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Could your ancestors be trying to reach you—and would you recognize the signs? Julie Ryan sits down with Indigenous Mi’kmaq Spirit Talker and psychic medium Shawn Leonard for a fascinating conversation about ancestral guidance, deceased loved ones, spirit signs, animal totems, life after death, and how to recognize what Shawn believes may be communication from the Spirit world.
Shawn has experienced what he describes as spirit communication since childhood. At just four years old, he remembers interacting with a spirit guide named Sam. Then, at 16, a year after his father's sudden death, Shawn experienced something that would shape the rest of his life.
He says his father appeared to him in an extraordinary visitation—first as brilliant white light and then as a recognizable apparition—with a message about Shawn's future purpose.
Decades later, Shawn has devoted his life to helping people explore their connections with departed loved ones, ancestors, spirit guides, and the unseen world.
Julie and Shawn explore some of the biggest questions surrounding spirit communication:
Are our ancestors still connected to us?
What signs should we be watching for?
How can you ask your ancestors for guidance?
Do we all have animal totems?
Why do some spirits seem reluctant to cross over?
What do departed loved ones most want us to know?
And what actually happens when we die?
Shawn also shares the meaning behind his ceremonial name, White Eagle Spirit Talker, and how his Mi’kmaq heritage and Indigenous traditions inform his approach to mediumship and Spirit.
You'll hear remarkable stories from Shawn's life and work, including an unexpected polar bear claw that arrived after a ceremonial request and an encounter in which spiritual guidance became profoundly meaningful to someone experiencing a crisis.
Julie and Shawn also discuss animal totems, ancestral lineage, ceremony, grief, healing, intuition, earthbound spirits, the afterlife, and the relationship between the physical and Spirit worlds.
Near the end of their conversation, Shawn explains what he believes may happen if you simply ask your ancestors for guidance before going to sleep tonight.
Guest Biography:
Shawn Leonard is a heart-centered Indigenous Mi’kmaq Spirit Talker, psychic medium, author, teacher, and host of the APTN series Spirit Talker, with more than 25 years of professional experience connecting people with departed loved ones, spirits, and guides. His spiritual journey deepened at age 16, when, a year after his father’s death, Shawn experienced a visitation in which his father told him he would one day help bridge the physical and Spirit worlds. Since then, Shawn has helped people around the world navigate grief, healing, and their spiritual journeys through readings, live events, workshops, television, and his Spirit Talker Tribe online course. A respected Mi’kmaq Elder gifted him the name Wape'k Kitpu Aknutmajik Jijaqmijk, meaning “White Eagle Spirit Talker.” Shawn is also the Hay House author of Spirit Talker and Walking with Your Spirit Totem Animals, and creator of the Wisdom of the Elders Oracle Card Deck.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) Can Your Ancestors Communicate With You?
(0:02:08) His Deceased Father Appeared to Him at 16
(0:07:29) He’s Seen Spirits Since He Was Four
(0:17:49) The Experience That Deepened His Spiritual Path
(0:20:02) Indigenous Ceremony & Spirit Communication
(0:20:54) Do We All Have Animal Totems?
(0:30:17) Are Spirits Always Trying to Reach Us?
(0:32:10) When a Message From Spirit Changes a Life
(0:37:15) Signs From Your Ancestors You May Be Missing
(0:39:57) How to Connect With Your Ancestral Lineage
(0:43:33) What Has Spirit Taught Him About Death?
(0:44:54) What Do Departed Loved Ones Want Us to Know?
(0:50:46) Ask Your Ancestors This Before You Sleep
(0:53:05) A Message for the World Right Now
(0:54:23) Why Do We Incarnate?

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Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt that something was “off”—even though you couldn't explain why? Julie Ryan talks with home energy expert and Angel Reiki practitioner K. Margaret Solorio about the possibility that our homes, belongings, heirlooms, and living spaces can carry emotional and energetic associations from the people and experiences connected to them.
