What if your childhood memories were filled with spirits and paranormal activities? Join me on this special episode of the Updated AF Collective, where I recount my earliest encounters with the spirit world, starting at just six years old. As I share eerie tales of ghostly visits that turned on my CD player and flicked light switches, my daughter's Alexa adds an unexpected spine-tingling twist to our late-night recording. This episode is a journey through my life with spirits, featuring anecdotes and revelations about how these experiences have profoundly shaped who I am today.
But the story doesn't stop at childhood. Hear about the emotional experience with my late dog that rekindled my spiritual connection, leading to a profound awakening and the discovery of my mediumship abilities. From mastering these gifts through Candace Dalton's course to balancing mediumship readings with parenting, I offer a heartfelt exploration of my path. Plus, I invite you to participate in live readings on the podcast, offering a rare glimpse into the world beyond the veil. Get ready for an episode that bridges the seen and the unseen in ways you've never imagined.
If you are interested in a live reading on the podcast, send me an email. If you would prefer to keep it private just let me know!
What if your childhood memories were filled with spirits and paranormal activities? Join me on this special episode of the Updated AF Collective, where I recount my earliest encounters with the spirit world, starting at just six years old. As I share eerie tales of ghostly visits that turned on my CD player and flicked light switches, my daughter's Alexa adds an unexpected spine-tingling twist to our late-night recording. This episode is a journey through my life with spirits, featuring anecdotes and revelations about how these experiences have profoundly shaped who I am today.
But the story doesn't stop at childhood. Hear about the emotional experience with my late dog that rekindled my spiritual connection, leading to a profound awakening and the discovery of my mediumship abilities. From mastering these gifts through Candace Dalton's course to balancing mediumship readings with parenting, I offer a heartfelt exploration of my path. Plus, I invite you to participate in live readings on the podcast, offering a rare glimpse into the world beyond the veil. Get ready for an episode that bridges the seen and the unseen in ways you've never imagined.
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Hey guys, welcome back to Updated AF Collective, the podcast. I am your host, megan Wirth. Here we are again, another really late night. I just got my daughter down. I have been letting her stay up a little bit later than when she was in school. I'm still in survival mode here in the summer and, yeah, no, I just feel like I'm exhausted all the time and I can't get up early to record a podcast episode because I'm like brain dead. So here I am, 10 o'clock at night and recording an episode. It's just not ideal, but I am committed to the podcast.
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Okay, so here we are and I thought about this actually a couple of days ago and we have had mediums on the episode. We've had, you know, candice Dalton and Mariel come on the podcast and talk about mediumship and psychic abilities and all that fun stuff. And I was like you know what I've never shared, my story, like how I, you know, discovered that I too was a medium, and a little bit about my childhood, about things that I experienced when I was a kid and we never really talked about that. Also, I I want to ask you guys a question and I hope you're up for it. So stay tuned because I have a favor to ask my listeners. All right, guys, welcome back to the show.
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Welcome to the Updated AF Collective Podcast, where we celebrate the power and resilience of women. Join me as we dive into inspiring stories, engage in meaningful conversations and explore topics that empower women from all walks of life. I believe that every woman has a unique strength within her waiting to be unleashed. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a leader, a creative, a caregiver or simply on your own personal journey, this podcast is for you. Together, we'll share stories of triumph, discuss strategies for success and provide a supportive space for women to connect and grow. Get ready for real, authentic conversations that ignite your inner strength and inspire you to chase after your dreams fearlessly. Welcome to the Updated AF Collective. Your dreams fearlessly. Welcome to the Updated AF Collective.
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Okay, we're just going to get right into it. I have my tea, because it's too late to drink coffee. So, yeah, I'm just going to try to stay awake. Just bear with me. If you know me, I mean, you know I'm a morning person. Oh, my gosh, I am not a night person, but again, I'm in certain mode, like every other parent, in the summertime, I feel like the day is just filled with, like trying to work as a real estate agent and to do the podcast, to also, you know, make sure that that my daughter is also having a really fun summer, so I'm incorporating a bunch of other things for her. We're going places. It's just exhausting and, again, if you don't know me, I'm her only parent, so it's all on me, that's it. Nobody's coming. Nobody's coming to help, it is me, and so I am like juggling multiple things all at the same time. So bear with me, you guys.
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But today's episode, again, I want to kind of tell my story because I realized like, wait, nobody knows. The people that know me know and the people that, if you are listening to this and I've given you a reading, you might know, but I don't know. So let's get into it. I feel like a lot of people can relate with this because, especially as a child, a lot of kids are very intuitive and I noticed it in my daughter. Everybody has a story about how, when they were a kid, they would sense things or they would see things, and you know things that they couldn't explain or experience something that you know they just it just wasn't, it wasn't normal, right, as we talk about this, yeah, my Alexa just went off and the Alexa's in the other room Okay, great, this is going to be a fun episode. I just got chills. Yeah, it's daughter has an Alexa in her room and she actually sleeping in my bed. During the summertime I allow her to sleep in my bed and, um so nobody is in her room and the door shut. I just. I just heard her Alexa go off so fun episode. I just heard her lexical so fun episode. I think.
