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Spirit Sisters - the podcast“We are all light – this really is a holographic simulation”Thank you for tuning into the Spirit Sisters podcast, where we gather around the virtual hearth to share sacred stories about our spiritual and life journeys.
Today, I’m honoured to welcome a very special guest: spiritual teacher and best-selling author Panache Desai. Panache is known worldwide for his heart-centered wisdom and his gift for guiding people back to the truth of who they really are. Through his teachings on presence, authenticity, and vibrational alignment, Panache reminds us that transformation isn’t about becoming someone new, but about remembering our innate wholeness.
In our conversation, Pana...
2026-02-281h 13Spirit Sisters - the podcast"Losing a child cracked me in two" - Whitney's StoryIn this episode, I’m honoured to speak with Whitney, a Spirit Sisters listener from Colorado who shares her heart-wrenching journey of grief following the loss of her son, Sam, 23, to cannabis-induced psychosis. She reflects on the emotional complexities of grief and her experiences of spirit communication that provide comfort (to Whitney, each sign is “like a hug”).
Whitney discusses her advocacy with "One Chance to Grow Up," focusing on educating others about the risks of cannabis use. Through her story, she conveys the enduring nature of love and the importance of finding purpose in pain. I walked...
2026-02-061h 07Spirit Sisters - the podcast"Conduit of Hope" - Philip Hasheider's Remarkable NDEWelcome to the final episode of the Spirit Sisters podcast for 2025! I’ve been saving this conversation for this moment, as it’s such an uplifting reminder, at the close of yet another challenging year, that there’s much more to life than we can understand from our earthly perspective.
My guest is Philip Hasheider, a farmer and family man who’s had a remarkable near-death experience (NDE). Our discussion revolves around the profound insights he gained during this life-altering event, which speaks to the interconnectedness and ineffable love that permeates our existence beyond the physical realm. Philip r...
2025-12-211h 16Spirit Sisters - the podcastMy Life with 'The Gift': Noela's StoryWelcome back to Spirit Sisters! If you’re new to the channel, thank you for joining the family.
In this bonus episode of the Spirit Sisters podcast, I interview Noela McBlane, a seasoned Australian psychic medium with 60 years of experience in helping others connect with lost loved ones and navigate their grief. We discuss Noela's early encounters with the spirit world, including her childhood visions and the comforting presence of spirits during difficult times.
With the support of her dear friend Kate, Noela has published a memoir called The Unexpected Clairvoyant (learn more about it he...
2025-12-071h 11Spirit Sisters - the podcastLiving Among the Dead - Jodi's StoryWelcome back to Spirit Sisters! If you’re new to the channel, thank you for joining the family. Before I launch into our episode, I share a special announcement about my new creation – the Reconnect & Create app, which is available now at studio.com/karina.
My app is designed to support my fellow spirit sisters on the midlife journey to reconnect with their spirituality and creative passions. I’ve poured my heart and soul into this app because I passionately believe that midlife is a sacred threshold, that we can re-enchant our lives and meet our authentic selves...
2025-11-281h 02Spirit Sisters - the podcastTHE HOUSE - A Halloween StoryThank you for joining me around the virtual hearth today for a special Halloween episode. The veil is thin this week, friends, in the lead up to All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween. Perhaps you know that what we call Halloween has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which celebrates the end of summer on November 1 and the Celtic New Year.
In the Celtic tradition, departed loved ones were expected and welcomed with offerings of their favourite foods. The Day of the Dead, famously celebrated in Mexico on November 1 and 2, picks up on this idea...
2025-10-2756 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastBONUS EPISODE: The Camino de Santiago: A Path Paved With MiraclesWelcome to the Spirit Sisters Podcast. In this bonus episode, we’re diving into an exploration of life’s sacred journeys, inspired by the magic of the Camino de Santiago. I have the honour of welcoming my dear friend, Simon Keenan, a passionate soul and visionary who embodies the spirit of service and healing in the enchanted forests of Galicia, Spain, where he co-created the enchanting sanctuary known as Terra de Luz (Land of Light).
Simon joins me to share some of the extraordinary experiences that happen on the Camino (and I also share a little about my e...
2025-10-121h 17Spirit Sisters - the podcastBeyond the Stars: Mediumship and Mystical Journeys with Astrologer Luke BayleyWelcome to Spirit Sisters! This month, I explore personal transformation and mystical experiences with astrologer Luke Bayley, a Certified Practicing Astrologer and CEO of Astrocollege/International Academy of Astrology.
We dive into his journey from skepticism to self-discovery in astrology, enriched by his encounters with spirit guides and psychic phenomena. Luke is a wonderful storyteller. He shares profound experiences, including memories of being in utero and a past life in Nazi Germany, shedding light on how these experiences shape present-day lessons about trust and spiritual growth. (Please note, the past-life recollection contains graphic details, audience discretion advised).
2025-09-281h 30Spirit Sisters - the podcast"Regrets keep ghosts stuck" - Katische's StoryWelcome to Spirit Sisters! This month, my guest is Katische Haberfield. Katische is a spirit releasement therapist and spiritual regression therapist, which means she identifies ghosts who are present in a client’s past-life regression, finds out how they are linked to her client and supports them to cross over.
This is a robust and fascinating conversation touching on a range of topics, including ghosts, how regrets keep ghosts stuck between worlds and how most ghosts don’t know they’ve passed on from the physical. Katische also generously shares her life story and rich history of spirit...
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Beyond the Thesis With Papa PhDBeing a Young Scientist in the Global South with Karina MachadoIn this episode of Beyond the Thesis with Papa PhD, host David Mendes sits down with Dr. Karina do Santos Machado, a trailblazing young scientist from Brazil whose journey exemplifies the power of collaboration and open science in the global South. Karina shares her path from a childhood fascination with computers to becoming a principal investigator leading cutting-edge drug discovery research with global impact, all from her home base in Rio Grande.
Facing the challenges of limited funding, infrastructure hurdles, and fewer resources common to universities in developing countries, Karina highlights how resourcefulness and community s...
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Spirit Sisters - the podcastDiving into the Light - How Elli Milan's NDE delivered destiny & purposeWelcome to Spirit Sisters! This month, my guest is Elli Milan, an artist based in Florida. Elli shares her harrowing near-death experience at age 15, which ignited her calling as an artist, and eventually her mission to inspire other artists.
Today, Elli paints sublime artworks often set underwater and imbued with an otherworldly light. As the founder of the Milan Art Institute, Elli empowers artists to illuminate and impact the world through art.
In our conversation, Elli shares how her NDE shifted her perspective on life, faith, and creativity, and we take a deep dive into...
2025-07-261h 08Spirit Sisters - the podcast“There is life after death” – Annie’s StoryI’m so happy to be back with the Spirit Sisters podcast! In this episode, I share a personal story about my own journey of grief over the last few years, and how I’m taking solace in creative projects. These include relaunching this podcast, writing my novel, and sharing (for the first time), spiritual writings on my Substack page, Words Along the Way (find out more at this link).
This week, Annie Wilson joins us around the virtual hearth, from her home on the ruggedly beautiful far south coast of NSW.
Anni...
