Permission Slips - Ep9 - Medium Nicole - Permission to align your soul through present and past lives

Do you feel more drawn to certain destinations when you travel?

A certain pull and a feeling of familiarity with a place you’ve never been to? Watch the latest podcast episode to hear all about Anna’s past-life experience with Italy and her conversation with Nicole Pope, an evidential medium! Nicole shared her story about shifting away from a successful corporate career to follow her passion as a medium and the journey it led her on.

Watch the podcast to learn: Why you feel more drawn to certain destinations What happens to you & your energy when you do things that you love (like travel)

Unsure where to travel to? Let your intuition lead you BONUS: Don’t forget to download Nicole’s Free Intuition Guide: https://mediumnicole.com/free-unlocky...

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Hello, everyone. I'm Anna Fishman and you're listening and watching to episode number
nine of Give Yourself Permission or Sign Your Own Permission Slip Podcast. Clearly,
it's January and I don't know what's happening anymore. We have an amazing guest
today. Her name is Nicole and it will be a very different kind of conversation
compared to all the other conversations we've had. Nicole and I connected a few
months ago on the workshop and I was just drawn to her and her story and her
background. She'll tell us a little bit more about that. But today's topic is give
yourself permission to align your soul. So stay tuned for all the interesting and
spiritual things that we're going to talk about today. Nicole, thank you so much for
being here, welcome. - Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be
here. So tell us a little bit about who Nicole is and why are we talking about
all the spiritual stuff today?
It's just really funny because in that workshop, I was also very drawn to you. So
thank you for making that connection. And a little bit about myself is I am very
long story short. I come from a corporate background. I did project management in
private equity, banking insurance for many, many, many years and working with top
executives in the company. And then I found out essentially that I can talk to the
dead. And I did a 180 on my career over the past three years or so, left
corporate America to pursue essentially this new spiritual connection modality and
helping others not only connect with their departed loved ones, but also letting them
know kind of who their soul is, what their journey is and trying to essentially
help people move through grief, through healing so that they can live their best
lives here on a planet Earth while they're here. Wow, that's incredible. And here I
thought I did a big jump from being in corporate to traveling the world. You did a
jump from being in corporate to traveling kind of to other worlds like to the
mirror worlds. No, it's a great it's a great point. And it's just really funny
because As I continue forward with this career of mine, I'm finding that I'm
starting to do like workshops internationally because, and so there is, so I think
you and I are tied in like to the hip because I'm also totally in love with
travel and I totally see that in my future as well. But yeah, I mean, I think
either way, bravo to both of us for leaving this corporate job and a role behind.
- Oh my God, so much bravo. And I want to, you know, give a little bit of that
inspiration and empowerment to other women. We just chatted for a few minutes before
we started recording. But I said, if one person listens to this episode and gets a
tiny whiff of inspiration to follow their soul, to follow their heart, to like give
themselves permission to align with what they want to do, a success.
Like we as moms, as, as women in general, you don't have to be a mom as a woman.
It's just in the part of us to, to put others first, to do what society expects
to go to work, to go to school, to have kids, to get married, to clean, to cook,
whatever that that thing is in your life. But it's never like, Oh, I'm gonna give
myself a massage. And, you know, go get my nails as like the number one thing,
when you wake up. So yeah, whatever that thing that makes you feel aligned,
like, maybe for someone, it's massage, but maybe for someone else, it's connecting to
their past life or talking to their, you know, part of their family that's no
longer physically with them. And it's okay, like, we need to start breaking the
rules and doing what you feel happy. And you're so right. And I think us as women,
I think we're really good at playing the game, right? And I, and especially
motivated women and women that, you know, we I'm going to say it like I'm a people
pleaser, right? Like, and there's been a lot of undoing of that in recent years,
right? But I was always, I was the only girl in my family. I was, you know, the
golden child, the daughter, right? That could do no wrong until until I did very
wrong but that's a that's a whole other podcast episode um and I always wanted to
be the best and and like I graduated top of my class in high school and college
like I always wanted to be the best at what I could do because when I was the
best I felt like externally validated for who I was and what I was here to do
yeah and I think when you step out and and when you realize that You are not the
expectations that others put on you and that you have your own set of rules,
values, and opinions, and I think, you know, for me, my turning point was having a
child and finally realizing that I don't want my child to be brainwashed the way
that I was brainwashed and being able to step out into your true authentic self and
live a life that's happy. I want everyone to have that. - I do. - And how did it
feel? I to ask you put you on the spot if you don't mind like how did it feel
when you left corporate america to do your travel job oh my god the scariest thing
ever it was scarier than saying yes to when my husband proposed it was scarier than
moving out of my parents house it was scarier than having two kids it was the
scariest thing ever because i was like i when i told my parents they're like are
you insane you have a graduate degree and 10 years in corporate marketing,
you're gonna be a travel agent? Have you heard of internet? Like, they thought I
lost my mind. My friends were like patting me on the back like,
"Yeah, good for you."
