This episode is brought to you by Spotify on Spotify. You can tune in to all of your favorite podcasts playlist and party Tunes literally for free. Like I don't even have a premium account right now. You can tune into my podcast and so many of my guests podcast on Spotify and you'll never miss an episode because you can just click follow and they will let you know when there's a new episode and if you have premium you can download the episodes and listen literally Whenever Wherever like on the airplane when your super boredAdd flying to Paris. So if you don't already have it downloaded the Spotify app, you can search for the mindset magic manifestation podcast. Be sure to follow me so you can get notified every week for the new episode. Welcome to the mindset magic and manifestation podcast. I'm your host. Mckaela. Mckaela J.com. I'm a manifestation mindset coach. And blogger if you're ready to dive in deep get real AF about your belief and manifest the life of your dreams. Then you're in the right place. I'm dishing out everything. You need to go For Broke too. Bougie first class to world class. If you're a hashtag life goals involve a luxury travel and being the boss of your own life. They get ready to embrace your mindset magic and manifestation Powers. Let's do this. Oh my God. Hello, how are you guys? It's your girl like a lot teaching you how to manifest your next level X life Welcome Back to the podcast. I've been gone for a long fucking time. Oh my goodness. You guys I just did like a Mini World Tour practically. Okay, not actually and being really dramatic, but I was in Cancun. I was hosting a client event. I flew out my PR and brand manager with me. It was so much fun. We got a lot of business done. A lot of play done a lot of drinking done. I saw DJ Pauly D. I saw Vinny. We saw people from The Challenge like it was I saw Swahili from Rae Sremmurd like it was a quick famous moment, and I'm going to be recording a so episode about all of the lessons that I've been learning on my travel on my Mini World Tour and that you guys will have next week, but I have a great great interview today with my friend Erica and we're talking A lot about Spirit guides Angel guides how we can use them to help us manifest. We're going to get a little we're going to get pretty spiritual today. And I think you guys are going to like it. But yeah, I've been on this world tour. It's been crazy. So I was in Palm Spring or not. Then I was in Palm Springs wait rewind okay Cancun and then I came home for like 36 hours and then immediately flew to Palm Springs. I went for a mastermind event, but I went a couple of days early because I needed a little detox. I And at this cute little Golf Resort, it was really nice. The bartender is were amazing finessed free drinks out of a ton of random men, you know a good situation. We all love that even finessed a free dinner with such a good time. And so I did that and then I met up with the girls my Mastermind. We stayed at this super cute Villa that my coach amberle Lions the Shocker girl booked for all of us and then we got down and dirty and did the work so it's been a crazy. Like two weeks. I got home like two days ago for the first time since the 15th of the month, which was so weird. And now I'm back in full swing back at work literally going to school later today and getting back on the podcast game. Okay. So while I was traveling I wasn't podcasting because I forgot my headphones at home and then I sat down to record this intro and realize they were in one of my fucking like travel pouches. I'm so upset like I was like, Oh my God, I want to put up Podcast episodes. But like I don't have my microphone and I didn't want to be like screaming. It's my computer for these intros and then I realized that I did pack my headphones and didn't realize it. So for that I do apologize and I've missed you guys so much. I've missed podcasting. I love just sitting down and talking to you about my thoughts about what's going on in my head and I literally have so much to update you guys on that's why I'm going to do a solo episode about everything. I've been learning and processing and that will be out on Tuesday, but you guys You to hear it from my friend Erica first. So let's get to the important thing. So this week spiritual Splurge is kind of the shit and I'm really excited about it. 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So you need to get your booty in. All right. With that being said, let's kick off this episode. Let's listen to Erica all of her amazing knowledge all the spirituality things and I will talk to you soon. Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. We have a really exciting guest here today. It's an interview that has been a long time coming from lots of rescheduling but we have Erika Russo here and she's a psychic medium and a spirit. Junkie helping you to live your life in alignment and expand your Consciousness and she encourages her audience to follow their own intuition and connect their own Spirit to be their own Guru, which is just the best thing you can do is look inwards so welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me Michaela and I am so happy. We're finally doing this we to I'm so excited to have you on so we're just going to kick it off with some speed dating questions. If you're ready. I am so ready. Perfect. What's your horoscope sign? I am an aquarius but I am on the cusp of Pisces. So I am the last day of Aquarius. Okay, Enter. Yeah, it is and are you a morning or a night person? I'm definitely a morning person. Okay, tell us about your morning practice then so I do not start my day until I do a quick 15-minute meditation. I don't even get out of my bed before I do a meditation. Quick grounding and protection and then I always get up before my children before my husband and I will have my coffee in peace. I will do my gratitude journal and I will pull a card for myself to see kind of what the energy of the day is going to be like for myself and that really helps me really kind of just stay aligned throughout the day. Totally. I think I'm morning practice is like the most powerful thing you can do and I actually have a follow-up question for So like when you wake up and you do your meditation before you even get out of bed, how do you not fall back asleep? Because like I always fall back asleep. I don't get out of bed to do it. Well, yeah, that's I know a lot of people a problem, but honestly, I've just always been really like as soon as I wake up. I'm up. I know that so many people like need to like get five minutes and or something but I've just always been it's always been easy for me to just get Get up and start my day. I know it's like my husband cannot do this for the life of him and he can and he can't meditate before he goes to bed either in like for me. It's not a problem interesting. Like I literally always fall asleep. When I do it. I'll be like, okay. I'm going to get up at 6:00 would meditate for 15 and then I wake up and it's like 7:30 and I'm like wait what I'm like, I thought it was meditating. Well, that's obviously a sign that Doing it well, and you're getting relaxed. You know what I know. So that's how I'm gonna take it back. Don't take it. I'm sorry doing it, right, you know and but your gratitude journaling do you just write out a list of gratitude? You have a specific Journal that you use I have the five-minute journal and oh, it's a really it was like something that like just popped up in my feed one day and I just saw and it's just filled with like all quotes and it's it is kind of it's basically a gratitude journal and it's like but you only choose like the three things that you're grateful for what you want to manifest that day. You know what your daily affirmation is and I really really I've been using it for over a year now and I really enjoy it. A lot of people I know will just do like a gratitude journal and like just full-blown like right everything that they're grateful for for a minute and I can't really do that. I like to focus Sound like three things and just kind of have my mind set for the day. I like that. I like to do gratitude at night. So it's interesting to hear you say that you do it in the morning. I think that's also a good idea. Maybe that's something I can incorporate into morning and night routines and just see extra grateful grateful. Yeah. This is a really this one's a really good Journal because it's like you do. I think it's like it takes me like all of three minutes in the morning and then at night they have a night. Auction and it says like yeah like three things that happen that are really good today. It's a really really nice nice journal to have because it's like a full day's worth of gratitude. Hmm. Oh, yeah. Well, we'll definitely link that in the show notes for anybody who's curious. I will look up a link and order it myself. Yeah, it's really great. Cool. Okay moving on. What is it favorite place that you've ever traveled to this one was hard. This one is Play hard. I haven't really to be completely honest. I really haven't left the United States so much, you know, I would and Aruba and those were beautiful, but honestly, there is some magic in Sedona, Arizona. Oh, I've heard the best things. Yeah. It really just it is such an intense and powerful and beautiful place and it's so extremely healing and I can't say enough nice things about Sid. Dona mmm. Okay. And also I love these that Aruba because I've seen like three people go to Aruba this week alone. And then you just mentioned it and now I feel like I need to go kill. Yeah, I think like that's like the universe saying that's your next like your spring breaks up or something. I don't even know I'm traveling like twice a month every month for the rest of the year. And so I'm like, I have no room to fit an extra trim. So I'm like, what does this mean? Wow? Oh my gosh, I'll have to think about that. It's so weird you brought it up. But back is the donut. What's your favorite thing to do while you're there? Honestly just be completely present. There's so much stuff to do there. There's there's just so much there's so much sightseeing and honestly the best thing to do is just to embrace