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When you start to talk about the other side, I think it just makes them want to contact you even more so, especially like when I do a reading, when I give somebody a reading, and it's crazy because about an hour or two prior to that reading, I can already kind of hear spirit and I can hear their relatives coming through and you know, making comments and, um, trying to tell me how they pass and stuff like that. And and I don't usually know the person that I'm reading, especially in 2020 when I was doing readings. But let's backtrack, sorry, I was just super thrown off by my daughter's Alexa. Okay, so I it all. Let's go back to like.
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I remember the first time I ever saw spirit or a ghost, whatever you want to call them. I just say spirit because I feel like it's just universal. And, uh, the first time I ever saw one I was. I think I was six, but, um, I don't know. I feel like I was six Cause I just remember seeing them a lot of the times and growing up, they would always be in my room. I would wake up and see them at the foot of my bed. I still, to this day, can remember every single one of their faces and, um, they would turn on my CD player. Yes, I am that old. I had a six disc changing CD player thing and I would hear them click the buttons and find a song. They would turn on my light switches and so I just, I just grew up with it.
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I think one even crossed a boundary when I was spending the night at my grandma's house. I woke up and it was really early in the morning because I could see a little bit of the sunlight coming through the window and I knew one was there and at the time when I would sense that somebody was looking at me, I would freeze, because I was that scared and I remember freezing and I was sleeping on my side and I kind of peeked out a little bit through my eyes and didn't see anything and I squinted really, really hard and trying to see something. Nothing. So I just kept my eyes closed and I and I stayed very, very still and, um, I think it knew I was awake because it ran its hand down my back, like touched my back, and it scared me so bad Again, like when they would do things like that I couldn't move, I was completely just frozen in fear.
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And that happened quite often after that at my grandma's house and I couldn't explain it. I didn't know who it was, I didn't want to look at it, I wanted nothing to do with it. And it being able to see them lasted all the way into my early twenties, because when I was in the Marine Corps, the same things would happen in my barracks room and, um, just, really, just not normal things, right, we're not supposed to see them. We don't know who these spirits are. I never knew who any of them were. And, um, looking back now, they probably had a message for somebody that I was going to be seeing that day or the next day or whatever. They probably had a message.
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But again, coming to a child that early on, or a teenager or a young adult. It's not. That's not like the preferred way. So I suppressed it for the longest time and for years I didn't see them, which is great. I think I grew out of my gift At least I thought I did and I wasn't hearing anything, I wasn't seeing anything, which was great. But I was also really depressed Again. I was in a really toxic marriage and everything. So like I feel like my life kind of like the priority shifted. I became a mom and all that fun stuff. So I stopped seeing it, stopped sensing it, I just was, I just completely blocked it all out. Sensing it, I just was, I just completely blocked it all out.
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And, um, I moved back to the States after leaving my ex-husband and, uh, a week after I moved back to the States from Japan, uh, my dog passed from cancer and uh, that was like devastating, right. I mean, if you ever lost a pet, it makes you feel like you lost a child and I was completely devastated and it was a night that was very, very traumatic because he almost bled out on my bathroom floor Sorry, I can't even talk about it, my bathroom floor, and it was three in the morning and, thank God, like my family had come in. It was my cousins who were sleeping downstairs in the living room, and so my daughter, who was almost two at the time, you know, she was in bed and we we'd only been back in San Diego for a week and so, luckily, my cousins were there for a while and I um brushed my dog to a 24 hour ER at three o'clock in the morning where, um, they said that he was passing, and so him and I, my puppy and I, laid on the floor together for an hour and a half while they sedated him slowly, and it was. It was a very traumatic experience, I feel like, for me. So it kind of started my spiritual awakening and I thank my dog for that. He, he um actually came to me.
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I want to say it was a month later, it was about four or five weeks later, and I was in the shower and I knew my cousin, my cousin. I had two of my cousins over and they were downstairs with my daughter Olivia Sorry, I'm getting like teary eyed and they were all downstairs and all of a sudden I'm in the shower. So I'm upstairs in the shower. Nobody's supposed to be there, right? So I I closed the door. I even locked it Cause I was like you know what Like lives? Fine, I'm just going to take a shower. Distraction free, I just want to take a shower. It's just like the one thing I wanted.
