Unlock Your Inner Magic: Practical Intuition for Everyday Life – An Interview with Callie Claire

What if your intuition could propel you forward?

Are you unknowingly ignoring the very thing that could change your life? In this compelling conversation, psychic medium and intuitive guide Callie Claire reveals the transformative power of listening to your inner voice. Callie is an Intuitive Academic with a fascinating background an an award-winning medium, artist, high-end interior designer, author, and transformational mentor. 

In this conversation, you’ll learn why intuition is often dismissed—and why it shouldn’t be. You’ll grasp a deeper understanding of the Native American Spirit Wheel to navigate life’s highs and lows.  And, you’ll find out how transactive memory bridges the gap between past wisdom and present action. Callie’s stories and strategies will challenge your beliefs, inspire transformation, and empower you to trust yourself again. Listen, watch, or read below to rediscover your inner magic!

As someone who is both an intuitive and historian, how do you think people 100 years from now will look back on the time that we’re living in right now?

Callie Claire:  I think that they’re going to look back and think like we’re living in a super highlighted time. I feel like people are struggling with connection, and I feel that people are struggling with honoring their own morals and values. You know how hygge is so big right now, like just the “I would like to be in my cozy socks with my cocoa.” I think people are struggling to just say that’s okay.

Then there’s so much anger. Being a historian means that I can look back and see other times in history where people were so super angry, but they dealt with it differently. They used to call Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Sphinx, and what was interesting about him is that when he won his fourth term, the gentleman that he lost to—and of course, his name just escaped me, but it’s a funny name—he’s sent to England during the Blitz, and he was like a man of the people.

He was able to make friends with everybody, and even if they were somebody that he had defeated, he was still there to sort of help them along. It was a different kind of camaraderie, I think, that was more about healing the country and doing things as a whole, versus today where everything is so this way or that way.

Being in Washington, D.C. all these years—for 30 years—means that I have all of these Fortune 500 and Fortune 5000 clients because I’ve done the high-end residential design. And of course, many of those clients have been healing clients and working with psychiatrists and psychologists and ob/gyns and had my referral systems through the professionals, right?

But basically, I never sat anybody down and said, “Hey, what’s your political affiliation, and how do you vote?” No, I’m a people person. I’m about compassion and empathy. I love people, and so I’ve always felt a really strong duty, and so I think that’s something that people are struggling with. I think celebrity culture has poisoned our minds to an extent, and it’s time to go back to, I think, the critical thinking and considering, like, who is this person that I’m hiring as a coach, as a consultant, as a construction person on my house—whatever it is—and can I shake their hands? And, you know, like mano a mano?

I’ll finish with that with just like a quick story, David, and that was that years ago there was a gentleman who was sort of like trying to mentor me, and I said, “I think I should become an attorney,” and he said, “No, Callie, you’re never going to need to be an attorney because even if you had the skill set,” he said, “because you should always just be able to talk things out.”

I did that, and I worked for the biggest names in the world and never got sued—like knock on wood—that’s my claim to fame. I was always able to talk it out. So, I do feel like there is a lot to be said for kind of like coming, bringing it all down a little bit, calming down, and just getting to what it is that is really—I guess the word of the decade is—triggering people and doing the healing work that we all need to do as individuals to be accountable and responsible to our own pain and our own path forward. I think, I’m hoping that’s what the historians of a hundred years hence will see.

Can you share your journey of awakening to consciousness, mindfulness and spirituality? Did you grow up in a home where faith or spirituality was part of your upbringing, or was that something that unfolded for you over the course of life?

Callie Claire: Well, I know your background, and so that resonates with me. I’ll bear my soul here.

So I was fascinated by church, which was sort of the Quaker church, the Friends. It was about friendship, and because I was with my grandparents—who I absolutely adored—and my grandfather was a World War II veteran, it was a positive experience. He had joined the military when he was just like 15 or 16 years old. They were a really funny, romantic, happy couple, and that was my life until I was 10.

