When Life Changes Overnight: Trusting Spirit Through the Unknown

 A deeply personal solo episode about unexpected change, trusting your intuition, and finding the courage to step into a new chapter before you feel fully ready. 

What happens when the life you have built begins to change overnight?

In this deeply personal solo episode, Jason opens up about change, identity, fear, intuition, and the strange way life can sometimes clear a path before we feel ready to walk it.

From leaving the police and rebuilding his life through recruitment, to creating a successful business from scratch, Jason reflects on the comfort zones we can outgrow, the fears that keep us small, and the spiritual nudges that arrive when something within us is asking for more.

He shares why he now finds himself standing at an unexpected crossroads — with a blank canvas ahead, a stronger connection to spirit, and a growing sense that the path he once kept separate is becoming the one he is being called to follow.

This is an episode for anyone who feels life shifting around them. For anyone questioning their work, their direction, their purpose, or the version of themselves they have been holding onto.

Change can be frightening. But it can also be the beginning of the life your soul has been quietly asking for.

At the end of the episode, Jason leaves you with the beautiful track “For Another” by Harry Keyworth.

Please note: this episode includes brief references to difficult personal experiences and strong language.

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Transcript

— Welcome to Soul Sync: Change Is in the Air

Charlie Kelly Medium 0:02

All hello and welcome back to SoulStink, the podcast for curious souls, deep thinkers, recovering overthinkers, and anyone currently being spiritually nudged into a life change they absolutely did not put in their diary. This is a space to explore spirit, intuition, consciousness, healing, and all the strange little signs that seem to arrive when you are pretending you have everything under control. So do please take a breath, pour yourself something nice, ignore the email you should probably answer, and let's connect to something a little deeper.