being in such a spiritual place. Right? Like it's just you don't need to do much. You just need to be by yourself. And like go within and that is something that like I said, there's so much to do in Sedona, but it's always like you are going to like one of the most spiritual places on Earth just be by yourself. Just embrace it just notice everything be mindful of the beautiful scenery and everything that it has to offer. Oh my God, I need to go that also needs to be on the list amazing. Okay. What's the coolest? They knew from manifested. Oh my gosh, so I would have to say the coolest thing that I manifested was basically moving from Arizona to New York with basically no money. Oh my God what? Hi I'm telling you. It was like insane like we just I moved to Arizona for like a quick 14 months spur and we just did not like it. It wasn't Sedona. It was actually Tucson, but that's you know, if you're there and we were just me and my husband were just totally miserable and we just kind of set this intention that we wanted to move back to, you know, New York and tri-state area and we somehow just manifested selling our house right our house within two days of being on the market. Oh my God, it was insane. It was crazy and moving like setting this intention and then basically being back home in New York within five weeks. Holy shit. Yeah, I know people yeah, it was really and now like now that we're more open to it in our Consciousness and we're aware. We were just definitely like we were just talking about this and we were like, we definitely like manifested the crap out of that kids. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Well, we're like some of the I guess action steps and like spiritual steps you took for that to happen. Honestly, we just we just made up our minds. We just yeah, we did not question it. We did not question. You know should we stay should we go we were just like so dead set on going, you know coming back to the east coast and there wasn't like anything holding us back. It was like a pure driving force and we couldn't Get over like literally we I was shocked when we got the call two days after we it was the second person that looked at our house and they put in an offer above asking so incredible and I love that. You said that because one thing I've been trying to talk a lot more about recently is just deciding like deciding. There's no other option than this working, you know, so powerful it really is. Is it really is it's our thoughts are powerful powerful manifest errs, and we have to be so cautious of our thoughts. Yeah, love that kind of different term or different different. I don't know where I was going that I don't know. We're going down a different path. Now only forgot the word. I was going over taking a turn. That's where I'm trying to get out. Okay. What's your favorite luxury Splurge, but do you love to spend? Money on. Oh gosh. Hi, honey. Hey, you know my favorite thing that I bought for myself was my hot pink Kate Spade bag, and this is love that ago, but it was it's such a cute bag and I'm like obsessed with it still but honestly, I'm an eyelash extension girl. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I stopped for a while. I used to get them for a while and then I stopped and then I just realized and how much better I feel when I wake up and oh my goodness. My mom was getting them for a while and she liked them and they started to fall off but I don't think she went somewhere. That was all that great. Yeah. Yeah. That's the biggest problem with the Lash extensions. Is that like when they start to fall off they can get a little annoying but it's still like you still just have to look in the mirror and be like, I still look good. Yeah. I'm looking amazing. Yeah, exactly so good. Okay. What? Favorite book. Oh my gosh. This is a hard one. So I want to say for spirituality. I would have to say the seat of the Soul by Gary's you cough. I've never heard of that one. What's it about it is this is one that like Oprah swears by this is like this is the one that really opened my eyes to you know reincarnation and how we're all souls and it just really yeah. It's it's it was my gate opener. So to speak and I like always when everyone talks about, you know, spiritually Awakening or a book. I always say just start with seat of the Soul because it is an amazing amazing book and as far as like as far as my guilty pleasure is concerned. I am a Colleen Hoover anything written by Colleen Hoover is like my guilty pleasure. Is she A fiction writer who is that? I've never heard of her is a fiction reader and it's she does like contemporary romance, but she is a phenomenal writer and all of her book. She has like a lot of books and every single one of them is a page-turner. I love her stuff. Yeah so good. Okay. Well, then we have we have a little bit of like the spiritual and we got a little bit of fiction. So yeah amazing. Okay, and our last speed dating question is It's your go to coffee or tea order at the moment. Grande green tea latte at Starbucks. Um, yeah, it's been like my favorite since it like came out