When I was 10, a lot of things happened. My father was a government official, and gunmen came to the house after apparently trying to assassinate him and not being able to kill him. So then they held us hostage all night long. As the oldest of the kids, that’s something that you can’t really explain to people—how that was—because the shower had broken that night, and my mother wasn’t where she was supposed to be. It was traumatizing. Both of my parents said something to me that week, which was also the week that my grandfather was crushed on a job site. He was an electrician, so within like three or four days, it all happened. His life was ruined. He did live another 25 years, but it was a life of medical appointments, and it was not what they thought their retirement would be.

My mother said to me—and she was tough, David, she had three brothers, no sisters—”You know, Callie, you’re going to get up and go to school, and you’re just going to do your thing and stay with the structure of your life. Because if you don’t, then these bad guys win. They win.” And she said, “You could get hit by a Mack truck tomorrow or a drunk driver.” So she said, “There are no guarantees for how long your life will be.”

I think because I was so blessed to have my grandparents until I was 35, and my great-grandmother, who was a midwife, until I was 7 or 8, I had that deep connection with family. It was a big deal. I knew these people, and I loved mystery stories. I had read all of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie when I was like 9 or 10—the Hound of the Baskervilles. Ghost stories and things like that really attracted me, but they also scared the bejesus out of me. I remember having all of these stuffed animals in my room and making them take them out because they were staring at me.

Not long after that, some really spooky stuff started happening. My parents were scientists, and my mother worked in a hospital, so the topic of death was always present. The reality of death. My mother, who is now a 50-year veteran in archaeology—Society of Pennsylvania Archaeology—wrote newsletters, and there were always things happening that got me in tune with “the other.”

While I was very academically minded, winning awards for artistry and painting, and graduating top of my class at SCAD, that clairvoyant, clear-seeing ability translated into my artwork and then into interior design. If you think your hairdresser knows a lot about you, you should talk to your interior designer! You’re with these people through thick and thin. This morning, for example, one of my best friends and clients, Rupa, is at the funeral for her mother. My relationships with clients are like friendships.

When I was in high school, I had a profound experience. We were in a car coming up to a stop sign in the dark. I saw a figure—it looked like a hobo, with a stick over his shoulder and a red bandana bag—and he was in overalls. It was pitch black, but I saw him clearly, moving through the car to get to the other side. The car was full of teenagers, and there was total silence. Someone finally said, “Did anyone else see what just happened?” Half the car said yes, half said no. Years later, I talked about it with a friend—a pilot, a very factual person—and it brought tears to his eyes because he remembered it too.

A few years after that, my mother invited me to come with her to a dig. It turned out a homeowner had discovered a Native American burial site in their yard. I helped excavate delicate artifacts and remains, and the experience was incredibly moving.

To hearken back to the question of religion: the Bible was always confusing to me—the imagery didn’t resonate. Native American spirituality, on the other hand, felt aligned with my sense of being in tune with the earth, the seasons of life, and the reality of death. I loved church for the sense of community, especially with my grandparents. My grandmother had her own ways—like setting out paper towels for snacks and entertaining us with comic-book versions of Bible stories.

Church had its charm, but it didn’t grip me spiritually. Native American and Buddhist philosophies, however, felt much closer to the mindfulness, spirituality, and connection I’ve embraced in my life. 

At what point did you personally begin to recognize that you had some psychic abilities, and how did that begin to unfold for you?

Callie Claire: I had them all of my life. I had strange things happen and I still do. I was going to pull this out for you earlier, David, and I forgot, but I’m going to pull something out for you. So, I’m blessed because it was really raised well. It was really raised well and so I have a loving family and even though we had tragedies and things that happened to us—and by the way, after the whole hostage thing, then it happened again 4 years later—but anyways, they’re such good people, they’re such amazing people and we’re here and we survived and we’re duty-driven and here I am, like once I had my kids, I’m volunteering all the time and I’m like a 1500-hour-a-year volunteer.

I had this delightful client, interior design client, and I had gone home to my own house, which was like 108 years old, and it had a word that I can’t even say. I don’t want to say it, but it was the P word. You remember the famous movie from the 80s? Okay, like the P word, the Steven Spielberg movie. That was my house. The chairs were rocking. The doors were closing and opening. The water was running. It was terrifying.

