In this week's episode, hosted by our Digital Business Manager, Natalie Tealdi, we welcome intuitive teacher and author Kate Saint Clair, who shares her journey from dismissing her intuitive gifts as a child to building a career helping others understand and trust their own inner guidance - something that every entrepreneur, creative, and business owner relies on, whether they realize it or not.

About Kate Saint Clair

Kate Saint Clair is a Human Intuition Expert, Psychic Medium, and Intuitive Advocate devoted to helping people remember and trust the wisdom already living within them. Born highly intuitive, Kate found strength through her challenging childhood with her connection to the spiritual world.

Since 2007, she has been guiding individuals to reconnect with their natural intuitive abilities—not as something mystical or exclusive, but as a practical, embodied skill meant to support everyday life.

Kate’s work centers on normalizing intuition and removing the fear, confusion, and self-doubt that often surround it. She teaches that every person is born with an accurate internal guidance system and that intuition becomes most powerful when it is understood, practiced, and trusted with clarity and discernment.

Through her book Be Guided & Be Great, live programs, and ongoing communities like ‘The Clair Club’, Kate creates grounded, validating spaces where intuition can be explored safely and confidently. Her approach blends spiritual depth with real-world integration, helping people recognize how intuition shows up through the Clairs—clear knowing, feeling, seeing, hearing, and sensing.

Known for her warm presence and direct insight, Kate empowers her clients to move from second-guessing themselves to living with greater confidence, alignment, and self-trust. Her work is an invitation to come home to yourself and live guided from the inside out.

When she’s not working, Kate enjoys spending time with her family, listening to podcasts when she is out walking or going for a run and spending time in nature as much as she can.

Key Takeaways

1. Everyone Is Intuitive — Most People Just Don’t Have the Language for It
2. Untrained Intuition Can Feel Like Anxiety or Overwhelm
3. Intuition Comes Through the “Claires”
4. Skepticism Isn’t the Opposite of Intuition
5. Strengthening Intuition Is a Skill, Not a Gift You Either Have or Don’t

Quote“You’re already intuitive. It’s not something you have to become. It’s something you learn to understand.”
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Transcript

Victoria Bennion: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Victoria Bennion, and the founder of the best podcast guest booking agency. And you're listening to the best guest, the podcast for business owners, creatives, and entrepreneurs who want to harness the power of podcasts to grow their platforms and increase their visibility.

We're here to support you on your journey, bringing you actionable tips with each episode. Now let's begin.

Natalie Tealdi: Hello, I'm Natalie Tealdi, digital business manager here at the best podcast guest booking agency. Today I'm hosting this conversation with the wonderful Kate Sinclair. Kate is a human intuition expert, psychic, medium, and intuitive advocate who has been teaching intuition as a practical, embodied skill since 2007.

Welcome to the podcast, Kate. It's great to have you with us today.

Kate Saint Clair: Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

Natalie Tealdi: Can you start by telling us how [00:01:00] you first realized you were intuitive, and what was the moment that made you stop dismissing it?

Kate Saint Clair: Yeah, I mean when I was young there was not a word for it, so I didn't know what to call it. I just kind of call it this weird thing and I don't really have a memory of not, when I was a little kid that did, my grandfather had passed away, decades before I was born. And I remember being like four years old at the my grandma's breakfast table and they were talking about him and I was wondering why they weren't talking to him.

'Cause I could sense that he was sitting there with us and I just thought why are they ignoring him? So I remember putting those pieces together around four, and when I was a little girl, I'd see a little, I thought they were black cougars, but usually they were just kind of an animal spirit that would come out at night.

And of course I just thought it was my imagination. But I mean, I would sprint to my mom and dad's room for fear and it would take me 30 years to realize that was a spirit animal and they would be around me at a certain time when my family was about to [00:02:00] break apart through a divorce. So they kind of appeared at the right time.

But as a little kid, I was just absolutely terrified. And, I just kind of always knew stuff about people and I'd kind of say it out loud and then I'd get in trouble for telling secrets. But I, I was like, I didn't have a thought. It just kind of came outta my mouth. So lots of that, like kind of lots of getting or kind of having a bad feeling about somebody as a child.

And then maybe lots of we don't wanna judge people or, you shouldn't say that. Or, so there was a lot of what I've just called. I just, that's weird. That's weird. That's weird. And kind of making the, those, putting those pieces together, like why are they ignoring the, my grandfather?

Or why are they ignoring, this spirit or that spirit, which I didn't know there was a word for it back then. I just thought they were, Hey, that's a person and that's my grandfather.

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah.

Kate Saint Clair: It took, when did I realize it? I was much older and it was more of a thing I tried to not do. I tried to not say stuff.

