A Behind the Scenes Conversation: An Intuition Journey with Kim O’Neill

This week on our podcast, we have an amazing guest -- Kim O'Neill. Join us as she shares her story about trusting intuition and uncovering your own personal power! She talks about the transformation that happens when you open yourself up to spiritual guidance and intuitive development. Hear about how she realized her journey of self-discovery was aligned with her purpose of helping others in deep ways. And tune in so you don't miss hearing all about this exciting opportunity for people to learn from one of the best - Kim O'Neill!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Opening yourself up to spiritual guidance and intuitive development can help you uncover and understand your own personal power.

• Developing trust with a spiritual advisor is the key to understanding yourself better on a deeper level.

• Intuitive building classes can help you tap into your own power and develop trust with a spiritual advisor that can open up new possibilities for understanding yourself on a deeper level.

• Making changes in your life doesn't have to be scary; embracing the transformation can open new opportunities for self-discovery and growth.

• Resources

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  Episode Transcript

  Amy Hageman  00:13

  Okay. Oh hello love's Welcome to the living out love podcast. I am so excited to have Kim O'Neill with us today. So for anybody that has listened to any of my stories about how I came to be a channel on a medium, anyone that has read my about page on my website, you know of Kim O'Neil.

  So Kim is a fantastic psychic, she is my go to. I have used her in times when I felt like the world was upside down. I have used her in times when I just wanted concrete, tell me what to do guidance and advice. And I've never walked away disappointed. So I wanted to have her on the podcast a so that I could learn from her and have a bit of a mentor mentee conversation. And because she has some different strengths. And she has some, some new things coming out that I wanted to learn more about, and I thought that you all would benefit from and would love to know about. So welcome Kim O'Neill.

  Kim O'Neill  01:19

  Thank you, Amy. And yay.

   

  Amy Hageman  01:23

  So I just want to I'll catch people up. So for those of you that haven't heard, you know, other stories, I had a reading with Kim O'Neil, two or three, two or three years ago. And she had said, you know, you know your channel, right? And I was like, Yeah, I knew that she she said, you know your medium, right? I was like, Oh yeah, I guess I didn't know that. And that's where this whole thing come from. So she had already been my psychic for years. And now here recently, I've come to think of her more of as a mentor. Not that I call you all that often. But, Kim, welcome to the podcast. And what I would love to just ask you first is, can you tell people you know who you are? How long you've been doing this? And how did you? How did you come to know that you were a psychic?

  Kim awakened to her intuition when she saw an angel

  Kim O'Neill  02:11

  Oh, me, thank you for having me. I'm so excited. And by the way, I love the name of your podcast. I think it's wonderful, perfect for you. Okay, so. So I have been an angelic channel, and psychic and medium, and teacher and author for almost 35 years started started many years ago. And the way that I got going was actually supernatural. It's it's one of those weird supernatural stories.

  And essentially, what happened is that one of my guardian angels came in actually materialized almost in front of me, I was having a really difficult time in my life. And you know how we hear so many times when people have a big breakthrough, or they have this opportunity to launch into a brand new chapter of life. But first, they have to go through a period of pain and confusion and a period where it feels like so many people say the dark night of the soul. So yes, what was happening with me at the time, I was in a marriage that we were getting a divorce, I owned a business with my soon to be ex husband. And we still had to work together every day. And he had already started moving on. And we were not in sync or aligned at all with our values or spiritually, but I wasn't on my spiritual path then really at all. So I was I remember sitting at my desk and I was weeping. And I asked for help. I just it was one of those moments when we just cry out in despair. And I just cried out out loud, you know, I have nowhere to go, I need help. I don't know what to do. So I went in and got my tipic I'd my own apartment at that time because we've separated and I got my Chinese food like I did. And I went home to my cat, Mike my little apartment, and I was so depressed and confused and miserable. And I didn't know which way to turn out I truly didn't. And I was in my I was like 30-31 at the time. So and I didn't know what I was going to do in regard to not only my personal life, but I knew that I was meant to do something different than advertising. We co owned an advertising agency and PR firm. And I I loved it and I loved helping clients grow and really get their message out there. But I knew that it wasn't really my thing. It was his thing. And I get into it. Because of him, so.

  So I got home that night and it completely, it was a completely life changing day. I sat down with my food. And the moment I sat down, I turned on a movie. And there in the corner of my living room, this this spirit, this man materialized, and stuff like that just didn't happen to me, Amy, it was so totally out of the ordinary. And he materialized and I remember my cat, Winston, jumping off the couch and running over to him, and rubbing on his legs. And I'm sitting there thinking, wow, oh my God, I need therapy mitigation. Oh, my God. I knew I was thinking, I know I worked with my ex husband too long, I should have left. Now look what's happened. And the apparition just stood there real quietly. And my brain was saying, Oh, no, a guy's broken in our apartment. We've got to call the police. But he was just standing there smiling at me this apparition. This had never happened to me before. So then he started talking. And he told me, he was my guardian angel.

