Spirit School

Stories From My Swampy Cree Reconnection Journey

In this episode of Spirit School, I'm sharing a few stories from my reconnection journey back to my Swampy Cree culture and my grandmother's traditional territories. Watch on Youtube as this episode is visual https://www.youtube.com/@squamishmedium This one's a little different, less polished, more story time. I talk about following your "point of intrigue" (a piece of advice that's shaped a lot of my life), how a library trip with my kids led me to a book by a Norway House author, and how a prayer for happier stories led me to a rare, out of print book of Swampy Cree name origins I found, of all places, on eBay. I also pull out my tobacco plants for a very visual teaching about space, growth, and what it means to flourish. In this episode: Following your "point of intrigue" as a way of navigating life A library trip with my kids and a synchronistic book find My connection to elder historian Flora Beardy and author Louis Bird Praying for joyful Swampy Cree stories, and finding The Wishing Bone Cycles on eBay Reading from the book's chapter on personal name origins A teaching from propagating my sacred tobacco for the first time A call for gifted tobacco seeds (I'm down to my last batch) This is a visual episode, if you're listening in audio, come find me on YouTube to see the tobacco plants I'm talking about. A reminder that the Squamish Medium TV show airs September 2nd in Cree on APTN Languages and September 14th in English on APTN. We're hosting watch parties every week inside the Spirit School Collective, come join us there. https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective - Join the Membership https://www.daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show - Follow the TV Show https://www.mqup.ca/Books/V/Voices-from-Hudson-Bay3 - Flora Beardy Book https://www.goodminds.com/products/all-the-little-monsters-how-i-learned-to-live-with-anxiety - David Robertson Book

Squamish Medium: The TV Show is Coming!

After three years of keeping this exciting secret, I'm finally able to share the news. Squamish Medium, my TV show, is premiering September 2 in Cree (Plains) on APTN Languages, and September 14 in English on APTN. In this episode I go back to the beginning: mediumship readings at my kitchen table in 2013, launching this podcast in 2018, opening my in person school in 2023, and everything that led to two Indigenous women approaching me 'out of nowhere' with an idea for a TV show. I share a bit of what filming was really like, what surprised me most about the experience, and why this show matters to me as a mother, an entrepreneur, and an Indigenous woman reconnecting with my culture. 🎬 Watch the trailer and learn more: daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show 📸 Follow the show on Instagram: @squamishmediumtv Thank you for growing with me. This podcast started it all.

Telepathy, Nonspeaking Autism & the Great Awakening

This one started as a private exchange and became something I knew I had to share. Eileen Himel came back into my life this year through a lot of synchronicity and divine orchestration. She works with the nonspeaking autistic community using letter boards, and when the Telepathy Tapes came out I became obsessed. So we did an exchange. She got some mentorship, I got to pick her brain. And then I asked if I could record it. I want to have her back for a full interview once you have had a chance to listen and send me your questions. For now, here is our conversation exactly as it happened. Go listen to Season 1 of the Telepathy Tapes before or after this episode. Then come back and tell me what you think. Follow Eileen Himel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enphase_intunewithautism TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@autism.get.in.tune Podcast Enphase In Tune With Autism: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enphase-in-tune-with-autism/id1537445799 JOIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT

Advanced Mediumship, Mentorship, and the Art of Discernment with Maxine Friend

Maxine Friend has been working internationally as a psychic channel medium and mentor for over 18 years. I have been hearing her name since my very first year of practice in 2013. We finally connected in 2023 and became fast friends, and this conversation is one I have wanted to have publicly for a long time. Maxine recently reached out to me for advanced mediumship mentorship after noticing more and more spirit communication coming through her channeling sessions. What followed were three private sessions that she says transformed her practice by 150%. In this episode we talk about what actually happened, why it happened, and what advanced practitioners need to know about continuing to grow. ABOUT MAXINE FRIEND Maxine Friend is a psychic channel medium and mentor with 18 years of international experience. Her practice is almost entirely referral based, with clients spanning decades. She channels to very high dimensional realms and works with the Akashic records, ascended masters, and spirit communication. SPECIAL JULY OFFERING from Maxine: In celebration of her upcoming wedding, Maxine is offering a very special 60 minute channeled horoscope love reading for the month of July only. This online Zoom session includes a channeled reading paired with your astrological love placements to identify the key points in your chart that can activate and access love. Massively discounted and available July only. To book: https://maxinefriend.setmore.com/book You will need your date, time, and city and country of birth to complete the reading. Book all of Maxine's offerings: https://maxinefriend.setmore.com/ OIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective The Initiation, Mediumship Foundations: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-initiation Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT #AdvancedMediumship #MediumshipMentorship #MaxineFriend #SpiritSchool #SquamishMedium #Channeling #MediumshipDevelopment #IndigenousMedium #SpiritualDevelopment #EnergeticSovereignty