so good. Do you just get regular milk, or do do like a plant-based milk? I do I done almond milk with it. I just usually just go with like half and half honestly or 2% It's it does taste a little different but it really is like a night. Like my favorite it's so light and so good. That sounds so good right now. I get like everything with coconut milk and I just feel like it's such a good combo. You know the coconut with the green. Yeah, that's good. I'm good. Oh my God now I want to go to Starbucks. Well, I'm sick like in bed so good. Okay. Well, I'm super excited to dive into you and if you have so much knowledge in the spiritual side of things that we haven't talked too much about on my podcast. So I have so many questions, but I just want to start off with new talking about your spiritual journey. Just tell us a little bit about the background and how did you get to where you are now? Oh my gosh, my spiritual journey that is that is one for the books, but I'll give you like the short version. So basically I was at a point in my My life a couple years ago where I just was unhappy. I was just you know, I had a good life. I had two healthy kids. I had a great marriage and you know, we have a home and everything was you no good and just I just was started questioning everything and it was just kind of a shift in Mike. I can't explain it. It was just kind of like a shift in my Consciousness and I didn't know what was going on with me. I felt like I felt felt like I was you know, losing my stuff to be completely honest. It was really scary. And you know, I was you know dealing with insomnia for like about a week and I was just questioning everything that was in my life and the way I perceive my life and it wasn't until I just kind of was like, I need to meditate I need to like stop these thoughts and that was when I realized that I was getting I was getting downloads from just crazy stuff. I was just I was getting I was feeling things and I was like getting like intuitive intuitive hits two things that we're going to happen and they would happen and it started kind of like freaking me out a little bit. You know what I mean? Like just things that like, you know, just like idea. That would come into my head and then all the sudden like two days later it would manifest into reality and I was like, all right, and that happened way too much to the point where you know what I mean, it was like constant. It was like constant things where I was like I have to like dive into this a little bit more. So I actually got my star chart, you know made up and it was something with like my eighth house or whatever that says like you can be a psychic. Medium. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's really incredible that like how our Stars can you know our birthday in the time of day can like really tell us so much about ourselves. It's wild it's crazy. So, you know, I kind of started doing my research on it and seeing like what is this what is happening to me? And then I just kind of came to terms with like you know with the A tation, I'm really expanding my Consciousness because that's really what psychic psychic awareness is is just an expanded version of Consciousness and I just started developing and it has been a really eye-opening experience. Yeah, and when you thought at the beginning you're like you're going through this rough time and you just decided like oh, I need to meditate how did you know to do that? How did you read books where you raised by parents who like taught? You to meditate where did that come from? I don't that's just a thing like my family is so not into this like I am like they're so not into this but I couldn't become a very extremely conservative household and you know where this is not spoken about it is not known about and it was just kind of like one day. I just I don't know. I think it was like one of my guides that just said close your eyes focus on Us and that's what I did and then after that I was like I think this is helping me. I think that I'm really tuning into something it was really like and that's the crazy thing about intuition is that it comes at the most random times totally. Yeah. I had like a huge download today sitting in the parking lot at the grocery store. So like it's just you don't it's these intuitive hits or not something like that are planned or it just ins and you just have to embrace it and trust it. Yeah. Well, oh my goodness so many things to unpack there for people listening if they feel like they're maybe going through a weird time and maybe they're wondering why like am I going through Spiritual Awakening then? What would you say are like some of the signs of that Awakening? Oh gosh. I mean the biggest sign is really kind of starting to question everything in your reality starting to question your happiness. Starting to question. You know what you're really here for a lot of signs indicate, you know insomnia or just like a lot of energy that you cannot sleep and you just have so much energy even without caffeine. There's a ton of signs and honestly, like I just seen more and more