   

  Kim wasn’t raised to talk to angels…

  Now, I was raised as a Catholic, but I wasn't a Catholic anymore by that time. But Catholics believe in guardian angels. But we certainly at least, the way I was brought up, we certainly didn't believe that they talked to us. They would talk to priests, nuns, but not ever to us. And so here he is, and and he's just standing there, I could see him clearly. And he said, I'm your guardian angel, John, I've come to help you move on with your life. And, and he said, Don't you remember I was with you as a child. And then in my mind's eye, wow, it was as if he he showed me these memories of when I was a little girl. And when he was there. It's like my invisible friend. I've always been really shy. And I'm an introvert. So he was he was always there with me. And I remembered, and I thought, I'm sitting there on the couch. And all these things are going through my mind. And I'm thinking, How did I forget all of that? How did I not remember him? Or why didn't I stay connected with him? But he then said, you know, you're going to be moving on, I'm going to help you.

  Kim O'Neill  07:31

  And I remember saying to him, even though it sounded crazy at the time with me talking to him this this apparitions. I remember asking him, so how long are you going to be with me? How long are you going to stay? Because I thought, maybe, just maybe this is my hope maybe as crazy as this seems. Maybe my prayers have been answered. And maybe he's really has come to help me. I had no one else. I had no friends. I was helping to support my mom at the time. And I had nowhere else to turn. And I asked him, I said, Well, if I can believe in you, and how long will you stay with me? And he said, he smiled. And he said, as long as it takes. And then that was the beginning of this amazing friendship and this interaction, and it makes me tear up because it was the start of a brand new life for me. And I know for a fact that if I hadn't received information from him, because then he stayed with me. And it took about two years, three years for me to start giving information to other people. But he said to me, because you know, I've been helpful to you. And because, you know, you, I've helped you, you know, start to move on. Wouldn't you love to do that with other people?

  And I said, I would love to do that. I'd already been of service to people, when I helped them build their businesses, when I was in advertising and PR, and so and so I thought, wow. And I asked him, but how would I do that? And he said, well, you'll do for them exactly what I'm doing for you. And the first thing I said was, I can't do that. And he said, why? Just because you haven't done it before? And I said yes. Hello. And he said, Kim, I want you to hear this. You are going to learn a lot of different things in this lifetime from this time forward. Unless you want your life to stay exactly where it is.

  And I said no. He said then you have to learn new things you have to get out of your comfort zone. And you could do it baby step by baby step. I'm right here with you. And unless you start moving forward, you're.. you're not going to be able to move at all and you're going to stay stagnant. And I thought I can and you know what Amy I have found as as a human being myself but also... So, in the channeling sessions that I've conducted over these 35 years, that so many times we don't, we, we choose to move forward and get out of our comfort zone and, and be willing to learn new things to launch into a new chapter of life. When things become so intolerable, where we are, that we don't need guarantees anymore, it's going to be okay, no matter what we move on to, it's gonna be better than where we are. And that's where I was. And that's what it took for me to be able to move forward.

   

  Kim O'Neill  10:32

  So what I like to tell people today is, don't wait, you can't wait. You've you've, you know, find out what it is you're here to do. Because we all have a life's work, we all have a destiny, find out what that is, and do what you can step by step by step and it's hard to take baby steps move forward. So I love in private session to be able to share actionable, specific actionable steps with people about pragmatically what they can do right now to move their lives forward. A lot of times, and I don't know if, if, if this is familiar to you, too, but as an angelic channel, a lot of times people think of angels as la la, la, la, da, and yes, they're on the other side. And, and there's, there's no real connection there, they protect us and watch over us, they can maybe help us heal from some terrible disease. But, but we don't have this day to day interaction with them, or this, this connection with them.

  Working with angels

  Kim O'Neill  11:44

  So we actually learn that they're in our lives, they're assigned to us, and they work only with us are our particular guardian angels. And the the pragmatic, specific, actionable steps that can give us every day is so amazing, that it can really help us move into the person that we are here to be, and do two things.

  Because we're here on the earthly plane in each of our lifetimes to do two things, number one, to learn and grow and evolve and expand mature. And number two, to, to serve other people in the unique way that we are capable, we all have unique gifts, talents, and abilities, even if we don't know about them, yet, they're there.

  And so we're angels can just tell us what they are, how to move forward, what we can do, how much faster we can move forward, etcetera, etcetera. So, so you kind of asked me how, what time it is, and I, I talked about how the whole watch was made, but I just wanted to share those.

