Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald - Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo on Talking to the Dead, Reincarnation and More

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop. You guys, I'm so excited for my East Coast little tour. On February 14th, it's New York City. February 15th is DC and February 16th is Red Bank, New Jersey. I, it's gonna be a little combo of hilarious standup comedy, but also I have special guests from the Bravo World who are also comedians. It's gonna be so funny and such a great special show with lots of surprises, lots of laughs.

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that you join and it's always commercial free. So now for such a juicy interview, you're going to die. I talked to Teresa Caputo, the Long Island medium, and really so many interesting things that I've never heard discussed before. So let's get into it. Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop. I am so excited to speak to the one, the only the Long Island medium, Teresa Caputo. How are you? You're looking gorgeous. Oh, I'm fantastic. And you look amazing. So I'm so excited to get your whole life story, but I do need to tell the juicy scoopers that you,

I was just on your podcast and it was amazing. You did, you read, you talked to, Hey spirit is the name of your podcast. And you were able to, I can't wait for everyone to hear it. So, but I want to get into a little bit of your life. Now I have, you know, followed you and seen you. And I just want to know, you mentioned earlier when we were doing your show that you started to see

that you had this gift as a young child. Right. Well, I didn't know that's what it was. So at, at I remember at the age of four, always seeing a woman standing at the edge of my bed at night. Um, I would always say to my parents that there's someone was watching me in my room. I would hear voices. I would just be talking to the drapes and you know, they're like, who are you talking to? And they,

I would always mention someone in the family that had died and no one ever really made a big deal about it. You know, they're like, who are you talking to? And I would always mention someone in the family that had died. And no one ever really made a big deal about it. They're like, oh, okay, it's just Teresa. And I come from a very spiritual family. So my parents never made a big deal about those things. And then it wasn't until I was almost 30 that I realized not only that I had the ability to connect with my own loved ones that have died, but everyone else's.

I had suffered because one of the main ways that I communicate with spirit is through feeling. They make me feel things and they make me feel the way that they died. They like bring me through their departure. So I would feel all these things not understanding what it meant. So that's what I had to learn. And that I wasn't there a moment that you kind of put it together when you said

you were 30, like where you realized what this was all about all these years. Yeah, so I was suffering terribly. I didn't want to leave my house because every time I left my house, I would have these anxiety attacks like I feel like I couldn't breathe like I was feeling choked. Like someone was sitting on my chest, I couldn't take a deep breath. But the second I would have these anxiety attacks, like I feel like I couldn't breathe, like I was feeling choked, like someone was sitting on my chest, I couldn't take a deep breath, but the second I would leave the store, I would feel okay.

One of my mom's friends, she's a spiritual healer, and she would teach these spiritual awareness classes. And my mom had said, why don't you go to her class and maybe she can help you? And I did. And through that, I it was like, it was almost like a safe place for me to explore my gift so I could understand what it was. And I

would start saying things to people that meant nothing to me, but will life changing to someone else. And then the moment where I put things fully together was, I was in Bed Bath and Beyond. And I was in bed, bath and beyond. And I was, I was looking at sheets and I heard a man's voice say to me, the ones on the left. And I stopped by, start looking around and I'm like, wait, this is crazy. And all of a sudden I, couldn't, I couldn't breathe. I couldn't take a deep breath. And I made myself stay in the store 10 seconds later,

which felt like an eternity, this older woman came up to me and she said, What sheets do you like? She said, My husband just died. And I'm redoing the room and I don't know what sheets to pick. And I said, Oh, the ones on the left. And she goes, Oh, those are the ones my husband would have picked. I'm going to get the ones on the left. And did you say no, because at the time I was going through my gift and she said he died suddenly of a heart attack. So that's why I started to put

together my signs and symbols of what the meanings, you know what everything means. So I've also multiple meanings for signs and symbols as well. But that was the moment I go okay, then 911 happened because then at the time I was struggling with my gift. I was like, how could this be? I'm Catholic, I'm not supposed to be doing this. And 9-11 happened and I had a spiritual experience

where it was shown to me that thousands of people perished that day and nobody knew what had happened to their loved ones. And they were suffering from that, that these families were carrying burdens and guilt. Wait, wait, did you feel that like at 9 a.m. or whatever on the Tuesday or like where we were around? This was after 9 a.m.

Oh, OK, OK. And that it was shown to me that people, sometimes when people lose a loved one, they're left with burdens and guilt and should have, could have, would have. So I put my gift in God's hands and I said, look, if this is what I'm supposed to do, I'm putting my gift in your hands, I will walk through these doors with my gift.

You have to open them for me. And here I am. Here I here I was how many years ago couldn't even leave my house. And now I not only had a television show for over 10 years, and written books, and now travel all over the country on a tour bus. So tell me so at 30 years old, you, I

know you're a mom, but you were married, you're now divorced, but you're a mom and grandma now. So at 30, did you have a couple kids like where where did you go? Well, maybe I could make this a business and maybe I could charge someone like a therapist, like I could read them and make money and help my family. Like, where did you go from from there? That was never a thought. It just happened. It just happened.

