Humanity’s Bright & Challenging Future Unfolds with Colette Baron-Reid

Colette Baron-Reid 0:00
It's the same thing. When I look into the future, I remember the future. I remember this thing that's coming. I remember it. We are going through a global shift. This was predicted by mill so many different cultures. When I really surrendered and gave over to a spiritual life, that's when it got interesting. I just know things about dead people. There's a huge difference of chasing versus receiving. My own inner technology is greater than I know, and that my job is to detach from the conditioned self. I realize that I get the same information where I write music from, where I get intuitive information from. So it was it all comes from the same channel, sound, harmonics, things like that were able to keep me sane.

Alex Ferrari 0:56
I like to welcome to the show Colette Baron Reid. How you doing Colette,?

Colette Baron-Reid 0:59
I'm good. I'm so excited to be on your show. Thank you for letting me come on Zoom. We couldn't come to where you are, but next time, this will be one.

Alex Ferrari 1:07
Not a problem at all. Thank you so much for being here. I'm looking forward to our conversation, your your work and your background and what you do is is fascinating. So the question I always ask of psychic mediums and of channelers who come on the show is, what was your life like before the insanity, the chaos that is being a psychic medium came into your life, because, as I always say, there's easier hustles in the world. To do a pub, to be a public psychic medium, is a very different thing than to be at a carnival that nobody knows who you are, but being public, writing books, being on shows, being on network television, do all this kind of stuff. It's easier hustles out there. So what was your life like before? Before all came scratching down.

Colette Baron-Reid 1:11
Yeah. So which it did, by the way, too. It's, it's kind of like everything I wanted to get off the ground went somewhere else, and this kept showing up. But so I always had this, though. So I would say to you that when I was a little kid, I had access to this information about people that I shouldn't have. Like, how would I know this? Even my mom would say, like, how would you know that that phone call would happen? Because I just blurt things out that meant nothing to me, that would mean a lot to everybody else. Would be, like, really quiet, like, what did you just say? Kind of thing, right? When I So, I had this. So this, this messed with my life before it became a profession, right? So when I was little, I kept having these recurring nightmares about people who are really skinny lined up at a table, and then there was this very skeletal looking man crying, and there was, there were teeth, and then there was a pile of gold. And I knew there were teeth because I think it was like three or four, because I'd already lost some teeth, and I already knew about the, tooth fairy. And they, I know what they looked like, so I knew they were teeth and gold. And then I thought they were, I had a terrible smell. I remember the smell was gross and and then it was snowing, this kind of dirty snow. And then I saw people being shoved in an easy bake oven. We had an easy bake oven, right? So my mom would not pick me up at that dream, um, she would like, anytime I wanted to crawl in bed with my mom when I had a nightmare, it would be okay. I'll come here, blah, blah, blah, but I could tell there was something different when I dreamt like that, and she was like, not really wanting to hold me or whatever, like, go back to bed. You're fine, kind of thing, right? So fast forward, and sorry, so I also understood that there was something wrong, right, that there was something dangerous about this access, and I didn't know what it meant, because nobody would, nobody told me. So going, let's go fast forward 20 odd years, or 25 years after my parents had lost everything in a deal. My dad was a land developer. My mom had a bit to drink. And I was raised by the way, Christian Anglican, like, you know, that's Catholic with no Pope, and, you know. And I loved it. I love I went to church every Sunday. I was, like, totally a church. I wanted to be a nun when I went to Catholic school. And then my mom yanked me out of that. Well, turns out my grandfather, on her side, was a Sephardic Jew, and he was part of the French Resistance Movement, and was picked up at her door by SS officers who she was being she was taken in because her mom had died. She was hit by a bomb in Berlin, and she was hidden in this family, I guess, a Christian family, because there was more than a drop of Jewish blood in her, right? So? And she said, Take that, because I had a cross on. She bought me. She had a few too much to drink. Take that thing off. And I went, why you bought it? For me, it's beautiful. She goes, because you're Jewish. Like, what? Yes, but I, but apparently, you know, my mother's mother wasn't Jewish. So according to Jewish, I'm not, because I went and did all this genealogy stuff after and all this stuff, and anyway, that said she had felt so guilty because my, my but that's what I dreamt like. The point is, is that he was killed in Dachau, in a concentration camp, right? He was picked up and killed there. So all those dreams she goes, those dreams you had then, that she's, that's what it's about. And I'm like, Whoa. Then that was the end of that, right? So, so this is, like, 20 years later I realized, like, oh, okay, but everything, right? So this is what I tuned into, because my mom was in Berlin during the war. Her their parents were not married. Her mom was kind of like a bit of a flapper or whatever, apparently, and slept with this guy who happened to be this French Jew. Got pregnant. My mom was born, and the rest is history. But then we try tracked it all down. But the point is, is that I'm only three or four years old, and I'm dreaming about the Holocaust like so over the years, information that I would pick up about people just made me feel like I didn't know where I ended and everybody else began. So so I would love to be able to say, Oh, I was just fine, until one day, I just got in a car accident, and boom, there it was no I was never told before. I didn't have one of those experiences. I had a constant me not being quite right. Never fitting anywhere. I always believed I didn't fit in anywhere, and I found myself trying to be just whoever I was supposed to be. And so I never felt safe my whole life, right? It just felt like, who am I? Like, what is this? Fortunately, my dad, like, both my parents were amazing people. I just want to say this. My father was an extraordinary man, and more so now I recognize what an incredible experience I had growing up with him, because when as soon as we could basically read, or I could hear my dad would sit us down, me and my sister, and tell us all about Aristotle and Atlantis and Plato and all this. I just want to play with my gerbils, but this was what he wanted for us, right? So I would sit and listen, but most important that hit me was him telling us all about the aliens, right? And, and, and who really engineered human beings, etc. My dad was just all matter of fact. Matter of fact. Okay, matter of fact. And so I was like, I grew up, matter of fact. I was eight years old. We lived in the West Indies for a while. He was a land developer, and he got, I got up in the middle of the night with my dad, and we saw the formations in the sky. You just get up, let's go see right? And then one day we saw one go right into the ocean. So it's like, what? And also, when I was little, same, kind of just a year before, I'd had these weird visitations. Like, I know I'm kind of pushing everything you asked me about. What happened before I became this, right? This is free, yeah.

Alex Ferrari 8:05
When you start before you came out of the closet. So when you're talking about the alien kind of thing, you're talking about the Anunnaki, which is based in the Sumerian text, and it's historical, yeah, yeah, it's a lot of that, right? Of course, it's a lot of that,

Colette Baron-Reid 8:21
But we really don't know 100% who it is or what it is, but yeah, of course. But yes, I'm going to say yes, because he was friends with somebody named Eric Von Daniken and so various of the gods he used to do slide shows. So there I am. I couldn't have been more than, I don't know, whatever it came out in the 60s my dad, I would go with my dad religiously, and we would sit there and look at all this, these slideshows and and, yes, at that time, that's what he called it. But we know that there are many more, you know, I would say extra dimensionals, because I'll tell you all about how I channel. My latest Oracle deck was totally, totally from another dimension. But so, so this was kind of made me feel safe that okay, I know something's there. You know, it just became part of my understanding that this is what the world is, the world is more than what the world is, and that there's so much to uncover. And his, he made it his. He was going to go find Atlantis and flew to the Bermuda Triangle and all this stuff. My dad was just, I got indoctrinated in all this growing up, but he was a very sober guy too, like he was not, he was not off as he wasn't a conspiracy guy. He was just like, well, these are really interesting things we should learn about, right? So it was fascinating, but so that was there, but I was supposed to be a lawyer, you see, so So knowing all of this, and also, you know, like being exposed to all of this, and having the dreams I had, and having this ability that I have, well, we're not having that. We're, we're gonna, we're going to law school, because there. Immigrants, my parents. My dad was Serbian. He loved telling us that we were direct descendants of Genghis Khan, because my great grandmother was Mongolian. So it was like, that was his, oh, he was like, proud of Genghis Khan, and he'd show us the boxes. It's like,

Alex Ferrari 10:16
It was that sounds, it sounds very big, Fat Greek Wedding, the father always saying that he was, he was, he was related to Alexander the Great, yes, or something like that,

Colette Baron-Reid 10:26
Right, right. But I, but actually, I found out because later in life, when I started after they died, and I started looking at trying to understand a little bit more about Mongolian history, apparently, was very and for all Mongolians to say that they were direct Genghis Khan, because they saw Genghis Khan as a god.