  Amy Hageman  12:57

  I am so glad you shared all of those things. Because A, I'm like, Oh my gosh, we have so much in common. I was in my early 30s, I was totally at a point of just despair and surrender of like, I don't know what to do next. I didn't have an apparition I had you. But it's just interesting that our entry into this work is so similar. And I had a very similar sort of impostor syndrome of like me, I can help people, which it's spirit. Also, it's not just me, but you know, but then also, the parts of which you're 35 years of experience gives me so much to aspire to, because I just have to say, of all of the, you know, psychics and mediums that anybody that I've worked with your ability to give the pragmatic, you're gonna write your name this way you're gonna dot the eye and then you're gonna call this person and like the pragmatic you... you're such a gifted channel and psychic with that. Oh, and it's so it's so valuable.

  Kim O'Neill  14:05

  Thank you, Amy. It is, you know, when I remember talking to my guardian angel, John, in the very beginning, and I remember saying, you know, what, I what am I going to have a neon palm in front of my office saying I solve all problems of life, you know, and and curses removed and, you know, I'm going to sacrifice choices and he said, Well, you can laugh about it, but this is what you're gonna do. And he said, You're going to share very pragmatic information with people specifics.

  And they said good, because I've, I've heard of people who have gone to, to some others. I'm not criticizing anyone, I'm just observing, and and they'll be told you're gonna get a letter. Just like, okay, so I remember talking to girlfriends, and and me asking, Okay, so what kind of letter? Well, I don't know. She didn't say, well, when well, I don't know. She He thought three weeks, three months, three years? Oh, well, who's it from? I don't know. She didn't say. So. So. So my girlfriend didn't know was it from the IRS? Is it from you? sweepstakes isn't a letter from from an old high school boyfriend who's gone to therapy, and who's ready for a heart, mind body and soul relationship. I mean, so I remember saying to John, you know, and I came from a corporate background, I mean, I was an entrepreneur. So I told him, if I'm going to do this, then I need to give actual advice like a coach, like someone who helps someone set goals set set a to do list a to do list, that is understandable. And also, I'm not the kind of person to speak in esoteric terms, like, well, just wait until you're at the 59th parallel of the 26th. Universe of the 49th. You know, I don't even understand that language. So I wanted to speak in clear language. And, and I already was building a clientele and I was still at the ad agency. That was interesting.

  How we communicate what we hear

  Kim O'Neill  16:15

  And so a lot of my clients, I went on the radio, and people heard me on the radio. So a lot of people that were coming to me, were either high ranking executives, or were entrepreneurs or wanted to be entrepreneurs, and want a direction and thought, well, I've tried so many other things. I'll try her and she sounds normal, you know, maybe except for what she does. And she can talk to me. And she uses plain language, so maybe, you know, so. So. It was it was so fulfilling, to provide answers. And of course, none of them came for me, they just come through me. And I repeat what I hear. So, as a channel, I look at what I do is this listening, I listened to my client, I listened to their guardian angels, and I repeat exactly what their angels say, in exactly the same tone. So if, if, if, you know, folks are wondering, well, why does the tone matter if you just repeat it? Okay. So, Amy, you know, say I was channeling for you, and, and you asked a question, and I know you channel for yourself, but say I channel for you. And when you ask, so should I consider? Should I consider? What would be a question? Should I consider going on? Going on tic tok and dancing? And that's ridiculous. But I just ask you, yea, or let's ask another question.

  Amy Hageman  18:05

  That’s not outside the realm. That's not outside the realm. Should I have advertisers on my podcast? You know, so.

   

  Kim O'Neill  18:13

  So let's say you ask a question. And then and then I get your answer as as Yes. But doesn't it make a big difference? If if the tone is used? And and I say yes, yes, yes. Or if you heard, yes,

   

  Amy Hageman  18:35

  yes. I have gotten that. Yes. From you. Before I had been in readings where you were, I'll ask a question. And you're like, Oh, yes. Like yes, yes. And then I've gotten the Yeah.

  Kim O'Neill  18:48

  It matters. Absolutely. And one of the things I've learned in my experience is, oh, my God, every time I do a session for someone in the beginning, if I've never channeled for them before, I always ask them number one, you know, your any any, anyone is spirit, whether it's guardian angel, whether it's an unborn baby, whether it's departed loved ones, they are going to be brutally frank and candid. Number one, is that okay with you, because I never know what's going to come through in me, you know, you're familiar, you know, but also number two. I always ask, if it's alright, if I ask questions to based on what their topics are, and what I hear their questions are, because that's one of the things I've learned to do. In all these years. I'm really good at asking questions. So if I was channeling for someone, and I heard, yes, I'd be all over that. And I'd be asking their guardian angels. Okay. So what do you mean? What would you recommend differently? you'd recommend obviously, that she did that. But is is there a timeframe that would be better or is there you know that some things were We're meant to explore. Right? And our angels will, in my experience will sometimes wait for us to know enough to ask the questions before they would share that information. Does that make sense?

   

  Amy Hageman  20:17

  Oh, yeah, cuz if we're not ready for it, then we can't hear it. So it's like we hit they have to get us to a certain point.

