Julie Reisler is a spiritual teacher and faculty member at Georgetown University. She bridges the science of transformation with the wisdom of intuition.

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?

At the heart of my work is a simple truth: intuition is not something reserved for a gifted few, it’s a natural capacity we’re all born with. I think of it like this — we’re all born with intuitive batteries included, but many don’t know how to use or operate them.

My mission is to help people remember how to access their inner guidance, trust it, and live from it in practical, embodied ways. I believe intuition is meant to help us navigate life with more clarity, compassion, confidence, agency, and self-trust. Everything I teach is about coming home to yourself and letting that sacred, all-loving inner wisdom lead.

Subscribe now

What do people in your life — your family and friends — think about what you’re doing?

The people closest to me have watched this path unfold over many years, including the messy, uncertain, and vulnerable parts. I think they see how deeply aligned this work is with who I am, not just what I do. There is a lot of respect, curiosity, and support, along with the occasional, “You have always been this way, you just finally owned it.”

How does your work change people’s perceptions?

My work tends to shift people from outsourcing their authority to learning how to trust themselves again and build true sovereignty. Many come in believing they need more answers, more strategies, or more fixing, and leave realizing they already have access to deep wisdom within, including the keys to unlock these inner intuitive doors. It is a move away from fear-based conditioning, such as self-doubt, self-betrayal, and self-attack, and toward self-trust, self-love, self-compassion, and inner steadiness.

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?

I experience life as lovingly intelligent, sacred, responsive, and ultimately net positive. I believe meaning is woven into every experience, even the painful ones, and that nothing is truly random. While many are taught to rely solely on logic and external validation, I listen for more subtle cues, such as energy, intuition, divine timing, and inner resonance. To me, wisdom does not live only in the mind, as we are conditioned to believe. It lives in the heart, in the body, and within our timeless, higher self.

I am deeply curious and love learning how the universe works, discovering again and again just how loved, guided, and interconnected we truly are. Although separation may appear real at the physical level, beneath it all exists an energetic and soul-level web of connection, and once you begin to feel this, everything changes.

Share

When does your path bring you the most comfort?

My path brings me the most comfort when I am deeply connected to myself, to love, and to something divinely greater than me. There is a sense of peace that comes when I stop trying to control outcomes and instead listen, soften, follow the divinely inspired clues, and trust. Teaching, guiding, and witnessing others remember who they are is profoundly nourishing for me.

When does it challenge you the most?

It challenges me when fear or old conditioning tries to sneak back in, especially around self-judgments or wanting to get it right. Walking an intuitive path requires continual surrender, presence, compassion, trust, and honesty — and that is not always comfortable. The work asks me to live what I teach, again and again, and I love that I’m growing, expanding, and tuning in more deeply every day.

Share The Daily Shift

How do you stay spiritually and personally balanced as you help so many other people achieve their balance?

I have learned the importance of tending to my own nervous system and inner world with care. Daily non-negotiable energy and spiritual hygiene practices like meditation, heart-focused breathing, Reiki, time in nature, mindful movement, and honest self-inquiry keep me grounded.

I also listen closely to my body and intuition around rest, boundaries, and pacing. I don’t believe it’s balance we seek, rather it’s harmony. This harmony does not come from doing more. It comes from being deeply attuned to what is true in the moment and having the courage to do that.

Julie demonstrates building unshakeable self-trust with the Intuition Language™ in her exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Julie Reisler is founder and CEO of Empowered Living, Inc. She is an author, TEDx speaker, and holds a Master’s degree in coaching, with more than 15 years of experience. She has also completed advanced training in yoga, HeartMath, and Positive Neuroplasticity. She founded the Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, a board-certified, soul-centered certification program for heart-led coaches and spiritual seekers. She’s the creator of the INTUITION Framework™ and Intuition Language™ — powerful systems that help people awaken their inner guidance, trust their soul’s wisdom, and live with divine clarity and confidence. Find her at www.juliereisler.com

.

Karen Frances McCarthy, PhD, CSNU, is an Irish scholar, award-holding Spiritualist medium, and author whose work bridges Celtic heritage, consciousness studies, and spiritual connection.

How did your shift from being a political journalist and war correspondent to Spiritualist and medium occur?
My fiancé’s death changed everything. It was not a gentle transition into a new path. It was a rupture. In the early days, I fell back on my training as a journalist. I documented what was happening, researched obsessively, and tried to understand the strange patterns, coincidences, and experiences unfolding around me. I was not searching for comfort. I was trying to find out what was real. That investigative process eventually became my book, Till Death Don’t Us Part. Looking back, grief was the catalyst, but inquiry was the engine. What started as survival became a complete reorientation of my life.

Is there a collision of worlds for you between the respect you’ve earned as a journalist and academic, and the skepticism that spirituality and mysticism often engender?
Yes, there is tension between those worlds. Academia can be dismissive of this field, while spiritual circles sometimes resist scrutiny or structure. I see my role as trying to hold both sides in conversation. Education matters here because there is no governing body setting standards, so responsibility falls on practitioners to pursue training, ethical awareness, and historical knowledge. I am also a strong advocate for challenging and letting go of superstitious belief systems that can cause harm or encourage passivity. My academic background pushes me to question assumptions, and my experiential work keeps the discussion grounded in lived reality. I try to translate between these spaces so the conversation becomes thoughtful, informed, and accountable.

Subscribe now

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?
If I could choose one thing for people to understand, it is that this work lives inside grief. That means it requires sensitivity, boundaries, and emotional resilience. Practitioners need to care for their own wellbeing, or empathy fatigue becomes inevitable. I also emphasize clarity. Mediumship is not therapy, and it is not about interpreting the living mind. Confusing those roles can cause harm. My mission is to encourage ethical practice, careful training, and emotional steadiness so the work supports people through loss without replacing other forms of care.

What do people in your life, your family and friends, think about what you’re doing?
People close to me responded in very human ways. Some friends thought grief had destabilized me, and pulled away. Others grew closer once they saw how seriously I approached the work. I also found a new community of people whose experiences resonated with mine. Most of my family and friends are supportive because they judge the work by what it does, not by what it is called. A few old friends simply avoid the topic, which is their way of maintaining the relationship. That feels fair enough.

