Discover a revolutionary approach to pet care in this episode as Lisa Aston Michael sits down with Dr. Jeffrey Feinman, certified veterinary homeopath and molecular biologist. Dr. Feinman shares his BEAM Blueprint framework (Behaviour, Energy, Appetite, Mood) and reveals why energy balance is essential for your pet’s health and vitality. From holistic veterinary medicine to natural dog training and the critical role of nutrition in pet wellness, this conversation bridges science and heart-centered care. Learn how your energy impacts your pet, why personalised, predictive, proactive, and participatory medicine matters, and how to respect your animal’s instincts while supporting their well-being.

Whether you’re a pet owner, animal lover, or aspiring holistic practitioner, this episode delivers actionable tips and inspiring insights to help your pets thrive. Explore Dr. Feinman’s book Path to Pet Wellness and start transforming your approach to animal care today!

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Join Lisa as she sits down with Kathy McDaniel, ARDS survivor, author, and near-death experiencer, to explore her extraordinary journey through life, death, and beyond. After an 18-day drug-induced coma in 1999, Kathy faced distressing visions, revisited past traumas, and emerged with a transformed perspective on love, purpose, and the spiritual world.

In this episode, you’ll hear Kathy share:

• Her harrowing near-death experience and what it revealed about consciousness during a coma.

• How her journey reshaped her understanding of life, death, and spirituality; from a Catholic upbringing to a focus on love, kindness, and purpose.

• The founding of her support group for people with distressing near-death experiences and her work helping others process similar events.

• Insights on soul contracts, life reviews, and the possibility of choosing one’s earthly experiences.

• Personal stories of ongoing connection with loved ones who have passed, including signs from her father and her fiancé.

• The inspiration behind her memoir, Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat, and how sharing her story helps others navigate grief, fear, and spiritual awakening.

Whether you’ve experienced a near-death encounter or are simply curious about life beyond the physical, Kathy’s story offers wisdom, comfort, and hope.

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Join Wendy Pleydell and host Lisa Aston Michael for a warm, insightful, and wide-ranging conversation that weaves together astrology, life experience, and our deep connection with animals.

The episode opens on a personal note, touching on shared health experiences, the quirks of technology, and even a nod to Mercury retrograde—setting the tone for an honest and relatable discussion.

With over 50 years of experience, Wendy shares her remarkable journey through astrology—from the days of hand-calculated charts and rigorous FAA accreditation, to today’s digital tools like Solar Fire. She reflects on how astrology has evolved over the decades, and why its wisdom is more relevant now than ever.

Together, Lisa and Wendy explore powerful current astrological influences, including Pluto’s return and the Neptune–Saturn alignment, and how these major transits may be shaping both global events and personal life paths. They discuss how astrology was once embraced by leaders, and how it is now re-emerging as a tool for guidance during uncertain times.

A unique highlight of this episode is Wendy’s fascinating work with animal astrology. Drawing on her experience as a dog breeder and registered judge, she shares how birth charts can reveal personality traits in dogs—from the bold presence of Leo types to the sensitive, home-loving nature of Cancer dogs. This opens up a meaningful conversation about working with an animal’s natural tendencies rather than trying to change them.

The discussion also explores how astrology can support life direction and transformation, particularly during key phases such as Saturn returns and midlife transitions. Wendy shares real client stories, illustrating how these cycles can lead to profound personal growth and new beginnings.

For those curious about learning astrology, Wendy offers practical guidance; from understanding sun, moon, and rising signs to the value of community learning, group work, and ceremony. The conversation gently bridges astrology with intuition, animal connection, and spiritual development.

This episode is a beautiful blend of grounded wisdom, lived experience, and intuitive insight, inviting you to stay open-hearted, trust your path, and explore the deeper connections between the cosmos, yourself, and the animals in your life.

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In this fascinating episode of Enlightened Connections, Lisa Aston Michael is joined by animal hypnotherapist Victoria Sambleson to explore the powerful and often surprising connection between animals and their human companions.

