There. I said it.

I’ve spent the last few months since writing to you last playing another round of “Death and Rebirth” with my plant spirit medicine friends and trying to get under the hood of wtf I am actually building as I interweave my worlds of plant medicine shamanism, channeling, and being a badass business woman.

Here is what I was terrified would happen:

I would build a new business, which I am self-funding by the way (Mighty Well is backed by investors, grants, and accelerator capital + 7-figure yearly product sales), and then realize I had built the wrong house and have to tear the whole damn thing down.

Turns out, that is almost exactly what I am doing.

It’s hard to channel for myself

As a channeler, it is so easy for me to see what is happening for other people. I read the energy under the problem you think you have. I can feel where the energy has stopped flowing.

I can ask the spirit of someone’s business what it needs and receive an answer that makes so much sense that everyone in the room exhales and says “FINALLY!”

But as a fellow channeler once told me,
“You can’t see everything for yourself or else you wouldn’t be living life.”

So you mean I am human too?

Here is what I have been up to and where you have landed:

This publication is now called Spirit is Strategy.

The title was given to me by the Spirit World, not only as my tagline for Shepherd: Spirit Led Advisory, but as the name of my future book, now Substack, and public speaking keynote (next Keynote is at the Volcano Summit in Antigua, Guatemala in September!)

For months I felt blocked on how to explain my upgraded shamanic worldview and the professional world I was building in public.

Then this phrase was given to me by my Spirit Guides and it stuck. It finally felt like,

“Ah, yes. That is what I do.”

I translate Spirit into Strategy.

I believe your Spirit is your Strategy.

Here, I share how to bring Spirit into your business decisions about people, money, and what comes next.

We cannot build successful businesses in the age of AI without inviting our Spirit fully to the table.

I use AI all the time, so this is not an anti-technology rant. To be clear: I am very pro AI.

AI can help us research, organize, synthesize, write, and move faster.

What it cannot do is tell you if the person across the table is the correct collaborator to build with. It cannot feel that the deal that looks brilliant on paper is going to be dead in the water if you don’t clean out the cobwebs in the leader’s mental and emotional body.

It cannot tell you why your whole body tightens every time your team says the new direction is “obviously” the right one.

The more machines can produce competent answers, the more important it becomes to know which answers are actually yours.

And I cannot write this newsletter without letting the plants themselves speak.

Tobacco helped me build my next offering

The plants tell me this all the time: Speak for us.

I believe Spirit, whether you call it God, Goddess, Source, your Spirit Guides, your ancestors, or even our plant friends who have consciousness, speaks through humans.

Through signs. Through dreams. Through frequency.

Through the song that reminds you of your loved one on the other side that comes on the speakers of your car at the most random moment, but helps you to remember that they are really all right here. (Yes, I am a medium too.)

Back in May, I was called by a dear friend and grandfather spirit, Mapacho (Amazonian tobacco), to do a three-week master plant dieta with him.

WTF is a Dieta?: A dieta is a set period of time when you eat simply, strictly follow certain lifestyle rules, and build a relationship with the spirit of one plant.

Mapacho cleaned, cleared, and blessed so much in my life.

During that season, I went on an epic adventure to Mexico to learn from my tobacco and channeling teacher as he brought me with him to heal a local patient in the village.

I supported the work with my gift of channeling and learned more about working with the medicine of tobacco. I kid you not, when we went into the humble home of this elderly woman (there was a chicken walking through the house…because rural Mexico)....this women had been bedridden for days.

My teacher and I worked together with our gifts of channeling, curanderismo, energy work and tobacco, and within the hour the woman could sit up and wanted to go outside and dance. I will never forget that day as long as I live.

I also received permission to become a pipe carrier, and earlier this spring, a Narragansett tribal elder handmade an incredible ceremonial medicine pipe for me.

Carrying this pipe comes with responsibility: to care for it, work with it in prayer and ceremony, and respect the teachings shared with me. I am not Indigenous (Jewitch over here!), but my teacher is. I don’t take that trust lightly.

(Woah. Wow. Very here for it. Deeply honored.)

…And then Mapacho helped me build a new business offer. Because of course he did…

WTF is Shamanic Business?

Shamanic business is running a company in relationship with its spirit.

I believe a business is alive.

It has its own needs, wisdom, and direction.

The leader’s job is to ask what the business wants, listen for the answer, and make choices with the business, not only about it.

Why is it shamanic?

A shaman goes between the human world and the spirit world, then brings back guidance people can use. That is what I do with a business.

I speak with its spirit, bring back what I hear, and help the leader turn it into real decisions about people, money, power, timing, and what comes next.

This is not a metaphor. I believe your business has a real spirit, and it will tell you what it needs if you know how to ask.

The spirit of Mapacho gave me the words “Shamanic Business” and showed me this way of working. I channeled it into form.

What is Shepherd Circle?

Shepherd Circle is a 14-week container for intuitive founders and leaders who have a company, team, community, movement, or lineage to lead.

They bring their issue to the container.

The deal that feels dead in the water. The clarity they’re struggling to find around their next business pivot. The inner knowing they had before the data caught up. The part of their spiritual gift they have not known how to use in the business.

Then we work with all of it.

• We channel the spirit of the business

• We look at the actual strategy

• We identify the spiritual gifts already operating through each person

• We work with the energetic and ancestral patterns they are carrying

• We ask what the business problem is here to teach us

No translating the spiritual side of you. No dumbing down your business brilliance.

Because I believe Spirit is strategy and community is medicine.

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Now for the side quest that is actually the entire point of this story.

On the last day I was inviting people into the first Shepherd Circle, there was one space left.

I heard Mapacho say, “Go to the river where she meets the ocean and make an offering. The last space in your Shamanic Business Mastermind will fill.”

So I went.

I made the offering.

And that night, while I was singing my heart out at a Jack Johnson concert with tickets that had been randomly gifted to me (because this story needed a soundtrack), I got the text message that the final space had been filled.

THE MASTERMIND SOLD OUT!

Sure, you can call that a coincidence. But I don’t.

I also want to be very clear about what happened here, because “Spirit is Strategy” does not mean sitting at your altar and waiting for your Stripe account to send you a push notification.

Mapacho did not write the sales page.

He did not price the offer, personally invite the right people, answer their questions, build the curriculum, or hold the container.

I did those things (with the help of my extremely talented and witchy business friends, Emma Power (astrologer with a Substack that is absolutely worth the money AS ABOVE) and Dina Samra, founder of The Rewilding Collective.)

I brought more than a decade of founder experience to the strategy.

I knew how to shape an offer, recognize the right people, listen to what they needed, and turn an idea into something transformative that I could sell.

Spirit showed me what wanted to exist. Strategy gave it form. Then I had to trust the guidance from a plant spirit, my Guides, and my own intuition enough to act on it and seal the deal.

That is what I mean when I say Spirit is Strategy.

Spirit is not a substitute for doing the work.

It changes which work you do, when you do it, who you do it with, and what you are willing to trust before the outside world gives you proof.

Welcome to Spirit is Strategy.

I’m honored your guides led you here.

Your business oracle,

Em

Oh yeah, I do this every week now BTW.

Here’s a channeling from the Star Beings

Imagine all of the pain and suffering your ancestors, known and unknown, experienced on Earth.

What if there is a reality, one I believe in deeply, where they are on the other side of Heaven.

Which is really all right here, just a doorway that our souls pass through.

And they are healed.

And they are well.

What a concept.

To know that their souls have separated from their earthly bodies. Have been cleaned by the light of God and his/her team of angels. That they have gone to a realm where there are schools. Where their souls have learned new skills. Where life has been reviewed.

They can see their mistakes from their Earthly vantage point. And they have been given the grace to continue on, living a good life from heaven.

But now, they have something they didn’t have before.

New levels of knowledge. New capacity.

And they are able to extend their angelic hands, with upwelling energy, to direct it back down toward you, my friend, to support you in your wildest dreams.

What if I told you that reality is true?

That is the reality I have experienced as a mere human living in this Earthly body; I am someone who inherited the gift of mediumship from my female ancestors and has sat in more psychedelic plant medicine ceremonies than I can count (for religious purposes, of course). I have seen it first hand. Countless times. In ceremony and in client sessions.

What if I knew, and I do know, with every ounce of my being, that I am the result of every investment my ancestors made in their lifetimes. The ones that worked out. The ones that didn’t. And the ones created in a level of reality we still do not fully understand.

A space of creation. A space of vastness. A space of infinite possibilities and wisdom.

That is the space from which your healed and well ancestors help you.

“Because you, my child, are the result of an investment that pays dividends.” -Channeled message

Let me give you an example from my own life.

I am the great-great-great-great (I don’t even know how many greats) granddaughter of The Bubbe. The grandmother (the Yiddish word for grandmother), and a grandfather somewhere in there too, who fled what is now Ukraine, escaping the pogroms against the Jewish people, to land on the shores of Providence, Rhode Island, over a hundred years ago.

Her suffering. The persecution. The shaming, the hunger, the disease.

And we all have a Bubbe somewhere in our ancestry. Someone whose story is not so different from the one I’m telling you today.

What if, now stay with me, your Bubbe is like my Bubbe, living a life in the Kingdom of Heaven, free from all of the karmas she carried on Earth? Now she is a wise teacher. Now she pours into you all of the blessings and miracles she has witnessed and learned from the other side.

My life would not be as good as it is, or, let’s be honest, or even possible, without her. She is my Bubbe, so she wants the best for me.

(Even if occasionally she has sent a slipper flying at my head.)

She is pouring into me.

I invite you to set aside the heaviness for a moment; the war, the destruction, the famine, the crumbling happening on Earth right now.

I ask you to see from higher up the mountain. Follow me, with my shepherd’s staff, as I take you to the place where you can meet her.

On the path, I want to show you this. It is a sign of the wisdom available to us when we ask.

Now, look. There she is.

Your Bubbe.

What would she have to say to you?