The Heart Chakra and Mediumship: Integration, Grief, and the Ethics of This Work

Part four of the chakra and mediumship series and the one I have been sitting with the longest. The heart is the bridge chakra. Everything you did in root, sacral, and solar plexus has to integrate here before it can become service. In this video I share what happened to my mediumship in 2020 when I experienced real grief for the first time and could not do readings for months. I also talk about why ethics and integrity are not the same thing and why both of them live here in the heart. If you work with people in grief, if you are a developing medium, or if you have ever felt fractured between what you know to be right and what you are actually doing, this one is for you. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Declaration, ethics certification for practitioners in unregulated spaces: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-declaration Root Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/root-chakra-mediumship-belonging-humiliation-dignity Sacral Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/sacral-chakra-mediumship-clairsentience-energy-boundaries Solar Plexus Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/solar-plexus-chakra-mediumship-confidence-authority LINKS: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Spiritual Development Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squamishmedium/ #HeartChakra #MediumshipDevelopment #ChakrasAndMediumship #SpiritSchool #SquamishMedium #Grief #MediumshipEthics #IndigenousMedium #SpiritualDevelopment #EnergyCenters

I Am a Medium Today Because of Sylvia Browne

All Podcasts are now Youtube Videos I am sharing the origin story of how I became a medium and it starts with a latchkey kid coming home from school in the 1990s, turning on the TV, and watching Sylvia Browne on Montel Williams for the very first time. Sylvia Browne was my unofficial theology growing up. I had no religion, no framework, just her on Montel every Wednesday. In this episode I talk about what she meant to me as a teenager, the letter to the universe exercise from The Other Side and Back that genuinely changed my life, and what it felt like to reconnect with her clips during the pandemic and see everything through a completely different lens. I cover: How Sylvia sparked a decades long path to mediumship My time with Vancouver Paranormal, EVP recordings, and my first passport trip to Chillingham Castle The letter to the universe exercise and what happened the moment I finished writing it A balanced look at her legacy: trailblazer and cautionary tale How the ethics and trauma informed approach I teach today came directly from what was missing in that era And I want to know: was Sylvia Browne part of your origin story too? Follow @teiganish on Instagram for the Sylvia Browne clips I reference in this episode. The t-shirt I am wearing is from him too and shirts will be available later this year. JOIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources Upcoming Events: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-events Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT

The Unseen Helpers Guiding Your Life Right Now

If you knew who surrounded you, you would never be afraid. In this episode I unpack what that actually means. I share how I developed my faith in spirit guides, the moment that faith completely shattered, and what restored it in the span of thirty seconds through undeniable experiences that make this path worth it all. I talk about the different realms of unseen helpers, guides, ancestors, inspirers, and the God realm I am still building toward, and what happened at my retreat this year when my guides asked me to introduce them to the room and assured me magic. I also share the story of Leonard George of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, an elder who showed up on the edge of my bed at my first retreat in 2023 with two messages that changed the direction of my work entirely. Save the date. September 14th. This story is not finished yet. I close with Leonard's most beloved story, The Rising of the Spirit. The last four words will stay with you. If this topic is landing for you, all of July inside the Spirit School Collective is dedicated to guides. https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective

The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill

The Creator Never Puts a Dream in Your Heart You Cannot Fulfill See pictures with the stories here: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/a-message-to-the-youth-the-creator-never-puts-a-dream-in-your-heart-you-cannot-fulfill For the first time in as long as I can remember, I do not have a dream I am chasing. So I went looking backward instead of forward. In this episode I trace my actual path. My first dream of becoming a teacher at seventeen. The mentors who saw something in me I could not see in myself. My years in motorsports. The decade at the First Nations Health Authority where I became a mother, a medium, and a confident woman all at once. The keynote I recently gave to a youth summit in Squamish. And what it felt like to realize, twenty six years later, that my original dream had already come true. I close with a poem from The Wishing Bone Cycle, a Swampy Cree creation story I have come to love.