— When Life Changes Overnight

Charlie Kelly Medium 1:05

Just you and I, to talk all about change. Because I do think there's something in the air at the moment. I'm not sure about you, but there seems to be change in the air. And I think so many people that I speak to who are spiritual, whether they're mediums, psychics, healers, there seems to be change in the air. And like I alluded to the other day on the meditation episode, I'm going through so much change at the moment, and I'm going to talk to you about this. But first of all, I want to address the fact that I haven't done loads of solo episodes because there's a real level of vulnerability to you know just talking you on a microphone. And in the last 12 months, my life has just been so crazy. So I don't really talk about my business much on the podcast, but that's because I've always tried to keep my business very separate from what I do because I think people think I'm a bit, you know, balmy as it is. Well, quirky is probably a better word. Let's not be self-degrading. But that, you know, there's people, I I just haven't brought the mediumship in. And I did at one point, you know, sort of the cat got out the bag, so to speak, at work, and people found out because I accidentally sent an email from my Jason Paul medium email address to someone in the business, and obviously they then saw the website. But I've always tried to keep it secret because of the fact that being a medium and talking to the spirit world, you know, is beyond some people's kind of belief system on where they are in their own journey. So I've always used my granddad's surname as Paul, and that was always what felt kind of natural to me as a medium as I've been going along my journey to kind of keep them the two very separate. But, you know, what I do for my day job, let me just have a sip of herbal tea, all of a sudden I've started talking and I've got a dry mouth now. So what I do for my day job was after I left the police, and my life was in a very bad place at the point that I left the Met Police as a police officer, I had some truly awful things happen to me when I was in the police, which I will talk more about, but I haven't been able to talk about that really because there was a Crown Court trial connected to my time in the police that happened in January. So over the last 12 months, my life has just been crazy because I've had a trial going on connected to something that happened about 14 years ago when I was in the police. My dad passed away, and uh my business has been going through lots of different changes, it's been going through a period of transition, and I've had my business for 10 years. So when I left the police, what happened was my life was in a really bad place, and I had my mum living in my little flat in London that I could sort of barely afford because I had no money at that time. I think I was living on £50 a week, and my mum was living in that flat. I left the police and I decided that I just wanted to leave London because I felt so unhappy in London. So, and what I was struggling with when I was applying for jobs was no one seemed to in London be able to believe the fact that I was leaving the police to take effectively an entry-level sales job because I was thinking, what can I do? I need to make money here, and what are my skills? What are my attributes? And you know, I've always been good at selling things, even when I was at school in primary school, about six years old. I started the first ever entrepreneurial thing I did was I made bracelets. Um, I started making these bracelets from hobbycraft materials that were really pretty, like friendship bracelets. And I initially it was for the RSPCA and kind of like a fundraising day at school, but then I noticed that they sold like absolute hotcakes. That before you know it, I was in the school bookshop every single lunchtime selling them, and I had a production line going on in the evenings with my mum and brother threading these bracelets that I just couldn't sell enough of. And in the end, they had to stop me selling them because the the school intervened. So, you know, I've always had an entrepreneurial flair and I've always worked from a very young age. I, you know, I've always wanted to earn my own money, even when I was 11 years old. I lied and said I was 12 years old to get a paper round that I used to lug round oh, so many papers for I think it was like 15 pounds a week or something back then. And the Sunday ones used to absolutely kill my back, I tell you that. So I went into recruitment, which is a very tough industry, I have to say. To people that don't know recruitment, effectively uh what I went into was a recruitment agency where you charge companies to effectively fill jobs for them, and it's very competitive, it's very dog eat dog. You've got to be able to take a hell of a lot of rejection, we've got copious amounts of rejection. One one good thing about me is I think I've always had a problem with the word no. My mum told me that recently, actually, that really made me laugh. So I effectively left the police, moved up to Manchester, took an entry-level sales job, I got a couple of offers from different companies, and then I took the role, which was at a senior appointment specialist. So effectively, they only dealt with roles 100k plus at the very senior end of the market, and they sold me a very good dream effectively that you know I'd be driving around in a Mercedes in 12 months' time, and my life is gonna look never the same again. And you know, it was it was an apprentice doll-type interview, I tell you that. I had to go through several rounds and had to sit with this very egotistical man, and I took the job, and effectively, I I think they sort of mismanaged my expectations because it wasn't really senior appointment specialist, and what had happened is this agency had opened up a Manchester office, but they were headquartered in Bristol in England, and people started leaving. There was about 20 of us, and I could tell when I first started, I was struggling to sort of get up and running because they got me to do a brand new desk, which was media recruitment in Manchester. Now I knew nothing really about recruitment, nothing really about media, other than you know, Manchester's known for it because there's a media city, and effectively half the office left, and I was kind of one of the last people there that I could I ascertained after about six months. Look, I think this is the wrong home for me. So I started interviewing at other places. I had about five offers lined up, and at the very last minute, this legal lady pops along who owned a legal recruitment agency. Now, my first inclination was no, I don't want to do the law, I've had the