What gifts of knowledge and abundance would she bestow upon you?

How would she kiss your smiling face?

How has she already moved mountains for you?

That, my friends, is the blessing of the healed and well ancestors. That is the investment they made in this lifetime, and from the other side, that they want you to remember.

They want you to know.

I will leave you here upon the mountain with your version of your Bubbe.

Say hello for me.

Until then, may it sink deep within your bones. Deep within your being to know:

“You are your ancestors’ greatest investment.”

— Channeled message, 4/13/2026

With love and cedar smoke,

em

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Sit with that for a second.

I didn’t learn this in a Babson business school classroom. I learned it on a ceremonial mat, through years of trusting my intuition and integrating what the medicines kept showing me: that when something feels like it isn’t working, the move isn’t to push harder. It’s to stop and listen.

Most people only pray after the break down. The work, the real work, is learning to recognize the prayer that’s already moving through you.

This is the story of how I canceled my NYC launch, bought a flight to Guatemala, sold out a Rhode Island event while I was doing yoga at the base of an active volcano, and learned, finally, how to receive.

[PHOTO: Guatemala, ceremony space, or anything that evokes threshold. Strong visual hook before the story drops.]

Last Sunday I was supposed to have my first solo headlining live event in New York City: Matcha and Magic.

I canceled it.

NYC was supposed to be the ultimate “I’m back, baby!” moment. I’m a professional public speaker. I’ve keynoted global stages and pitched Mighty Well to Morgan Stanley executives, Babson College cohorts, and Cartier Women’s Initiative jury members.

But this was different.

This was my name as the headliner. This was my new business, with my channeling gift placed front and center. My collaborator, Dina of The ReWilding Collective, and I had spent months building the event from scratch: securing aligned partners, gathering incredible brands for our gift bags (gifting is my love language), and taking a full leap of faith in ourselves, each other, and our new businesses.

And then the signs started.

Not flashing lights. Not a dramatic message from the universe. Just a quiet, persistent inner knowing that this launch was not going to plan. The kind that starts in your gut before your mind has caught up.

I launched registration anyway. I sold a ticket. And then I sat down and channeled for myself, because something felt seriously off.

The answer was immediate and clear: cancel the event.

My girl boss era founder brain (the one that co-built a venture-backed medical company from the ground up, the one that overrode her body’s signs and signals for years to keep pushing) was screaming the opposite: Push through. Honor your commitments. Keep going.

But my body said something different: This is not aligned. Something better is coming. Your nervous system needs baby steps. Do this at home, for your local community first.

So I canceled NYC (we will bring it back, in better form, at the right time with our friends at MatchaBar), and I did something harder than pushing through.

I listened.

The same day I made that decision, I got an invitation.

A dear friend was hosting a retreat in Guatemala on the same date my event was supposed to be. All I had to do was buy the flight.

I didn’t hesitate. Because Guatemala isn’t just a place to me. It’s where everything began. The universe had already filled the date.

Five years ago:

I went to Guatemala as a patient.

What most people in my professional world didn’t know the full extent of (because founders are excellent at pulling it together for a killer pitch and then going home to collapse) was that I had spent years fighting Lyme disease, POTS, CIDP, Hashimoto’s, autoimmune conditions, and a nausea so severe I couldn’t function without medical cannabis for two years. Daily life felt like a battle for survival. Western medicine did its best, but after fifteen years of giving it my hopes, my trust, and every last dollar, it couldn’t cure me.

By 2020, my health had hit rock bottom. Something deeper started calling me toward root cause healing: infectious, energetic, ancestral, spiritual.

That call led me to Guatemala. To Ayahuasca and Kambo. To the ceremonial mat, to Grandmother Aya and Frog medicine, to the moment I stopped managing my illness and started letting it show me what it wanted to teach me. I went, as I’ve said since, to save my own life.

The five years that followed were not linear. They were a spiral and what I can only describe as “peeling back layers of an onion”.

Psychedelic medicines, master plant dietas, ceremony, integration, therapy, more ceremony. Each healing milestone asking me to go deeper, trust more, prove less. To let go of who I thought I was.

This March, I went back to Antigua, Guatemala. One of my happiest places on earth.

Not as the patient, but as the Maestra in training.

The cosmic timing (yes, I track these things, because the stars have never once lied to me) was precise. A lunar eclipse had just passed, surgically removing an old identity I’d been quietly outgrowing: the woman who unconsciously made herself smaller so others could feel bigger. Hard to believe for some of you who have seen me on big stages, I know. But in reality, I had been unconsciously holding my full self back for a long time. To never seem too much, or too big. Like my hair.

The sky was doing what sky does: marking the end of one era and the unapologetic beginning of another.

In Guatemala, I facilitated Kambo ceremonies for four extraordinary women. Two of them had held space for me on my very first trip//trips, when I was still the one on the ceremonial mat, learning to trust my body’s ability to heal itself.

(A note for those new here: Kambo is a peptide secreted from a tree frog native to the Amazon, Phyllomedusa bicolor. Indigenous tribes have used it for centuries for physical purification, detox, mental clarity, and spiritual reset. It is intense. It is humbling. And it healed what a decade of western medicine could not. I didn’t plan to become a practitioner. Kambo called me into service the same way it healed me: persistently, and with zero concern for who this girl boss era founder thought she was. More on this soon.)

In ceremony, we moved big energies. Released ancestral patterns. Trusted the intelligence of the earth. And together we offered every purge back to the land with gratitude.

Earthmama receives it all. She always does.

Full cosmic circle doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Here’s what I want to name before I go further. The thing that made this whole pivot possible. The thing I’ve been quietly integrating for six months:

I did not know how to receive.

Not really. Not fully.

I thought I did. But what I was actually doing was filtering everything that came toward me through a cost-benefit analysis that had nothing to do with money.

• If I receive, I’ll owe someone something.

• If I receive, I’ll be indebted.

• If I receive, what’s the givers ulterior motive?

When I got on the phone with Cristinona, the friend hosting the retreat, my first move was true to form: “Do you want me to channel? Do you want me to facilitate? What can I offer?”

She said: “No. I just want you to receive.”

Reader, I cried. Because I knew, felt it in my whole body, that the universe, my guides, and the land of Guatemala were speaking directly through my dear friend.

This is one of the most common energetic blocks I see in high-performing, spiritually-open leaders. We are extraordinary givers. (Mani)-Generators, fixers, facilitators. But receiving? Receiving requires the vulnerability of trust. The radical belief that something can come to you without a transaction, without strings, without your needing to immediately give something back to prove you weren’t a burden.

Here’s what blocking the receiving actually looks like, in life and in business:

• You deflect compliments before they can fully land. (”Oh, it was nothing.”)

• You over-explain your pricing before anyone questions it.

• You say yes to more giving before you’ve integrated what was just offered.

• You launch before you’re ready because waiting feels like an opportunity passing you by.

• You fill all the empty space before something good can land in it.

• You pivot away from the thing that didn’t work and then immediately replace it with more doing, more proving, more output, before you’ve received the lesson that the pivot was carrying.

Energetically, receiving requires the same interior condition that prayer requires: surrender and faith. The acknowledgment that you have done what you can do, that the outcome is not entirely yours to control, and that Spirit (God, Goddess, Source, Hashem, the universe, whatever language you use) has information you don’t.

And here’s the part no one tells you: you don’t have to surrender everything. I’ve come to believe you only have to meet Spirit halfway. Maybe even just ten percent. Show up. Whisper the prayer out loud or in your heart. Buy the flight. Cancel the event. Take the one small step that says I’m willing, and let the universe hold the prayer and show me the rest.

The ten percent is yours. The ninety is grace.

The pivot is the action. The prayer is the opening to your highest timeline. Two sides of the same coin.

The question is whether you’ll listen before or after the break down.

The Rhode Island event that I pivoted to after I canceled NYC? Sold out while I was doing yoga at the base of an active volcano in Guatemala.

Saturday night I stood in my favorite plant shop in my hometown. The land where people knew me as a little girl, with the people who were in the thick of it with me when I was sick, who are here now to witness what comes after the healing. I showed up as my full self, all of my magic, on my own soil for the very first time.

The pivot landed. The prayer was answered. And I didn’t have to break down to hear either one.

With love and cedar smoke,

Em

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My journal of edits toward clarity, connection, and grounded living.

By Indie Lee

What’s asking to come through you feels less like pushing a boulder uphill and more like walking alongside a riverbank that already knows where it wants to flow.

And if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re not just witnessing this shift: you’re here to guide others through it.

Let me introduce you to an ancient archetype that’s waking up again in leaders, founders, and visionaries all over the world:

Shepherd.

What Is a Shepherd?

(And Why It’s Not Just a Metaphor)

When I say “Shepherd,” I’m not talking about a personal brand or a clever positioning strategy (although I am loving that for myself at the moment).

I’m talking about lineage. An archetype. A responsibility that predates empires, organized religion, and every leadership framework you’ve ever studied.

Before there were kings, there were shepherds.
Before there were CEOs, there were shepherds.
Before there were gurus and thought leaders, there were shepherds.

Here’s what made them different:

Shepherds didn’t control the flock. They read the energy of it.

They walked ahead and behind. They knew the terrain. They sensed subtle shifts in the flock and in the land before others in their community felt them. They protected without dominating. They guided without forcing.

They held the field while others grew.

A shepherd is not the hero of the story. They are the stabilizer of the field.

And right now (in 2026, as the world fractures and reorganizes, as spiritual awakenings accelerate often without structure, as tech oligarchs build empires without inner anchoring) shepherds are rising again.

Because they are a necessary part of the Earth-based ecosystem.

Moses Told Me I Was a Shepherd

I didn’t choose this title. It was given to me.

In an ayahuasca ceremony two years ago, Moses came to me (my lineage is 50% Ashkenazi Jewish) and said:

“You are a shepherd.”

Not a coach. Not a healer. Not a consultant. Not a guru.

A shepherd.