I tried to not see stuff, so it was, I was very much in my [00:03:00] twenties before I was like, okay, maybe I could actually get some help for this or see if other people feel this way. And that's when it was probably definitely in my twenties where I was like. This is maybe something I wanna figure out instead of just trying to run away from, or convince myself I'm not seeing or feeling what I am

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah, I suppose it must be really in easy to kind of rationalize those things

Kate Saint Clair: imaginary friend, you know, we have terms for this stuff, mother's intuition, get it. And like we have very sad terms. I consider them sad terms, but we're just trying to language. Something we kind of don't understand. And that's why I made it my life's mission to understand it and put proper language to it so we can all see it within us.

'cause I didn't feel special. I could see it in other people, it's just mine was kind of off the charts and I didn't know what to do with it other than convince myself I was imagining it and it wasn't happening.

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah, I can imagine. It must feel a bit scary as well.

Kate Saint Clair: It was scary. Yeah, definitely.

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah. And many people say, [00:04:00] I'm not intuitive, but what do you believe is really happening when someone feels disconnected from their intuition?

Kate Saint Clair: Oh yeah. I think there's several layers to this, but I think at a minimum, again, the common language, we, until you understand it, we think it's kind of a one-off thing. It's I had a gut feeling. And we don't say that every day, but really you do use your intuition every day.

Let's just say if you're in your hometown and nothing changes, you don't really need to use your intuition, but when I moved to New York City from Montana when I was 20 years old. I had to use my intuition. I didn't know where I was going, and this is the nineties before cell phones and, map, mapping wherever you were going, right in the palm of your hand.

I mean, I really had to, I had to kind of use my intuition to know if I was safe. I had to use my intuition to know where to go and I didn't have language for it back then. To me it's, untrained intuition is just that you don't know what to call it, therefore you don't know when it's happening to you.

And trained intuition, which is my passion, is, [00:05:00] which cla it's coming through and from what source.

Does that make sense? Yeah. So there's, to me, and again, I was in the field for 20 years, so I reluctantly came to the field of intuition, kind of kicking and screaming in 2007, and you do feel like you're learning a special thing.

And what I realized was I was a very, at a very medium career, the first 10 years of my career, and what I noticed is when I would share a message from a loved one on the other side, my client always knew what I was talking about, which tells me no, they experienced it. So I'm articulating what they experienced, but they still had the intuitive experience and it's just, it was every person.

I just was like, they know what I'm talking about. They experienced it too. They heard the voice. They felt the feeling they had the vision, and when you realize I'm a stranger, I wasn't there, but through my intuition, I could describe that moment. But they're the ones who had it.

So then I started like everybody's, but everybody's intuitive. And when I would [00:06:00] explain to them how, what was happening to them, the, I just saw the light bulbs go off in everyone's eyes for so long, and then it starts to make sense. What's happening, how and why.

Natalie Tealdi: Wow. So do you think this is something people can sort of learn to get better at than listening to their intuition?

Kate Saint Clair: A hundred percent. I, even with me I find a lot of really intuitive people are the, we are the biggest skeptics.

We are the ones who's yeah. And I don't think that's real. Why? Because again, we have childhood programming where it's like it can't be real, so it can't be real for me. It can't be real for you,

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah.

Kate Saint Clair: Yeah. So there's nothing wrong with skepticism. And I do find the more intuitive you get, the higher your bar for reality of it gets. We kind of get a little spoiled if, we have the feeling and it turns out okay. It's like we kind of start to take those little moments for granted.

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah.

Kate Saint Clair: and oh, I don't feel good.

I'm gonna walk across the street. 'cause I don't like the energy or the vibe of that person coming, so it's, we are always using it, whether we're conscious of it or not. And [00:07:00] once we can, I think with proper language, which is my passion I've seen I've seen it change people's lives just by understanding how and why it's happening for them.

And because then you can get more conscious of it. No, I do have a feeling and was that my feeling or is that my child's feeling? Every mother's picking up kids after school and we're fine. We're listening to music and the kids get in and you're exhausted and you're, you can pick up their energy, you could pick up their exhaustion and their hunger and all the things.

And again, untrained, you think it's just you like, oh my gosh, I just got tired all of a sudden. Or, oh my gosh, I'm just hungry. And what? What we don't realize is that's actually your children's feelings and their energy and what have you. So it just takes a little refinement to know, was that my feeling or was it theirs?

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah. I've certainly experienced that with anxiety before, like being in the car with my mom, she was starting a new job and I remember feeling really anxious and I thought why am I feeling I'm not anxious? And I said to her, are you nervous? She's no, but I think I must have been picking out from her because [00:08:00] there was no reason for me to be anxious.

