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Episode 40: Interviews and Stories from Dynamic People: Rae Cyr
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In this episode of Ready To Connect: Interviews and Stories From Dynamic People, we sit down with spiritual life coach, hypnotherapist, intuitive energy healing, and psychic medium: Rae Cyr. Learn with us about how she blends intuitive insight, psychology, and lived experience to create real transformation for individuals. You can find more about Rae by visiting her website https://www.sunshineseer.org.
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SPEAKER_04Welcome back everybody to Ready to Connect. I am Lisa. I'm Heather.
SPEAKER_02And I'm Ryan.
SPEAKER_04And today we're going to do an interview with another dynamic person with Ray Seer from Sunshine Seer. But before we get to her, before we could get her in here, I'd love to know what you guys have been up to. What's been happening with you, Heather?
SPEAKER_05So this weekend or this past weekend, went up to um Gooseberry Island in Massachusetts.
SPEAKER_02Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_05And yeah, up by Horse Neck Beach. And Gooseberry Island's an old military installment island, but now it's open to the public and the beach goes all the way around. And um it if if I could give you a visual, envision just a cool hazy day, you know, the waves are crashing and you can hear the rocks rolling back with the waves. And as soon as you open the door to get out of the car, you just get hit with this waft of sea roses, and it just stops you in your track because the whole island is covered in the pink and the white sea roses. How beautiful, right? And it just overwhelms your senses. And if you're a rose lover like me, it's like the immediate reaction was like, I want my house to smell like this. And it was so peaceful, so decompressing. It's so wonderful to walk around on the, you know, just on the beach part, and there were seals out in the bay, and which are cool to watch. Yeah, you know, and they're going up on the rocks, and they were talking, and and then you walk on the other side of the island, which is mainly all rocks, and like um it's very grounding, and but just the smell alone is just overtakes all your senses, and the color of the roses were just so like dynamically, like make your eyes open a little wider, and like that whole theory of like stop and smell the roses was like so reality in that moment. So it was a really nice weekend to just kind of get away and just take a breath.
SPEAKER_02Right. Take a beat.
SPEAKER_05That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02Wow, that's great.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, gotta go. It's really, really beautiful there.
SPEAKER_02Did you get to do any animal communication?
SPEAKER_05No, no, no, I was too busy oodling the seals to like talk to them and just like just enjoying the moment of the just all the sensory things that were happening, the salty air, the sound of the ocean with the rocks, and uh just the overpowering smell of the roses, and it was more about not being who Heather is and just being Heather and just decompressing a little and taking a moment and just being me. You know, picking up seashells and by the seashore, right? So no, no, there was nothing well, there was a lot going on there, right? It's not a coincidence, but um, it was more of a day of like checkout day for Heather. That's great.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's great.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, what about you?
SPEAKER_02Well, um, so first of all, Lisa wants me to mention this. Yes, I do. I'm so excited. So yeah, so um Chris and I were gonna be um announcing this on our band's social media pretty soon because we're gonna we need to start promoting it, Chris. Um so so this is the first promotion of it. Um so yeah, we are releasing our new EP called Signs of Healing uh by our band Waiting for London. That's gonna be released July 16th. Um we are also on that day, we are also performing at the um Rockville Cultural District Festival. It's called Meet on the Street. Is that correct, Chris? Thank you. Um that's in downtown Rockville. So we will be performing the EP in its entire entirety as well as a bunch of other songs. Um and we will be selling the EP at that uh festival. So if you're in the area, if you want to come on down, I guess we're having like an album release party. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I'm actually holding it in my hand. It's amazing. Maybe we could put a picture of it up on the oh, of course. Right next button. Um it's just it's really cool.
SPEAKER_05So it's exciting for us to see you and Chris. Just doing something that is what you love. Yeah, and it inspires you, and it helps you move forward, right? And I can't wait to be there. We're all gonna be there. We're gonna be screaming rock star Ryan for sure. So thank you.
SPEAKER_04So you wrote the lyrics and the music both of these songs.
SPEAKER_02Yes, yeah, and this is the first EP. Chris and I were just talking about this the other day. Um, it's the first EP that Chris and I we wrote like and produced it together. We didn't have outside producers doing this with us. So this is the first time as a band that we are releasing something on our own, also on our own terms as well. So that's why it's really exciting. Um, it's a big step for us.
SPEAKER_05So I know what it takes to write a song, and I realize how in depth and how many layers there's is. How long have you been working on this to bring this forward till it was finally you could say to Chris, and so you could say to each other, like, this is it, we nailed that. Or are you still swimming around and like, should we add more?
SPEAKER_04It's always that, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, I think some of these songs started writing after a uh pretty big breakup that I went through uh about oh wow, was it four years ago, Chris? Yep, yes it was. He's nodding his head. So so started writing the songs back then, but we didn't actually record this until about maybe started recording it three years ago. Is that right, Chris? Okay, he's nodding his head again. So so um yes, so it it took a while um to get it actually recorded and um getting it up to par to what we wanted it to be. We also had another former band member, he played guitar on one of the songs as well. Um he just added in some more texture to it, which is greatly appreciated. Um but yeah, but it didn't it didn't come full circle here until actually this year that we decided, hey, you know what, let let's finally release it, get it out there.