most horrendous time in the police, I'm not gonna do that. But she and also what you know ran through my mind is oh, it's quite a family run agency. Do I want to work for a family kind of run agency? I'm not sure. And it was they were quite corporate that you had to wear a suit every day, and I used to hate wearing suits every day. I still do hate wearing suits actually. Whenever I wear a suit, I always feel like a little schoolboy, which sounds really silly, but I don't know. There's something about a suit where it just feels itchy, and I just feel like you know, it's all I feel uptight in a suit, you know, even having to have a tie on butt buttoned up. But anyway, I listened to my intuition this time. A lot to be said for that, Sol Sink, I tell you. And I took that job in that agency, and I remember starting on day one, sitting next to the owner. There's about 20 of us here, based in Manchester City Centre, and I get sort of a day's training in the system and legal, then it's off you go. Then, so my job was to basically they they'd done very well in Manchester, very well in other parts of the country. But what they really loved about me was the fact that I knew London, so they wanted me to help them grow the London market. Anyway, so I was sat next to the owner and she was just giving me printouts of you know different emails they've had in with roles, sort of got absolutely no clue of what I'm doing, and it's one of those kind of industries where you really need to think on your feet and be good, or you're not gonna make it really. It's but what I what I really could tell actually, and I remember this, I'm gonna have to have another sip of my tea now, Sol Sink. Hang on. What I could really tell from this agency was there was a guy sitting opposite me, and his name was Dante. And Dante was wearing quite a nice suit. You know, I know I knew, got to know that he lived in a nice part of Manchester, and he seemed to be alright, doing all right for himself, making good commission. Now, I was looking at Dante thinking, he doesn't strike me as the most dynamic or competent guy. So I thought, if he can do it, surely I can do it. So then I went into effectively mobile library mode. Everywhere I went, I was listening to audiobooks. I've never been a reader, and I do need to start reading because I've got so many mediumship books, and I've got this kind of limiting belief about being able to read with ADHD and concentrate, but I do need to do that. So I went round Manchester effectively listening to books on how to sell. And I used to listen to this uh Richard Deddy book, which was an IT sales guy from the kind of 1990s boom days, and he would talk to you about how to prospect, how to sell, and it was very sort of old school. And I would listen to books on psychology, how to influence people. Everything I could imagine that I needed to do to be able to, what what effectively I now know what the job is is influencing people. So over a period of about five months, I I became the top biller, and they used to do this thing where top dog of the week, whoever billed the most, used to have this uh cheesy email sent round with a picture of a dog, and before you know it, I was top biller every single week, and the agency started to grow very quickly. I I I feel off the back of my success, which sounds very arrogant and egotistical, but the facts are the facts, and the agency grew. You know, she was getting me to do presentations in front of all the staff, you know, on what what I do, what are my systems and whatever. So, a long story short is we then fell out because uh she kept taking clients off me to give to new people, so I decided to leave. Then I went to another agency in Manchester, and this was a time in my life when I'd just come off the back of loads of trauma, and I was almost I went to this city not really knowing anyone, not knowing anyone. The only time I got to know Manchester was during my time when I was this is a whole nother side story, and I think, you know what, I'm not even gonna go down that rabbit hole now because it's gonna take me an hour just to tell that part of the story. But effectively, I was finding myself, and it was a nice place to live as well, very vibrant Manchester, and effect and essentially for gay people as well. It's you know got its own village, and I really loved the vibrancy of the gayness of Manchester, and it was really what I needed, it really healed me after what had been the worst experience in the police, getting, you know, just such a hard time within the job, but also getting such a hard time at home, suffering domestic violence. So I will talk about that more. But I fell out with this lady, started another agency, and then had managed to build up a bit of money, was doing quite well, everything was going okay, and then I started at this other agency, and clients kept following me. You know, I wasn't reaching out to them because obviously I was aware that I had contractual restricted covenants. But before you know it, I'd been to Mexico on a holiday, you know, to have a nice time with my partner at the time. Got back to this sort of a door on my doorstep, a great big wad of paper, which I knew wasn't good news, and opened it up, and it was basically court papers and everything to say she was suing me for restricted covenants, and she'd had my computer forensically examined and all sorts. Anyway, my new employer who I was doing really well for, I'd come in to build him a London desk, really nice guy, sort of took a look at this, got an employment lawyer involved, and said, Look, we don't think she's got a case here, you know, don't settle. Anyway, it sort of dregged up all sorts of anxiety to me because it reminded me back of my time in the police and what had happened to me and whatever, and I just wanted to settle. So effectively, everything I earned in the first time with her, I then lost in a settlement to the value of about £80,000. So I had to start again from scratch, but you know, I'm very stubborn. So, anyway, I lended up doing quite well with this next recruitment agency, and he was really good to me that this man. And then what I decided to do was I was with a partner at the time, and me and him lived together in a house, he was Scottish. I met him on a speed dating night in Manchester, and I wanted to start my own agency because I just felt that earning a percentage of what I was billing, I felt I was more than capable, and I'd always had an aspiration since I was very little of running my own company. But what really scared me is the tax side of things, the business side of things, the running side of things. That that just petrified me because I didn't know anything about running a business. But my partner at the time, who