The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – 22 Letters from Uncle Jack: How One Spirit Helped Me to Reveal My Inner Knowing by Aliana Ziva Seeger-Madsen

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

22 Letters from Uncle Jack: How One Spirit Helped Me to Reveal My Inner Knowing by Aliana Ziva Seeger-Madsen https://amzn.to/49Z5EuH Alianathemedium.com ‘Twenty-Two Letters From Uncle Jack��� is Aliana Ziva Seeger-Madsen's story of coming from a place of emotional and spiritual darkness then stepping into the light with the help of her spirit guide. It is a book about the journey around finding out who you really are and embracing that reality. This book traces the process of coming home to yourself through spirituality, transformation, alignment and reality and finding out who you are by changing the way you think. ‘Twenty-Two Letters from Uncle Jack’ centers around the principle of letting others know that we are not alone and there is always a spiritual solution to how we feel.

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Aliana Ziva Seeger Madison joins us on the show. She's a medium, and so we're going to be learning some stuff about the business of being medium. I, of course, am an extra, extra large. No, I'm just kidding. That's a medium joke there. Aliana has a world of wonder and wisdom, and you can access it through her website at alianathemedium.com. My website is Chris Voss, the very fat, extra, extra large. All right, enough of that joke.

She can also engage in one-on-one readings and be part of, and you can be part of her online medium events, medium ship events, I should say. I'm trying to learn to read today by visiting Instagram and Linktree. And we're going to get into all the details of all that good stuff. So welcome to the show, Aliana. How are you? Thank you so much, Chris. And it's an honor to be here. So I'm here in Denmark now.

Oh, Denmark. Yeah, I an honor to be here. So I'm here in Denmark now. Oh, Denmark. Yeah. I've been excited about this all day and it's like 1.30 in the middle of the night here in Denmark. Oh, really? Yeah. On the other side of the pond. Well, that's what we do to Europe because you guys, I don't know, there's a joke there somewhere. Are you based in Denmark?

Yeah. I'm located like 45 minutes south of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Are you based in Denmark? Yeah, I'm located like 45 minutes south of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. There you go. Yeah. There you go. Denmark. Beautiful country over there. Give us your dot-coms again. Any other dot-coms that I missed

that you want people to go check out? It's fine. You can go to alienathemedium.com and here you can go to my Instagram and that is mainly where I'm called to show up daily and connect with my family. There you go. My online family. The online family. The online family, yeah, that soul fam.

So give us a 30,000 overview of your book, 22 letters from Uncle Jack. Yeah, well, 22 letters from Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack is a spirit, and he came into my life back in 2018. I, for many years, searched for answers and solutions for my mental and physical health, and in 17, I met one American teacher, actually here in Copenhagen in Denmark, in an osteopathy class. I started my younger year doing humane physiotherapy and working in the equine industry. And it was like a big thing here in Denmark.

We are a small country. So as soon as there's something that stands out, you know, that was actually where I started my business when I was 25 years old. And I was always out there, you know, looking to how I could improve myself, but with one goal, and that was always to live a life where I could feel free within myself and I could feel strong and healthy without the chronic pain. I was always suffering mentally and physically. So I met a teacher in Copenhagen, and he did an energy clearing on me for 10 minutes.

And that day, everything left me, all that mental inner control. And then all my spirit guides, they started to show up and speak. And that same day, I was driving home from the city and started to speak to my grandfather that had passed a couple of years ago and I would say the conversation with my grandfather was really opened up you know the mission for Uncle Jack and now I call him Uncle Jack he was not my uncle in you know real life but but he was a great teacher also when he was here and I always had this thing where the great teachers in spirit, they show up and that was something I experienced already as a child.

So Uncle Jack, that was the name that him and I, we chose for the book here, you know, to make everything also more grounded. You know, that for me is very important to make everything more grounded because what i do here in denmark often you know that is weird and it's out of this world and is effed up it's you know so it's it's something that i've been used to for years now you know yeah yeah as a a medium and doing that. Now, what is a medium specifically? Help people that are familiar with that

because, like I said, I flunk second grade, so I was thinking in terms of size. Yeah, well, for me, it's like a natural calling because everything that will show up, as I said, I grew up always with that belief that you got to go through this school to go out and get a job. You know, I was traditionally brought up here in Denmark. So I was always, you know, by 11 years old, I was following that path. You got to go into humane physiotherapy because, you know, in that