SPEAKER_05So So what do you do for process? Like what how do you get your depth in the songs? How do you get your words to to kind of match out and create what you're looking for?
SPEAKER_02That's a good question. It all depends on the song. I mean, sometimes songs or melodies, like I wake up at four o'clock in the morning and I just have a melody in my head and I have to sing it into my phone, or I have lyrics that are just constantly repeating, like it's not my OCD, it's just I have to write it down. So um it just all depends. And then I'll think, okay, could this be a piano song, guitar song? Because those are the two main instruments that I play. And then um I kind of tinker around with hmm, does it sound good with this, or should I play guitar? And and just kind of go from there, and then eventually it's like, hey Chris, what do you think of this? And then he'll add in his uh perfect parts and and then they're good to go. Nice.
SPEAKER_05That's incredible.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so we're so excited. So once again, that's July 16th um of this year, 2026. And once again, yeah, we're just excited this is the first time as a band that we're doing it on our own, uh, without a label, without you know, uh going through other producers. So it's really exciting.
SPEAKER_05Artist Haven Media, you should be doing it, right? Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_04So aside from this CD, you said you had something else you'd like to share about birds? Is that what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_04So it wouldn't be a Ryan story without a bird in there.
SPEAKER_02No, whether it's birds, coins, you know, Dr. Seuss, I don't know. Anyway, so so basically what happened. I meant to show you both this photo, so now I'm reminding myself, I'm gonna have to post this to our social media. Um, so with my one of my bird feeders, it has a camera attached to it, and um it's been taking uh great photos, but then the other day I noticed, hmm, you know what? It looks like whether the sun the way that the sun was glaring into it, it looked like there was some energy in the photo as well. So I just I found it so incredible. So you have a house finch eating, I think you have two goldfinches fighting in the background, probably over the food, and then you just have this energy in the middle, and like the house finch is just not paying attention to the energy. So do you have that photo? I do. Well, we gotta post that, right? Yeah, absolutely. So I'm making a note to post the photo.
SPEAKER_05Did you put your hummingbird feeder out yet?
SPEAKER_02No, no.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they're pretty incredible.
SPEAKER_02Yes, they are.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they're coming more and more now that we've had this tease of warm weather and then we froze again, and now we have a tease of warm weather. Yeah, yeah. I think we're all confused.
SPEAKER_04We have a we have a woodpecker that wants to um peck our house all the time. It sounds like a jackhammer on the gutter.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, that's the worst. I have an insert fireplace and like that, the big, the big wood woodpecker, which what the ones they based Woody Woodpecker off. Yeah. I know I'm dating myself. What's it called? Come on, what's it called? The big woodpecker.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, isn't that the uh red crusted woodpecker?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah. He'll get on the the insert and he'll just hammer it, and it sounds like uh oh, it's the worst sound of the metal, just kind of they run to the window and they look up at it and trying to give it the eagle line.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so that's that's about it. But yeah, thank you for reminding me. I'll definitely post that photo.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, what about you, Lisa?
SPEAKER_02What about you?
SPEAKER_04I had the most amazing weekend. I had my oldest son down from New Hampshire visiting because it was a celebration of my grandson's first birthday. He's one year old already. I'll have to put pictures up. Um and my daughter and son-in-law did a fabulous job with the first birthday party. Uh it you know, i uh uh my son-in-law has a fairly large family, you know, he's got lots of siblings that all have children, and so there's little kids and people, and um it did they did such a great job with this birthday party and um and it it was just fabulous to see them and and you know how they do the first birthday cake where they are, you know, get all messy and eating it. Well, yeah, my grandson he with one finger is touching the cake, not really putting it in his mouth until he finally tasted and had like a whole handful and delicately put it in in his mouth and then he just went and kissed the cake three times. It was the cutest thing. But um sweet. But it was great to have the family together and everyone together and you know in celebration of that. So but I can't believe he's one year old. I can't. Time flies. One year old, I know. It's crazy. I know crazy. Yep, yep, he could say three words. He could say clap, um, mama and dadda.
SPEAKER_03Okay, there we go.
SPEAKER_04And he also could say grandma, I love you, but apparently I'm the only one that can. But yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, so we'll get some pictures up there on the on the social media for you all to see. So, yeah, that that was my weekend. All right, we're gonna welcome in our guest today. We have with us from the business Sunshine Seer, Ray Seer.
SPEAKER_01Hi, how are you guys? Welcome.
SPEAKER_04Welcome. I hope you're ready for us. We have a boatload of questions to ask you, Ray. I hope you're prepared and ready. Taking it on.
SPEAKER_02She's she's ready. She's ready. She's ready. She has her notes.
