The Journey of a Medium: Balancing Life and Spirit

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!

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Discovering My Mediumship

Speaker 1 0:01

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 .

Speaker 1 0:45

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 .

Speaker 1 1:39

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Speaker 1 2:28

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 .

Speaker 1 3:31

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 .

Speaker 1 4:51

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 .

Speaker 1 5:34

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 .

Speaker 1 6:26

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 .

Speaker 1 7:23

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 .

Speaker 1 8:04

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 .

Speaker 1 8:53

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

A Spiritual Awakening and Mediumship

Speaker 1 10:07

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Speaker 1 10:07

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 .

Speaker 1 10:42

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 .

Speaker 1 11:33

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 .

Speaker 1 12:26

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 .

Speaker 1 13:31

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 .

Speaker 1 14:20

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 .

Speaker 1 15:16

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

Expanding Mediumship Through Podcast Readings

Speaker 1 17:01

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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 .

Speaker 1 18:26

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 .

Speaker 1 19:40

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 .

Speaker 1 20:20

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 .

Speaker 1 21:01

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 .

Speaker 1 22:03

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 .

Speaker 1 22:44

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 .

Speaker 1 23:23

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 .