And when I felt into that frequency, everything around me steadied.

It was calm. Grounded. Rooted. Connected to heaven and Earth at once: the sun and the soil, the animals and plants, the water flowing through all of it. Every direction, every element, all held in one resonance.

The frequency of a shepherd is humble but deeply skilled. It’s ancient but completely alive right now. It’s not about controlling the flock; it’s about reading where they’re naturally headed and helping them get there safely.

That’s the work I do now. That’s the frequency I hold.

And here’s what I know for certain: I am a shepherd of shepherds.

The people I work with aren’t looking for someone to tell them what to do. They’re leaders themselves: founders, visionaries, cultural architects, modern medicine men and women waking up to their own spiritual gifts.

They’re coming to me to be mirrored back to themselves through my gift of Spirit Communication.

As someone with the gift of channeling and reading energy for a living, they’re coming to me to:

• See which doors are opening and which doors need to stay shut for their evolution

• Step into their next birthright

• Recognize what they already know but can’t quite articulate yet

• Understand the energetic patterns they’re releasing but don’t have language for

• Translate their medicine work, their intuitive downloads, their spirit-led vision into grounded, embodied strategy

That’s my role as a shepherd. Not for the masses. For other shepherds.

I’m not here to help everyone (yet).

The Historical Weight of This Archetype

Shepherding is one of the oldest professions in human civilization.

Shepherds understood land patterns. They moved with seasons. They protected resources. They operated between wilderness and society: liminal figures who lived at the edge of civilization while also sustaining it.

The shepherd’s staff symbolized rooted authority, protection, direction, and a tool for course correction.

The role required vigilance, endurance, intimacy with terrain, emotional attunement to the flock, and always a connection to the spirits of the land.

In fact, several of history’s most influential leaders began as literal shepherds before becoming lawgivers, prophets, kings, and founders.

King David was a shepherd before he was a king. Known for courage, poetic devotion, strategic leadership.

Moses was a shepherd before leading his people through the Exodus. He learned terrain, patience, endurance: the exact qualities required to guide his people through transformation.

Abraham was a nomadic herdsman before becoming a patriarchal figure of the family of faiths.

Finally, there is Yeshua. During an ayahuasca ceremony, he specifically instructed me to use his Hebrew name, though the world largely knows him as Jesus, the Good Shepherd. He is the one who leads with compassion, who lays down his life for the flock, and who knows each sheep by name. His teaching was the ultimate embodiment of the archetype: guidance through love, protection through presence, and leadership through service.

He is my Shepherd. My rabbi of Rabbis.

The deeper archetype predates organized religion. It represents one who holds continuity during uncertainty, protects life through transition, walks the terrain so others do not get lost, and my favorite: one who shines a light in the dark.

That’s what’s rising with me and in the lives of all those I support.

Why Shepherds Are Emerging Right Now

We are living in an era of:

• Decentralized authority (do we even know who to trust anymore?

  • Hint: Trust yourself

• Spiritual awakening without structure (gifts coming online with no framework to hold or fully understand them.

  • Hint: Did DMT blast open your channel too?

• Leaders with power but without inner anchoring (influence without it being earned.

  • Hint: Just because that influencer went viral doesn’t mean they know shit

• Massive information, minimal wisdom (everyone has a platform, few have grounding.

  • Hint: You should probably unfollow a few people

• Accelerated technological evolution (AI, automation, tools moving faster than ethics.

  • Hint: Love your AI therapist, but also know when they’re hallucinating

Historically, shepherds appear during:

• Transitions of power

• Cultural destabilization

• Spiritual reformation

• Economic restructuring

Right now, we are in all four at once.

People are awakening. Building. Scaling. Influencing. Meeting God on ayahuasca. (P.S. He loves you and he is here to help humanity through these times of big change.)

But many lack:

• Discernment

• Inner authority

• Energetic hygiene

• Long-term ethical grounding

• Knowing how to protect their spiritual gifts

Shepherds stabilize the field during evolutionary jumps (and man oh man are we in one. More on Time Hopping in a future post).

We shepherds are not here to predict futures (but as a psychic-medium, I am often so right it even freaks me out sometimes). We’re here to protect integrity during expansion.

And if you’re reading this and something in your body is saying yes, you’re probably a shepherd too.

How to Know If You Are a Shepherd

Shepherds recognize each other.

If you’ve been feeling the pull to lead differently (to trust your intuition, maybe for the first time fully in your life, to follow what wants to emerge naturally, to guide others without forcing or fixing), you’re already doing the work of a shepherd.

Here’s what I’m noticing in the shepherds who are waking up right now:

1. The old paradigms aren’t working for you anymore.
Hustle feels icky and exhausting. That extra “like” on your LinkedIn feels empty. You know there’s a different way to build, lead, and create, but the blueprint may not exist or be clear to you yet.

2. You’re having profound experiences that are changing how you see the world.
With or without plant medicine, your gifts are coming online. You’re sensing things you didn’t before. You’re knowing things without knowing how you know them. The veil is thinning, and you can feel it.

3. You want to show up differently in your life and business, but you don’t always know how.
You have the vision. The clarity. The downloads (we love the downloads!). But translating that into grounded action (into strategy, into systems, into embodied leadership) feels complicated. You need someone who can read the pattern and mirror it back to you (and bonus if they’re like me: an award-winning medical founder with her name on 2 patents).

4. You’re connected to the spirit world, whether you talk about it publicly or not.
You might channel. You might talk to the ancestors and wind. You might just feel into what’s truer than true. However it shows up for you, you know there’s more happening beneath the surface. And you’re learning to trust that. 444.

If that’s you: you’re a shepherd.

And shepherds are leaders of flocks. Not because they’re louder or more visible, but because they’re deeply attuned to what wants to flow and be created in this world.

The Shepherd Frequency

Shepherd frequency is about reading the energy and responding to what’s alive, what’s moving, what’s true in the moment.

It’s heaven and Earth at once. The sun and the soil. All directions in one.

That’s what I do for the shepherds I work with. I don’t teach them how to be leaders (they already are). I help them:

• Recognize what they already know and hold space for them to finally feel that in their bodies

• Mirror back the gifts they’re afraid to claim

• Translate their medicine work into grounded strategy in business + life

• Stop looking outside themselves for permission

  • (No one is actually going to give it to you!!!)

• Pick up the phone to the spirit world and trust what comes through

I help them build businesses and lives that are aligned with their frequency, not someone else’s blueprint (easier said than done, I know).

Shepherd as Sacred Profession

Here’s what’s important to understand:

Shepherding is not a service. It’s a vocation.

And vocations are not scaled through noise. They are scaled through trust.

I am shepherding other shepherds. They have their own flocks: employees, co-founders, investors, community members, family systems.

I’m working with visionaries, founders, cultural architects, and spiritually awakening leaders who are building something that matters.

I stand slightly outside their spotlight so they can stand inside it clearly. (But boy, I love a mic in my hand and a stage to shine my light. Fun fact: When I speak on stage now, I envision that I am speaking to Yeshua in the back of the room.)

Shepherding is a responsibility. A lineage. A calling.

And if you’re feeling the call to step into that frequency (to claim your gifts, to trust your knowing, to lead from presence instead of pressure), you’re right on time.

The Invitation: Matcha and Magic

On Sunday, March 22nd (the first Sunday after the spring equinox portal), I’m hosting my first NYC retreat: Matcha and Magic: Come Get The Cosmic Tea.

3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Kitsby Baking Studio
SoHo, NYC

In partnership with The ReWilding Collective, Kitsby Baking Studio, and friends at MatchaBar, Good Wipes, Indie Lee, Cleancult, and Moosa Tea

Shepherds need to be in community. They need to meet other shepherds. They need to rest. And they need plant magic to replenish their spirits so they can go back to leading their flocks on Monday morning.

Yes, this woo-woo corporate girlie strategically designed this event to help you enter Q2 with clarity, connection, and ceremony. (And yes, my astrologer Emma, founder of Lunar Mansion, astro-blessed the date.)

This is a gathering of shepherds.

The Sunday Flow:

3:00 PM | The Sensory Landing
Moosa Tea tasting & Kitsby-made Matcha Chocolate Chip Brownies. We use taste, scent, and warmth to drop you out of your head and into your body.

3:30 PM | The Shepherd Slow Down
A channeled guided meditation by me to clear the “NYC static” and drop into sacred space.

4:00 PM | The Creative Pour
A hands-on Matcha Jasmine Latte Making Workshop facilitated by Kitsby with MatchaBar Matcha goodness. Even high-performers need play (and a little matcha magic) to unlock their creativity.

4:45 PM | The Inner Wisdom
I teach Shepherd’s INNER Framework. You leave with a repeatable ritual for accessing your intuition on demand...whether you’re at an altar or a desk.

5:15 PM | The Cosmic Tea (Live)
Live Channeling Open Mic. You ask a specific life or business question. You get the direct “tea” from Spirit. Not overly woo-woo, just the answer you need to open Q2 channeled directly from my spirit guides and yours.

6:00 PM | The Integration
Head home with clarity and your curated gift bag.

This experience is for you if:

✓ You’ve achieved the external markers of success but feel disconnected from your internal compass
✓ You make decisions based on data but know your best moves come from trusting your gut (aka your intuition!)
✓ You’re tired of “shoulds” and ready to trust your own spirit and intuition
✓ You’re hungry for a space where strategy and spirit are both welcome

Total Value: $500+ | Your Investment: $222

Limited to 25 Shepherds.

Reserve Your Ticket Here

(If you don’t believe in magic, or at least synchronicities, this event is probably not for you.)

Can’t make it to NYC? Forward this to a friend who needs to be there.

Welcome to the world of the Shepherds. 🐑💙

With love and cedar smoke,
Em

P.S. If you want to experience Soulstream™ Channeling before Matcha and Magic, I have a few spots open in my 2/22 group ceremony.