SPEAKER_04All right, so um, for our listeners, maybe the ones who might meet you for the first time, could you explain um tell them who Ray Sear is? Beyond your titles, maybe beyond your certifications. Who are you?
SPEAKER_01I'm a curious person. I'm a mother. Uh I ask a lot of questions and I'm curious about a lot of things. Um and I am really intrigued by understanding patterns and suffering. Uh before I was a psychic coach, author, or healer, I was a kid trying to make sense of a complicated world. Everything I do now is an extension of that. I build communities, I do art, I write, and I believe people are a lot more capable than they may be aware of.
SPEAKER_04Awesome. Before I ask any other foul questions, I do want to say, you're a mom?
SPEAKER_01I am, yeah. How many kids? I have an eight-year-old son.
SPEAKER_04Oh, how wonderful.
SPEAKER_05That's delightful. That's wonderful. Nothing like a son. Yeah. Yeah. Your website says that this is where you become who you know you were destined to be. And what does that phrase personally mean to you?
SPEAKER_01I think most people already know who they are. A lot of them have been conditioned to forget. They've been told they're too much, that their dreams are not achievable, they're too weird, too ambitious, or different. And it's not about turning into someone else, it's about removing everything that wasn't your belief in the first place. All of the fear, shame, conditioning, and what's left underneath that has been there all along.
SPEAKER_05Absolutely. And we see that especially when we're trying to evolve, right? When we well, in our teenage years, where we would try to become like our own person, right? And then later on years, as we grow and evolve, right? It's going back to roots and you know, personally trying to design how you want the world to see you, right? And evolve and emotionally evolve, physically and all you know, and some people get stuck, right?
SPEAKER_01Some people are inspired by growth, and some people are intimidated uh because they prefer comfort. Yes.
SPEAKER_04I also think some people are molded by their cultural rules or family order or things like that, and that might kind of take over who they are destined to be, so they feel out of step with themselves, and so coming to a healer helps them get back to who they were.
SPEAKER_01Right. Absolutely. There's a lot of societal conditioning and social engineering that goes into the belief systems that people hold today. Um, so kind of exposing those frameworks leaves someone seeking for their own truth. Right. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02What first pulled you into psychic mediumship, healing work, and spiritual transformation?
SPEAKER_01I think it honestly pulled me. Um I understandable been through a lot uh trauma and things of that nature. So healing wasn't something that I was interested in for fun. It was kind of a necessary step to survive. And as I did so, I started noticing patterns in people and relationships and energy and behavior. Um, and then there were anomalies and things of that nature that became more apparent once I stopped ignoring them. Uh so spirituality kind of became a language for things that I didn't have a language for.
SPEAKER_04We hear that a lot from people that we see in our business too. And I know for me, like my defining moment was when I had a really close friend who was needing to escape pain. She was chronically ill, needing to escape pain, and when I saw the type of medication she was on, I knew that I needed to do something to help. And so that's brought me down the road of energy healing in Reiki, and then the intuitive part just sort of followed, just it was a little bit organic. But wondering, that's my defining moment for Reiki. What's been your defining moment for what you do?
SPEAKER_01So I think the coincidence is amplified into anomaly, is amplified into synchronicities very quickly, so I couldn't exactly ignore that there was something beyond what's typically understood to be reality. Um I had an instinct to pull up on a friend who I hadn't seen in a while. Um and as I did so, she was packing a U-Haul to escape her domestic violence situation, and I was able to de-escalate the uh conflict between her and her ex. And then a different time I was gonna go get coffee and I had this feeling I should bring some of my extra pain with me. And behind me in line at the coffee shop, there was a woman who asked to sit with me and shared that she'd been contemplating ending her life and that one of the things that used to bring her piece was to paint, and she didn't have her paint set anymore. And so I kind of knew that I'd been sent as a messenger or put there for a reason, and I just ended up in the right place at the right time a lot of the time.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you probably have many other stories that are sort of like that, you know. I feel like um you were listening to your guides that are telling you this is what you need to do, this is your path. And so that's amazing.
SPEAKER_05And after you worked with the woman, did you walk back to your car like wow? You know, s I I find it so amazing at my age, and I've been doing this my whole life, that even to this day I step back and go, Wow, you know, like really wow.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot of moments that it's just as much of a surprise to me in this level of consciousness as it is to everyone else. And I really enjoy like the whimsy and the uh spontaneity and the way that signs and symbols and messages tend to come through. Uh it's kind of like a plot twist or a secret author or some sort of um divine guidance. Yeah, it really is.
SPEAKER_05It really is. I know Ryan, Lisa, and myself, you know, we we describe our senses as seeing the world through a different veil. And it's it's a it's a beautiful veil, but it's not one that everybody taps into, right? So how would you describe your intuitive abilities to someone who's skeptical like we do?
SPEAKER_01It depends on the person. A part of having intuitive abilities gives me the advantage of understanding what they might best need to hear and how they might best receive what I have to say. So I use language that is familiar and comfortable to them as much as possible to try to relate to them so they can connect the dots in their own belief system however they need to.
