Empower Your Soul

Live Reading: Evidential Mediumship with Laurie

• Medium Nicole • Season 1 • Episode 91

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A powerful spiritual connection unfolds as a mother communicates from beyond with her characteristic no-nonsense personality and fierce love. This evidential mediumship reading reveals how our departed loved ones continue to guide our purpose and spiritual journey long after they've crossed over.

The reading centers around Laurie, whose mother passed after a stroke and prolonged illness. Through detailed and accurate descriptions of her personality—described lovingly as "a pain in the ass" who was fiercely protective of her children—the medium establishes a clear connection that provides validation and comfort. We discover how this hardworking woman ran a restaurant seven days a week while still finding time to serve her community by bringing food to funerals, opening on holidays for the elderly, and feeding the homeless.

What makes this episode particularly meaningful is the mother's emphasis on purpose as her greatest gift to her daughter. She acknowledges Laurie's extraordinary ability to identify people who need help even when they don't know how to ask for it—a trait that has defined her professional life and now guides her spiritual practice. The mother offers practical advice for integrating mediumship abilities into daily interactions, suggesting simple techniques that can transform ordinary encounters into profound healing experiences.

Perhaps most touching is the mother's reflection on her own life of service. Despite never taking vacations or breaks for herself, she expresses no regrets, saying she would make the same choices again seeing the difference she made in people's lives. This powerful testimony reminds us that our purpose often extends beyond our physical existence, continuing to inspire and guide those we leave behind.

Whether you're curious about mediumship, seeking comfort after loss, or exploring your own spiritual gifts, this episode offers profound insights into how love transcends physical boundaries and how our unique purpose can serve humanity in remarkable ways.

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Speaker 1:

Hello there, welcome to empower your soul. I'm actually here today with the amazing Lori, who's actually a little bit of my mentee right now for this metaphysical mediumship work. Thanks for being here, lori. I'm so excited, goodness, I'm so excited too. So this is going to be really fun, because I have not actually read, lori, have I from an evidential mediumship perspective? No, you haven't, but I'm, but I'm teaching you. So now I gotta, I gotta, show you to you that I'm, I don't, I'm horrible at this. So, fingers crossed, the dead people are going to play nice with me today.

Speaker 2:

Oh they will, I'm sure they will.

Speaker 1:

They better be lining up oh my goodness, and as I'm doing this, I'm just starting to sweat right now. So this is going to be really interesting in terms of the energy that comes through. So let's see, lori, I'm going to let spirit kind of lead it today and see who wants to come through today and I have to tell you, like, right off the bat, what I'm feeling come through is I'm feeling mom is, mom has departed. Is that, is that correct?

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

OK, I was just recording another one of these right before this and I felt a mom come through and she is a tough ticket. Your mom like she is OK, yep See, and I. She's like I think she asked for her mom and I was like, well, this is a hot ticket. I feel like she's got a big personality. I feel like she's I'm gonna say it a little bit of a bully, but not in a bad way. I just feel like she's solid in who she is, what she wants to do, what she knows, what she wants for people and she's not swayed easily by anybody else.

Speaker 2:

Agreed, okay, perfect.

Speaker 1:

Yep Nailed it and I do feel like she passes of an illness and I do feel like it's a rather long illness. Is that correct?

Speaker 2:

Um, do you want me to tell you exactly if it's um happy to cause? It's kind of a yes, no answer.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so she would have had a chronic illness then.

Speaker 2:

She had out of nowhere. She was in great health and then, out of nowhere, had a stroke. Nobody saw it coming, and then she lived two more years miserably and then died after two years. If she had it her way she would have gone with the first stroke because it really did her in so because that's what.

Speaker 1:

so I wasn't necessarily feeling stroke yet, but I was feeling it was an illness and it felt like it was very prolonged. So so that makes sense to me. I know that you're her primary caregiver, is that correct?