K. Margaret explains why she believes a home can reflect what's happening within us—and how clutter, inherited belongings, old photographs, antiques, and even a single object can sometimes change the way a space feels.
But what happens when the strange feeling in a house seems to be more than clutter?
Julie and K. Margaret explore spirits in homes, energy clearing, angels, Angel Reiki, intuition, and what K. Margaret says happens when she encounters a spirit during a home clearing. She describes helping spirits cross and shares what she perceives when angelic energy appears—including one remarkable experience involving a stairwell seemingly filled with wings.
They also discuss the objects we struggle to release. Should you keep Grandma's furniture because you feel guilty giving it away? What about old family photographs when you don't even know who's pictured? Can you clear the emotional or energetic association of an object without getting rid of it?
K. Margaret shares simple ways she believes anyone can shift how a home feels—without expensive tools, elaborate rituals, or redesigning the entire house. Sometimes it can begin with fresh air, different lighting, removing an object that no longer feels right, or simply bringing something from nature indoors.
Julie and K. Margaret also explore why children may be naturally receptive to spiritual experiences, how imagination can intersect with intuition, the difference between home energy work and feng shui, and how K. Margaret balances her scientific background in biotech with her spiritual work.
Ultimately, this conversation asks a fascinating question:
What if your home isn't just where you live—but a reflection of what you're carrying?
If you've ever felt uncomfortable in a particular room, inherited an object that never felt quite right, sensed a presence in your home, or simply wondered why some spaces feel peaceful while others feel heavy, this episode will give you a completely different way to think about the space around you.
Guest Biography:
K. Margaret Solorio is an intuitive guide, energy mentor, and creator of the Home Frequency Reset—a transformative service that helps clients clear energetic clutter and realign their spaces to support personal growth and inner peace. Through her podcast Intuitive Wisdom and 1:1 offerings, she blends grounded spiritual insight with practical energy work to help conscious individuals create environments that match who they are becoming. Her mission is simple: help people feel energetically at home—in their space and in themselves.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) Why Does Your Home Sometimes Feel “Off”?
(0:04:51) Can Anyone Feel the Energy in a Home?
(0:06:36) Simple Ways to Change How Your Home Feels
(0:09:12) Can Objects Hold Emotional Energy?
(0:10:12) Antiques, Heirlooms & Energy From the Past
(0:11:56) How Do You Clear Energy From Objects & Rooms?
(0:13:53) Can Spirits Remain in a Home?
(0:15:40) What Does Angelic Energy Look and Feel Like?
(0:20:04) Why Do Some Children See Spirits?
(0:22:27) Is Your Clutter Affecting More Than Your Space?
(0:26:16) What Should You Do With Emotional Heirlooms & Photos?
(0:39:32) Is Imagination How Spirit Communicates With Us?
(0:47:22) What Does Your Home Reveal About You?
(0:55:14) Home Energy vs. Feng Shui: What’s the Difference?
(0:58:19) The Easiest Way to Raise Your Home’s Energy
(0:59:48) Why Do We Incarnate?

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How much can a psychic medium see about your health? When a woman facing a heart procedure receives a live intuitive scan, Julie Ryan describes something extraordinary.
In this episode of the Ask Julie Ryan Show, world-renowned psychic medium and medical intuitive Julie Ryan takes live calls from around the world, exploring heart conditions, energetic healing, spirit communication, past lives, and the 12 Phases of Transition®.
Pat from Phoenix is preparing for a cardiac ablation to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib). During her intuitive scan, Julie describes energetic adjustments to Pat's heart rhythm and cardiovascular system. Other callers seek insight into vision problems, a herniated disc, decades of chronic fatigue, and neurological symptoms following surgery.
The spiritual mysteries are equally fascinating. Julie explores the transition process with a woman whose husband suffered a stroke, shares techniques for overcoming fear, and helps a retired nurse investigate an unusual childhood memory that may be connected to a past life.
What might a medical intuitive perceive that conventional medical testing doesn't explore? And what can spiritual experiences teach us about healing, the afterlife, and the soul?