Alex Ferrari 10:42
Well, also genetically, genetically, he actually spread his seed to 10% of the population, right? So, so many officers. So, I mean, he had hundreds of children, like hundreds of children,

Colette Baron-Reid 10:55
Hundreds and hundreds, right?

Alex Ferrari 10:56
Hundreds of Yeah, it was, he was he did his part.

Colette Baron-Reid 10:59
He did it apart exactly, especially in the Balkans, where my dad was from, right? So, and, and I'm, you know, after doing all my DNA, I'm 90% or 80, 80% Balkan Slav, right? So, so, anyhow, so, so there was all this. So there was this kind of mixed messages, and, and the interesting thing too, is, when I was young. I think I was 12 or 13. No, when I was much younger, I remember my Mrs. Kelly was my nanny, and she was from Scotland, and so my parents would go out, and she had really old lady, I don't know if she'd croak like a frog. She had something wrong with her esophagus. She smelled funny. She always had a violet candies in her mouth, and she had, like one of these little tight firms, and she made us eat this horrible soup she made, however, but she told my mother one day that I had this site. Now, I know we are not allowed to make the accents anymore, because it's cultural appropriation, but I used to make a really great Scottish accent, so I won't do it now. But anyway, she was telling my mother, oh, your daughter has the sight. And I remember being in the swinging door from the dining room into the kitchen, and my mom here, I'm hearing her saying, no, no, no, no no, we're not having we're not gonna No. My mother was not happy about that, and I was really confused, because everybody in the family wore glasses, and I thought that meant I didn't need glasses if I have sight, right? Like you have to give us. Why is she not wear glasses? This is how I acquainted, and all this. But this late lady would have her friends over, she read cards, and she would, my mom would go out. She was a psychic, so she would have her friends over. And I kept seeing all this energy when her little old lady friends would come over, and she would read playing cards, right? And I remember seeing this energy that was palpable in the room, and I was so attracted to it and and she knew that I could see things, and, you know, encouraged me, etcetera. But again, these are my memories are like, really choppy, and you're not going to have a whole life story on your show here. But fast forward to my father teaching me how to read Turkish coffee cups. So my dad, and even though the same man, wants me to be a lawyer, right, teaches me how to read Turkish coffee cups. So I'm like,

Alex Ferrari 13:17
Like, the coffee, grounds. Like the coffee grounds

Colette Baron-Reid 13:19
Yeah, like, so it's Turkish coffee, and you have to boil it in a samovar, and then you read the ground, and after you turn it over, it's a little bit like tassio Mansi. It is tasty, but it's not with tea. So he taught me about spirit animals, because in the Slavic tradition, they have spirit animals. It's not indigenous North American they have them in many cultures. So the first time I ever heard spirit animals was from my Serbian father. So to me, it was always relative to Slavic folklore, and nothing to do with North American where I live, right? So from Canada, he'd never met anybody like that. So, but so I would watch this, watch how the formation would go, and I was really good at it, um, after he had died, his oldest friends told me, because it was such a thing that I wasn't supposed to do this, etc, and I had many years of a lot of hardship, which I'll go back to in a second, but they had told me that I came by my gift from my father, and that my that The fact that he taught me how to read Turkish coffee cups when my mother wasn't looking was such a big thing, because apparently, when my parents were newly married, my father would read people's coffee cups at their cocktail parties. And one day, he went into a trance and started telling this story about these people who are having an affair that were married to different people who were in the party at my parents. Party at my parents house, and then he came back. I didn't remember. He said a thing, and my mother threatened to divorce him if he ever did it again. So apparently, yeah, that. So it was like, You are not going to do this thing. You do ever, ever. It's for Botan, right?

Alex Ferrari 14:57
And also, but also that, also in that time period. When you were coming up, this was, this is something that was not spoken about. Yeah, you don't speak about this publicly. You definitely don't like make a business out of it. That's insane.

Colette Baron-Reid 15:10
Oh, God no, no, I'll move to that. No, I mean, and also, God forbid, I mean, I went to a private girls school. My parents worked hard to give us the kind of privilege, or the the leg up, even though we were, I was certainly reminded that I'm not really Canadian, since my parents were immigrants, but they left, they my is titled. So we got in anyway, because it was a title. But, you know, going into law school, they had a they were afraid. I think that they were afraid, and rightly so, but I just wanted to be in music. So I kept running away from home with a guitar like and for me, and it was interesting since then, of course, you know, I've had a music career, but I realized that I get the same information where I write music from, where I get intuitive information from. So it was, it all comes from the same channel, sound, harmonics, things like that, were able to keep me sane. But I had a, I did have a one of those NDA, not NDA, NDE, kind of things experiences when I had I'm not going to go into detail on this, but I'll just say this, that there was a big violent episode that happened to me when I was 19 years old, and I look back on that, and yes, I was a victim of this thing, but I I had to take many years to realize I was not a victim, but that I was victimized, but I left my body during the experience and went to, like the upper right To my upper right, and that's where I get now, I can move outside of myself. Like, one would say that was a psychotic break that I had while that was happening. But now, afterwards, after that, all settled down, and I actually started doing this for a living, which was a few years later, I go the bear now, like, that's where I go to get my information. I just walk away from Colette, I'm not part of me anymore, and I'm over there. So that horrible initiation that I went through with, the loss of the ability to say no, etc, enabled me to get a gift later. So and in the in between, I became an alcoholic and a drug addict. So for me, all that escapism, and that's actually interesting enough, too. When I had all my experiences with plant medicine, which is the only thing that worked for me during that time, to make me feel okay, but I was just really trying to hurt myself, right? And I got clean and sober when I was 27 and that's when it all started. It's when I cleaned up everything and I completely devoted myself to a spiritual path, like I surrendered, like I should be dead seriously. You know, that was when cocaine was not apparently addictive in the 80s. No, no, hey, no, no, it wasn't.

Alex Ferrari 17:58
No, it's like a Tylenol. It's like a Tylenol.

Colette Baron-Reid 18:01
Oh, yeah, everybody did it, and most people died. Actually, most of my friends, or the people I hung out with are, well, there's a few smattering, but there was a lot of people who are dead now. But anyway, so I came out the other side of that, and when I really surrendered and gave over to a spiritual life, that's when it got interesting. That's when with nothing like completely clean, I've been cleaning sober now for 39 years at our thing, but the spiritual downloads came when I surrendered with the caveat that, please make me be a successful singer songwriter, and then I'm like, but I'm missing do this part time, this thing that I can do, because it's like, I just like people, and I never advertised people. Told their friends I could read, I could read, I could read, I could read people. So why not like come and and I was also doing so much deep psychological and spiritual work that it was translating. But the information didn't come from my life experience. Information came from another place, a clean reservoir that was given to me when I was ready for it. And it was so interesting.

Alex Ferrari 19:19
So as so as you're going through this path. I find it fascinating because I I dabbled in the music industry early in my in my life. We shall not talk about this before I got into the film industry. And it is but it mirrors what what I've seen and what I've gone through. Your story is not unique in that sense, with the dogs and and the stress and the stress and and the fame and the wanting to chase the dream and what you'll do to get that dream. And I have to ask you, though, did you use your psychic abilities when you signed that first contract with a record label?

Colette Baron-Reid 19:54
No, but I will say, Well, yeah, no, but interesting that you said that. Because my music story is quite fascinating, because I think I didn't get a record deal till I was 40, and I looked really young, yeah, and they thought I was in my 20s. So yes, yes, I was EMI Music Canada signed me to a worldwide deal, and I became kind of the pet of the former president who's passed away now, and I loved him very, very much. And it came when I was ready to compare the two paths. So I run a class now called spirit of your business and now, and I use the information that I experienced to say, Listen, when you are going along one path where you're pushing and you're hustling and you're moving and you're going against something internally, to the alignment where you don't really have a map, you just go with what you're called to a day at a time. There's a huge difference of chasing versus receiving. So I was able to use that experience, and I got everything I wanted, by the way, every single thing I ever wanted, even down to the label that signed me, but by the time my first well, the second album, I had, two albums, I realized it was going to eat me alive, and I might. I couldn't. I don't know that I could have stayed sober, to be honest, I don't know, and I wasn't meant to be really successful at that. It taught me that I was talented, but I had not pursued anything in this world. I'm like, I don't really do this. I'm really a singer. Don't come back next year. That's the first six years of me doing this professionally. Because I wouldn't even call it that. I wouldn't even call myself a psychic. I hated the word. Reminded me of Miss Cleo. No offense. Sorry, Miss Leo. But you know what I mean? I was like, No, I'm not doing that. The crystals and the big earrings. Now I wear big earrings, and I have crystals all over my house.