I had a serendipitous path of taking a course on opening your intuition, which at that point 20 years ago, no one was doing. And no, eventually I went on and I studied with James Van Praagh, who pulled me out of the crowd and said, oh my goodness. I’ve never seen… somebody is touching my hair right now. I’ve never seen anyone have so many angels and loved ones around them. Like you’re just so protected, Callie. And I said I believe it. Oh my gosh, do I believe it? Yes. And so I think it was a confluence of events, and because of my artistic ability and because of my academic standing and because of the caliber of work that I had done for years and years and years, winning big projects and major show houses and doing the artistic renderings and having them then come to fruition, I had a peculiar talent and really I quantify that today as something called transactive memory.

If anybody enjoys Malcolm Gladwell, what he calls transactive memory, it’s in his book The Bomber Mafia. But what he is talking about is that Francine talks about how Helen Keller had these comforting words for everyone when the Nazis were burning books because she said listen, don’t even worry about it. We have read these books. We have absorbed that knowledge. It’s part of who we are, and I think that I do sort of have an encyclopedia of the thousands of books that I’ve read and conversations I’ve had and friendships that I’ve had, and I think that when you have this background of being held hostage and protecting your siblings and what is virtually a near-death experience, it does open you up to a greater way of seeing the world, and that is just a fact.

I have friends that have survived 9/11. I have friends that have survived their own version, and I think sometimes it can play both small and big. And what I was going to show you here is something kind of funny. So, I was on television for many, many years and those clients still talk to me, they still are a part of my life.

What happened was I never advertised. I was on TV like three or four years, and so I met everybody and I loved them and they loved me for the most part. So, Bill Philipps called me when I was on television, and he was starting out as a medium, and we would exchange readings, and I love Bill. I think he’s wonderful. And I met Joseph LoBrutto, and he said, can I take over my radio show for an episode or two because I’ve got something else to do? And John Holland and Lisa Williams.

So those people were really… I felt like these were just sort of had my back, like everybody reached out and friended you and maybe you had like a few conversations, and I can’t even remember like maybe Sonia took it, I don’t remember, but like people that were your friends to let them know that they were backing you up. And then there were other people that I went to some Hay House events and I really felt like their behavior was abhorrent, like really just not what the work was supposed to be about because I’m just so duty-driven, and most of these people are so duty-driven. They just want to heal people, and they want to be helpful. So, I don’t really think it’s supposed to be about fame. I’m, in fact, incredibly uncomfortable with fame and social media.

But what happened was so then I just sort of built up my clientele, and it was entirely through word of mouth and then being on the television and as an evidential psychic medium, and of course they were testing me through that. So that’s how it got started for me. And then really for 15 years, I went out and gathered a lot of other expertise. So my healing work involves past life regression hypnosis and future life progression hypnosis. I created brain entrainment albums. Those are all available under the Callie Claire.

I was using my singing, like you know, I was in chorus and I played the violin and so I really believed that can really calm you when you are in a complete panic state. And so then, I was like just back-to-back booked for years, like probably 10 or 15 years, and then I had my kids, really late in life, so I had my kids at 41 and 45. And then that changed things.

But what I was going to tell you was like a spooky thing, so I’m going to cover the name on this. So what happened was I got married, I had my children, and then, right during COVID, my mother-in-law had Stage IV cancer diagnosis and she had one of those radical surgeries where they take like 5 or 6 organs. So, right before she went into hospice, we took her to the beach, and my husband owned a store, and so he took a week off work, and we went to this really beautiful beach called Oak Island in North Carolina.

We’ve never been there before, rented a house on the beach. It was so peaceful and lovely, David, it was so nice. Well, anyways, there’s thousands of people, right, that you’re crossing paths with on the beach, but leave it to Callie to find somebody. So, I’m just gonna like cover the name on this, but anyways, so I talked to this lady. She had young kids, smaller than mine, and I said, talked to her all about Girl Scouts, because I was a founding leader, and I had started one of the biggest troops in the country. And I just said you’ve got to do this for your kids. When you’re the leader, you get to say how you want things to be, and I talked to her husband, who was so lovely when I just discover her name, okay, well, anyway.

She’s saying, is this your mother? That’s what the picture is. My mother and her parents at a high school reunion. Literally, like thousands of people walking by on the beach, but I pick out somebody that… 

There’s a deep connection!