For most of that time, channeling lived in the private corners of my life—in plant medicine ceremony retreats, in one-on-one sessions with close friends turned clients, in volunteer 1:1 sessions I led for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Wellbeing Champion programming throughout 2025, and in quiet moments for myself when I needed guidance that I couldn’t access any other way.

It was shared and sacred, yes, but access was controlled through word of mouth only. Protected. I wasn’t ready to share it with the world who knew me as an award-winning founder in mainstream western healthcare (because woo woo, right?!)

Then something shifted.

In mid-2025, after a decade building Mighty Well, a medical wearable & education company (an experience that nearly broke me and then rebuilt me (and then almost broke me again)), I founded Shepherd: Spirit Led Advisory.

The mission was clear: translate Spirit into strategy for soul-led entrepreneurs, business leaders, and healers navigating major thresholds (bonus if they were curious about the plant medicine path. bonus, bonus: if they had been to ceremony and already knew abuela aya and my Kambo froggie friends).

But here’s what I didn’t think I was ready for, but in actuality, I was being guided: the channeling wanted to go public. And it wanted to go virtual.

Step aside, Ego Emily! Spirit Coming Through!

Two weeks ago, I hosted my first group channeling ceremonies on Google Meet. Twenty-two people showed up. Both sessions sold out in a week. And the question I kept getting afterward by friends, family and clients who didn’t attend was some form of:

“What exactly is channeling?” and not so subtly “So why should I care? How does this help me?”

So let me pull back the veil.

What a “Board Meeting with Spirit” Actually Looks Like

Think of a shepherd with their flock. The shepherd doesn’t control the sheep or tell them how to be sheep—instead, the shepherd reads the landscape, spots the dangers the flock can’t see, and clears the path so they can move safely toward what sustains them. Shows them where there is water and shade under a tree to take rest and refuge.

That’s what I do, but with Spirit as my co-guide. I’m clearing the fog of your threshold so you can step through it with total sovereignty and clarity.

You don’t need a coach to hold your hand. You need a Shepherd to expand your field of vision.

My methodology is Spirit-Led Advisory. In practice, this means I use channeling to access information your logical mind probably can’t reach on its own. I tune into the “unseen data” in your energy field and your business’s energy field—the blind spots, the hidden levers, the energetic architecture of your work—that logic alone misses.

I am the translator; you are the architect. I provide the signal, and you use it to make sovereign, high-stakes decisions with absolute conviction.

The Mechanics of Channeling (Without the Mysticism)

Channeling isn’t mysterious in the way most people think. It’s not about being “special” or “chosen.” It’s about becoming quiet enough, clear enough, and practiced enough to receive information that exists outside your conscious knowing.

I have met people who naturally have this gift, like Ember, my Fairy God Daughter—she was born with it.

I have met people like myself, who had it as a kid, trauma & illness made it go dormant, and a spiritual awakening blasted them wide open again.

Other people choose to become a channeler (or medium) and hone this skill that I believe everyone already has. (I will be teaching this in The Shepherd’s Circle later this year!)

Spirit and your body are always speaking to us, but are you listening?

As I said before, I read energy for a living.

Here’s how I explain the process:

I raise my frequency via entering a meditative process. Spirit lowers theirs when they see I am asking to make contact with pure intentions. We meet in the middle. The middle is what I call the Soulstream. It is like a living highway of flowing information.

Think of it like tuning a radio. Most of the time, we're tuned to our everyday frequency—to-do lists, anxieties, plans. Channeling shifts the dial to where guidance and wisdom are broadcasting, waiting for someone to listen.

When I channel, I don’t “leave my body” or go into a trance, or have an entity take over me (maybe you’ve heard of Bashar or seen Surviving Death on Netflix for examples of trance channeling). I’m fully present. I am still Emily (although I often ask my Ego-self to go sit outside during a session). But I’m also holding space for something beyond my ego, my knowledge, my personal agenda. The messages come through as words, images, physical sensations, knowing. Sometimes it’s all four at once.

And here’s the most important part: I translate spirit into strategy.

How it arrives in my body:

Fast downloads I repeat word-for-word, symbols, body sensations, energetic signatures from different Guides. My job is turning that into clear, actionable, grounded language you can use.

In January’s group ceremonies, that looked like:

• Telling a Floral Designer founder that her business transition requires her to “bury something before the next bloom” (Spirit showed me compost as the metaphor). We went deeper into what wanted to be buried in her follow-up 1:1 with me.

• Advising an Event Planner entrepreneur on her intuitive download to build a licensing model—Spirit confirmed this path and emphasized "system and method" (repeated three times) as her focus, not hiring more planners—and then her dog in spirit came in for a loving hello.

• Showing a Psychotherapist that her next business expansion isn’t more 1:1 clients—it’s group intensives at retreat centers, co-facilitated so her nervous system doesn’t collapse under the weight.

  Book Your 1:1 Soulstream Session Here

These aren’t woo-woo wonders. They’re precise strategic downloads that cut through months of deliberation and save both time and money. Instead of hiring consultants, testing multiple approaches, or staying stuck in analysis paralysis, these leaders received clarity in under ten minutes—clarity that came from me reading the energetic architecture beneath their daily business decisions.

When you can see what’s truly blocking forward movement (not what your mind thinks is blocking it), you stop wasting time and precious resources on surface-level solutions and start addressing the actual leverage points in your business and life.

Why Business Leaders Choose Board Meetings with Spirit Over Traditional Consultants

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re someone who straddles two worlds: the spiritual and the strategic. You might run a business, lead a team, build brands—but you also know there’s something deeper guiding the work (hello God!).

You've had the downloads. The intuitive hits. (Maybe even some mushrooms in the park with your besties?) The moments where you just knew the next right move, even when it made no logical sense—because you're intuitive, (wo)man!

That’s channeling. You’re already doing it. See, you are super natural too.

The difference is whether you trust it enough to act on it.

Most of the people who came to January's ceremonies were at major thresholds: career pivots, identity shifts, launches that felt too exposing to move forward without confirmation, or overcoming years-long health crises.

They didn’t need a business coach to tell them how to scale. They needed Spirit to tell them why they were being called to scale, and what specifically was blocking them from stepping into it. And they needed an award-winning entrepreneur (like myselffff) to make it all make sense in the context of their personal and professional growth.

One participant, a clean beauty pioneer navigating multiple opportunities, asked: “Which path do I take?”

The guides showed me two things immediately: a book (not a business book—a hero’s journey memoir that only she could write) and a mentorship platform where people could pay to learn directly from her. Then they showed me sticky, parasitic energy that needed clearing before she could move forward.

We spent eight minutes together 1:1 within the group. By the end, she had her next two steps and a plan to clear the energetic residue holding her back (we all have it at some point because we live on Earth, but more on that in a future post).

That’s the power of channeling in business. It cuts through noise. It names the thing you’ve been avoiding. It gives you permission to trust what you already know. And maybe even see an open door that you didn’t even know was possible.

Inside a 90-Minute Group Channeling Ceremony

The format: 90 minutes. 8-10 people. Virtual.

We start with a channeled guided meditation to ground the group and set the container. I ask everyone to choose a place in nature (ocean won the vote in January), and we visualize releasing our questions, intentions, and prayers into that landscape.

Then I open the channel with love, gratitude, and secular prayer.

First, I deliver a collective message—something the whole group needs to hear. In the January 18 ceremony, Spirit said:

“You are each a shepherd for your own community. But you cannot lead others if you are not fortified yourself. This is the season to prioritize your routines, your practices, your inner foundation.”

Then we move into individual guidance, what I’m calling “The Shepherd’s Seat” because let’s be real, being in the HOT SEAT at the Babson College Summer Venture Program actually made me break out in a nervous sweat.

Each person gets about eight minutes of focused guidance. Some people ask direct questions (”When should I look for a new business location?”). Others share where they’re stuck (”I feel alive in the spiritual world but dashed to pieces by the business world—how do I find equilibrium?”).

I don’t prepare. I don’t research anyone ahead of time. The Guides show me what needs to be seen and how to translate it to the fellow Shepherds in the room.

By the end, everyone receives practical guidance: a next step, a validation, a reframe, a clearing practice

And here’s what I’ve learned: people don’t need more information. They need confirmation that their intuition is trustworthy and they are supported by Spirit.

If You’re Curious (or Skeptical), Here’s What I’d Say

Channeling isn’t for everyone. And that’s okay.

But if you’re someone who:

• Makes decisions based on intuition as much as data

• Feels a pull toward something you can’t quite name yet

• Knows there’s more available to you than what’s currently visible

• Wants to be in a room (virtual or otherwise) with other people navigating thresholds with intention

• Is seeking spiritual community with other people navigating the 3D business world

• Wants a safe space to talk about the angels you met on your mushroom/aya journey (here for it!)

Then this might be for you.

I’m hosting two February sessions:

February 1 at 11 AM EST (global-friendly timing)
February 22 at 6 PM EST (US Sunday evening)

Both are $66. Both are capped at 10 seats to maintain intimacy and energetic integrity.

Register for February 1

Register for February 22

If it’s not calling you, trust that. But if it is—if something in you is saying yes, this, now—I’d love to hold space for you.

Bonus: My events are co-produced with Dina Samra, founder of ReWilding Collective. Dina is a former corporate VC turned spirit-led founder—her official title at Shepherd is Experience Witch. Together, we bring business legitimacy to these sacred circles, combining corporate-level operational excellence with deeply held spiritual practice

What Spirit Wants You to Know

Channeling has taught me that the answers we’re looking for are rarely outside of us. They’re already here, waiting to be heard. Whispered by the angels. And sometimes a very loud alarm sent by our Guides. God is always with us.

And Spirit reminded us as I channeled:

“We are in really big times. The sensitives in the room are picking up on collective energies that are not random. The guides are asking everyone to deepen their connection with themselves and each other, building practices and finding spaces that feel like home. Plants and star beings are here to help and support with love, respect, and grace.”