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And I heard like panting, like a dog panting right outside the shower. I was like what the hell I'm like. I stood there. I was like, is it the water? Am I just hearing this? I clearly heard my dog, because my dog would always be outside the shower. I mean, you, if you have a dog, you know you don't get to shower by yourself, you don't have to go to the bathroom by yourself. Like your dog will follow you around. It's just like having a kid Right. And I heard him clear as day and I pulled back the shower curtain and there was like obviously nobody there and I was like I felt like I was going crazy and, um, yeah, I feel like my dog is the reason why I had my spiritual awakening, because it woke me back up to being able to hear the other side.
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And then that night I had a dream of him. Like he came to me in a dream and I was crying. I was crying in the dream and I had this like stupid little song that I made up for him when I got my dog. He was only eight weeks old and I would like sing to him this like song. It's like, really don't, we're not going to do it on the, on the podcast, but I would sing to him this like made up song and in the dream I was crying and I was looking for him and I was like calling out his name and then I was like, oh, I should see the sing the song, cause he always liked a song and I, and then I started singing, hugging and you know, telling him how much I missed him, and he was just so happy. Right before he passed, he wasn't able to walk, the cancer just spread through his body and he wasn't able to walk. So he was like running and like doing circles and going crazy in the dream.
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And I woke up and I was just sobbing because I was like, oh my gosh, I felt like that was his way of telling me he's okay and that started my journey, my next chapter of life, and so after that I felt like a portal had opened and I'm like, no kidding, a couple days or maybe it was like a week later. So, um, like my fire alarm and my house was going off. So that was really weird, cause that's never happened. And, um, the smoke detectors were going off randomly and it was always in the middle of the night, always in the middle of the night. And so, um, and then lights would flicker. Um, I remember having one of my girlfriends over and the kitchen light was just going crazy. I was like, oh my gosh. And I and she knew, she knew, you know about my childhood and so I was like, oh my gosh, I feel like it's happening again. My dog opened a portal and I'm having this like spiritual awakening and like, literally, like my whole life was changing.
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I discovered the law of attraction. I, I, I literally was just like on this self-development journey. So it led me to Candice Dalton and I swear to you, I don't know how she got on my Instagram, but all of a sudden she was on my, on my page, and apparently at some point I must've followed her, because why else would she be there? And, um, she was. I remember being at the Starbucks line and she put something out on Instagram because she has a podcast that, um, I will link in the show notes. It's called healing grace, the podcast and so she was looking for somebody to come on her podcast that was in law enforcement to talk about, um, talk about homicide and stuff. I was like, oh girl, I got you. So I DM'd her and I was on her podcast and I just loved her.
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Of course, anybody who knows Candace Dalton you just fall in love with her and she's amazing, she's absolutely amazing and she's so just warm. She's just warm and she loves everybody unconditionally, everybody. I don't. I don't think she hates anybody, like she actually loves everybody. Um, so, long story short after, after the podcast, you know, I getting to know no-transcript we stayed in contact and we stayed friends and then about a year later, she started her course on how to get into your gift or find out what you're good at, kind of thing. And so I told her and I was like you know what? I've had this problem my entire life and it just recently came back. Do you think this course would be good for me? And she's like, absolutely so.
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I was in her very first course and, um, and again, if you guys are interested not, this is not an ad, but if you guys are interested, um, and you feel like you can resonate with this episode. Her course is going to be in the show notes and so, long story short, I joined her course and kind of just learned how to be able to channel spirit and to turn it off, so that they aren't waking me up in the middle of the night, that I'm not feeling like I'm going crazy when I start hearing things and channeling messages and I swear to you, you guys, I wish you were here. There's just like, as I'm talking about it, nobody lives above me, by the way, and I'm just hearing stomping sounds. So yeah, but that's I mean again, like when you and we'll get into that later but as you talk about spirit, I feel like the ones that are around you, like especially family members, do like to make themselves known because they're like yes, I'm here, hi, they like to make themselves known, right Anyway. So I got into her course and really just just okay, this is what I should have been doing my entire life and being able to give messages to people who really do need it. And so, during COVID time, when the world shut down in 2020, of course, I was still a cop, because we didn't get to obviously quarantine or anything and then the riots happened and just everything happened and protests in the street. Obviously you guys remember that. You guys remember.
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I don't need to get into all of that, but on my days off I had nothing to do. My daughter was really young and I didn't really want to just sit it off. So what I did is I just opened it up to do readings and so I had friends reach out and I read. All my friends, I gave readings to their friends and their family members and then eventually it just got out Like I was just doing readings. I think I was charging $60 for an hour and then most of the time it would go over like two hours because, like, if, if, spirit was wanting to talk, who was I to? Like tell them? Like no more, so I would just. I would read for an hour to two hours just on one person, and when it got out I was reading girls. I read a girl from Brazil, a couple of girls from the UK, all over the States and people were just emailing me saying I would love a reading and I was like, sure, why not? I wasn't doing anything on my days off anyway. And then my daughter would nap for about two hours because at the time she was still taking daytime naps, and so I would put her down for a nap and I would just jump on a zoom call and give a reading and it was so good and I felt like, you know, I was doing something helpful on my day off, you know, and it was very therapeutic for me as well.
