AHA Podcast

There's a version of you that's been waiting — patiently, quietly — underneath everything you thought you had to be. Anniston Riekstins helps women find her. In this episode, Anniston (master numerologist, author, and soul contract expert) shares how she went from silencing herself to belong, to becoming a woman who reads the sacred blueprint hidden in people's names and birthdates. We talk about...

Stephen Simon spent his career in Hollywood making films that entertained millions — Somewhere in Time , What Dreams May Come , Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure . He didn't know his art was preparing him for his own life, with an epic love story that transcends death. In this episode, Stephen shares the extraordinary true story of meeting his wife Lauren across a crowded theater in Portland —...

On this episode of AHA Podcast, I sit down with Desiree Darago, whose 18-year-old son Blake — a football star known for his "full contact" energy and his big, generous heart — died by suicide in 2024. Desiree opens up about the mother's intuition that told her something was wrong before she got the call, the last ordinary afternoon she spent with Blake, and the school that refused to let his class...

In this episode of the AHA Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Erin Hudson — chiropractor turned multifamily real estate powerhouse, mom of five, grandma, and a woman who has survived more betrayal and heartbreak than most people could imagine. Erin takes us back to her childhood, where a small moment with her mom planted a seed that would shape her entire life's mission. From there, she shares the wild...

In this episode, I sit down with Shelly Wheeler-Cox, a gifted medium whose own life has been shaped by profound loss — and by a gift that opened wide open because of it. Shelly shares the moment as a teenager when she first saw someone from the other side, the experience years later that "pierced her veil" for good, and the incredible specificity of the messages she now receives — from teddy bears...

In this episode of AHA Podcast, I sit down with Simone Devenny — a mother, like me, who knows the club no one wants to join. Simone's son Rex crossed over a little over three years ago, and the story of how she and I found each other is a sign in itself: shared dates, shared symbols, and a connection neither of us can call coincidence. 💙 We talk about the undeniable, electrifying signs our kids h...

In December 2020, at the height of COVID, Brheanna Myers went to the ER three times with a cough doctors kept insisting was COVID. It wasn't. It was severe fungal pneumonia — and it stopped her heart. In this episode, Brheanna takes us through what happened in those six minutes: standing at the foot of her own bed in total detachment, meeting a guide she barely knows in this lifetime, and learning...

Some people don't just survive grief — they let it crack them wide open. 💙 In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with Rebecca "Becks" Davis (@kulaspringsyoga) — yoga teacher, philosophy guide, and mother — who has navigated the unimaginable not once, but twice. Becks lost her daughter Madalyn in 2020 and then her husband Olly suddenly this past February, and joins us from Bali where she's rai...

What if your grief, your anxiety, your falling-apart moments aren't signs that something's wrong with you — but a normal part of moving through the human experience? 💙💜 In this tender episode, I sit down with Dr. Tiffany Ryan — author, social worker, and someone I consider Soul Family. Tiffany and I found each other through the hardest kind of doorway: we both have children on the other side. He...

What if death isn't an ending — but a liberation? And what if the love you've felt in your most profound moments is only a faint echo of what we're actually made of? In this episode of the AHA Podcast, I sit down with David A. Williamson, who has died more than once — first drowning at age six, and again at forty when a heart valve ruptured and he flatlined in an emergency room. What he experience...

Nothing about this podcast episode was random. WOW. This week's guest is Dana Grant: intuitive transformational coach, bestselling author of The Truth Within the Lie , keynote speaker, and host of the Dana Grant Show. Dana has built her life and her work around one undeniable truth — that your greatest power lives in the present moment, and the answers you're looking for are already within you. In...

I'm sitting down with my beautiful friend Rochelle Greetham — intuitive healer, creator of the Intuition Academy, and one of the most emotionally generous souls I've ever met. We connected at a bereaved mothers' retreat, and this conversation picks up right where that energy left off. Rochelle shares her journey from a deeply sensitive, shy child to a healer who works across reflexology, sound bat...

What if the guilt, grief, or chronic illness you're carrying isn't just from this lifetime? In this deeply moving episode, Ali sits down with childhood friend and intuitive energy healer Janelle Lombardi — and the conversation goes places neither of them expected. Janelle shares how the unexpected passing of her mother-in-law sparked her very first spiritual experience, how years of chronic illnes...

What happens when a successful attorney and real estate investor also happens to be a gifted psychic medium? You get Jami Hearn — and one of the most fascinating conversations we've had on the AHA Podcast yet. Jami has been communicating with spirit since childhood. She just didn't know everyone else wasn't doing the same thing. In this episode, she shares how she learned to harness her gifts, why...

Jeremy Down is an artist, musician, healer, and meditator from British Columbia — and 25 years ago, he drowned in a frozen mountain lake and came back with a knowing that changed everything. In this episode, Jeremy shares the full story of his near-death experience: the canoe, the freezing water, the bald eagles that helped guide rescuers to him, and what he experienced on the other side of the ve...

This is the episode I wasn't sure I was ready to make. My dear friend and mindset coach Tamar Altschuler turns the tables and interviews me — and for the first time, I share my story and my daughter's story out loud. I'm Ali. I spent years grinding through finance careers, raising three kids, white-knuckling a perfectly planned life. Then in January 2025, my world completely changed. This episode...