How does your work change people’s perceptions?
What changes most is how people think about death. When they encounter the work in a grounded setting, it tends to move the conversation away from fear or spectacle and toward reflection. People often begin to see loss differently and become more conscious of how they live now. It is rarely dramatic. It shows up later in small shifts, in how they talk about memory, responsibility, and connection. Those quieter changes are the ones that last.

Share

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?
I do have a different relationship with death, and that reshapes how I see life. Death feels less like disappearance and more like transition. That perspective makes life feel both more urgent and more meaningful. I am more aware of how I spend time, how I show up for people, and what I consider worth investing in. It brings a steadiness that I did not have before. Seeing life through that lens changes the scale of what feels important.

When does your path bring you the most comfort?
The greatest comfort comes from a deep certainty that relationships do not end with death. That removes a great deal of fear from life. What replaces it is not denial of loss, but a different perspective on it. I often feel the presence of the people I love in a way that feels integrated into daily life rather than separate from it. In many respects, I feel closer to them now because the relationship is not filtered through physical distance, time, or circumstance. There is a clarity and appreciation in that connection that I did not fully grasp before. It is a quiet reassurance more than a dramatic experience, but it shapes how I move through the world.

Share The Daily Shift

When does it challenge you the most?
One of the harder parts of this path is managing expectations. People sometimes assume I am always available or always tuned in. Mediumship requires preparation and an altered state. It is not something I can or should do casually, especially not on demand in public spaces. Setting those boundaries can be tiring, but it is essential. Without them, the work becomes unhealthy and unsustainable. Another challenge is the emotional load. Working with grief means staying aware of your own limits and recovery needs. I have to be disciplined about rest, study, and stepping back when necessary. That structure keeps the work balanced. It also keeps me honest. Without it, the work risks becoming overwhelming or unfocused, and that serves no one.

Are you sometimes still in awe of what you receive and know, and of the insights and awareness you’ve developed?
Yes. And I think it would be a mistake ever to lose that sense of wonder. What still strikes me is not only the implication that consciousness continues, but how extraordinary life itself is when you begin to see it through that lens. The fact that love endures. The fact that personality, memory, and relationship appear to transcend physical limits. That is immense.

At the same time, it sharpens my awareness of the mystery inside everyday existence. The timing of events. The way people intersect. The depth of human connection. When you recognize continuity beyond death, you start to see how remarkable being alive actually is. The awe is not theatrical. It is a steady realization that both life and what lies beyond it are far more intricate and meaningful than we tend to assume.

Dr. Karen shares the pre-Celtic spiritual wisdom of Tuatha Dé Danann in her exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Karen Frances McCarthy, PhD, CSNU, holds a Doctorate in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University School of Professional Studies, where she teaches contemporary spectral and speculative fiction. Her academic research explores re-enchantment, postsecular culture, and survival research, with particular attention to the sacred in modern life. She’s the author of Till Death Don’t Us Part and the forthcoming The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Spectral Fiction. Trained at Arthur Findlay College and certified in mediumship, spiritual healing, and grief counselling, she integrates ethical Spiritualist practice, Celtic myth, Zen principles, and scholarly insight into her teaching and guidance. Find her at https://www.karenfrancesmccarthy.com

John Douillard, DC, CAP, is a renowned Ayurvedic educator, host of the Ayurveda Meets Modern Science podcast, former Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, and author of seven health books, including Eat Wheat and 3-Season Diet.

Describe the moment when you decided you were ready to commit to this path.

I was in chiropractic college at 19 the early 1980s, taking an acupuncture class, and I heard the word “Ayurveda” for the first time. And I was like, “What is that?”

I went to my first lecture in Los Angeles, and there was an Indian doctor giving a lecture on Ayurveda and meditation and breathing. I asked him, “I’m training for an Ironman Triathlon. What do you think about doing an Ironman from the Ayurvedic and yoga meditation perspective?” He asked, “What is an Ironman?” I told him, a two-and-a-half mile swim in the ocean, a 26-mile run, and 112-mile bike ride. He asked, “Why do you do that?” I had no answer for that. No one had ever asked me that before.

He asked, “Do you meditate?” I said yes. “Do you sleep when you meditate?” he asked. I said, “It’s the deepest sleep. I start meditating, I conk out, I wake up, and start studying.”

And he said, “You’re exhausted. All this exercise is making you so tired, you can’t really meditate.”

And I asked the best question I ever asked in my life. I said, “What if I was able to not fall asleep in my meditation, could I do all this exercise? Would it be okay?

He said, “Yes,” and nodded his head.

Those were my marching orders. I started training less, meditating more. I started going to weekend meditation retreats to do yoga, breathing, meditation. I went on a two-week meditation retreat, no exercise, no nothing, breathe, yoga, meditate. And I came out of that like I was shot out of some kind of a cannon.

In my book, Body, Mind, Support, I call it “jet fuel.” I went into a three-month runner’s high experience in everything I was doing. I went from being a good competitive triathlete to winning in my age group and getting medals and competing on an elite level. My friends thought I was on steroids, and some started to meditate, too! I just couldn’t get fatigued. I was in my clinical internship at the time, and I had a level of bandwidth academically that I never experienced in my life. I was in the zone for three solid months — and then, as soon as it came, it disappeared.

In 1986, I went to India for three weeks to hopefully reclaim that “zone” experience and maybe learn Ayurvedic medicine. I found a teacher there. Surprisingly, he invited me to stay permanently. I had a busy practice in Boulder, Colorado at the time, student loans and taxes and America, you know. I called my partner, on a very scratchy phone from New Delhi — it took like, an hour to get a line, and finally did — and I said, “I’m not coming back.”

I stayed there for about a year-and-a-half, studying Ayurvedic medicine. I met Deepak Chopra; he invited me to come back and co-direct his center in Massachusetts. I taught the doctors’ training program for about eight years. I realized I had to speak their language, which was science. I started translating the Vedic knowledge into western concepts and backed it up with modern science.

Subscribe now

If you’re at a dinner party, how do you describe what you do?

If I go to a dinner party and I say, “I practice Ayurveda,” they go “Ayur—what?” I might tell them I have a natural medicine practice, and I write about and teach ancient medical wisdom and modern science together. That’s what I do on my website, LifeSpa.com. I connect ancient medical wisdom and modern science. Our business model is to give all the knowledge away for free. I’ve been formulating herbs for 30, 40 years now, and we have an Ayurvedic store.