  Kim O'Neill  20:22

  Yes Amy. Oh my god. Exactly, exactly. So let's say somebody single, let's say, there's a single woman. And she says, Okay, so, Kim, or Amy, should I, you know, there's this really cute guy at the gym. And, and, you know, he's looking at me, and I'm looking at him and, and I think he's shy. So, how so? So I'm gonna go up and ask the guy out, I'm gonna go ask him for coffee. But, but should I go out with this guy? Is that a good idea? And let's say her Angel say yes, yes. Oh, my God, I would be all over that as well. Because if she said, Okay, let's move on to another question. I would say, just a suggestion. I would recommend we find out more why. So let's say she says, No, I'm not that interested in what to ask about work now. Okay. Okay. So I don't I don't beat anyone over the head with with, you know, it's their session their time.

  So. So then later, if she were to call as a Kim, I had a session with you, and, and you told me yes, yes, I should go out with that guy. And I'm a vegan, and the guy who wants to be accepting to clean his dead animals. He's, he has three other girlfriends, you know, and he's committed phobic. He's a narcissist. Why would they tell me to go out with him? And I probably would say what? Remember, you know, your angels. I know. I know. But tell me tell me, because you needed to go out with him. To learn about your worth to give you practice when it comes to setting boundaries, to allow you the opportunity to interact with him to be a teacher for him. He's a teacher for you. You're teaching him about respecting boundaries. He's teaching you about how to stand up for your boundaries.

  And so sometimes our angels will will guide us and sometimes it's our destiny to interact with certain people, maybe it's a family member, we don't get along with maybe it's a girlfriend that always has been critical of us. Maybe it's, you know, somebody at work a bully at work, maybe it's some narcissist, you know, that that we have to interact with, for whatever reason. And so all the all the things that happen in our lives don't happen to us, they happen for us, in this regard, when we interact with people that we consider difficult.

  Kim O'Neill  22:56

  And by the way, sometimes it's our issues and our buttons, but yes. But when we identify that, that, you know, maybe they were bullied, or they're a narcissist, or there's something there that we can identify, and we're not being critical, we're just observing, then we have to ask ourselves, okay, okay. Why is this person in my life? And what can I do for me to grow and learn? Because it doesn't mean I always have to be with this person. But do I need to set boundaries? Do I need to just remove myself? Do I need to speak up? What do I need to do? And sometimes it's hard to know what to do. That's where our angels come in handy to say, okay, so.

  So if I was channeling for that woman, and she said, Yeah, pursue that. So they said, Yes, go out with him. Why? First thing I'd ask is okay, okay. Is he a romantic soulmate? Is he a difficult learning experience? Is he a platonic soulmate? Somebody you could be friends with? You know, what, why was he destined to come into your life? There's all this information to get. And then if he's, if he's a romantic soulmate, then to get you know, to follow that line of questioning, if he's a difficult learning experience, to help her grow and evolve. To explain, then, what are the issues that he would help her with? And then how can she be prepared to deal with that, to to learn in a way that was less traumatizing? And if the woman said, Well, can I just avoid it when I know just not go out with him be like, okay, that'd be a great idea. But then she's going to be attracted to somebody else just like him, because she needs to work on that issue. Does that make sense? I know. Yeah, yeah.

  Amy Hageman  24:54

  Yeah. It Yes, it does. So I want to ask you, as a young channel. I'm not young as if I was born yesterday, but young as if I've only been doing this for a few years. I'm curious how, over the years, you've done so many readings, and you probably do a lot more readings per week than I do. How do you maintain that sense of sacred reverence for this work? I have no problem maintaining it now, but I'm only a couple of years in and I just...especially when you get so good at it, it comes so naturally, it's like, how do you maintain that? You know?

   

  Kim O'Neill  25:35

  I love your question, sacred reverence. Oh, Amy. I, that is my favorite description of what this is. I love that. Oh, my God, leave it to you to to? Because I, it's such a good question. Oh, my gosh, I love to answer this question. Because I've never forgotten. What John did for me, my angel John did for me. And if I could contribute a small part to someone else's life to help them. And even if it isn't a difficult time, even if somebody's wondering what car to buy, or what house to move to where, or what city they should live in, or how to maintain their good health, it doesn't matter. It's about trust. And every night I go to bed, and I thank all the angels who spoke with me because my angels give me information.

  When I channel for someone else, I get it from their guardian angels. So I, every night I tell them, I appreciate their trust. And it's, it's truly my calling, I absolutely love it. I love it just as much now, more more than I did, then because I've had the opportunity to be so inspired and the best clients in the universe to be so inspired by the people that I've chatted for all over the world, all different ages, and people in all different walks of life.

  band and we're friends now. We're friends now I call them during the pandemic. And I said let's, let's kind of make up and, and he said, Okay, I'd love to talk to you. It was wonderful. The healing oh my god, he's a he's a great guy. He said I've been to therapy, and it's real funny. He said to me, he said Kim like it was a big revenue Should Kim, you know what he said? You know, what about me? And I said, What? We were together seven years. And he said, I used to be this pathological liar. And I said, Yeah. 