Join Julie for another remarkable evening of intuitive readings, spiritual discoveries, and conversations about healing.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) Welcome to the Ask Julie Ryan Show
(0:03:49) After a Stroke: The 12 Phases of Transition®
(0:10:48) Psychic Scan for Vision Problems and Eye Healing
(0:21:30) AFib and an Upcoming Heart Procedure: What Does Julie See?
(0:28:13) Overcoming Fear With the Two-Minute Rule®
(0:34:06) Intuitive Healing for a Herniated Disc
(0:39:10) Past-Life Mystery: A Childhood Memory Explained
(0:44:15) 35 Years of Chronic Fatigue: What Could Be Behind It?
(0:54:55) Medical Intuitive Scan for a Cat's Illness
(0:56:25) Neurological Symptoms After Surgery: An Intuitive Scan
(1:06:30) Closing Thoughts and Angelic Attendant Training™

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What does it actually feel like when someone who has died tries to communicate with you—and how can you tell a genuine experience from your own thoughts? Julie Ryan sits down with psychic, remote viewer, shaman, and longtime consciousness-research participant Gail Hayssen to explore spirit communication, signs from deceased loved ones, near-death experiences, remote viewing, precognition, and the evidence surrounding consciousness after death.
For Gail, communication associated with someone who has died can arrive as a physical sensation, sudden knowing, vivid dream, or persistent impression that she feels compelled to share.
But how do you know whether it's really them?
Julie and Gail explore what these experiences feel like, why they can be profoundly meaningful for people experiencing grief, and whether connecting with a deceased loved one can help someone feel less alone after loss.
Gail also discusses research into the survival of consciousness, including the work supported by Robert Bigelow and investigations into whether consciousness may continue beyond bodily death.
Then the conversation gets even stranger.
Gail takes Julie behind the scenes of her decades of participation in remote-viewing and psi experiments with researchers including Dean Radin and Russell Targ. She describes experiments in which she attempted to perceive targets she couldn't conventionally see—including experiences she interpreted as accessing information before a target was selected.
What could experiences like these suggest about intuition, consciousness, and our perception of time?
Gail also shares her deeply personal journey, including a near-death experience during childbirth, her relationships with Indigenous and shamanic traditions, and her initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in Mongolia.
Julie and Gail explore:
What does spirit communication actually feel like?
Can deceased loved ones still reach us?
What does research say about survival of consciousness?
Can the mind perceive information across distance—or even time?
Are some people naturally more intuitive than others?
Can intuitive abilities be developed?
And if time isn't as linear as it appears, what does that mean for our lives?
Finally, Julie asks her signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
Whether you've experienced an extraordinary dream about someone who died, wondered whether a sign was really from your loved one, or questioned how far human consciousness might extend, this conversation will leave you thinking differently about what may be possible.
Guest Biography:
Gail Hayssen is a psychic, remote viewer, shaman, podcast host, and longtime participant in scientific research exploring psychic and paranormal phenomena. Experiencing precognitive dreams and other unusual phenomena since childhood, Gail later trained in remote perception and medical intuition and has participated in experiments with prominent researchers including Dr. Dean Radin and Russell Targ since the late 1990s. Her extraordinary life has included a near-death experience during childbirth, deep relationships with Indigenous and shamanic communities in Mexico, Alaska, and Mongolia, and initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in 2011. She has participated in numerous psi and remote-viewing studies, appears in Russell Targ’s documentary Third Eye Spies, and was featured in research discussed in Dr. Radin’s Supernormal. Gail is also the host of the podcast A Small Medium at Large, where she explores consciousness, psychic phenomena, spirituality, and the unexplained.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) What Does Spirit Communication Actually Feel Like?
(0:01:50) Is Talking to the Dead Real?
(0:05:13) Is There Evidence for Life After Death?
(0:07:05) Gail’s Near-Death Experience During Childbirth
(0:15:23) Can Spirit Communication Help Heal Grief?
