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Featured Interview By Jill Kramer
How do your counseling, coaching, and intuitive-psychic roles complement each other?
I realize that these vocations may appear disparate. The core that brings them all together is my life's purpose, which I defined at the age of 14. At that time, my father (a loving GP and surgeon) and I discussed the purpose of life. He said, "It's easy, Chief—it's to have fun!" Although I loved his answer, I wrote in my diary that night that my purpose was to help people uncover and express their divine spirit.
I was always clear on what I was here to do-whether that was walking side by side with people on their journeys of self-discovery; encouraging them to self-actualize in love, work, and life; or helping to unleash the spirit and brilliance of organizations in order to maximize their performance, productivity, and financial results. I've been doing this type of work professionally my entire career, and it brings me immense joy and satisfaction. I have a Master of Arts in Psychology, a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and a master's minor in Finance. Psychology and human behavior are woven throughout all these disciplines.
I faced my greatest fear (I didn't know how I would be judged) by opening up and sharing my psychic-medium skills professionally roughly 20 years ago, and I integrate intuitive intelligence into all of my work with clients. They state that doing counseling with me is like "one-stop shopping on steroids"! By tapping into intuition, we can get right to the root of what is blocking them or see issues from a new perspective so they can gain virtually instant insight and move forward. Businesses can also reduce their decision-making and problem-solving time, often from years and months to minutes and seconds.
Our intuition is the gateway to our soul, and when we allow it to guide us, we find joy, peace, love, and enlightenment. We discover our reason for being and experience profound meaning in our lives.
I'd like to point out that the word psychic is grossly misunderstood, even by many dictionaries. It means "of the soul." I practice transpersonal psychology, which states that we are more than nature and nurture—we have a soul. The focus is holistic and focuses on the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. It transcends the physical, and is practical while also being mystical and spiritual. The divine is in each of us and all things, and we can trust this wisdom and therefore ourselves.
Much of the focus in organizations has been behavioral, with practices used to motivate being focused on the carrot and stick. That is a very dated approach to managing. I've been teaching managers and leaders since the late 1980s, and have also been creating universities within Fortune 500 companies-for example, Mobil Oil and higher-education institutions. My focus is attitudinal and helps shift mindsets and brain wiring from stress to neurological power and extraordinary intuition. Neurologically, intuition is our highest level of intelligence. I work with people and organizations to design systems and the environment to unleash brilliance.
When did you discover your psychic abilities, and how did they shape your upbringing in relation to your spirituality?
A predisposition for heightened intuitive ability runs in my family. My mother studied the psychic sciences at UCLA back in the 1960s and taught Sunday school at a Christian church in Palos Verdes Peninsula, California, where I grew up. During my childhood, she taught my siblings and me that we create our own reality through our thoughts— that is, mind over matter. Findings in neuroscience and quantum physics now validate this concept.
My father's intuition and empathy, combined with hard science, helped him diagnose and treat patients quickly. He was highly curious and lived life in awe-he believed that all life was sacred. We were raised to question what we heard and read, to research and find our own answers, and to trust our gut. I loved studying world religions in high school and college and had a proclivity for seeing the core ideals behind various teachings. Today, I am more spiritual than religious and receive daily guidance from Jesus Christ.
Whenever people ask me this question —that is, when did I know I had the gift of intuition - I usually just ask them: "Well, when did you know you could see?" I've always been in tune with people and could easily identify and empathize with their feelings, particularly when their words did not match their vibes. I was always connected with nature and animals and was the "go to person" to help people work through their problems. I believe in human potential and remind people who they really are. I always advise, "Let your soul and values guide you, and then you'll find that you will have little internal conflict.
I communicated with the divine as early as I can remember and saw spirits as a toddler (I'm told by older childhood friends, one of whom had a sibling who had passed). I never really felt like a child.
As a teenager, I remember having several telepathic experiences (I knew psychically when my boyfriend fell off a roof and when I was in danger with strangers, for example) and had profound psychic experiences that led me to know that were all entangled with all that exists and with a higher power.