Speaker 2:

Yes, she, she lived as independently as she could and then I organized different people to come in against her joy. So people would come in and like hang out with her and she was like this is garbage, like I definitely don't want it. But my sister and I did a lot. But I would come from New York quite frequently to bug her quite frequently to bug her.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I mean yeah, okay, so let me ask her to to give me some more, some more things for you about her. She's a very discerning woman, very critical, and you've already kind of alluded to that and what you've said. So I do want to validate that. But she is just, I can just say it, nothing's good enough for her her whole life. Um, she's such a pain in the ass, ass, like I have to call her a pain in the ass because she is a pain in the ass. But she does fiercely love you and your sister like fiercely loves you, and I know, if I want to joke about like if anyone messed with you, she would either come running as mama bear or she would like call in the favors and like call in people to like help out. Like she just feels like no one messes with my kids. The only one that's allowed to mess with my kids is me.

Speaker 2:

That's it. Yep, that's perfect. I love it. I love it.

Speaker 1:

Um, and she's just somebody who thinks the world of you and as I'm, as I'm kind of, and I know that you think the world of her too, and I know that you love her, despite all of these amazing personality traits and I don't even want to call them flaws, because I feel like she wouldn't have survived her life without these attitudes, beliefs, perspectives, because it was not easy, she did not have an easy life and those allowed her to navigate and manage through these very difficult life circumstances and be able to become exactly who she'd become. And then you pick up all of those amazing things from her.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, definitely.

Speaker 1:

And your sister and I like here's the thing about you, Laurie, and I know a little bit about you, but I feel like you can kind of be a steamroller sometimes, Like you won't. You won't let anybody do things that you feel is incorrect and ethical with either your patients. I'm going to go with your students, Cause I know you were a former teacher as well. Yep, Steamroller, you would just know. Absolutely not. Whereas I feel like your sister is a little more delicate. I feel like she plays the. I feel like she is a little more conscious of how people feel. I feel like she's the. I feel like she is a little more conscious of how people feel. I feel like she's more of a consensus builder. Would you understand that or no?

Speaker 2:

It's tough. I actually have two sisters and it's hard to picture them. They're both. They're very different, um one distant right.

Speaker 1:

One feels like one feels very distant, whether it's geographically or emotionally. She feels like she just does what she wants and she doesn't care.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I can accept that that's the oldest. The three of us live close to each other, but the oldest one is very independent in her world. The middle one can be pretty. She's not a soft light, she's, she's, she's a scorpio, like she's interesting through and through, like she's tough. Um, yeah, everybody's emotions, though.

Speaker 1:

That one yeah, everyone yeah, and so like I think she's really tough on the surface, but I think underneath she's she's like butter.

Speaker 2:

Yes, she is very sensitive. You're right, she comes out super strong, but very, very sensitive, sensitive. Like you say something and she takes it way wrong and you're like what I asked you to pass the butter? Like how did that? How did that hurt? Yeah, Interesting.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, and so, and, as we're talking about you and your sisters, your mom's just like it was a circus. Nicole, it was a circus.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I can only imagine.

Speaker 1:

I can't with her. She's amazing. She's such an amazing soul, so let me see where else she wants to go today. She's always been a really, really hard worker and I believe that was instilled in all of you. Yes, she takes a lot of pride in her work and what she does, and not only just the work. The value that is derived from her work is the way that I want to put it. So like, whatever happens as a result of what she does or how she helps people or changes people, there's something. That's what drives her, that's what motivates her. Is that correct?

Speaker 2:

100%. She owned a restaurant, worked seven days a week but we also went to more funerals Like she would bring food to like all funerals. We opened up the restaurant on Christmas because elderly had nowhere else to go, and Thanksgiving we fed the homeless Like we were always. She was giving, giving, worked her ass off, but also did what she could to help the community big time.

Speaker 1:

And what is so funny when you say that is is that I can hear her say I wish I'd done more, because this is who she is and she can see she's like making me tear up right now.