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?

My mission is to make a dent. It was obvious to me that the culture was going in the wrong direction. We get very distracted by our environment and that sometimes affects us — we get addicted to the outside world providing our satisfaction.

Ayurveda says there is a world that allows you to experience a level of contentment and happiness and joy for no reason, not because something happened. That comes from experiencing your inner space, the silence within.

Ayurveda is a system that brings a level of purity and calm and stillness and self-awareness back into the physiology with the hope that we are able to realize this experience of inner silence is way more profound than what we get from the outside world.

That’s the human condition at its best — to thin that veil, refine the human instruments, and perceive subtle energy like no other instrument can. That’s the secret of life, I believe, and the basic fundamentals of Ayurveda.

Share

When you were a child, did you have any signals or interest that hinted that you were going to go in this direction?

My mom’s 91, she’s still my biggest fan. When we were young, she was into health food. We didn’t eat junk food, and we meditated. She was a real maverick, she was a real seeker, and still is. One of the most beautiful people that I know, really deeply, deeply spiritual and all about thinning the veil. She’s done that her whole life, and she’s been a great model for me.

When I was younger, I started reading books about longevity, like Paul Bragg, and started doing colon cleanses following Bernard Jensen. I was into being really healthy. I was always into sports. I played college tennis and was a triathlete and ski racer and ski instructor.

When I went to Los Angeles, I lived next to a stunt coordinator. I went to his stunt school in Santa Monica. He taught me how to ocean swim. We would go out for two, three mile swims in the ocean, and do scuba diving together. We’d jump off his roof, do high falls together. I started getting beat up. One of my high school friends was at the chiropractic college in LA. I went to check out the school and get some treatment. I was treated by the admissions director, and he blew my mind. I just never felt anything like that before. I was sitting straight, my posture was completely changed — I was a fan! So I started seeing him and he helped get me into chiropractic school.

What do your children think about what you’re doing?

We have six children. I have such a great and close family. I don’t ever feel like they look at me like I’m some kind of special, super-accomplished person. I felt the best way to teach them was to model behavior, and practice what I preach.

When they were younger, we made sure they ate really good, healthy food. Now that they’re older, they all have a level of appreciation for natural medicine and what I do. It’s just a beautiful relationship.

Share The Daily Shift

What are the differences between how you and most other people look at the world?

I have a spiritual side of me, but the way I live my life, I feel very approachable and like an average American guy. There are people who can teach Ayurveda in the real traditional Vedic Sanskrit, way, way better than I can. I’m not even in that league. I’m so in awe of the Ayurvedic doctors when I go to conferences and hear them speak, how much knowledge they have.

I just try to take little snippets, translate them into English, and help them enter the mainstream — help people realize there’s a better way than drugs for symptoms that don’t treat the cause. One of my teachers told me, “Ayurveda is not an Indian system. It’s a universal system of nature. It’s a study of nature.” This applies to everything, everywhere, not just India. So I teach it that way.

When does your path bring you the most comfort?

There are two places where I get the most comfort. One is digging into the research of the Vedic texts and then trying to find the science to prove it. When I first started writing articles about ancient wisdom and modern science that backs it up, I thought I’d write two or three. But there’s an unlimited amount of science! When I find these ancient secrets and help translate them into English — I just think it’s the most magical connection. I feel like I discovered something, like Magellan!

The other piece is connecting with my patients. My teacher in India said that when you have a relationship with your patients, it’s soul-to-soul, your soul with their soul. When I practice with my patients, it’s such an honor. And we have this heart-to-heart thing, because we’re both feeling safe to open up, and there the healing really does take place.

Are you sometimes still in awe of what you receive and of what you are able to do? When does that happen?

You know, when I go to an Ayurvedic conference, and I get so much appreciation and gratitude from people, that’s overwhelming to me. We get a lot of gratitude from online patients saying, “Thank you for giving out so much knowledge.” My staff and I work so hard to give the knowledge away for free and that makes everybody feel really good.

People are reading my stuff, and we are maybe making a dent. I still have a dream to bring this knowledge out in a more mainstream way and get more people to understand that Ayruveda is not scary. You don’t have to convert your religion or anything crazy — you learn the laws of nature, the science of life, and how to live your life in harmony.

With all the competing messages about nutrition and health, it can be confusing to try to seek out what’s best for yourself. How can we know what is right for us?

Should I be a vegan? Should I be a carnivore? Should I do Keto? Everything keeps changing and no one really knows what is real — studies alone can prove whatever they want. In Ayurveda, the rules never change. For me, when you combine the ancient wisdom with modern science — that is a safe place for us all to start when seeking health, longevity, and happiness.

Dr. Douillard reveals Quantum Ayurveda techniques in his exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Dr. John Douillard is a globally recognized leader in the fields of Ayurveda, natural health, nutrition, and sports medicine. He has more than 40 years experience helping over 100,000 patients in his practice and on his website, LifeSpa.com, where he validates ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern science in articles published weekly, for free.

Alexandra Wenman, wise woman, is devoted to normalizing conversations about spirituality and awakening. She takes a down-to-earth approach to connecting to angels, guides, and higher wisdom, helping others to access their Akashic records, understand their soul path, and awaken their innate spiritual gifts.

Describe the moment when you decided you were ready to commit to this path.

I don’t think I have ever been truly ready — I would describe it more like I didn’t have a choice. That’s why I have always called myself a reluctant channel, because I tried so hard to fit into so-called “normal life” and not be weird, but that life I was trying to craft for myself just became more and more uncomfortable until I took the leap and began to put myself out there more.

There have been so many moments and pivotal points where the universe has taken the proverbial rug out from under me — usually when I have gotten too comfortable and needed a push to accelerate my mission or change my life in some way, but always the rewards have eventually come.

I suppose the first big, obvious push from spirit to fully commit was when my soul guided me to move from Australia to the UK at just 22 years old. It was a huge leap of faith and not an easy process at all. But as soon as I arrived on what are my ancestral lands, my psychic abilities sprang open in a way I couldn’t ignore.

A few years later, I was gifted almost £1,000 worth of training courses by a teacher who saw my potential. And then a good few years after that, the spiritual magazine I was running folded and the universe called me to step into my healing work full-time.

