Trust Your Gut: The Science and Spirit of Intuitive Decision-Making

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I have to take a deep breath because I have no idea what is about to happen on our conversation today. I'm not kidding. I am about to introduce you to a woman named Kim Russo, who changed the entire trajectory of my life three years ago. Who is Kim Rousseau? Kim is an intuitive psychic medium, and I met Kim because she was booked as a guest on my daytime syndicated talk show. And I'm a huge skeptic. I love this stuff. I want to believe this stuff, but I have a massively healthy dose of skepticism. I don't know if you're this way, like when you go get your tarot cards read or you go see a psychic, there's a part of you that's like, did they do a Google search? And so when Kim Russo showed up, I knew that she had a hit show on a e.

 

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I knew that she had done a lot of appearances on Oprah Winfrey's talk show because my executive producer had worked for Oprah Winfrey for over 10 years, and she's the one that said, you have to have Kim on. And so Kim came on to my daytime talk show and we learned all about her gift. You're going to learn about it today too, and she literally can talk to dead people. That's what she does. I'm just going to throw it right out there in layman's terms, she is an intuitive psychic medium who has been able to do this since childhood. You will hear the whole story, and I'm going to ask you something. Please, if you're a skeptic like me, drop the skepticism for just the time that you're listening to this. I want you to open your mind and your heart up to a new possibility.

 

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And one of the possibilities that I want you to open up to is that even as you're listening to this right now, whether you're walking in the park or you're driving your car, Kim Russo says, you're not alone. That your loved ones who have passed on are here beside you, helping you navigate your life. And you can learn how to open up to the signs, how you can tap into the messages that they are giving you, how you can borrow and confidence and insight from your loved ones. And that's exactly what happened to me. When I met Kim Russo, she turned to me and said, are you open to receiving a message from somebody that you love? And I'm like, yeah, sure. And what she proceeded to tell me is something that you cannot Google.

 

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And it changed the entire trajectory of my life. I sold my house, I moved from Massachusetts to southern Vermont. And the only reason why I did it was because of what Kim Russo told me on that day, three years ago. I haven't seen her since. I've been wanting to catch up with her. And so now as I sit here in the house in southern Vermont that she told me I needed to buy, I'm about to see her again, and I have no idea what is about to fucking happen. I've got my hand on my heart. I just know this is going to be magical. It's going to open you up to new possibilities. It's going to help you tap into your intuition. And you and I are in for one hell of a wild ride. So without further ado, I see her in the waiting room. Let's get Kim Russo on the Mel Robbins podcast. Kim, hello. Hello. Hi. I have been dying to talk to you.

 

Kim Russo (00:04:29):

Really? You should have just reached out.

 

Mel Robbins (00:04:31):

I know I should have. Well, where I want to start is, well, first of all, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for making the time to come on and catch up.

 

Kim Russo (00:04:42):

I couldn't wait to see you again. I have so many emails from the show I did with you that I don't even think you realize it was very impactful.

 

Mel Robbins (00:04:54):

Well, it was incredibly impactful in my life because I don't know if you realize this or if you even remember the message that you gave me.

 

Kim Russo (00:05:03):

I don't Because we spoke backstage as well.

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And you said, he's getting agitated. I want you to check. So they called my husband in the control room and in the little earbud thing, I could hear my executive producer and say, Mel, we have your husband on the phone. It turns out your father-in-law was in the Air Force Reserves. He had always dreamt of being a pilot and they found out he was colorblind, so he couldn't be. Now Kim, this is a fact that you cannot Google about my father-in-law. This is a fact about a man that I knew for decades that I never knew. And so when you said that I knew with every cell of my being that my dead father-in-law, Kenneth Robbins was standing behind me and it was just like him to pick a fact like that, I wouldn't know or couldn't Google to dispen all of my resignation or skepticism.