2025-06-2857 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastThe Story of a Gifted Seer ... plus, my news!I’m so happy you can join me around the virtual hearth today for an insight into the astonishing gifts of one of the 20th century’s greatest psychic mediums.
I'm reading from Sunrise: A Book of Knowledge and Comfort for the Bereaved by White Eagle, first published in 1958. It’s the introduction by psychic-medium Grace Cooke, who from the 1930s onward channelled the spiritual teacher known as White Eagle. Online, you can find a long list of the many books they published together. (My gratitude to the copyright holder White Eagle Lodge for their kind permission to rea...
2025-02-0922 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastWaiting in the Wings – A Christmas StoryI have the great pleasure of sharing a sweet and moving festive-season story with you today, a true story penned by my friend and past guest, Danielle, who calls it “a Christmas story with a twist”.
This is a story about heavenly intervention and synchronicity... Before I read it out, I’d like to wish you and your loved ones a joyful and restful Christmas and a peaceful new year. May peace dawn on earth, may every child be safe. May love prevail.
Thank you for listening to Spirit Sisters this year, and for your suppor...
2024-12-2323 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastHalloween episode! True spooky stories to give you goosebumpsHappy Halloween, friends! Welcome to the first episode of the new storytelling format of the Spirit Sisters podcast that I recently announced.
In honour of Halloween, or Samhain, as it’s known in the Celtic tradition, we’re gathering around the virtual hearth today to listen to four true-life spooky-season stories listeners have sent in.
Do you have a story about the unexplained, or a spiritual experience that’s transformed your life that you’d like to share? If you’d like me to read it out on your show email me at karina.machado.author@gma...
2024-10-2725 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastStories that heal: An answered prayer, an announcement and an invitationKarina Machado shares news about a fresh direction for the Spirit Sisters podcast, and extends an invitation to you.
All of us are going through personal challenges and experiencing the reverberating grief of the horror and violence being inflicted on innocent people in world conflicts. Let’s carve out a little corner of the internet where we can all take shelter around the glow of the story hearth …
Also, Sydney listeners, I’m offering an in-person writing workshop in a glorious private garden in the Southern Highlands to raise money for Welby Garden Centre’s employmen...
2024-10-1410 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastWhen the Soul Plan Collides with the Human Plan – Psychic-medium Michelle Clare shares her profound journey of love and grief.Hi friends, it’s lovely to be back with you after such a long time, thanks for joining us around the virtual hearth today to warm yourself with a story.
I’ve been working on my novel, integrating my 2023 Camino, and completing a second, shorter Camino in May this year. This time we started from the beautiful Spanish city of Leon. I’ll share more in an upcoming episode about the return to the Camino and how that journey continues to so deeply move me in an upcoming episode, but for now, I want to introdu...
2024-06-0958 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastFrom Tradesman to Spiritual Channel –Ben Medhurst shares his extraordinary journeyYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters, I’m your host Karina Machado.
I’m thrilled to be back with you all. I promised that I’d be popping in with powerful conversations that I hand pick, and here’s one. Today, I’m introducing Ben Medhurst. Ben is a husband, dad and tradesman who lives in Queensland. He also happens to be a full-body channel for a discarnate collective who share profound wisdom through him.
As Ben shares in his first ever interview, he’s been primed for this his entire life. From his childhood growing up ami...
2024-03-171h 34Spirit Sisters - the podcast“A Veil Has Lifted” – How a mystical experience at Uluru birthed Lynda Deans’ calling as a spirit-inspired artistTune in for my conversation with Queensland-based artist Lynda Deans, whose profound spiritual experience at Uluru three years ago inspired her to begin creating unique and extraordinary art.
Lynda, who describes the experience at Uluru as “a birthing”, has always been in touch with the mystical dimension of life. In our conversation, Lynda shares about many spiritual encounters and moments of synchronicity she’s experienced, including seeing “a fully-fledged angel”, the mysterious meeting in a bookstore on the day of her husband’s sudden passing, her memories of a past life in Jesus’s time, and much more.
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2023-12-111h 13Spirit Sisters - the podcastFive sacred truths I learnt on the Camino de SantiagoAs some of you may know, I had a life-changing experience in June and early July of this year. I walked the Camino de Santiago – the Way of St James – an ancient pilgrimage across Spain. On the full moon morning of July 4, I arrived at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the beautiful, mist-shrouded Galicia region, which, as you’re about to hear, stole my heart. With her rich heritage of Celtic legends, lore and music, Galicia reunited me with a part of myself I hadn’t known was missing.
And so, this episode is differe...
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Beyond Turning Points'The Camino Walked Me' with author Karina MachadoIn this podcast, author and guest Karina Machado describes some of her experiences and insights after walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Some of the topics include: * letting go; * experiencing pain and healing on the journey; * developing a deeper self awareness; * the significance of scallop shells for pilgrims walking the Camino. It's an interview of interest to anyone who is intrigued about personal growth, pilgrimages and the insights that can come from discomfort. Karina Machado is a journalist, creator/host of the popular podcasts Spirit Sisters and The Ghost F...
2023-07-2450 minBeyond Turning Points'The Camino Walked Me' with author Karina MachadoIn this podcast, author and guest Karina Machado describes some of her experiences and insights after walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Some of the topics include: * letting go; * experiencing pain and healing on the journey; * developing a deeper self awareness; * the significance of scallop shells for pilgrims walking the Camino. It's an interview of interest to anyone who is intrigued about personal growth, pilgrimages and the insights that can come from discomfort. Karina Machado is a journalist, creator/host of the popular podcasts Spirit Sisters and The Ghost F...
2023-07-2450 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastHealing the Healer – After she died, Sara returned with a new soul contractYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters. I’m your host, Karina Machado. As always, I’m delighted that you’re joining me around the virtual fireside today. And we have quite the story for you to warm yourself by tonight.
I was on the train this morning, Spanish guitar playing softly in my earbuds, thinking about what to say in the introduction to this very special episode.
This week, I welcome my dear friend Sara back to the podcast. I first interviewed Sara in the early days of the show, in 2019. We recorded a double episode...
2023-05-231h 39Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe Psychic Detective – Debbie Malone on life as a medium, and the case files that haunt herKarina Machado welcomes psychic-medium Debbie Malone to the podcast. Debbie and I have known each other for many years – I first told her story in my 2009 book Spirit Sisters, and she made another appearance in the follow-up, Where Spirits Dwell.
As an internationally acclaimed psychic medium, author, psychic detective and spiritual teacher, Debbie has spent the last 30 years assisting police departments around the globe with high-profile missing persons and murder investigations.
A student of the prestigious Arthur Findlay College, Debbie often features in the media and is in high demand for speaking engagements and other ap...
2023-05-071h 06Spirit Sisters - the podcast”The substance I was flying through was LOVE” - the near-death experience of Jacob KingKarina Machado speaks with Jacob King, who’s 33 and lives in Melbourne. In October 2021, Jacob had a near-death experience that profoundly transformed his world.
Up until that point, Jacob was doing his best to cope with the effects of a traumatic childhood and subsequent drug addiction.
“I couldn't understand how all these things could exist side by side,” he says. “Was I a depressed, violent addict, or a spiritual and loving person? Could I ever heal from my trauma, or was I always going to be damaged and dysfunctional? Am I just a victim of circumst...