Victoria has spent more than two decades working with animals through massage therapy, energy healing, and animal communication. Her work eventually evolved into the specialised field of animal hypnosis, where she now focuses on a unique method known as animal surrogate hypnosis.

In this conversation, Victoria explains how surrogate hypnosis works by connecting a person’s unconscious mind with their animal’s unconscious mind. Through this process, humans can experience their pet’s emotional perspective and uncover the deeper energetic and psychological patterns influencing behaviour.

Together, Lisa and Victoria explore how animal behaviour often mirrors the emotional patterns, trauma, and boundaries of their human guardians. Through compelling case studies and real-life examples, Victoria demonstrates how addressing the root emotional causes behind behavioural issues can lead to rapid and lasting transformation for both animals and their people.

Topics explored in this episode include:

• What animal hypnosis is and how it works
• The concept of animal surrogate hypnosis and unconscious mind connection
• Why pets often mirror their owner’s emotions, trauma, and life patterns
• Real case studies involving separation anxiety, aggression, and behavioural challenges
• How past experiences and unresolved trauma can affect animals and humans alike
• The powerful mind–body and energetic bond between animals and their guardians
• How animals can act as profound teachers in our emotional and spiritual lives

Victoria also shares stories from her practice, including unusual behavioural cases, animal trauma discoveries, and examples of how animals can guide their humans toward deeper personal healing.

If you’re interested in animal communication, pet behaviour, animal energy healing, the human–animal bond, or the psychology behind pet behaviour, this episode offers a fascinating look at how animals and humans can heal together.

Victoria also discusses her training programs in animal surrogate therapy, designed to help animal communicators, trainers, and animal professionals learn this transformative approach.

About the Guest

Victoria Sambleson is an animal hypnotherapist specialising in animal surrogate hypnosis, a method that helps animals and their humans release emotional patterns and behavioural issues by working with the unconscious mind. With more than 20 years of experience in animal massage therapy, energy healing, and animal communication, Victoria helps animals overcome anxiety, trauma, and behavioural challenges by addressing the deeper emotional connection they share with their humans.

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What does it take to survive 13 brain surgeries, face stage 4 breast cancer, and live your truth as a transgender man after 30 years of hiding?

Anton Cavalli joins Lisa Aston Michael on Enlightened Connections to share his extraordinary story of resilience, authenticity, and personal transformation.

In this deeply moving episode, Anton opens up about his journey transitioning in his 30s, navigating gender dysphoria, leaving a strict Jehovah’s Witness upbringing, and facing the isolation and challenges that come with embracing his true identity. He also candidly discusses surviving life-threatening health battles, including inoperable brain tumours and his recent cancer diagnosis, and how humour, positivity, and self-belief have guided him through the darkest moments.

Anton shares insights from his coffee business Cosa Nostra Coffee and his upcoming memoir Coming Home to Me, offering wisdom on self-love, resilience, spiritual growth, and the power of living authentically. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, guidance on personal transformation, or a story of incredible courage, this conversation will leave you moved, motivated, and reminded of the extraordinary strength of the human spirit.

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In this bold and unexpectedly revealing episode of Enlightened Connections, Lisa is joined by Psychic Medium and Intuitive Channel - Holly Burns, to explore open channeling, universal consciousness, and what Holly describes as the “all-knowing Realm.”

The conversation begins with honest skepticism. Lisa openly questions the scope of Holly’s claims, including her ability to channel any soul, living or deceased, and her connection to a universal field of awareness. As the discussion unfolds, however, what emerges is a grounded and coherent explanation of how her mediumship developed and what channeling truly feels like.

Holly shares how she spent nearly a decade working exclusively with her spiritual guides, known as the Elders, before unexpectedly discovering she could access departed loved ones. A spontaneous moment became the catalyst for her evolution into embodied mediumship.