SPEAKER_04That's like it's like knowing when to call yourself a psychic and when to call yourself an intuitive. Absolutely because both words for us mean the same thing, but for other people do not. Right? That's a good point.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Do you believe everyone has uh intuitive abilities? Um you know, is it more natural for some people and not so natural for others, and then they finally have that moment where they figure it out?
SPEAKER_01I think that there are people who are more inclined. I believe everybody does have the ability. Um, but when you look into things like birth charts and different uh d human design systems and things of that nature, um some people are here to show you what it looks like when you don't evolve and when you don't use personal growth. Some people are uh triggers for you to explore your own shadows and wounds. Some people are comfortable with who they are without developing any gifts or they're afraid of it, or you know, they're among us for diversity and enrichment, and we can help each other grow in different perspectives, I think. Very much so.
SPEAKER_02Um what are some subtle signs of someone may be spiritually awakening without realizing it?
SPEAKER_01I would say an increase in coincidences is absolutely one of those things. Um things like pulling up to a location and the odometer that you've been waiting for changes to like 7777, which has happened. Um things like noticing people wearing the same outfits or saying the same things to you. Sometimes if you ignore a message from one person, it'll come through as a trend in what your friend friends and family and other people around you are going through. So you're kind of forced to pay attention to that situation in one flavor or another. Um I think that I have something for you.
SPEAKER_04I have something for you, Ray. Um I don't want to interrupt what you were gonna say, but um I'm curious, I know what I do in order to keep myself grounded and centered when I work with people, particularly people who are um either demanding of the healing work that needs to be done or even when I entertain certain spiritual entities that can, you know, when you lift up. How do you keep yourself grounded if you've been through an intense spiritual or healing session?
SPEAKER_01I think boundaries is a huge thing. Uh communicating clearly what you're willing to tolerate and how you're willing to tolerate it versus what you are not. I've learned over the years that there are people that will take beyond what you're offering, and there are also people that really need help, and there's all sorts of different energies and spirits that you run into. Um a spiritual authority is very similar to in-person authority. If you can say no and mean it over here, it means something when you say it over there. If you lack integrity or conviction in your behavior as a person, it is a lot harder to be respected for integrity and conviction in spiritual terms as well. So kind of balancing both planes, recharging in nature, uh spending time alone as well, meditation, things of that nature kind of bring me back to center and to who I am and what I'm doing and why. And I also, if I'm experiencing something where I feel triggered or uh emotionally overwhelmed, yeah, then I can use it as a as a tool and introspect. What about this is bothering me and what is the lesson here for me to grow from?
SPEAKER_03Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04That's a good way to turn it around. I think a lot of people just think like I need to get rid of it rather than I need to face it or and you know, go deeper into it. And I'm wondering that deeper into, I'm just gonna go into something that we saw on your website where you talked about deep pattern disruption instead of using surface level healing. Is that what you mean by that, or what's the difference to help people understand when they see that?
SPEAKER_01It does have a lot to do with it. So a lot of tarot readings or even mediumship things of that nature can be for entertainment purposes or to just kind of show you that it's real for fun. And with the skills and abilities that I've built up, I wanted to do something more transformational. I wanted to A show that phenomena exists, but also B use that as a tool to uh transmute and transform somebody's directions and align them with like their goals and hopes and purposes. And so um a lot of the surface things could be like a behavior or like a or like a conflict between two people when the core root of that is why do you feel there's a conflict there? When was the first time this bothered you? And so the further down you go into why your behavior and your feelings are occurring now, uh, the more you can rewire those neuropathways and not experience those conflicts in the same way moving forward.
SPEAKER_04I love hearing you speak like this. I think um it's something that Heather and I definitely believe in. It's not just, you know, here let us connect and it's just for your own, you know, fun, or you know, here you come for Reiki and now you feel, you know, relaxed. We want to kind of delve deep down and help you, as Heather would say, use the word evolve or transform or um progress, you know, um and understand why you react or why you have certain behaviors. And so I I'm really excited to hear you speak like that because it's something we like to do, and we we we just you know, we hope that other people that do our business feel the same. So I like the words of deep pattern disruption. Um I've never heard that phrase before, so I like that very much. Yeah. Oh, I yeah, I have a question too. Um you you do you and you mentioned it already. You mentioned shadow and shadow work. Um so as an expressive art facilitator, I work with shadow and shadow work with people's art, and it means something to me, shadow work. And I'm wondering if it means the same thing to you, because I've been a little bit schooled and educated by my business partner that shadow work for someone who um it might be different, might mean something different. So, shadow work for me means the shadow part of their psyche, like the parts of you that are the not so nice parts, and we all have them. For me, you'd be a procrastinator, or um maybe a little addictive behavior to sugar or things like that, or for other people it might be, you know, uh being a very jealous person. What is shadow work for you? How does that look in your business?