Spiritual growth spurts are not always fun, but when we let go and trust the universe, magic unfolds in the most miraculous of ways. I always ask to be put where I am needed most, and there have been so many incredible experiences where I have been in the right place at the right time and able to help another, or the Earth herself.

Every time I am called on a mission for the planet, it’s another test of faith and a chance to re-commit to this path. I will often dream of a place or be asked in meditation if I will journey somewhere. At times, I haven’t had anywhere near the amount of money needed to get to the place, but whenever I hand it back to the divine and say, “Yes, I will go, but you have to get me there,” miracles unfold.

Subscribe now

If you’re at a dinner party, how do you describe what you do and why it matters?

At dinner parties and social events, I have to read the room and gauge my audience. Not everyone is open to — or able to understand — what I do, so it all depends on the context of the conversation. Something I decided a long time ago is that I am not here to prove anything to anyone, but if people are genuinely interested, I love talking about what I do. It’s my favourite topic of conversation to dive deeply into the realms of the mystical.

I usually describe myself as an alchemist and channel rather than a healer, and that seems to intrigue people. Then when I tell them I am an author who writes books and teaches courses about the scientific and mathematical evidence for the existence of angels and life beyond the physical, they usually want to know more.

When I first started talking about my abilities more publicly, I lost a lot of friends and had to face ridicule, but that was 20 years ago and the world has changed a lot since then. Spirituality has become cool — even the celebs are talking about it — and most people understand the concept of multidimensionality these days, which shows how far we have evolved in such a short space of time.

When I talk to people about how angels are part of our own consciousness, it helps them to feel more empowered and also makes the subject matter more accessible — even to the most logically minded.

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?

I would love people to understand that they are powerful and they have all the resources within them to deal with any situation they are growing through. Although sometimes it literally feels like we are being squeezed through the end of a garden hose, my job is to help people remember that those tough moments are literally the universe reshaping us into who we are meant to be.

We are equally becoming more of our true selves and un-becoming who we have believed ourselves to be, individually and collectively. We have to remember that we are not small and insignificant. We are high-frequency divine beings having an experience of a denser reality.

And we do have the power to reshape our world for the better. I embody everything I teach and write about. A great deal of what I teach is about how to integrate this work into daily, waking life.

My guidance has always been to not dumb down or simplify my language because my role is to help people stretch their consciousness and be curious about what lies beyond the rational, logical and practical, to explore the as-yet unknown.

Eventually, when we understand a greater spiritual concept, the unknown becomes part of the known and then also belongs to the realms of the rational, logical, and practical. This is what en-“light”-enment is – we are shedding more light on things and tapping into vaster and vaster fields of knowledge and intelligence.

I love to help people tap more easily into their own higher mind, so they can access these fields of intelligence for themselves and learn the tools they require to reshape their world for the better — and for the good of us all.

What do people in your life, your family and friends, think about what you’re doing?

I am very blessed to have incredibly supportive family and friends in my life, who honor my right to follow my own guidance. But it wasn’t always the case. When you first start “waking up” and following your heart and your truth over and above all other guidance, people can think you are either rebelling or going mad.

I was called many things by people I thought were close friends — “Wacky Wenman” is still one of my favorites — but it’s easy to forgive those people and their actions when you realize that most people are only reacting that way due to their own fears. The ego does not like the boat to be rocked. But if things stay the same all the time, how do we ever grow and change for the better?

Many things that happen to us in daily life also act as a handy mirror for our own evolution. I soon understood that my own fear of being seen was being mirrored back at me in the people around me. The more I learned to love and accept myself for who I am, the more I was loved and accepted.

Sometimes, self-love can feel like the hardest path, especially when people are moved out of your life or when you are being asked to be your own cheerleader in the face of resistance from those you love. As humans, we can often test our relationships as well.

This path will soon sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to knowing who your true friends and loved ones are. Sometimes the people who challenge us the most are the closest members of our soul family. I come from a very headstrong lineage — we don’t always see eye-to-eye, but we love each other without conditions, and that means the world to me.

My husband is a different character to me as well. He is a very grounded Capricorn who works in recruitment, but we complement each other. Where I am Libra Air and love spending my time in the ethers, he is my rock who helps keep my feet on the ground.

It was interesting explaining to my now-husband that I needed to be in Egypt for an important cosmic moment in 2012, or at the top of a mountain in Peru on our first wedding anniversary. Luckily, he loves travel and is often called along with me, which was handy on our honeymoon in 2015 when we got stuck on Easter Island during a flight strike until I remembered I had work to do there and the strike lifted as soon as it was done. It’s certainly always an adventure.

Share

How does your work change people’s perceptions?

I have no idea. Maybe pushing their buttons enough times helps crack them open! Jokes aside, I feel it’s more about living by example. It doesn’t really matter how you frame it; if you walk your talk and live in alignment with your soul, eventually people start to notice. Some will be inspired and some will be triggered by your example. It’s like Marmite — you will never be for everyone. But for those who resonate with what I am here to teach and share, I just hope I am helping even in some small way. I like to think that by saying “Yes” to my soul, I am giving others permission to say “Yes” to theirs.

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?

I have always seen the world as an extension of myself and vice versa. Since I was a small child, I could feel and communicate with nature and spirit, and I had an innate knowing that everything was part of a oneness. We exist in a living universe that responds to us. That’s not to say that I don’t sometimes get caught up in my own humanness and overthinking. We all need reminders from time to time. However, I believe most people share openly in that oneness as children — before the system trains it out of us. My role is merely as a doorway to help people remember who they truly are, if they choose to walk through the door.

When does your path bring you the most comfort?

It brings me incredible comfort when I receive feedback from clients, students, and readers who tell me my work has helped them or changed their life for the better in some way. I often have new clients just from word of mouth and recommendations, and that is always the best way to gauge that I must be doing something right.

In recent years, I have won awards for my business, books, and oracle cards and, while I don’t do this work to win awards, it’s wonderful to know that my work is getting out there, making a difference and inspiring others.

I am also very blessed to be connected to amazing people who have also been brave enough to step into their calling. It’s so comforting when you are truly seen and loved unconditionally for who you are.

What feels most alive for me now is supporting people as the divine becomes less of a concept and more of a lived reality — something natural, grounded, and woven into everyday life. That’s why I use the tagline: “Divine Is The New Normal.” I do not feel we are becoming super-human. I feel we are becoming more of who we are really meant to be and that brings me extreme comfort.