Like, and I was like, "Yep, I'm gonna be a travel agent." And then you wanna go
to Disney? Like, it was just like, I had my own vision. I had my own vision to
do whatever I wanted to do. But my husband was the only person who said like,
Yeah, you can do this. I was like, you think me sending strangers to foreign
countries for a lot of money is a good idea. He's like, Yeah, you can do this.
Like, oh, but I think that's, that's a testament to who you are and how strong you
are. Because I'm totally with you. And I think I equally equally got the looks of
shock when I was like, I'm gonna quit my job and talk to the dead, right? And
it's just, and by the way, I come from a Roman Catholic background where this is
not okay, not okay. So I had a couple of things going against me there, but it is
so scary to make that decision. But as I rewind right before you make that
decision, I have to say, and this was true with me, I'd love to see if it was
true with you too. I was so bored and so resentful of my work and I woke up
every day miserable and sad and I tried to fill that empty space with hobbies,
side hustles. I opened up a photography business at one point and nothing filled my
soul and I knew I had to go. Yeah. - Oh, I can relate so much.
I can relate to it. I was, I would cry every Sunday night because I had to go to
work on Monday. - Mm -hmm. - I would, I also like had this mental shift when I had
my first older son. I went back to work. So I spent the whole summer on maternity
'cause he was born on Memorial Day. So I spent like this beautiful summer. I mean,
yeah, it was hard. It was your first child. You have no freaking clue what you're
doing. And then I was like, wait a second, I'll never have a summer at home.
Like I took a lot of long walks thinking, like remembering my summers as a child
with my grandparents. And I'm like, wait, I'll never have a summer like this again.
Like I'll never have a summer to myself. And I was starting becoming like really
depressed about that. I'm like, wait, I only gonna have two weeks a year and I
have to like break up those weeks between like spring break and Christmas break. And
I started spiraling. I'm like, I'm gonna open a coffee shop. I'm gonna open a
painting studio. I don't paint. I don't really drink coffee. It was just like, it
was that how desperate I was. And I went back to work. And it was, I remember I
was like a month or so into going to work. I would leave at six a .m. or come at
eight p .m. I leave it's dark. My baby's sleeping. He was four months old. I come
home, it's dark, my baby's sleeping. And I would like take him out of the crib. So
while sleeping, sit in the dark room just so I can hold his warm body. And cry my
eyes out and my husband caught me one day and he's like, what's wrong? Is the baby
sick? Are you sick? Well, like on paper, everything was fine. I'm not sick. The
baby is not sick. We have a roof over our head. We have a foot on the table. We
have both jobs, you know, like we live in a safe neighborhood, that was the most
miserable ever. And I knew something has had to change. So like life kind of like
pushes you in that corner and you can't explain it, but you know something's wrong.
- And I think you said it so eloquently on paper, everything looks fine.
- Yeah. - And I think that us as women, when things look good on paper,
we suppress our own desires or our own urges, right? Because it's so easy to put
yourself to the side when everyone else is taking care of it and everything looks
good. - Yeah. - And I love that you knew that something needed to change.
And like the same with me, I knew something needed to change. And I remember
sobbing as I quit my job. And I wasn't sobbing for me.
I was so excited for me, and my husband is very supportive as well, so we have
that in common. That's amazing. I sobbed to my boss's boss when I put in my notice
because he's a wonderful man, and I felt so bad, and it was just like this
cathartic exercise of almost like releasing all of the pent up. I don't know the
shell of who I was to him and like this letting go and literally releasing tears
of who I was as a career professional in corporate America to him while I was
giving him my news. - I just got chills, no, that's powerful. You were like,
the word that came to mind, like you were kind of like reborn into a new Nicole.
