Jan spent a year editing a film with his late friend Christian on the screen in front of him. In the beginning, he says, it was not easy. The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvAA7yk7Odo
Please note: this story includes a sudden death in a plane crash, including two children. Jan Becker and his friend Christian had just finished shooting a documentary about a vision quest. Then the holidays came. Jan went to Germany to see his mother. Christian went to the Caribbean. On the…
Jan makes the case that storytelling is not just entertainment, it is how humans have always processed the unbearable and passed meaning down. This is the version of that idea he actually lives by.
Jan traces the path from writing in Berlin to directing in Los Angeles, and explains why he says storytelling was never really a choice for him, just a medium he was still looking for.
Jan tells me about the low point that came before filmmaking found him, and how a career built out of that low point ended up saving him twice, once starting out and once after Christian died.
Jan talks about his late friend and collaborator Christian, and the specific way Christian pushed him from overthinking every decision to actually making the film.
Jan explains the vision quest ritual at the heart of his documentary, a full day alone in the wild with no phone, no plan, just the land. He says it changes something in people almost every time.
Jan describes filming a retreat where people sit alone in the high desert for days with nothing but water, sky, and stone. He says walking into that valley felt like stepping back thousands of years.
Kate traces how her work grew from early ask-a-medium shows into something far more grounded. She talks about the readings that taught her the most, and how she kept pushing until she understood the mechanics, not just the moments.
Jan filmed a vision quest in the high desert without knowing his own father was dying. Looking back, he tells me the retreat taught him things he would need only months later.
Jan talks about what it actually takes to get someone to open up on camera, and why the same honesty that makes a documentary work is the thing most people spend their whole lives avoiding.
Kate has this line I keep coming back to. The more you understand that you are a soul, the more human you get to be. In this one she unpacks what she means, and why leaning into it gives you more control, not less.
Jan spent a year cutting Vision Quest with his best friend Christian's face on the screen every day. He walks me through what it felt like to finally sit in a room and watch the finished film land.
Kate goes back to her parents' divorce and the way a six year old absorbs something she does not have words for yet. She talks about the coping habits that started right there and followed her for years. Honest about how early it all begins.
Jan Becker lost his best friend and collaborator Christian in a plane crash just weeks after they finished shooting their documentary, and this conversation is about how a year in the editing room became the way he learned to grieve. Jan and Christian set out to film a vision quest…
Kate tells the story of a client's first reading and a message that came through from her father, Bruce. She describes the moment it clicked for the woman across from her. The kind of story that explains why she does this work.
Kate speaks honestly about grief and about what parents carry after an unimaginable loss. She talks about the work of simply being present for someone in that kind of pain. Tender and grounded.
I host a podcast. 300+ episodes, now twice a week, since 2022. No real team. A few years ago, recording was 20% of the job. The fun part. The other 80% was show notes, social posts, scheduling, guest follow-up, newsletters, pitches. All done by hand, every week. I wasn't building…
Kate talks about claircognizance, the plain old experience of just knowing something with no idea how. She makes the case that it is normal, human, and worth paying attention to instead of brushing off.
Kate talks about a hard stretch in childhood and the unexpected comfort she found sitting in a quiet Catholic church. Not the doctrine, just the refuge of it. A thoughtful take on where we go when we do not have answers.
Kate tells the story of a tape cassette, a dream nobody else believed in, and the moment it actually came true. A small story with a big point about trusting the thing you cannot quite explain yet.
Kate explains the Clair Club, her community for people who want to actually trust what they are picking up. She talks about the four ways intuition speaks, seeing, knowing, feeling, and hearing, and how you get from unsure to steady. Her whole thing is that the ability is already yours.
Kate spent eight years building a way to teach people to protect and clear their own energy instead of leaning on someone else to do it for them. In this one she makes the case for handling it yourself. Practical, not precious.
A voice told her to move. Her two year old daughter heard it too. The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDe9YX7Gc4U