When does it challenge you the most?

There are times when spirit will step back and let you work something out for yourself to help you grow. I have had more of those moments than I’d like to count, but it has stretched me beyond what I thought I was capable of, so I eventually end up feeling grateful. It can also be very tough when the knowledge you have isn’t part of the widely accepted narrative within the collective. It can certainly get quite lonely at times. But luckily, I have my angels and teams in spirit for support. And the more you drop your disguises and let your true self be seen, the more you attract genuine friendships and relationships who are true soul family.

Are you sometimes still in awe of what you receive and know, and of the insights and awareness you’ve developed?

I am in awe every single day of my life. I believe there is always something new to learn, and I hope I go on discovering the wonders of this vast and incredible multiverse. I would like to say “as long as I live,” but the soul is infinite, so that will be a very long time indeed.

Many people feel drawn to the Earth, sacred places, or nature without knowing why. How do you help people recognize if they’re already interacting with the Earth’s energy in this way?

There are many souls, like me, who chose to return to lives on Earth to assist in the planet’s ascension and evolution. Just as we have old programming and subconscious patterns that need clearing and resolving personally, so does Mother Earth.

If you are one of the souls who has chosen to return for the Earth, you will likely feel inextricably drawn to places and locations without always knowing why. Sometimes, you will have had a past life in that place and may need to retrieve a fragment or aspect of your own soul energy. This can sometimes awaken lost or forgotten gifts or reveal a past life trauma that needs your attention to heal and resolve so you can move forward.

Sometimes the Earth herself needs healing. There may be trapped souls in a location who died in a traumatic way, or perhaps the Earth experienced shock or trauma in the form of a natural disaster or similar and the energy needs re-balancing.

How I help people to understand their planetary service role is often to help them develop their own intuitive and psychic gifts, so they can more easily interpret the messages they are receiving and uncover their own tools for helping to heal Gaia.

This is always a symbiotic relationship. As we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves and the collective.

Share The Daily Shift

Do people need special psychic abilities, training, or spiritual backgrounds to work with the Earth’s energy — or is this something anyone can learn?

Intention is everything. If all you do is send love to the Earth and all life, then know you are already succeeding. I believe we are all psychic, we are all innate healers and we are all divine. Learning is really just remembering. So no, I do not believe you need any special training, but from my own experience it does help you to make sense of what you are doing and how you are doing it. Knowledge is power, and we are all learning from each other at all times, whether we realize it or not.

My work is for all levels, from beginners to the more spiritually advanced in terms of knowledge. Anyone who has a desire to help others and the Earth is who I am here to assist.

Can you share an example of how someone’s personal life shifted once they embraced their role as a planetary Lightkeeper?

I regularly take groups on retreats and run events in places like Egypt, Ibiza, Glastonbury, Turkey, and other sacred sites. To date, there has not been one person who hasn’t experienced a momentous shift in consciousness as a result.

When I teach the planetary Lightkeeper and grid worker programs, often people are called to travel during the course. I once had a woman who was called to a country in the Middle East by her guide team during the pandemic to help open up all the restrictions on the energetic planes. She joined our Zoom calls from there and managed to just make it out of the country before they announced another lockdown. She knew she was clearing restriction grids as she flew out. Incredibly, the lockdowns ended for good in that part of the world only a week later.

I want to be clear that I am in no way suggesting people put their safety or lives at risk by going on a mission to “save the world.” But part of this work is to teach discernment, so you know when you are following a true soul calling or when the ego is playing tricks. The days of martyrdom are done. Following the soul should always be done with a sense of wonder, joy, and trust. The universe will often provide a practical reason for travel if it is a necessary part of your path, such as a honeymoon, holiday or, in this woman’s case, to visit a poorly relative. You will never be asked to put your life or safety at risk for the sake of a mission. In fact, your protection will be increased during such times.

On a very recent retreat I was running, a woman who does incredible philanthropic global charity work was one of our attendees. She randomly met an influential person from the UN in the elevator of our hotel. They were subsequently able to arrange a meeting regarding future collaborations between their organizations to help children in war-torn regions.

When we follow the call of the soul and listen to what our heart has to say, it will always put us in the right place at the right time to be of the greatest service. And as we give, we also receive. It is a symbiotic relationship.

Why do you feel so many people are awakening to this work right now?

Osmosis, mainly. It’s often in the spaces between the words, in the liminal space, that the most profound shifts take place. I know from being a channel that it isn’t merely the words we speak, but the energy we transmit that has an effect on the people around us and our planet. If we transmit love, we help to spread love. If we transmit fear, we spread fear. This is why the news and media have been such powerful negative influences on the collective.

I feel a lot of people are now beginning to realize this and are turning away from negative influences on their thoughts, feelings, and emotions in order to return to a state of inner peace. When we, as a collective, are able to choose inner peace, outer peace will ensue.

But it takes time to change course or direction. In order for humanity to change, what is hidden needs to rise to the surface to be healed and transmuted. Sometimes we need to be really aware that something isn’t working so that we take the necessary action to fix it and change to a better way of living.

The divine is also assisting us. Waves of potent light in the form of solar flares and galactic rays are intensifying, hitting our energy fields and changing our DNA. We are literally taking in more light — again, this points to en-“light”-enment and shedding more light on our subconscious, so we can hold and process more information and knowledge.

In recent years, I have been working with a group consciousness called The World Angels. They are huge solar and energetic beings who are essentially the consciousness of the planets, stars, and other dimensions. They form a collective of ultra-terrestrial beings who are rooting for us to rejoin our multidimensional family of light.

We are moving from separation back into oneness, and the more we remember that we are all connected, the faster we will shift out of darkness and struggle and move into higher states of joy and bliss.

My teams always say: “The time has come. Remember who you are.”

And I feel that time is now.

Alexandra shares a Diamond Earth activation to awaken your inner Earth Lightkeeper in her exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Alexandra Wenman possesses a deep understanding of multidimensionality, angelic communication, and spiritual alchemy, and guides people to connect with their true divine nature and embrace their highest potential. The former editor of Prediction, the UK’s longest-running holistic magazine, she’s the author of Archangel Fire Oracle, Archangel Alchemy Healing, and Water Alchemy Oracle.