  Amy Hageman  30:14

  You don't say, Yeah,

   

  Kim O'Neill  30:15

  I do so but I didn't realize it. So anyway, so there was no judgment whatsoever from him. And I chose not to have girlfriends, then what would we do without therapists and girlfriends? I do not know. But anyway, so. So when I started channeling for the first time, it was fascinating to me, when people take him thank you, I, you know, the information was, was invaluable. And I would always say, Well, you know, I'm just the conduit, it all comes from, from your angels, which you could get on your own, by the way. And I'm always here for people in happy to channel for them. But, but this, this acknowledgment from the guardian angel saying, Thanks, Kim, and then from my clients, and wow, this information helped me move forward.

  So it wasn't about acknowledgement about me, it was acknowledgement about the information they received and how they used it to specifically and pragmatically move their life forward, whether it was finally moving out of a place they hated whether it was going up to somebody and saying, we've had this issue, let's talk about it, whether it's getting out of a difficult relationship, whatever it is, standing up for themselves, or whatever it is. So, so the, the reverence that I have, and that's why I'm still doing it after 35 years. So it's interesting.

  Amy Hageman  31:45

  Well, I'm so pleased to hear that because it sounds to me like you don't struggle to maintain that reverence, which is great, because I haven't struggled so far. But I had just sort of wondered, like, now that this is what I'm doing. I'm like, Oh, I'm going to be doing this or some version of it for the rest of my life. And so I've sort of wondered, Is there going to be a day where it becomes too casual, because I remember at the very beginning, I would have a reading. And I would call a friend and be like, you'll never guess what information I got, you know, and it wouldn't, it wouldn't be like, I would go into the details of somebody's personal life. But I was so amazed at what spirit can do that I was constantly like, you'll never guess. And now I have tons of readings, I don't tell anybody about it, because it's just amazing all the time.

  But I'm so glad to hear that, that the reverence continues because I, I, one of the things I love about myself doing this role as I feel like I do have a high amount of integrity, but I always want to keep it I want to stay on top of it. So but I do want to say I really want to learn what you have going on about teaching other people intuition, because that's not something I have an interest in at all. But before we do that, I want to ask while two questions and answer however much or little you want, one question I have going on for me is like what about since you've been on this journey? What has surprised you? That would be helpful either for podcast listeners to know or for me to know? And then also, as someone who's 30 years behind you on the road, what advice do you have for me? On Being a channel, I would just, I'm so eager to pick your mind.

  Kim O'Neill  33:29

  Oh, thank you. What? And those are really good questions. What has surprised me I'm surprised every day. I'm surprised every day, not only with with my channeling practice, but as as a woman as a as a wife. As a mom. I'm surprised at what I hear every day I'm surprised at at I could be surprised at this world around me in a positive way or less positive way but I'm surprised every day. But to answer your question about the channeling. The thing that surprised me the most is and there's there's a lot of surprises.

  But in my sessions, two things really. Number one, and by far the biggest one in my sessions when I have channeled for parents missing or murdered children there courage, their strength and their ability to remain upright To live and breathe. And before I had kids, I would do that work, of course, because I had kids late in life. And so my kids are grown now, but, but I remember thinking, Oh, how awful Oh, how terrible. Oh, that would be the worst thing ever. Oh. And then once I had kids, it was like, okay, all right. I, this, this is like, my heart is being ripped from my chest with a dull spoon. And, and I will never be the same again, after the sessions, but, and it was a privilege to do them. But to see what surprised me the most with all the surprises I've had in in this line of work is how parents can not only choose to courageously move on with their lives, but decide, You know what, okay. Brittany, or Sarah, or, you know, Joey, would not have wanted me to spend the rest of my life in bed, or just not able to function. And so I know from them, and I feel them around me. So it's, it's Amy, it's these parents who move on and get into different lives, lines of work, these parents who move on and they remain wonderful parents to their other children, these parents who have had this loss that none of us can imagine, unless we've had this loss. Even if we have kids, we can't imagine it and be able to start foundations be able to start scholarships in their children's names, be able to help other people who may be going through the same thing. There was a girl when my daughter was in high school. Here in the outer Houston area, there was a young girl, precious, darling girl, 16 years old. 

  And she was in a car with her friends, there were four of them. And they were out driving. And for one moment, when we knew them all. For one moment, she took her seatbelt off, because she wanted to take a selfie. So in that moment, and many in the spiritual world believe that nothing happens by accident or coincidence, but be that as it may, in that one moment, the SUV flipped over pitting her and she died. So hurt since then. Her parents have started this this huge program and it's it's national. I don't know if it's international now. And it's all about Kaylee mills and the mills foundation and how they how that no, they are not clients in mind. I'm just giving you example of parents who can who who can choose it's a choice everything isn't it is a choice, whether we move forward or not no matter what happens. And so and so if you if you see vehicles and on the back of the vehicle there is like this, this thing. It's like a it looks like a an entwine seatbelt thing that's from the Kaley Mills Foundation, and then you know that they bought you know that from them to keep her memory alive. And, and so that's what surprises me the most.