Sometimes we just need someone to help us tune the dial.

With love and cedar smoke,
Emily

P.S. If you’re not ready to join a session but want to stay connected, reply to this transmission and let me know what’s alive for you right now. I read every response.

And the cost of that mindset showed up everywhere: my body, my work, my sense of self.

Screenshot: ChatGPT 2025 Wrapped. (Yes, we are in a committed relationship. No, this post was not written by AI. Only edited & refined by it.)

To be fair, I was shedding a very public professional identity I had built over a decade. It’s the kind you growth spurt your way through in your twenties, start to refine in your Saturn return, and then realize, no, that “outfit” never actually fit me at 32.

2026 feels different.

This year, I’m leaning into surrender.

Into enoughness.

Into the energy of “I get to!”

Into the deep trust that what is meant for me will not pass me by, and into a more intimate relationship with Hashem ✡️, the Great Creator 🪶.

So here I go.

I felt called to write tonight from the clarity that comes after an ozone PEMF sauna experience. I was guided to pick one of my (many) dieta and psychedelic healing plant medicine journals. I pulled “Magic and Manifestations,” a journal written between Feb 18, 2022 and July 2024.

I asked God to guide me to a page and teach from there. Or maybe it’s simply an exercise in integrating the deep lessons of my plant dietas even further—for you and for me.

Interestingly enough, the journal opened to April 15, 2022. An almost empty page containing a channeled message given to me in meditation:

”The Tides are Turning In Your Favor.” — My Guides

Then, the question:

”How can you be more trusting today?”

Well, shit.

This is Chiric Sanango territory.

A brief intermission to get on my plant medicine soapbox:

Chiric Sanango was my first dieta. The plant spirit introduced himself to me as “The Little Prince” (Brunfelsia grandiflora). But don’t let the name or its soft appearance fool you; he is a fierce protector.

While not psychoactive in the traditional sense, he is a powerful ally for the nervous system, specifically working to warm the “coldness” of old trauma held in the body. On a spiritual level, The Little Prince cultivates deep self-esteem and decisiveness—an invitation to realign with your higher self and trust the unseen forces guiding you.

The initiation, however, was powerful—and at times, brutal.

For nearly ten days, I felt flu-struck, dizzy, dehydrated AF—at moments drunk—as The Little Prince scrubbed me clean.

During seven Ayahuasca ceremonies, I lay in Costa Rican dirt beneath the moon. Salt in the air. Waves crashing somewhere beyond the dark. My body was being restructured. Trauma shook loose so my true spirit could step forward and land back in my body after a long, self-imposed exile.

Susto, they call it. Soul loss. And my prince brought me back.

Let me backtrack to where I was going in the first place: “The Tides are Turning In Your Favor.” —Guides

First, this is the message I needed after 2025 was a complete and literal dumpster fire (but blessed, oh so blessed). I’ll spare you the details because if you are a subscriber, you are probably clued in to the hell-and-back journey that 2025 was for me and the loved ones I orbit the planet with.

Because I realized, in this exact moment, I haven’t been trusting.

I’d been managing. Over-preparing. Holding myself just tight enough to stay small—and underground.

But trust asks for something different.

2025 felt like the year I thought I was ready to trust.

After 2+ years with that print on my altar—Trust the Process—I realized I fucking hadn’t yet fully.

And the irony is, that is exactly what is required of me in 2026. To trust so deeply that I feel safe enough to show up on the Internet, and oh so even scarier, in real life, speaking my truth.

Of course, this is for me, but my entire Human Design drives home the point that by me doing this, it acts as a permission slip for those around me to do the same. (And yes, oh yes, we need that).

Spirit speaks to me in music—and probably does for you, whether you realize it or not. Of course, randomly (or is it?), Lily Meola’s cover of “Don’t Stop” by Stevie Nicks//Fleetwood Mac came through my noise-canceling headphones:

”Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here

It’ll be better than before

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone

Ooh... don’t you look back”

So I guess Stevie, in her witchy goddess aliveness, answers the question on how to Trust the Process:

”Ooh... don’t you look back…”

Does trusting the process mean you simply don’t look back? [Truth 💣]. Spirit is funny like that.

I am freaking scared. But I am doing it anyway.

Because this is how my gift as a Spirit Communicator works: the energy needs to move.

When I dam it up—out of fear, perfectionism, or self-protection—it eventually breaks through my body. Usually as illness. Often autoimmune-y.

I’ve learned to listen.

The Invitation: Clarity for Your Path

So this is me not looking back.

This is me trusting the process in public.

And this is me inviting you into the field with me because it’s way overdue.

But more importantly, I want you to experience this gift.

My intention is to make this accessible and demystify channeling if you have never experienced it yourself but have been curious. I want to help you experience the support Spirit is always bestowing upon us.

You don’t need me to do this.

But if you’ve gotten this far in my post, this is a gift I would like to share with you.

Not kidding, I often freak myself out (not in a scary way) by how crazy accurate the things are that flow through me. I’ve done group channelings IRL, but never virtually.

So, Spirit tells me: do it again. Virtually. Not from a proving place, but honoring my agreement to use my “powers for good.”

Save The Date: Live Channeling

When: January 11, 2026 @ 6 PM EST

Where: Google Meet Video

Capacity: Max 12 people

The Flow:
• 90 minutes of live channeling
• Opening activation: a channeled guided meditation
• Q&A: each person receives at least one live question
• Replay provided afterward

About Soulstream Channeling™: This is my signature offering, bridging my entrepreneurial background with my gift as a Spirit Communicator to provide clarity and energetic realignment helping you to see what paths want to open in your life or business.

• Who this is for: Leaders, founders, healers, and paradigm shifters.

• Consciousness we may channel: Spirit guides, angelic beings, mediumship (loved ones), pets, land/plant consciousness, collective consciousness, or the spirit of your business.

Collaboration: Hosted in collaboration with Rewilding Collective & moderated by Dina Samra (“Queen Deen”), a former corporate VC turned spirit-led entrepreneur.

GET YOUR TICKET HERE

Who is this for?

My favorite people to hold space for are leaders who wear a blazer by day, but keep an astrology app open or oracle deck close by. Bonus if you have the CHANI app.

I specialize in supporting founders, executives, and healers who are (or are about to be) on the medicine path—and need help translating that work into grounded, coherent, real-world leadership and business.

(I’ve stopped listening to the advice that what I do is too “niche.” Spirit is everywhere, bitches, and it needs to be brought back into Business because things aren’t going so well without it, are they?)

As Farielle, Founder and CEO of UpTrade, said about a session with me:

“My session with Emily was part therapy and part magic. The outcome was clarity on the path forward informed by personal history, intuitive guidance and ancestral history. While we are trained by the modern education system to be totally right-brained and rewarded for it, it’s beneficial to lean in to the intuitive side... as mediated through my gifted friend Emily.”

The tides are turning. Don’t look back.

Thanks Stevie, Chiric Sanango, and Spirit.

JOIN ME ON JAN 11

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to join me, Stevie Nicks’ spirit sent it!

with love and cedar smoke,

em

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Now that Mercury Retrograde is finally over, I can hear myself again.

The fog has lifted.

Something has cleared.

The blur in my mind has quieted (thank god!).

The curveballs (and the blessings) of this fall have finally stopped coming at me like a cosmic dodgeball tournament. 🤾💥🤾💥🤾

And for the first time in months, I feel myself coming out of a kind of spiritual hibernation and a heavy period of post 🌲 Cedar Dieta integration. 🌲

These past few months since I last wrote have been a deep inward season… a time when God, my guides, and my own intuition pulled me fully inside so I could listen (or at least try to!).

And from that place, something crystal clear has rose up:

🌹

If I want to make the real impact I came to Earth for, I have to let you in: fully.

Into the unseen.

Into the transmissions.

Into the truth beneath what I’m now teach and channeling.

🍃

So here it goes.

First, let me be clear about something:

Yes, I have the gifts of channeling and medium, but the truest word for what I am is a

Spirit Communicator.

Because I also:

I talk to land.

Plants.

Elements (mostly wind & ocean).

And last week, I even chatted with a horse and a pony (apparently they are very different 🤭😂🐴).

In fact, my guides gave me the term in a lucid dream.

To be clear:

My gifts are not a party trick.

(So please don’t ask me to channel on demand. I am not that girlie and this is my full time job now: [except on Tuesdays when I'm on my Mighty Well-ish].

What I share with people isn’t “tips and tricks.”

It’s transmission.

And I’ll fully admit: often the information isn’t from me.

It’s moving through me.

(And I’ll always tell you when I’m drawing from my own hard-won life or business experience instead.) 👩‍💻🧜‍♀️

What people feel in my work is actually often not me: it’s the Source moving through me:

• God (you’ll hear me call Him Hashem ✡️)

• My guides 🪽 (& yours if I’m channeling for you in a session)

• & me being a clear inner vessel to feel and hear my own Spirit (she sits on a cloud in the ether smoking mapacho ☁️🍃🫧)///(Plants, Kambo, water rituals, and learning to sing have helped with that… and it’s an ongoing practice.)… but more on that in a future post…

Plants and all post my first Dieta

So today I’m sharing something different:

A Q&A with spirit self: but really, it’s for you.

A peek behind the curtain.

A softening of the polished edges.

A loosening of the Virgo-moon grip on perfection.

Here we go. 🚀👩‍🚀

Q: Why writing on Substsack now?

Because I’ve tried playing the content game on the platforms.

The hooks.

The trends.

The advice to “fix your niche.”

The funnels.

The consistency hacks.

And every time I squeezed myself into that container, something in me wilted. 🥀

I genuinely felt like I was having an allergic reaction.

I am not meant for short-form content (my astrology says so, thanks @astrotwins!)

Because my work isn’t designed to be packaged into digestible nuggets (although my Virgo self would love that).

My life—and my work—are a living frequency.

(Catherine, one of my human angels and now a guide in Spirit, taught me that 🪽.)

