How 30 years of analytical thinking, a profound spiritual awakening, and thousands of mediumship readings changed how I understand intuition, consciousness, and the choices that shape our lives.

For most of my professional life, I worked in a world where numbers, evidence, and rational analysis were everything.

As a CFA charterholder and MBA with more than 30 years in institutional investment management, my job was to analyze complicated businesses, question assumptions, identify hidden risks, and make decisions involving enormous amounts of money.

I learned to trust evidence. Challenge conventional wisdom. Look beneath the surface.

And I became very good at it.

But something happened that changed how I understood the world—and myself.

A Spiritual Awakening I Never Expected

More than a decade ago, I experienced a profound spiritual awakening that challenged almost everything I thought I knew about consciousness and the nature of reality.

Until then, I had approached life primarily through logic and analysis.

Suddenly, I was confronting experiences that couldn’t be neatly explained through the analytical frameworks I’d relied upon for decades.

I began exploring consciousness, intuition, spiritual awareness, and the possibility that our existence extends beyond the physical world.

That exploration eventually led me to evidential mediumship.

Today, I’ve conducted thousands of readings connecting people with loved ones who have passed.

And while those experiences have profoundly influenced my understanding of consciousness, something else began to emerge that I hadn’t anticipated.

Over the years, I began noticing recurring patterns in the messages, emotions, and experiences that surfaced during readings.

People carrying regrets about things they never said.

Relationships shaped by assumptions that were never questioned.

Important decisions postponed because fear felt more convincing than intuition.

People who sensed something wasn’t right in their lives but couldn’t explain why.

And again and again, I noticed how much of our lives can be shaped by what we don’t recognize about ourselves.

These observations changed how I approached my own life.

They also changed what I wanted to share with others.

Because the value of spiritual awareness isn’t simply discovering that there may be more to existence than the physical world.

It’s understanding how that awareness can change the way we live right now.

One of the most important things I’ve learned is that analytical thinking and intuition don’t have to compete.

They’re different ways of understanding our experiences.

My investment background taught me to question assumptions, examine evidence, and recognize the limitations of what we think we know.

My spiritual experiences taught me to become more aware of what I feel, what I sense, and what I might otherwise overlook.

Neither perspective provides all the answers.

And that’s precisely the point.

Some of life’s most important decisions can’t be reduced to spreadsheets, probabilities, or logical arguments.

They involve uncertainty, relationships, values, intuition, and the deeper questions of what gives our lives meaning.

I believe we make better choices when we learn to recognize what’s influencing us—rather than automatically accepting every thought, fear, or assumption as the truth.

Clarity isn’t always about finding more information. Sometimes it’s about recognizing what we’ve been overlooking.

About the Spirits Beside Us Podcast

Spirits Beside Us grew from my desire to explore the deeper questions of human experience—and make those conversations accessible, practical, and relevant to everyday life.

What happens to consciousness after death?

Can we develop greater awareness of our intuition?

Why do certain emotional and behavioral patterns repeat throughout our lives?

What can spiritual experiences teach us about relationships, regret, purpose, and the decisions we make?

And how do we find clarity when life doesn’t offer an obvious right answer?

Through personal experiences, conversations, insights from mediumship, psychology, and ancient wisdom, I explore these questions with curiosity and an open mind.

My goal isn’t to tell you what to believe.

It’s to help you recognize what you may already be sensing, question the assumptions shaping your experience, and develop a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.

Because sometimes the most meaningful changes begin when we start seeing something we’ve been overlooking all along.

Credentials & Experience

Professional Background
CFA charterholder and MBA with more than 30 years of experience in institutional investment management, including Wall Street and senior equity research roles.

Spiritual Experience
International evidential medium with thousands of readings conducted, extensive mediumship training, and experience exploring consciousness and spiritual communication.

Bestselling Author
Author of Spirits Beside Us: Gain Healing and Comfort from Loved Ones in the Afterlife.

Podcast Host
Creator and host of Spirits Beside Us, with more than 587,000 downloads across 153 countries.