2023-03-101h 14Spirit Sisters - the podcast“They can be in their world and they can be in ours” – Chrissy’s ghostly encountersYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters, I’m your host, Karina Machado. I’m back after a long break, grateful for your patience and lovely messages.
I experienced a challenging time towards the end of last year and I felt I had to press pause on the podcast and a few other things in order to look after myself.
And so, in the spirit of creating and healing, I’m so happy to share this episode with you this week. My guest is Chrissy, a teacher specialising in wellbeing who lives in Victoria. Chrissy has had a lif...
2023-02-121h 00Spirit Sisters - the podcastHalloween Episode! The General Store – “My God, the place is packed with ghosts!”Welcome to our special Halloween episode on Spirit Sisters with Karina Machado.
I thought it only fitting that I share a haunted house story today. What makes it extra special is that I had the opportunity to catch up with Nell Jones, whose story features in my book Where Spirits Dwell.
Nell is a retired teacher and writer who lives in Stockton, an historic beachside suburb in the NSW city of Newcastle. The traditional custodians of these lands and waters are the Awabakal and Worimi Peoples.
In 2000, Nell bought a derelict, century-old cottage...
2022-11-011h 18Spirit Sisters - the podcast“We don’t die, the only thing that ends is our body” – meet psychic-medium David GammalKarina Machado presents the second episode in the Psychic September mini-series. These are conversations with a diverse group of psychic-mediums, people of different ages, genders and at varying stages in their journey of their lives and of their calling as one who links the living with loved ones beyond the veil.
(This is all about sharing life experiences, not endorsing a business, as I haven’t had readings with any of them. I might do so one day, but I haven’t yet. As always, this is all about speaking from the heart as we build bridges of c...
2022-09-171h 13Spirit Sisters - the podcastA dream, a ghost girl and a past-life memory – how a spirit gave Kate the courage to trust her calling as a psychic-mediumYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters. I’m your host, Karina Machado. Thank you for tuning in.
I have something a little different today: the first conversation in a mini-series I’m calling ‘Psychic September.’ Throughout the month of September, I’m bringing you conversations with a diverse group of psychic-mediums. Before we launch into the series, I’d like to point out that this is about sharing the life experiences of psychic-mediums, I’m not endorsing their businesses, as I haven’t had readings with any of them. As always, this is all about speaking from the heart as we sh...
2022-08-2857 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast“I’m walking the planet from my heart” – How Ash Perrow is living true to the “contract” of his near-death experienceKarina Machado welcomes Ash Perrow. Ash is an Australian musician, and creative freedom coach. In 2016, Ash had a near death experience (NDE) following complications from back surgery. He experienced leaving his body and returned to it with the awareness that he was permitted to stay ‘for the work that he does and to walk the planet from his heart’.
Since then, he has been exploring the barriers to being our truest version of ourselves and helping others to do the same. Along this path, he left his teaching job and returned to writing, sharing and performing music, as w...
2022-07-231h 08Spirit Sisters - the podcastFrom Trauma to “Truforgiveness”– Part 2 of Natasha McKenna’s 40-year journey to healing and purposeYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters. I’m your host, Karina Machado, thank you for joining us today, for part two of my conversation with Australian spiritual teacher and author Tash McKenna.
What does forgiveness mean to you? As I publish this podcast, mainstream news sites tell of the Abdallah family from the Sydney suburb of Oatlands, who were invited to share their extraordinary story of forgiveness with the Vatican. On a summer’s day in 2020, the Abdallahs lost three of their six children – Sienna, Angelina and Antony – to a driver affected by drugs and alcohol. The kids were...
2022-07-031h 24Spirit Sisters - the podcastTrauma, “Truforgiveness” and a Promise from God – Natasha McKenna reveals her 40-year journey to healing and purposeIn 1982, Michael Jackson released his Thriller album; the Australian Prime Minister was Malcolm Fraser, Prince William was born and E.T. The Extra Terrestrial premiered in cinemas … and, in her bedroom in a beachside suburb east of Sydney, an 8-year-old called Natasha McKenna received a visit from God.
Tash, as she’s known, is my guest today on Spirit Sisters, in part one of a two-part conversation. Tash is a spiritual teacher and Truforgiveness healer. As an eight-year-old trauma survivor, hearing the audible voice of God make her a promise sparked the beginning of a 40-year spiritual odys...
2022-06-181h 06Spirit Sisters - the podcastDriving Into Infinity - Paula Lenz was at the wheel of her late brother’s car when his spirit took her on a detour into the universeThanks for joining me around the virtual fireside for another uplifting story.
I’m recording this intro on a full moon and eclipse. This isn’t my area of expertise but I have it on good authority that this is significant, and certainly I can feel it. Individually and collectively, we are all going through so much. For me, this is a time of profound shifts and a reckoning. I wonder how many of you can relate to that?
I feel very guided through this by various disincarnate loving beings, including my ancestors. I’m feelin...
2022-05-151h 01Spirit Sisters - the podcastAngel of Hope - After tragedy, an unearthly visitor brought light back into Rhonda’s lifeKarina Machado presents an original voice from her 2009 book Spirit Sisters. Rhonda Rice, a scripture teacher from Sydney, tells a story that encompasses various spiritual and paranormal threads. Rhonda has experienced otherworldly encounters since she was a little girl doing her best to cope with the tragic loss of her baby sister, Laurel. In the wake of that devastating day, an angelic encounter paved the way for a lifetime of mystical encounters.
In her 30s, Rhonda had a near-death experience and in her 50s, she began to see “the visitors,” as she calls them, strangers who look absol...
2022-04-1854 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastMiracle on the HighwayKarina Machado welcomes a special guest with a wondrous story, or three, to share.
My guest is Leesa Anderson and she’s a storyteller extraordinaire. Leesa has a background in the corporate world and lives in beautiful Montana, USA, with her family. She has a lifetime of mystical experiences behind her, stretching back to her childhood growing up on a ranch feeling very close to God amid spectacular natural surrounds, but she’s only recently decided it’s the right time to begin sharing these stories with the world.
As Leesa told me after we’d stoppe...
2022-03-281h 34Spirit Sisters - the podcast”There’s only one cosmic play-dough. Everything is God” - Part two with near-death experiencer Susan DyerNear-death experiencer Susan Dyer joins Karina Machado for part two of our conversation. If you haven’t listened to part one yet, I encourage you to scroll down to the episode below and tune in to that first so that you have the full context for today’s episode.
In this one, we pick up where we left off, as Susan shares all about the physical healing following her 2017 NDE that confounded her medical specialists. Yet this was no fairytale happy ending. Next, Susan found herself on an emotional roller coaster that saw her lose friends and once...
2022-03-061h 09Spirit Sisters - the podcast”I promised God I’d return and live transparently” - Part one with near-death experiencer Susan DyerWelcome to Spirit Sisters. Today, my guest is Susan Dyer. Susan, who lives just outside Washington DC, is a survivor and a champion of women's spirituality. Susan was born clairvoyant—and raised by baffled, Catholic parents who couldn’t understand what she was seeing and experiencing. She hated herself by kindergarten, she says, and doubted her sanity, until merging with what she describes as “unnamable God” in a near-death experience in 2017.