But when did you originally start to say, okay, I guess I could charge money for that? So I started doing readings and then people were telling me you have to charge for these readings. And I'd be like, okay, what do I charge? I mean, I don't charge people now for their readings, but at the time it was $175. And then when I started doing the show,

I would just have them make a donation to local charities that I supported on Long Island. So how many years into doing it, and I'm sure everybody was like, you gotta go to this woman named Teresa. Yeah. Did you catch the eye of someone that said this is a TV show?

And how did that come about? So I was doing it for ten years where I was reading people privately in my home doing group readings Fundraisers large at that time a large venue for me was 300 people. Yeah, so And then my my manager Courtney Mullen She had come to me for a reading and I didn't she wasn't my manager at the time. She had just she had lost her dad and she was engaged and she didn't know how to move on. Didn't know to get married. She was going to call off her wedding and because she says, I can't do this without my dad. And she came for the reading, changed her life. And she was a television producer. And she said, people need your gift.

They need, I want everyone who has lost a loved one, who feels stuck, who can't move on with their life because of the loss of their loved one. I want them to have the experience that I had. She said, I never thought that I could, she goes, I felt like when I walked into your house, I couldn't breathe. And she said, when I left your house,

I finally felt that I could breathe. And she ended up marrying her husband. They have three children. And so. Nice. Yeah. And so then she pitched the show to other networks or? She just said to me, she goes, would you want to do a television show?

And I'm like, okay. See, because the way I, how I work is my brain and insecurities was I would only do things with people that I knew So it was like it was all like I I always say I know my gift is guided by God It was like God always placed people in my path that I knew the woman that had the spiritual awareness class My mom knew for decades Courtney I knew her from the neighborhood because she grew around the corner So I knew her family and my daughter did gymnastics with her niece.

So I was like, oh, I'm just gonna film like a television show, like for a couple. And they used to make fun of me because we're filming the show and I'm making appointments for people for two years later. And they're going, Teresa, you gotta stop doing that. You're not gonna be doing, you're gonna have a television show.

And I'm like, what, are you kidding me? I'm like, no, I'm like, you gotta stop doing that. You're not gonna be doing, you're gonna have a television show that, and I'm like, what, you kidding me? I'm like, no, I'm like, I gotta go, I gotta, this is how I make a living. I gotta, like, this is just a moment. The TV show was what I thought. I never thought in a million years. And when they presented the show to you, they knew it was, them kinda following you around.

Sometimes they'd follow you around, you'd start to get the spirits to come to you. But essentially, it was a reality show. We got to see your home, we got to see your family. How did your family and husband feel about that, you know, and then when it became successful year after year, you know, how does that work with now their celebrities and being recognized and they're no longer private people?

That was hard, you know, cause we never thought, I never, never once never thought I never, never once doing what I do, did I ever think that it would be a business, successful business, let alone have a television show. And we navigated it very well, you know, for many years. My children, for my children, it was, it was almost natural. I can't explain it. From the time that I was little, my mom would always say to me,

because the town that I live in still to this day is the town that I grew up in, but so did my grandparents. So my family, my dad's parents had like a little deli. It was the only like little deli grocery store in Hicksville back in the day. My parents, my dad's a volunteer fireman. He's in the Knights of Columbus. He's very, very involved in the community, my parents. So my parents would always say, listen,

you might not know someone, but they're gonna know you. So you always have to be on your best behavior. So it was almost like the way that I grew up, like I kind of knew, you know, people are gonna know you. You have to act a certain way and conduct yourself. So I always did that with my children and my children, they kind of grew up with my gift. So they didn't know any different, you know, it was always my dad is an Italian importer and my mom talks to dead people. That's just,

you know, like it was like so normal for them. Yeah. And does any anybody in your family have the gift as well? So on both sides of my family, I feel that they show abilities. I believe everyone's abilities are different. And especially when it comes to connecting with our own loved ones, I believe we all can do that.

You do that, right? You get signs and symbols and feelings from your loved ones. Yeah. So this is a soul bonds that can't be broken. It never will be broken. So... I feel like also once you, I feel like in the last few years,

I don't know what it is if I've just opened myself more to the signs and the manifestations. But like the, I don't even know what kismic means, but I use that word like the kismic things that sort of happen. Like, like I reconnected with someone and the next day I went to a taping of a sitcom and I said, oh, I haven't. And I thought, I knew I was going to this taping, but I was like, oh, I haven't been to a taping of a sitcom until this.