Kate Saint Clair: Yeah. You're like, you're the one starting the job. Not me, but I feel it. And that's the other thing that what happens to us when we're young is parents are, they do try to be strong. They like no. So it's actually a form of denial. Because child, our, the, we all we do, we pick up our parents' feelings.

We can feel that anxiety and then when they say, no, it's not me, then we do internalize everything. Then I'm anxious and I have no control over myself and that's my work's passion is to go, okay, actually they're just denying it and that's okay. But it's not my anxiety. So then we have something we can do about that.

It's stuff that it's ours we can deal with, but when it's other people's feelings and energy, we have to figure out a way to get that off of us so we don't just pick up and absorb everybody else's feelings.

Natalie Tealdi: Yeah, so can you explain the Claires in a grounded way for listeners who are curious?

Kate Saint Clair: Yes. I always say all intuition comes through a Claire, so you [00:09:00] either feel it. You hear it, you kind of hear a voice, turn left. Go straight, go home early, these little whispers it, you just kind of have that knowing oh, I know I'm gonna see my sister today. Oh, and then you do, that kind of, just that quick knowing or you see it.

We, that Claire was the one I really convinced myself. I couldn't see it. I didn't have it, but in the right situation it can be tested. So let's just say, if you're deciding if you're gonna go to college, you can see an image of a school in your mind. And you might not know sort of what the name of that college is, but you just keep seeing the same college, so it, it always comes through a Claire feel it, see it, know it, or hear it. And and again, when we say do you trust your intuition? If I say which Claire do you use? People have no idea what the Claire is. Do you trust your intuition? Yeah. Very intuitive. Really? How, I don't know. And so I just get really excited 'cause I'm like, yes, you're intuitive and let's just find out which is the strongest Claire, do you feel a lot, do you [00:10:00] feel I'll give you an example. This is just, it was just so clear how my Claire's were working in this moment when my, it was about. I don't know, let's just say seven years ago. And I was, the kids were outside playing after school, and I was inside, and my son actually walked in and he actually smiled at me, but I could feel like something was really wrong.

And so I was like, whoa, he just smiled, but I felt like there's something wrong. And then he went upstairs and just, I was like, no, that didn't make sense. The smile versus the feeling, let me just go check on him really quick. And so I went upstairs and I could tell, I could feel he was not. He was trying to protect me from what had just happened.

So he was like, I'm the mom. I'm the mom, honey. You don't have to protect me like what's going on? And so he admitted a neighborhood mother had pulled him aside and said something really mean to him. And so that, whether you're a mom or a sibling or a friend, like we can feel when something's going on, even though our friends or loved ones are smiling, they're trying to be brave.

All the things. So that's in [00:11:00] day to day. You're at work, you just have a, knowing something's gonna happen. Or you kind of see, I don't know, at six o'clock something's gonna happen, and then maybe the rail on the way home is shut down, so we're constantly feeling and getting our intuitive information through a claire throughout the day.

Natalie Tealdi: So interesting. And how has trusting your intuition changed the trajectory of your life or career?

Kate Saint Clair: My relationship with my intuition was rough because I was such a sensitive kid, and then I turned it into, it's not real. I'm making it up. And then I kind of, after my parents divorced, I felt a little like untrusting. So if I let's just say if I got guidance to turn left, I'd go right. So really my life got really rough.

And say between the ages of 15 and until I really understood my intuition about 23, I would fight my guidance. 'cause I just kind of believed that I don't know what I'm talking about. I can't trust myself. Like [00:12:00] I said if I felt like somebody was dangerous, I'd hear, oh, you got a chip on your shoulder, or, don't be judgmental.

So I was like, if the dangerous person was in front of me, I'd give 'em my phone number. Because of that programming. No, I can't trust myself. I'm wrong, or I'm just being judgmental. And so it was really about 23 years old. And then definitely when I became a mom at 25, I was like. I have to learn to trust myself.

I, in fact, I can trust myself because a lot of the times we kind of, we get the knowings, but then we don't trust ourselves. So then we ask for other people, and then maybe we do what they say when they're weren't in the situation. So what do they know about it? So I just realized. I'm the only one here.

I'm the only one who has all the information. And so I'm gonna make a logical decision, but I'm also going to do what I feel is right for me. And that sat, that is cla sentience what I feel is right for me. That was a really good, and then of course I got into this profession in 2007, so I was in my late [00:13:00] twenties and reading for strangers, reading for the public.

I just, it every day was just a moment and I just felt like a miracle. So when I...