Susan’s NDE is unusual, in that it contains aspects you might not have heard before in an NDE account. Her fascinating experience raises questions, for me at least...
2022-02-201h 23Spirit Sisters - the podcast“Nobody dies alone” - Delving into a lifetime of mystical encounters with near-death experiencer and spiritual explorer Mariel Forde ClarkeWelcome back to Spirit Sisters! It feels a little late to be wishing you a happy new year, but I really do hope that 2022 has started on a positive note for you and yours. I’ve taken an extended break, but am back now and have some fascinating guests to introduce you to in the coming months, including some fresh Australian voices.
Now to today’s episode. My guest is Mariel Forde Clarke, who lives in the historic harbour city of Galway, Ireland. Mariel has dedicated her life to exploring the mystery of life and death, and is th...
2022-01-291h 17Spirit Sisters - the podcastMissionary From the Light - Yvonne Sneeden’s message of hopeKarina Machado speaks to near-death experiencer Yvonne Sneeden.
Yvonne hails from Belgium and ives in North Carolina, where she works in IT. She’s had two near-death experiences, but the one she’s sharing today is “the big one,” as she calls it. In 2008, Yvonne was diagnosed with arrhythmia during an extremely stressful stage of her life. As a single mother living in a new country, she was working herself to the bone to provide for her daughter and she was utterly depleted. An involuntary overdose of powerful medication she’d been prescribed to treat the arrhythmia propelled...
2021-12-201h 31Spirit Sisters - the podcast“Would you like to stay or would you like to go?” – The choice that propelled Michelle Clare back to life from her third NDE, and into an acceptance of her mediumshipYou’re listening to Spirit Sisters, I’m your host, Karina Machado. I have such a wonderful conversation to share with you today, but before we launch into that, quick shout to thank all of you who’ve taken a moment to leave a review and rate the show. That really helps people find their way to the show, and as I know from the beautiful emails and Facebook messages I receive from listeners, the stories that we share here can make a profound difference to someone’s grieving journey.
My guest today is Arizona-based medium and mother o...
2021-11-151h 06Spirit Sisters - the podcastLoving Through the Veil - What Dreams May Come producer Stephen Simon is in constant communication with his wife, Lauren, three years after her transitionKarina Machado welcomes veteran Hollywood producer Stephen Simon, whose body of film-making includes Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye Girl, All the Right Moves, Somewhere in Time, and the Oscar-winning What Dreams May Come, starring Robin Williams.
For 16 years, Stephen also ran the Spiritual Cinema Circle, dedicated to distributing spiritual films to a global audience in over 70 countries, and he’s also the producer and director of the film version of Conversations With God, based on Neale Donald Walsch’s best-selling book series.
Stephen is joining me on the show today to share a profound mess...
2021-10-171h 26Spirit Sisters - the podcastLiving Your Soul’s Purpose – After tragedy shook her world, Jo Buchanan took a leap of faith and launched a lifetime of spiritual adventuresWelcome to Spirit Sisters.
My guest today is Jo Buchanan. Jo is the author of The Final Mystery, a memoir that explores the notion that we all have agency to create a life that’s aligned with our soul purpose. Jo, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, is a wise and warm soul with an illustrious spiritual heritage. In 1927, her father, Les Danby, joined a mediumship circle led by a quietly spoken fellow called Stan Walsh. The astonishing phenomena Les witnessed led him to write a book called The Certainty of Eternity. In our conversation, Jo shares more ab...
2021-09-261h 07Spirit Sisters - the podcastPainting the Angelic Choir – In 1996, the Angels issued an invitation to Kayt Raymond. She said Yes – and so began an extraordinary partnershipWelcome to Spirit Sisters, with Karina Machado.
My guest today is intuitive and angel communicator, Kayt Raymond. Kayt studied piano, clarinet, voice and choral conducting at the Conservatorium in Newcastle, Australia, and later on scholarship at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. It was here that she met Jean, a spiritual mentor who revealed that angels had told her about Kayt’s arrival a year earlier. Jean even showed Kayt the page in her spiritual journal where she’d documented the message. All a hint, perhaps, that the angels had great plans in store for the youn...
2021-09-121h 25Spirit Sisters - the podcast“We. Are. One” – Part two with María Lupita Gurulé on the after-effects of her NDE and learning how to merge with her soulIt’s a joy to have you back for part two of my conversation with mystic, spiritual reader and counsellor María Lupita Gurulé, on the phone from New Mexico.
If you haven’t yet had a chance to listen to part one, please scroll down to Episode 53 so that you can hear all about María Lupita’s remarkable near-death experience that transformed her life in the year 2000.
Today, María Lupita shares candidly about the after-effects of her NDE, including the first three very difficult years that followed it, her post-natal depression, sense of disorien...
2021-08-231h 27Spirit Sisters - the podcast“I was immersed in a pool of liquid light” – the mind-bending near-death experience of María Lupita GuruléI'm excited to present part one of my conversation with near-death experiencer María Lupita Gurulé, on the phone from New Mexico, USA.
María Lupita is a mother of two young adults, ages 23 and 21. Both her pregnancies were life-threatening for mother and child. Birthing her first-born 10 weeks early, María Lupita had an out-of-body experience that sparked several miraculous events. Then two and a half years later, on June 5, 2000, on the day her second child was born, María Lupita died from complications of anaesthesia before surgery and was revived.
It's estimated that she was out...
2021-08-161h 44Spirit Sisters - the podcast“The tragedy of Jamie passing was also a catalyst for me to step up” – Part 2 with Shayne Wallace, on how she found a path to healing following her teenage son’s tragic deathBefore I launch into this week’s episode, quick reminder that if you love Spirit Sisters, it would be wonderful if you could write a review and leave a five-star rating, this will ensure that others who may need to hear the stories of wonder, hope and healing we share here will find their way to the show.
Now, this week is the conclusion of my conversation with Shayne Wallace, whose story I first told in my book Spirit Sisters more than a decade ago. Shayne’s son Jamie tragically died at age 16 in 2007. If you haven’t list...
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The Loss MothersKarina Machado: Beyond the veil- Afterlife encountersWelcome to author Karina Machado. Karina is a journalist with over 25 years experience and the author of the non fiction series The Spirit Sisters, Where Spirits Dwell and Love Never Dies. She has also recently written Awaken: The search is over with her sister Natalie Grueninger. She is also creator and host of two podcasts- The Spirit Sisters and The Ghost Files- highly recommended reading and listening!!Karina is passionate about sharing stories, especially stories of encounters from the other side. Karina strongly believes that love never dies and love is more powerful than death. She has interviewed many people...
2021-07-211h 08The Loss MothersKarina Machado: Beyond the veil- Afterlife encountersWelcome to author Karina Machado. Karina is a journalist with over 25 years experience and the author of the non fiction series The Spirit Sisters, Where Spirits Dwell and Love Never Dies. She has also recently written Awaken: The search is over with her sister Natalie Grueninger. She is also creator and host of two podcasts- The Spirit Sisters and The Ghost Files- highly recommended reading and listening!!Karina is passionate about sharing stories, especially stories of encounters from the other side. Karina strongly believes that love never dies and love is more powerful than death. She has interviewed many people...