And it was the exact same set that the person I connected with was a guest star on Friends. And then I went to Leanne Morgan's taping of her sitcom and they're like, oh, you know, this is the Friends set. And the meeting that I had with the person the day before, who is the guest star and friends was an extremely important thing. It was reconnecting with someone that I really was excited to reconnect. So I was always like, I feel like when you start to see more signs like that

and and like hear little things like, oh, you know, where you're like, oh, I shouldn't go to that thing. And someone keeps going, oh, just go, just go, or go get that, you know, like this happened to me with another person, go get that salad. I'm like, why am I, I should turn around. That salad is further than I thought it was. And I go to get the salad and then in comes

this person that, you know, I really needed to connect with. So it's like, there's things like that, that I think not necessarily connecting with. So it's like, there's things like that that I think not necessarily connecting with people that have passed, but just being aware of all that stuff. There's ways that you probably can coach people. We're guided, we're guided. I always say that gut instinct, that little Jiminy cricket,

don't veer from that, because that's your instinct. That's what guides you. Do I feel that our loved ones guide us? Absolutely, 100%. Do I, and I do believe in a God. I believe they guide us, whatever your belief is. And I feel so proud of the work that I do as a medium is, I want people to be able to connect with their loved ones on their own.

I want them to make have it so they can be more spiritual knowing that they have this ability. I feel I'm able just to validate it for them in even years because people like coming to mediums and but I never want it to be a crutch. I wanted them to use the tools to connect on their own and to be able to heal. And I want people to believe in an afterlife. I mean, a lot of times people, you know, they lose a loved one and they might be the most faithful, spiritual person and tragedy strikes the family.

And all of that goes out the window. And I don't think people realize the work that I do is so much more than just communicating with people that have died. It restores people's faith in themselves and life. It reconnects families. I mean, there are countless stories of where people weren't speaking to one another for years.

At a live show, at a live show. At a live show, I'm reading someone that's saying, you don't speak to your brother and your sister-in-law anymore. And here comes walking the sister-in-law across from the other side of the theater. And they embrace and they have this moment and the family reconnects.

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Well, I don't really look at myself as famous. I don't, I mean, I know who I am and what my gift does. But I always still say I'm just Teresa Caputo from Hicksville. Yeah, I you know, I think the thing that I love the most was it really was my life. I mean, the cameras would just show up. And I remember at the time, one of the the showrunner was like, we have the easiest job all we have to do is show up and turn the cameras on. That was it. And the only thing that was done was if I wanted to go

and if we were gonna go to a place, say I was going shopping, that they had to clear the place. That was it. Yeah. There was no plan. He's like, this is the first show that I've ever done where I throw all my producing things and the book right out the window, because we would make a plan and would never go as they planned it because they know that spirit has their own agenda.

And so you did it for 10 years. And was there ever a time where you were like, I don't want to do it anymore? Or your family was like, can we can we not do this again? Or how did it? you know? Nobody, I never felt that way. I feel very blessed to have the opportunities that I've had and no one, my son was a little bit more of like, I don't know if I wanna be on the show as much, cause then he was starting a job

and you know, he had his own career. You know, he's like, my, I just can't be here all day, you know, waiting for you to film if we're gonna go do something, you know., he had his own career, you know, he's like, my I just can't be here all day, you know, waiting for you to film if we're gonna go do something, you know, his own life. My daughter still loves, you know, to be a part of it. And my granddaughter, she's on the on the new show. But no one was ever like, I don't want to do this. You know, and then when you got divorced, was that hard being that you were a public figure?

Very hard. Yeah, it was very hard. I mean, I could still get emotional about it, you know. And I always say this, you know, just because and Larry and I have had this discussion, you know, I've even said to him, look, just because we're not married anymore, we're still a family. Right. That's great. You know, we're still, you know, we still talk and when there's family gatherings, you know, we invite each other to everything and it's hard.

I never thought in a million years that I would be divorced and I don't think Larry did either, but we're better off now than we were before. Can you share a little bit like what you think it was that made you come to that decision that you'd be better off separate? It was a lot. It just wasn't, you know, people automatically think it's the television show. But people have to understand when I met Larry, I was 17.

And this was hard, you know, through therapy. And I was in therapy at the time that I got engaged and I was very emotionally unstable. You know, I remember my therapist telling me you rely on him too much. You know, it's you're really in no emotional state to be getting married. You know, and what do you do when you when you when you hear something from your therapist that you don't want to hear? You stop going, right?

Wait, so how old were you when you got actually married? I was, well, I got engaged. We were, I was 20. I was so young. And I got, yeah, yeah. I was 20 and married by 22 and had my son. And then had, by 23 and had my daughter at 24. I wouldn't have changed a thing.

Right. But there was always something deep down inside me, Heather, that I was always like, I'm gonna get married young, I'm gonna have children. It was just something inside me, never thought that it was because of this, never in a million years. Yeah. You know?

I just thought that was the way that it was, that's what you did. I mean, my mom had me when she was 20. She married my dad at 19 had me at 20 same thing with my grandmother. And so but I think that there is one thing that I will always say that I am so proud of the way that even though it was one of one of the hardest things that I had to do was get divorced, but the way that Larry and I handled it.