was very flamboyant, very sure of himself, who'd run a business before, albeit a failed business, but you know, that was good enough for me, and I'll take that. And he'd done a business degree at university, he said he was going to help me with that. So I'd basically waited at this next recruitment agency until the day that I got a big commission check because I my plan was to use that money. I'd kind of worked out back a fag packet that if I had this level of money, I didn't need to borrow, I would sit out my six-month restricted covenants for with him and then start trading after six months. But obviously, that involved me having enough money to start it, enough capital, and also being able to live. And it was me risking everything, it was every penny I had to my name. So, you know, it it was very, you know, make or break. It had to work. Failure was not an option. Failure, you know, would just mean going back to an agency again and having spent all my savings. So, anyway, the day came for me to give my notice in, and I was really kind of dreading it because, and you know, he'd be very good to me, and I kind of felt like I was doing the dirty because I I never like things like that. So I gave him my notice and I sort of explained, you know, what my intention was was to sort of work for myself doing it, and you know, he was, you know, obviously not best pleased about this, very explicit in reminding me about my covenants, which obviously I said, Look, you know, I've been burnt once, I'm not gonna do anything here that's gonna, you know, I want to leave on good terms effectively. So then I meet my partner in town for some lunch to talk about the notice, and you know, obviously, I was told I'm now free to go, and it was quite unusual because my partner at the time worked for a clothing line in marketing, and he sort of never worked in Manchester City Centre, but he had a project on that day, apparently he told me. Anyway, I meet him for lunch, and he then says to me that he wants to break up and he spent all morning taking all of his stuff out of the joint house. So, you know, I was about to go through, and this episode is all about change, the biggest change ever, but I felt supported in my, you know, in the fact that he was gonna help me with that and whatever, but you know, like a bang, my life just overnight just changed massively, and it was like my whole world um was almost like crumbling in that moment, and at that time my nan had cancer as well, and it was a very difficult time, but and it just meant every aspect of my life was changing, so it was around that time that I then well uh for for a good period I I wanted to try and get back with him, you know, almost like grovelling on my belly now, sort of looking back at it. And I decided ultimately to move to a new city which was Bristol and start the business here because I knew someone up there that lived in Bristol, and I went for a weekend, actually, a massive attack concert, and really, really loved it. So then what happened was I started the business and it's been like an absolute roller coaster after the over the last 10 years. It's a recruitment agency that specialises in placing lawyers, and uh in the short amount of time I got it to be a multi-million pound company, and it's had its ups, downs, trials, tribulations, and it's really taken a lot from me, and you know, even to put myself in that position at the beginning, you know, was so much change and it pushed me so much out of my comfort zone. Um, at times it did break me. You know, I suffered psychosis from in about three, four years into my business, and I can't attribute that folly to my business, but I attribute that partly to just struggling and never even healing from what had happened to me in my earlier years because from that moment I left the police, it was just like a million miles an hour. You know, I had to make money because every single month I was pulling in less money than I was making, so I was just getting in more and more debt essentially, and it was just really tricky at that time, anyway. Up until recently, been working in my business, you know, everything's been just ticking along, and something happened basically two weeks ago that I was just it was so unexpected, and I'm I'm not gonna go into all the twists and turns of it right now because the timing just isn't right, but essentially I'm now unemployed, having been in the process of selling my share of the company. And if someone had told me that, you know, two weeks ago, I wouldn't have believed you. But what is interesting is I've got to have another sip of tea. Do you know? This is the thing with solo episodes, you just don't stop talking. At the start of the year, and I must admit, on the subject of change, I've been feeling change for so long now. Like in the mid-it must have been the start of last year. I kept feeling that I need change, change is necessary, and there's going to be lots of it. And I remember it must have been April time last year. I pulled one card and it was the tower card, and I knew instantly that was connected to change. And if any of you know the the tower card, you know, for me it just invokes immediately like, oh no, you know, not this card of all the cards, and my and this particular tarot deck is so accurate, it just calls everything. It's made so many unbelievable predictions over time, and even at the start of this year, I always pull three, like a few cards at the start of each year as a kind of like it's really interesting as well, just as kind of like an overview of the year. And the first card I pulled this year was the Five of Swords, and I and then I pulled the Three of Swords, and then I pulled the Devil. And do you know what? Looking back at these cards now, it was sort of my attention was drawn the other day to these cards, and to look back, because I took a picture of it, stuck it in the front of my diary because I journal every day, and when I saw it, I thought, oh my goodness, this makes total sense, and it was calling so accurately what's kind of happened in my business situation. So I've been saying for a long time now that you know, if I keep saying, uh, for instance, to my mum, if I had all the time in the world and you know, my business wasn't a thing, I feel I'd be doing this, I'd be doing this with my mediumship, I'd be putting in much more time to the soul sink. I can see this potential here, this potential here. And now I've kind of unexpectedly be put in that situation. I'm like, well, Jason, you know, I almost feel like I've got so many things that I could do, and I feel so excited about it. And it's and it feels scary at the same time because my business has been everything I've known. And there's even something