 

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And then you leaned in and you said something about You have a son, don't you? And I'm like, and now I'm basically levitating because I realize my father-in-law is standing behind me. And you start talking about our son. And you then say that Ken, my father-in-law has been watching him and he's a huge fan of our son. And then you said to me a sentence that changed the rest of my life. Whoa. You said Ken has a message for you about your son. And you said, I don't know what it means. I hope you will. You said he is upset about something going on at a school. You go, I don't know what it means. And you kept going, I don't know what it means. You go, he's either got friends at a school or there's a nickname they're calling him at a school. And at the time, our son was going to a school outside of Boston that he did not like.

 

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He did not have a lot of friends. And then you said, I don't know what it is, but there's something about a school. You don't like it, but you have to trust your son. And you said, do you know what that means? And I said, I know exactly what it means. And what nobody in my life knew is that at that moment in time, our son was advocating that we allow him to go to high school in southern Vermont. We lived outside of Boston. He wanted to go to high school in the town where his grandparents lived. And so we had been fighting privately. This is not anything I had shared with anybody. My husband, my son and I had been fighting nonstop about the fact that they wanted to move up to southern Vermont and I didn't want to move. And I had put my foot down and said, absolutely not.

 

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We're not moving. We live in Boston. My company is in Boston. We are not moving. And I walked off that set today, that day after you and I talked him, I called my husband and he said, honey, I'm not going to argue with your dead father-in-law. We'll try Vermont. We'll try it for a year. He then said, well, I didn't tell you what happened last week. I said, what the hell happened last week? He said, my mom called me and my brothers and said that she was going to downsize and wanted to sell the house that my dad and her had built. And when she asked all of us if anybody wanted it, my one brother said, I don't want it. My other one said, I can't afford it. And my husband told his mother, we've made a decision to stay in Boston. So no.

 

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And I said, well, call your mother back and get an appraisal because we're moving to Vermont and I am now talking to you from the house that my father and mother-in-law built, which we bought. We moved to Vermont, we renovated this house. I hated every second of it and every day I would wake up Kim and go, I have to trust in the wisdom of this message. I have to trust in the guidance that was delivered to me. There was a reason why Kim was on the show. There was a reason why my father-in-law appeared from the other side. There's a reason why my son knew that this was the right thing for him, and he kept fighting me and I'm going to let go and I'm going to believe and I will tell you something, three years to the day that I talked to you and you delivered that message, I followed it to the t. I am the happiest, the most content that I have ever been in my entire life.

 

Kim Russo (00:10:34):

Oh my. Oh my. Wow. Whoa. Well, thank you for sharing that. When you were speaking, it was coming back to me. I don't recall the messages that I deliver because they're not coming from me. So I says it's as if I am an observer and an interpreter. You know what I remember about coming on your show? I was called because you had a cancellation with someone else. So I do believe everything happens for the reasons, and I'm so happy you trusted. Do you know how many people would not trust some psychic that came on a show? Do you know how many would not trust? I

 

Mel Robbins (00:11:21):

Would think the majority. I mean, I didn't want to trust you because I didn't want to move and I didn't want to change my life and I didn't want to turn everything upside down and yet somewhere deep in my being, I knew this was the truth and I knew that it was being delivered in a way to make me pay attention. And so I just want to thank you and I'm so excited to introduce you to our global audience because I think you have this extraordinary gift and I want everyone listening to suspend your suspicion for just a second, and I want you to listen to what Kim has to offer you because she has changed my life. Why don't we begin with what is an intuitive psychic medium? Kim?

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And energy and I'm very science-based in my mind as spiritual as I am. That's as I am. I always love science because my inquisitive mind needs to know how things work. And when I couldn't really understand how I knew these things about complete strangers, I needed to research. And in my research I found that we are all intuitive. It's the language of energy that was suppressed because there might just have been some people that didn't want us to know our power in this universe. And it's all coming back to us now. We're all getting in touch with our intuition. I always say, and I'm a very critical thinker, and I always like to use common sense. If the animals in the wild have intuition that tells them when danger is near that guides them throughout to find food and everything else instinctively knows how to reproduce, why wouldn't more intelligent creatures on our planet have the same if not more of that same wisdom inside of them?