And frequencies can’t be forced, manufactured, or scheduled.

They must be received.

And honestly, they rarely show up on my calendar.

They usually arrive in the portal that is my bathtub filled with Epsom salt and whatever plant ally I’m working with that day.

(Today it’s mugwort I brought back from Japan.)

Q: So what is the source of your channeling and transmissions?

The short answer:

God. Spirit. My guides. My intuition. My plant dietas. The land. The elements.

They all speak constantly. You just have to be quiet enough to listen.

(Easier said than done, I know.)

The longer answer:

A devotional regular practice to clearing my inner monkey mind so the wisdom that wants to come through can actually be understood, seen and felt.

Sometimes I hear things clearly.

Sometimes I’m shown an image.

Sometimes I hear voices (yes, I hear voices…but not all of the time 👻).

Sometimes I feel things in my body.

Sometimes it comes through like a movie.

Sometimes I see into the future.

Sometimes I see into the past (& past lives).

Sometimes I see only one timeline…but the timeline you follow is always your choice.

(… some events in your life are predetermined. In my experience this far, it’s the timeline that shifts, not the core event. More on that another day… hello, Time Hopping.)

Let me repeat this for the people in the back:

Channeling is not a party trick.

It’s an embodied practice of listening.

My work is not about telling you what to do.

It’s about helping you hear what’s already whispering in your energetic field: the thing you’ve been too busy, too afraid, or too disconnected to notice. (sorry, not sorry) 🌝

I’m not here to give you my answers.

I’m here to help you access your own.

As my friend and teacher Athena once said:

“I read energy for a living.” (We both do)

Q: Why peel back the curtain now?

Because something in my soul said:

⏰It’s time.

It’s time to stop hiding how I actually receive messages and who I am now.

Maria, my besties, said to me this weekend “it’s like you got a whole new body [post healing with aya]!” (She’s known me for 12 years

It’s time to stop diluting the spiritual origins of my work to fit into corporate-friendly boxes (been there, done that, not doing it again).

It’s time to stop pretending I’m anything other than what I am:

A writer.

A channel.

A spirit communicator.

A woman walking between worlds.

A leader building a new paradigm of leadership.

For months, I’ve known that 2026 will be the year I drop every remaining mask and let people truly see how this works:

The voice notes.

The messy journal pages.

The midnight downloads.

The cedar smoke blessings.

The rituals.

The initiations.

The unseen parts of the path most people don’t talk about. (It can be messy my friends!)

(And honestly, it still feels safer to write about it than to speak it aloud in some rooms.)

But the unmasking starts now.

Saw my name in neon lights as I arrived in Brooklyn last week. I’m going places my friends :) come along

Q: What can readers expect going forward?

More truth.

More process.

More behind-the-scenes of how I walk with Spirit.

More transparency about what it takes to live and build from intuition.

More long-form writing.

More devotion.

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Less performance.

Less overthinking.

Less perfection…its holding me back.

(And please, call me out when my Virgo Moon tries to make everything too neat and tidy. I’m here to embody greatness, not hide behind precision…and so are you!!!)

Expect real-time unfolding as I continue shepherding a new way of leading, living, and building business.

God knows we need it.

Q: What do you want readers to know right now?

That you’re not here by accident.

If you’re reading this, some part of you is also waking up.

Some part of you is tired of pretending.

Some part of you is ready to lead & live differently: with intuition, with soul, with your deeper knowing.

And if you feel that tug…

that nudge…

that inner knock…

You’re in the right place.

(The Mantis Beings say so 👽.)

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

If this resonated, tap the little heart so I know you’re here.

Because honestly, sometimes it feels lonely holding a candle in the dark. 🕯️🖤🕯️

And if you want more of the unfiltered, unpolished, behind-the-veil version of me…that you won’t even find on my personal IG…

Subscribe and share this with your witchy, magical friends.

They need this too.

If you feel called, you can even buy me a coffee as a way of saying “I value this work.” (my day ones know that I always have 3 beverages on hand 🧃🍵🥤)

And yes… Emma finally helped me to actually let people book channeling + Kambo sessions and pay me (more on my own resistance to formalizing my own offerings in another post 🤪🤑🤪🤑…yes, I have a business degree from the #1 school in the world for entrepreneurship…).

The next chapter of my life begins now.

With love & cedar smoke,

em ✨

Community is not just people: it’s places, elements, rituals, and rhythms that remind us who we are. When I look back on my life thus far, each chapter has had its own version of community and its own way of carrying me, shaping me, and preparing me for the next.

Surf Shop Roots

My first real community wasn’t in business school or boardrooms — it was growing up n my family’s surf shop. (Hello, OG Watershed Family!)

Community sank in like salt water on your skin, the smell of surfboard wax in the air, and the certainty that if I walked onto Narragansett Beach, I would find someone I loved or a friendly face willing to let me sit in their beach chair.

Surfing isn’t just a sport. It’s belonging to a culture. Even though I am not an avid surfer like my dad, brother, and nephew, the sport and culture taught me rhythm, resilience, and reverence:

• Rhythm: the ocean is the greatest teacher of timing.

• Resilience: when you fall off your board, you get back up — again, and again, and again.

• Reverence: salt water humbles and cleanses you every time you enter.

That early sense of belonging — to water, to land, to community — planted the first seeds of my leadership.

Business & Leadership: The First Adventure

Those seeds carried me into Babson College, where I received the Women’s Leadership Scholarship. I remember feeling, I am supposed to be here; a new chapter is opening

On campus, community looked like sisterhood: women leaders lifting one another as we rose to new challenges, holding doors open, making space at tables, linking arms as we crossed into futures we could barely imagine.

Then came the birth of Mighty Well (back then called PICCPerfect in our dorm rooms). What began as solving my own medical challenges from 15+ years of Lyme + Autoimmune conditions and living with PICCs and a port, grew into an award-winning, investor-backed company. My team truly is my family (a deep bow to Maria, Yousef, and Caitlin). Together, we don’t just build products, we remind our corner of the healthcare industry that patients and caregivers deserve dignity.

We create and sell medical gear and supplies that humanized pain points in patients’, caregivers’, and clinicians’ lives. We witnessed people in their vulnerability and met them with design, care, and relief.

More times than I can count, I sat by the bedside of other patients, many of whom are now in the kingdom of heaven, as they did their IV treatments, administered medication, and shared with me the challenges of living with medical devices in a system that too often dehumanized them.

That chapter was about building community through innovation, advocacy, and the radical act of dignifying pain.

Entering Stillness / Sabbatical

But every garden of life needs composting. After years building Mighty Well and pushing through my own chronic illness, my body finally demanded stillness. It was in this next chapter that I entered what I now call my sabbatical.

While I shared publicly about my health journey on big stages and in podcasts, I didn’t share with 99% of people the true weight of what I was carrying. I was great at putting on a happy face, looking fabulous, and showing up fully with the energy I did have to be clear in my words and actions in service to Mighty Well’s mission: to turn sickness into strength.

Part of this holding back was because I had been advised not to let people know how sick I was, for fear it would hurt fundraising goals. I now see that advice came from people trying to protect me and through the lens of their lived experience, though it wasn’t aligned with what I truly needed.

By 2020, the weight of chronic illness, burnout after pounding the pavement in NYC, and the deaths of three loved ones eventually forced my body into stillness. And of course, it was COVID times.

Parts of me had to die so something deeper could live. Some call it ego death. I call it composting: breaking down the parts of me no longer in service to the bigness of my life.

When my sabbatical began (or, in corporate language, a ‘medical leave of absence’), I entered a dark season where I was emotionally, physically, spiritually stripped raw.

I learned that healing is not linear. That new seeds sprout in the dark. That the soil of our lives is most fertile when we allow the old to break down so it can become something new.

During this period of stillness, I was guided to explore deeper healing paths, traveling to the Amazon and beyond…and it was here, beneath the soil, that my life was given back to me. Indigenous medicine from the Amazon rainforest, the love of community, and the grace of Spirit restored my body and returned me to myself: more whole, healthy, and at peace than ever before.

I was given a second chance — not just to live, but to live a life aligned with what I am truly here to do: use my voice as medicine.

Healing, “The Gifts” & the Birth of Shepherd

Spiritual Medicine & Plant Teachers

From the compost of my old life, new communion bloomed.

Ceremonial healing, plant and psychedelic medicines, and ancestral wisdom traditions opened me into circles of prayer and belonging that transcended the 3D world. Community here was not only human: it was Spirit, ancestors, elements, plant teachers, and the unseen threads that weave us together.

I healed this way first and foremost by the will and grace of God — my dear Hashem, the Great Creator.

In shamanic traditions, the one who becomes a healer is often struck by illness, accident, near death experience, or psychic rupture. Their path back to life requires apprenticeship with Spirit and in turn, they become a bridge for others.

It felt as if I had made an agreement in another lifetime to walk this very path: what many now call the Healer’s Journey (a post for another time). When I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, God and the plants redirected my life. My illness was not just a burden to carry but an initiation into another way of living, where healing and service would become intertwined.

(My spiritual background is Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish Catholic/European and married into a Kuwaiti Muslim Family…but more on that in another post…)

Second, because I had reached the limits of Western medicine. Too much money had been spent on doctors who wouldn’t take insurance (well, because LYME!), and I was only getting sicker. Doctors had little left to offer. On a human level, I was desperate to no longer be in pain, tethered to an IV pole, and put the cane down. I wanted my life and body back.

So I trusted my intuition, followed the breadcrumbs, and said yes to the doors that opened — one healer, one plant, one ceremony at a time.

And with that came a deeper belonging: to myself.

Awakening as a Spirit Communicator

I had always known I was different, but in ceremonies with Ayahuasca my gifts as a Spirit Communicator fully awakened.

You can read about the Huni Kuin and my time in the Brazilian Amazon here in Double Blind Magazine

I can no longer pretend or be afraid to say it: Legal Ketamine Therapy, Ayahuasca, Kambo, and Master Plant Dietas saved my life. (Believe me, I was terrified for years to “come out of the plant medicine and spirit closet.” Hello Witch Wound!)