SPEAKER_01So it's it's not much different, it is based on like Jungian psychology and and philosophies. Yes. Um it is being self-aware enough to notice uh the emotional range that you experience when you're experiencing an emotion that you don't desire for the situation. Uh unpacking that and introspecting that until you gain a new perspective about that situation and learning how to see things in that new perspective makes future situations less bothersome. So it's a lot about unlearning and unpacking pre-programmed conditioning from environment or people around you or society, and then implementing your own system of coping and perceiving. So if you're someone who's always upset because you get cut off in traffic, something that you could tell yourself is perhaps they're having an emergency and me being slow saved someone's life today. Or perhaps um it's called burnt toast theory, and it's like it I was late today, but it's because there was a big accident on the highway, and if I had been five minutes sooner, I would have been in the pile up. So it's about like trusting that things have worked out in your favor despite appearances, um, to also program your cognition to perceive opportunities over things that are limiting, uh, and that kind of expands obviously the opportunities that you're able to interact with.
SPEAKER_04So when you work with somebody and they're shadow and their shadow parts of their psyche, do you help them like I've kind of been a believer, like if you make friends with your shadow, if you're friendly with it, if you get to know it, it would help you better when the shadow kind of comes in?
SPEAKER_01I think that it can because you can start to recognize it as a tool instead of an inconvenience. Um, I also think that there's something to authenticity and integrity about owning all of parts of you, and to do so means accepting and admitting the things that you're not necessarily proud of, but also understanding that they are essential foundational pieces to you developing into who you're supposed to be. So um a lot of it is like unpacking shame around things that you may have done when you didn't know any better and applying the things that you do know now. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I look at like my shadow, the big one being the procrastinator, or sometimes a saboteur, but the procrastinator, when that shows its head and becomes part of my day, um, I think of Heather in my mind saying, Maybe you need to take a step back, maybe you're doing too much, maybe you're, you know, that kind of thing. So yeah, that's cool. Thank you. Thank you for answering that question.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I love that.
SPEAKER_02Um let's see. Looking at our list of questions here. Which one? All right. Okay, so um your upcoming ebook, or did you already release it?
SPEAKER_01I I literally released it like this morning or last night.
SPEAKER_02Yep, saw that. That's awesome. Congrats. Um so the ebook is called Wellness is a Witch. Um, it blends witchcraft with wellness and psychology. What inspired that concept?
SPEAKER_01I fell into spirituality when I was in therapy, and I had believed that all of the parts of my life were perfect. And I was like, how do I grow from here? I'm very satisfied with everything I'm doing. Um and the therapist mentioned a philosophy called the eight dimensions of wellness, and it is areas of your life, like environmental, financial, social, relationships, that you can work on in different ways. And when I looked at the comprehensive list, I was like, oh, spirituality, that one I have been ignoring since I saw those things as a teenager. I guess I should dive headfirst into that. Um, and as I did, everything else kind of unraveled. And what that taught me was that you need to build them together and comprehensively because you can't build the tower on a crumbling foundation. So as you uh pour the foundation evenly across all eight dimensions, you're able to build something that's sustainable for a longer term and more solid, secure. Uh so I created the book to explain what the eight dimensions of wellness were, how they affect people. There's also a lot of over psychology, neuroscience, and witchcraft often says the same thing in different languages. Uh I don't believe science dis debunks anything. I think it kind of confirms it with a different language. So I like to put them side by side so people can see, wow, uh that that cognitive process is exactly what I thought this spell was doing, is exactly what your neuropathways are doing and the chemicals in your brain are doing, and then your behavior is, and then because your behavior changed, so does your opportunities, and then you get to do what you wanted in life. So to kind of see that next to each other, um, I think it heals some stigmas, it gives people new languages. If you're really interested in science and curious about spirituality, you can taste it without diving too deep into something that makes you uncomfortable or or afraid. Um, one of the big things that I think curiosity is the opposite of fear a lot of times, and to introduce safer ways to learn things uh helps reduce a lot of risks to being exposed to a whole new world you weren't aware existed before. Um, so it's it's a guide, it has uh guided meditations, it has crossword puzzles, it has all sorts of things in there to exercise the different dimensions of wellness in your personal life um and dabble in the occult a bit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I you must be a middle brainer because when did you pick that up, Heather? So in our business, I'm very much a middle brainer. I'm equally science as I am that creative, right?
SPEAKER_05And yeah, for a moment there I thought I was Lisa was talking about it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So um I'm really excited to see how you put that all together. Um, we'll definitely be diving into that ebook. Can we get that right on your website or can we download that from any place you get an ebook?
SPEAKER_01So it's available right now on my website. I am looking into additional options. It is um kind of like my business cards, it is an art piece. So primarily it is a collage scrapbook style art piece with full of symbols and synchronicities. Um, and then as you do the work in the book, by the end of the book and doing the work across the book, you should experience like a whole quantum shift situation in your life. You should be redirected and pointed directly in the direction you're supposed to be directing to.
SPEAKER_05And what if what if someone goes through that book and says, I can't get there? Can they reach out to you? Do you do like some private counseling? Are you going to offer follow-up with that?