Callie Claire: That kind of stuff happens all the time to me. And you know, what I wrote the book on is really about practical magic. It’s like, I don’t want anyone ever to—first off, a reading with me is so healing because I give the names and the dates and the places, and we’re picking up on all the information. So that’s so lovely.

But well, I think what’s really special is that we do the healing work, and then I sort of—I’m like birthing the baby, pushing them out the door, because I don’t want anybody to ever feel that beholden to someone. Really, the healing work—it’s like you’re supposed to matriculate on. So, I might hear from my clients once a year, once every couple of years, but it ends up that they’ll be friends, and that I’m the person going to baby showers and maybe funerals and farewells.

And so, it’s sort of beautiful, and I guess I could say that I designed it to kind of work with my life.

Talk to me about this new book that you’ve got out, Unlock Your Inner Magic: Practical Intuition for Everyday Life. Who is this book for? Tell us all about it.

Callie Claire: Years ago, I say, with Jack Canfield I did all of his programs Breakthrough to Success. And I made a really beautiful friend there. Her name’s Ruth, and Ruth’s dad was in the Holocaust, and so when I would go to California, we’d visit, we’d be together, and I just loved her. I just love her. And so Ruthie was an author. Now she’s a ghostwriter, and she does other things.

But what had happened was about 15 years ago when I was on television, she said, “Callie, I’m meeting people in New York City at the Javits Center. We’re going to be meeting people.” And so I had written a book and, of course, I also was a writer, a winning writer from the time I was like, I think, in like second grade.

I wrote a beautiful book, and I talked to a lot of big new-age publishers about it, but then I presented it to a really well-known publisher, and the editor said, “Oh my gosh, Callie, anything that you have, we want to see, and you’re on TV, you’ve got this great platform.” And I said, “Okay, great.” And so I was very naive. I was like maybe 32 or something, and even though I’d done all the show houses in Washington, DC, and won the Capitol show house out of 5000 booths, I should have known better.

What happened was when one of my nephews was being born in California, I went out to stay with my sister and to see Ruthie and to do other things with other people, and went to a little new age bookstore in San Diego. And there was a book on the shelf that was attractive to me, and so I pulled it off the shelf, and literally, it was my book. And all they had done was change the name on the book. They hadn’t changed the title; they hadn’t changed the very slim outline. So it was sort of like awful.

I didn’t know how to deal with it. And so I think that I’ve always kind of had a love-hate relationship with, just sort of like, the social media and putting myself out there. And so I do want to say thank you for the safe space that you provide with this. Because I’m certainly, I think, in the category of somebody who just prefers to connect one-on-one and form that relationship.

This book was really me saying, “Okay, it’s time, Callie, let’s reformat it with all of the wisdom of the last 15 years.” When my mother-in-law had passed earlier this year, that sort of freed me because I was her medical Medicare power of attorney and raising small kids, and hospice and the assisted living that she was in said that I was the best advocate they’d ever had. And so I really have so much that I can empathize with and commiserate with people, and it just only, I think, accentuates what I’m able to offer people.

When I wrote Unlock Your Magic, really the main focus, the thing that’s groundbreaking, is the transactive memory portion, and I’ll talk to you about that more. But really, the main focus was practical intuition for everyday life, and what that’s about is just the fact that this is my only life as Callie, and so I have to work within the parameters of that.

This is my family. These are my friends. This is the time of life that I built a big career as a big fish in a big pond, which, if no one understands, like what it means to be in Washington, DC, and win all the top awards—think about that, because I built a huge business that was an Inc 5000 business. And then, I got hit really hard in the 2008 decline with real estate and interior design, and that’s at the same time, the same year, that I was on television and was shifting gears majorly.

You have to be able to reinvent yourself, but you have to be able to reinvent yourself within the parameters. And one of the kind of, like, jokes that I’ll make to explain to people what I mean is that we have the swimming pool, and it’s where all the scouts come and the baseball teams. And it’s a place where I want people to come and be a community, and it’s why I founded the Girl Scout Troop was so that I could make friends with the other parents, and we could form our own, which has been wonderful, by the way.