Alex Ferrari 21:48
You've gone, you've gone deep into the Woo. You've gone deep into the Woo,

Colette Baron-Reid 21:52
Even though, even, yeah, but I realized that no, I mean, I could not let go. And that was an a testament to attachment, to the power of the hungry ghosts, the power of chasing something. Go ahead.

Alex Ferrari 22:07
Well, the thing is this, that I find it, I find it fascinating, against a lot of your story mirrors mine. In is that, that the dream chasing? Yeah, I wanted it. I wanted to be a worldwide, famous director. That was my goal in life. And I knew I had the talent, I knew I had the experience, and was in the room multiple times with big movie stars, big producers, big studios all the time. But I always something, always stopped, always something, always there was it. There was always something that like, Oh no, yeah, oh no, oh no. But the thing that always upset me, and I'm sure you felt the same way, is I'm good enough to get into the room. Not everybody gets into the room, not once, but multiple times, and get there's something blocking it, and I didn't understand why. So that need to chase that dream was a driving factor for most of my life, until I let go of the dream, yeah, and then as soon as I let go, things have now presented themselves in a way that I have my own streaming platform. Now I'm direct. I'm going to be directing my own shows, my own series, my own films under my the way I want to do it, without anyone telling me what to do and it I only that only became an option once I'd let go of the preconceived notion that I had in of what I thought I'm like, Oh, well, if you may be a famous Director, you have to go the path of Steven Spielberg or George Lucas or Stanley Kubrick or any of these, of these masters, but all of them followed their own path. So it's just fascinating. It's a lesson. I hope people listening is like when you're chasing a dream. It's great to be inspired by others, but once you understand that, you have to let go and let let it just be whatever comes, comes, yeah, things will work out so much better than you planned, because we nothing ever comes exactly the way you wanted it in your brain, because that's a lot of ego, a lot of programming, a lot of limitations, things like that. But when you let go this 100% this show is my perfect example of that your career is as a psychic medium and an author is because of that. You let go of the preconceived notions and you just let the universe guide you, which is scary. It's terrifying.

Colette Baron-Reid 24:36
I think you know, it's so funny, too. Everything that you're saying is is the function of what I teach now in personal transformation is that letting go and surrendering to the unknown is 1,000% because each one of us has a unique path to follow, and the form of it is not our job to determine. You know, we might get a glimpse, but it's never, it's never that way I teach a. Thing now about around vision boards, where we we now create something called the zone of synchronicity, because I would say what's missing on these things, well, spirits missing in these things the universe is like all of that activity that happens outside of our consciousness, outside of our understanding, is where all the action is. And none of us ever put that there, right? So seeing that, that synchronicity is and again, I'll use terms like God, universe. It doesn't really matter. I really power, like I just do I don't believe this is human Gen. If anything's generated for me, it's going to be limited. If it's generated through me, it might be something interesting, like, I will be just through me, right? As opposed to, it's mine. I saw it, and I do think your story, you know, when you when you chase and Chase, I was the same, getting in the room and, like, wait a second, why is this? Like, oh,

Alex Ferrari 25:57
Oh, right, up and down, up and down, and you pray for the up's, but then you crash down, and then it's harder to come back up again for you, mentally and spiritually, to come back up like, Okay, do I go down this road again? Go down this road again? And I don't know about you, I try quitting probably a dozen times, like, I I'm out. I can't do this anymore. I'm not. This is ridiculous. I am not. I am not the universe's punching bag. I am out. And then at five minutes later, the mind, though, the mind, the mind, would tell you, Okay, what else are you gonna do? And you're like, son of a like, there's nothing else I could do. I can I can't go get a job. I I'm a carny. I live in the film industry like a carnival.

Colette Baron-Reid 26:47
Love you called yourself a carny. That's your

Alex Ferrari 26:51
You're totally I ran away. We ran away with the carnival. We ran away with the circus. People who are outside of these the creative arts don't really get that, but that's essentially what you're doing. When you go to a set and they're like, gonna blow up a car that day because there's a chase scene of a cop show or something, and you're working on it that's not real, like, that's insane. Like, you're literally putting up a tent and putting on a show. It's insane. It's not a real job in the sense that everybody else has to do a real job. So it's, it's, yeah, I call myself a carny. I saw I call myself a carny all the time, because we are all artists.

Colette Baron-Reid 27:32
I love that because it's how I don't, it's how I don't take myself so seriously too. Because at my first job was at a carnival. You know, my very first job was selling, selling hot dogs and corned beef sandwiches, and my kiss was at the birthday game at the carnival. You know, one of my best friends ran the zipper. You know what? I mean, it's like carnivals was a thing. And it's funny too, because actually, my mother's aunt actually did run away with the circus in Germany, like ran away with circus for real, some Russian circus. She ran away with it. But yeah,

Alex Ferrari 28:10
Absolutely in your blood, absolutely

Colette Baron-Reid 28:12
One thing. I will say this, you know, there I'll, I'll see myself this way, because I do think that there's an entertainment value, but there's also a lot of depth to what we do, you know, like there's information. So, so is there depth at a carnival? Well, sometimes, if you look at it in terms of the metaphor of humanity that gets played out, like the fool, for example, in the in the courts would speak to the unspeakable, because, hey, it's just fun. So you know, hey, this is the carnival, so go ahead.

Alex Ferrari 28:44
But I would say, I would say that you should never underestimate or devalue the arts, because the arts are what keep humanity sane without story, without story in all of its forms, whether it's films, whether it's books, whether it's music, everything. Storytelling is what allows us to make some sort of sense of this simulation that we are all in. Because we're all trying to figure it out. We're all just trying to, like, get, you know, get through life things this doesn't make sense. You're kind of like, if you start to think about what we've gone through as human beings, we're spit out it. We're spit out of our mother back when we were born, right, in a very traumatic way, thrown into a cold world, unless you're like home birth in a warm water or something, Right, they're bright lights, very painful. And then you're thrown into these people who you've never met, and now all of a sudden, you start learning from everything that they do. So if you're if they're born Amish, guess what you're Amish. You're born Jewish. Guess what you're Jewish if you're born so an African tribe, guess what? You're gonna go hunting soon, like. You know, and there's a bunch of these different so you're thrown into all of that, and you're just trying to figure things out as you go through life. Stories is what keeps us sane and allows us to process this kind of, it's, it's a sense of insanity, really,

Colette Baron-Reid 30:17
You know, I 100% i i say we are stories in motion. We are stories we are always evolving, and our story is what makes us human. Right. Our story give gives us life. Yeah, the story telling aspect of us, like every Oracle card deck that I create, tells the story of the universal story of what we could be, feeling, experiencing, doing, you know, the lexicon of life that changes according to us evolving. And right now, we're in the biggest phase of evolution ever, and our stories are going to change radically in the next two years. It just will, but without story and without it's interesting, you brought that without the arts, because I'm all about the arts. I painted my I mean, I channeled the paintings for my latest deck. My next book is on the neuro Arts, on how art is essential to co creating our reality. We cannot do life without that. Even our earliest ancestors knew that, like the most primitive humans, knew that, you know, that art, sound, music, all of that. That's why I think I was attracted to all of that, because it felt like it kept me alive. Yeah, so I funny. I got my record deal after I created journey through the chakras, which, at the time, was not about appropriation. It was, you know, it was all because now you have to be careful. But at the time, is it okay here? Okay, this is a safe space.

Alex Ferrari 31:46
We can say the word chakra. It's okay, please, please. I could care less. I'm a Gen X. I could care less. Okay, I promise you yoga Yogananda, when he Yo, listen, Yogananda brought yoga and meditation to the west. Can you imagine what he could look at back now and go, What has yoga? Goat yoga? What is happening?