Speaker 1:

Hmm this relates to you, so let me see if I can get this out eloquently. She wishes she did more because she helped the people who asked for help, but she was too busy to help the people who didn't know how to ask. And so there's something about like the homeless people, or like donating to people who didn't feel like they could step foot in the restaurant, because I'm seeing like homeless people on the side of the road and she's like I should have handed out meals. I should have done this. I should have done that. I should have donated to shelters or cooked food for shelters. Like I just see and this is her heart right, this is how it's, not she actually regrets it, but she the impact she could have made could have been bigger, but I know she was also, I'm going to say, making ends meet in terms of front right. Like it doesn't feel like she has a lot of extra money.

Speaker 1:

She certainly has for time. Yeah, yeah, but this is you, yeah, so this and it's no accident that she starts talking about I want to help the people who aren't asking for help, because there's something about you in that, and when I'm saying that, I'm seeing the energy split between you and her, and she's talking about you and how you want to help the people who don't have the money, the resources to ask for help and those who don't even know that they need the help yet, because you have this endless love for people and wanting them to be their best selves. And I know this about you. But she's reminding me this about you that you just have you wear your heart on your sleeve. You will bend over backwards for whoever needs help, whether they've asked for it or not. Yeah, and I also make. She makes me feel that you can look at a person and know whether they need help or not, and so she's relating it to the school, she's relating it that you worked in. She's relating it to, like, homeless people, like she's relating it to you just being able to look around, see that someone needs help and you walk up to them and say what do you? What do you need? How are you. Is there anything I can help you with? And that's your job. Like that is your role in this lifetime.

Speaker 1:

Because, as you say, that she's showing me, it's like you pick them off off the ground, like you pick them up, you make them feel seen, you make them feel validated, you make them see that someone loves them and cherishes them and watches over them and you really give them the gift of God and angels here on earth, because that's who you are. And so this journey that is unfolding for you, and so this journey that is unfolding for you, this is what you'll be doing. That's incredible. This is it because you, you're already so good at what you do, like in a regular career job, right. Like you already help people in your everyday career job and you have, over the course of your career in different, many different jobs, right, because, if you don't mind me saying, like Lori, you like you work.

Speaker 1:

You worked in, you know, in inner city school, right, and now you're working in a medical facility. You help people clearly need help and don't always know to ask for help, yeah, but I think the difference is so. I think that was easier to see in the school. They had to be there to be there right, and now, now, here in the medical facility, they're walking in because they obviously need help.

Speaker 1:

But here's the thing I see you walking around, like where you live, and seeing people that are just walking on the street and you walking up to them and saying I, I hey, this person's with you. I can see that you're really lost in sadness. Your father's with you, this is a sign from him. It's a blue Jay, right, like, and I see you walking up to people and doing that and normally I would say, lori, it's totally fucking unethical. But I'm going to tell you, but you are going to know, and I know that when you do that, it won't come from your ego, it will come from your heart and your soul, and that's why it will be ethical for you to do that.

Speaker 2:

Is your father on the other side as well? No, but there it makes sense that there's a man coming in strong.

Speaker 1:

There's two options. Very good, cause I'm seeing her bring in a man, so let me see. He feels a little younger to me than your mom, cause I feel like your mom was older when she passed, but I do, so let me see. Can you? Can you give me some more information? He's brilliant. He's such a smart man. He's very book smart or like numbers smart. I don't know if he has the best social skills or like numbers smart. I don't know if he has the best social skills.

Speaker 2:

I think it might be her lifelong boyfriend, who would be the same age, never graduated school, opened his own business and was an incredibly successful construction worker in town and was a huge part of my life, then that would make sense.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and that's why I'm reading it as dad, because it would be her significant other and he was very much a dad figure. Yeah, yeah, okay that everything you said checks, checks it, because I just see he's really really smart, he's brilliant, but he's not. He doesn't talk like, he doesn't talk about it, he just goes and heads down, does his job. Um it, did he have arthritis or issues with his hands as well, or would that be? That's not your mom.

Speaker 2:

My mom had arthritis in the hands.

Speaker 1:

Okay, interesting Cause I'm feeling that I wonder if she's coming in with him or if she's just let me ask her what? Um, there's a reason she just brought me back to her, so let me figure that one out. There's a reason she just brought me back to her, so let me figure that one out.