people like waking up and really going into themselves and really getting in touch with their own. Own souls and it's beautiful to see but I know how scary it is when you first, you know, wake up because you are basically detoxifying all the negative thinking patterns that we have your take it, you know, you're getting rid of all that negative energy so you can bring in the positive energy and it's you know, it's really scary. It really is but you just have to have faith and you Have to know that it's not happening to you, but it's happening for you. Right? It's so interesting to me to talk to people and bring people on the podcast and talk about like Awakenings and where they came from because it's almost like we always have these meltdown life crisis moments before we have those breakthroughs because I know for me before my Spiritual Awakening. I was like working 50 hours a week and I hated my life and I was just Miserable and then I went on a study abroad trip and I just decided like okay we need to do things differently. Like I know life doesn't have to be this way forever, you know started ask myself. Like is this how it's always gonna be? No, of course not it's just so interesting to kind of see that like breakdown to breakthrough moment for everybody. Oh totally totally. I mean, like I said, it was it was for me. It's it was just I don't know. It was like a combination of like Everything just coming in at once and I really was I was not in a good mindset when this was happening and like just like with you as well. Like you have to almost hit rock bottom because then all you can do is go up, you know backed Lee. Yeah, so good and in that time period is that how you started to realize that you were a medium? How did that come about? Oh gosh that came about well, I first want to give like a prequel. Well when I was in my teens and my early 20s, I would I had four I want I call them visitation dreams where I yeah, it was really scary where someone would come who you know passed on and my dream was so real that I woke up two of those times in a cold sweat and I had to I was so freaked out that I had to Google the person's obituary. Is it real? Yeah, and it really I was I remember waking up the next morning and my husband looking at me and he was like looks like you saw a ghost and I was like, I think I like you have no idea you have no idea and you know, it's then I started meditating and it was just when you when you get into that quiet, I'm telling you man when you open up the spirit Spirit comes And I was getting like things when I would get deep into meditation. I would start getting like people or like people in my Clairvoyant Vision come through and I was like that's a little weird and it wasn't until I actually just, you know, took a mediumship workshop and I just started like getting you know, evidential hits of like, you know, the people in the class of their past loved ones and that's kind of when I knew I was like, all right. This is something new. And I you know, I developed it and and that's really where I'm at. Does it ever scare you because I know her me like my whole life. I have we have always my family's been super like Paranormal like we're very open to that and we've always had to be repaired normal experiences. But as a child and even now I kind of turn that sense off because I think the idea of like people being able to communicate with me maybe like Seeing a ghost that just like freaks me the fuck out like I'd like scream. I'd be like turn it off. Turn it off. Like do you ever get that way? Honestly, no just because I I have done, you know study and I've taken classes and I just I personally believe that you know, as far as ghosts are concerned. There's things called residual energy where we can you know it Our thoughts can manifest a ghost. You know what I mean? Like we can feel like, you know, a grandmother spirit in there and it's just you know, it's just our thoughts manifesting into ideas which then can really feel like there's a ghost. You know, I really don't I was never afraid of it. For some reason. I always said I always knew that like the the people living can do far worse to you than the people who have passed over mmm true, you know, and it really just comes down to setting intentions, you know, if you don't want, you know, if this is something that you are aware of because there's so much energy and if you're sensitive to that energy, you know, just setting your intentions that you don't want it to bother you is just crucial it really is. Yeah. I feel like that's something You almost every single day when I moved into my apartment this for a new apartment in August. I have a hallway in my room because I have like the master room and every night I would go to bed and I would just feel like this like, you know this energy like in the hallway just like watching me sleep and I was just like, I don't want a part of this. I don't want no part of this. I don't want a part of this and I would say to my room up and down up and down and I you know at one point I was just like I'm done like I'm just I'm just going