  Amy Hageman  34:56

  It is so fascinating that you say that because I had a reading right before we sat down for our interview. And it was literally with a mother of an adult daughter that passed in her 30s. And their whole reading was about honoring the mom's fortitude and strength and being proud of the way that she showed up during the transition. And after that was what the whole reading was about. So it's just so interesting. The tenacity and depth and capacity of the human spirit. It is it is it's such a privilege to do this work because the stories we get to hear. I mean, well, in some ways. It's like I'll hear a story and I'll just think I had no idea how blessed I was. And then there's other times when I hear his story and I think we are capable. I'm just I'm in awe of what we're capable of. And one thing I love about this that I'm sure you have a similar experience is like it can be so easy to fall in love with my clients a little bit because I'm always seeing them from their angels perspective. You know, so it's like I view just humanity in general, I view it so much differently than I did two years ago. Because I'm always seeing it from the angelic perspective. It's just such a privilege. But what's your, you know, experience of that?

  Kim O'Neill  40:13

  I love I love your point. Oh, my gosh, I love that you said that. Yes, I and I, I find that as well. It's like, when I channel for someone, I have this proprietary, loving affection for them. Because they are. If they've heard about me, they know that I'm very frank and candid, I pass everything along. And that they're going to come away with some good actionable steps. And so they're ready to, to step up and do some things that maybe they've been putting off from maybe they didn't know they had to do. And, and some things, you know, are just really difficult for us, like me working on boundaries right now. And how old am I? And, you know, but it doesn't matter as long as we learn, right? So. So Right. And I always think, Oh, you're so beautiful. Or or all you've got the most wonderful voice or, or yes, there's, there's always this this loving, protective affection for them. Yes, yes. Yes. Yeah. And yeah, I that might be singular, to some channels, but not all.

  Amy Hageman  41:41

  That's, that's true. And I was trying to think as you were, as we were preparing for this interview, I was trying to think, what's my style, because you set such a strong intention with giving the actionable pragmatic step by step, you know, like you, I walk away from your sessions with like, a to do list that I can just cross off. And that's not how my sessions go. So I was trying to figure out what is my and it's not that I don't do that, because I can I do. But my sweet spot is, because I'm such an empathetic person, I can feel where people are hurting, and then psychically I can connect to how do we heal it? And like, where's the pain really coming from somebody might think the pain is coming from some event. And I can go well, that's, you know, that's a part of it. And so I tend to, I tend to really tune in on the healing.

  But that's part of why I wanted to have you on I mean, there's, there's always a time when somebody wants to make an appointment, and I'm not available, and I need to refer them out. And I'll always kind of be like, what, in general, what's your question? Because there are some, yeah, if what they need is like advice and guidance, and give me the to do list like Kim, oh, Neil is your girl, that isn't where you want to go. Because, you, you have that and you also speak to the depth of where things are coming from. It's not like you don't because you do you've given me so much healing. And you've been so quick to say something of like, oh, this is past life, or this is coming up because you wanted to heal it. So you You're such a beautiful balance of both, and I just admire your work so much.

  So well, I am so thrilled that you're here. And I just want to hear you know, I as as I've sort of said, I'm always so focused on people's healing. And that's, that's the way that I help people transform. But I want to hear what you're doing with how you're helping other people develop their intuition. And I know you have a quiz and I can't wait to talk about your quiz. So tell me like what's going on for you right now? And? Yeah,

  Kim O'Neill  43:50

  absolutely. And thank you for asking. So. And it also occurs to me that that you asked a question that that I totally missed. And that is, what what possible suggestions would I have for someone, you know, who was starting out now you're beyond starting out? But But to answer that question, oh my god, or if it was me, when I was starting out, it would be self care. Yeah, self care, and especially, you know, eating habits and, and just think about your sleep and think about just just drinking water and taking good care of self rather than always focused on taking care of other people. Professionally and personally.

  The second thing would be, oh, my god, setting boundaries, setting your personal boundaries, very important and reading a great book right now. So you know how we can we learn throughout our lives and then suddenly, we're finally ready to get a particular issue nailed down and and worked on and that's what I'm with boundaries right now, even though I've been able to step in. So setting boundaries is super important, especially as someone who serves other people, and someone who's empathic, because if someone calls and they say, Oh, please, I need help. Oh my gosh, can you fit me in? And and I remember thinking, oh my gosh, how could I not? Oh my gosh, that would be terrible if I did. So fit them in. And then I would come away with, you know, different weeks with terrible headaches. And I used to call them the channeling headaches. So then I learned my angel said, Kimberly, hello. Remember what we told you? Like, oh, yeah, yeah, so the setting of boundaries is, is oh my god.