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The Loss MothersKarina Machado: Beyond the veil- Afterlife encountersWelcome to author Karina Machado. Karina is a journalist with over 25 years experience and the author of the non fiction series The Spirit Sisters, Where Spirits Dwell and Love Never Dies. She has also recently written Awaken: The search is over with her sister Natalie Grueninger. She is also creator and host of two podcasts- The Spirit Sisters and The Ghost Files- highly recommended reading and listening!!Karina is passionate about sharing stories, especially stories of encounters from the other side. Karina strongly believes that love never dies and love is more powerful than death. She has interviewed many people...
2021-07-211h 08Spirit Sisters - the podcastJamie's Return - Hours after her teenage son's tragic death, his grieving mum Shayne watched him walk into their yard. "Mate," she sobbed. "I need to tell you that you've died."Today’s episode marks episode 50 of Spirit Sisters the Podcast, and I’m happy to say I have the perfect guest to mark the milestone. Shayne Wallace, who lives with her family in Perth, WA, is one of the original voices from Spirit Sisters, the book.
On the frigid night of June 1, 2007, beneath a full moon, mother-of-three Shayne’s eldest son, Jamie, 16, was killed in a motorbike accident. It’s what happened in the hours that followed that makes Shayne’s story one of the most unforgettable in my body of work.
Shayne’s story is heartbrea...
2021-07-191h 18Spirit Sisters - the podcastOn Wings of Love - a breathtaking story of after-death communicationToday’s episode is a beautiful reminder of our interconnectedness, of bonds that can never be broken and of the ultimate indestructibility of love.
My guest today is Texas-based lawyer MaryAnn Jones. MaryAnn grew up in a bi-cultural family – her mum is an immigrant from Costa Rica and her dad is American with Italian, Swedish, and Anglo ancestry. MaryAnn says her mum's side “is the typical Latin family with lots of family parties where everyone dances and speaking of God and the supernatural was something that occurred in almost every conversation,” which is something I personally relate to. I pre...
2021-06-211h 14Spirit Sisters - the podcast"I hear the leaves laughing" - Part 2 with Crisdon Chaisson, on the gifts of her NDEPart two of my intriguing conversation with Canadian near-death experiencer Crisdon Chaisson.
If you haven’t yet listened to part one of my conversation with Crisdon, you’ll want to scroll back and press play on that episode first, so that you can listen to Crisdon recount every fascinating detail of her 2003 NDE, a captivating story which, I’m honoured to say, she is sharing publicly for the first time.
In this episode, Crisdon talks about the challenges of integrating her experience upon her return to life, the gifts she came back with, her communication with pl...
2021-05-2251 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast"I'm not the same person I was before I died" - Crisdon Chaisson shares her remarkable 2003 NDE for the first timeI'm thrilled to present the first of a two-part interview with Crisdon Chaisson, who lives in Canada and, I’m very honoured to say, is sharing her near-death experience publicly for the first time.
Crisdon’s NDE took place in 2003, when she was receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer in the jaw. As you’re about to hear, Crisdon describes her NDE in exquisite detail, and in this conversation, she shares about peeling away from her body “like cheese from a pizza,” travelling to a realm of indescribable colour, being at one with The Collective, as Crisdon...
2021-05-091h 03Spirit Sisters - the podcastAngels in the OR - How Tricia Barker's miraculous NDE healed her body and soulMy guest today is Tricia Barker, who experienced a profound near-death experience in 1994 when she was 22, in her senior year of university. A point of difference with Tricia’s NDE is that it guided her very specifically to her life’s work, albeit kicking and screaming at first, to become a teacher in public schools, overseas and at university level. Today, she’s a professor of English and Creative Writing in Fort Worth, Texas.
The author of the memoir Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation, Tricia interviews fellow near-death experiencers on her...
2021-04-121h 11Spirit Sisters - the podcastCold Hands, Warm Heart - A ghost story you'll never forgetMy guest today has a chilling ghost story to share about an unforgettable chain of events that took place in 1969, when she was 12 years old and living with her family in the western suburbs of Melbourne. This is a memorable story because it demonstrates that, in an otherworldly encounter, as much as in everyday life, things aren’t always as they might at first appear…
Today Coral lives on the Sunshine Coast in Qld with her husband, adult son and two fur babies. Before her retirement, she worked in Childcare and in Financial Services. Yet when I thin...
2021-03-281h 19Spirit Sisters - the podcastInto the Ethereal - Before his heart transplant, Rob's NDE gave the answers to everythingKarina Machado welcomes a one-of-a-kind guest, a two-time near-death experiencer who’s also a heart-transplant recipient.
Rob A. Gentile is the son of Italian immigrants. He grew up in Pennsylvania, where his father worked in a steel mill. Rob also works in the steel industry, as a sales rep, and he’s been married to Melanie for more than thirty years. Together they’ve devoted themselves to their daughter with special needs, Maria, who is in her twenties and has Rett Syndrome. Rob calls Maria “the hero of my life” and tells me in our conversation that she’s his...
2021-03-071h 39Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe Path of Healing and Service - Part 2 of how the Light transformed Evania's lifeHere's part two of Karina Machado's conversation with the trail-blazing Australian former Olympic pistol shooter Evania. If you haven’t listened to part one, please scroll down and click on that first so that you grasp the full breadth of Evania’s life story. In this episode, she goes into more depth about her plans to run for federal parliament, and how that ties in with her aim to “expand her service to humanity.” She shares her key mantra, which ties in beautifully with her life-changing encounter with the light, and we talk about how it’s time for women lead...
2021-02-151h 04Spirit Sisters - the podcast"This experience became my lantern" - After losing everything, Evania had a life-changing encounter with the LightBorn Lynne-Marie Uden in South Australia, my guest changed her name to Evania in 1995. More on that later ... Evania has blazed a trail in so many areas of her life; a former police officer in South Australia, she went on to work for the United Nations in Vienna in Security & Safety services and later, became the first female sports reporter in Queensland.
As she hit career highs, Evania was also going from strength to strength in her sport: pistol shooting, which culminated in her representing Australia at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the only woman on the shooting...
2021-02-0759 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastThe Lost Children – the tiny girl with sad eyes who materialised in Danielle’s bedroom proved to be just one of the little lost souls pleading for her help to find their way homeToday, I have someone very special to introduce you to, my friend Danielle. Dani, who’s become a beloved mentor to me, is a retired medical administrator in the field of palliative care. She’s a quiet and super caring soul with an extraordinary gift - Dani has been seeing and communicating with spirits all her life.
Dani and I met over email three years ago, after she heard me on a radio interview and reached out to share her joy at feeling, finally, that she’s not alone in experiencing the spiritual encounters she’d been having s...
2021-01-171h 52Spirit Sisters - the podcast"We need to learn that we don't die" - soulmates Ana & Jorge's exciting "new" chapterKarina Machado speaks with Spanish-born Sydneysider Jorge Golvano. On June 11, 2020, Jorge’s soul mate Ana died of breast cancer. Her "transformation," as Jorge calls it, opened the way to an entirely new existence for Jorge, an IT specialist who had no prior interest whatsoever in spiritual matters. In fact, he still says he’s not spiritual, even though he has conversations with Ana every day, and Ana cleverly makes use of electronic equipment to communicate as she understands that’s a medium Jorge is comfortable with.