When you’re using your intuition in a practical way, what that means is that you’re honoring life as it is and the parameters as it is. And so I feel like sometimes the healing work, it takes me back in time. I’m in Bethesda, and I’m working at a psychiatrist’s office, a beautiful big building where I did yoga in the mornings and my healing work. And I remember a lady said to me, “Make sure you close everything out. Make sure you put your bubble up.” And I was like, “Oh yeah, I’ve got to remember to do that,” because you can’t be doing healing work while kids are in the pool.

That’s what I always said. I have to still physically be Callie with my feet grounded on the floor, and I have to be paying attention to what’s in front of me and fully focused and giving my full attention. And it’s the same with the readings. I never, like, officially took a break because I was doing such high-caliber work. However, because I was needed and I felt that it was my duty to my mother-in-law to be there for her—you can’t really be running somebody to the oncologist, taking care of little kids, being a caregiver, monitoring medications and pain levels and all of those things.

What happened with my mother-in-law and myself, because I guess I’m what you would call like a maximalist. I’m really great at a lot of things, but there comes a breaking point for everybody. And the breaking point for our family during COVID was my husband just said, “I can’t do the business that he was in anymore.” That was really the big issue.

I have had to come sort of back and pick up the pieces of how I want my life to be now with as a mama to small kids that are still in elementary school, and as an artist, and how do I want to function in the world. And so you actually, David, helped me understand that—this kind of brings me to tears a little bit, because I have a calling. And when you have a calling and when you have a gift, like I do, and you also have, I think, this sense of duty and ethics and responsibility that’s behind it, you have to pursue that.

I never wanted to be famous. It’s not really in my DNA, probably because of the things that happened to me when I was a kid. However, but I do such a great job, and I have such a loyal clientele that I really felt like, okay, I’m ready to do this again. I think I advertise that I have 10,000 hours of healing, but I think it’s probably closer to 20,000.

I do just want to say thank you so much, because it hadn’t really occurred to me how I was going to piece things back together, because when you’re in the trenches and you’re decluttering, and when death is like right in front of you and you’ve got to deal with that, it’s a really big deal. And so that’s, I think, why it’s practical intuition. For sure when my mother-in-law passed away, she was like setting off the fire alarm for the week after she died.

I went to a retreat in July this year, and I was talking to my new girlfriends about her, and the candlesticks fell over in front of us. And it was probably because she wasn’t really liking what I was saying, because my mother-in-law was—she struggled, she had been alone for 50 years, and she was very entitled and very needy, and there was an element of her that wanted everybody to share in that suffering. 

But as somebody who graduated at the top of my cohort with my master’s in World War II history, what I write about is women. And I don’t believe that I could be so good of evidential medium or somebody that’s like a narrative nonfiction writer if I didn’t understand the human condition the way that I do and feel for people and empathize with that.

Can you explain the concept of transactive memory? You mentioned it briefly in your book, and I’d love to hear more about what it is and how it can help us tap into it.

Callie Claire: I’m right in the middle of filming the online course for that, and I appreciate you bringing it up. Practical intuition is really about, “Here’s my craft, and here is how I’m able to bring that artistry into the real world,” that creative resilience. And I think it’s sort of asking the question about what is genius.

If you kind of go back to Michelangelo and think of this very young person who was painting a masterpiece like the Sistine Chapel, you wonder to yourself, how does one person have all of that incredible talent? How are they born with all of that?

Today, when we’re having medical breakthroughs all the time, and these young scientists and doctors are perhaps getting their MD and their PhD and synthesizing decades of information, you realize they’re achieving something similar. Sure, they have computers and AI to do some of that for them, but still, it’s the way they add things together and ask questions. They’re able to come up with these incredible answers because they’re downloading millions of bytes of data in their brains to figure out how to synthesize it into a solution.

When you talk about Helen Keller’s message, where she was trying to comfort the Jews, the Catholics, the Roma, and others, she said, “Even if your entire libraries are no longer there, it’s okay. You can’t extract that wisdom, that kindness, that compassion for one’s fellow man, because it’s who we are. It’s a language in and of itself.”

For me, I think I’m sort of the odd person that excels to the highest echelons. My clientele includes Fortune 500 and 5,000 people. They’re CEOs running billion-dollar companies. I don’t know that people really understand what that’s like—to be in that position. Whether I’m doing spiritual counseling, healing work over something that’s happened in their personal lives, or high-end interior design work, it involves synthesizing thousands of creative elements into practical solutions. It’s like you’re coming from your imagination and making it real, all while dealing with perhaps the most demanding clientele on the planet.