(0:18:40) What Shamanic Traditions Have in Common
(0:25:25) Can Your Mind See Something Miles Away?
(0:31:28) Inside Gail’s Psychic Experiments With Dean Radin
(0:36:09) The Science of Remote Viewing
(0:43:17) Can Anyone Develop Psychic Abilities?
(0:44:56) What If Time Isn’t Really Linear?
(0:47:43) Can Your Thoughts Affect Your Future?
(0:49:50) Why Do We Incarnate?

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What if your symptoms aren't simply problems to eliminate—but signals asking you to pay attention? Julie Ryan sits down with Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher, and The Inflammation Code author Dr. Shivani Gupta to explore chronic inflammation, stress, unresolved emotions, boundaries, sleep, intuition, and what your body may be trying to communicate.
Dr. Shivani explains “inflammaging”—the chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—and why she believes many of the symptoms people dismiss as simply getting older deserve a closer look.
Julie and Shivani explore the many factors that can influence inflammation, including diet, sleep, circadian rhythms, environmental exposures, chronic stress, grief, and lifestyle patterns. They also discuss Ayurveda's approach to understanding the individual through the Vata, Pitta, and Kapha doshas and how ancient practices can be adapted to modern life.
But the conversation goes deeper than physical health.
Can constantly overriding your own needs affect your well-being? What happens when grief and stress aren't fully processed? Why do so many women become accustomed to saying yes when their bodies seem to be saying no?
Julie shares her medical-intuitive perspective on how she perceives inflammation during an energetic scan, while Shivani discusses Ayurveda's traditional understanding of the relationship between mind, body, energy, and health.
You'll also learn about practical Ayurvedic rituals Dr. Shivani uses and teaches, including tongue scraping, oil pulling, morning hydration, circadian walks, breathwork, meditation, digestive health practices, and prioritizing restorative sleep.
They discuss why sleep is foundational, how our daily routines influence the nervous system, and why Shivani encourages women to create moments of intentional stillness throughout the day—including her simple “Tea Time Is Me Time” practice.
Finally, Julie and Shivani explore the connection between intuition, inflammation, purpose, dharma, and spiritual well-being, ending with Julie's signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
If you've been experiencing fatigue, stress, poor sleep, digestive issues, brain fog, aches, or simply the feeling that your body is asking for something different, this conversation offers a new framework for listening.
Guest Biography:
Dr. Shivani Gupta is an Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher, author, and speaker who blends classical Ayurveda with functional medicine to help women reduce inflammation, support hormone balance, and restore energy. With a Master’s in Ayurvedic Sciences and a PhD focused on turmeric, she translates ancient healing wisdom into practical daily strategies for modern life. She is the author of The Inflammation Code, host of the Fusionary Health Podcast, and creator and host of the Emmy-nominated TV show Vibrant Health with Dr. Shivani Gupta. For more than 20 years, Dr. Shivani has helped women and families create sustainable wellness routines, with a particular focus on inflammation, midlife hormone health, metabolism, gut health, and the therapeutic use of spices.
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Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) What Are Your Symptoms Trying to Tell You?
(0:01:52) Is “Inflammaging” Making You Feel Older?
(0:07:07) Ancient Ayurveda Meets Modern Wellness
(0:11:53) Why Is Chronic Inflammation So Common?
(0:16:02) Can Emotions Affect How Your Body Feels?
(0:20:21) Julie’s Medical-Intuitive View of Inflammation
(0:24:07) Boundaries, Grief & the Mind-Body Connection
(0:32:55) How Do You Decode What Your Body Is Telling You?
(0:34:44) Discover Your Ayurvedic Mind-Body Type
(0:42:38) Simple Daily Rituals to Support Your Body
(0:48:48) Digestion, Fasting & Your “Digestive Fire”
(0:53:43) Tongue Scraping, Oil Pulling & Ancient Rituals
(0:54:35) Why Sleep May Be Your Most Important Reset
(1:01:28) Can Physical Wellness Strengthen Intuition?
(1:05:13) Why Do We Incarnate?

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