Four Days Alone in a Valley That Felt Ancient
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.
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
This clip touches on grief and the death of a parent. Kate Saint Clair took her two year old daughter to a park in Colorado. A voice in her ear told her to pick her daughter up and walk toward other people, because a man behind them would follow. She…
Kate remembers being a kid during a confusing time at home, feeling everything and getting very few real answers. She talks about how that silence shapes the story a child tells about themselves, and how long it takes to rewrite it.
Kate breaks down what intuition actually is. The knowing, the feeling, the way guidance shows up before you can put words to it. She talks about the mentorship that turned all of that from something confusing into a whole career.
Kate talks about watching her own child show the same gift she spent years trying to shut down. She is honest about how overwhelming it can be for a kid, and about wanting something gentler for her little one than what she had.
Kate is refreshingly honest about the woo of it all. She talks about why real connection matters more than acting like the all-knowing expert, and why she would rather be human with you than perform certainty. Not your late-night TV psychic.
A small, tender memory of Robin's mom, and the kind of love that outlasts the loss. Out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
Some of us have known something about ourselves for a very long time. And we have spent just as long trying to pretend we didn't. Kate Saint Clair grew up seeing and hearing things no one around her could explain. She was the curious kid who asked too many questions…