field, you will always have a job and you can provide for yourself and this and that but you know I was never thriving in that world you know where you I was never thriving there so being now a medium for me it was like coming home to myself and when I talk about coming home to myself it was about mastering my the energy of my own natural bone gifts where i can listen to my own voice and i can listen to what is my physical mind body for me that is like my way of living now that i always maintain that inner peace and balance so i can always hear from what comes from outside of me because to me being a medium i am i'm very audio you know that is one of the first things is that they present themselves and i will always hear them through the right side of my mind here on the right side of the mind there's like a soft spot

here on the temple bone and that's where you know their voices they they come through very clearly and i will hear them like i will hear your voice wow that is amazing and so uh when did you first know you had the powers of being a medium and and and as you started tuning in that hey maybe there's something going on here yeah as a child uh being six years old i had my grandfather on my father's side he passed away and as soon as i received the message then i started to see him and i started to hear from him and the same day where we came home from the church and you know everything you know was different you know and you know everyone in the family yeah you you go through things but being six years old you

know there's there's what I can remember now and then there was the experience of what I remember you know standing there being that child but that night, he presented himself outside of my bedroom. And he showed up and he said many words that I couldn't understand, because he was talking about my gifts and how I should continue to believe in myself. But being six years old and receive messages like that. know listening to my grandfather back then and then I had my other grandfather that passed in 2015 you know so the gap you know between these you know I was very connected to both grandfathers so it was like my grandfather that I lost when I was at around that age you, he became like a safe place to go.

And that's also how I felt with especially John Denver that I would speak to quite a lot. The John Denver, the singer? Yeah. So, you know, they would present themselves, you know, those that I would feel very safe with. But, you know, growing up, there was always an explanation to what I see. There was always an explanation.

And, you know, that would mainly come from my parents that, you know, eventually I would stop to talk about, you know, all of these experiences. But it was a childhood of always being watched and what felt like being chased because there was always a shadow standing around every corner really wow did you ever feel like uh you know who's that kid who's in that bruce willis movie is i see dead people yeah you ever feel kind of weird that that's how you know that's how my childhood years were it really was so going from as a child, you know, visiting old places and my mom. And, you know, I know that today she will still say that we went to see all those places because she's very into history. But every time we would travel and see all those old places, you know, I would always walk away with, you know, the feeling of being chased and watched. And I had spirits for many years that really had a great impact on my mental

health. So, so yeah, yeah. There you go. So in your book, 22 letters from uncle Jack, why are there only two 20, 22 letters? I'm always kind of curious at why people pick their titles. And give us a little more Things as insight

As what people are going to find in there Yeah well in 2020 My husband and our daughter Sophia We had rented this cabin Near the ocean side in Denmark And we were sitting there enjoying the sunset And everybody around our house Knows Uncle Jack

And my daughter is very intuitive as well. So she sees Uncle Jack and she can hear what he says as well. And that evening there, I was going through a time where, you know, I had shifted in 18 from a thriving business, you know, into my coming line world. So now often I felt that, you know, had to to learn new things and pick up on new techniques and new strategies to find around you know and navigate in this in this online world and often i really wanted my you know my world to be full you know full fully aligned with

everything like it would always be like driving around in your business here on the open road you know I wanted everything to be so simple so I was going through a lot of growth especially in my business and I was still getting confused often like okay this childhood dream are we are we there yet you know that was like that was like the experience are we there yet and i i was experiencing that i had so many old beliefs that kept on showing up when it came to me following my own success and what i've always seen for myself since i was a child because every time i would follow my joy here follow follow my passion. You know, I would even have family members that would show up and, you know, look at me in a certain way. And, you know, some of my family members, they would like actually leave the room when I was talking about my dreams.

So, you know, I was also privately going through a whole lot in my life of always keep going. So that summer evening, Uncle Jack, he he said i will tell you one thing in 22 days i can provide you with a daily letter and this will clear your mind completely it will release you from all the old beliefs and it will empower you to change the way that you think and know that everything that I will share with you and it will come with like channeled exercises for your mind to be completely free. And this is for you to always be able to listen to your mind because when we get past what the mind is telling you,

and then he was like, then I can guarantee you that you will move forward after 22 days experiencing how you can always shift that energy within your mind so I can be in that open energy of receiving. That is how I want to live my life. I always want to be open to receive and act on everything that is being given to me. So 22 days, I received a daily letter and then I would journal down, you know, my own experience of receiving the letter and I would follow these exercises that he gave to me. So it's like having that best friend and mentor and teacher there with you that is always cheering on you. And, you know, when I started this, you know, it was a gift to myself.