Colette Baron-Reid 32:12
So reminded the goat farm down the road here that does goat yoga.

Alex Ferrari 32:17
But when? But when yoga was brought over to the west goat yoga was not a thing, nor should it, nor shouldn't be from a spiritual point. It's lovely. It's lovely. So that all that being said, we're in a safe space, you can say chakra.

Colette Baron-Reid 32:35
So yeah. So I had been immersed, actually, in studying with Annadea Judith. She had her her books out, and then it Carolyn Mace had had the anatomy and spirit. So everything was shocker, shocker, shocker. I was sober a few years at that point, and quite a few years, but I was like, You know what? Screw all this singing, singer songwriter stuff. I want to, you know, I want to do something, that's what I'm about, which is my my spirituality, etc. So I connected with somebody named Mars Lazar, who is a platinum selling new age artist. And it just happened, boom, boom, boom, really fast. And we created this spoken word that I think was one of the first ones ever made, that was in a 42 track, you know, scenario where I oh yeah, like we, it was like, fully, you know, the full monty of everything in there. And then we also did three songs that correlated to the chakras, because they went up the set the seven notes and the C scale. Anyway, it turned out like the one of my clients became the lawyer, the head of business affairs at EMI. And then the guy head of Virgin Records was a fan of this, the CD. We, we, I, we just released it me and my girlfriend, and it was one to number one for a minute. And it was, like, really exciting. And then they're like, let's do another one of these. And I'm like, oh, so that was coming. Oh, the form is different. Okay, so it could be this. So I got flown down to LA to work with Eric Ross, who did Tori Amos albums and and he goes, No, we're not going to do the chanting thing. We're going to we're going to write songs. I'm like, so then I went back with these songs. I said, Listen, I'll give you your money back, but she really good at this, so you can have your money back, but I really want to do this. So so he, he sent being Cameron sent being Cameron sent it around. Said, I'm not going to tell anybody whose music this is okay. Just going to send it around see what people think. If they like it, you can do an album and and that was the rest was history. But even getting the thing that I knew it was the universe said you want this this bad. Well, we know now you're strong enough to deal with looking at yourself with true eyes. Look at this. Is this the life for you? And I'm like, no.

Alex Ferrari 34:51
So the thing that's also interesting, and I want people listening to understand this, people who are frustrated with maybe not being where they want to be in life. Yeah. Certain and every aspect of it is that if it's not happening for you, at least this is my personal experience. I can't say for everybody, but when things aren't happening exactly the way you want it, or even remotely how you want it, it also could be the universe protecting you because you're not ready.

Colette Baron-Reid 35:17
Yes, oh my god, yes. I look back now, well, thank you. God, I would have dragged I would have been I wouldn't be alive

Alex Ferrari 35:24
If I would have gotten the if I would, I almost made a $20 million movie for the mafia. That's a whole story. Book about I wrote a book about it. It's a whole thing. If I would have had that happen to me, if I would have happened to me at 26 was when I was doing it, I would have self imploded, yeah, because if I would have worked with the caliber of actors, you know, I was working with some of the biggest movie stars in the world on that project, it would have been a very high profile it would have been a huge deal. I would have been thrust into the spotlight. I was so not ready for that, and I would have, would have destroyed me, yeah, and it would have just destroyed me, so I wasn't ready for it. So it's slowly, as I've noticed things throughout my life, I'm like, oh, things start to show up and do and grow at the level that you are ready to accept. Like, it's like, basically giving somebody. That's why lottery ticket winners have such a difficult time, and they lose because they lose their money or they die? Yeah, they look if you're if you're working a nine to five working for minimum wage, and all of a sudden someone throws you $20 million you don't have the capacity to understand how to handle that kind of energy coming into your life. Yeah. It means some people I did then, I won't get too deep into but I did documentary series, a commercial series for a lottery in Florida where I got to interview lottery winners. It was fascinating, because some of them, you can see, they're going to explode in about a year. You could see another one ignored. It. Kept working because he didn't want to lose his pension, but he had 20 million in the bank. Didn't change his house. Didn't change anything. He's like, Oh yeah. Every once in a while, when my wife walks by a store and wants to buy a dress, I'd let her buy it. So that's another way he'd like. He understood he was an older man, but he understood he couldn't. He didn't, he just didn't understand it. So he just put it away. So there was different ways of handling it. It was fascinating. But that's why people that get that, that's why we've seen it in in the entertainment industry. Yeah, kids who get famous really fast. They get

Colette Baron-Reid 37:34
Absolutely done. And I've been one of them, and I was grateful. And then, of course, when I told them how old I was, that was the headline. I remember the one of the headlines was EMI Music takes a risk on mature artist, right? And then it was like, Oh yeah, she could be Britney Spears's mother, right?

Alex Ferrari 37:52
Mature artist, wow, that's such a gaslighting term there. Just want to call her. You just want to call her an old bag, just old, right? Like old, she's old. And you're not that old, by the way, I would kill to be that age that you were when,

Colette Baron-Reid 38:12
Right, right? But the cool thing was, was that, you know the work, the spiritual work I was doing, and the work as an intuitive, and I just used the word intuitive. It was a lot easier, but yes, psychic medium, but I called myself an intuitive but that came. I never advertised. I never advertised, and I was booked solid. After I do this for six years, I ended up clients in 29 countries that would call me. There was no internet. They would give out my phone number and in airports, in bathrooms, at dinner tables, at like, fro so and so, gave it to so and so. And one day, I remember somebody called, and they said they were calling from deli, and I thought they were calling from the deli up the road, you know what I'm saying? And I was like, you want to come over like, no, no, you come and we will give you rose petals. And I'm like, What do you say? And then I was like, I'm like, New Delhi from where? Right? And then so I did this reading for this man. And then I ended up with these group of Japanese tourists that came that didn't speak a word of English, and they would tape it, and I had no interpreter, and I would tell them what I saw. And then the lady would call and say, Oh, by the way, I listened to the tapes and and translated for them that was amazing. And I'm like, I was so freaked out. And then I was like, okay, obviously I am this. And I remember crying because I didn't want to be this. I thought I was too weird. Like, I thought because I even dated guys that the minute they found out what I did for a living, like, well, I don't believe in that. I'm like, Well, I'm not sleeping with you. And then another one was like, Oh, my parents are Orthodox, whatever, and I could never bring you home. And I'm like, well, then what are we doing? It's like, because this was such a thing. So it was like, I felt that I had a like. Like that I was less than somehow, because I wasn't acceptable. And those days now, it's like, really cool. Like nobody in my world, nobody woke up and said, I can wake up and be a psychic medium. What a cool idea for a job. Like we were like, fringe, right? This is very Oh, I know. And not, and not at all respectable, and I wanted nothing more to in my parents at that point, had died already. And I remember when my mom was still alive, she was still alive, and when my dad died, because she they died two years apart. I thought it was a year, but actually it was two. And after he died, she she loved going to psychics, but I wasn't allowed to be one. Okay, no, right. She liked going and whatever. And and one day, a lady, she worked at a at a dress shop, because after my parents had lost everything, she had to work. And so this lady went in and said, Oh my god, I just had the most amazing reading from this woman. And you have to talk to her. And my mother's, who is it? Give her my name like and she gives her she writes it all out on a piece. I can't remember how to say her name. It's a little strange. She writes down Colette, and she and, and then my phone number, and my mother goes, That's my daughter, right? Oh, yeah, no. But then my mom was cool because, you know, she was cool with it. Then she died the year later. But it took all that time. It's because when my dad on my dad's funeral, she told people I was in marketing. They said, What are you doing? And they just go, she's in marketing. I'm like, okay,

Alex Ferrari 41:37
But the thing is this, and I and not to defend your your parents, who wanted the best for you, but I wanted to act they were, yeah, they wanted to protect you. They their depression, their depression era babies, so they unders. They just like, I don't want them to struggle like, I'm cool with the whole psychic medium thing, but I don't want my daughter to go through the same hell that I've seen others go through. I want her to have a stable job. I wanted to you were just, you're trying to protect