Over the next few years, I traveled to Brazil, Guatemala, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico, deepening my work with plant medicine and ancestral teachings. My gifts as a Spirit Communicator gradually awakened.

First in the Brazilian Amazon, then the Costa Rican mountains, next to fire in Mexico, and finally, through integration back home in Rhode Island.

I’m often asked if I had these gifts as a child. Like cedar cones releasing seeds, my gifts needed time to ripen as an adult. Over the last 5 years, I’ve trained with mediums, channelers, shamans, psychedelic therapists and harm reduction facilitators, ayahuasqueras, and medicine people who affirmed that my abilities were real — that I carried a don, a gift.

Looking back, I believe these gifts were present in childhood: I have distinct memories of my grandmother visiting me after she passed, and even some eerie moments in the old carriage house where my mom and I once lived in Boston. But during the long years of illness, they went dormant — waiting for the right conditions to awaken again.

It was in ceremonies with Ayahuasca and in the years of integration that followed when the gifts fully returned. One by one, they came alive again: the ability to hear, sense, and translate messages from Spirit — not as fantasy, but as a grounded and practical gift I could carry in service to the world.

What is a Spirit Communicator?

At its heart, a Spirit Communicator is a translator for the unseen.

I listen to guides, ancestors, plant and land spirits, and other benevolent intelligences and then put their messages into clear, human language.

Think of it like being a telephone operator for Spirit: opening the line, verifying who is speaking, and passing the message along with care and integrity.

This work has ancient roots. In the Hebrew Bible, people with these gifts were called Seers. Across cultures, there were Oracles: people whose profession was to listen, discern, and bring through guidance for their communities from spirit. Spirit communication carries this same lineage, adapted for modern life.

🌿 How it relates to other terms

• Like a channeler, I can receive guidance from higher intelligences, archetypes, or guides.

• Like a medium, I can communicate with loved ones or ancestors who have passed, when they step forward.

But spirit communication is more than either of these. It is relational (a dialogue, not a monologue), practical (always accompanied by rituals, boundaries, or steps you can take back into your daily life), and grounded (held in integrity, with consent, clarity, and safety).

🌿 What it is not

• It is not fortune-telling. I don’t claim to see a fixed future. Instead, I believe we all have many possible timelines. My role is not to decide for you, but to honor your sovereignty as you discern which path is yours.

• It is not vague mysticism. Every message is grounded in your real life: your leadership, your relationships, your healing.

✨ In essence: Spirit communication is the ancient practice of bringing the voices of the unseen into the human world — with clarity, safety, and grace — so you can integrate that wisdom into your daily life.

Integration & Birth of Shepherd

As I integrated these experiences, the gifts I had been cultivating gradually awakened. This next chapter led directly to the birth of Shepherd.

I didn’t set out to start a new business. But something wanted to be born through me (again).

Shepherd was born from the integration of all these chapters — business leadership, deep healing, and the guidance of Spirit — into a service that helps others navigate thresholds in their own lives

Shepherd is where ceremony meets strategy. Where intuition is translated into decisions. Where ritual is integrated into measurable outcomes. Where inner transformation becomes the foundation for outer leadership.

I walk alongside people crossing thresholds — into new levels of leadership, new businesses, new expressions of their lives.

I shine a lantern on what’s ready to be seen.

I help leaders align with their higher selves and anchor their spiritual growth into practical, sovereign action.

As one client put it: “A session with Emily feels like holding a board meeting with your higher self.”

This is the path I am walking now — out of the shadows of holding space quietly on nights and weekends, into the full light of day. Because the world needs my voice and gifts now more than ever.

You can check out what I am building in real time: Shepherd: my spirit-led advisory and public speaking LLC (because yes, even people who live in the 5D need 3D business containers).

An Invitation

If your life looks polished on the outside but feels fragmented on the inside, Shepherd is an invitation to come home to yourself.

This Substack is where I will continue to write — about healing, leadership, plant medicine, intuition, Rhode Island magic, and the thresholds we all cross.

I don’t claim to heal anyone. My work is to create and hold spaces where you can heal yourself — with Spirit, with the plants, with your own higher intelligence.

I am a Shepherd. I walk beside you. I remind you of your own power, and point toward the clearings and resting places along the path.

And together, we cross thresholds into what’s next.

with love, gratitude, and cedar smoke,
em

If you’d like to experience Shepherd, you can:

• ✨ Join me for our first online group Spirit Communication session → Say Yes Here!

• 🎤 Invite me to speak at your next company offsite, retreat, or conference → Reach out here.

• 🌿 Book a 1:1 Soul Stream Channeling Session → Wait List Here.

P.S. Mighty Well isn’t going anywhere. I am still involved, and we are still growing and lending a helping hand. In fact, right now my head is down, focused on taking it to new heights with the support of our amazing team.

I share this story with the intention that it reaches those who are ready to step into their own thresholds — to remember their power, to integrate their gifts, and to walk their path with clarity and courage.

Some of you have been clued in to my journey of healing and learning from plant medicine for years now. Others, I’m only just now feeling safe and confident enough to share with in a broader context. And most of you may just be arriving here, curious about what this is all about.

Today, I want to share a prayer. It is one that came through me during my most recent dieta, held in the presence of Cedar medicine 🌲

But before I share the prayer, let me give you a little context.

What Is a Dieta?

In the Amazonian lineages where I’ve healed and learned, a dieta is a sacred agreement with a Plant Teacher. Yes, really — a plant 🌿

It’s not simply about drinking tea or sitting in ceremony. It’s a profound and life-changing energetic and personal commitment.

For days, weeks, or months at a time, you restrict your diet, your daily habits, your external stimuli, and you open yourself to the frequency of the plant. You enter into relationship. You listen. You allow the spirit of the plant to teach, cleanse, and heal you directly — not just with words, but through dreams, visions, sensations, and deep shifts in your inner architecture and cellular structure.

Don’t ask me exactly howww — just know it works.

Dietas change people’s lives because they reach beyond the mind. They work in the body, in the spirit, in the subtle places where trauma, ancestry, and memory live. They peel away the noise and reveal what is eternal and what is ready to be released for your next stage of becoming.

For me, dieta has been the place where I’ve healed and remembered myself. Where grief, pain, and illness have been transmuted into strength. Where I’ve been shown, over and over, that my life is not random — it is woven. And I am here to serve in new ways.

The Medicine of Cedar 🌲

Cedar has always been a sacred tree, in both Indigenous and Western traditions.

In North America, cedar branches are burned in ceremony as a purifier, its smoke said to clear away heavy energies and make space for blessings. In Celtic lore, cedar was linked to protection and strength, often planted in graveyards as a guardian of souls.

🌲 In the Torah, cedar is named again and again — as wood for the Temple, as a purifier in ritual, as a tree of strength and renewal. In Hebrew tradition it represents incorruptibility; in the Qur’an, the “lote tree of the utmost boundary” stands as a symbol of divine nearness. To me, cedar is not only a medicine of North America — it is a bridge across my Jewish, Christian, and Muslim lineages, reminding me that the same sacred trees root us all.

In my dieta, cedar became a teacher of grief, forgiveness, sovereignty, and abundance. It asked me to let what needed to end, end. To lay down what was no longer mine to carry. To remember that resilience is not about hardness but about rootedness — about staying connected to the source of life, even when storms come.

Cedar reminded me that endings and beginnings are braided together.

That sovereignty comes not from isolation but from standing firmly in the truth of who you are. That abundance flows when you allow the deadwood to fall away.

The Big Prayer

From this last dieta with Cedar, these are the words that strengthened in me — like the bark on a tree trunk, steady and sure:

🌿 “This is the dieta that changes everything.”

May I never again be afraid of my big life. May I walk in trust that aligned and abundant opportunities always flow to me, to my family, to my beloveds. May I stay steady in knowing I have a great destiny — one that is both rooted in Earth and guided by Spirit.

🌊 May I carry the sovereignty of my path — knowing that what has been forgiven stays forgiven, that old debts and wounds are released, and that I stand free and clear to walk forward in wholeness.

🌲 May the medicine of Cedar remind me of resilience — that life grows over grief, and that strength is born from remembrance. May I always honor the ancestors and the land that walk with me, holding me in the weave of story and spirit.

🐑🌊 May my service as Shepherd and Sea Priestess be a blessing to all I meet, guiding others to remember their own power, intuition, and light.

💎 May my work, my words, and my presence bend the world toward beauty, truth, and healing.

Why I’m Sharing This With You

For a long time, I believed my writing from ceremony was just for me. Private. Sacred. To be tucked away in my journals — maybe one day for my future grandchildren.

But I see now that the words themselves are medicine. They are meant to be shared — as living prayers that ripple outward into the collective.

Eventually, these writings will become a book. But for now, I’m anchoring them here, with you, through this Substack. This is my place to begin releasing them into the world, consistently and clearly.

There are rivers of words, teachings, and art that come through me. The work now is creating the channels so they can reach the people who are meant to receive them.

The New Frequency of My Work

As I step into this next chapter, I’m shifting my work to flow directly from the frequency of dieta, ceremony and my heart .

✨ I’m building worlds and universes through my offerings — ways for people to enter, learn, and remember for themselves. Think: guidebooks, downloads, 1:1 advisory and channeling sessions, retreats, and transmissions that carry the essence of the medicine.

✨ I’m categorizing my art alongside my words, so that image and language can work together. (I can’t wait to share them with you soon.)

✨ I’m also in the early stages of co-creating a new container with another spirit-led entrepreneur on 5D Business.

What is 5D Business?:

It’s a way of working that is spirit-led, ceremonial, and strategic all at once. It supports entrepreneurs and leaders who are (or soon will be) on the medicine path to translate their healing into how they show up in the world.