Yeah, it seemed like it was really, like, mature and respectful. Yeah, you know, because it's hard when you realize you don't want to get divorced, and when you love someone, because I still love him, but it just wasn't... It just wasn't working. We both were not happy. Yeah. And what about like the first time? Like, who was the first person that did like an impression of you?

Was it someone else now or was it? Yes. It was Kate McKinnon on SNL. I'll never forget it. I had done. I had just finished my shows up at Westbury. It was called Westbury Music Fair at the time. And we were all at the end of the year party. And one of my producers came running over and they're like, you're not gonna believe

this. You made it. And I'm like, what do you mean I made it? They're like, you are on SNL. They did you on SNL. And I was like, what? So you liked it? Oh, my god, I loved it. Oh, I think it's great when people impersonate me. I think it's fantastic. You know, I think it's um, I love when the drag queens do it. Yeah.

Yeah. And Kelly Ripper, she did it. She well. Yeah, he did it very well. And you know, there's been a lot. Right. And so like when you do, are there any other reality? You know, I saw you at a reality star party.

Like, do you watch like Real Housewives of New Jersey? Because they I used to you kind of have that similar vibe of those type of women. And what, you know, like, have they ever approached you and wanted you to like read them or anything? Because I know Teresa and Joe have lost their parents and they are now estranged as siblings when you talk about that. Like I kind of wonder like if you've ever encountered that or have I did not. I did not. As they have never reached out. Luanne was on my podcast several years back. Dorit was on. Dorit you mean?

Dorit from Beverly Hills? Yeah, yeah. And I can't, I don't know why the names are not coming to me, but there were a couple of them that had been on. I really, honestly, I know it sounds terrible, but I don't really watch TV. I understand that. If I do watch TV, there's no laughing here, Heather.

It's the game show network or HGTV. That's it. And do you think that's because you kind of need a really simple escape? Like you don't want to watch like a dateline. You don't want to watch things that are like, oh God, no. And nobody wants to watch them with me because if I watch them, I'm like, oh, it, it was the neighbor and they're like, oh, well, forget it.

We're not going to watch this now. What was the neighbor? And then the next thing here comes the neighbor. That's amazing. Listen, I don't like to be scared. I do not like horror movies. I don't like scary movies. I don't like paranormal things.

I don't like it. Now, speaking of that being that you speak to, you know, the spirits as they pass, have you ever been when someone is like, who killed my loved one and you actually have helped in a case or given a tip or anything? I've never worked with the police. I believe that there are certain and it's interesting like no one has ever approached me with it.

But it's almost like I use my gift differently. I believe there are psychics and mediums that do use their gift in that way. There was one time where an old client had called me and her dad was missing and I said, I said, I keep seeing a bridge and like these big rocks, like these big boulders. And she's like, oh, she says, I don't know my dad. You know, he has Alzheimer's and he left the house and six months later,

they found him by one of the bridges with the big rocks in the water. Oh, but unfortunately, with my live shows, there are people that are murdered and there's no one held accountable. And do they, have you had someone say it was Joey or whatever? Yeah, it's never, A, I don't use a lot of names when I channel, cause I feel names are common. I try to be as where people can be like, oh, well of course someone lost their dad

and his name was Michael. Like, you know, I can't help, they're a common thing. So I try not to use a lot of names. There have been cases where Michael. Like, you know, I can't help, they're a common thing. So I try not to use a lot of names. There have been cases where they'll say, you know, listen, there were three people involved and they'll be like, yes, there were, but no one's being helped. So they'll give, Spirit will give validations that they know what is going on.

They know how hard their families are trying and not to give up on, say, the justice system at some point of that, not that it's not being like, like the case isn't being worked on. Right. And sometimes they'll say, justice will be served. There have been times like, you know, like six months later, we'll, we'll get an email saying that.

Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's amazing. I love that. And then you come back. Yeah. And where it comes back around and Yeah, and when it went so when you saw the movie like six cents

Oh, I wear and did you know what it was about when you saw? Yes, that was that was me and I was surprised that everyone did not know that Bruce Willis was dead I was like, how did you not know he died? So when you watched it, you already knew the secret. I knew he was dead, yes. Oh my gosh. Because that was the best movie and Ghost. Those were the two movies for how I see spirit,

how I feel things, how I see things, but I see things differently than the way we see here in the physical world. So it's not, it's a different seeing. I can't even explain it. So I mean, I've always said, I don't know what happens when I start to channel. My friends will say I get a certain look on my face

and in my eyes that when I'm connecting, but it's almost like I get like, I have no personal thought feelings or emotions. Like it's like my mind goes blank. And I actually did something on Dr. Oz with Dr. Raymond. And he actually read my brain live on Dr. Oz, read my brain as I was reading someone. And I'll never forget it. Dr. Oz came up to me and said, Aren't you nervous?