It’s an intriguing and life-affirming story which includes an amazing evidenti...
2020-12-211h 39Spirit Sisters - the podcastDancing in the Light of Love - the healing power of a spiritual reunionMy guest today is Honey Booth, a musician who’s studying to be a counsellor, who lives in Western Australia. As soon as I read her email, I wanted to bring Honey on the show because her story about her bond with her mother that has only strengthened and deepened following her passing is one that I know will resonate with so many of you. This is especially true if you love or have loved someone who struggles with mental illness. Honey’s mum, Julie, passed away in 2016 aged only 50.
Yet death proved the gateway to a beaut...
2020-12-061h 02Spirit Sisters - the podcast"With any rising, there's pain" - Part two of how spiritually transformative experiences healed Linda's lifeHere’s part two of my interview with Perth-based poet and artist Linda Cull, who last week told us about the amazing series of spiritually transformative experiences she began at age 16, including an astonishing encounter with an immensely loving divine Light. If you haven’t yet listened to part one, I encourage you to scroll down and tune in to that first, so that you grasp her whole story. In this episode, Linda tells us about her return to the light and how her creativity flourished afterward. She also talks about the challenges she experienced sharing her story and the...
2020-11-1552 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast"I knew the Light was God" - Part one of Linda Cull's astounding story of transformation and healingToday, my guest is Linda Cull, who lives in Perth, Western Australia. Linda is a visionary artist and the author of the memoir Where The Light Lives: A True Story about Death, Grief and Transformation and she’s also just released a poetry collection called When Eve Walked. Linda is the founder of Wilara Press and the blog Spirit my way, covering spirituality, inspired creativity, and transformative experiences at lindacull.com.
Throughout her twenties and thirties, Linda experienced spiritual reality many times. She encountered God, angels, spirit beings, late loved ones and religious figures, and experienced many remar...
2020-11-071h 14Spirit Sisters - the podcastChantal's Haunted Life - Bonus Halloween EpisodeWelcome to the final episode in our special Halloween series on Spirit Sisters the Podcast. If you’ve missed the first two bonus episodes of virtual fireside conversations about haunted houses, scroll down and check out my two interviews with Ben and Liz. So far, we’ve heard about a storybook-pretty, yet ominous, house in Pennsylvania, and a family home in a harbourside suburb of Sydney that the original inhabitants were reluctant to leave … today, we’re travelling to Quebec, Canada. My guest, Chantal Lalonde-Coudriau, has always sensed the spirit world, which means that she has more than one haunted...
2020-11-0159 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastThe Others - from the moment they moved in, Liz knew they weren't aloneWelcome to another bonus episode of Spirit Sisters the Podcast. This is part two in our special haunted house series of virtual fireside conversations airing in the lead up to Halloween. My guest today is Liz Mutkins, who shares a story about the home she grew up in in Sydney’s north. What I love about this story is how it carves out a slice of the past, and returns it to us, intact with the people who once lived it, though today we call them ghosts. We might ask though, who’s haunting who?
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2020-10-2932 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastWhat Ben Saw in the Basement - Part 1 in a special Halloween series about haunted housesWelcome to the first in a special series of haunted-house themed episodes of Spirit Sisters the Podcast, which I’ll be airing in the lead-up to Halloween.
Karina Machado speaks to Ben Atkins. Ben lives with his wife in South Australia, where he works as a manager in the wholesale electrical industry. Ben and his family moved from the US to Mount Gambier in 2009, when he was 16. Ben's story revolves around his beautiful, but oh so eerie, childhood home in Pennsylvania, just a few minutes’ drive from Gettysburg, the site of an 1863 battle which marked a turning poin...
2020-10-2431 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast"I know my sister's spirit lives on"On this week’s episode, Karina Machado welcomes back an original interviewee from her book Spirit Sisters. My guest is Sharon Eckhardt, whose story about communicating with the spirit of her teenaged sister following her tragic death features in the chapter called Love After Death. It’s a story that, in a sense, is the beating heart of my work, because in its quiet, humble way, it shares the truth that our spirits are eternal. I think that many of you will be able to relate to the experiences Sharon shares.
If you’d like to read Sharon...
2020-10-1649 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastThe lawyer who channels a team of spirits - the extraordinary story of how Alicia came out of the spiritual closetKarina Machado speaks with Alicia Dumais Temmerman. Alicia, who lives in Melbourne, is an Energy-Healer Coach, Relationship Coach, lawyer, speaker, author and the founder of The Global Soul Centre. She's also a mum of four.
Alicia’s soul mission is to help people connect back to their souls and help them understand the Laws of Energy - to learn how to boost, clear, nourish, charge and protect their energy, which she calls “our most valuable commodity.”
All these beautiful and practical teachings come courtesy of a team of ascended masters, who speak through Alicia via direct...
2020-09-251h 49Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe death-defying power of love - how little Tom returned to comfort his mum after tragedy struckKarina Machado speaks with the courageous and open-hearted Michelle McLaughlin, a nurse and mother of three from Sydney who shares a very moving story about the after-life contact she had with her gorgeous little boy, Tom, who was 4 when he tragically passed away in a road accident in 2014. His loss led to Michelle launching The Little Blue Dinosaur Foundation, in honour of her beautiful boy and as a means to prevent further tragedies of the kind that took Tom’s life.
In our conversation, Michelle talks openly about the profound spiritual experience involving her late grandfather on th...
2020-09-051h 40Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe Light, the Beings and the Life Review – Part 2 with psychic-medium Lynda Cramer, and her amazing near-death experienceIn part two of a double episode featuring Brisbane author and psychic-medium Dr Lynda Cramer, Karina Machado speaks to Lynda about her amazing near-death experience.
If you haven’t listened to part one yet, I encourage to scroll down to the episode below this one and press play to hear Lynda sharing all about her experiences with ghosts, spirits, phone calls from Heaven, and much more.
As I mentioned in the introduction to that episode, that show was full of unexplained sounds, chatter and other anomalies, almost as if an alternative conversation was going on in...
2020-08-151h 09Spirit Sisters - the podcast"My life is like The Sixth Sense" - Psychic-medium Lynda Cramer lives among the deadToday’s show is the first of a double episode which I believe you’re going to love. My guest is Dr Lynda Cramer, PhD in Metaphysics. Lynda is an author, psychic-medium and near-death experiencer from Brisbane, Australia. She’s been seeing and communicating with ghosts and spirits since she was a toddler.
I spent an enjoyable and enlightening couple of hours with Lynda talking about ghosts, spirits, phone calls from Heaven, the purpose of life and her wonderfully detailed near-death experience. As we talked, I noticed something that no doubt you will pick up on as well...
2020-08-021h 20Spirit Sisters - the podcast"She was the angel of death and birth": Jo's NDE, miraculous healing and stunning past-life revelationsKarina Machado speaks with Josephine Martorana-Nicotra, a spiritual light worker, tarot counsellor and healer who lives in Sydney. I met Jo at a meeting of IANDS, the international association of near-death studies. She began to share a little of her story with me and I was absolutely stunned by what I was hearing.
Jo shares an astounding story that encompasses a near-death experience, an angelic visitation, past-life revelations, a miraculous physical healing and much more. Jo’s NDE was the culmination of a severe illness she developed as part of PTSD caused by a traumatic incident that to...
2020-07-121h 47Spirit Sisters - the podcast"The angels were singing love into the world" - Susan reveals the lessons of her astonishing NDESettle in to listen to one of the most intriguing near-death experience stories you’ve ever come across. My guest is Susan Redwine, from Franklin, North Carolina. I first came across Susan on a Facebook page about near-death experiences. To me, her posts seemed infused with something otherworldly, and I later found out that indeed mystical poetry was one of the gifts she came back with following her NDE.
Susan's multi-faceted and hauntingly beautiful near-death experience came at a time in her life when she was at her absolute lowest. In our conversation, she shares all about th...
2020-06-231h 38Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe Light in the Darkness - Part 2 of how God's messages sustained Sonia through horrific traumaToday’s episode is the conclusion of my two-part interview with Sonia St. Claire. If you haven’t listened to part one yet, it's worth starting there. To briefly recap, when Sonia and her twin sister Sandra were babies, their mother handed them over to the first of five orphanages the girls would live in until age 14, when Sonia almost died in the nuns’ care, leading to a profound NDE. The girls suffered physical and sexual abuse all their young lives, and sadly, the abuse followed them into adulthood as well.
Throughout, however, Sonia never lost her connec...
2020-06-0944 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastThe Light in the Darkness - How messages from God sustained Sonia through horrific traumaIn part one of a two-part interview, Karina Machado speaks with Sonia St. Claire. Sonia, who lives in Queensland, Australia, is the author of the 2014 memoir The Girl in the Locker. When Sonia and her twin sister Sandra were three months old, their mother gave them up to an orphanage. That was the first of five orphanages the girls lived in up until they were 14, when Sonia fell ill and had a near-death experience. After this, the sisters, who’d suffered horrific abuse all their young lives at the hands of adults who were supposed to look after them, we...
2020-05-291h 12Spirit Sisters - the podcast"I was on the human hamster wheel" - how Theresa's NDE transformed her lifeKarina Machado speaks with Theresa Byrne, a martial-arts and self-defence expert living in Colorado, whose near-death experience in 2014 following a hit-and-run impacted every facet of her life. From the physical after-effects of a Traumatic Brain injury, to the spiritual inquiry sparked by the NDE, and being diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety, Theresa had a lot to cope with during her two-year recovery. Her experiences led eventually to her acclaimed TED X Talk, The Danger of Your Inner Bully.
I so enjoyed my conversation with Theresa. We spoke about the two prayers she spontaneously uttered as her c...
2020-05-161h 39Spirit Sisters - the podcastWhen Courtney met Krishna - channelling the Hindu deity, and his chilling warning about 2020My guest, Courtney Beck, has an utterly fascinating story that incorporates many timely gems of wisdom regarding the current pandemic. For Courtney, a dark night of the soul led to a spiritual awakening that completely overhauled her life. Courtney went from being a strategist in the highest echelons of the corporate world, to a healer, coach and channel for the Hindu deity Krishna. That bond between them led to the channelled book, Conversations with Krishna, the first of three books they would publish together. Here's part of Courtney’s bio:
"Courtney Beck appeared to have it all. Sh...
2020-04-261h 28Spirit Sisters - the podcastInside the Secret Life of FairiesKarina Machado interviews author and lifelong spiritual seeker Maggie Hamilton, who’s joining us to share the story behind her new non-fiction book, Inside the Secret Life of Fairies, published by Hay House.
Maggie has a wealth of spiritual wisdom to share. She spent her early years immersed in Nature, then fell into working in book publishing. Now she writes books and for magazines; gives frequent talks; and is keen observer of social trends. Her books, have been published in Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Italy, China, Lithuania, Korea, the Arab States and Brazil. Nature is her ‘go to’ pla...
2020-04-071h 16Spirit Sisters - the podcast"I didn't want to believe this was real"Meet Lisa, a teacher from outback Queensland who reports having strange experiences from the age of 2. That doesn't mean she's accepted them. In fact, "I've always been a bit of a skeptic," says Lisa, who shares her lifetime of encounters with me on this week's show. Listen in as Lisa tells us about the "peaceful" recurring dream - a possible past life? - she began having as a toddler, and the stunning moment when the spirit of a young woman who died tragically appeared to Lisa pleading for help. It was this encounter that deeply troubled Lisa and propelled...
2020-03-231h 23Spirit Sisters - the podcastA Conversation with Jesus - Part 2I’m thrilled to present part two of Pauline’s extraordinary life story. If you haven’t listened to part one, I encourage you to scroll down and press play on that one first, so that you can hear Pauline share the details of the near-death experiences she had at age 7, and then, 11, the latter encompassing an amazingly in-depth and transformative encounter with Jesus.
In part two, Pauline, a counsellor and artist from Adelaide, picks up the story after waking up from her NDE at age 11. She tells us about what life was like after that, and about...
2020-03-0248 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastA Conversation With JesusWhen Pauline had a near-death experience after a fall at the age of 11, her spirit left her body and rose high up into the air – she even remembers feeling how “freezing cold” the clouds were. “I had this self-awareness that all of the layers of anxiety are gone, everything’s gone, and I’m just my pure self,” recalls Pauline, today a counsellor and artist living in Adelaide, Australia.
Next came “the bliss of the light,” as Pauline describes it. But the otherworldly experience was only beginning for Pauline, who soon found herself face to face with a smiling young ma...
2020-02-081h 04Spirit Sisters - the podcastLeonie Evans Died Three Times"I would have this little troop of ghost children that would play hide-and-seek with me ... they were all dressed in their Sunday best. I remember the little boy - his shorts would be ironed to a razor-sharp crease - and the ribbons in the hair of the girls."
This episode, we have the pleasure of welcoming an original "Spirit Sister," Leonie Evans, whose story features in my book. Leonie is one of those unsung mediums in our midst who so fascinate me. With no fanfare let alone a big pay cheque, Leonie is one of these women...
2020-01-191h 06Spirit Sisters - the podcast"I am within you, and without you, Mum."The day her son died his mother, Laura, wild with grief, ran to the place where he drew his last breath and shouted to the sky, "Alex, if there is a life after death, I will find you!" That tragic day in 2007, launched my guest, Melbourne artist and author Laura Tomei, on a profound journey of spiritual awakening, triggered by the abundant signs her beautiful 18-year-old boy sends her almost every day.
Laura is passionate about spreading the message that love never dies, as you'll find out in our conversation, which is in parts heartbreaking and uplifting...
2020-01-031h 27Spirit Sisters - the podcastHealed by Mother MaryToday's episode of Spirit Sisters features two of the most important figures in the Christmas story. You'll be stunned when you hear who appeared in my guest's bedroom one night, and how that visit transformed her life. Laura Neeson reached out to me with the generous intention of sharing that astoundingly beautiful encounter - the pinnacle of her lifetime of extraordinary experiences - because she wants to pass on her powerful message of hope and healing to everyone.