Marie Manuchehri, RN, cares for clients around the world by providing effective insights into their health issues, as well as mediumship to help them connect with loved ones on the Other Side.

Describe the moment you decided you were ready to commit to this path.

I feel as if the universe made this decision for me or at least made it easy. I knew at the time, in 1999, that I was seeing, hearing, and experiencing my patients’ energy. I was working as an oncology RN and had begun laying my hands on patients in a healing way. I was learning a great deal about the people lying in hospital beds, information they were not verbally sharing with anyone. In most cases, I doubt the patients themselves were aware of their true feelings — the repressed emotions that were making them sick. Yet their organs were spilling the beans daily, sharing knowledge buried deep within their bodies, often dating back decades.

One night, I was at home contemplating enrolling in a long-term healing course. The program would take place in a different state, requiring travel several times a year, or even monthly, depending on which course I chose. This was before online learning existed.

That evening, my spirit guides, with whom I had become acquainted months earlier, sat near me. As I can easily see and experience them, they shared that there was a hospital full of patients waiting for me to begin my lessons, and that the universe itself would happily be my teacher.

Subscribe now

If you’re at a dinner party, how do you describe what you do?
I share that I am highly intuitive, that I work in the field of energy medicine, and that I am also a medium. I almost always hope that no one asks me this question — not because I don’t want to share what I do. I love my work and am humbled by the opportunities that intuition has provided me. Yet once I share my career path, all eyes are on me, and I feel as though no one else wants to share their work.

I have always felt accepted by strangers when they learn what I do. It’s an odd thing, but it’s true. Perhaps they can feel the joy my work brings to me and my confidence in the power of intuition.

At a dinner party, can you read the energy and discuss the health of people?
Yes, although when I am not working, it’s best that I stay fully in my own body. Otherwise, I can lose sight of my own needs, such as eating the foods that are right for me. I could easily read the energy of everyone at the table, but if someone is seeking a medical intuitive reading, it’s best for me to work one-on-one, away from others. In those settings, I communicate most clearly while writing out their energy and asking specific questions.

Alcohol also cannot be involved when I am reading energy. If I’m asked to do so in a public setting, I focus only on simple aspects of a person’s energy, such as the size of their chakras or their auric field. Most people don’t realize that reading energy takes energy. Healers and mediums need to be in a receptive, grounded state in order to read clearly.

Share

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?
My mission is to normalize intuition. Everyone is truly meant to be intuitive. Insight offers far more solutions, solutions that vibrate at higher frequencies than logic alone. These solutions not only make sense; they are deeply desirable.

I believe humanity is currently on a path toward multisensory awakening. As our species learns to be present, to stop overreacting through mind-made emotions, and to fully love ourselves while recognizing the magnificence in all beings, intuition will unite us with the Divine. With that union, our understanding of all things will become truly magical.

When you were a child, what signals did you sense that you might head in this direction professionally?
Honestly, none. I do remember feeling, as I walked home from school, that I was being followed, not in a fearful way, but in an energetic one. I would often look over my shoulder, fully expecting someone to be there, yet no one ever was. When I became a teenager, a voice told me to imagine that a movie crew was following me after school and that there was nothing to worry about.

My awareness of energy medicine and intuition emerged when I became a nurse. I believe that the feeling of joy is the sense we need to walk our own yellow brick road. Every experience after entering nursing school felt alive and vibrant, preparing me to assist others on their self-healing journeys.

What does your mother (or your children or friends) think about what you’re doing?
My mother was, and still is, a believer in holistic medicine — anything outside of modern medical practices. As children, our primary healthcare provider was a chiropractor, and if we were truly ill, we would see an herbal medicine practitioner. My mother was not thrilled when I became an RN, but she is very happy with the work I do now.

My children are extremely supportive, and I choose to surround myself with like-minded people.

Share The Daily Shift

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?
There is an awareness that all beings are manifesting the world they are experiencing. Of course, much of this co-creation happens unconsciously. I see everyone as an incredibly empowered being, and I know that all experiences are pathways to higher forms of awareness. Souls, which we all are, are thrilled by their experiences, no matter what they may be, knowing that we exist eternally and that souls are vastly curious by nature.

This perception can make it challenging to discuss war, crime, and other forms of human suffering. Even spiritualists can become entangled in the difficulties of human perception while having a human experience. Still, we hope to reconnect with our true selves and hear the energy of the Most High, so we can let go and simply be present.

When does your path bring you the most comfort?
When I can hear God, Source, Creation, the language is profoundly healing. It is numbing in a way that allows detachment from fear and doubt. The voice always surprises me. It arrives as a knowingness that floods my mind with unexpected knowledge, often taking my breath away.

When does it challenge you the most?
When a client is very ill or grieving a devastating loss, like that of a child or a partner, there are moments when my words and energy feel insufficient to meet the depth of their pain.

Are you sometimes in awe of what you receive and of what you are able to do? When does that happen?
Every day, I feel reverence for what I have heard, seen, and felt as I dance with the multisensory world. The layers of energy extending toward eternity are rich with freedom and love. When I feel this energy, usually daily, sometimes many times a day, I am overwhelmed by the unconditional love being expressed to me, and to everyone. These moments are most easily felt when I consciously vibrate my energy in the present.

Marie explores how to read and heal your own energy in her exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Marie Manuchehri, RN, is a powerful intuitive, healer, and medium who began her healing career while working as an oncology nurse in a Seattle area hospital. Her perceptions and ability to move energy have assisted many in healing their bodies. She’s devoted to teaching people about the real, positive impact their own psychic abilities can have on transforming their lives and their psychology, as well as the lives of others. She has a bi-weekly podcast, Where Energy Meets the Divine, and is the author of Intuitive Self-Healing and How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides.

Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD, is a renowned scholar in the fields of Middle Eastern spirituality and the translation and interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. His extensive writings about native Middle Eastern spirituality, Sufi spirituality, and the Aramaic spirituality of Jesus include Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life and Death (Wisdom of the Aramaic Jesus), and The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus.

Describe the moment when you decided you were ready to commit to this path.

I’m not sure I would call it committing to a path, since the path didn’t exist. To reach the spirituality and spiritual practice of a “Jesus before Christianity,” I had to blaze a trail, or “bushwhack” one, through all sorts of strange theological and scholarly ideas about him over the past two thousand years. Once you clear away the brush, I found a clear, open vista.