And I'm like, No, why would I be nervous? He's like, well, what if nothing happens? I go, oh, something happens. I don't know what it is. I said, but I'm not, cause I know. And Dr. Raymond said that I'm able to access a part of my brain that we typically don't.

And that when I was reading, it showed that I had no activity in my brain, but I was speaking. So I don't and that when I was reading it showed that I had no activity in my brain but I was speaking so I don't know how to explain that. Wow. Yeah. That you know there's this new thing that that I just saw like on TikTok where certain um they're taking kids that are autistic and they're they're covering their eyes and they're like what color am I holding up and they're covering their eyes and they're like, what color am I holding up? And they're able to, and it's called like, and so there's, I feel like we're into this new, we're gonna be discovering more about how people's brains

work differently based on their talents or whatever. Like how is that even possible that one person would be able to? Now, how do you feel being that you're out on the East Coast? How do you feel about all these drones and these New Jersey drones and like what do you can you tell us what's going on? Because people are like why does everyone think they're aliens? Maybe they're angels. These these orbs and things. I don't know. And honestly, I don't know anything about the drones. Just that they're around.

Someone said that, someone was like, oh, there's drones. And now there's something wrong with the water. And I'm like, okay, I don't know about that. But if there's drones, there's drones. I don't know. Do you believe in aliens? And do you believe there's other life forms forms? I believe there is other life forms. Really?

Yeah, I do. I do too. I believe there's... I believe in that. Yeah. But I also believe Heather that there are certain things that we shouldn't know either. Yeah. Like, I don't know.

I don't want any like hate comments for this, but I believe we have a right to know things, but I also do believe that there are certain things that we shouldn't know. To protect us, you mean? To protect us. Absolutely. Absolutely. Interesting.

You know, so whatever they are, I don't know. I don't know what, do these look like regular drones or what are they saying? Well, there's two things. The drones that are like the size of cars that have been going around for like the last month. Then there's video that people have taken where it's like these orbs, where it's like it looks kind of like a crystal ball

in the sky and then like another one will keep it from it. And that's where people believe that's angels. And they're like, if it's is it aliens, is it angels? What is it? Or is it just some government test? And they just don't want to tell us what it is. So I kind of like, well, at a certain point, there's really nothing we can do but live every day like it's our last.

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Our new train's panoramic windows are ideal for contemplating whether texting them back so soon was the best decision. Get on board. Via Rail. Love the way. But I remember back in the 70s seeing things in the sky here on Long Island. Have you ever had someone where you're, oh wait you said back in the 70s you saw things in the sky? Back in the 70s we used to see things out here on Long Island like they were they were saying that we they didn't know they were UFOs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows? Like who knows? Um, so my other question is now I sometimes have joked because I've

said, you know, when you see these readings with, um, mediums, I'm like, yeah, it's now, and maybe you can, maybe you could say that's true. I never hear some like someone being mad. Like I never see someone like whose grandmother comes through and is like, you know, I didn't like that you and your sister were pants to my funeral. Like, are they never like mad at you? Like, are they never like is it because they're in heaven that it's it's like they're not hope they're not experiencing negative thoughts.

Yes. I think there are several things. And I can only speak from my experience and my experience with spirit. First of all, I only want to channel souls that are in God's white light. And more importantly, that I treat them like my children. If you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all.

Spirit will joke around and say, what were you crazy for burying me in that? And they'll laugh because I go, Oh my God, we were going to bury them in this, you know, joking way. But souls will, if they do want to bring up something that negative happened here, either that we did or they did. If they learned that lesson where they went through their life review and they learned from that, then they have the ability to come through

and apologize and acknowledge for it. But I've never had in my, have I had souls be a little bit more feisty as they channel because that was their personality? Absolutely, but that's what I want. I want them to channel with that personality with their feistiness. If that's the way they were. So when you say you only channel the spirits that are in God's white light, so do you believe there is a hell

spirits never said to me it's hot down here. So I go with that there is no hell. But I do think that there is a vibration that I cannot lower myself to so How I know that is because one specific time I remember there was a woman I was reading and I said to her daughter was murdered by her boyfriend and The daughter came through and said to me, please tell my mom, you know, that he is remorseful and that he's sorry and that he knows

what he has taken from her. And I could see a soul, like a shadow, a soul below her, but I couldn't hear anything from them. So what had happened, she had lowered her vibration enough where she could speak to him and then translate it to me. hear anything from them. So what had happened, she had lowered her vibration enough where she could speak to him and then translate it to me, but I couldn't connect with him. Because the boyfriend was dead too.

He committed suicide. Was a murder or suicide? Yeah. And I said to her, I cannot say this to your mother. And she showed me the soul and said, this is why my mom came here. She wanted to know if he was remorseful and tell her that my soul is at peace with God

and his soul is learning lessons. So I said that, I repeated everything to the mom and the mom said, that's why I came here. I wanted to know if he was remorseful for killing my daughter. That is so interesting. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what I was thinking about.