I’m no pushover, and I’m very firm in my dealings with people and my boundaries. When I promise that the healing is truly transformational—which is a word that gets overused—I mean it. That’s my word; I’ve given you my word. I’m pulling from an encyclopedia of knowledge to deliver that.

For instance, I prefer readings that are on the phone, not face-to-face. I’m happy to do face-to-face readings—that’s how I started for years—but on the phone, I’m not distracted. I’m not saying, “Oh David, I love that wallpaper, where did you get it?” Or, “What’s that jewelry you’re wearing?” My reality eye isn’t seeing a person as they appear outwardly and missing what’s truly underlying their pain or situation. When someone looks so put together, it can obscure what’s really going on.

Being on the phone allows me to just listen to spirit, to talk to spirit, and get the highest-quality, most effective messages for people. That’s transactive memory.

I might see a scene from a book or a movie, and I don’t question it. They say we have 65,000 thoughts a day. If you think about how much crosses the ticker tape of your brain, what I do is slow down and pay attention to each thought as it crosses. I say, “This is for that person.” 

When someone comes to you for a reading, would you say it’s primarily for mediumship, or also psychic in terms of the future, or as a combination?

Callie Claire: It’s both. Typically, we start with all the people that are coming in to visit them, and we do a beautiful mediumship reading. Then we talk about where they are in life, what’s happening. Like I said, the majority of my clients are people I’ve been talking to every other year for 15 or 20 years now, or people who are referred by them.

One of those gals, I just had a reading with maybe last month, and it is fascinating because you have to live before you’re ready to have the next reading. It’s something that you should be doing every month, I don’t believe, but what it means is that, for instance, I was able to give her perspective on her father-in-law, which then informed her perspective on her husband and his worries and concerns.

It helps people put themselves in somebody else’s shoes, so that even in the best of marriages or the best relationships, sometimes you do need that little extra thing where you’re just like, “Oh, you know, I’ve been totally ignoring this thing that my partner’s been doing for quite a long time now, and I probably should step up to the plate here and figure out what it is that they’re upset about.” Sometimes you just need that little bump.

Sometimes people are too focused on only getting one person. So they’ll get brothers-in-laws or people, and they’re like, “Oh my gosh, I forgot. Of course, that’s my brother.” I’ve had people do that because it really made me just want to get something else.

But I would say that for the most part, unless you’ve had a lot of loss, an hour is sufficient. I do offer—I can’t even remember what it is on the page, I think it’s 75 minutes—and then I do offer the transformational healing. That’s when we take what we learn from the reading, and we go in with past life regression and future life progression. We really get down to the nitty-gritty of what it is that is really holding you back, and I’m giving them a big toolbox of a lot of different things. So it’s good work.

You have a second book, The Native American Spirit Wheel Dream Journal, which is based on the Native American medicine wheel. You describe it as a wheel within a wheel within a wheel. Can you explain the concept of this book? How does it benefit people, and what do the wheels represent? I love the visual of the wheels inside the book.

Callie Claire: What this is about is the fact that one of the books that I’ve written that has not yet been published is talking about Buddhism and really just being in the moment. In other words, I can’t hit the brakes yesterday. I can’t hit the brakes tomorrow. I have to pay attention now. Now is my moment of action.

What the Native Americans offer us is a way to be complimentary with whatever your religious belief system is because their belief system is tied to the seasons of life. For instance, yesterday was the new moon in winter, renewal, but it’s also the new moon of the buffalo animal totem, and so what that means is that it’s our time to consider endurance, getting through the hard, icy winter.

It’s our time to reflect on what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well, perhaps our incompletes, and what it is that I need to pick up that I’ve dropped. But what’s special about the winter time of renewal is that it’s the elderly time. So for the Native Americans, spring would be birth, very similar to Jesus, Easter, and so then I’m planting the seeds of new ideas. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a lifetime; it can also just be a relationship, it can be a project, and it can be as fine-tuned to each month. So each month is an Easter and a birth, and then, of course, a rebirth when it comes around the next new moon.