Fittingly, for a story as miraculous as this one, something wonderful happened as we recorded the interview, which you'll h...
2019-12-131h 34Spirit Sisters - the podcastFairies, frights and ghosts galore - a gifted Scotswoman's haunted lifeScottish-born, and with a lifetime of mysterious experiences behind her, Faye Young says clairvoyance runs in her family and that, being of Celtic descent, she has always considered her mediumship to be an everyday part of life.
Faye, who lives on Australia's Sunshine Coast, studied English Literature at the University of Queensland before giving that up to become a full-time carer for her mother. Today, she is busy writing a book about her lifetime of enchanting, moving and, yes, occasionally terrifying, experiences. From a childhood brush with fairies to living in haunted houses around the world, and...
2019-11-181h 17Spirit Sisters - the podcast"What I do to you, I do to myself" - what mystical experiences teach usResearching my books, I found that, broadly speaking, there were two kinds of interviewees, those who’d had one, key unforgettable experience, and those who'd had a lifetime of encounters. My guest this week, Emily Rodavich, is one of the latter. In our conversation, we discuss her books, Mystical Interludes and Mystical Interludes II, as well as the childhood event that ignited Emily’s fear of death, the life-transforming near-death experience she had at age 18, and the astonishing spontaneous past-life vision that took Emily back hundreds of years to a lifetime as a dancer in Siam, now Thailand. Plus, much...
2019-10-241h 11Spirit Sisters - the podcast"It doesn't end when we take our last breath" - a heart specialist's NDE Part 2Karina Machado presents part two of her conversation with Sara, an Australian Cardiac Diagnostic Specialist whose near-death experience last year radically transformed her life and her understanding of what her purpose is on this earth. Since recording this interview, Sara's been dedicating her time to the formal study of meditation and mindfulness practices, and will attend Harvard University’s Mind Body Institute this month to gain further accreditation.
In this episode, you’ll hear about some of the after-effects of Sara’s NDE, her new understanding of the “intrinsic” role spirituality plays in our overall health and her insight...
2019-10-0650 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast"Uniting in love is the answer to everything" - a heart specialist's NDEKarina Machado speaks with Sara, a cardiac diagnostic specialist and mother of three from the Southern Highlands of NSW whose life was forever changed by a near-death experience in late 2018. But immense suffering preceded her NDE - which wasn’t her first, though it was the most powerful - and in part one of our two-part conversation, Sara shares her story publicly for the first time.
In part one, you'll hear about her first NDE and the events that led to her being diagnosed with the rare auto-immune disorder Behcet’s Disease, and how that led to her s...
2019-09-151h 09Spirit Sisters - the podcastThe PremonitionListen in, as Karina catches up with retired French translator Micheline, whose unforgettable story appeared in her 2009 book, Spirit Sisters. In November 1963, Micheline was working as a nanny in London. One night, she had the most disturbing dream of her life. It so troubled her that she mentioned it to her employer, and then described it in a birthday card she was posting to her mother in Paris. A few days later, as her mum was reading her daughter's birthday wishes, news broke that the President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Micheline's dream had come true, exactly as...
2019-08-2840 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastA Brother's Love Never DiesMy guest today, coming to us from beautiful Forster on the NSW coast, is Deb Carr, whose stories of communication from her late brother, Gary, appear throughout my book Love Never Dies. Deb, a single mother of two who publishes the popular Sydney Chic blog, grew up in New Zealand with her three brothers. A shadow fell across their world when Gary was 10, as Deb is about to share with us. What happened to the little boy plunged him into depression and led, eventually, to his decision to take his own life at the age of 34 in 1998. Deb was...
2019-08-1041 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastA Psychologist's Journeys Into Other WorldsThis week, Karina Machado speaks to Alison, a psychologist from NSW who has some fascinating experiences to share about .
Alison has worked in the health industry for more than 25 years. Initially starting out as a herbalist in private practice and then moving into the field of psychology, working as a counselling psychologist for 10 years. Alison is a qualified Gestalt Therapist and currently works as a business mentor for women studying their MBA. A mother of four adult children, Alison is a calm, sensitive and intelligent woman who now works with her husband developing storytelling videos.
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2019-07-2858 minSpirit Sisters - the podcast"Death is Life's Last Great Adventure" - a hospice nurse shares sacred lessonsKarina Machado speaks with Lydia, a palliative-care nurse from Adelaide who’s witnessed time and again how love lights the way at the edge of life. I’ve long been fascinated by the beautiful, mystical experiences that are reported to occur at the bedside of someone on the threshold of death, and in our conversation, Lydia shares moments she’ll never forget that are part and parcel of her sacred work tending to the dying.
Listen in as Lydia tells life-affirming stories about the moments that precede death - what one of her patients described as “life’s last gre...
2019-07-071h 01Spirit Sisters - the podcastFinding Heaven on Earth - Part 2 of Faith's Near-Death ExperienceIn the second of a two-part interview, near-death experiencer Faith takes us into her harrowing journey back to hope after her life-changing NDE.
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2019-06-241h 09Spirit Sisters - the podcastHell on the Way to Heaven - Faith's Near-Death ExperienceIn the first of a two-part interview, Faith, an Australian mum of two, speaks for the first time about her terrifying, beautiful and life-transforming NDE.
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Spirit Sisters - the podcastPat's Final MiracleThis story will make you question reality. Naomi tells Karina Machado how her mum accomplished the impossible as she lay in bed, dying of cancer.
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2019-05-2857 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastEpisode 2 - The HomecomingKarina speaks with Kath Campbell, whose experience of seeing her daughters' spirits after their tragic deaths gave her the strength to go on living.
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2019-05-1351 minSpirit Sisters - the podcastEpisode 1 - The FamilyKarina catches up with Amy, an Australian teacher and mother of four whose chilling encounter at a childhood sleepover features in Spirit Sisters.
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2019-04-281h 05Spirit Sisters - the podcastSpirit Sisters Introductory EpisodeIn this introductory episode of the Spirit Sisters podcast with Karina Machado, Karina shares the story behind her bestselling book.
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KAren Swain ATP RadioKarina Machado Spirit SistersGet the books here https://karenswain.com/karina-machado/
Karina Machado, born in Uruguay, was 2 when her parents emigrated to Sydney Australia. She grew up hearing stories of her mum’s psychic gift, which ignited a life-long curiosity about life after death and other mysteries.
Passionate about books and writing since she taught herself to read with Little Golden Books, Karina always knew she had to “work with words," and after majoring in English at the University of NSW, she began her career in journalism as editorial assistant at TIME magazine in 1994, and is a former senior editor at Who magazine.
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2019-01-301h 24KAren Swain ATP RadioKarina Machado Spirit SistersGet the books here https://karenswain.com/karina-machado/
Karina Machado, born in Uruguay, was 2 when her parents emigrated to Sydney Australia. She grew up hearing stories of her mum’s psychic gift, which ignited a life-long curiosity about life after death and other mysteries.
Passionate about books and writing since she taught herself to read with Little Golden Books, Karina always knew she had to “work with words," and after majoring in English at the University of NSW, she began her career in journalism as editorial assistant at TIME magazine in 1994, and is a former senior editor at Who magazine.
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