Colette Baron-Reid 42:04
Yes. And then it was their generation. My dad was born in 1908 my mother was born in 1927 right? So they came. My dad went from World War one and two, and my mom, you know, and the depression here in Europe, so and and they wanted me to be to have a shot at life that they didn't have. They wanted. And like most and they worked hard. You know, my father, particularly, so it was a tragedy when he lost everything. But you know, the work just came to me. And I think that this is the other thing, when people are struggling and they're saying like you said earlier, like your experiences, like, you know, you didn't get what you wanted yet, but what if the form, like I the essence of what I always wanted? Because that was the other thing, I really tricked myself, because I kept getting on my knees every day, and I did the whole prayer and, you know, show me, use me as thou wilt. Thy will be done through me, you know, relieve me of the bondage of self so that I may better do thy will, right? That Let There Be Life. Use me as thou wilt. And it was like, and, PS, I want to be a famous singer, right? It was like, No. PS, not happening. And so the clients just came and, and this just came, and I got a book deal with Hay House. Like I had no plans of writing a book, but I got it. Was just all these weird doors kept opening and and like, Okay, this is trippy. And then I'm like, I'm not a medium. I'm not a medium. I just know things about dead people. And the next thing you know, I'm like, Okay, well, I smell them now. Alright, okay, because I didn't want to step on any medium mediums toes at Hay House. I'm like, Oh my God, my friend John, he's a medium. I'm not saying it because I'm not trained. I am an untrained blob of talent, and I don't know. And all I know is what comes through. I know the differentiation between who, what is me, what is my wants, what is my ego and what is spirit. I know how to separate all that, and it just comes out of me and to me that was too natural, and I didn't it was not hard enough work, if you understand like and then I realized that's not how spirit wants it to be. It's not about hustling, it's not about pushing forward, it's not about working hard. It's about surrendering and being getting to play in life, and this is what I get to do. Go ahead,

I have to ask you this. Yes, you can ask me at the when you were going through your chasing of a dream. Yes, I said this to myself many times, because I was angry at God. I was angry at source. I was raised. I was raised a Catholic, so I always had a belief in about greater power, regardless of dogma. And I and I and I would say, Why would you give me this dream? Why would you give me the urge, the drive, the talent, the. And the experiences, why would you do this to me and not allow me to get to where I want to be? Why do those opera, those doors keep shutting on me? Why does it, and I was so angry about that, did you ever ask question?

Oh, my God. I was so torn. Because on one hand, I was trusting and I believed, and on the other hand, I was the most frustrated human, and I was mad, and I was like, What is this? I'm talented. I'm supposed to have this. I know this is saying, but I was so in my so I would visualize myself, because I would receive an image of me standing with a microphone and in Toronto, that I'm originally from Toronto in Canada, that there was a place called Massey Hall, and that became Roy Thompson Hall, right? And I saw myself with a microphone in front of 1000s of people on that stage. Well, two or two years into being with Hay House, I ended up with a microphone in my hand in front of 1000s of people at Massey Hall, Roy Thompson Hall doing readings. And I was like, and I realizing while I was standing there, oh, and they were playing my music, by the way, too. They played my music just before I came on stage.

Alex Ferrari 46:18
It's a different version of it's a different version of the dream. And our, I argue, is probably a better version than the dream, because this version doesn't, doesn't go down the Janis Joplin route.

Colette Baron-Reid 46:30
You know, yep, I'm lucky to get into that,

Alex Ferrari 46:35
Yeah, that whole, that whole, like, I'm gonna self destruct rock star thing. So this is an actual much more stable, much more sustainable.

Colette Baron-Reid 46:44
I'm in service, and I'm in service. I don't get tired. It's not about me, right? It really isn't about right? It's and I don't believe I have an original thought either. I really don't. I believe that there's so many of us speaking right now about very similar things. It's just that people want to hear it from different personnel. Different personalities, you know, like we, we see all the flavors, different flavors of the same Exactly. We're all ice cream, but I'm like, you know, spomone.

Alex Ferrari 47:13
But same thing for what I do. I mean, there's a there's, yeah, I mean, dozens and dozens of shows that talk to to intuitives and to channelers and to, you know, mystics and near death experiences and all that stuff. There's a ton of shows that do that, but people might like the way I do that because of my flavor and my experience. I appreciate it, and they and a lot of and I'm not the cup of tea for a lot of people, and they'll go to another show, and that's and that's the that's completely fine, but I think it's that's why I bring so many different personalities. Don't so many different people from different walks of life to talk about similar conversations, because, like, this conversation has gone into places that have never even what. I didn't even know we were going to because we didn't. No, no. It is a it is an organic conversation, and that's what people really want to hear. Because the thing is that your story might not ring for a lot of people, but it might ring for a handful. They'll go, Oh, I understand because, because they connect with you and your story, they connect with me and my story, or anything like that. So it's, it's the job. It's my job. My mission is to show it's shine as much light onto different versions of this story as possible. We've, I mean, I can, I can, I can rattle off a lot of the things that you are we're going to talk about in a few minutes, because I'm going to ask you similar questions, and I know where it's going to go, but your take on. It might be a little bit different, but different flavors. I have to ask you before we get to those questions. I want to ask you when you so you say, you talk to dead people, right? You see, you see, you hear, you hear them. I always like, I always, I was always like, is this ghost? Is this Whoopi Goldberg or just walk around like the sixth sense, and just see dead like, you know, there's Bob from the Roman times, you know,

Colette Baron-Reid 49:06
No, mine is no, that's funny. And I love with Whoopi Goldberg when she realized she actually had it. So I don't see, I don't see anything, um, I get it's like, I remember them. It's like, all of a sudden, I remember the name, I remember what they smell like. I remember their feelings. I remember the stories. It's like they're my memory, but I'm being gift given it as a gift to see and into it so I don't, well, only one time or two times I've actually seen some somebody walked through my house while I was doing reading over the phone. I'm like, you get out of my house. I'm not having that. I don't mind doing it over the phone. I don't mind listening, but I'm not looking at anybody that's not supposed to be there, like I have a caveat that that's not for me. I just don't want it, but I get information, and they kind of hijack me a little bit. Only one time have I done physical mediumship, which on stage that was terrifying, and I never want to do that again, either. So. I kind of figured out what I was okay with, I think. But for me, it was more like they they come through feelings, they identify through evidence, and then they always have a conversation that they want to share. And it's, but it's like, broke. It's like, it's like hearing something that's right a bit, you know what I mean? It's like, I I get some of it and whatever, and I just say, Okay, this is what I'm getting. It may not be 100% correct, but do you know what this means? The person goes, oh my god, of course. I know what this means. Blah, blah, blah. And they're like, Okay, and then I'll translate something. It's like me, I'm being a translator. I'm a translator of of somebody else's life experience, but I'm remembering them. It's the same thing. When I look into the future, I remember the future. I remember this thing that's coming. I remember it. So for me, it's all about this feeling, state of memory. So when I see medium, say, Oh, I see so and so behind you. I love it. I don't see anybody there, but I know what I'm picking up. You know what I mean? And we all feel experience it differently. For me, it's about tapping into consciousness. And I can't have a two way conversation. I've always I try, like, what's it like over there? So I can tell everybody, right? And like, blank, you know, it doesn't go like that. It's more like, I'm going to be used on behalf of someone in front of me, like, I do readings twice a month. The only place I do it on my membership site, it's called Spirit jam. And so I do readings off the oracle cards. I'll do coaching and mediumship invariably comes through for whoever's in front of me. And it's like, I'm like, oh, oh, does this make sense to you? Like, so and so, and what you would call it, and then I'll get a German word, and the guy goes, Oh, my God, my mom used to make that for me when I was a kid and or something, right? So, so it's, it's more about connecting to consciousness. That said, I believe that's, that's what all of us tap into, you know, and the new generations of kids coming up already have that access point, this new genetic child, the new human that's coming through telepathy, things like that are just part and parcel of what our capabilities are. So when I tune in, I'm like, I tap into some kind of shared resource. So for me, it's always been about consciousness. It's like, we share this. You came to me. You're letting me look.

Alex Ferrari 52:20
Did you have you heard of the telepathy tapes?

Colette Baron-Reid 52:23
Yes, yes.

Alex Ferrari 52:25
I just, I just, really, yeah. We just released, on Saturday, we released the episode that talks to the director, who, who's,

Colette Baron-Reid 52:31
Oh, I gotta watch that. I have to watch it.