The episode moves into the energetic mechanics behind her work. She describes consciousness as transcending time and space within a unified energetic field.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:
• How psychic mediumship can evolve unexpectedly
• The difference between intuitive reading and open channeling
• What it feels like to embody another consciousness
• Working with spiritual guides vs universal consciousness
• The Akashic Records and timeline potentials
• Soul contracts and energetic alignment
• Channeling the consciousness of Jesus Christ
• Spiritual skepticism and discernment
• Authenticity within the intuitive space

Holly also discusses accessing the Akashic Records to explore past lives, present patterns, and future timeline possibilities, framing timeline work as conscious participation in personal evolution rather than fixed destiny.

This episode is for anyone curious about psychic mediumship, channeling, Akashic Records, spiritual awakening, and the balance between questioning and believing.

✨ Sometimes the conversations we question most deeply reveal the greatest authenticity.

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In this empowering episode of Enlightened Connections, I’m joined by women’s transition coach and transformation specialist Nicole Adey to explore what really happens when midlife women move from survival mode into self-leadership.

After navigating burnout, divorce, single motherhood, corporate leadership pressure, and a breast cancer diagnosis, Nicole developed her “Change of Seasons” transformational coaching model - a powerful framework guiding women through identity shifts, emotional healing, and personal reinvention.

We discuss why so many midlife women stay in unhealthy relationships or high-functioning burnout, often driven by people-pleasing, fear of failure, guilt, and deeply conditioned patterns. Nicole explains how chronic stress, suppressed emotion, and trauma can manifest physically in the body, and how developing self-awareness may prevent long-term health consequences.

This conversation explores:

• Midlife burnout and survival mode in women
• Divorce recovery and identity transformation
• The mind-body connection and emotional trauma
• Breast cancer, stress, and the body’s wisdom
• Journaling for self-awareness and healing
• Energy mapping and recognising energy drains
• Overcoming people-pleasing and fear of letting others down
• Rebuilding confidence and self-trust
• The power of seasonal transformation (Winter reflection, Spring renewal, Summer integration)

Nicole shares how true change begins with shedding old narratives - much like a snake shedding its skin or a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. Through reflection, integration, and intentional action, women can move from hiding to empowerment.

If you are navigating menopause, divorce, burnout, illness, or a major life transition, this episode is a reminder that you are not stuck; you are evolving.

Nicole leaves us with a powerful message:

“You are the main actor in this play called Life. You have control. So take that control and make it beautiful.”

This is a grounded, compassionate conversation about resilience, women’s empowerment, holistic healing, and reclaiming your voice at midlife.

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In this compelling episode of Enlightened Connections, Lisa interviews Nancy Orlen Weber, a former registered nurse who transformed her life after surviving a profound personal trauma; stepping into her calling as a psychic detective and forensic medium.

Nancy shares her extraordinary journey from science-based nursing to working alongside law enforcement, using her intuitive abilities to assist in criminal investigations. She discusses how a near-death experience and spiritual awakening expanded her psychic gifts, leading her into the world of psychic investigation, mediumship, and animal communication.

Together, they explore:

✨ The connection between nursing and forensic mediumship
✨ Working on criminal cases through intuitive insight
✨ Understanding the criminal mind with compassion
✨ Psychic detective work and perspective-shifting techniques
✨ Communicating with animals, including lost pets and horses
✨ Teaching psychic investigation and mediumship workshops
✨ Balancing emotional sensitivity with professional responsibility

Nancy also reflects on her work with death row inmates, the psychology of violent behaviour, and the importance of offering love without condoning harmful actions. Drawing from her experiences as both healer and survivor, she shares a powerful message about self-acceptance, forgiveness, shadow work, and personal transformation.

This episode is a deep dive into forensic mediumship, psychic detective work, spiritual awakening after trauma, animal communication, and intuitive development, grounded in real-world experience and heartfelt wisdom.

