Spring Re-Release: Signs, Synchronicities, and Spirit

We're continuing our Season 1 Re-Release series with Hero and Psychic Medium Lea. While psychic mediumship is often associated with communicating with loved ones who have passed, this conversation is ultimately about connection—connection with ourselves, our intuition, and the possibility that we're supported in ways we may not fully understand.

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Hero and Psychic Medium Lea shares what psychic mediumship is, why people look for help, its benefits, and how this spiritual guidance can help you reconnect with yourself. After a career in advertising and interior design, Lea couldn’t shake the pull to open up to and understand her intuitive gifts fully. Her story is one that shows how spirit can guide you throughout your life by providing the opportunities and experiences needed to hone your skills and ultimately be of service to others. 

All of her offerings are intended to provide her clients with healing, connection, faith, peace, love, and hope. Lea also hopes to normalize the perception of psychic work by sharing her own journey openly through workshops, interviews, and information on her website. 

What You Will Learn

• [04:31] What is psychic mediumship, and why people reach out to Lea   
• [06:10] Spirit guides and why it’s important to have open lines of communication 
• [09:29] When Lea realized her special ability to communicate with spirits
• [17:36] How people interpret and interact with Lea's work
• [23:05] How Lea’s clients heal from communicating with the dead
• [27:47] How Lea opens a window to bring comfort during grief
• [29:13] Ways psychic mediumship can help navigate life situations 
• [30:56] How spiritual conversations help people connect with themselves 
• [33:27] Ways to be more receptive and attune with your intuition 

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Transcript

Hey guys, it's Chandler, and welcome to The Healing Heroes. 

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I'm Chandler Stroud, an executive wife and busy mom of two who after years of living with anxiety health struggles and an unshakeable feeling like I should be happier, made a profound discovery that changed everything. Join me on a journey where unexpected paths lead to healing and more happiness. On this show, we will explore unconventional ways to unlock more joy in your own life. With the help of my very own healers and trusted advisors, the healing heroes. 

Hey guys. I am very excited for today's conversation with my friend and psychic medium Lee Morgan. In this episode, you'll learn what psychic mediumship is, why people look to leave for help and how they've benefited from her services. You'll also hear more about how this sort of spiritual guidance can help you reconnect with yourself and aid you and getting unstuck from whatever difficult situation you might be navigating right now. I know I sure did, and actually you might be surprised to learn that I did not seek out Lee's help to try and communicate with a deceased loved one, as most people often do. But to figure out if my house was trying to tell me something. Last fall when we experienced four, not one, four mutually exclusive floods in our home from a multitude of sources, yes, toilets and constant overflow, a pipe exploding, a hot water tank leaking when all was said and done. 

Within less than six weeks, yes, within less than six weeks, we were forced to replace our boiler, our water heater, our sewage pump, our HVAC system, a refrigerator, and so much more. It was so costly, it was so time consuming, and you can imagine the toll it took on me emotionally, physically, spiritually, all the things. It was so tough. So at the recommendation of a friend, I did reach out to Lee to understand a little bit better what might be going on in my life, and I did get the answers that I needed to better navigate my house trauma. However, I took so much more away from that conversation and I owe a lot to Lee in how my life has transformed since our first meeting. I'm going to start by telling you a little bit more about Lee. Lee is a psychic medium offering mediumship and intuitive guidance readings. 

After careers in advertising and interior design, Lee couldn't shake the pole to fully open up to and understand her intuitive gifts. Her story is one that shows how spirit can guide you throughout your life by providing you with the opportunities and experiences needed to hone your skills and ultimately be of more service to others. All of her offerings are intended to provide healing, connection, faith, peace, love, and hope to her clients. She also hopes to normalize the perception of psychic work by sharing her own journey openly through workshops, interviews, and information provided on her website. Lee, it is so great having you here. Thanks for being with us. 

Thank you. Thank you so much. I love hearing that story because as you know, I don't really remember readings and I am always amazed at what transpires. So I'm just so grateful you even shared with me what happened after our meeting. Can you believe this is what I do for a living? 