Belonging Is Not a Modern Longing

I am coming off of hosting my fourth Sacred Spirit Retreat and I wanted to share what I opened the retreat with because I think it is something a lot of us are quietly carrying. Belonging. Not the performance of it. The actual felt sense of it in your body. In this episode I talk about what belonging really is as a regulated nervous system state, not just a feeling of being liked. I share why Brené Brown's distinction between belonging and fitting in changed one of my core filters for how I spend my time. I talk about the small community moments, like the Squamish acknowledgement nod, that quietly shaped my sense of home over 20 years of living here. Then I go somewhere more personal. Last summer a friend said something to me in the car that I hadn't been able to say to myself. That my deepest place of not belonging lives inside my own Indigenous reconnection journey as a Swampy Cree woman. I share what that revelation felt like, what I have been doing with it, and how spirit responded by leading me to a 50 year old book called The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems From the Swampy Cree Indians. I close with a reading of the Turtle poem and an invitation: scan the room wherever you are and make someone belong. Even just for a minute.

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Music, Mediumship & the Intelligence of Spirit with Debbie Squizzero

**SOUND QUALITY - ever have one of those days? Tech was not on my side today and my mic wasn't working so the sound quality is less than stellar - watch the video version on youtube** In this episode, Danielle sits down with her longtime friend and fellow medium Debbie Squizzero, also known as the Singing Medium, for a rich and joyful conversation about the way the spirit world communicates through music. Deb shares how songs began showing up in her readings during tarot class, why she always hears them in her right ear, and how her clients have built entire playlists from the songs their loved ones sent through her over the years. Danielle and Deb also swap stories about group readings, the resistance that almost kept them both from the work they were born to do, and the health crises that ultimately forced them into alignment. Whether you are a developing medium, a devoted sitter, or someone who has ever woken up with a song stuck in your head that felt like more than a coincidence, this episode will make you listen differently. This is a conversation between two friends who have walked the path together for nearly a decade, and it shows. Follow Deb on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/debbie_squizzero_medium/ Check out her events and website https://www.debbiesquizzero.com/ Spirit School Retreat June 8 - 12 BC with me https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-retreat

The Maturing Medium: Ego, Soul & Service

2026 marks my 13th year of mediumship development. In this episode, I reflect on what has truly sustained me on this path — not the phenomena, not the validation, not the performance — but the maturation process of ego, soul, and service. Mediumship is not about becoming special. It is about becoming spiritually mature. Through the lens of the energy centers, I explore how mediumship development mirrors human development: • Root — belonging, inherited beliefs, humiliation and dignity • Sacral — emotional awareness, “Is this mine?”, energetic repair • Solar Plexus — qualifiers, authority, ego maturation Spirit School Retreat June 2026 Applications are Open! https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-retreat

Spiritual Gatekeeping: Boundaries, Scarcity and Red Flags

In this episode, we unpack a powerful listener question: Can students also become gatekeepers in spiritual spaces? From mentorship secrets to withheld resources, we explore where "healthy boundaries" end—and where scarcity, secrecy, or ego may begin. This isn't a call-out episode—it's an invitation to look deeper at how we share, protect, and pass on spiritual knowledge. We talk transparency, reciprocity, cultural protection, and why some teachings are guarded for good reason. In This Episode, We Explore: Gatekeeping vs. Boundaries: How to tell whether someone is protecting themselves—or protecting exclusivity. Scarcity and Insecurity: The hidden fears behind withholding teachers, tools, or lineage. Reciprocity in Community: When sharing is medicine—and when it must come with respect and responsibility. Cultural Protection: Why some teachings must be guarded to preserve tradition and fight colonization. Business Spaces: What happens when entrepreneurs gatekeep strategy? Personal Accountability: What to do when someone else's secrecy triggers something in us. If this conversation stirred something in you, please share your thoughts on Instagram or leave a comment where you’re listening—your experiences help shape future episodes.