The the times where it wasn't ending. OK, my other question is, so if a couple. Here's the other having sex. Is this a sex question at all? No, no, no. It OK, you know, like my you read me and my parents came together and they were married together. They were only each other's spouse and they, you know, died as they were married. So they are hanging out together,

but what if, you know, someone really loved their spouse and then spouse dies, but the other spouse was not that in love with that person. Are they in heaven? Do they stop? Is one person able to get to a soul that doesn't want to hang out with them in heaven? Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't know what goes on out like between two souls. Do you want to think what spirit has shown me that we have soul circles. Okay. So where our souls are, where, if you, I don't know if you believe in past lives. So I don't know. Do you believe in past lives?

I do. I've done past lives. Explain what in your idea, what you think past lives mean for people. So past lives is that my soul has lived in other lifetimes in different physical bodies. But would it be your same personality? No, no, no. I was a young man in a previous life. One of the life I was a disabled young girl. And how do you know all this? So I did a past life regression, where you go under.

There was a book called Many Lives, Many Masters, and where you go back and you relive your past lives. And one, you know, at first I was like, all right, this might be crazy. Am I like dreaming? Am I doing this? You know, like, I don't know how this works. And I was under, and there was one particular lifetime I remember I was a young man, I was maybe in my teens,

and I was wearing like puffy knickers and it was so specific a puffy white shirt and suspenders and we were on a farm, a lot of property and there was a house burning and I went in and I needed to save my brother and because I have this on tape and it was saying I need to save my brother, I need to save my brother. And when I pulled my brother out of the fire, the woman that was doing the past life regression said to me, look into your brother's eyes and who do you see? And I saw my nephew who was just born. So my nephew was my brother in a previous life. And how is your connection with your nephew? Do you feel like you're sort of, how old is your nephew now? My nephew, he just turned 24 the other day.

So do you feel like you have an interesting connection with him that's not so much aunt nephew or does it? Well, I don't know. I feel like I have a special bond and a different bond with everyone in my life, like especially my nieces, my children. And there was another and here's another example, which doesn't involve me, but I was reading a woman. It was a mother and a daughter.

One of the other daughters had passed away. And I'm like, I feel like I see yours, I feel like I'm talking to your sister, but I can't see her. And she, and I feel like somebody else is telling me that you used to see her all the time, but I can't see her. And she and I feel like somebody else is telling me that you used to see her all the time, but you don't see her anymore. And the woman looked at me and she said, I used to dream of my sister every night until my daughter was born. And I stopped seeing my sister.

And so her sister is her daughter is her daughter. Yeah. These are very rare cases. I mean, this, yeah I could like there are maybe three cases that where that has happened where I've seen that, you know what I mean? It's not something that is typical that typically happens. And I don't know how it works. I'll find out when I get there. You know, I've seen interesting little videos, you know, that people have filmed of their kid. Like a four-year-old being like saying something like, I was in that building.

And like, or like not, there's been a few, like a handful too of like very weird possible 9-11 victims who have now been put into other bodies where these kids are saying something so specific. That nobody would know. Yeah, like, oh, I jumped out of that building because it was hot and it was burning. And they're like, what are you talking about? And there's no way they would have seen it. They're too young to have known the history.

And I always kind of wonder, okay, if you have that kind of pretty solid knowledge that maybe your child is a nether soul that was like a 35 year old stockbroker or whatever in 9 11. Like how do you, it would be hard, I don't know, it'd be hard to raise your child like not know how do you just, you know what I mean? What would be your suggestion if you feel like maybe your child is this like old soul, literally an old soul, like literally an old soul that can remember or connect. I wonder, does that child stop

talking like that after a certain age, like they kind of forget, like they give you the sign and then just live their life as a kid in 2025 or they might, I think old I think a lot of children are I don't know how that works with the soul because I don't have that much experience with that where a soul reentering into a life now. Yeah. But there are children, like you said, that I have heard that. And also children that will speak about people that have passed away.

Oh, yeah. People say,, oh yeah, my grandma's sitting right on the couch over there. And talking about her as if she was just in the room. So young children are very sensitive to the souls of the departed, even animals, because their minds aren't busy. They're not filled with burdens and busyness. It's just, it's clear.

Kids say the darnedest things and it's the truth. So they say really whatever it is that they're seeing, experiencing, feeling. And as they get older, sometimes that stays with us and sometimes it's just not a part of us anymore. I had somebody who was like a listener of mine and they sent me this thing and they said, this is who I think this is who your past

life was, whatever. Oh, and it was this comedian lady from like, you know, started in like radio or whatever. And so I kind of looked because I was like, wait, this is a lot of weird, interesting similarities. And I was like, well, she has to have been dead, right? Before I was born or conceived. And it was within like a couple of years. Does that have, I guess we wouldn't really know, but a soul is not like the minute you die, you go to another. We don't know, but you would have to, if you, if someone, if you,

someone really thought that was the case, it would be that the person would have had to have passed obviously before you were conceived. Right. Yeah. Souls have acknowledged that they will show their souls through so like people will have say, let's hypothetically say there's a woman that I'm reading and her child will all of a sudden look exactly like her brother. Yeah. Like for that second, like we'll do something or say something that was like the spitting image. Somehow the soul is able to enter. It's the same way when I channel and kind of take over. But because they're young, they don't understand their children. And it just they really are able to communicate through them.