No, it's amazing. It's been so transformational and helpful for me and so many others in my life. That's how I found you through a friend's recommendation and not just one friend, but three. So I really appreciate that you've helped them. You've helped me and now I hope you're able to help millions of others. So let's dive in. Okay, well, I can't wait to cover this meaningful topic for so many of our listeners, and I'm eager to get into your background and how you learned you had these gifts. But first, can you share a quick overview of what Psychic mediumship is and why someone would reach out to you for a one-on-one session? 

So I tend to think in terms of real life things to understand kind of esoteric topics. So to me, all psychic work exists on a radio band. So if you have the AM radio band that goes from seven 80 to 1560, all the information on that radio band that is not accessible by what we consider our normal five senses. So it's really energy is all considered psychic information, and medium Ship is just a channel on that radio band. So let's say medium ship is like nine 60. It's just a station, like a radio station where that frequency of information comes through. And mediumship is specifically communication with deceased loved ones. So it's like all the deceased humans are hanging out on that radio station, and that's the one I get so clearly. I also get one for spirit guides, which we'll get into, which is a little bit higher on the radio band, but there are a lot of other things on that psychic band. Some people communicate with angels, some people communicate with living animals even, and that would be on the same radio band. 

That's so cool. And I love that analogy. That's so helpful I think for people to understand what it's like and how you access these communications and messages. So really appreciate you explaining it that way. You mentioned spirit guides a minute ago. Can you tell me a bit more about our spirit guides and why you think it's important to have open lines of communication with them? 

So every human that comes to be on earth, we all start as souls has at least one spirit guide that's going to journey with them from the time they're born until the time they die. We're not really aware of it, but we do this life thing as a team. We do at least one of us here on earth, one of us still in spirit form always. The analogy I always give that is if you're an astronaut and you're going to the moon, you will have someone in charge of ground control at nasa, somebody in charge of your whole trip who will try to give you really meaningful information for this journey. So they love us. They are team us. They want to help us have the most expansive, beneficial, full time while we're here on Earth. And if we can get to a place where we are listening to them or seeing their signs or receiving their breadcrumbs, which are always there, then we can better navigate while we're here. 

So it's really important and they're cool. There's a big feeling from people I've noticed that their spirit guides are their deceased loved ones. And while that can happen, it's usually not the case. And the first way to know that is, well, they needed to be in spirit when I was born to be my God. So yes, it could be a loved one that was deceased or a relative before you were born, but it's really usually somebody who it's a specialty, so it's their job. Not every deceased person is a guide. I hate to say job, it's not the right word, but it's as close a word as we've got. It's like a job you can have in soul form is to be a spirit guide. Cool. 

Do they apply for this job or 

They gifted this job? Well, that's a good question. I wonder if it's just a recognition of aptitudes. I know they have to have been on earth before. 

Oh, that's interesting. 

They have to have shown some sort of proficiency at walking this on their own. So then they say, okay, I feel like I could help somebody else walk that. And then who knows how they're selected. 

I love that. It's really reassuring too, to think you've got a helping hand 

Always at least one and often more. I mean, the analogy I give for this is a school. So you know how in school you have your homeroom teacher that you usually have, let's say ninth through 12th grade, but then you'll also have every other teacher for every other subject. So guides are like that too. You'll have one that's like Chandler's Guide. I am helping Chandler through life, but then you'll have others that will be like, Ooh, I help her with work. I help her with friendship. I help her with her relationship with herself. These can be all different guides. You could have a creativity guide or if you're a writer, a writing guide, you can have all kind of specific guides that come in and out and probably work with a handful of people. 

Very cool. I love the concept of sharing guides too. That's really magical in some ways. So I have to ask, when did you first realize you had the special ability to communicate with spirits? 

This is one of the most common questions, and it is not the answer. People think so we've all heard, or some of us have heard of people who know they're talking to the deceased at age three in their bedroom and they just go on from there. 