The new moon is spring, and then we’re the teenager and it’s the waxing moon, the moon is growing, and then, when we become an adult, it’s a full moon, and then, as we’re aging and elderly and then eventually dying, then it is the waning moon, and it’s going back to that crescent moon and then black moon, which is the new moon.

Winter, which is the time of being elderly, is the time where I can access all of that lovely wisdom. It is asking me, it’s really begging me to please just pay attention and to evaluate from a point that’s perhaps less emotional. And so in the book, I do honor the wisdom of the Native Americans, who I do feel are somewhat neglected as a parent to elementary age kids.

What was special about how the Native Americans view things is that, you know, if we take the careful killing of perhaps a deer for venison or the buffalo, and how they used every single part of it. It really matches with what we’re doing today with our eco-consciousness and the sustainability movement. And with my girlfriends like Annie Selke, who owns Dash & Albert, and I’ve been friends with her for years, that sustainability part is huge. For instance, I only use cloth towels. I try never to use paper towels. So it’s really speaking to the everyday moment of, “Do I really need to order this thing from Amazon? Do I really need all this junk? Or can I find new ways of reusing, reducing, recycling?” Which, in fact, are the old ways.

How does that relate to spirituality? That relates to spirituality by being self-reliant and using my intuitive relationship with spirit and the angels. And I do believe in the angels, and I do believe that my grandparents, for instance, are there with me, my aunts, my uncles, that I can do better now, not only for myself and how I am in the world, with my duty and my ethics and my responsibilities and my gifts, and how I can be with my family because part of the gift of being older is that you understand that perhaps the best way to get through things is to bite your tongue in half until you can taste the iron of your blood, because family is challenging. Then it’s our relationship to Earth, which we’re nothing without our relationship to Mother Earth.

It really is about being in the noticing. So, the circle is birth, life, death, and renewal, and it’s about being more conscious about what seeds it is that I even want to plant. So when I have fruition and I’m at the harvest time of my season, which is right now for most of us, before we go into the wintering phase, it’s very powerful.

Here’s what you were asking me for, and that is the full wheel. And I can tell you from the millions and millions of images on Canva, I had to make this myself, and there’s no document that exists that has all of these parts.

In the Native American Spirit Wheel Dream Journal, you ask how we can honor the spiral of time in our lives—acknowledging the past, living consciously in the present, and contributing to the future. How are you personally honoring the spiral of time in your life right now?

Callie Claire: I would say that that’s my mantra. It’s so beautiful, David. Thank you for reading it to me. It’s so lovely. My girlfriend, Amy Zerner, Monte Farber, who I met in New York City many, many years ago, who does all of the beautiful spirit cards, enchanted world, Amy and I are always liking each other’s things, and I used to do gift boxes and sell her cards, which is so beautiful.

Amy, and I feel I have always felt our sort of kindred spirits. I have other friends that I feel this way about as well, but we really believe that we have something valuable to offer, and it’s our responsibility to do so. And so for me, I think, I had to be the person on the phone dealing with all of the health care workers and hospice, and talking to the nurse every day, going and getting my mother-in-law awake and like looking at her and thinking, “Oh God, is she alive? Is she breathing?” I don’t want to scare her and trying to facilitate the best death for her that I could. I would definitely say that I could consider myself a death doula at this point.

I’m disturbed by the commercialization of grief, trauma, and death, the commercialization of PTSD from somebody who’s a two-time gun violence survivor, and I don’t even want to go into all the other things that I’ve dealt with in life. There is a point where you have to say this is my life. I am like Gwen Stefani, “It’s my life, man, it’s my life.”

And I have got to find a way to be spiritually in tune. I have to find a way that I’m authentic with myself and with other people, and I have to find a way where the boundaries are beautifully firm and yet beautifully flexible. And how am I going to do that? And so I think that the Native American Journal is ideal for that, because it’s teaching us that we’re all going to go through a season of life. And while I know there’s a book coming out, I think in March, by a gentleman who wrote a book called Time Anxiety, while I don’t want to feed into the anxiety of feeling like we only have so many days left, at the same time, there does need to be an understanding. That sort of what Arnold Schwarzenegger, I guess, said was like, “You have to be useful.”