Like you were leaving your old corporate self in that office during that meeting and
you are starting like from scratch or from maybe not scratch, but like from a
better place. That's amazing. Yeah. And if you look, I was just doing this right
before we got on here. I looked at a picture of me when I started doing my social
media posts like a year and a half ago versus now and you can see the change on
my face. Like the stress is gone, right? So like I want to encourage your listeners
that you need to, like if you have that urge to that something isn't right,
even if on paper everything looks fine and you know deep in your soul or deep just
this gut feeling of I don't want to live this way I'm miserable. There is another
path for you and that's actually like if we get into the spiritual side of house
like your soul is meant for more and your human is finally realizing it, which is
so cool. - That's amazing. And that's, I think it takes, I don't know what I'm
trying to come up with because it's January and I'm still like in my, I don't
know, Christmas bottoms. I feel like I can't think. But like,
I don't know if it takes courage or if it takes like really paying attention to
yourself because so many people are stuck in this rut of crying every Sunday night,
of not being happy, of being miserable. I remember when I worked in corporate people
would say, you're so negative, you're so, and I'm like, I'm not a negative person.
Like I've never been a negative person, but that corporate world that commutes, that
like pressure made me into this negative person who I wasn't. So it wasn't true me.
And now when I look at my pictures, now when I look like yesterday, I was wearing
a Grinch sweater all day because I was like, look at me wearing a Grinch sweater
to work because I gave myself permission to change my work. So I can wear whatever
the heck sweater I wanna wear and not have to like wear the old, boring corporate
clothes that I hate it. So it's like that little thing that like you listen to
yourself, you listen to your inner voice, which I never used to because that's not
on paper. What are you supposed to do? You're supposed to go to work, have kids,
get married, make dinner, make do laundry, like read with your kids before bed. Like
that's what you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to go to Italy and have a
private carnival like for yourself and your girlfriends. Like that's not what you do.
But heck, yes, that's what that's what I did two weeks ago. And I'm so much
happier. And I want other women I want other women to hear this and be like, heck,
I don't need to do the dishes. Like maybe they can wait, maybe I can go sit in
the sun for 10 minutes. Yes. And that little inner voice is your intuition and your
intuition comes from your higher self and your higher self always knows exactly what
you need at any moment. So I love that you have found that and you listen to that
and you follow it. And for a lot of people, it takes literal training for them to
realize, oh, I have an inner voice. I have this little, it's like little jupetto on
your shoulder and like this. It's not really your conscience, but But you don't I
mean like I have this inside of me that is literally my true north It's my guiding
star that helps me in life and and if you can find that that's your ultimate life
hack 100 % every single time because it will always show you the way and show you
what you need and Here's the added benefit and I love your take on this When you
start following your intuition once you learn how to listen to it and you actually
follow what it says, your life enters a flow state. - Yeah.
- And things are just easier. - Yeah.
When I started working from home when I quit my job and like nobody in my family
is an entrepreneur. So like everybody thought it was like completely, like I was
completely bananas. And the first year I wasn't really like knowing what the heck I
was doing. I mean, who really does know what they're doing when they're their chest
starting brand new business. But I started learning so much about myself,
I was like, oh, I actually need complete quiet around me to do work,
because I sat in the huge office of sales people who are like all day on the
phone, and I couldn't concentrate. I'm like, so I am not lazy, or like not able to
do stuff, I just need a different environment. Or like, I realized that "I'm very
efficient when I follow my flow." Like some mornings I wake up and I'm very
creative and I feel like doing like a batch of social media content. Other mornings
I wake up and I'm like, "I don't wanna do anything creative. "Give me a Excel
spreadsheet, I'll crunch my numbers, "I'll do like accounting." But when you work for
someone else, you don't have the flexibility. You have to do what you have to do.