And it wasn't until a month later that he showed up and was like, hmm, we could provide this, you know, for everyone else. So let this be a book, you know, let this be a book. So when I started out, you know, I had no idea that it would take me to where I am now. There you go. And now you have a book out. And you bill it as basically the process of coming home to yourself

through spirituality, transformation, alignment, and reality, and finding out who you are by changing the way you think. Tell us what that means to you. Well, to me, it's very simple. When you wake up in the morning, I always do this myself. When I wake up in the morning, I want my mind to be completely free. I want my mind to be peaceful. And I want to be able to tell the difference.

And that's how I started out. So after these 22 letters, I can now share with you that I do wake up in my mornings now. And all I can hear is my real voice. And when I see, I can hear my real voice to me, it is that inner experience that, that I can now hear my mind. And to me, it's, it's a point here on the left side,

right below the left clavicle bone. There's a soft point there. And this is often what I teach many of my students as well, that we tap into one point because as soon as there's a connection here on this one point, and when those fingers, they naturally stop on this one point, then it will quiet the mind. And when you experience that quiet mind, you will start to experience that this is me this is my voice and that experience where you can hear that this is my voice and the mind will not ask all of those questions to what you got going on in your life then it's this daily conversation you know not only with yourself but what i experienced and this is why i'm talking about real life is that as soon as you get to discover

this beautiful connection and communication with the spirits that are around you and you know i have people that will come back to me and say that you know i'm now sitting here and i'm speaking to my dad because you know those that will show up you know that's out of my hands. So for many, I know the experiences that I've received now is that when they really open up and they allow themselves to have this real conversation daily, then it really empowers them to connect to what you already know. And that is where you can continue to create everything in life from especially what they will share with you because they see a greater picture that we don't always see ourselves there you go and i'm looking over your website you've got several services you offer there and

you do animal readings as well uh tell us a little about some of the things you offer there and uh i'm always curious about the animal part too yeah that's that's my great passion you know and for many years i i i work with the horses especially here in denmark and now since i've been here for more than four years online you know i've always had these beautiful experiences i speak to all the animals and you know i i often get these you know beautiful experiences in my own personal life you know where i go out and i get to really connect with beautiful snakes or to this year i even spoke to a beautiful crocodile so you know i always get invited to these beautiful you know, but when I work with my clients,

then they will often show up overseas and especially in the States, and they will show up with their animal. I don't have to be there. Actually, in the room with them, I speak through the energy, and when I have this open heart to the animals, they will start to share all of their stories stories and they will also speak of their struggles. So when clients, they come to me, you know, it can be everything with a golden retriever with pain in their back, or it can be, you know, a couple that, you know, lost a cat three years ago and they want to speak to it in the afterlife so you know speaking to the animals often it is for people to have you know that great understanding of what they can do themselves for

their pet to live this you know thriving and and heavy and vibrant life but i will say working with the animals and especially on the readings there are never two online sessions that is the same you know i i walk away and i always feel sitting with the animals that's always speaking to the best expert so i walk away every time with something new and i really treasure those moments that i get to share with people and their animals. That's wow. That's really insightful. And so people can book a reading on your website and they can, let's see, book a reading and they can take and do one of your services they've got you've got a psychic open mic for women a one-on-one group

online reading and a one-on-one animal reading as well yeah yeah there you go there you go and so they can do it online they can get the reading they want uh what sort of psychic uh help do you do provide for women through your services there? Well, I have many, you know, I have both men and women come to me. And when I do the mediumship events here, it is, you know, mainly for women. And I've helped many women over the last years. And what I always experience is that, you know, when women, they come to me then they you know they are often aware of their intuition they're often aware you know of their gifts but they have you know many of the women that i do meet especially this year you know they're still hiding out there they're still you

know keeping their experiences to themselves and you know many of these women you know often i meet women that are already entrepreneurs and often i meet those women, you know, that is still standing and they are waiting to make that, you know, step where they always want to make, you know, the best, you know, they want to create the best life and they want to, you know, run a business from their gifts but you know to actually take that step and say this is me you know this is what i do then there's still i do sense you know again when i work with many of my clients in the states you know i always experience this openness you know there's a great openness when i work with my clients in the states compared to some of my european clients especially some of the danes here, you know, many of the Danes are still hiding many of the Europeans. And, and what I see as soon as they sit there, you know,