And so, as you had a time in your life where you were a pastor, and I shared with you that my uncle had that time in his life as well, sometimes those things have like an opening and a closing and then they blossom and flower into other things, other things, and so this stage of my life is really juicy and complex.

I just wrote a screenplay on Shangri-La. That’s a takeoff on the James Hilton book Lost Horizon, which is really talking about that, Robert is the main character, and he’s basically torn, “Do I stay in this gorgeous, sunny, fertile place and make love and have a wonderful time, or am I needed in the world?” And World War II is on the horizon and I have a duty to do, and patriotism, and sort of like EB Sledge said, “I realized when I got to battle in California, when I got to battle, that I really was fodder for the cannons, like, is that all I am?”

I think, for me, I’m at that crux point where if I’m doing a one-to-one session, the value is so there. There’s thousands of happy clients that have had such huge transformation, and so the price is not what I think of as potentially extortion, like some of these prices that I see are so high that it’s like mind-boggling, and also not so low that it’s like the cost of a coat or something. So I do feel that people have to put in their energy as well. And then I’m speaking to the broader audiences now, where I’m painting all the time, so I showed you those the first time. I don’t have anything that’s easy to show you today. I’ll just set my camera if I’ll do it, but I’ll just show you some of the things that are around. I don’t know if you can see those.

And so, you know how we’re showing up artistically in life is important, and those were things that I did literally in hospice, beside Noreen’s bed when she was dying, and it brightened everyone’s day. All of the nurses and helpers and doctors wanted to see what I was up to and they wanted to touch things, which was awesome, and if I ever have to do it again, I’ll bring things so everybody can do it. It was like a wonderful time to create a great atmosphere. So, having built one of the largest networking groups in Montgomery County and built this big, beautiful Girl Scout group that’s all about service and duty, I think it is time for me now to matriculate and to build a larger movement where I’m a role model and some of my work, for instance, the screenplay, or the books, which are The War Wives and The Cabinet War Wives, which are talking about women. Everything I’m doing is about women because our lives are interrupted constantly.

Our lives are interrupted constantly. We’re often asked to hold everything together, and what happens to that woman when she has to come out of the cocoon of whatever responsibilities were placed upon her, and now she has to blossom onto the world again, and so those are the people that I want to help. Wonderful.

If someone wants a mediumship reading or is interested in your mentorship program to start their own business, how can they work with you right now?

Callie Claire: If you go on my website callieclaire.com, and that’s how I was billed when I was on television as well, so you can kind of go back in time and see some of that stuff. I think that’s the best way. You can also learn about the Belle Époque Mentorship, and a Belle Époque is your time to have a renaissance and to create beauty in the world.

What I found when I was coming out of these really heavy responsibilities of caregiving and dealing with other people’s stuff, that I got swallowed whole into coaching, as I have in the past, and after that coaching happened, there was nothing tangible.

So, the Belle Époque is really about tangibles, and that is about helping you create your funnels and your products that are authentic to your true self, so that when you graduate after a year of elite coaching, you have a book to help you get your message out to the world. And then you also have a fully functional, they don’t even call them websites anymore, but just the landing pages and the website and the funnels and the social media integration.

So, that’s where it’s going because I don’t want people to have the same problem that I did, because these women do so much for others. They do so much for other people.

Callie, you have a very unique journey. The word that I want to draw attention to as we close our time together is something you mention in one of your books…you call yourself an intuitive academic. That’s the thread I see woven through all of these experiences—from being a psychic medium on television, to being an award-winning artist, a high-end interior designer, an NLP practitioner, and even getting your master’s in World War II military history. 

All of this shines through in our conversation today. You obviously have this deep intuition, a connection to the spirit realm, a deep sense of empathy toward other people, and a love for humanity and wanting the best for people. You also have a respect for what’s happened in our lifetime and what we can learn from it, especially from the women who have gone before us. 

And I also see in you this deep desire to do what’s beneficial for this lifetime—not just personally, but for the world. All of those things interwoven together are just beautiful. It’s just beautiful. So thank you for how you have served humanity, how you are serving now, and how you will serve in the future. Thank you so much.

Callie Claire: Thank you so much. This is so lovely, David. I’m honored to be here with you today.