about the fact that the other day it was kind of invoking an emotion in me, knowing that, you know, I'm gonna receive a last salary, and then that's it. You know, it's And I must admit, you know, the amount that I've got for the the Sal isn't what I would have thought I would, you know, be getting in other circumstances. So, you know, it's kind of like, okay, you've got a completely blank canvas. And this is very, very exciting. And I must admit, Selsink, I've had like uh, you know, so many ideas in the last few days, and I do feel honestly so much lighter, so much so that in the last few days, what have I been doing since you know this news came to light? I found I'll be doing quite a few mediumship readings, and my mediumship, I kid you not, it is just flowing so much better. It's the evidence I'm getting from the spirit world, my clairvoyance, it's kind of ignited, and it really made me stop and think about you know just how much I have given to my career and my business, so much so that I just feel so much lighter and able to just be in the present moment because I feel that there was always this residual thinking and in terms of my business and me trying to all it's always in the back of your mind, there's always something going on, and recruitment is exhausting because you're always essentially you're in the land of the ego, you're in the land of the ego because people who do recruitment tend to be characters in themselves, but they it's a very egotistical environment to be in. And I have felt, you know, since I've been developing my mediumship for about the last five years, it it's hard to be in that environment all day long and then to sort of come home and be the clearest channel for spirit because because things have also been very stressful at work for quite a while, and it you know, it takes it out of you. So, you know, I'm on this period now of just change and working out what I want to do with my life, and you know, right now I'm just sort of dedicating myself to having time for me to actually rest, but I'm also so excited to be able to do mediumship more. And I never thought I was going to things were gonna happen like they are now, but I so felt the presence of spirit and my granddad standing strong in me making the decision that I made, which was to go on this path. And do you know what? Mediumship has given me so much because I the decision I had to make took a lot of courage and it took a lot of trust and belief in myself, and I really called on my mediumship to sort of guide me through this period of change, and mediumship has made me so aware of energy, and it's made me so aware of protecting my energy, even in the heightened, stressful situation of a couple of weeks ago when this deal was all coming about. It was, you know, I could have let my mind run away with me at that time, but I really just made sure that I was aware of not letting my energy be drained from me, and mediumship has helped me to understand that, and I feel I owe so much to mediumship and to spirit because of how much I feel it has helped me in my own journey. So I wanted to come on to talk about change because it can feel so scary change, even when you know the change is a positive change, because there's something about us as human beings, and I've noticed this in my work with recruitment and in my work as the police. I I look at my talent as being I'm I'm a very strong psychic because I was developing my psychic skills in the police in my younger years, and even in recruitment, you know, I used to just put it down to having a hunch and a gut feeling. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I knew I was very good at it. I used to say I was very good at reading people, but you know, I've honed those skills, uh, and I really have honed those skills, but change can feel very scary, and it can, and but there is something about pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. You don't achieve anything in life when you were comfortable, and even comfortable doesn't necessarily mean happy. So if you feel something in your life is shifting, I encourage you to just really trust in yourself because I knew something needed to change in my life. You know, I wasn't feeling fulfilled in my work all the time, I wasn't feeling fulfilled in my soul, I was struggling to be in that land of money, money, money, deals, deals, deals, and that be the motivator for me. But, you know, I had fear pulling me back at times, and fear does that, you know, the ego is not helpful so much of the time, and there's so much work, you know, that I have to do on myself, even with these kind of solo episodes. You know, I've been saying for the last few days, right, get on with it, Jason. Come on now, get to it. But you know, I it's so what I've learned as well is there is this process at the moment where I feel I'm just cutting cords, you know, of even the old Jason, the Jason that would, you know, kind of maybe worry more and want to sort of hold back speaking because you know, there was even always an element that I always felt like I, you know, couldn't speak my full truth because you know, I work with lawyers every day. So now I'm like, you know, fuck it, SoulSink. I can do what I want, I can do what I want. But you know, I think when it comes to change, always trust your heart, is what I would say to you. And you know, if you're feeling feelings of fear, you know, really look at that and see is that really serving you? Is that really reality? A lot of fears and things we have are just make-believe, they're not even real situations. We sort of allow our imagination to uh draw on things that aren't even real a lot of the time. So I just wanted to come on and say hello to you all and say to you that I'm so excited to be on this journey of feeling like you know, overnight I've been thrust into you know full-time mediumship, you know, at the moment, and that's you know, I just it feels exciting to me. It feels so so so exciting, and I just want to say that you know, I love you all so much because I received so many beautiful emails and thoughts and suggestions. You know, there's a really beautiful community here on SoulSync that lights up the globe, it really does with the light that we all emanate. And you know, I just want to leave you today with some music actually, and this is a track. And unfortunately, if you're watching this on video, I won't be leaving you in music. But if you're listening on the SoulSync, there's music. This is a beautiful track. If you want to find out the name of it, it's in the descriptions. It's called uh Harry Kayworth for another. And until the next solo episode next week, lots of love, my darlings.

— “For Another” — Harry Keyworth

SPEAKER_02 31:19

No escape.