Spirituality for leaders

You know my love of definitions. For me, the definition that suits best for angels is a spiritual being being believed to act as an agent, attendant or messenger of God (Source, the Universe, Universal intelligence, or whatever word you use instead). They are traditionally represented wearing long robes and with wings. In the episode, I also share what angels are not and debunk a couple of myths a...

Maria Shiyko, PhD, MMetaph, is a spiritual business and life mentor and the author of three books. Her first book, "From Russia to Love, a journey of spiritual awakening", is a memoir about her journey of un-conditioning from her culture as she made the move from her native Smolensk, in Russia, to the USA. From a scientific background, she dived into spirituality whilst in a deeply unhappy marriag...

I had a couple of transformative experiences that led me to want to train in energy as a lawyer. The first of these experiences was when I went to a shiatsu masseuse back in my Paris days and saw blues and greens inside my head as she worked the knots in my shoulders and neck. I wanted to understand what this was all about and found a book called Hands of Light that started to explain energy for m...

There were a lot of concepts and beliefs in the faith that I was brought up in that did not sit well with me. So at the age of twelve, I stopped going to church. My desire for spirituality was still there though. So what do you do? I started exploring different religions, such as buddhism, and without giving it much thought, I started to pick and choose what felt right for me and what didn't. Now...

At the time of recording of the podcast, elections are under way in the UK, the US and in France. As I live in the UK, I thought his was a good time to broach the topic of politics and spirituality, although this episode is only touching the surface of this complex topic and I am sure I will get back to it at a later stage. A lot of spiritual seekers feel that politics are too negative and that th...

When I met Ali online eight years ago, she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and had started a blog called Raw and Completely Beautiful . She now calls herself a Cancer Sage and has written a book called The Glorious Responsibility of Happiness . Ali's experience with cancer did not start when she was diagnosed, though. She lost both her mum and grandmother in the same year, at the tender...

n this episode I talk about two aspects of what I call the cloud of unknowing. The first aspect regards how we are blinded by our beliefs. The second one talks about embracing the unknown. So let's dive in. Our minds and our thoughts are powerful. We might not realise but our beliefs can literally shape our lives, even though our minds have espoused beliefs through experience. It all boils down to...

Einstein supposedly said "There are two ways to live. One as if nothing is a miracle. The other as if everything is a miracle." I used to live in the first way but now aim to live the second way. It's been helped by the fact that I have experienced miracles first hand. What are miracles, though? The Oxford Dictionary says a miracle is "an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by n...

Divine timing is the idea that you are exactly where you should be and that everything happens in your life exactly at the right time. I cannot tell you the number that me and my friends have ranted about divine timing and how frustrating it is. It's not even funny. I suppose we have all been in very challenging circumstances and being told about divine timing when you are going through this can b...

I am honoured to have my first representative of the clergy on the podcast to talk about mystical experiences, which will surprise some of you. Rev. Stephanie Bradbury is an interim priest at the St Andrews Episcopal Church in Ayer, Massachusetts. She also speaks at the International Association for Near Death Studies . Although Stephanie has not had a near death experience (NDE) herself, she had...

Tarot is not the only means of getting guidance. Today I would like to address the bigger issue of how to get the best spiritual guidance. The short answer to that question is that you will only get the best guidance the day you realise that the Universe does not play favourites and that you need to realise that someone else's feelings and interests are no more or less important than yours. This i...

In this tarot series, we first looked at whether the tarot is evil or dangerous, then we looked at how to get the best tarot reading with a professional and we are now going to dive into what you need to know to do a reading for yourself, starting with choosing your first deck. Look at it as a tarot for beginners crash course. Tarot decks always have 78 cards. If you buy a deck that has less cards...

Before we get into the meat of today's episode, I have a special announcement: The Treasure Hunt is back. Sign up with this link to receive the link to the group where I run it. If you read these show notes or listen to the episode after June 2024, don't worry, you can still sign up for the next round. I run my treasure hunt several times a year.  Last week, we established that tarot is not evil....

There is a lot of things that religious people find evil and tarot is definitely one of them. The question I want to explore is: are they right? This is the first of a series of episodes on the tarot as I would like to share the wisdom I have acquired about the tarot in the eighteen years that I have been studying and practising as a professional tarot reader. I started the episode by sharing some...

Nimisha's story of how she came to be a mindfulness teacher is memorable. About ten years ago, she was not able to perform her job as a surgeon, due to not being able to enter the operating theatre. She felt physically sick when she approached it. Her boss forced her to take some time off and had her go through a battery of tests to find out what was going on. They found nothing wrong with her bod...

The most prominent teacher of the Law of Attraction is Esther Hicks, who channels a collective of souls called Abraham. When I first came across her book, Ask and It Is Given, I could not go past chapter one. It went against so many of the beliefs I had been taught by my parents that I could not digest its content. It actually took me years to go past chapter one. I would try, fail and put the boo...

Messianism is the belief in the advent of a Messiah who acts as a savior of a group of people. It is at the core of Christianity, the Messiah being Jesus Christ. You may say that this idea does not apply to you because you are not religious but if the dominant culture of the country you were born in rests on Messianism, then it is likely that it forms part of your core beliefs, albeit unconscious....

I have been a big fan of Feng Shui since the year 2000, due to a mind blowing personal experience with it. For this reason, I wanted to do an episode about it on the show. The reason I am doing it now is because I followed the signs and it seemed to be popping up a lot in my world. I do a form of space clearing, but I no longer call it Feng Shui for many reasons that will become apparent in the ep...

Emma Turton is a medical intuitive with a health professional background and the founder of the Medical Intuition School , a pioneer space where science meets spirituality. I have interviewed Emma Turton many times, in particular for the True Spirituality Summit in July 2023. In this interview, however, she answered questions I had never asked her before. We started off with her spiritual beliefs,...

You may say right away, of course it's the right thing to do to help. And you would not be alone in thinking this. I am here to share with you that things are a lot more nuanced than that. Of course selfishness is to be discouraged, if we are to have a kind society. There are countless articles that list the benefits to you in helping others. There is a part of me that wonders why do they have to...

I am going to say it upfront: the spiritual mantra that you need to meditate in order to be spiritual or progress is rehashed ad nauseam to the point that it tastes like gum you have chewed all the flavour out of. It is also incredibly elitist and it can be an ego trap. So, yes it can be beneficial to meditate, for some. And yes, it can help you progress on your spiritual path. But no, it's not th...

This week marked the tenth anniversary of my father's death. Some of you might consider this morbid, but actually to me, it's very special. I asked my dad if he wanted me to mark the event with some sort of celebration and he said yes and asked if I could run my treasure hunt, which I am. He has given me so many signs, it's unbelievable almost. And my treasure hunt is here to help people understan...

"When I find myself in trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be..." Famous lines. I certainly heard them over and over again and yet, it is only when I fully embraced my spiritual journey that I started to understand their true meaning. I guess the first way that this was put in motion is when I learnt about karma. If the Big U was in charge of keeping scores, then it...

Chantal Vanderhaeghen is a Mind Body Spirit Therapist, who has been writing a memoir called Deep Dive for the past year, and who I wanted to interview on the show because she has much wisdom to share with the world when it comes to embodied spirituality. Chantal and I have known each other for years and I admire her courage at sharing her story, which is something that took a long time for her to...

One of the things that helped me the most on my spiritual journey is signs. Signs are everywhere if we pay attention. In this week's podcast episode, I share with you the most common ways that the Universe helps guide you.  There seven main kinds of signs that you can receive:  Angel feathers Sounds The weather Triple numbers Car plates Songs Dreams In the episode I share with you many examples fr...