  Amy Hageman  45:49

  it's so key. Gosh, I have to say, just because we're talking about it, some of the gifts of this work have been I have so much better boundaries. Like I had to learn them in order to do this work. And it's translated elsewhere. I don't feel other people's stuff at all anymore. Oh, like, I'm like, oh, that's their stuff. You know, I just it has, it's been such a gift. And then the other thing for me, I'll just share them. Now I kind of want to know whether it because this work is so subtle, you have to have more confidence in what you're receiving. Absolutely. It's so subtle. And so I'm early in on that journey. But it's forced me to be willing to say things and to not be to be confident, even though it's it's subtle. It's like the the confidence factor is it's coming online for me because it develops as a part of this work. So it's just been such a gift to take this on. I mean, it's such a gift to have a job where we help others, but then to see the way that it serves me personally, it's been a wonderful surprise.

  Kim O'Neill  47:03

  And this is, you know, we're chatting about kind of behind the scenes stuff, you know, of what it's really like to be, you know, a psychic channel or medium spiritual advisor. But it's fascinating to me that, that I've had the experience where I've had someone that I'm channeling for either over the phone or zoom, or they're sitting in my office, and I will get information that my brain says, oh, no, no, that he's wrong. It'll be that's crazy. And, and yet, I know what I hear. And I know what I see my mind's eye. And, and so it's a matter of mustering the courage to pass that along. And not need the other person's.

   

  Amy Hageman  47:59

  validation.

  Kim O'Neill  48:00

  Yes, validation, perfect word. Exactly. Once we give up two things, number one, needing someone else's validation for anything. It's our freedom. Second, yes. Not caring. And this is if I could talk to myself when I was first starting out in this business. It Oh, my God, I would say, Kim, don't focus on what other people think, feel, approve or endorse. Focus on what's coming from inside of you. what feels right to you what you know, is right. Listen to your instincts. And don't allow that. And these days, you know, when I started out, there was no social media. So, so, right. Nowadays, it's an you know, social media has been around long time, but it's harder not to care what other people think, feel, approve and endorse, because everyone always has opinions. And sometimes they're not very kind. But it's a matter of not caring and feeling competent enough. And true enough. In the work that you do, and how you serve others to whatever you do, whether you're an artist, whether you're a channel, whether you're a heart surgeon, whatever you do, to get up in the morning, and feel that sacred mission, and and focus on that. So yeah, that's right. That's right. So this is all behind the scenes. Yeah.

  Amy got a cat after a reading with Kim

  Amy Hageman  49:34

  I'm gonna say one more thing. And then I want you to do all the talking about what you're up to, in the reading where you were telling me that I'm going to come out as a channel and a medium. You. You also told me I was going to get a cat. And I said, Kim, I hate cats. And I'm scared of them. And you were like, Yeah, you're gonna heal that. And I have a cat. She's in my lap. I was like, Oh, that's so funny. Here we are. It's full circle. Yeah, she She's here purring and oh pussycat.

   

  Kim O'Neill  50:01

  Aren't they wonderful? Amy? Amy, aren't you excited? Aren't you happy to all in your lap your baby? What's her name? What's her name?

   

  Amy Hageman  50:11

  She's Callie. Oh, Calliope Jane Hageman.

  Kim O'Neill  50:17

  Well, hello, that's quite a name. Oh, she must be quite honest yet. Oh,

   

  Amy Hageman  50:22

  she is a queen. And I'm still, we're on a healing journey. I've healed some initial layers, and there's more coming up. So just a full circle moment with with your channeling. It's one of those things where at that moment, your brain says, no, no, no, no, no. And then you're like, well, they're saying yes. So I'm gonna say yes, this was Oh, yes. The cat showed up. And I couldn't deny it. I was like, well, Kim said this was gonna happen.

   

  Kim O'Neill  50:49

  I'm so happy. Oh, thank you for sharing that with me. Oh, my gosh,

   

  Amy Hageman  50:53

  yes. Okay, but now I will stop interrupting. And please tell me about your quiz and what you're up to and how you're helping people.

  Kim O'Neill  51:01

  Thank you. Thank you for asking. Okay. So, so with the quiz, I love quizzes. And and Amy, I don't know, if you do you do. Okay. And and listeners, my quizzes are fun. But, but I know, just for me, that when I take a quiz, I'd like there to be some sort of some sort of interesting, fascinating race results. So there's a lot yeah, there's quizzes out there. What kind of woodland creature are you? Or? Or what Game of Thrones character are you? Well, you know, I bet those are fun to take. But But I wanted to create a quiz that was fun to take, but also could help people more identify kind of where they are intuitively, and, and how they live with their intuition. And then get results that would allow them to know what their strengths are. And then what they can do to, to move forward in in some other areas, just some simple tips about what they can do. Oh, and there's also a, there's, there's two downloadable things. One is a workbook, and the other is a journal that that you can use. And so what I recommend for people is that they so number one, I recommend that people take the quiz.