So I stopped forcing myself doing accounting when I felt like writing and writing
when I felt like doing counting and I became much more efficient and I was like,
oh my god, like I can actually do things. I can actually be positive and I can
actually enjoy what I'm doing, make money, while enjoying what I'm doing. Because
this is another paradigm where like, if you're enjoying it, then it's not work,
right? But we all got so used to like, you have to hate your job to get paid and
if you're loving it and you're getting paid. There's something wrong with it. I'm
like, no, you can like love it and get paid and enjoy your job. So many things,
like so, so many things. Right. And I hope you don't mind, like as you talk. No,
of course. Like you're showing me things too. And what it looks like when you truly
follow your intuition and follow things that are like the path of least resistance
and you do things that you love, what happens to your energy is it actually like
raises and vibrational level. So if I kind of explain what that looks like is
vibration level is just like what you said, like when you are in the corporate
world, you're unhappy, you're at a low vibration level. And when you're doing things
you love and you're in this flow state, you're at a higher vibration level. And
then what happens is once you're in this higher vibration level, especially as an
entrepreneur, you are able to attract the types of clients that you want to attract
because I would bet I would put my money on and I'd love I'd love you to identify
if this true or not for the first like six eight nine months of your of your new
job your entrepreneur job you struggled probably to find clients just because you
were coming out of this corporate vibration level this lower vibration level and
figuring out how to be more in alignment with the things that made you happy.
And then when you finally said, I don't give an F, right? And you were like, you
know what, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to wear my Grinch sweater
to the office, right? Like that's when you start attracting your dream clients
because you are being 100 % authentically you and truth, especially us as women,
we can intuitively know who's trust, who's trusting, who's truthful, who's authentic.
And when who are living in that truthful, authentic vibration, you just naturally
attract the people that are supposed to be in your energy field, in your life.
- 100%, I fired every single client from my first year of business.
Because I was like, this is not the people I want to talk to every day. This is
not the type of sales I want to do. This was just like, none of that was what I
wanted to do. And I was like, if I'm gonna do this business. If I'm starting from
scratch, I like quit my corporate life, and I bet everything on this business, I'm
gonna do it the way I want to do it. I'm not gonna do it the way some travel
guru said, you're supposed to join this type of age. Like, no. And like, when we
started chatting today, and I said, you know, I'm not in my office, and I'm in my
dining room, because I felt like sitting in front of this beautiful garlander over
my head, because I don't like the lighting in my office and yesterday I was
recording and I looked like a ghost with red lips and I'm like I'm not doing that.
You know what? It's too bad. Too bad. I'm recording in my dining room today like
I'm doing whatever because I I gave myself permission to break the rules.
This was my theme for last year and I'm trying to like carry this into this year.
I want to break the rules. I want to follow my my inner intuition my soul like I
just want to do the things that make me happy. And now even like this particular
thing, recording it in front of this background versus my office background, makes me
so much like more relaxed and excited and happier. And oh wow, this is gonna be
the background for today's episode. - Yes, absolutely. And I just love it so much
because what you have naturally found works for you is just like,
what I help my clients do all the time is just like, just lean into what makes
you happy, what makes you what brings you joy, and that naturally is going to raise
your vibration level and attract the things in your life that you want. And like,
that is the true law of attraction, is that if you are and people tossed around
all the time, they tossed around so wrong, right? Because you think, Oh, if I just,
if I wish for my Mercedes Benz, it's going to show up in the driveway right and
that has nothing to do with it because you need to be at the right vibrational
level to attract it and sometimes that takes work yeah and especially for us it
takes a lot of societal conditioning or deconditioning um and removing the
expectations beliefs uh behaviors that others have placed on you and just again like
to your point like writing your own permission slip to be who you want to be and
and make yourself do the things that make you happy and then life gets so much
easier as a result of that. And that's being in alignment with your soul. - 100%.
I wanna go back to the beginning when you mentioned, like when you quit your
corporate and you started talking to the dad, like that's not really like, when I'm
gonna grow up, I'm gonna talk to a dad for a living. Like that's not what really
people do, right? - Right. - Like How did that come around? How did you find that?
I'm so curious. - It's a really good question. So I have always been obsessed with
mediumship. I grew up watching the TV shows, I think it was like the John Holland,
like I just, I loved it. And I, being raised Catholic personally, I was like,
what is everyone? So everyone just comes here once and they go chill in heaven,
like, and that's it. Like, and they I don't talk to really like, what am I, so
they're just floating by on a cloud. So I never really understood, I'm gonna say
like the religious view of heaven as like you just, you come here once and you go,
but I've always been obsessed with mediumship anyway. And then one day in the middle
of COVID, when we were, I was home working remotely and my son,
who was in kindergarten at the time, was sitting next to me trying to remote learn
how to read on on on a zoom screen with his kindergarten teacher, he was terrified
to be alone because he told me there were shadow people in our basement. So he
could actually see spirit with his eyes. And I just I played it off, he's kind of
good imagination, whatever, like, so okay, I'll humor him, I won't let him be in
the basement alone while we while we're there together all day. Fast forward a few
years, he's still afraid of being in the basement. Now he's afraid of being upstairs
in his room by himself. Like, and he's eight this time. And there's no way this is
normal activity for eight year olds to be terrified in a house where we haven't had
anything bad happen ever. This is not this is not an old antique New England house,
right? Like this is built in the 80s, right? So I finally reached out to a medium.