Nancy’s closing message is one we all need to hear:
To fully accept ourselves, understanding that mistakes and errors are part of the human experience; and that self-love creates lasting positive change in the world.

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On this episode of Enlightened Connections, I sit down with Michele Lundstrom - Shamanic Intuitive Channel, Akashic Records Reader, and former mental health therapist, for a deeply expansive and heart-opening conversation that bridges psychology, spirit, and the elemental world.

Michele shares how, even during her 20-year career in traditional therapy, she was quietly guided by ancestors, spirit allies, and intuitive knowing. Over time, she recognised that while cognitive processing has its place, true healing often requires something deeper; energetic, ancestral, and soul-level work. We explore the intersection between modern psychology and ancient wisdom, discussing where the systems support us, where they fall short, and how shamanic practices help address the root rather than the symptom.

One of the most extraordinary moments in Michele’s life came in 2019, when she was struck by lightning indoors during an unexpected storm. Surviving the strike, and clinically “gone” for several minutes, became what many indigenous traditions would call a shamanic initiation. Michele describes how the experience cleared trauma from her physical and energetic body and awakened what she now calls “lightning medicine” - a powerful channeled current of healing energy she runs through her right arm to support both people and the Earth.

We also dive into her remarkable remote water crystallography readings, inspired by her deep love of water and the work of Veda Austin. Michele explains how water communicates through frozen imagery, how it holds memory across time and space, and how she reads these crystallised messages as living oracle cards. From galactic memory to elemental gratitude, this part of our conversation opens an entirely new way of understanding consciousness.

Our discussion expands into channeling, star-seeds, awakening gifts, and the growing divide between those leaning into heart-centered awareness and those resisting it. Michele shares what she’s witnessing in her sessions; more people activating clear knowing, reconnecting with their intuitive senses, and remembering why they came here.

We close with practical guidance on reconnecting with the elements : Earth, air, fire, and especially water - and Michele offers one powerful message for the world: return to the heart. In a time dominated by the mind, she reminds us that the heart always knows truth.

This is a rich, soulful conversation about healing, remembrance, initiation, and the quiet power of living in alignment with nature and spirit.

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In this deeply transformative episode, Lisa is joined by Stephanie Hew, a multidimensional practitioner, energy shifter, womb healer, kinesiologist, and psychic medium, for an expansive conversation about witch wounds, feminine suppression, and reclaiming authentic spiritual power.

Despite a few cosmic-level tech interruptions, the conversation flows into profound territory as Stephanie shares her work supporting light leaders, healers, and spiritually awakened women to reconnect with their inner wisdom, dissolve energetic blocks, and embody their true soul essence.

Stephanie explains the concept of the witch wound - a deeply embedded fear of being seen, heard, or punished for spiritual gifts, often carried across multiple lifetimes due to historical persecution. This energetic imprint commonly shows up as lack of confidence, self-silencing, or fear of fully expressing intuitive and psychic abilities.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• What the witch wound is and how it manifests today

• Womb healing and releasing stored emotional and energetic imprints

• Priestess codes and reconnecting with ancient feminine wisdom

• Past life therapy and karmic pattern resolution

• The stages of spiritual awakening and embodied growth

• Navigating the “darkness” as part of soul evolution

• Identity shifts, relationship changes, and soul-aligned living

• Energy healing, kinesiology, and physical-energetic integration

• Healing ancestral and past-life trauma held in the body

Stephanie shares powerful insights into her multidimensional healing approach, which weaves together womb healing, past life regression, psychic insight, energy activation, and personalised kinesiology. She also discusses how unhealed past-life trauma, such as repeated loss, can surface as anxiety or fear in the present life, and how these patterns can be gently released.

This episode is for women who feel a deep inner calling, sense ancient wisdom stirring within them, or know they are here for something more - yet feel blocked, hesitant, or energetically held back.

✨ You are not becoming someone new—you are remembering who you have always been.

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