Alex Ferrari 52:34
Yeah. It's a great episode, and it's such a beautiful thing about children non, not for everyone listening, non verbal, children who are on the spectrum, autistic or on the spectrum and and how they're they, they have telepathy, and it's being scientifically proven, not just like a couple of us people, but worldwide. Yeah, stories,

Colette Baron-Reid 52:55
They all come together.

Alex Ferrari 52:57
You know, it's amazing. Yeah, it's remarkable. Yeah. Well, that's starting to people are starting to figure out that science is starting to catch up with this, because they're like, testing it, and they're like, well, something's happening, and we can test it again and again, and it's something's happening.

Colette Baron-Reid 53:13
IANDS, the in the Yeah, you know, it has always, don't be barking, and my dog just woke up on my laps. IANDS was one of my favorite, you know, favorite. They do so much scientific research around the paranormal. Before it was popular, even really, you know, now, of course, now we're seeing more and more studies, because science is catching up. Like, look at, look at the manifesto for post materialist science too, like the all these different, you know, quantum physics, yeah, right, exactly like saying, suggesting that consciousness is fundamental to life. That's why I believe, like I'm an animist. I believe that there is a spirit in all things, and that's like consciousness exists. We are one giant blob of consciousness, the noospheric consciousness that that exists around our planet, and also multi dimensionally. So there's no way that this doesn't exist. It's just that not every, because not everybody, has it, people get scared, and so therefore they impose their superstitions on it, and they impose their dogma on it. And that's not supposed to be and you should have an intermediary. You should be afraid or something. You know that you're not allowed to to do that, or it has to go here. And the fact is, is it's just natural for some of us. We're just I can't do a lot of things like normal people do, but I can talk to dead people, and I can and I know, and I can see the future in some in some instances, or the potentiality from a particular point of answers. I don't believe in absolute determinism at all, I don't right, and millions of choices

Alex Ferrari 54:44
So, so let's, let's go down that road you mentioned earlier that humanity is going through a very difficult change in the next couple years, a couple years. Can you elaborate on what you are seeing for humanity?

Colette Baron-Reid 54:58
What I see? So I. So I'm going to say something that is really important that we know, like, I'm a Canadian, I think you're an American, and this has nothing to do with politics, nothing at all. I could care less about that. Because if you go above, if you can sit on a ledge and look at the world right, sit on a ledge and see the world there, there we are going through a global shift. This was predicted by mil so many different cultures. I mean, that it's not even important to say which one, right? Do you know what I mean? This is something that we have known was coming. And this is not like Y2k, or 2012 right? This is not like we're all sitting there waiting for the apocalypse, which just means Revelation, by the way, too, right? It's great for to be revealed, something to be revealed. And I think that with the advent of AI, with the advent of, you know, our genetic changes, the kids that are being born right now, and, yes, structures that are disintegrating, we need a deconstruction right now for this new golden age that has been predicted to actually come, come to life. No birth. I mean, if you look at the if you were the first guy that ever saw a woman giving birth, okay? Oh no, no. No. Exciting, no, right? It's like

Alex Ferrari 56:14
She looks like she's dying. She looks like she's they're killing her.

Colette Baron-Reid 56:16
She never mind you. Watch the whole thing go. She gets bigger and bigger and bigger. She's got hemorrhoids. She's nasty, she feels bad, like, you know what I mean? Then she starts screaming and yelling, and this goop comes out of her, and then flop comes the baby. And then everything is okay. We're in that phase. We're not even crowning yet. We are claustrophobic. Okay. We are in this birth canal. We're all freaking out, and we're gonna come out we are. But it's like, if you actually, if you look at the more metamorphosis, if you look at that, how, the how, what happens to the caterpillars. It needs to die to itself in order to be born. And it needs to use its own strength to get itself out of its cocoon, right? It's, it's gotta come out there. We can't help a butterfly out of its cocoon. It needs to fly on its own. So all of us are going through this, and the worst thing any of us can do right now is look at the small details of the current state of the world, quote, unquote, with all the the crazy going in it, that's none of it means anything. And it's hard to say that to people go, What do you mean? Because it's just part of this process, and what we see today is not going to be the same thing this time next year or this time the year after. We're in the biggest rapid change of humanity, and we all chose to be here. That's what I believe, you know. And is it all going it's like, oh, will it be good? Will it be bad? It'll be different. It'll be very different. And it'll support us in a way that we need to in order for us to be on this planet, until the planet decides to kick us off, if it does

Alex Ferrari 57:47
The thing is that people, people want things a lot. Most people don't like change as a general statement, humanity as a general as a general statement, certainty. Yeah, you want certainty, because, if not, the tiger will kill you around the corner. That's so you want, yeah, well, it seems like the last. I'm gonna say this decade for sure, but I'd say argue the last. I think since 2012 I think really, things have been becoming more uncertain, more chaotic, more just shifting and also speeding up in a way that that I've never seen in my lifetime. I'm sure you've never seen in your lifetime as well it from but the moment 2020, came in, this decade we came in, we came in hot with COVID, and the whole, I mean, came in real hot, and every year since, has been this kind of insanity that has been continuously going, and this year hasn't, as a dis recording, has not, has not wavered in that sense, either

Colette Baron-Reid 58:55
Can I add to this? So, so sorry. You know what I noticed? I interrupt you a lot, but it's because I get excited.

Alex Ferrari 59:03
Go for it. It's all good.

Colette Baron-Reid 59:04
It's been it's the sustained uncertainty is something all of us have. Now, like you said, Since 2012 there's been a level of sustained uncertainty that's gathered more and more steam as we went. Human beings crave certainty in times of uncertainty more than anything else. So they go and they say, show me. Tell me tell me it's going to be okay. Tell me it's going to be okay. But our certainty cannot come from us, determining how certain we are or not by looking at the outer world to dictate how we feel. We can't wait for it to behave. It's not going to behave. And we have to retrain ourselves to trust that certainty must come from within, and we have the technology for that the inner world that can recognize that the unknown outer is not where we have to place our attention, our attention, because then we get seduced, and that's when we fear, and then the stress response happens, and you cannot, when you're on patrol looking for threats, you cannot. Can't co create your reality from a place of creativity. You just can't, because your your intuition turns into instinct for survival. It's no longer operating for you that way. So the trick is now it's not even a trick. The the invitation for us now is to determine where can our certainty come from? And for me, when I am operating at my best, my certainty comes from, and it's not coming from. Well, God's going to fix it? That's not what I mean. It's knowing that I am made of something greater. My own inner technology is greater than I know, and that my job is to detach from the conditioned self to the best of my ability on a daily basis. And I'm not going to do it perfect every day, but I'm going to know that there is something greater than me that's running the show, like who's large and in charge, it's not me. And to radically accept that there is something that I don't know and that I'm that is unknowable, but I must follow it, and when I do that, I feel safe, because if my safety is not determined on whether or not the outer is reflecting to me that I'm okay. Does that make any sense?