And I was like, could he possibly be really seeing spirit? Because I believed it.
I believe that spirit was there. I've never ever in my life, besides the sixth
sense movie, heard of anyone seeing spirit with their physical eyes. And she's like,
Yeah, no, he's actually seeing spirit. So why don't you go just go deal with it?
And I'm like, what do you mean? What do I why don't I just go deal with it?
She's like, Well, you're a medium, why don't you just figure it out? And I'm like,
wait, what? "Wait, what?" And she's like, "You didn't know that you were a medium?"
I was like, "No, I didn't have no idea that I was a medium." So she saw right
away that I was a medium and I had absolutely no idea. So I ended up signing up
for her eight week mentoring class and then from day one of class, when she showed
me how to connect, there they all were. And I'm like, "Oh, hey, everybody." So, but
I think it's a classic case of I grew up in a household where we didn't talk
about it. We didn't talk about dead people, we didn't talk about mediumship. Like, I
used to watch it on TV and that was it. So I was kind of, I'm gonna say, raised
under a more religious oppressive household. And then once I figured out that I
could do this, I'm like, oh, I probably have been doing this my whole life. I just
had no idea.
- Wow, that is so interesting. makes me think about this story that my son used to
tell me that he made up. This was like about a year and a half, maybe two years
ago. I don't remember exactly, but he's now nine, so maybe he was like seven,
eight. Every night before going to bed, he would tell me, "Mom, you know my
previous life. What? How do you know my previous life? You know my previous life? I
was a boy named Steven, I lived in Japan and he would like go about this like his
whole life in Japan about his sister and how they had bunk beds. He would go into
like these little details and I'm like, this is really freaking me out because your
imagination is not that good.
I've never like come up with stories like that before. And it was like very like
life -like stories. And he would tell me this every night before bed for like
months. And then he's like, Oh, remember, I told you about the boy Steven, like I
made it up. And I'm like, did you? So now that you mentioned your son, I'm like,
was he really a boy named Steven in his previous life? Oh my God. I think so.
I have to, did someone have like a leg issue in that life that he mentioned at
one point?
That kind of rings a bell. I'm going to ask him But I see something happen with
like a left leg, it's either broken, someone's in crutches, someone can't walk. So
I'm gonna, I'll leave that one with you. Um, that immediately, I immediately felt
that. So yeah, I mean, that was his past life. And then for him, I just want to
say when this information comes in, it comes in like a memory. So it doesn't
surprise me at all that he's retelling this story like it's a memory. But now he's
old enough to discern That's not actually a memory. I might remember it crystal
clear, but that's probably just a story that I tell myself. And this is classic
with kids. I know so many kids that have told their parents about past lives and
they brush it off as this fun creative story. And no, that was literally the past
life. That was probably his most recent past life that he had, which is why the
memory is so clear. - Right? That is just like, it's so fascinating. It's also
creepy at the same time. It's also like all these things, you know, like I started
believing into this, uh, into the past lives because I had an interesting experience.
So I, I am very, we're like totally going off topic. I'm like, let's talk about
the past lives, but this is like, I think maybe that's why I was like so drawn to
you. I, uh, so like, I have this really interesting, like pulled towards Italy.