to act like it doesn't bother me, right finally when that I like energy like dissipated and you know, it doesn't really bother me anymore. But it's just so weird. It's just so wild to me right idea. It's definitely like you you obviously got the right idea because so many people are sensitive to energy and it really is we just have to remember that. That's all it is. It's just energy and we have to set intentions and you know, the biggest thing for me as far as like my dad, you know. Being evidential mediumship was making sure like, I was setting intentions through meditation and through prayer that I was like listen, if you are not connected to my client if you're not connected to my sitter you can't come through like I'm sorry, you know what? I mean? Like, I I, you know, I'm sending you light and love but like I'm not going to I don't play that game. Yeah count so powerful. So just take a quick minute and talk about her. Their differences between psychics and mediums because I feel like my audience is going to be wondering this. Yes. There is a difference between psychics and mediums so psychics they read you by kind of pulling on an energetic string of your aura whereas mediums connect to a spirit. Okay, so all mediums are psychic but not all psychics or mediums. Totally. I love that. Yeah, I'm definitely psychic but not a medium. So exactly that example. Yeah, exactly. Just like I just really wanted to clear that up because like I feel like even I get confused it's never really explained. We watch things like Ghost Hunters and then sometimes they'll bring in like a random medium who talks like a family and you're just like whoa, like What's going on? So yeah, no, it's definitely like you it's really good to know that there is a difference between a psychic and a medium, especially if you're trying to connect to like a past love one. So yeah. Yeah guys, so if you want to talk to someone don't go to the local psychic so good. Okay, so we're going to switch it up a little bit and we're going to chat about guys. I've had a couple of questions about this and my Instagram and from people listening on the podcast, so Excited for you to kind of explain all this to my audience. So what are Angel and Spirit guides for anybody who doesn't know and how can we access them? So this so basically every single human being has at least one spirit guide at that with them since birth and a lot of these guys come in and out for different times in our lives. You know, you might get another guide when you become a mother or when you go to school or when you start a business, but you always have at least one guy that is here to protect you and kind of guide you out of Harm's Way and you know, you just have to ask that's the biggest thing because they're not allowed to intervene unless they're called upon so here's the thing. Yeah. Yeah, and it's it really is crazy because like I said I came from a Ultra conservative household. Yeah for the longest time. I was like, oh this does not make any sense. This doesn't then it wasn't until you know, I called upon my angels that I saw how things started to manifest and how cool a lot how a lot quicker and easier things started to manifest because I just ask them for their help, you know, I just asked them to put their energy towards something that I was working towards. And it really is incredible. You know, it's such a secret tool that nobody really knows and it really does help you they really just want the best for you. So if you're trying to manifest, you know success in your career, or if you're trying to manifest a healthy relationship or self-love call on your guides because they're here to help. I love that and it's so true. Like I would say my spirit guide that's been with me forever. And ever is like is the arch our King Angel Michael and so it's like I have a two in one. Yeah. Yeah fun. And when we are like calling upon them whether it's like an angel whether it's like a spirit guide and maybe you know, he just has he or she just has a regular name and it's like a person. What does that dialogue like when you're asking Them for help. Oh, that's a good one. So when I connect I mean and this is just my personal, you know, this is just how it happens with me. It's when I connect with my guides it I feel as if it comes through the top of my head, right? It doesn't feel like my thoughts. Like I know it's not my monkey mind, you know, a lot of people will say like when they're talking to their guides, it'll come through with like an accent when he like Yeah, like it's really just being able to connect with them and hand like creating a relationship with them and you know knowing that they're here for you. And like I said, you will feel the energetic difference when you finally connect to have like a conversation, you know through your mind with them because it feels different than your monkey mind. So to speak wow with an accent. I've never heard that before so that's yeah, I've heard that people will journal and they'll ask questions and then their handwriting will change and that's how they know. It's like a