Alex Ferrari 1:01:14
It makes perfect sense. But one thing that you I like to add on to that is that you and I have gone to different places in our own life that forced us to let go, right? You know, we hit a spiritual rock bottom, or a career rock bottom, financially, career wise, love, whatever it is, we hit a rock bottom to the point where the universe brought us to our knees, yeah, and we had really the choice was, we can continue to live here, or you can let go. Yeah, if you let go, we will carry you, we will take you down this path, and it's going to be more glorious than you can even imagine. It's going to be far beyond what you think it could if you allow it to happen. But the universe kept pounding us and pounding us. Is that a fair statement?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:02:09
1,000% and that's what's happening to so many people right now. But that's why you are a lighthouse in your way. We're different flavors of the same lighthouse. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like an here doing this to show people. I if I can do it, you can too. Like, I was voted least likely to succeed by people in my treatment center for women. Like, oh that

Alex Ferrari 1:02:31
But the thing is that, and this is what people don't understand, is yes, many people are going through an awakening right now. There's no question. The numbers of this show basically explain is proof of that happening? Yeah? Because a show like this would have never had a million plus subscribers, that's insanity. This is, this is weirdos. We're talking to psychics and woo woo people, people who talk to the dead, for God's sakes. Who does this? You know what I mean. So people are going on an individual sense. But I think that on a macro sense, the universe, source, whatever you want to call it, is now doing it on a collective way to all of humanity. Hence, COVID was the first, like one of those, those tricks, the the economic hits that are have been, have happened and will happen in the future, just on a logical standpoint, the environment, the different organizations, from religion to healthcare to the arts to media, all of it is being shaken to the core, because it needs to be brought essentially to its knees to allow for this new thing to come up. But that's not pleasant, as you and I can both attempt, dude

Colette Baron-Reid 1:03:51
And and it doesn't have to be, and I think people it's like, so that's why I'll give you an example. When I got sober, I had people who were clean and sober, who had worse experiences that were ahead of me, that I that knew what I was talking about, but they had done it. And so I followed this system, right? You know, the 12 steps at that time, right? So I followed that avidly. I'm like, show me. Oh, wow, you experienced that. What did you do? Right? Well, we did right and so and I then think too. But let me tell you about your show. One of the best parts about your show, which is why I was like, I love this guy, was that you make us look human, like we're not on pedestals here. We're sharing information. We're human beings in here without like, I don't want to be on anybody's pedestal. I want to share my experience, strength and hope with people and say, hey, it worked for me. This is what I did. Take what you like and leave the rest and find something from somebody else too, because we all need help right now. And you're right, the whole the whole kit and caboodle is going through it, and it's going to be unpleasant, and it's going to and even the people who think it's yippee, oh, boy. This. Is the best thing ever, and this is what I wanted. Are also going to go through something unpleasant, right? It doesn't matter where you're coming from. The unpleasantness is change, because human beings don't want it, because whatever, as soon as you get what you say you want, you're going to evolve into something else, and you have to become the person that lives that life. You need to change. You can't just sit there. There's no such thing as static, you know. And so

Alex Ferrari 1:05:24
Like we were saying, like we were saying, is that this pressure that that the universe is putting, not only on the individual, but on the collective, it is getting you to a point where you have no, almost no, other choice, other you have two choices continue on the path which has not been working, and it's not been pleasant, or you begin to look inward. And that's what's happening to so many people. People are starting to look inward because the answers are not outside. This is what all the sages, this is all the saints. This is all the Ascended Masters had spoken about, the prophets, who've come through, through those beautiful souls who are, you know, guiding lights for humanity, that Jesus is the Buddhas of the world. And you're being forced to work. Look inward for the answer, which is so much more powerful than working. And it would. It's not easy. You're gonna you're gonna have to. You're gonna have this is one of the reasons why people don't meditate as much as they should, because when they start to meditate, one, they'll start to judge it. Or two, they'll not only start to judge it, but stuff will start to come up, unpleasant stuff that they don't want to deal with. And they're like, You know what? I'd rather not. I don't want to talk about what happened to me as a child. I don't want to talk about what that person did to me. I don't want to talk about my failures or the traumas that I had in my life. I don't want to go down that road, but without doing that inner work, the shadow work, if you will. Yeah, the shadow you cannot come out of the cocoon. And that's right, humanity is going through.

Colette Baron-Reid 1:06:58
And you know, you made, you made a really good point about shadow work. So that became, it's still interesting how words get popularized, like trauma became popularized and shadow work without people really understanding what they were talking about, right? You know, and if we don't look at our shadow, which is the qualities that we have, that we want to disown about ourselves and others. Right to Sony, we will not change. We can't, because it's going to constantly pull us back. You know those hungry ghosts that we you know that that unmet desires, the qualities in our personalities, those character flaws, is what they say, or or those quirks in us that actually keep us on that hamster wheel too? Oh, I'm going to keep doing a condition thing, hoping some I'll do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. And if we do what we did, we're going to get what we got. So it's that willingness, and I think that's that's what the we comes in. It's interesting that we're seeing that such a push to individualism and the need for the collective to come together and hold hands. You know, it's not about the me, the unique me that's here to do my job, can serve the we. So it's two things, but we don't stay in the individualism. We say, Ah, this is how I got to this authentic part. So let's do this together. And I think that's another reason why so many communities are formed. That's why your show has become so popular. That's why you know, like, we need each other right now. We need also to not be in echo chambers either, to like, just say, My way is the only way, the spiritual way. There are many paths to enlightenment. Pick the one, pick the one that you're attracted to. You know, right? There is no just one way.

Alex Ferrari 1:08:43
That's the thing that's so fascinating to me. When people are like wars are happening because of people's belief systems, yeah, and they have the arrogance to believe that this their way is the only way every one of the masters who walked this earth that a lot of these great, dogmatic religions, spiritual paths philosophy started. They were all different, but arguably saying very similar, similar things.Buddha, Jesus allows to like, you could just go Krishna. Krishna. They're all saying very similar things, but they're different flavors, because you need that. And it just like, look, my flavor is, you know, I studied Yogananda. I love his path, but he's the one who's like, no, no, no, but Jesus said the same thing, oh, and by the way, and also, these, are all these other other great saints and stuff like that. It's a very inclusive idea about it. But whatever rings true to you is not the only way for everybody. Just like not everyone eats steak, right? They get their some people get their protein from mug bean, you know, culturally, you know, and other people get it for. Some Texas, you know, cattle, yeah, you know, completely different. It's a completely different so not every path is for everybody. I just wanted to put that out there,

Colette Baron-Reid 1:10:09
No, and I'm glad you. I'm glad you, you, yeah, like we, you, and I think very similarly, it's, it's, we're very alike. You and I, I think in a lot of ways, the way we see things. I love your irreverence too, because I think we take ourselves way too seriously. We're so sensitive right now, when the truth is, is that happening? You know what? I mean? It's like it is happening. It's going down. We're not going back. We're going forward to something we've never seen before. It has never been in our lifetimes, before, and the way there is to go in many respects too. You know, some of the oldest teachings are still valid today. The cleanest, you know, they are valid. So, you know, we're not here to reinvent the wheel. Go back to the simplest form is Love thy neighbor as thyself. You know, do unto others. You know, the golden rule, you know, like, feed the hungry. It's like, you know,

Alex Ferrari 1:11:06
Kingdom of heaven is inside of you, yeah.

Colette Baron-Reid 1:11:08
Like, well, that mostly the the I Am, right? And greater works than these, shall you do? Wasn't that something that Jesus said, right when he made the loaves and the happen, right? You know, like, it's like, and we it's all about the fact that every single no matter where it came from, speaks to the fact that we are one. Unity is our number one truth, that we are all one. We are one consciousness, one being that our greatest sin, we miss the mark. Sin means to miss the mark. It doesn't mean you're bad. You missed the mark, that you are a spiritual being having a human experience, right? And that you let your human experience run the show when truthfully spirit, or that the world, that the unseen world, is the primary world, the world of synchronicity, the world of higher consciousness, we have access to that that knows natural morality, natural right? It is. It is natural for us to get along. That's what nature does it get. It's not the one that the survival of the fittest. That's the survival of that which fits best with others, right? It's like playing nice in the freaking sandbox. I don't know who said that, but it's like Jesus.

Alex Ferrari 1:12:17
I think Jesus said

Colette Baron-Reid 1:12:18
That right, in the sandbox. You know that's one of the things that you have is as a running thread in in your shows, is that no matter who you're interviewing at some point, no matter how woo woo, and how many weird talents and skills we have, because I have tons more, but it's like, whatever the bottom line at the end of the day, if we're doing this, we're here to help people find themselves. For me, it's all about personal transformation. If I can help midwife something for somebody else without me putting any of my own projected rules on it. It's like Here, try this. Well, this is what worked for me. You try it too, right? When I channel my Oracle card decks, it's the I have the wildest experience, you know, like recently, when I did the whole guides of the hidden realms, decks. I mean, it was like somebody just moved me aside and I had to paint. I hadn't picked up a paintbrush in 30 years. Like, go do this. You know, I'm like, Oh. Like, what go ahead

Alex Ferrari 1:13:17
So let me ask you Yes, for people listening right now who are very fearful of the future, who are fearful of the rest of this year, the rest of next year, the rest of this decade. What advice do you have for them, knowing what you've seen for humanity?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:13:32
Oh, I want to give them a hug. Like I'm kind of the mother of all orphans, right? I mean, we've got to give ourselves a hug. Gotta give ourselves a hall pass. This is going to be a little bit scary, and it's one day at a time. If you could live your life 24 hours at a time and trust a primary relationship with spirit or your higher power beyond our you know your need to look at the outer world to tell you whether you're okay or not, like meditate more. I mean, I know that sounds so Pat and so simple. It's but I believe that this world is going to be a world that is beautiful, that there is so much more beauty than there is the ugly, that the pain that we're going through is like the pain of giving birth. It's not the kind of hard pain that we are being somehow traumatized unnecessarily, that we are in this beautiful process. I'm excited. I'm actually super hopeful. I'm hopeful of so much, you know, and it's not going to be the devastation is not going to be the kind of devastation that you say. It's not the end of the world. It's an end of our world, and in a beginning of something new and beautiful. And I, I'm sticking to this. I believe it. Every day I wake up and go, hm, now let's see, right? I just it's a way also that we could surrender our fear to a power great in ourselves, whatever it is for you, in. Know whatever it is. I don't care where you just call it whatever you want. Just trust that you're not alone.