Speaker 2:

She wants to be the star. She is. That is this mom. Yeah, she's like hold up.

Speaker 1:

He's here. But back to me, yeah, that's probably it, because I'm I'm feeling it, so she's, she's mentioning, so she must be mentioning that she's not alone on the other side. And then would she have a sister that's on the other side as well? I'm hearing aunt.

Speaker 2:

She does have a sister that I did not ever meet.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yep, okay, so she's calling out your aunt as well. And I feel like your aunt lived in more of more of a rural area or like like horses or something like that. They're just. I see I see more rolling hills and like horses with her. So I'm not sure what that is. I accept it a gift for you and, and I'm hearing her say it's the gift of purpose. Oh, wow, and and the purpose? I know I'm like what the gift of purpose, mom? Really?

Speaker 2:

my ability is if we're going to do gifts here, I've got a list, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Hang the bills would be great. Give me. Give me that lottery numbers would be an amazing gift. New car, yep Long list. But it's the purpose. It's knowing exactly what you need to do and knowing how to get there, because what you're going to do is help so many people along the way and that is going to be the thing that lights you up and keeps you going and that's going to pay the bill. So it is actually going to help you get a new car and pay the bill. So it is actually going to help you pay the bill. I'm going to ask her to help send you some very rich clients. Yes, Come and book you over and over again.

Speaker 2:

Yes, thank you.

Speaker 1:

But she's highlighting that and I've said this to you before and mom is reiterating it there's nothing that you can't do with this work. What you do is going to be very special, very unique to you and your purpose and your soul and what you're here to do, and that the sky is the limit in terms of you and your possibilities and everything that you want can absolutely come true. You need to. I think you do this to an extent already, but let uh. Okay, she's highlighting ways that you can expand your practice and mediumship. All right, your practice and mediumship can expand by, as you're talking to clients, seeing if anyone's there, and you don't have to tell your clients but be like who's coming in with who's coming in with this client today? Who's who's watching over this client today? Okay, and asking like hey, what can you tell me about my client? What can you tell me about this? So it almost was like start incorporating what you know already into your day-to-day and like really integrating it. I love that, yes, cause it can be. It can be like right before you walk in a room, just taking a deep breath and being like okay, so what? So you can do it two ways. You can either ask, ask if any of their departed loved ones want to step forward with today, with the healing, whatever you're going to do with them. And then, number two, you can ask, you can use your I'm going to say more psychic energy to tap into your client before you walk in the room and saying what, what's the thing that I need to know? What's maybe, if they're nervous, what is the thing I can do to help keep them safe or make them feel more calm? What's something that would make them smile or brighten them up?

Speaker 1:

I used I used to do this in the corporate world because, believe it or not, I'm very socially awkward outside of this work. I'm very socially awkward, like I went to a dinner last night and I was just like I don't know. And I've known these people for 30 years, 20, 30 years and I'm just like, but I'm not the same person I used to be. So I like to tap into spirit. I'm like what should I talk about? What should I talk about? Oh, tell me about your retirement, right. About? Should I talk about? Oh, tell me about your retirement, right? That's hysterical. So.

Speaker 1:

So I use it to for the introvert in me to adapt and be more comfortable around social situations. So you can do it for yourself, your clients, you can tap, tap into their departed loved ones. That's awesome. And as you start going further into this and I'm you're gonna have to decide how far you want to take this. This is up to you. But as you start going further and further into this work, you might start seeing what I see when I was working in the corporate world and is this person a safe space to talk to about? Hey, your mom's with you, your, your grandmother's with you, and they, they would show it to me in the stoplights red, yellow, green.