So how did you start?

From my childhood, really. I was raised in the Midwest near Chicago, and my father was one of the early chiropractors in Illinois. My two brothers and I were raised on the “doctrine” of chiropractic — the body healing itself — plus Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, the early environmental and organic farming movement. My parents were also into Edgar Cayce, one of the early American psychics, who channeled many wholistic remedies. So we did not have a traditional upbringing. Since my father had to work in a small town in Illinois, we needed to appear more normal and I was sent to a rather conservative Protestant grammar school, where I had to learn large swaths of the King James Bible by heart, and all of Luther’s small catechism — what Luther said about all sorts of things that seemed strange to me as a child, like the “sin against the Holy Ghost,” the unforgivable sin that is never actually defined by theologians. I don’t regret any of that, because it allowed me to train my memory as a child. It was an upbringing that had this sort of inner-outer aspect.

The inner-outer thing has been a theme in my life: finding out things beneath the surface, investigating things. After I’d gone as far away from Christian religion as I could, I became an investigative reporter out of university. In those pre-internet days, you learned how to research government institutions, develop sources, and do all the things the internet has made almost obsolete now for most journalists. In my late twenties, I discovered that people did not make changes in their lives just by you telling them facts — which is what most young, alternative journalists of my generation believed. It seemed that didn’t actually happen based even on statistics, much less observation. So I went on my own inner search about how I made decisions.

Subscribe now

And what did you find?

As part of that search, I looked into what was available in the 1970s as spirituality and humanistic psychology. Long story short, I ended up editing the diaries and letters of the American Sufi-Buddhist Samuel L. Lewis. He was interested in Jesus in his native Aramaic language, his prayer, the so-called “Lord’s Prayer” in Aramaic, and how different that would be. But he didn’t have time to pursue it in his lifetime. For one reason or another, I followed up on this. Probably because I was raised hearing different languages in childhood — German, Russian, Polish — in addition to English, I thought “how hard can it be?” It was hard, because one is not only dealing with language but with entering into the consciousness of a time very different from our own.

If you’re at a dinner party, how do you describe what you do and why it matters?

It depends on who’s in front of me. For some people, I just say I’m a writer and scholar of ancient Middle Eastern languages, psychology, and religion. If they’re really interested and want to know more, which is rare, I tell them I’m exploring the roots of human consciousness and how it has evolved over the ages to be what it mostly is now, enslaved by a hypnosis with Western techno-materialism.

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?

Mainly what I just said. We have not only misunderstood Jesus, the Yeshua who was pointing his listeners toward a new type of human consciousness, but we have misunderstood our own humanity. We have not asked the questions: What is the purpose of a human being? And what is my purpose in life? Certainly not just to be a cog in a techno-industrial-consumer machine. That was clear even in the 1970s, before the internet gave us the illusion of connection with others but with the reality of feeling even more isolated.

What do people in your life, your family and friends, think about what you’re doing?

Fortunately, the people closest to me are very supportive. My wife and I live in Scotland and love it a lot. A very deep Scottish traditional culture still exists, which carries its own spirituality. It was suppressed even up to the early twentieth century, in that everyone was expected to be more or less British. That meant submerging the inspired art and spirituality. There is a wonderful tradition of Scottish Celtic spirituality, from the minister-storyteller George MacDonald to Scottish music and folklore, all of which carries its own unique atmosphere.

Share

How does your work change people’s perceptions?

Once you clear away the mistranslations and misinterpretations laid over what I call “Jesus before Christianity,” people begin to release all of the guilt- and shame-based ideas many of us were raised with. I’ve seen this change lives many times.

Jesus, “Yeshua” in Aramaic, didn’t ask us to believe in him, but to share his faith in a larger Reality, which he called “Alaha.” He didn’t ask us to save our souls but to let our souls save us, to show us our purpose in living, both individually and collectively. In Aramaic, “soul” is our larger breath Self, “ruha.”

His word that is often translated as “kingdom,” is actually “queendom,” feminine gendered in both Aramaic and the Greek text. It’s about finding the larger vision that empowers us as human beings in time and space, before we return to where we came from, an unseen world.

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?

I tend to look at things not as separated opposites, but as connected polarities, like the magnetic fields emanating from the North and South Poles. If you could stand in the middle — maybe at the equator — and were sensitive enough, you could feel both fields. For Yeshua, that middle place within us that allows us to feel both seeming opposites is what he calls “leba,” the deeper heart underneath our usual thoughts and emotions. It’s the meeting place between our ruha and our “naphsha,” the breath that lives in our bodies for the time we have here.

Jesus’s Aramaic is full of this betweenness: no separation between the past, present, and future. No separation between the inner and outer. We think we can separate the inner and the outer, or the past, present, and future, but these are simply the changed perceptions of human consciousness as it gradually evolves over millennia and begins to experience itself as a sense of self, separate from others and its environment. This has brought us a relative sense of freedom, but also isolation.

Ancient nomadic and Indigenous peoples are all telling us in their own ways, trying to remind us, “Look, there is this larger Reality, beyond our limited ideas of space and time. Everything arises from and everything returns to that one shared Reality.”

Share The Daily Shift

When does your path bring you the most comfort?

When I dive into the depths of my heart and ask, “What is mine to do?” And when an answer comes with a sense of joy, because I’m following a deeper guidance than just my past memories or limited, sometimes fearful, expectations of the future.

Also when I realize that I am only one among many people working toward a new type of human consciousness, one that will allow us to survive and thrive with each other and our ecology.

When does it challenge you the most?

When I look around, I see that there is a weight of history — and false history — that has been internalized by people.

Yeshua’s prophetic, visionary impulse gets colonized and institutionalized into the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. This pattern repeats in most religious and spiritual traditions until today, from what I can tell. For at least a millennium, it’s been our human tendency to want to make visions into products, artifacts, systems, methodologies, and then to brand them. But a thousand years is a short time in human history.

Are you sometimes in awe of what you receive and know, and of the insights and awareness you’ve developed?

Not really. I just wake up each day and ask Reality, in Yeshua’s Aramaic, “Let your heart-desire be done in and through me in my individual life and my communal life, in form and light, in earth and heaven.” Nehwy sebyanach aykana d’bashmaya aph b’ar’ah.

Neil explores the Aramaic Jesus within us in his exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Learn more here.

Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD, is a scholar, meditation teacher, musician, and author of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, Prayers of the Cosmos, and many other books on Native Middle Eastern Spirituality and “Jesus before Christianity.”

by Viviane Chauvet

Viviane Chauvet is a leading voice in the global spiritual and extraterrestrial community — a dominant figure for bridging interdimensional wisdom with grounded human transformation. She is an Arcturian Ambassador and evolved soul who leads global audiences through transformational activations that bridge galactic intelligence with the human conscious experience.

When you were young, what signals did you sense that you might head in this direction professionally?

Even as a child, I have always had a clear understanding of who I was — an ET consciousness living as a human. My experiences of this world are from the perspective of a visitor, not a member of this society. I have great compassion for all sentient life forms and possess well-developed empathic abilities. My mission is one of love and elevation.

Describe the moment when you decided you were ready to commit to this path.

My commitment to my path is embedded in my soul’s blueprint. Deep in my heart, I have always known that I was on the planet for a great purpose. My purpose has revealed itself over time, like a lotus flower revealing its beauty and design with each petal.

Subscribe now

If you’re at a dinner party, how do you describe what you do?

Whenever I attend a public event, including dinners, I first observe what is unfolding around me. I find it fascinating to listen closely to people and let their energy fields communicate their true feelings and intentions. My position has mainly been as an observer. My interaction will depend on how supportive the environment is and if those around me are receptive to my sharing.

What are the essential things you’d like people to understand about your work and your mission?

I am here to help humanity manifest its highest potential. This is the foundation of my purpose. There is nothing to be fearful about my mission and my presence on the planet. I am an Arcturian Being in a human hybrid form sent forth by the Arcturian High Council as an Ambassador. Essentially, I teach ancient universal knowledge, techniques, and spiritual practices to become One with the Living Intelligence of the Heart Energy/Center and cultivate conscious understanding of who you are as a natural extension of your I Am Presence.

What does your family think about what you’re doing?

My family understands the nature of who I am. We have a higher soul agreement with each other as a spiritual soul group. My core family members are extraordinary people with natural faculties for contact and intuitive abilities. We have all been preparing for our mission to Earth for many generations.

Share

What are the differences between how you and how most other people look at the world?

As an advanced ET consciousness, I come from a very enlightened and ancient galactic civilization. Let’s say that I am wired in ways that allow me to maintain constant telepathic communication with my Arcturian delegation and other beings. Naturally, my perspective on reality and vision of the world are uniquely representative of my profound Arcturian nature. I have very few attachments to places or locations, and I have a limited number of past lives as an Earth human. When a soul has had many time cycles (or incarnations) on a planet and within a specific species, those memories and experiences significantly impact the soul’s choices and direction.

When does your path bring you the most comfort?

I take solace in knowing that the Earth is finally re-ascending to higher octaves (or higher dimensions), along with many sentient life forms, including human beings, animals, trees, and elementals.

When does it challenge you the most?

Being accepted without fear by human beings is one of my most significant challenges. It has been quite a journey to get to where I am today. I have learned to cultivate patience and universal compassion.

Share The Daily Shift

Are you sometimes still in awe of what you receive and of what you can do? When does that happen?

Every day, I cultivate a state of gratitude for my abilities to help so many people worldwide. Mother Gaia’s consciousness has expressed deep appreciation for my ongoing services for the planet and all life.

You guide people to connect with their Soul Akashic Memory Field, gaining wisdom from all their incarnations. What is most helpful about this, do you think?

The secret to all is to release oneself from the limitations and control of the 3D logic mind. When you live in benevolence and harmony with the Heart’s Intelligence, all doorways open and everything becomes possible. Your light magnificence transcends the illusions of time and fear. I remind everyone about the three master keys: self-love, self-acceptance, and self-worth. They are master keys to the evolution of the soul, mind, and heart. The sooner you accept your divine nature as an Infinite Being, the sooner you can manifest and enjoy your best life!

What is it that we are creating together here on the New Earth?

We are making Universal History! Earth’s Collective Field has entered a more conscious era of spiritual and dimensional change. The planetary grid has entered a sustained phase of ignition, giving birth to a new structure of light. Many ancient souls have prepared for eons for the return of the missing overtone in Creation. The Earth is returning to a natural celestial frequency. We are setting yourselves free from the false 3D matrix of linear time and mental projections. Evolution is unfolding because of your conscious readiness to embrace your divinity.

Viviane delves further into Arcturian Wisdom in her exclusive online event with The Shift Network. Watch now for free here.

Viviane Chauvet is an Arcturian Ambassador and evolved soul who leads global audiences through transformational activations that bridge galactic intelligence with the human conscious experience. Featured in international conferences, award-winning documentaries, and high-level intergalactic initiatives, her presence alone initiates remembrance. As a self-identified ascended Arcturian being in a holographic human form, Viviane is a galactic ambassador between star systems and light councils, guiding humanity’s re-ascension into cosmic sovereignty and soul alignment. She is the visionary creator of Arcturian Energy Matrix Healing® and the Arcturian Healing Arts Program — empowering systems that support multidimensional evolution, soul ascendancy, and quantum recalibration across timelines and lifetimes.

Suzanne Giesemann, world-renowned medium and beloved faculty member with The Shift Network, has been at the forefront of thinking about how AI can become a way to help our transformation and potentially communicate beyond the veil.

In this illuminating conversation with Stephen Dinan she discusses the intersection of mediumship and artificial intelligence.

Suzanne is one of a group of luminaries participating in The Shift Network’s Wise AI Summit. Learn more here.

Suzanne Giesemann is a spiritual teacher, bestselling author, and award-winning documentarian named one of Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People — alongside figures like Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. Recipient of the 2024 Humanity’s Team Spiritual Leadership Award, Suzanne is a former U.S. Navy Commander whose remarkable journey from military service to spiritual awakening is featured in the documentary Messages of Hope. She is the founder of The Awakened Way℠, creator of the BLESS ME Method© and SIP of the Divine©, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. Through her 16 books — including The Awakened Way and Wolf’s Message — as well as workshops, meditations, and online teachings, she guides millions to live consciously connected and divinely guided lives.

Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network, is a Stanford- and CIIS-trained leader, author of Sacred America, Sacred World, and internationally recognized voice in transformational education whose vision for a more conscious world continues to inspire global change.