  And number two, it takes like, two minutes, but you get a lot of really valuable information. And it's also fun to see, you know, with friends and stuff, you know, well, what were you, you know, What, did you come out? Yeah, and then you know, what did your information say? Because all the information is different. So, so, I'm, I'm a huge believer in Independence, empowerment and self reliance. And, you know, men, it could be said, and I don't mean to sound sexist, I love men, I love women. And I love human beings who are, they'd want to be identified as a gender. Okay. And having said that, I It's my personal belief that men are people who identify as men more often are raised, to be independent, and to have the understanding that yeah, you're going to go out the world, and you're going to, you know, have a job or have a business or, you know, you're going to take care of yourself and blah, blah, blah. But women girls aren't always raised that way. So, you know, Oh, honey, lower your voice. Oh, honey, don't say anything. Oh, honey, cute play with the doll, leave the truck alone, honey, and that that stuff is still going on.

  So I'm a big believer in, in women, I'm sort of a little bit of an advocate of women, developing independence and power, self reliance, so that we can take care of ourselves, regardless of for married if we're single, but if we, if we want to get married, or or get a relationship great, but it would be wonderful if we were moving into that without needing to get saved or rescued. Because then you're kind of stuck in that relationship. And right in there, stay at home moms and dads, I get that. So maybe that's another subject altogether. But excuse me, I'm, I'm a big believer in women being independent, empowered and self reliant. So not in your face, but just quietly taking care of themselves and, and their business and, and, you know, making their own money if possible, and, and knowing how to pay bills and just just, you know, I don't mean, you know, rivaling Richard Branson, Starting the Virgin Empire unnecessarily.

  So anyway, so what I, and I know that we all have guardian angels around us to help us. So when that started, when I started connecting those dots some years ago, I thought, Oh, I love to teach, I love to teach some of my favorite things. And I thought I could teach other people how to develop their intuitiveness. So that they now have this ongoing, daily resource free. That's just there's who, you know, our guardian angels knows so much more about us than we do.

  Kim O'Neill  55:38

  Like your angels, Amy, no way you would love a cat. And sometimes they think so we think. Did my real angels? Yeah, no. Are they on vacation? Or something? I don't think so. Yeah. So. So the idea of being able to take kind of some of the things that I've learned and some of the things I know, and share that. So I started doing that. I was a, I worked for AARP, the Edgar Casey Foundation in Virginia Beach, I worked with them. And they asked me to travel all over the US and do full day workshops. I could I could talk about whatever I wanted. And it could be my own agenda. And so I had this wonderful opportunity to go around the country and do that meet all new people and share what I've learned. But then I got to thinking well, I took a four day class with with someone rather recently, and it was absolutely life changing is 14 hours a day. And it was four full days in a row. And it was absolutely life changing. And so I'm thinking now, you know what, okay, okay, I'm not gonna do 14 hours today. But I'm thinking, okay, so what what I think I'm going to do with it, no, excuse me, what I'm in the process of doing and creating is an online class, that's going to be eight weeks. And it's going to be far more detailed than my full day workshop. Because a full day, I only have so much time with people, but then they were able to learn and grow and evolve and, and move their ability forward. So with this class, I'm so excited, because it's going to offer much more that I've learned as a human being. And I'm always taking classes and workshops, in all different areas to grow and evolve. And so I'm so excited about what I can offer now, in a class like this. So I'm right now in the process of creating that, so I'm very excited. That's so exciting.

  Amy Hageman  57:51

  That's so exciting. I've been enjoying, you know, before, before you told me, I was a challenging medium, I didn't take that many intuitive building classes, you know, I knew I was connected and whatever. And I've really been enjoying taking classes as well. So I'm so excited that you're going to have that available for people. And I think I'm just so grateful. I mean, I think about the hundreds of people that I've been able to help already and how none of that would have been possible, if I hadn't heard from you. And if I hadn't already built the trust that I have for you based on our previous readings. And so I'm just so grateful. And I'm grateful that if anybody was going to teach intuition, and how to develop your skills, one an honor that people could learn that from you, you know, so obviously, we'll have a link to your website and to your quiz in the show notes. And I'm, I'm I can't wait. I look forward to it. And, you know, keep us posted when your class launches. I will let everybody on my email list know what an exciting opportunity. Thanks. So just Oh, Kim, thank you so much for your time today.

   

  Kim O'Neill  59:04

  Amy. It's been wonderful. It's been a privilege to spend this time with you. And, and I think your podcast is amazing in how supportive it is, how interesting it is, how insightful it is how informative it is. And you are a wonderful interviewer. And it's it's just amazing. So thank you again. I'm very honored to have been a guest Thank you. Thank you. It's always one.

  Amy Hageman  59:35

  Yes, love all around. Well, there you have it, everybody the amazing Kim O'Neill. I'm just my heart's just expanded. So, see you all next week.

   

  Kim O'Neill  59:47

  Bye, everybody.