 

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So it's a program that we've been conditioned to let go of beginning with school really, or beginning with the way our parents learned and then they teach it to us. I wrote all about this in my books because it's really teaching about an unlearning of blockades where we are just so blocked in our thinking. So it's really about what you did, Mel. It's about trusting and allowing and letting go of control. And what I teach most people when I teach people how to get in touch with their gifts is releasing the control if they can, which was what you did. You put your ego aside for the betterment of your family, especially your son. I have three sons. There's nothing we wouldn't do for our children as you know. And I like what you said. You said everything within me knew it was the truth, a k, a, the word resonance, it resonated with you, with your soul, with your higher knowing, and pretty much that's really how we should live our life and following you, you teach this anyway. You just don't put a label on it, but you teach this. We are very similar in what we teach.

 

Mel Robbins (00:15:26):

I agree. I agree. You just have this mystical sledgehammer in the way that you deliver the message that makes it very hard to ignore. How did you start to realize you had this gift of speaking to and delivering messages from people's relatives that have died?

 

Kim Russo (00:15:47):

So long story short, as a child, every night going to sleep, there was this group of statuesque people with depressed looks on their face standing at the foot of my bed. I now know them to probably be spirits from a depression era. They were all in black. They never cracked a smile. I didn't understand who they were, what they wanted, and why were they in my room every single night of my life,

 

Mel Robbins (00:16:18):

You could see them.

 

Kim Russo (00:16:19):

I saw them. They did look transparent. I can see through them, but yet I can see everything about what they were wearing and what they looked like. Just a little bit transparent, and I slept with the covers over my head every night. My sister and I shared a bed, a bedroom, and shes my bigger sister just by a few years, but she was always my source of comfort because she was older and she just always guided me and I felt safe knowing she was next to me, but I was all alone in this situation because she never saw what I saw.

 

Mel Robbins (00:17:00):

Did you ever tell her what you were seeing?

 

Kim Russo (00:17:02):

Absolutely.

 

Mel Robbins (00:17:03):

What did she say?

 

Kim Russo (00:17:05):

Go to sleep. No, I don't see anything. There's nothing there. I would tell my dad, I'm not going in the room. When we would come home from relatives or we were out for the evening, we would come home. I wouldn't go in my bedroom and my dad would humor me every single night, checking in the closet, checking under the bed, letting me know the coast was clear, right? So I trusted my dad. No sooner did he leave the room there, they would appear soon as he left and my sister would fall asleep. Mommy, please could I sleep in you with daddy and no, go back. They were very strict about that. Having my sister was a huge source of comfort. I would keep her up at night with every distraction I could. I told her to teach me how to spell. I mean, what was I seven, maybe five to seven. Please teach me how to spell. And I'll never forget her teaching me the word elephant. It was the longest word, and I just kept her up because I didn't want to contend by myself, and I was up most of the night contending with this group of people. There were about five of them in total, and I started looking at relatives. My dad's from Europe, from Italy, and I started looking at photo albums as I got older

 

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And I said, gee, this is the kind of attire that these people always were wearing. They went away when in my teenage years we had moved into a new home and they followed me for a bit and then I didn't see them through my teenage years. My life was completely normal, and I say I was a mere mortal at that time.

 

Mel Robbins (00:18:47):

Let me ask you a question. You were scared because you were a little kid, but did you have any, other than covering your head, did you try to talk to them? Did you yell at them? I don't know how I would deal over the course of five or six years looking at the end of my bed and seeing ghosts.