all of these women, when we sit on the zoom calls and they're in that community where they feel safe to express themselves, then it's like they, I don't have to do much. I really don't have to do much. I really don't have to do much. As soon as they sit there with all of their gifts, then they start to experience how simple it is to do readings on themselves. You know, that's always a great passion of mine that these women, they know how to do readings on themselves and see, you know, seeing that growth when they start to do readings on each other

you know where they simply lean back and allow themselves and that is a great thing for women often you know where you can simply lean back and you're all open to receive from another woman you know where they know that this is always coming from a loving place and everything is heartfelt so it's I often enjoy on those you know events to lean back and and let those women you know sit with the mic and and really speak of of their own life yeah do what do you find most people find hard to accept or skeptical about medium services, and how do you overcome that? I'll say, you know, I have many people that reach out to me with questions, and there's always a difference, you know, for me of those people that reach out with questions and those clients, you know, that actually, you know, go to a website and book a reading themselves because, you know, those that invest in themselves and go have a

reading with me, you know, they never ask questions. They want to make the most out of the hour, you know, when they are, when they are there, it's like we, well, let's, it's like skip to the good part here, but you know those people that that will reach out to me and ask a whole lot of question you know it is often of what what to expect from a reading and and what can they show up with and i'll say i've received more of you know this skepticism you know in my private life and often also here in the entrepreneur world whether it be in denmark or online and and it's more of of how you know how and then i have many people often that is questioning my story and especially my healing journey in life and you, everything that I actually did overcome, you know, from my mental and physical health to now live this life where I, you know, I've been healthy for four years now.

I never get ill anymore. So it's like, yeah, I've had many, I would say more people question actually my story and my journey and not so much my gifts in mediumship so it it is it has been yeah my experience that it's more questioning you know everything that i i did in my healing journey that's where i get most of my questions when you when you you talk about uh your pain and suffering that i guess has ended over the last four years, was there something that happened to you when you were a child, when you were growing up, that caused the chronic pain that you were having and issues? Yeah.

When I share these stories, for me it is, and that's my own words, that is my way of sharing how it felt but spirits they always took over my mind and they they took over my physical body and you know often in my life i've been experiencing a numbness and it's also that kind of numbness laying in bed and being you know not being able to move having my husband carry me out of my bed. You know, I've ended up in the hospital because of spirits, and I've become ill with fevers and colds, and I would always in my entire 20s have chronic fascia and muscle and joint pain all the time where often I had to lay flat down

because I couldn't walk. And then I would always have, you know, their voices speak within my mind where I, it was like standing on, you know, one of those great train stations in London, you know, where, you know, they are always in that rush hour. So, you know So often when I would go to sleep, I wouldn't be able to sleep. I would get waking up in the middle of the night. So spirits for many years. And when it's that reality of never having a quiet moment, it has been affecting my lymphs, my immune. So, yeah.

And you moved to Denmark four years ago? I've always lived in Denmark, but my mission has always been in the States. So, it's like it was making that jump of running a business here in Denmark to move everything across the sea. There you go. So this has been pretty interesting. What have we touched on that people should know about you and what you do? I'll say, you know, I actually received, you know, a message from Spirit Ride before joining you here, Chris, because there were yeah and and and the intention also of like being here with you

and and your online family here because there's a there's a great worry going on in the collective that is what i hear from my spirit guides you know and there's uh you know, this questioning, you know, questioning everything, you know, questioning your life, questioning what is maybe going on outside of you. So it's like this, it's like a doubt that is, you know, out there flying around and on the blue sky and I did hear that the message today for, for your, your family is that there is a simple way now to be free of that worry and that self doubt simply by engaging in a new conversation. And when I, when I hear from spirits,

then, you know, I've've i'm also curious of you know the the spirits that shows up here with you and that was that was actually a strong energy that i was invited to lean into and you know before i i actually met you here face to face. Then I heard from one spirit that is present in your space that said that Chris is one of those men where you want to sit down and really pay attention. This is where you want to sit down and receive everything from his wisdom. And leaning into that energy, then the same spirit said we gotta do something we gotta do something we gotta bring a message about this self-doubt gotta bring a message about this worry because engaging in a new conversation in life i hear from this spirit like i'm sitting here with

you you know this is me engaging in a new conversation with you and engaging in new conversations now where you feel that your self-worth becomes more and more vibrant. That is what the spirit here is talking of. So engaging in new conversation where you feel self-worth is where that natural worry and that natural self-doubt will leave everyone. So whether it be a coworker or a friend or joining a podcast, that all of the new conversations that one will start to engage, they can experience over nine days how simple it is to to experience a strong

presence and i do hear we are here in the upcoming holiday season so i do hear that that many here in your online family that they they can expect that those that they knew and will show up like a beautiful breeze around the shoulders and neck on the lower legs and acknowledging that presence around you, that unconditional love. They still have a mission here with us. So if they see that we are struggling in some way, if they see we sit there with all these you know questions of life themes they want to bring an answer that is very clear so we can move forward and know exactly what

to act on because many these days are invited to act on things now and especially until the 12th of december and we are now you know know, it's traditions and, you know, we have New Year's and an upcoming year and we want to embrace that, all of us, you know, with the positivity and many they can start now, you know, to make great shifts now. So engaging in this conversation can also be engaging in the conversation with yourself of of what you would love to see happen in your life now because that is i hear from the spirit that's in your

space of starting that conversation of what you would love to see happen in your life now this is not about the future but what you would love to see happen in your life now that that it will shift the energy and and many of these old ways of thinking they will be thrown out into the bin there you go well the new ways i'm thinking about the spirit that's in my space is he needs to start paying rent so there you go i'm just kidding i mean we do the jokes in the show of course. So this has been super insightful, and people can reach out to you. They can go on your website and click the book of reading, the Psychic Open Mic for Women, the one-on-one group online readings. So do a lot of families take that up, group online readings,

or what kind of groups usually subscribe to that? Yeah, I would say this year I've experienced many couples that show up. Oh, couples. There you go. Yeah. And, you know, often it is to, you know, to have this understanding of, let's say, what a wife or what a husband and or what a partner is going through after a loss. And I will say I've had many of my clients this year, you know, they've been, I would say, the age of averaging like 45 to 60, you know, where, you know, going through grief, you know, having the loss of parents and also siblings, you know, where you really stop in life and you reconsider your own way of living and so the group readings i've had a lot of couples actually that shows up and i also have

you know women where it's like girlfriends hanging out with a glass of wine and and they want to know about you know their life themes and that is is actually why I love to do group readings as well because if they can fit four or five people into a Zoom call, be my guest. That is what we can do to have also more fun about mediumship because I love, and as you said, we have fun here in the show. I love everything about mediumship that i love and as you said we have fun here in the show i love everything about mediumship that is fun as well so i have many of my own experiences where even comedians

they show up in spirit so i can get by my day with more laughs there you go i i have an idea i was just sitting here thinking when you're talking about the group thing i was like maybe we should have a bunch of my family members on because uh normally what we do with some of my family members is we put them in a room we throw holy water on say the power of christ compels you that's been working lately they're still puking up uh pea soup so um maybe you can help them uh so uh give us your dot coms one more time as people go out uh so people can get to know you on the interweb and reach out. Yeah. ElianaTheMedium.com.

That is where you can connect with me and you can be redirected to my Instagram there. And that's where I hang out. That is my, what I used to, I always say that it's my pit stop. You know, that's where I sit around the fire. That is what I love to do in life. So when I'm on Instagram, I sit around the fire and I get something warm to drink. And then I get to sit there with all of my friends. Yeah, you've got a lot of great Instagram videos and conversations.

You've got put up there as well, people can check out. Yeah. Order it up, folks, wherever fine books are sold. 22 letters from Uncle Jack. How one spirit helped me to reveal my inner knowing uh which is i kind of sounds similar to a spirit that i used to use named jack to review my uh reveal my inner knowing but it was jack daniels sorry i had to do that joke i had to do that my bad that's not true i know him as well don't do that people there's reveals a very bad inner knowing.

And you wake up the next morning and go, what the hell happened? Don't do that, people. So order up, folks, wherever fine books are sold. Thank you very much, Aliana, for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. It has been an absolute honor joining you here. And an honor as well.

Thank you very much and continued success there. Enjoy Denmark. I need to come over there one you very much and continued success there. Enjoy Denmark. I need to come over there one of these times. It's such a beautiful country. Yeah, we got a tower here now in my local area. A tower?

It's one of the top tourist attractions now here. And there are people that come from all around the world to stand on that tower. So when I'm standing on that tower, then I can see that New York is in that direction, LA is that direction, and I'm traveling in one week.

So now I've been standing there for four years, looking in that direction, know that someday I will go again. You're welcome anytime to come visit us over here and all that good stuff. So thank you very much for coming on the show. Thanks, Monique, for tuning in. Go to goodreads.com, FortressCrispFast, LinkedIn.com, FortressCrispFast. to come visit us over here and all that good stuff. So thank you very much for coming on the show. Thanks for tuning in.

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