And that's a real thing, but it's a really low percentage of people who actually do this for a living. I feel like my story represents more of what a greater percentage of people are able to access, believe it or not, because my belief is that having this ability is any other aptitude having a beautiful singing voice or being able to draw the likeness of someone. And then usually with these aptitudes, we get these kids lessons. We've all met kids who are strangely good at something and the parents immediately are like, oh, let's get 'em in lessons for that. Well, what's odd about this ability is if you show any kind of a psychic aptitude, it's usually not recognized and there certainly aren't lessons for it. And it's not any fault of the parents, it's just in our society, it's not recognized. So usually what gets recognized first are the symptoms that we would consider not good. 

So people with high psychic ability often have high sensitivity to all stimuli. It could be kids that have a hard time in noisy environments or kids that are overstimulated by tags in their shirts. And then as you get a little older, and we live in a loud world, so it can be you have a hard time interacting with your peers in regular ways, going out on Friday and Saturday night or you get anxious about things, anxiety tends to be a big symptom, which is really just overstimulation. And then depression can come into it because all kinds of things, you don't realize that why you're different from other people. Why can my friends talk to a group of people for two hours? And I feel overwhelmed or emotional because you're also picking up on other people's emotions. 

And then in my case, because our society leans on this so heavily for everything, and because I had a genetic component, another symptom that showed up for me was addiction, which is just a way to try to calm down all the noise. So not to be a big bummer, but a lot of the early signs when I look back now were things that weren't great. And the way I found my ability was trying to learn how to navigate in a world that was a little noisy for me, a little overstimulating. I will say I did have an experience seeing a deceased person in my early twenties. In all honesty, I just thought that I was in the right place at the right time. I didn't think it had anything to do with me. I did tell people about it. They did believe me, I'm pretty sure. So the big turning point for me came when I got sober. I got sober 19 years ago. 

Congratulations. That's 

Incredible. Thank you. Thank you. And part of my recovery required me to find a power greater than myself, which was really interesting journey. And I found that I went directly into metaphysical subjects. And during all of that time, which was a lot of time, really 10 years before I started working in this field, and it was like giving myself lessons is the best way I know how to put it, reading about other mediums. And then I worked with a coach, which is very unlike me. You'll probably learn about that later. And that individual helped me identify how I was getting information from whom I was getting information, what kind of information I was getting, and then how to apply it. So 

You sort of self-assessed and figured out what was happening enough to proactively seek out the help of a mentor. 

And I think that really happens for 99% of people with psychic ability. Well, I think a lot of self-learning happens in this field. I will say I did have, and I did not pay it much attention. I had very sporadically gone to psychics over my life, and I had a couple of psychics when I entered session with them, they kind of got a big grin on their face and they said, you're going to do this right? And at the time, I had a really, really hectic advertising career and I was like, do what? And they were like, oh, there is a line of people behind you ready to use your gifts. When you're ready, you're going to do this. And I'm not kidding you that I just kind of filed that away in the do not understand folder. So there were clues. And then in real world, the way it was communicated to me is I worked in advertising forever and I was a project manager, which means you're kind of coordinating everyone, all the different facets of an ad agency to make sure they're on time and the product is accurate and it fulfills the client's needs and so forth and so on. 

So it's a lot like a wrangler. So it's a lot of different personality types, a lot of different ways of working, just a lot of things to organize just with management of people. And I did have so many people because this was like a 26 year career, so many people over that time say you have an uncanny ability to know what people need and when they need it. So that's how in our normal world speak, there were clues. 

Yeah, I definitely understand how you would've taken that and thought, oh, I just have a high aptitude in this. I have a good read on people versus I'm a psychic medium. Let's go all in, find the mentor, do the thing. 

And when I started with a mentor, I did not know that I was going to end up in mediumship. I just knew that I wanted to end up in a field that helped people live better lives through probably some sort of metaphysical practice. 

Well, that's exactly what you're doing now. I'd say you achieved that goal in spades. Yeah, 

Thank you. 

Related to that, what made you decide to go all in on Mediaship? So you'd found this coach, you're working with that person, you're honing your gifts, you want to help people heal. Was there a moment, an event, something that really tipped the scales for you where you decided to leave your career and try and do this? 

Yeah, so a good thing to know about me, and this is often the case with people who are asked to do something maybe a little risky, and I say that because kind of to refer back to your guides and the universe will set up your life so that it's not impossible. So it is important to know that I was freelancing in advertising and I was also freelancing in design at this point. I had sold my design business and was freelancing, so I had a very flexible schedule that was always changing. So the universe or my guides weren't asking me to quit a high paying salary job and immediately put all my eggs in the basket of, oh my gosh, I hope I can hear dead people every day. They were just asking me, can you spare an hour here or there without risking your entire livelihood? I'm a pretty risky person to them. I mean, who else freelances in advertising for 20 years? I mean, you've 

Talked a lot about spirits and the spiritual world, but I'd be curious about how you've seen humans and people interpret and interact with what you're doing. 

Wow. So have you ever heard that saying, if you want to understand somebody, get closer to them because once you understand the circumstances of life, you can relate to them immediately. And so I have the privilege of getting closer to a lot of people in my work, and the common theme is how people feel so alone on their journey. And what's interesting about that is they may have wonderful marriages and great friends and loving children, and they still feel kind of paralyzed with indecision and so alone with their own lives. It didn't surprise me, but I also wasn't expecting it, if that makes sense. I wasn't expecting it to be so universal. I sometimes wish people could have my job even for a week to realize that none of us are alone ever. And not only are we not alone spiritually, we're not alone in if we all got in a room and shared what we're challenged with, everyone would feel like they had a group of people who immediately understood them because I get to hear what everybody's challenged with. So over and over in my week, I get to hear, oh my gosh, look how the same we are. Look how this is a common human theme. Look how we can help each other. You hear it all the time, especially from a spiritual perspective. We're all connected. We're all going through this thing called being human. We all have very similar challenges and fears and hopes and wishes, and I really get to witness that all the time. 

And it's such an amazing insight to hear because I mean, even speaking from my own experience, you can be to your point, surrounded by people, have a loving husband, loving kids, incredible friends, great job, great home, all the things you don't always feel safe or like it's okay to acknowledge that maybe you don't always feel grateful and happy and unstuck. I love the sentiment of we aren't alone, that we've got these spirits helping, supporting, guiding. I think that's for me a great comfort. 

I mean, I know it sounds really trite or surface, but it's not at all when I tell everybody everything is going to be okay. That sounds almost naive, but it doesn't mean things won't be difficult or times won't be hard or we won't lose people or we won't be challenged. But everything is going to be okay. 

It's so important to reinforce and remember, and sometimes it is hard to believe whether you're in the midst of that dark night of the soul or grieving a massive loss in your life. I think sometimes it's hard to see that, but to have people around you reinforcing that message and lifting you up is so important. And I think even at the highest level, whether it's spirit guides or something else, I think spirituality too, in the way of believing in just something bigger than yourself can be so comforting and can really go a long way in making you feel less alone in your grief, in your sadness, your anger, your frustration, whatever it may be. So I think you're touching on something really important. 

I can't tell you how much it'll change somebody's life when a deceased loved one comes through and gives me the most random detail about someone's life to show that they're still watching them and they're still with them. It changes their life. I mean, I had a client who literally was something as simple as your dad's here. He said you had honey on toast this morning and that you pulled out a picture of him and put it on the desk where I can't see it. And when they have their loved one give them, because that woman really did have honey on toast for breakfast, and she really did pull out a picture of her dad and put it on her desk. 

Incredible. 

It basically lets her know that her dad is with her and that although we can't understand that and it frazzles our mind to try to figure out how that's true, her father is still walking with her even though he's not in human form anymore, and she's not alone in that room, and that changes everything. So it's not like grand gestures, it's not like, I mean, the things that matter the most to people are so surprising when I share with you what they are. They're little tiny things in life that just no one else would know unless there was somebody sitting with you that you couldn't see. 

I do. That's incredible. I'd imagine most of your inquiries do come from people who are desperately missing someone and navigating their grief. How have you seen your clients heal from communicating with the dead? 

That's been such a gift to be a part of because the healing quite often happens in the reading and then sometimes after and people will email me and explain how. But as you can imagine, grief is at many levels. There are people who have lost grandparents or parents, which is terribly sad, but it's in the natural order of things. And then there are people who have lost spouses or children, which is not necessarily in the natural order of things, especially if your spouse is young or it was sudden. So there can be people who understandably need a lot of reassurance. And what's fascinating about my communication with spirit is especially in situations, so let's take one that's really, really, really tragic. So that would be an unexpected death of a child. The deceased individual that I'm speaking to is able to take me through the scenario of their passing in a way that I can describe it to their parents as if I'm the eyes, if that makes sense. It's almost like they put me inside their body and show me all the landmarks or where they were or what happened or how it went. And the parents will often know some details, maybe if not all, but I will know none. Please keep that in mind when I get in the reading. I will know no details. I won't even know they lost a child. 

Wow, Lee. 

And then this deceased individual who is very well by the way, will take me through their passing and give me things to tell their parents that only their parents would know about their passing. And then explain to me through that kind of retelling of the story, what their feelings were. Because everyone's greatest concern for their loved one is did they suffer? Were they scared? Were they alone? So they can give me information that answers those three questions. I didn't know how they lost a child. And then suddenly I'm going through this narrative of the story they know, and I'm explaining how the individual, which would be their child felt at every stage and then I'm explaining their child is well now because all of us who die are absolutely well in a way we can't comprehend no matter how we die. And can you imagine how that would change a parent's life? 

I mean, it does not bring their child back and that's not okay that they've lost their child, but just to know how they felt or where they were or what happened or that they know what happened and that they're still around their parents. Then they also will give me the random information like tell dad to stop fiddling with the keys in his pocket and I won't see dad doing that. And they'll just start laughing. I mean laughing. How did that happen? How did laughter happen in the middle of that conversation? That's healing because, and also they keep their personality so they're not in some sort of somber God-like communicative form. They are cracking jokes, they're being sarcastic. Whatever their true personality was when they're here, they're doing it during the reading. 

I actually can vouch for that in our reading too. Both of my grandmothers showed up and they were very close friends. My father's mother, yes, my father's mother and my mother's mother were very close friends in real life for many, many years. You brought their friendship dynamic to life in such a vivid way. During our conversation, it brought happy tears to my eyes. It was really incredible, and you used language that only Grammy would use 

That happens, 

And it was really incredible to witness, and I did feel like they were both there with me in that moment, and I felt so at peace and so trusting of the advice I was being given. But I have to ask Lee, I mean, that is an incredibly difficult position to be in where you're talking to two parents who are relying on you to open a window to this horrific event to bring comfort. How do you do that? How do you do that? 

It's a faith-based operation, Chandler. I mean, first of all, I'm the least important person in this scenario. The most important people in this scenario are the grieving parents and the deceased child. Even though the child's fine, I just figure if there's any shot that these people are going to get what they need, then it's my responsibility to try. It's hard. I mean, there's some days that it feels overwhelming that I'm about to do work all day where everybody needs something from me, and then I remember to please stop thinking about myself so much. I just try to rightsize because all of that is fear. Fear, all that is fear of looking stupid or fear of being wrong or fear of, I don't know. It's just fear. And I don't want to live my life from a place of fear. 

I love that, Lee. And you're certainly not doing that. You have to be incredibly brave to do this kind of work. What about someone who isn't grieving the recent loss of a loved one, but are simply at a crossroads and feeling stuck? Would working with a medium help guide them in making important decisions or making a singular important decision that has them feeling stuck? 

Yes. Yes. In fact, I think that's what you experienced, right? It is. I'm a fork in the road and I want some advice. And so even a reading that is intended to help someone make a life choice or navigate a life situation is often intended by deceased loved ones because that's who they'll listen to. If in your reading I had said, your grandmother is suggesting this, and this guy named Gary says, why don't you do this? I just made that up. She doesn't have a guy named Gary. You'd be like, well, I'm sure Gary's nice and everything, but how do I know he knows what he's talking about? Well, 

I'm also laughing because Gary is the name of my deceased grandfather married to the grandmother who showed up in my reading. So great kick there. 

That's probably not an accident. 

That's so crazy. 

I mean, I know maybe one person named Gary, it's not common name in my world, but 

No, Gary Grandpa Gary. So Gary had come. 

I guess you would've listened, but point being, it's hard to take advice from some abstract concept, right? It is easy to take advice from your grandfather, Gary. 

Love that. Love that. What a nice happenstance. Next time we'll use Bob though. Bob's my uncle. So it just keeps going. Taking it just a step further, how would you say these spiritual conversations help people reconnect with themselves, most importantly? Oh 

Wow. Are 

They more in touch with or receptive to their own intuition? 

Yes. So there's a couple of things I want to say on this. One of my main intentions is to support people's belief in their own intuition and their own feelings. And that tends to happen as a natural course of having a reading right? For whatever reason, I can say your grandmother sent a butterfly yesterday, and then the person will often say, I knew that was her. Or I can say Your spirit is really trying to get you to pay attention to traveling to Italy. And she'll be like, I had a feeling because three people have brought up Italy this week. What it is, it kind of shines a light on people's own gut feelings, which is the same thing as intuition. 

Absolutely. And I am all for you pushing people to do the work on their own because that's when it's the most rewarding and you see the greatest impact. 

I'm hoping to empower them 

And actually to close out the story I told in the beginning about the house, you were right. I had this intuition that my house was telling me to do something versus just sit and take it. And whether that was to renovate or to just move entirely, it was really helpful to get my grandmother's take on that, and you will be happy to know that I did decide to renovate instead of move, and we're trying to do that this summer, hopefully. But it just reinforced what I already knew, which is like you spoke about the land and the house and the meaning, and I had already felt that so deeply my first real home with my husband and my two kids. And I love this land, and I feel so peaceful when I'm here, and I'm so proud that we were able to purchase this house and make it a home. And so that was my intuition already inside saying, you're not done with this phase yet. This chapter is not over. It can just be slightly better and maybe new in many ways. Lee, what are some ways our listeners can be more receptive to what spirits may be trying to tell them in their own lives or simply become more in tune with their intuition so they're able to navigate difficult situations and make those tougher decisions on their own? 

The number one thing is to create space. So imagine the way our world lives is right now. It's like we're living in a stadium as far as the noise, energetic noise, but imagine you're trying to hear a pin drop in a stadium that really doesn't work. So you want to go somewhere or create space in your life, and by space, I mean literal space or no phone, no tv, no radio, no people just create pockets of space in your life where you could hear a pen drop because that is the subtlety with which information comes to us quite often. It could be a thought, it can be a feeling, it could be an emotional feeling, it could be a physical sensation. All of these are ways to communicate with you. Believe it or not, many of our thoughts are actually telepathically planted by spirit, either our higher selves or our loved ones or our gods. So if we aren't ever in a space to be able to hear something that subtle or feel something that subtle, we'll miss it, right? So that's the number one thing is 

So helpful. 

Put space in your life. So I mean, I'm talking like 15 minutes of space here and there where there's no distraction. And then if you're somebody who's actually accomplished that, I'll just give one more thing. Obstacle two is the determination of our logical brain, which is to write off everything that doesn't have a logical explanation. So what I offer there is just if for one week, make the decision to suspend your disbelief and do that by just keeping a notepad around. And every time you get a gut feeling about something, just write it on the notepad. It can be as simple as, I think Chandler's going to call me, or I just thought about Chandler for some reason. And then you might call, or it could be it's going to rain. I don't care what it is. Any idea that pops into your head that seems to come from nowhere, or when you're thinking about something, if you have an idea about how it might go down, write it down. 

And then at the end of the week, look back at those jotted notes and see what turned out to be accurate information. Because we don't want to belittle our logical brain. It's important, but we do want to loosen its strangle on our life. So the only hear that the most loving way to do that is to very slowly and methodically show it evidence that the other part of our knowing that may not be as easy to explain doesn't need to be thrown out. It can be part of the party. Let's have one big party where my logical brain and my intuitive brain get to happily coexist and help each other. 

I love that visual, but I cannot thank you enough for being so open and sharing your journey with us today. And to those listening, if you have all found today's discussion helpful, please share it with friends who might also benefit and don't forget to subscribe. You can also visit healing heroes podcast.com to get resources, meet the heroes, and share your ideas for future episodes. And until next time, remember, be curious, be courageous, and be kind to yourself. You've got this.