I'm not Italian during COVID when we all did the crazy things that we did. I did
my 23 and me and my genetic like all of that. And I'm like, please tell me I
have 1 % Italian, zero, nothing. I was like, okay, thanks for telling me that I'm
half Jewish, half Eastern European. I knew that. Can I have my money back? No. I
was paying you to tell me I'm Italian. They didn't tell me I'm Italian. So I kind
of forgot about all of that. But I like, I do a lot of trips to Italy. I do
group trips to Italy. Like, like when I land in Italy, like it's just that air,
I'm always written that off as like, I grew up in Ukraine, so that's like European
air like Europe just feels like home to me. No, I don't feel like home in France
or Spain or anywhere else. I feel like home in Italy. So I happened to be in Rome
again for the second time this past February. And the first time when I went to
Rome, like 15 years ago, with my husband and our honeymoon, it was a terrible
experience. We were on the cruise, it was hot, like we walked into a shop and the
owner was rude to us, like we just like did not have a good experience. So I
never had the draw to go back to Rome, even though like I was really into Italy
for the last, I don't know, 10 plus years. - Yeah. - I had an opportunity to go to
Italy to Rome, specifically for a couple of days I was alone and I'm like you know
what I'm gonna book a couple of tours just to like kill some time I just don't
want to like sit in my hotel room for the context it's like it's February it's a
Thursday I'm doing an evening walking tour like food walking tour I booked a group
tour I was the only one there because again it's February it's Thursday it was
raining it was cold so I was like you know what I have no idea where I'm going
I'm just gonna grab a cab real quick to the, to the meeting point and meet the
guy there. So I don't miss it. So I arrived about 20 minutes too early. No
problem. It's raining. No problem. Like I'm in Italy, like it doesn't matter. So the
meeting point is at this fountain. So I'm walking around the fountain, no one is
there. It's like 7pm, no one is there. But it's raining and the cobblestones are
like twinkling in the, in the, in the fountain, like, so I'm just enjoying the
scenery, but I have this feeling like I've been there before. It just feels like
home. It just feels like so familiar. And I know I have never been to that part
of Rome before. I've never been next to that fountain. I have like no memories of
anything. So I'm taking pictures, videos, whatever. Then the guide shows up and she's
like, okay, we're gonna start the tour. And I'm again, I'm the only one on this
tour. And we turn around, she's like, oh, this is the arch that we're going to go
through to enter the Jewish ghetto of Rome. And I'm like,
oh, shit, like-- OK, yeah. Like, I was like,
OK. So I'm part Jewish, like my dad is Jewish. And I was raised with a Jewish
identity. I consider myself Jewish. So I'm like, maybe there is something from my
past that maybe I was not Italian. Maybe I was Jewish and lived in Rome. So she
starts telling me about all this like Jewish history, how like Jews were there for
like centuries before like beef like during the Greek times and they're like old and
I'm like this is so fascinating. Wow. Then I we finished the tour I enjoyed the
tour. Time goes by I like forget about that like, you know, like it was it was
nice but it wasn't anything. Then the funny enough, I am watching Emily in Paris. I
don't know if you ever watched that show. Oh yeah, yep. And they went to Rome for
a weekend. Yes. Remember? Yep. And they are walking, Emily and her friend,
I forgot her name, are walking through Rome and her friend sees a guy playing piano
and she wants to play a new song family. And she sits down to play a piano.
And then that scene, they're showing like, I don't know, maybe like a 10 % of a
fountain. I knew exactly which fountain it was. I knew that it was, this was the
fountain that I had a walking tour starting. How many fountains are in Italy,
in Rome? - I've been there a lot.
- How did I know that, and it doesn't say which fountain it is, but I just saw a
teeny fraction of it. I paused the show. I went into the dark hole of internet.
I found where they filmed the show. Yeah, that's exactly the fountain where they the
tour was. I was like, Oh, my God, there's something has to do with this like
fountain. And so I tell the story to my friend who is really into psychology and
astrology and like all of all of that stuff, which I could be I could not be more
far removed from that. I'm so practical and pragmatic. And like, and like, never
again, grew up in the family that we didn't talk about this stuff. Well, like we,
this wasn't anything. So she goes, we're gonna find out about your past life. So
she has someone who reads past lives. - Cool. - So she calls them without me knowing
and tells this person, I have a friend mentions nothing about Italy. She just says,
I have this friend who wants to find out about her past lives. So this person who
reads past lives asks about, I think my first name, when and where I was born,
the time of my birth and where I live now. That's it. And she goes,
oh yeah, in her past life, she was one of the first female silk merchants in
Venice
in 1500s, what? Coming out?
Supposedly I had nine kids, I was a widow from a young age, and I'm like, no, no
wonder I'm still tired from being having nine kids and 1500s. If somebody told me
that I was like, I don't know, a farmer in Ukraine, I'd be like, yeah, forget it.