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. So I have um I have a one-on-one session available on my website. I also do private readings. Um, I offer courses. I have a community that I've built as well. I'm very active on social media. So I don't find that I'm too hard of a person to contact for the people that are supposed to contact me. Just when you don't want to be contacted.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_05What does your um what does your spiritual practice look like? I'm curious. You know, tell us about tell us about that. Like what do you do personally? Um, what does it look like?
SPEAKER_01I think I integrated different elements of my lineages, um, as well as the family traditions that I was raised in, um, reinterpreted in my own practice. Um, I come from a long line of spiritual gifts, but most of them are in the church. The church has a lot of philosophies that may or may not resonate with me, but the system that they that they have doesn't serve the same purpose that I'm looking to serve. So um I have my own community. Uh, I've connected with other people as well. I'm able to find like-minded people because of the diversity in practices. I think diversity is really important. I think that's part of the purpose is is to have different opportunities and different uh include diversity in multiple ways. Um so is your book beginner-friendly? Absolutely. Yeah, that was part of the goal. So there's like there's candle magic in there, there's some recipes, there's a smoothie potion you can make. There's a Florida water recipe that is something that I've made myself a few times that smells great. Um, a money bowl, there's different instructions to do different activities.
SPEAKER_05So then there's grimoire for you almost.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, but there's also um like journal prompts, and then you have the the psychology end of it where you're doing the introspective work.
SPEAKER_05So it's not just for beginners, like someone like Lisa and I have been doing this for over 50 years at this point, right? Um, we can dig into this too, right? And we're gonna walk away with having this new perspective from you as how I'm hearing you speaking to me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's the goal. And if not, at least it would provide a lot of confirmations in the practices that you have.
SPEAKER_05Yes, that's beautiful.
SPEAKER_04I'm curious, uh, going back to spiritual practice, your personal spiritual practice. Like, do you spend time for yourself in the morning or is it evening or just for your? I mean, you talked about being able to meditate and stuff. You got a young child. I mean, I know for me, I have to spend time with my Reiki grids and meditating in the morning and prayer work and pulling a tarot card and things like that. Do you do anything like that? I do.
SPEAKER_01I incorporate a lot of that, but I also use like daily tasks to bring it in. So you're doing the dishes, but you're working with the element of water. So you can focus on the flow of money while you're flowing water. Um, you're folding laundry, you can fold it towards yourself to bring yourself more warmth, things of that nature. Um, so you can incorporate different spiritual practices into your daily routine. Um, so I'm I'm able to kind of sneak past having a very busy child by doing things like that. I do uh first of the month rituals, full moon, new moon rituals, things of that nature as well. Um sabbaths and uh different holidays I celebrate in different ways.
SPEAKER_05Um I'm over here whispering I love her already. She mouth that to me. I do, I do similar, you know, th things of traditions that were passed, you know, through like the cinnamon through the door and you know, just um simple things that were woven into my childhood and woven in and not really called attention to. But now as an adult, I look back at like, oh my gosh, you know, um, watching a program the other night and they were talking about the jhana of the doors, and I was like, oh my gosh, it like brought back this memory. So, like, totally loving this.
SPEAKER_01Bay leaves in the mop water.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_04There are listeners out there that are just things are like their eyes are opening up and they're making connections for themselves just by hearing the folding of the laundry and the washing of the dishes because things that are so mundane, they can then channel and create it to be something that is spiritual for them. So that's great.
SPEAKER_01I think putting mundane in practicality before magic is super important, but balance is about integration at the end of the day, healing is about integration, and it can be kind of boring. Um, but everything can be a ritual if you add energy and intention and action into it. So it's about creating meaning in your moments. Um, and then you kind of get that energy back when you're out and about and doing what you need to do. Love that. Love that.
SPEAKER_02That's a good point. This conversation is making me think I need to wash the dishes. Um we're having this conversation.
SPEAKER_04Um, Ryan's got a sink full of dirty dishes, is what I just heard.
SPEAKER_02I do. I will admit that. I need to clean them. Anyway, moving on. So uh we love that your platform focuses on mutual aid and community impact. Why was that important for you to build into your business model?
SPEAKER_01So while I have formal education, I also have a lot of lived experience that kind of sets me apart when I'm doing mentorship or coaching or even spell work and things of that nature. Um, I have been unhoused. I have been through domestic violence myself. I have been through many different forms of systematic oppression and just feeling that the world was stacked against me only to learn that I went through that in order to give other people tools to get out of the same thing. Um, and so one of the things that I did was I monetized my TikTok and used that money to start a food pantry in my front yard. Um, I recently just became elected for the uh marketing director on the board of the CWPN Connecticut Welcoming Pagan Network as well. Um so I've always had if I'm blessed, then I intend to bless those around me type of mentality, um, while using discernment and boundaries to see who deserves to be around me. Um and that has without the serving, nothing else would have been built. Um, that is that is the business. That's the foundation. I just needed to make enough to live off of so that I could serve more. Um, so that's kind of essential to the entire like business model is reciprocation and giving out into the community. Breaking down stigmas, um, I think that there's a lot of like division and and narratives that want to separate people right now. And the way to make it through that is to find connections. Um and so building those those types of networks, helping other people in need, uplifting people, uh that paint, for example, that changed her whole trajectory in a breakfast. So you never know who your interactions with will give you what opportunities. Um, I've done court, I I got sponsored jewelry from TikTok, a kit where you made jewelry, and I sat at the homeless shelter and I taught them how to make the jewelry, and they were out there selling jewelry so they could have a hobby that they could monetize that wouldn't get them in any trouble. Um, and so just using the things that have been the opportunities and the things that have come up in business and then repurposing it and bringing it into not just like a gift, but also an opportunity um when I'm bringing energy out into the environment around me.
