The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill

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For the first time in as long as I can remember, I do not have a dream I am chasing. So I went looking backward instead of forward.

In this episode I trace my actual path. My first dream of becoming a teacher at seventeen. The mentors who saw something in me I could not see in myself. My years in motorsports. The decade at the First Nations Health Authority where I became a mother, a medium, and a confident woman all at once. The keynote I recently gave to a youth summit in Squamish. And what it felt like to realize, twenty six years later, that my original dream had already come true.

I close with a poem from The Wishing Bone Cycle, a Swampy Cree creation story I have come to love.

I am coming off of hosting my fourth Sacred Spirit Retreat and I wanted to share what I opened the retreat with because I think it is something a lot of us are quietly carrying.

Belonging. Not the performance of it. The actual felt sense of it in your body.

In this episode I talk about what belonging really is as a regulated nervous system state, not just a feeling of being liked. I share why Brené Brown's distinction between belonging and fitting in changed one of my core filters for how I spend my time. I talk about the small community moments, like the Squamish acknowledgement nod, that quietly shaped my sense of home over 20 years of living here.

Then I go somewhere more personal. Last summer a friend said something to me in the car that I hadn't been able to say to myself. That my deepest place of not belonging lives inside my own Indigenous reconnection journey as a Swampy Cree woman. I share what that revelation felt like, what I have been doing with it, and how spirit responded by leading me to a 50 year old book called The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems From the Swampy Cree Indians.

I close with a reading of the Turtle poem and an invitation: scan the room wherever you are and make someone belong. Even just for a minute.

**SOUND QUALITY - ever have one of those days? Tech was not on my side today and my mic wasn't working so the sound quality is less than stellar - watch the video version on youtube**

In this episode, Danielle sits down with her longtime friend and fellow medium Debbie Squizzero, also known as the Singing Medium, for a rich and joyful conversation about the way the spirit world communicates through music. Deb shares how songs began showing up in her readings during tarot class, why she always hears them in her right ear, and how her clients have built entire playlists from the songs their loved ones sent through her over the years.

Danielle and Deb also swap stories about group readings, the resistance that almost kept them both from the work they were born to do, and the health crises that ultimately forced them into alignment. Whether you are a developing medium, a devoted sitter, or someone who has ever woken up with a song stuck in your head that felt like more than a coincidence, this episode will make you listen differently.

This is a conversation between two friends who have walked the path together for nearly a decade, and it shows.

Follow Deb on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/debbie_squizzero_medium/

Check out her events and website https://www.debbiesquizzero.com/

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