Unpacking Weaponized Spirituality

When does spiritual teaching cross into control? Danielle S. and Danielle B. explore “weaponizing spirituality”—the moment channelled messages or confident truth claims become decrees that override your agency. They unpack pandemic-era examples, business-space tactics (such as blind offers, urgency, and the “you’re not ready” approach), and gatekeeping in training. You’ll hear how humility, transparency, and psychological safety create healthier containers for learning, plus quick cues to spot red flags and practices to restore balance—like shared authority, longer decision windows, and clear expectations. If absolutist language, guru-centering, or pressure to buy now make your nervous system spike, this episode offers a grounded reset and questions to bring your power back online. Highlights: Defining weaponized spirituality and its impact on personal agency. Business tactics: blind offers, urgency marketing, and inflated payment plans. Gatekeeping in training with labels like “untrained” or “unqualified.” Mediumship as an interpretive art with room for error and growth. Humility as the antidote to absolutism in spiritual teaching. Psychological safety built through clarity, transparency, and time. Restoring balance with shared authority, alumni access, and peer learning. Red flags: absolutist language, guru-centering, urgency, and pressure. Self-check prompts to notice when you may be giving away power.

The Art of Boundaries: Navigating Friendship and Business

Danielle S. and Danielle B. pick up their conversation about ethics, boundaries and the evolution of their client → collaborator → friend relationship. They trace the arc from a first evidential reading to working together for the past five and a half years — interspersed with stories about grief, postpartum, entrepreneurship burnout, spiritual tools, and how to keep a working friendship healthy. Highlights: The first reading: Danielle B. remembers coming for grief support after her father’s death — and getting future details that have since come true. Evidence first: Danielle S. explains why she always brings through verifiable mediumship details before offering psychic predictions. Teaching empowerment: how Danielle S.’s mentorship changed Danielle B.’s relationship to spirit work and gave her permission to trust her own intuition. Pendulum experiment: a revealing anecdote about discovering tools, the doubting mind, and how the two Danielles use quick yes/no messages to validate readings for each other. Boundaries in practice: concrete examples of how they negotiate work rhythm. Containment vs. bleeding: a key phrase — containment — used to describe emotional maturity in their working friendship, and how it helped when postpartum or business overwhelm showed up. When closeness changes readings, both note how intimacy can shift mediumship, and why friends sometimes become less likely subjects for readings. Why they stay: treating each other like professional clients created space, clarity and longevity. This conversation is weekly—leave a comment, tag and share on social, and send in your questions for future episodes.

Serving with Integrity in the Spiritual Space

In this episode, Danielle returns to Spirit School after a season of filming and welcomes a new co-host. Together, they explore what it means to serve with integrity across spiritual work, business, and everyday life, offering real stories, practical reflections, and invitations for your own practice. • Meet the co-host: how Danielle and Danielle Baker first connected, and why shared values and accountability matter on the mic • Integrity in the spiritual space: boundaries in client care, energetic capacity, and separating mentoring from mediumship • People pleasing, energy sickness, and prioritizing health to sustain spiritual service • Consent and need: why gift certificates can misfire, and how readiness can shape better readings • Bypassing versus responsibility: intention as the compass, and owning choices and consequences • Parenting and business parallels: transparency, self-responsibility, and modelling integrity in everyday roles • Cultural teachings and spiritual maturity: decolonized transparency, lateral kindness, and accountability when repair is possible Listeners' reflection: how do you recognize when you're in integrity, and what helps you course correct?

Surrounded by Creatives: How Emotional Support Became Medicine

This episode of Spirit School is a little different. It is raw, unedited, and straight from my heart. After a summer of filming, I have been reflecting on the surprising ways my nervous system has healed and how being surrounded by a team of supportive, passionate creatives became medicine for my spirit. I share: • How clairsentience and nervous system sensitivity show up in mediumship • The hidden costs of spiritual work on our energy and health • Why holding space for others can tax us more than we realize • The radical shift I felt from letting go of control and scaling back my business • How being with a crew of artists, storytellers, and creatives repaired my nervous system in ways I never expected • A powerful “before and after” moment that changed how I see love, support, and belonging Whether you are a medium, healer, or simply someone navigating burnout, my hope is that these reflections give you both comfort and inspiration. Sometimes healing does not come from solitude. It comes from being seen, supported, and surrounded by others who bring out the best in us. ✨ Mentions in this episode https://www.daniellesearancke.com/ • Spirit School Collective (membership community) • The Declaration program on ethics and integrity (coming this September) • Asha Frost workshop at Spirit School for the Equinox • Sacred Spirit Retreat in June 2026

Returning to the Sacred with Asha Frost: Simplicity, Burnout, and the Call to Ceremony