guide. But yeah, I think interesting also like that. You said it comes to like the top of your head like the crown of your head because it's kind of like it's coming through your crown chakra, which is what connects you to the universe that makes a lot of sense, right? That's how I receive it. Like I'll literally feel it come through the top of my head and like with the with the accent. I've had like five people like legit like at least two other mediums and then like three of my clients say that like when they speak with their guides, it comes through and like British accents or something like that. So it really is truly incredible and it's so unique to everybody. That's so cool. Oh my gosh. Okay. So say we've started this spiritual awakening and we've contacted our guides and now we're ready to like use all this momentum to start manifesting. Testing. So what would be our next step? Like how can we make all of this help us take a leap of faith and trust it because you know, it really is like I always like to be logical with the whoo stuff because you know, I don't I always like the one to debunk everything, but it's always like you need to trust that you have guides and you need to trust that your spiritual awakening. 22 at the perfect moment in your life and if you want to manifest something just call on your guides and have faith and forget about it and go on with your day and don't let it sit there and don't let it be at the top of your head because that's when the ego will take that idea or that thought and like twist it and it will be harder to manifest. Yeah, and when we're trying to figure out what that leap of faith Going to be what the next step is. How do you suggest we get that download like to suggest meditation journaling. What's your like ideal way to get those out loads? Honestly, I always just say go within so that's meditation for me. That's always meditation and I'm not saying like go in with the intention, you know say, okay do a 20-minute meditation session but going with the intention that you want guidance for a particular subject, but don't expect. The guidance to come through the meditation. It might happen. You might get a download like five hours later. That's what happens with me is that I like go and I meditate and I'll you know, just take time to be with my soul and then two hours later. I'll get a massive download and I'll just know exactly what I need to do. It comes differently for everybody. You know, like you said some people Journal some people get all their inspired action through Journaling for me. It's just setting the intention to sit with my soul and then you know, like I said, I don't really get it during meditation. I'll get a couple hours later and it's like thank you. Yeah, I love that. You said that because I was talking to a client a couple months ago and she was saying like I always see people online that talk about meditation and asking and receiving answers and she's like when I sit there I'm just sitting there and nothing's happening and right I had to tell her I was like, you know when I'm I'd say I never doesn't downloads immediately. It's the same for me. It'll be like a couple hours later. And I kind of use a combination of both. I will ask myself in my journal write down. What would you have me do and then I'll kind of jot down the action steps and then in meditation, I might ask a question. Like what should I do in this situation or you know, like ask for advice and then I get that later. So I just love to see how everybody does it differently. But yeah, so you guys if you're meditating and not getting it Anything immediately? That's normal. Yeah, I always say that it's meditation practice. Not meditation. Perfect. It's your meditation practice that's going to bring the epic downloads and the manifestation and you know, you just you just have to like flow with it. It really is all about alignment so good and what would be like your best tip for getting into alignment in general? Like I feel like a lot of this stuff. And blow so easily because you know people like you and I were used to getting in alignment every single day, but maybe for someone who's just starting out. What's your best hack for getting into alignment write a list of what brings you Joy and bring it into your life. I don't care if it's gardening. I don't care if it's doing a Zumba class. I don't care but find those things really sit down and focus on those things that just bring you absolute Joy. Joy is it playing with your kids is it yoga is it you know, is it journaling and do those as much as you possibly can I love that? I love that that's like an action set that people can do like right after listening to this to write easy quick thing like go right down ten things right after this podcast. You guys send us your list tag us on Instagram. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. That's you know alignment because everyone I So many questions about like because I always talk about alignment like it's like part of my daily vocabulary and everyone's like what's alignment and it's like think of the things that bring you absolute pure joy. Is it dancing in your kitchen? Is it, you know drinking tea, is it meditating whatever it is do as much as you possibly can of that alignment is joy, and that's what we're here for. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, so if you guys see me on my Instagram stories say Aging my room listening to rap music and dancing. It's not easy being in alignment. Okay, exactly. Exactly. I love it. Okay. I have one last question that I ask every guest on the podcast and it's what's your number one hack for manifestation? Oh that has to be alignment for me. It has to be alignment when I am fully aligned with my higher self. And when I really focus on gratitude and the things that bring me joy Manifestation comes so easily it just comes easily. That's so good. You know, it gets to be easy. That's one thing. I love like bringing it all the way back to the beginning. We were talking about your move like just deciding and then letting it be easy because you're enjoying yourself because you're doing the things you love right? Totally totally. It's really just about you know, Finding what brings you Joy and don't worry like, you know focus on the things that you want to manifest, but don't let it consume you just you know set the intention that you want it manifested and then throw it away and then just focus on your joy and you will be amazed at how quickly things will unfold for you. It's really incredible so good. Oh my goodness. We covered so many things. Thank you so much for spilling all the spiritual. Knowledge we feel like everybody will have learned a million things this episode and probably have been taking notes or should have been so tell everybody where they can find you once your Instagram. What's your podcast which I was on so everybody needs to go. Listen, where can people find you you can find me on Instagram at Erica W Russo, and I also have my own podcast and that is the intuitive Souls podcast and I really just talk about all the things. As whoo and you know Mikayla was an amazing cast and we talked about manifestation and we just you know, I really just focus on the things that like bring you into alignment. I talk about crystals and all of that stuff. So definitely be sure to check that out. If you're interested in that spiritual woowoo stuff so good and I will have all that Linked UP below for you guys to check out and yeah, definitely listen to the episode I was on it is so good. I dropped so many tips. And tricks they just came out of nowhere and it was it was great. Yeah. No you did you did. I actually got a text from somebody one of my clients and they were like, oh my God, she talks about her spiritual bath. And now I just do it. I just have to do it. Yeah. She she took a picture of herself. Obviously not the full thing would she like said it was like 2:00 p.m. Today. She was like I'm taking advice from Michaela and I am taking myself a spiritual bath. Bath and I'm like good for you good for you makes me so happy. I've no idea everybody you a bath ritual. It's life-changing. Yeah. No, it really is. It's incredible so good. Okay. Well, thanks so much for being on Eric. I'm so glad we finally got to sit down and record this and I'm sure everybody will be swarming or Instagram for all the info on things mediums psychics and Alignment. Yes. Thank you. So Michaela this has been so awesome. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Talk soon. Bye bye. Thanks for driving in and getting your daily dose of personal development with the mindset magic and manifestation podcast. If you loved this episode leave a rate and review on iTunes for notes details and more information. Check out. Mckaela, Jay.com. See you next week.
In episode 51, Mikayla is having a discussion with Erica Russo, a psychic medium and fellow spirit junkie who is all about alignment and expanding your consciousness. You will learn the best way to get your life into alignment in order to manifest, about setting intentions, and ways to call upon your guides for help. Interestingly, you will also hear her story of how she came to the realization that she could possibly be a medium, the information she received from her “Star Chart” (Astrological Birth Chart), and what she did to develop and strengthen her abilities. In this episode: + Signs you are going through a spiritual awakening, how it may look and feel + Intuitive hits - when you may receive them + Have faith and know that it is not happening TO you, but FOR you + The differences between psychics and mediums + #1 HACK:  Alignment! Focus on bringing joy into your life The Mindset Magic & Manifestation Method, Mikayla's SIGNATURE program, is officially opening its doors for round three!!! 12 weeks, a trip to Los Angeles and a life transformation? Enrollment closes on the 31st! LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM HERE! SPIRITUAL SPLURGE - Bad Bitch Affirmations // There's nothing more on brand than these bad bitch cards! Grab them HERE! Find Erica on IG HERE! APPLY FOR ONE-ON-ONE COACHING WITH MIKAYLA HERE! FREE MEDITATION HERE! Can't get enough? 