That has happened as well. And I'll say a part, or they'll say, a part of my soul lives within where that means that they can come in and out where they show themselves to their loved one through a child. That has happened. And have you ever had, you know, I feel like, you know, there were psychics and TV, you know,

people that would do things before you that were wrong about a lot of things, you know, not mediums more like I don't. I don't know a lot about that. I listen. This is how I feel. We, a spirit can show us things we can know things, things, but a life is about free will choice. And it sometimes isn't our choice to make. We have no control over that. Yeah.

So I'm very careful with spirit and I tell them, you cannot tell someone what they should or shouldn't do. You can acknowledge that you know what's going on in their life and that you will support a choice or decision if they choose it. But at the end of the day, I would never want someone to make a life altering decision or any decision based on,

Spirit said I should do this. You know, if you receive a healing message and then you decide to make that decision on your own, that's your choice. But I don't believe in, for myself and you decide to make that decision on your own, that's your choice. But I don't believe in, for myself, and my gift doesn't work like that. I don't believe it.

Listen, I can say, I did it with my sister-in-law. I knew my niece for some reason. It was like, she's gonna be born on March 7th. I don't do this all the time. It was a fleeting thought. I was like, no, she's gonna be born on March 7th. And I'll never forget it. And this was 20 years ago. My sister-in-law called me up and said,

well, my water broke. I guess you were wrong. I'm on my way to the hospital. This was March 5th. She had my niece on March 7th. I don't know why that happens. I have no idea. You know, I don't know why.

It's not something that I do. Sometimes I get things like that, but. And do you ever, do they they ever do the spirits ever? Like I wonder if you if someone was struggling with something, if someone was like, you know, in a horrible trial situation, it's like, does this does their loved one not see that? Because if that if it was real life, they'd have to sit there and that would be a horrible time in their life. So because they're in heaven, do they only see the good? No, they see the struggles.

Oh, okay. Because spirit has acknowledged things like if people were incarcerated or things like that. And sometimes someone passes away while their loved one is incarcerated. So I know that they do live, they live our life, they live their souls through our eyes once they leave the physical world. Oh, okay.

So they do experience everything, but there's only so much that they can do to help us. It's up to us. Yeah. Wow, this is so amazing. So now you are, so now you said you were doing a new show. Wait, is there, or you're just doing,

you have a new TV show or are you also just going on the road? Right now I'm just on the road, but I have, I did a new series Raising Spirits with Lifetime which it which you can stream. Same thing with Long Island Medium you can stream and right now I'm just focusing on my live shows. And how does that work for people that want to go? They just buy a ticket. They just buy a ticket and then it's Jen you show up

and you show up and you're and then you go like, here's like there's no lucky ticket. There's no like. Nope. How many times, this is the thing that I love about the live shows. And I love how people will say, oh, she does this. I don't even know how this shit works.

So I'm so glad everyone else knows how I do this. Yeah. I literally, I wish there was like a live stream of them showing me like what my day entails, you know? And I come out on the stage, I give a little quick speech. And then once I start sensing and feeling spirit, I allow the souls to guide me around the theater.

And I will just randomly stop and stare at someone and start saying things. And it's amazing when they just look at me and they're like, no. And then all of a sudden that light bulb goes off and they're like, well, I didn't come here to get read. I only came because my friend had an extra ticket. Wow.

Those are the moments that I love because it's always, it's never what we want. like, well, I didn't come here to get read. I only came because my friends had an extra ticket. Wow. Those are the moments that I love because it's always, it's never what we want. It's really what we need. And it really is something to be in a theater. And there are thousands of people in the theater. To watch someone heal right in front of you, to feel the energy, to watch perfect strangers console one another.

It's something truly extraordinary and beautiful. And I've been doing live shows for probably 13 years now, and there has never been a same live show. And is there anything that you do in preparation to be in the right space or anything? Same thing I did before I read you. I have my sage, I sage and I do my meditation. I treat every reading the same, whether if it's one person or for 5,000 people. And is it ever like I want to turn it off?

Like I'm going on a five hour flight and I really don't need spirits talking to me to from the stewardess to the pilot to the guy next to me. Like, is there ever a time when you're like- It does happen, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, I would think. How do you turn it, you can't really turn it off. It's not, I don't even know how to explain it

because I'm always sensing and feeling things. It's not, I don't even know how to explain it because I'm always sensing and feeling things. And spirit has to push me, I should say, not push me, show me three specific things before I approach someone if they're not prepared to be read. Okay. So it's always, because I could walk in and I can see someone.