Having been on multiple national radio stations, what standout questions did callers pose and how did you handle them?
I will begin with a sweet story. A lady from Tennessee called the station to inquire about how an old love felt about her after they'd recently seen each other at their 25th high school reunion. I gave her specific details about what he was feeling and saying after they reunited, which registered with her. To our surprise, the man she had me tune into, who was living in another state, was also serendipitously listening at the time I was reading him and called in to the station to validate everything I'd said about him. Whew! True love.
On an FM country music station, tragically, we received a call from a heartbroken mother who asked me to tune in about the death of her 20-year-old son, who the police said died of suicide. Psychically, I picked up that it was a homicide, but given the sensitivity and seriousness of the issue, I asked the mother to call me offline. This led to an 18-month investigation where my ongoing findings about who killed her son and why were validated, which also supported the mother's intuitive knowing. As a result, I started working regularly with other victimized families, the police, private investigators, attorneys, and the media on cold cases and suspicious crimes, as well as with Citizens Against Homicide.
As an important side note, I understand the personality disorders and thought processes of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths, and I spend a great deal of time in my private practice helping people free themselves and heal from their abuse-whether that stems from family systems, romantic relationships, or business dealings.
How difficult or easy is it to read intuitively for yourself versus others?
First, I now believe that my intuition will never lead me astray, so I trust it. Having said that, if I knew then what I know now, I would have trusted my intuition 100 percent of the time in the past! Like all of us, there were times when I ignored my intuition, allowing my left-brain, analytical thinking to steer me off course. Intuition integrates both linear and nonlinear processing, meaning that we are employing our whole brain. We need to pay attention to how we're thinking and feeling and trust the intelligence of the gut and heart, which just knows, even when we don't have all of the data and facts. It's more difficult to tune into ourselves, as we are closer to our own issues, have wishful thinking, fear and/or attachment to an outcome. As such, it's easier for me to tune into and read for others, as I am more objective, and my ego isn't involved. Having said that, my greatest successes and life's decisions have been the result of intuitive knowing and often precognition (knowing that something would happen before it did). However, there are too many examples to share in our brief time together today.
How do you help people develop their intuitive abilities?
I've been teaching intuitive development and intuitive leadership for more than 20 years-through higher education, articles, radio shows, workshops, and individual counseling. I also teach through organizations and associations such as MENSA the High IQ Society, the Project Management Institute, the American Society of Association Executives, and Soroptimists International. For executives, NASA's first Chief Knowledge Officer and the Chair of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology asked me to write the leading chapter of a data-analytics textbook on informed intuitive decision-making. Also, at present, I am in the process of developing a series for an educational TV network.
When I teach others to develop their own intuitive abilities, they find that they can own the sides of themselves that they've learned to disown over time, which is the key to extraordinary intuition. Helping individuals reduce stress allows the prefrontal cortex to expand and reorganize, leading to heart-brain coherence and whole-brain thinking.
How are you able to connect with loved ones on the other side who have passed?
Everything is energy. Although this is oversimplifying the concept, I raise my vibration through love and empathy as high as possible while slowing down my brainwaves to create heart-brain coherence.
The spirit world lowers its energy to make the connection. I'm like a radio receiver picking up energetic information that manifests into words, images, sounds, feelings, and smells. I tune into consciousness-whether that means connecting to the divine, a loved one or animal who has passed, or a person here on planet Earth. Every time I do a reading, the process still amazes me. I've been studying the science behind how this works for more than two decades, and much of the process can be explained through quantum entanglement and nonlocal communication. Regardless of the science involved, my clients receive specific information that validates their experiences and helps them heal.
Is there anything else you'd like our readers to know about you?
Enough about me! I'd rather focus on all the amazing individuals out there who are far more than their physical bodies, and who can perceive far beyond their five senses.
Know that you are brilliant — so live in awe!
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