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Very draining, they're very exhausting, but cause they are emotional raining. They're very exhausting, but um cause they are emotional, obviously, and so I I don't know like I I probably gave a hundred readings and I still do them now, like, don't get me wrong Like, even though I don't, I don't charge, I don't open myself up to readings or anything like that Um like or as in like a wait list or anything like that anymore, but um, I still like or as in like a wait list or anything like that anymore, but um, I still like, obviously, my best friend and then her mom and um like close friends. If they ask for one, of course I'll give them a reading. Or um, the girls that I was in the mastermind with um from Candace's course, if they ever feel like they need a personal reading um, cause even mediums need reading Sometimes, I would obviously do it for them. And so I was thinking because I since Sedona. So I went to Sedona back in May with Candace Dalton and a lot of the other girls that took her course, her mediumship course, and we practiced doing like group readings and we just kind of fine-tuned our gift, which gave me a lot of confidence, you know, in my abilities and it which everything went really, really well.
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I was thinking like that, I wanted to do that again. Like I wanted to open myself up, maybe put some of the readings on the podcast, and that's where I figured I would, you know, talk to you guys, all of my listeners out there, and if you're interested in coming on the podcast and letting me give you a live reading, um, I'm open to doing that. And again, like, you can just send me a DM on Instagram or my email address is in the show notes. If you guys are open to that, I wouldn't charge, but I would love for you guys to come on the podcast and for me to give you a live reading. It's, you know just a little bit about how I read.
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Obviously, like, not obviously, because if you never had a, you don't know, but I can't control who comes through. So you know if you're coming on to to hear from a specific person, you person, sometimes that person doesn't want to come through. Sometimes other spirit needs to come through and kind of make their peace or give a message that you really, really needed to hear, or something like that. I don't get to control who comes on, not who comes on, but who comes through. Sorry, I'm delusionally exhausted. Who comes through I don't get to choose, and I have I've always had to explain that to the, to the people that I've given readings to, like they're like, oh, I don't want to hear from so-and-so.
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Um, he did A, b and C to me when I was a child or something like that, and I'm just like, okay, like we can shoo them along, don't get me wrong, but, um, if they do pop in, it's one of those things that's like I can't control it and, um, I also what else, um, how they come to me most of the time is, you know, I can kind of see them, I can see an outline of them. Sometimes I can tell, like, what kind of hair they had if they were glasses, like if they were tall, if they were small, what kind of hair they had if they wore glasses, if they were tall, if they were small, big, little, whatever. So I can see the outline. Luckily they don't show themselves to me anymore and I feel like that was because, again taking Candice's course, I have learned to set boundaries that we don't do that anymore. So even when I do readings and I open myself up to the other side for that, you know the sitter we call them the sitter Um, the person that I'm giving the reading to we open ourself up for their loved ones to come through.
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They know, like, just show me an outline, that's all I need to see. I don't really need to see anything else. So I'll be able to like, describe, you know what they look like and or, if they're human, sometimes pets come through too. I've had that quite often. Like, if I go get like, I remember my esthetician giving me a facial. It usually happens if somebody is like doing my hair or giving me a facial, cause I'm super, duper relaxed. I remember my esthetician's dog came through and so, yeah, it happens, it just happens Sometimes.
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I'll just be at the sauna Sorry, I'm just listening to the sounds in my house. I'd be at the sauna and, um, you know, just super relaxed completely by myself, and then somebody's loved one will come through and like, start talking to me and then I'm just like nobody's here. It happened literally like a couple months ago. I'm like nobody's here, I'm, what are you talking about? And then two seconds later somebody would walk in and spirit would be like no, that's them. Tell them this. And I'm like, no, I'm not Teresa Caputo, I am not Kim Russo. I don't just walk up to people and give them readings. It just it's. I feel like I'm just I'm not there.
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So anyway, if you guys are interested in getting a reading coming on the podcast and letting me record it for the podcast, let me know. You can DM me or email me. It's all in the show notes. If you're interested in also like Candice's course again, this is not an ad. I don't get commission. I'm not getting paid to say this. I just love the course that much. It's also in the show notes as well. If you would like a reading and maybe don't want it recorded um to be put on the podcast, that's fine too. Just let me know. I I really do feel like I need to start getting into it more. I've probably I went from like readings, you know, four times a week to maybe like once a month now, and I kind of want to change that. So, anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Please rate, subscribe stars, dm me, email me again. If you are open to it, let me know. All right, guys, I will see you next week.