SPEAKER_04I love um, you know, you hear people talk, business talk about community outreach and stuff, and a lot of times it's just throwing money at something, but um, you're actually out there doing that outreach yourself when you talked about the jewelry with the homeless and things like that. That's that's just amazing. That's that's really cool. You have something called a Seer Society. Is that part of this or is this something different?
SPEAKER_01So the Seer Society is a community that is online. Um, it is the group of which uh want access to things like uh early releases. If I'm if I'm creating something new, um they would get the first opportunity to participate or uh gain access to those things. Um it will be like the place where I start launching courses, uh, but also it's a place where people can connect with each other. I'm hosting a fair called Artisans and Oracles Market in October. Um, and I've invited a lot of the vendors to collaborate with each other in that space as well. They get updates from all the projects that I've got going. On in there. And then they would also get like uh there's collective readings and other things. Uh, so it's like a little community where we don't have to worry about who buys what social media platform, and we can actually talk about the things that we have in common as far as perspectives and goals.
SPEAKER_04How does one access that Seer Society? Is that by invitation?
SPEAKER_01So that's also on my website. Um, there is a page under the offers tab, and uh it's sorted into the different areas that I work in, and community is on there, and that's where you would access the Seer Society.
SPEAKER_04So shameless plug for Ready Ready to Connect, the um the Artisan and Oracle fair that you've talked about, the vendor market that you talked about coming up in October. Ready to connect will be there.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we will.
SPEAKER_04With our own little booth. So definitely come out and see us in October. But we'll we'll be uh we'll be advertising that closer too. Yeah, we're excited too, and we appreciate the invite now.
SPEAKER_05So what's next? Like, what's next for you? What are you most excited about right now?
SPEAKER_01I hypothetically, theoretically, maybe working on developing a video game that's educational and teaches people things like tarot and astrology and runes and divination. Um, so it is like a it is it is like an RPG where you have your character, you interact with different uh NPCs, and they will come up to you with an emotional crisis of some sort, and you will be able to provide a reading for them using tools that have an accurate value set. So if you pull the two of pentacles, it really means the financial decision you need to make. Um, it's cool. This is so cool.
SPEAKER_05We're all over here.
SPEAKER_01When that's done, Ray, we're gonna come back and we'll start playing it. That's cool. So that's yeah, that's the project I'm kind of working on now. There's some courses in the background uh that are being built probably towards the end of the year, they might be released around tarot as well. Um, and other spiritual modalities if you want to dip your toes in the water and find out what it is after you read the book and you're like, what is candle magic now that I've done three candles? Maybe I should learn more about this. Then I would have a candle magic course and things of that nature as well.
SPEAKER_05Oh, the amazing way. Absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing. Wow. You're lighting up our world right now. What's one spiritual tool you can't live without?
SPEAKER_01Myself. Um curiosity. I don't know. It's you don't necessarily need tools. Some of the most profound experiences that I've had, I was walking down the street. Um, but I do enjoy I do enjoy Oracle cards. I think the synchronicities that come through on some of the storytelling uh can be can be funny in in those types of ways. The other day I was trying to figure out if I should dispose of a spell jar. I was like, I think this one's done its job. And I pulled a card and it was like, dispose of things that no longer serve you. And so when they're so specific and ironic, and I really enjoy how those come up. I did another interview um, I think a couple years ago, and we were in a coffee shop and I pulled the mango card. It said mangoes on it, and she was like, Well, I ordered a mango slushie and they served me pineapple, and I hate pineapple, so it's so funny that you brought up mango, and there was another woman in the coffee shop who's like, Hey, my name's her name, also, and I had mango for breakfast, so you never know how many layers it's gonna hit.
SPEAKER_04The mango day, I guess.
SPEAKER_01So I really enjoy kind of the the whimsy, the whimsical nature of how the signs come through.
SPEAKER_05Absolutely, absolutely. If you could give a message to like the collective right now, what would it be?
SPEAKER_01I think that there is a lot of unsurety. Insurety? Unsurety and doubt happening. Um, I think there is a market for fear. I think that there is incentives to keep you on your toes and unsure about who you are. I think that it's important to keep those things in mind so you can consciously live in spite of that. Um if you're aware that this who benefits from that narrative. Um, so creating a narrative that you actually benefit from is really important. And kind of learning how to trust yourself is is something that I think a lot of people need to do right now and connect with each other.