In this heartfelt and nourishing conversation, Danielle welcomes back Indigenous healer and bestselling author Asha Frost to explore what it means to simplify—not just our lives, but our spiritual paths. Together, they reflect on burnout, ancestral responsibility, reclaiming joy, and how ceremony becomes a lifeline when the world feels heavy. They also share behind-the-scenes insight into their upcoming Enchanted Equinox Weekend Retreat, happening September 20–22 in Squamish, BC—a powerful gathering to reconnect with your inner spirit, the land, and the divine. Join Us In-Person This Fall Enchanted Equinox Weekend Retreat September 20–22, 2025 Spirit School, Squamish, BC A sacred weekend of ceremony, channeling, healing, and reconnection. Register here: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/enchanted-equinox-weekend-retreat Save $150 with code: SPIRIT150 Limited to 20 guests

The Raw Truth About Change, Fear, Courage, and Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

In this deeply personal episode of Spirit School, I share what it’s really like to walk through massive life change while staying spiritually grounded. This is the messy, tender, transformative part of the journey we don’t often talk about. I reflect on the signs Spirit gives us before change arrives, the discomfort that often pushes us forward, and what it feels like to be in the void - the space between who we were and who we’re becoming. I also share stories I’ve never told before about stage fright, quitting my job, self-sabotage, and finally choosing courage over comfort. This episode includes a soft update on a life-changing experience I’m currently navigating. I’ll be sharing more when the time is right, but for now, I hope this conversation helps you feel less alone in your own season of transition. If you’ve been struggling to stay centered while everything shifts, this one is for you. In this episode, I talk about: • The early signs of change (and why we often resist them) • What the void really is and how to move through it • My personal relationship with fear, visibility, and self-sabotage • The importance of spiritual tools that actually work when you’re overwhelmed • Why it’s okay to take up space even when it feels unfamiliar • A soft announcement about what’s unfolding this summer Want to follow this journey in real time? Come join me inside the Spirit School Collective with our new limited-time Seasonal Pass. You’ll receive exclusive weekly updates, behind-the-scenes reflections, group readings, and live teachings that support you during times of big spiritual and personal growth. If this episode resonated with you, I’d love if you left a review or shared it with someone else walking through change. We grow stronger when we walk together.

Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should: Mediumship, Capacity & Ethical Service

In this episode of Spirit School, I’m answering a beautiful question from listener Jackie, who asked how I sustain my energy as a medium -especially as a working mom starting her own animal communication business. I share the real behind-the-scenes of what it’s looked like to serve Spirit for 12+ years while raising a family, navigating burnout, recovering from an audit, and building a business rooted in ethics and capacity - not just hustle. You’ll hear me reflect on: The difference between what I can do and what I should do My energetic boundaries and why I rarely book more than 4–6 readings a week How I use my calendar as a psychic tool to know when I should and shouldn’t work The role of compassion fatigue and spiritual integrity in my decisions How I’ve diversified my work beyond readings to honour my own sustainability If you’ve ever asked yourself “How much can I really hold?”—this one’s for you.

A Spirit Message for the Courageous - What If You Said Yes Next Time?

After a healing break following surgery, I'm back at the mic sharing a heartfelt Spirit Message inspired by a listener's question: How did you get started in your work as a medium? In this episode, I walk you through my earliest days of development, the unexpected (and terrifying) moment I said yes to doing paid readings, and the powerful lessons Spirit has shared with me along the way. We explore what it means to answer the call of your own spirit—even when you're not sure you're ready. And we look at the quiet courage it takes to say “yes” to opportunities that stretch and grow us. This is a real talk episode, recorded in the sunshine with my dog Luna nearby, and I’m sharing it raw and unedited—just like life. I hope it brings light to your path and reminds you that the next time inspiration whispers... you get to say yes. In This Episode, I Share: My journey from spiritual development to serving as a professional medium The surprising moment I stepped into public service (for $20!) How personal growth is deeply tied to spiritual connection A humbling failure that taught me to teach through storytelling Why we often fear being witnessed in our failures A Spirit Message about saying yes to yourself and your callings Mentioned in This Episode: Spirit School Free Community: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective My dog Luna, who makes her podcast debut with background sniffles 🐾 Join the Spirit School Community! Connect with like-hearted souls off social media inside our free Spirit School Mighty Network. It’s our cozy online home for sharing stories, spirit messages, and inspiration. https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective