Closer to Venus

Soulpiphany founder Cindy Anderson has spent over a decade turning contact with her spirit guide into a repeatable, testable process — no special psychic gifts required. She and Johnny talk about telling a spirit guide apart from your higher self, why skeptics often make the fastest progress, and how a simple grounding practice can quiet the noise that gets in the way.

• How to tell a spirit guide from your higher self or in...

Evidential medium @michellesnelling joins Closer To Venus to unpack what makes a psychic mediumship reading evidential mediumship— specific names, dates, and even scents, not just "you're loved and protected." She shares real reading examples where initials, birth months, and a beloved song confirmed a connection, and explains how to tell an authentic dream visit from an ordinary dream.

Highlights:

• What separates evidential...

Intuitive healer and trauma-informed guidance counselor Meagan Leigh Rose joins Johnny Burke to share a near-death experience story she's never told publicly before — including a moment of nearly drowning at age three that gave her a vivid glimpse of the other side. Meagan works daily with spirit guides, past lives, and the life-between-lives space, and in this episode she opens up about what she saw crossing over, how her gu...

Shaman Kelle Sparta remembers being a temple priestess in ancient Babylon — a past-life memory that came back to her all at once, decades later. Kelle joins Johnny to talk about how to tell your spirit guides apart from your own anxious thoughts, what it's really like to communicate with ghosts and entities as a psychic medium, and her firsthand encounters with walk-ins and multiple types of alien beings.

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Bryan Quoc Le is a trained food scientist whose sharpest insights into flavor chemistry, enzymes, and DNA haven't come from the lab bench but from intuition, mediumship, and clairvoyance. In this episode, Johnny sits down with Bryan to unpack a startling premonition of his father's death a year before it happened and the detailed technical "downloads" he's received mid-project—information that later checked out against real, ...

After a motorcycle accident put him in a coma for three weeks, guest Stephen Weber didn't just have one life review during his near-death experience — he had several. Author of The Place Between Here and There: A True and Beautiful Near Death Experience, Steve joins Johnny to unpack what surprised him most: it wasn't the highlight-reel moments, it was the painful ones.

• How repeated life reviews raised his awareness each ti...

New Orleans-based psychic and past life regression practitioner Kelly Davis joins Johnny Burke to unpack soul contracts, karmic relationships, and how the Akashic Records hold the history of every life you've ever lived. Kelly explains how dreams, déjà vu, and unexplainable "knowingness" can be clues to agreements your soul made before you were born.

• How to recognize a soul contract or karmic relationship in your own life
• Why dre...

What if every choice you've made—and every one you haven't made yet—is already recorded somewhere? Akashic Records reader Erin Celise joins Closer to Venus to break down what an Akashic Records reading really reveals: your soul's origin, its past-life karma, and the soul contracts quietly shaping your life right now. 

In this episode: 

• What the Akashic Records actually are (and aren't)
• How soul contracts and ...

Johnny Burke interviews soul alignment coach and podcast host Ann Marie Grace about her work combining astrology, human design, and Gene Keys into what she calls the  “soul’s unique blueprint,” alongside guidance from spirit guides to clarify purpose. 

She describes how breathwork and meditation beginning in 2008 helped her shift from depression into yoga and esoteric interests, with a pivotal 2012 astrol...

Shamanic healer Rebecca Keating joins the show to share how a personal crisis in nursing school led her to shamanism, and how that path eventually became Soul Frequency Healer — a modality blending ancient shamanic practice with quantum root-cause healing. She also opens up about a spontaneous, out-of-nowhere past life experience that permanently changed how she understands time and trauma.

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• How shamanism an...

Chris Nielsen, past life regression practitioner and author of Being Pyotr Ilyich, joins Johnny Burke to share her uncanny past-life connection to composer Tchaikovsky. Drawing on over 20 regression sessions, Chris explains what she experienced in the "life between lives," why parallel lives can split from a single soul, and what actually keeps a spirit earthbound after death.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the afterlife phas...

Christi Clemons Hoffman — intuitive Reiki Master, channel, and Level 3 QHHT practitioner—returns to Closer to Venus for a deep dive into how buried emotions and unresolved trauma manifest as physical illness and even pass down through families and lifetimes. Christi shares real client stories of chronic pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and even cancer resolving once the higher self is invited to heal.

Takeaways:

• How unproc...

Psychic medium and intuitive healer Allison Carmany joins the show to unpack evidential mediumship — the specific, verifiable details from spirit that go far beyond a vague reading. She also talks about her work healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and the collective awakening she believes is unfolding across the planet.

In this episode:

• What evidential mediumship is and how it differs from a typical psychic read...

In this episode of Closer to Venus, Johnny Burke sits down with shaman, "site whisperer," and theater/film director John Paul Eaglehart to explore what it really means to move between worlds. John Paul shares how his 27th-birthday Saturn return launched him into decades of communicating with ancestors, guardians, and land spirits at sacred sites across six continents.

• Why shamanism is about purpose, not curiosity—every jou...

Host Johnny Burke interviews Dr. Carol Talbot, founder of the Possibility Hub, about “multidimensional intelligence,” described as accessing information beyond linear thinking through a quantum field of intelligence and strengthening a “glitchy” human signal. Talbot distinguishes it from intuition, noting that many additional senses can be safely activated through structured methods that emphasize grounding ...

Host Johnny Burke interviews Danielle Worthen Cullumber, a paranormal investigator, psychic medium, clinical social worker, and founder of Willow Medella Wellness, about blending trauma therapy with mind-body-spirit healing. Danielle describes realizing her mediumship at 19 through precognitive and lucid dreams, then deepening it after a post-death dream conversation with an aunt who died by suicide, followed by ongoing communicati...

Certified clinical hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether, author of The Past Lives Guidebook and founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy, joins Johnny Burke to talk past life regression, life-between-lives work, and why some emotional wounds don't seem to start in this lifetime. A self-described skeptic, Craig shares client stories that pushed even his own doubts aside.

In this episode:

• Why Craig calls the brain a "receiver," not a memo...

Isabella Skrypczak is a lightworker, medium, and author of A Polish Girl in Siberia, who spent years translating her grandmother's memoir of the Soviet gulag system — and along the way began seeing the traumas her ancestors lived through. In this episode, she and Johnny explore how unprocessed generational and war trauma gets stored in the body, passed down through DNA, and repeated in modern conflicts and relationships.

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