But I'm still a merchant in Venice, I'm very much identifying with. Yeah. To add
the cherry on this cake, all of this is happening, as I'm about to leave for my
trip to Venice with the group that I've been planning for two years. Not knowing
any of this, like way before I went to Rome, way before like I learned about this
past life. My friend is like, we're gonna do some fact digging, like let's go and
see like if Venice was actually in like the silk business. Yeah, it was. It was
very popular. Venice was on the route of the silk route. Crazy enough that silk
trade was happening in the neighborhood that wasn't even part of Venice before it
was outside of Venice. Wow. Where the Jewish ghetto was later.
The neighborhood that's called Canareggio. Guess where I happened to pick a hotel
where we were staying for like our trip in Venice. Wow. In Canareggio.
What? So I was like so like, oh my God, this is insane.
We went to Venice. We went to one of the silk merchant like silk production like
and they I was like, can you show me what I did here in 1500s? Like I need to
see this kind of stuff. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It was like so incredible.
I so now I'm running with the story. I don't know if it's true, but I'm running
with it. It's part of my brand. That's part of my identity. I was hustling 500
years ago, and I'm still hustling. And and Venice and like, I love Venice. Venice
is like my favorite place in the whole wide world. I never cared about any other
place as much as like, kind of like having this connection. I came home, I told my
husband, I see us retiring in Venice, I see us like when we're in our 60s walking
and like in the dusk with the lights twinkling like along the canals and having
dinner he's like you're crazy i'm like yeah that's why you love me but
like all of this like if i would have made this up like i don't have that that
good of imagination to make it up but this is insane once you hear that story you
get goosebumps over your whole body right and and you like so you feel it's right
and then you go and land in Italy and it literally feels like home yeah and it
feels and to the point and I'm gonna see if I can describe it because spirit's
kind of like helping me put put towards the feeling of what does it feel like when
you feel like you've gone somewhere and it feels like home it's like your senses
senses have heightened. It feels like you can almost like hear better, see better,
like there's just and when you're there, certain things like catch your eye that
wouldn't normally, right? You almost feel like you can understand the language. I
don't know if you can speak Italian, but like you feel like you can understand the
language even though you really don't. And like you just feel happy and bright
inside. And you feel like you belong, you feel like you're part of the neighborhood.
- Yeah. - And I want to validate that for you because yeah, you did have a past
life there. And like I hear a spirit saying, "Yes, I'm not hearing any more to
your story." Probably 'cause we're just chatting back and forth. But I felt the same
way when I landed in Enboro. I think it was in 2011. And like I'd never been to
Enboro. We have, like my husband and I have traveled. We traveled a ton before we
had kids, but when I landed in Edinburgh, I was like, "Oh, man, I am home. I am
home." And there's nothing that I think people like,
you don't know what it feels like until you've had it yourself. And you know, like,
I like, and I didn't know, this was before I was spiritual at all, like that
didn't know about past lives at all, right? Like, but there's just something there
that tied me to that land. And I will like, I've had the same reaction. I'm like,
I need to, I need to retire here. (laughs) So I completely understand.
And that to me is always the signal of, it was a wonderful life there.
And I think that you would probably,
have you had a tie? What's the, one of the wonders of One of the wonders of the
world, is that Jordan, the thing in the sand? Petra, yeah. Petra.
You've had a life here too, so I don't know if you've been to Petra or felt it
there. I would suspect if you go to Petra, you're going to actually feel the same
way. I don't know if you're going to love it as much because I don't think it's
as pretty as Venice. I've been to Venice, I understand that, but there's going to
be places that you just naturally are pulled to because of these past life
connections. And what happens is when you're when you're there energetically, it's
like that old version of you and this new version of you almost meets up. And
you're like, holy moly, and there's just something that is inexplicable. And I'm sure
that your listeners probably have been to places where it feels that way. But isn't
that so rad? That's not like, ever. When people say like, oh, travel changes you.
That's not just a catchy like phrase, it does change you. Like I have my friend
who who dug up all of this for me. Yeah, he has this,
she has this connection to Paris. She's like, when I'm in Paris, I feel like I've
been here, I feel like I know everything. I just like feel at home. And she did
her past life's readings. And she had multiple past lives. And she did have a past
life in Paris. She also had a past life in ancient Egypt, where she was one of
the female physicists in ancient Egypt. That's what she studied in college in this
life. She's an actor. She started physics and math. I'm like, this is so crazy.