SPEAKER_05I agree with you. I think it's so important to learn this as early as possible. Whether you're, you know, when you're 19, you're 20, you're in a different mindset. You hit your 30s, you change your mindset, your 40s, you change your mindset. So like the more people connect with you, the their ability to evolve, their ability to um yeah, create their life. You know, one of the things for me personally, it it wasn't until my late 30s where I realized if you don't like the way I dress, don't look at me. If you don't like the way I talk, don't speak to me. I don't have to do what you say. It's an opinion I need to choose at the end of the day. So I love hearing this because that's what helps us evolve at every, you know, different ages.
SPEAKER_01I think evolution is kind of inevitable, and you can either get on the train or it's gonna go past you at this point.
SPEAKER_02So that's a good point.
SPEAKER_01It's really helps to kind of uh be a living example of what it could look like and and practice what you preach so that people can see it modeled.
SPEAKER_05And honestly, without the darkness, you don't know what the light is, right? Yep. So and once you find the light, you want to stay there, but every now and then you have to have a little darkness come in so that you realize where you appreciate you appreciate where you've climbed that ladder to, if you want to dumb it down a little bit, right? Because we're all climbing a personal ladder.
SPEAKER_01Then gratitude is a conduit for manifestation, so it helps to tap into that emotion when you feel stagnant and and things aren't moving and you're frustrated, then it's a it's a good reminder that it's time to practice gratitude for circumstances, whether or not you like them very much. Okay, that's right.
SPEAKER_02That's true. Um so I have a question here that was not originally written on the list. So I'm throwing you a slight curveball. But uh you mentioned like different tools that you use, different services that you offer. What is your favorite service that you offer? What's the your favorite thing that you like to do?
SPEAKER_05What's your baby?
SPEAKER_01So I the strategic insight session is a texting conversation where we you have my attention in real time. I'm able to pull cards if I need to, advise if I need to. Um, the situations that people come to me with may vary in that moment of uh conversation. So I really enjoy that. But my second favorite is the Sears snapshot, which is an art piece combined with a tarot reading. So I create like a uh collaborative document that has all sorts of images and and synchronicities in it, but also the tarot message, but also the tarot cards and some oracles, so that you can have something that you hold on to and kind of sit with and process for a little while. So that's I really enjoy making those a lot. Um, I think it's interesting when I'm channeling the people's energy, what personality traits come through in the art. And um so that's that's probably my my second favorite, but I really like that in per the connection and the interaction that happens in text messages. I think that people are more comfortable in kind of a casual conversation. Um, and they're sometimes more willing to share and more easier to open because they don't need to worry about perception or or if they're looking weird or something on a Zoom call, and it can happen on the go for them if they'd like.
SPEAKER_04Do you ever find difficulty with people reading the text with the wrong tone? I haven't.
SPEAKER_02That's a good question.
SPEAKER_04Because I know it's happened in just regular life where people misinterpret what I was saying because they hear it in a tone that it was not intended.
SPEAKER_01I think that I've learned to try and choose my words very carefully for who I'm speaking with. Um, but that being said, if they interpreted it in a tone that I didn't intend, maybe it was the tone intended for them. Um it it if it came across wrong, it maybe wasn't the wrong way that it came across. Maybe it hit a different nerve than I thought. Um one time I was telling somebody I was seeing flowers. Oh, there's roses everywhere. Well, it wasn't a flower, it was somebody who had passed named Rose. So it's not my job to understand how they're gonna hit you. It's just my job to understand what I'm getting. And then you have the opportunity to receive how it hits you or doesn't. I I haven't had much experience with it not hitting.
SPEAKER_04Very well said. All right, so in wrapping up this interview, how can people get a hold of you? Share with your contact information for our listeners so that they can reach out to you.
SPEAKER_01So I have a website, it is sunshineseer.org. Um, there are some contact information on there. I'm very active on the platform threads. My social media handle is sunshine.seer on pretty much every social media. I could grab that handle. So it uh you can reach out to me through social media, um, or you can reach out to me directly through my website. That's probably the most efficient way to get a response quickly.
SPEAKER_04And that sunshine seer spelled S-E-E-R. Yes. All right, just want to make sure people because you can spell it all different kinds of ways. We usually end our um our podcast with affirmations. Would you like to pull from the affirmation jar? I would. This looks fun.
SPEAKER_01Okay, let's eyeballing this the whole time. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Let's check out. We got a double.
SPEAKER_01Okay, we have faith is a passionate intuition, and we have I am my favorite person. Those are perfect.
SPEAKER_04We should be our own favorite person. You even answered that way. What's your favorite tool? You said myself, so that's perfect. I love that.
SPEAKER_05I love that. All right. So grateful for you being here.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, thank you for joining us, and for our listeners, we'll be back next week. So get ready to connect. Thank you for having me.
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