And I'm gonna be honest with you today before I came. And I literally know nothing about you. I know when I met you that night, you had said that you were at a meeting and you had a podcast and, but that was it. Right. Since yesterday, cause I had recorded for my podcast yesterday,

there were two young males with me all day, and they never stepped forward to be read. And they kept telling me that they died tragically, that they took responsibility for their departures, and that was it. And I know that they were preparing for what had happened earlier with you, and still very private, very cautious.

And I never pushed spirit. I guess I'm saying this because I take a lot of pride on how I choose to use my gift and how I handle sensitive situations with dignity and grace. and how I handle sensitive situations with dignity and grace. Wow. And it's, I always say this to people, I make what I do look very easy.

It's the hardest thing that I have to do, especially in a live show, have a soul guide me around a space, stop in front of someone, and take us on this emotional roller coaster, right? Of pain, sorrow, loss, grief, and then have everyone laughing in the next breath. It's the hardest thing that I have to do.

My last question is for you is, what about when you see or experience or hear about somebody that you truly believe is a con person saying they have the gift and they clearly don't. Like... I don't know any, I don't, I don't, I'm being honest with you.

I don't follow any other mediums. And more importantly, I always say, if someone is using that gift to help people, then I support them. I don't, I don't watch any other mediums. I really don't know of any other mediums. I have one dear friend that is, but she's a very dear friend of mine

that I had helped her with her gift many years ago, but that's it. But has anyone ever come to you and said, oh my gosh, I'm so glad I came to you because in the past I've gone to these other people and I really felt like it wasn't right, you know, like they were missing the mark. That has happened. That does has happened. But I also say to people, was it what kind of space were you in? Were you ready to hear certain things?

Was your loved one ready to communicate? Were they ready to tell you the things that you needed to hear? You know, and I know that because I used to, before my television show, I had a handful of clients that had lost children and they would come to me once a week if they could. And I said, you can't do that. You can come once a year. You know, because I wanted people to heal. I want people, I want their loved ones to, be able to talk about certain things. There were certain people that I allowed them to come six months, cause I knew what was helping them.

And they would say, you weren't ready to hear this two years ago. So, who am I to say that someone isn't for real? You know what I mean? So- And when a child does pass, are they always like that age? They don't get older, right?

Or do they? Yes, they do. The soul, so it's interesting enough, sometimes a child will show me, if they have me look down and then all of a sudden they go like this to me, that means that the soul's been over there for some time and that the soul has grown. I've had someone say lose a child at the age of say 27 or 35 but they'll come to me as a seven-year-old and the

person will say that's how I dream of them. I dream of them as a seven-year-old so but what the souls have shown me that the souls have grown even souls that have been lost to a miscarriage or even a termination. They'll show me that they did not get the opportunity to walk here in the physical world, but the soul has continued to grow on the other side. Have you done that with a termination? And is there? Oh, yeah. How is that for the mom? The one that made that choice?

If you don't mind me sharing this story, this is a very powerful story. There was a woman, she wasn't even I was reading someone here and also and I turned around to her and I said, you, God wants you to know that he took your baby. God has your child. And the woman looked at me and started bawling her eyes out. And she said to me, she said 30 years ago, she said I was molested by a family member and I was pregnant and my family was making me have the baby. And I, I could cry. She said, and I prayed to God to take my baby because I didn't want to have this child.

And she said, and the next day she miscarried and she lost the baby. Oh, thank God. And she cried. And then she said to me, she goes, and now I'm gay. She goes, so I'm definitely going to hell. I said, well, if that's true, I talk to dead people. So we're going together in a hand basket.

No. But. Oh, wow. You going together in a handbasket. But, oh, wow. You know, and sometimes I say things. I mean, I literally said to myself, Teresa, what did you just say? You just told this woman that God took her child. And I and then the and this is all in a matter of seconds. And then this woman shares this story and she goes, nobody knows this. Nobody knows this. And she's I carried this for 30 years. Wow. You can't even explain it. That is that is really... You cannot even explain it.

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artist that you go right to their website and right to that website. And you got to be very, very careful. So I'm you know, and even if people contact you or reach out and say that it's me, and all you have to do is send me a gift card. It's a scam. Yeah, it's it's terrible. Because I don't even charge people for readings. Yeah on my podcast or on my television show. So if people reach out saying to be on my show and get a gift card, it's a complete scam. Gosh, that's terrible. Yeah, it's awful. I loved getting to know your life story. I'm so

excited that I get to be on your podcast. And this has just been great. So it's been amazing. Yeah, I do have to say this. I feel like we're the same person like our lives were very parallel. Very, so many similar things. And I don't know, maybe you can connect with the dead because everyone says I could be a comedian. So I don't know. Well, let's definitely let's definitely stay in touch. But yes, that has been awesome. It's been fantastic. Great. Oh, thank you. God bless. Thanks. Bye. Bye.