This looks like crossing thresholds, clearing old patterns, ceremonial work, and weaving spirit-led strategy. Because it always needs to be about tending to the personal before it’s about the professional .

Welcome to the World of the Shepherds 🐑🌊 (yes, there are many of us!!)

This is my path. This is my prayer. This is the dieta that changes everything.

Thank you for being here to witness and walk alongside me.

With love and cedar smoke,

em 🌲🐑🧜‍♀️

P.S. If this resonates with you, or if you’d like me to write more on these topics, drop a ❤️ or a comment below. It helps me know the medicine is landing in you.

You’ve been the one others turn to.
You’re the one who keeps the flame lit.
You know how to lead, even when the map disappears, or feels crumpled in your pocket.

This letter is for you.

The Currents Underneath

Lately I’ve felt a quiet, and sometimes excruciatingly loud tug.
A shifting beneath the surface of the sea.
Sometimes chaotic, but always purposeful. A deeper rearrangement, guiding my life toward where it’s meant to go.

The river inside me is choosing a new direction.
And sometimes, we cannot control the flow of the current.

I’ve learned to listen when that happens.
To pause before pushing, because pushing never works.
To speak from the marrow, not the mask.

So this isn’t a newsletter.
It’s a moment of return.
To myself.
To the unseen ones.
To you.

You Don’t Have to Perform Your Power

I’ve been thinking about what it means to grow in public,
especially as someone who began sharing her journey with chronic illness online over a decade ago.

I know I’m being called to use my voice in new ways.
That way of showing up doesn’t work anymore.
There’s a learning and a shifting. A remembering of how I can be visible, but not consumed.
Sovereign, but still soft.

There’s a story many of us were fed:
That in order to lead, we have to be always-on, ever-available, endlessly inspiring.

But I believe in another way.

A way where your silence is sacred.
Your discernment is power.
And your presence is enough.

You don’t need to overshare to be seen.
You don’t need to dilute your frequency to belong.
You don’t need to prove you’re healed to help others heal.
(Speaking to myself and to you here.)

Healing waters from my pilgrimage to Mt. Kurama, Japan. Filmed at the birthplace of Reiki.

The Season I’m In

Right now, I’m in a threshold space.
Closing chapters with love, and sometimes fire.
Calling in what’s next with care.

Some days I feel like a bridge.
Some days I feel like a storm.
But underneath it all, I feel trust.

I trust that the behind-the-scenes work is working.
Even when it’s invisible.
Especially then.

If You’re Holding a Lot Right Now…

Maybe you’re tending to grief that doesn’t have a name.
(I know I am.)

Maybe you’re building something that doesn’t fit any known blueprint.
(Yes, ma’am.)

Maybe your intuition is louder than your strategy right now,
(and that feels confusing.)

Maybe you’re craving simpler words, truer spaces, slower time. (Me too.)

This is not a space for performance.
This is a space for resonance.
You don’t have to translate your soul to be understood here.

A Channeled Transmission from My Guides

To the ones who feel the tides turning within them:

You are not behind.
You are not late.
You are in sacred timing.

The unraveling you feel is not regression. It is refinement.
The emptiness is not absence. It is invitation.

You are not meant to carry it all the way you used to.
Lay down the parts that were never yours to bear.
Not all thresholds require force. Some open with breath.

Let this be the season you let yourself be held,
not by systems, not by metrics, but by something ancient and wise.
By the intelligence that lives in your belly.
By the pulse of the Earth beneath your bare feet.
By the soul of the work that is choosing you again, and again.

You are here to go deep.

And we are with you.
In every silence. In every seeing. In every step.

— Guides of the Deep Remembering

What’s Coming

In the months ahead, I’ll share:

• What’s in my field — the energetic and emotional textures moving through this season
• Invitations — to gather, to pause, to remember what’s sacred, both IRL and in digital space
• Notes from the edge — on spiritual leadership, sacred business, intuition, and soul work

Some of it will be structured.
Some of it won’t.
All of it will be true (for me).

If You’re Feeling the Call…

If you’re a leader, guide, founder, or creative —
and you’re at a threshold moment of your own —
I invite you into Shepherd, my private, spirit-led advisory offering.

For those ready to lead with deeper integrity, attunement, and soul truth.

💌 Join the waitlist here
📥 Or reach out directly: hi@guidedbyshepherd.com

Thank you for being here.
Even in silence. Even from afar.
Your presence matters.

This is the field.
This is the temple.
And we are only just beginning.

With care — and the storm of an ocean in my belly,
Emily

For the past five years, I’ve been walking between worlds—shedding skins, hearing whispers, and remembering who I really am.

I’ve wrestled with the many parts of me.

The (former) sick girl. The business “Pitch Queen.” The co-founder. The intuitive. The Death Walker and Medium. The channeler. The ½ Jewish mystic. The Kambo practitioner. The public speaker. The retreat guide. The undercover lightworker. The truth-teller. The Bridge Builder.

I’ve come to realize these parts aren’t separate—they are fractals of the same light.

And it’s time to weave them together, in public.

Welcome to Deep Currents—a sacred space where I bring it all: my heart, my healing, my soul, and my story.

Here, I’ll share what’s moving through me—intuitive channeled transmissions, soul-rooted reflections, spirit-led business insights, and ceremonial lessons.

Think of this as part newsletter, part ceremonial guide, part journal, part mirror.

This is also the newsletter of my personal site emilylevy.co—the home for my public speaking, guiding, writing, and wonder-weaving. You can find my strategic and spiritual business support at Shepherd: Spirit-Led Advisory, where I guide leaders through soul-aligned transformation, ceremony, healing, and big change.

Why Now?

Because I can no longer segment myself or my worlds. I must bridge them together.

Because I co-built Mighty Well while hiding both the truth depth of my illness and the height of my intuitive gifts and my connection to the spirit world —which began in childhood and blossomed as I healed my life and tended to my grief.

Because I turned sickness into strength through Mighty Well—a mission that continues to spread hope and dignity across the internet, into people’s homes, infusion clinics, and medical centers around the world.

Because the path to healing my body was also the path that led me back to my soul.

Because my soul work is here: helping others remember their light—and that they are their own best healer.

I’ve walked through the dark night.

I’ve sat in ceremonies with plant spirits and cosmic councils.

I’ve purged. Prayed. Died.

Only to become reborn—more of who I truly am.

And I’m still integrating it all.

From my lived experience, I believe that physical illness often begins in the spiritual and emotional body and nervous system before it manifests as what we know as dis-ease.

I believe in miracles, divine timing, and the voices of healed and well ancestors, animal guides, and star beings.

I believe we must get quiet enough to hear the voice of our soul—and then have the courage to follow it.

The Work I Now Stand In

I walk with those standing at the edge of change—at the crumbling—and hold space for the rebuilding. Every powerful transformation begins in the unknown. I hold a light to help guide you through it.

We cannot truly embody the light without honoring the teachings of the dark.

I support those ready to step into their purpose with clarity, joy, and sacred alignment—through my multidimensional work:

✨ Under EmilyLevy.co: Public speaking + Media

This is where I use my voice to help awaken the wise inner leader within each of us.

I speak to audiences ready to reconnect with their intuition, unlock their unique magic, and make heart-centered decisions that ripple transformation into their lives, businesses, and communities.

Learn More Here

🌿 Under Shepherd: Spirit-Led Advisory: Ceremonial Guide + Spirit-Led Work.

Through Shepherd, I offer sacred guidance for those navigating the path of transformation—conscious leaders, healers, and paradigm shifters who are ready to be led from within.

I support visionary leaders in reclaiming their intuitive gifts, releasing energetic blocks, and walking in deeper alignment with their soul’s calling. My work lives at the intersection of the spiritual and the strategic—where ancestral wisdom, sacred ceremony, and practical leadership meet.

• Kambo Practitioner: Holding ceremonial space for physical and energetic detox through sacred frog secretion from the Amazon rainforest. Kambo is a shamanic ritual using the secretion of an Amazonian frog—it saved my life and helped rebuild my body.

• Mediumship + Akashic Records Channeling: Channeling spirit guides, healed and well ancestors, animals, and cosmic councils for clarity and remembrance.

• Retreat Co-Facilitator: Holding space for transformation, death, and rebirth.

• Spiritual Business Guide: I help visionary leaders bridge and integrate the spirit and strategic realms.

Shepherd is not about fixing—it’s about remembering. It’s for those ready to walk a spirit-led path with courage, reverence, and heart.

Learn more here

What You’ll Find in Deep Currents:

The Mystical & the Multidimensional

• Channeled transmissions from my spirit team (Council of Light, Mantis Beings, Galactic Federation—benevolent guides of higher consciousness)

• Wisdom from Master Plant Dietas from the Amazon rainforest, ceremony, and surrender

• Teachings from the animals, the ocean, the land

• The mystical woven into the mundane (because it always is)

The Inner Path: Healing, Awakening & Reconnection

• The truth behind my healing—from bedridden to spiritual awakening to fully alive and well young adult woman

• Stories of how music, plants, and prayers healed my nervous system

• Jewish mysticism and ancestral reconnection

• Lessons from growing up in an interfaith/intercultural family—and now building one of my own (Christian, Jewish, and Muslim)

• Celebrating the magic of Rhode Island, the place I’m proud to call home.

Spirit-Led Leadership & Sacred Business

• Tools to develop intuition—especially for global leaders and paradigm shifters

• Insights on integrating spirit into business, strategy, and sacred leadership

• Reflections from the sacred path of entrepreneurship

And always...

• Whatever else my soul wants to say and the ocean wants to whisper to me

Let’s Grow Together

If you’re here to live your truth, this space is for you.

If you’re here to reclaim your voice, your gifts, and your joy, this space is for you.

If you’re ready to play in the mystery and stand in your light—this space is for you.

Let’s spread our magic together.

Let’s speak the unspeakable.

Let’s follow the deep currents all the way HOME.

With love and a sprinkle of the ocean mist,

Em