Speaker 2:

Oh wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 1:

I would sit down with somebody in a conference room on the 44th floor in Boston, both of us in suits, and I would sit down and be like. I was like what's that tattoo in your wrist? She's like that's from my mom. I was like, yeah, I'm a medium and they're like what so? So I feel like you're going to be able to start doing that eventually. And tapping in and being like, is it okay to say something, yes or no? And like, very precariously, right, like in whatever way feels comfortable for you. If, whether it feels comfortable at all, we're not comfortable, but you can always be like flip a card, be like, hey, if you're interested in this. Like, yeah, I'm feeling you have a lot of loved ones around you, so you might. I'm just going to toss it out there. But I think eventually you'll get to that space and, honestly, I think that your drive to help people is going to is going to override yeah, say your desire to like be PC with some of this stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, well, I already do to some extent. Not the mediumship, it doesn't come through. But I always ask about who they are, who's in their family, what's and some reason. It always they'll tell me about somebody who's passed and I always every time ask do you feel their presence? Do you get their signs? And then I go right into telling them how to ask for signs, like that happens all the time. So once I can get those hits, that won't be a hard thing. I'll know when to say something, when not to. Oh, that's amazing. Yes, so that's really cool. I love that. Oh, that's amazing.

Speaker 1:

So that's really cool. I love that. So it's taking that one step further, which I think would be no problem for you.

Speaker 2:

Do you have any questions for mom? Um, no, I do not, okay.

Speaker 1:

I love it.

Speaker 1:

But I know you talk to her all the time, I know you're constantly inviting her in, I know that she helps you with your mediumship work and I know she like stands there very discerningly because she is a pain in the ass and I love, I love her energy, love her energy. So I see her like with her arms crossed, like sitting there like making sure and she's the taskmaster, and I don't like and she must've been like this in the restaurant too, because I see she's telling everybody else what to do Yep, like not only that, because she's equating it to the restaurant again, like with the restaurant she'd be like you need to add more salt, you need to add more spice. And I feel like she kind of does that energetically with people like Nope, you need to. That needs to be a little bit louder, that needs to be a little bit softer. You need to. You need to make sure you bring this in.

Speaker 1:

I love that, that's great. So she really is, um, like super mom is, cause I see her put on like the Superman cape right now. So like she really is like super mom taking care of you from the other side.

Speaker 2:

Oh, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1:

She wants to thank you for being such an amazing daughter. Um, she can't stop talking about how brilliant you are and how like smart you are and how you're able to really synthesize and pull together things that don't necessarily make sense together, and. But you can see the patterns and you can see how things work together, even if it's not in a textbook anywhere, so you're recognizing the patterns, which is really really good. And I have to say she never got to do what she wanted here in the physical world. She never got to take her breaks, vacations. She hid behind work.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yeah, she is sitting on the beach on the other side, like I see her with an umbrella, those chairs that have like the big I don't know what they're called. They're like wooden but they have the big piece of cloth that hangs down. It's like a little hammock, but it's not right. She's got one of those. She's got like a giant um, I don't know pina colada or like a strawberry daiquiri in her hand, with a little umbrella in it and it's. And she's at the beach with like a big hat on and she is loving it on the other side and she's saying there's a lot of people that would have regretted living the way that she did, with nonstop work, nonstop helping people, not taking care of herself, not taking vacations for herself. She would not have had it any other way, she would not have chosen any differently, because she can see the change she made and the people that she helped, and if she had the choice, she would do it all over again, wow. So that's, that's a message for you. Thank you, you're a workhorse too.

Speaker 2:

A little bit, yeah, a little bit. But I know how to vacation. That's the one way.

Speaker 1:

Good Right, because you need to, you need to refresh your energy. But she, but I see you like opt. I'm going to say I see you opting almost out of retirement and helping people instead. That is your retirement is like doing things fully for you and helping people.

Speaker 2:

I would love that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it'd be incredible Yep, absolutely Well. I'm going to leave you with her love. Lori, thank you so much for being here and trusting me with with your amazing mom here on the other side. I'm sure this is not the last time I will hear from her.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you can kick her away. I lend her out to people too, like if anybody ever needs her. You know I'm always like, listen, yeah, you can take my mom for a few days, she'll help you out. So yeah, anytime you need her.

Speaker 1:

Take her take her.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, she'll help you, she's got a lot of power over there.

Speaker 1:

So anytime, all right. I wish you're amazing.

Speaker 2:

I appreciate you being here today. Thank you so much. That was amazing. You're the best, thank you.

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