guiding spirit. If I don't think I have a guiding spirit, where could I find one?
Speaker 3:Everybody has one.
Speaker 1:Where could I find one? Everybody has one. Oh, where can we find it? Is it at Walmart? Where is it?
Speaker 3:Not Walmart.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everyone has at least one.
Speaker 3:We'll say energy that has been with them from the time they're born and we don't always perceive them, we can't always know they're there, but there's things you can do. So I'm just trying to figure out how to explain it quickly. But basically, just ask. Just ask for them to show you, show some sign that they're with you and they will speak to you in the best way they can. So that might be a simple thing. It might be a dime you find on the sidewalk that is significant to you. It might be a dime you find on the sidewalk that is significant to you Because of my background. I have always connected to Mother Mary, so I always I talk to her.
Speaker 1:Talk to Mother Mary.
Speaker 3:eh, yeah, I pray to her if I need anything, and I always just thought of her as help.
Speaker 2:You got a God in spirit, I don't know. Maybe I don't know you ever think of who it could be. No, I never actually thought about like I don't know, because I never really, I guess never really truly believed in like guardian angels or whatever.
Speaker 1:Who passed on that you miss the most, that you maybe had a connection to or didn't have a connection to at all. That's a hard question.
Speaker 3:But that's the thing. Your family can take that role.
Speaker 3:no-transcript so if I was a person that loved animals and I just wanted to have animals around me all the time, there's a chance that some of my guiding spirits would be animals, um, okay but I think if you're in the mind frame like you don't really believe in, like the guardian angel idea, then you know your family members, that you know the ones that have been in your life, that have passed or the ones that you felt connected to even though they passed before you were born, and those are the energies around you to help you.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. It's like I think for me for family and stuff like that, it's like I think for me for family and stuff like that. It's like I have I, you know, I miss my grandparents and uh, you know, we talked about tom and stuff, so it's like, but for me it's, it's one of those things with tom definitely, and with with my, my mom's father. I think he would have been one like I just didn't feel like I get enough time with, yeah, uh, and I didn't have a lot. I only had two more extra years with mom's mom. It's just, I think the reason why I focus on my mother's father is, I think, a lot alike.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I, you know, we're both like, we're both stubborn, we're both really, you know, firm in our convictions and we have a lot of like similar kind of belief systems and stuff like that in a lot of ways. Like you know, of similar kind of belief systems and stuff like that in a lot of ways. He kind of at one point walked away from the church. I walked away from the church. We're really strong in our kind of Irish heritage type of thing and anti-monarchists and stuff.
Speaker 2:So there's a lot of things that you know. And he passed away when I was 15.
Speaker 3:So here's the funny thing that you're saying all this is that your guides what we call spirit guides they have to understand you, so they're usually a lot like you because they have to understand where you're coming from, and so they. That makes a lot of sense, and it's interesting that your dad's father came through because he had a different perspective I had a lot of time with him yeah, he was in his late 80s and I really, and he was the last surviving grandparent, so I feel like I really had the time with him yeah
Speaker 2:and he, you know, I mean, would have. I would have liked any of my grandparents to meet my son, but you know, at least like my, my grandfather got to meet my wife and stuff like that and I had a lot of time with him. Yeah, so I feel real like satisfied in that, whereas I didn't have the same relationship as long of a relationship with my other three grandparents yeah yeah, yeah, cool, all right, okay, and I'm gonna write these down okay okay, give us six numbers between 6 and 49 to use on march 12th.
Speaker 1:Any six numbers? Just just spit them out.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is for the lottery. Don't even think about it. I can give you numbers, but listen, I would probably not be sitting here if I could pick the lottery numbers.
Speaker 2:No, we agree, we're just going to gamble.
Speaker 1:We believe we're not going to spend our whole fortune on it, just a few AP bucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Let's do six numbers Okay, let's do six numbers, okay, six numbers.
Speaker 3:Okay, let's do 12, 19.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like where this is going already 22.
Speaker 3:Okay, 37.
Speaker 1:37.
Speaker 3:We're going up to 49,. Right yeah, is that where we're going? Okay, I need 42 and 47.
Speaker 1:42 and 47. Do you gamble?
Speaker 3:Not really. I mean, I buy the odd ticket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do, yeah.
Speaker 1:Insta-pick. Do you let the AI machine?
Speaker 3:do the work out for you. I usually pick my numbers. I usually pick them. I like the energy of picking my numbers.
Speaker 2:Well, listen, if we hit the grand jackpot here, we'll slide you a million.
Speaker 1:You'll be invited to the ap. Uh, boat party. Perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go, love it I sent those to you just so you have them there.
Speaker 1:Okay cool, I got them written down too. Thanks, bud. Yeah, all right, there, your turn, buddy. Last question that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I gotta go back to the questions here, so yeah. So last question is the theme of this year. It's a question we're asking every single person. Uh, so what is one piece of advice that you were given in lifetime, in a life, in your lifetime, that you'd like to share with us and our listeners?
Speaker 3:so one piece of advice for this year, or are they two?
Speaker 2:no, no, no one piece that you got. This is just the question we're asking like a piece of advice, given just a piece of advice that you were given in your lifetime that you want to pass on oh, that's good.
Speaker 3:I have to think about that a little bit. Um so much advice. My whole, I feel like my whole life is about advice in some way.
Speaker 2:So I'm like which?
Speaker 3:one, um, I think the one that I'm sticking with is there's kind of two sides to it.
Speaker 1:Just show up and you get to choose all right I like that just show up and you get to choose yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2:I like that. Just show up and you get to choose. Yeah, I like it. It's fresh, yeah, awesome, yeah, different from what we've had before. So that's good.
Speaker 3:And I would say that this year is rocky, this year is the roller coaster, so just buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:Yeah, globally. It's going to be a rough one, or? It could be a fun one. We'll see what happens yeah we'll see. Yeah, laura, thank you so much.
Speaker 2:It was a pleasure meeting you again. Oh, thank you, great to see you again and helping us out. Thank you, and thanks to Station 6. Yes, they hosted us. They always let us use the back room here, which is always really appreciated.
Speaker 1:And and. It's gone now, but I had the Propeller Black Lager and it was awesome.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:That's the first time I ever had it. I seen it and I always wanted to buy it. I never bought it. Yeah, no, it's good I've had it and.
Speaker 2:I've got my classic Galaxy, which I love Sweet, so yeah, all right.
Speaker 3:Cheers.
Speaker 2:More head coffee. I had a savory dark brew, yeah local cream there you go, there you go. Awesome cheers. Thank you very much. Cheers all right.
