"It gives people from grief to relief. It gives them a little bit of a lightened load when it comes to their emotional state, and they can not move on, but utilize it better." —Jenessa Wyatt

This episode explores how grief, fear, and uncertainty can be faced without losing grounding in real life. Psychic medium Jenessa Wyatt shares how her work blends evidence, intuition, and spiritual connection to help people find healing, protection, and clarity. Through stories of health warnings, house clearings, and personal lessons, she offers a practical, no-fluff perspective on how spirituality and everyday life can coexist.

Tune into this episode and explore how grief, intuition, and spiritual protection can sit side by side with everyday life, not outside it.

• How Jenessa describes being a psychic medium and why comedy is part of her work
• Turning “grief to relief” through evidence-based mediumship
• Specific stories of medical warnings, early cancer flags, and ICU “downloads”
• Daily spiritual protection rituals with white light and candles
• A dark entity attachment, poltergeist-like activity, and what finally cleared it
• How she protects survivors of abuse during readings
• Working with spirits in homes, from gentle presences to unsafe entities
• Sage, rituals, and practical house cleansing steps
• Children as sensitives, signs to watch, and when spirit contact becomes a concern
• Political energy, staged-looking events, and how fear is used to control
• Corporations, pharma, food systems, and the economics of fear
• Managing intuitive downloads without losing mental and emotional stability
• Jenessa’s vision for a reality show that normalizes spirituality without scripts
• A live mini reading for Heather: her friend’s sudden passing, family health, and career shift

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Episode Highlights:
01:31 Meet Jenessa: From Grief to Relief
09:00 Carrying Heavy Topics: Death, Cancer, & Emotional Boundaries
13:02 How Forgetting a Candle Opened the Door to a Dark Attachment
17:00 Protecting Trauma Survivors
30:48 When to Take It Seriously
37:09 Who Really Runs Things
47:06 Validating Energy and Personality Traits
53:33 For the Family

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Jenessa Wyatt is a Santa Rosa–based psychic medium who helps people move from grief to healing through evidence-based, compassionate readings. She offers private and small-group sessions (in person and on Zoom), engaging stage shows that blend mediumship with humor, and monthly online classes that teach others to develop their intuitive abilities—all with a strong emphasis on validation, protection, and emotional safety.

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“As a person who did not have anything to do but to keep moving forward, I did.” —Jenica Leonard

Some lives do not fall apart all at once. They crack slowly under cancer scares, caregiving, impossible workloads, quiet drinking, and the pressure to hold everything together. This conversation sits in that place where careers, bodies, and identities stop cooperating, and starting over is no longer optional.

We meet Jenica Leonard, a second‑generation attorney, breast cancer survivor, and sober mom who went from “for the people” prosecutor to criminal defense, from mommy wine culture to DUI, from breakdown to a different kind of service. Her story shows how tables turn when health, addiction, and the justice system collide, and how recovery can reshape the way our work and values line up.

Press play to explore how our hardest chapters can become a blueprint for starting again, on our own terms, with our whole lives in the room.

• Growing up with a pioneering female lawyer and choosing public service
• What it really means to be a prosecutor versus a criminal defense attorney
• Multi‑generational cancer, BRCA, and a breast cancer diagnosis at 37
• Double mastectomy, complications, and life in long‑term treatment
• The quiet slide from “normal drinking” into addiction and DUI
• Getting sober in the same community served as a prosecutor
• Mental health collapse, PTSD, and leaving a stable government job
• Midlife, menopause, and building a new legal practice around real values
• Finding support in recovery, women’s circles, and local service
• Boundaries, protecting our energy, and not abandoning ourselves again

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Episode Highlights:
01:42 Meet Jenica— A Life-Changing Career Transition
09:41 Jenica's Family Influence and Career Choices
15:13 Encounters with Former Defendants and The Power of Respect
18:53 A Family of Cancer Survivors
24:28 Surgical Complications, Expanders, and Multiple Surgeries
30:25 Tubbs Fire, Evacuation, and Running the PTA While on Chemo
36:21 Surgical Menopause, Meds, and Long-Term Side Effects
41:44 Pain, Mastectomy, Recovery, & Online Support
48:11 The DUI Arrest that Changed Everything
53:39 Getting Sober in the Same Community You Prosecuted
01:02:22 Grace, Self-Compassion, and Doing Your Best in a Hard World

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Jenica Leonard is a Sonoma County–based criminal defense attorney with over 15 years of experience, including a career as a former prosecutor in the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. A second-generation attorney, she now advocates for individuals in the criminal justice system, focusing on protecting constitutional rights.

She is deeply engaged in community service and women’s empowerment, serving on the Board of Women’s Recovery Services. A breast cancer survivor and woman in long-term sobriety, Jenica brings lived experience into her work, using it to uplift other women and contribute meaningfully to her community.

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“You have to, at some point, make a decision about how you're going to show up in the world. I had to make that decision that I am going to be the person that moves towards more life, that moves towards more possibility.” —Emma Churchman

Disaster does not arrive politely, and grief does not wait for permission. We are living in a season where trauma is stacking faster than we can process it, & most of us are still expected to keep functioning. This conversation meets that tension head-on, without fixing or softening it.

We sit with Emma Churchman, a trauma chaplain and resilience consultant whose life and work were reshaped by Hurricane Helene, compounded loss, and decades of personal trauma. Her lived experience informs how she helps communities, leaders, and organizations navigate crises in real time.

Listen with us, then stay with the work.

• Trauma resilience in the age of constant crisis
• What actually helps in the first days after a disaster
• Compound grief and how it impacts the nervous system
• Why recovery takes longer than anyone expects
• Leadership during natural disasters and uncertainty
• Supporting others without trying to fix them
• Real-time trauma tools for everyday life

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Episode Highlights:
02:27 The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Personal Loss
05:22 Trauma Chaplaincy and Leadership Consulting
10:02 Trauma Recovery Techniques and Business Support
15:30 “Unshattered”
21:27 Advice for Trauma Survivors and Support for Friends and Family
26:47 Normalizing the Experience

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**The Deep End of Hope in the Wake of Hurricane Helene: 40 Days and Nights of Survival and Transformation
**Unshattered: Surviving My Mother’s 123 Personalities and Transforming a Legacy of Abuse

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Emma is a speaker, bestselling author, mentor, and spiritual advisor with over 25 years of experience guiding individuals through trauma toward resilience & hope. Drawing from her own experience of childhood adversity, her work spans roles as a Quaker minister, nationally certified trauma chaplain, and creator of a Trauma Recovery Certification Program.

Her book, The Deep End of Hope in the Wake of Hurricane Helene, explores spiritual resilience amid disaster. As a PhD candidate in Conscious Business Ethics, Emma integrates soulful leadership with practical trauma-recovery strategies, inspiring individuals and organizations to navigate life’s challenges with strength and purpose.

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