Alex Ferrari 1:15:06
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful message. I hope people listening can take that and run with it. Because, you know, I ask about this question, I ask about this a lot on the show, because I believe that it's my responsibility to let people know because they're scared. They're looking for they're looking for answers in an uncertain world, and they come to the show sometimes looking for those answers. And oracles or intuitives or mediums or channels, they have a connection to the other side, and a connection to what the potentiality of what the future is. But like I told you before you start talking about it, everything you said, I've heard before, Nothing is new, like, it's not new new information. It's the way you presented it, yeah, but it's the way you presented it, the flavor you presented it, the hope that you're putting into it, but I hope people that take the take out of it, but just because something is going to be unpleasant doesn't mean that you're not going to see the sun on the other side of it, you know, but that's life. That is what we've all gone through. Every single human being on the planet has had struggle in one way, shape or form, whether you're the richest person in the world or the poorest person in the world, the most loved or the least loved, all of us have gone through some if not, we wouldn't be here, right?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:16:31
You know, the other thing too, is that our authentic selves hold our highest potential, and that's the only don't wait for the world to settle down, for you to pursue your dream. That's the other thing, right? You're here if you feel called or you're inspired, because inspiration is a gift. That's the other thing. Don't give into your fear because you won't leave room for inspiration. Inspiration is a gift every human being has. It doesn't matter how big or small. The thing is that you're inspired to move towards, go do that, because this world is about, no, it's, it's both and this and that will be true. This will be true that I am hopeful and I love humanity, and I believe that we all get a second chance. And I really believe that good is going to come out of all whatever anybody is seeing right now. I really believe that. I believe it, that if you cannot push a seed into ground that is so hard, it won't accept anything new, you have to take a hoe and break it up, right? You break it up, you break up the soil. And that's what's happening right now. And new growth is assured. And, yeah, you know, if you're a piece of sand, if you're in there, you're going, like, I that's the, that's the place where I feel safest. You know, safety, it's, it's like we have to trust in something greater and okay and be okay with our fear. That's the other thing. It's like, make friends with it, like there's, instead of saying, like, don't have that, I can't stand that whole love and light. Everything is going to be love and light and like, it's like, you know, we'll bypass all that's going on. No, no, no, it's both. And it's, Hey, this is happening. I'm really uncomfortable. Oh, wow. And I'm feeling fearful. And then it's like, yeah. And you know what, there's a power greater than myself that knows better than me, and I may not get that information. So I'm called to do this. I'm going to go do this while I'm noticing that, you know, it's about not choosing one or the other. It's being present to what is, because that's where the freedom is. Is not trying to change anything that's in front of us except ourselves.

Alex Ferrari 1:18:38
Beautifully, beautifully said. Now Colette I'm going to ask you a few questions. Ask all my guests, okay, what is your what is your definition of living a fulfilled life?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:18:46
Being creative, having dogs, love my husband, it's creativity. It's being able to create and having the opportunity to create, and knowing what else is a fulfilled life. Well, I'm in nature a lot. I live in the middle of nowhere on a big farm. So I love nature, seeing that other people could be impacted in a positive way by anything I do. Like, I don't care what it is, and getting, still getting to do oracle cards. Like, for me, that's like, it was a crazy, little niche thing that I just knew I had to do. It was called to do. And I love doing these things. That's my creativity. It's painting, I don't know. Like music. I'm back doing music again. You know, fulfillment is but it's also knowing, and I'm not going to say world peace, like, you know, like we're not in a pageant, but trusting I'm not fulfilled if I don't have God in my life, I'll just be honest, if I don't have some kind of power grid in myself, be it the consciousness, be it that, that I can see the spirit in all things that has to exist in my life for me to feel fulfilled.

Alex Ferrari 1:19:59
If you had a chance to go back in time and speak to little Colette, what advice would you give her?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:20:04
Don't drink the sleeve of it. I think you're going to be more than okay. Everything you're going to go through is going to bring you a gift, even the most painful ones trust. I would tell her to trust and that she would never really ever be alone.

Alex Ferrari 1:20:27
How do you define God or Source?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:20:29
Consciousness that is wiser than human? Because you know, for me, God and source is neutral too. So it's like it is going to reflect to me, if I keep rehearsing evil over and over again, I'm going to see that so it, I have a real a relationship to it. It's not something that's outside of me. It's something I'm a part of. So, God, source, I'm part of that. So I have a responsibility to the dynamic relationship that I have with source, and that I am responsible for what I put out into the world, because it's going to give me anything that I rehearse, and I'm conditioned to keep rehearsing. That's what I believe. I believe in its benevolence, even though I don't see it as Santa Claus, like I'm a good here. Give me a gift, right? Not at all, but I do believe that it is the source of all creativity, and that I get to be part of it, and that I will return to it when I'm done.

Alex Ferrari 1:21:29
What is love?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:21:30
Well, love is source, okay, love in this moment is the smell of a puppy's head, Puppy breath is love, right here, right sharing. Sharing is love and not people pleasing. I had to learn something that I would it really took me a long time to learn my co dependency, things that I didn't actually help when I was trying to help, to recognize too, when it is, when it's when I cannot help the struggling butterfly out of the cocoon, because I think it's the right thing to do. So also live and let live is love. You know, really acceptance, radical acceptance is love. And I mean, I guess hope is an aspect of love, you know? And, yeah, I think, I think love is the source of Source of all of the cosmos.

Alex Ferrari 1:22:31
If you had a chance to ask God or Source one question, what would it be?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:22:36
I would like to learn how to be more fearless. So I think I would ask God, how could I trust you even more and not give in to the fear that, that the fear of that I give, that I don't want to just be always giving lip service to my fate, you know, but I will doubt sometimes, like, how do I live with less of that? And also, how, what was the other one? How do I? I would love to say, how could I, how can I heal my dog? But no, that would be my private conversation with God, which I don't get the answers from. But yeah,

Alex Ferrari 1:23:14
Fair enough, yeah. And what is the ultimate purpose of life?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:23:18
Yeah, to create. I really think to co create, to be a partner with spirit, and Co create a reality that is beneficial to others, not just for myself.

Alex Ferrari 1:23:28
And where can people find out more about you and the amazing work you're doing in the world?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:23:31
Just go to my website colettebaronreid.com. We can give you a link. I have a newsletter. I give away stuff for free all the time. I've got 19 Oracle card decks. I've got books. I have a new book coming out on the arts in the fall. My membership site. I do readings twice a month in there, but just come check it out. See, I see if I'm your cup of tea, it's colettebaronreid.com.

Alex Ferrari 1:23:57
And do you have any parting messages for the audience?

Colette Baron-Reid 1:23:59
Yeah, give yourself a hug. Give each other a hall pass. We're doing this together, and just spend more time loving and less time judging, you know, especially yourself,

Alex Ferrari 1:24:17
Especially yourself. Colette, thank you so much for this conversation. It was such a it was such a it was such a pleasure and honor speaking to you today. And I'm really, truly hopeful, hopeful that this conversation will help heal and bring some some peace to people watching. So I appreciate you and everything you're doing to awaken this planet. So thank you.

Colette Baron-Reid 1:24:35
Thank you for having me. This was fun.