Like, how like, how does is just like happen. And I wish that like more people
like listened to their inner feelings or intuition or whatever that is,
like, when you're traveling, don't just like run from Coliseum to Vatican to like,
you know, fountain travel, cherry fountain, just to put a checkmark, like I'm just
using Italy, of course, as an example, no matter where you are, like, listen to
yourself, like how does it make you feel like how does it like do you want to go
back there like when I'm in France I could yeah yeah then you line from front to
back and because you don't care yeah like it's just go see the sights yeah I
wasn't this most beautiful hotel in Provence I was there for work I stayed in the
most gorgeous room I woke up I had like the floor to ceiling windows with the
rolling hills outside of my window - Yes. - Like picture perfect. I woke up, I look
at the sun rising and I'm like, it's nice. And then I tell myself, what if all of
this was just teleported to Tuscany? And I have a completely different feeling,
like all the same things, the same sunrise, the same hills. But if I knew I was
in Italy, I would feel completely different. - Yeah. - So like, it's so interesting
how like past like, I want to encourage people to travel, travel to your past life,
travel your future life, present life. It doesn't have to be across the seas. Maybe
your past life was in your town. And then you know, maybe you pass by, I don't
know, maybe you don't have a fountain, maybe you have a lamp post or something or
like a tower clock that you're like, it catch you makes you catch your breath and
you just like want to stand there and look at it. Maybe there is something to it.
If it makes you feel good, like embrace it. Don't worry about people thinking you're
crazy. People can think you're crazy anyway for many other reasons, like putting your
corporate job and doing what you want to do, right? Just like give yourself that
permission to follow your heart and whatever it is. You're absolutely right.
I'm laughing in my head right now just because
I think you know, it's a past life tie, especially if you have no sort of ancestry
there like you with Italy and then me with like I'm not Scottish, I'm actually
Italian. Yeah, right, like I'm not, but what I what I did do because I loved it
so much and I felt that tie so much as again before I got into the spiritual work
I got a giant like tattoo of this all on my leg, that I needed a piece of
Scotland with me. So like, so I'm totally with you, I love it. And I think the
more that people travel, the more that people experience the world, like it just
opens them up, right? And I think vice versa, if you have an intuitive hit or this
desire to go somewhere, particularly like if you're a kid and you're obsessed with
like Paris, if you're obsessed with Rome, obsessed with Egypt, I know we've mentioned
those three. And there's a reason why you're naturally obsessed with certain things
as a kid. So follow that intuition as you get older if you feel intuitively drawn
to a place. And like we talked about in the beginning, women are very easily to be
like, "Oh, we don't need to go there. "That's maybe just a pipe dream for me.
"We'll go somewhere that's fun for the kids." Like I guarantee you it's gonna be
worth it to travel to these places where you have this intuitive draw towards and
just wait and see the magic that unfolds once you get there.
- That's so true and so incredible. Make me think of a client I had a couple of
years ago. Her 15 year old son was obsessed with World War II history. He just
like such a buff of history buff. He wanted to learn everything. And they were
going to Paris because their older daughter was studying abroad there. So I ended up
doing for them a tour of their Normandy beaches the day. And she said it was like
the most incredible experience, like he was so into it. He like wanted to know
every little fact and he wanted to like step on the beaches. And I'm like, now
that as we're having this, I didn't think of that then, but now as we're having
this conversation, I'm like, maybe he was there during World War II in his past
life. And now he's reborn into this life. It's just incredible. It's so interesting.
It's so, so interesting. Well, Nicole, I'm sure we can chat for another seven hours
about this, like I have a feeling we will hit stop on the recording and continue
chatting. But to be respectful of our audience, I just want to thank you so much
for taking this time to chat. If any of our ladies or men or whoever is listening
in this life or past life or future lives, if you want to find your connect with
you? Can you give us where they can do that? Absolutely. So I'm on all the
socials, but the easiest way to find me is on my website, mediumnicolle .com, that
gets you to any sort of reading you want on my socials. And actually, on there, I
have some free gifts, especially how to tap into your own intuition. So if you're
listening to us and you have no idea what your intuition is or how to tap into
it, I have a really quick, easy two -page guide that starts leading you down the
path of what is my intuition and how do I lean into it more and then you can go
and pick your travel destinations and get those scheduled. - That's amazing. And we
will put all the links, including the freebie in the notes of the show. Everyone,
thank you so much for spending this hour with us, Nicole. It's been a blast. Thank
you again for taking the time to chat and stay tuned for more. - Thank you.