 

Kim Russo (00:19:07):

It's true. So as a child, as you know, children looked to adults for body language, for a smile, crack a smile to show their approval, to show that their kind. They never showed any emotion, but just like that, just nothing. Then they would follow me to school. What? I never saw them. I felt them following me. We would walk to school and I always felt like I had these people. When you go up a flight of steps and you just feel like something's behind you, everyone has experienced that once in their life and walking through a dark alley. You feel like some weird vibe. I've always felt this energy around me and I just assumed it was them back then. I don't know. Parents really didn't pay much mind about things like this. I think now they're more open. Parents are more open to their children when they say they see a man. I get emails daily of parents telling me their children sees a man with a black hat, which is not always so great. I understand it now way more than I ever did. Of course, we didn't know any of this.

 

Mel Robbins (00:20:26):

What do you understand now?

 

Kim Russo (00:20:27):

What I understand now is these were either trapped souls connected to the property. My father and my uncle built that home. I don't know about the land or they might've been immigrants to my dad's family that I don't know. That may have gone back generations. Definitely from the depression era. The one man was gaunt. He looked like he really could use a good meal. They look just so miserable, honestly. So I know now that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. As we know by science, it can only change form and energy cannot be destroyed. So if our soul is made up of pure energy, which it is, how can we be destroyed in our consciousness? So it's consciousness that can't be destroyed, literally. Again, I go back to energy because energy is real. We use it every day of our lives. We don't see electricity, we don't see the cell phone signals, but yet we use them as they translate through the receivers that we have in our homes. We have fuse boxes for our electrical. We have cell phone towers for the signals, and we have mediums for the energy, the signal of deceased consciousness or even consciousness itself because I learned that I am able to communicate with people in a coma or people with Alzheimer's or dementia who's kind of not really in their bodies, but their consciousness is free. So I'm able to connect with that. I only learned that throughout the years of doing this for so many years.

 

Mel Robbins (00:22:15):

I remember when you were on my talk show and we met three years ago, you said something that I found very comforting. I turned to you before you started. You started reading people and talking to the spirit guides that had come into the room. I said, now are there dead people in this talk show room? And you were like, oh yeah, everybody always has one or two people with them, and I found that to be very comforting. Is that true that we tend to have somebody that is with us as we're going about our day-to-day life, whether we feel them there or not,

Mel Robbins (00:23:01):

Why do you think those five souls followed you? Do you think they sense that you could connect with the energy?

 

Kim Russo (00:23:12):

Great question. They absolutely can sense it. And again, there's a little bit of a backstory prior to being able to seeing, I even backtrack it a few more years. When it was Christmas Eve and my mom was in the kitchen cooking big Italian feast, and I was a curious little girl as I still am, I found a safety pin on the floor right by the Christmas tree, and I wanted to see what would happen if I stuck it in the electrical socket. And I did, and my body shot across the room. I got electrocuted. My right arm was completely charred. My mother rushed me to our family doctor, who at the time was always on call. As you know, they don't have that. That's a gift that we don't have anymore. He said, he called. He said to my mother, meet me at my office. Actually, that doctor saved my life too several times, and he wrapped my arm in this ointment called Silvadine, and he told my mother that I may or may not have any scarring.

 

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Now the only reason I know that this opened up something in my AIC field, which everybody has an energy field around them. It was a tear in my aura. That's how they got in. And the only reason I know this is years later, I picked up a book in the library when I couldn't control the voices and the information that was coming at me. I needed to find some information on this, and there wasn't much, but there was a book called the Link, LINK. I bought this book on Amazon. I have it. I opened to a random page, nothing is a coincidence, and the page said that most mediums have found that prior to the age of 10, they were hit with high doses of electricity such as being struck by lightning electrocution. How did I open to that page? They wanted me to know.

 

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They wanted me to know because I needed to understand. And I had a pact with God because I was raised Catholic and I needed to know that I wasn't going against my religion and what the Bible says, which it does say, do not consult with mediums. It does say that in the Bible. And I went to Catholic school for a short time, and I was pretty familiar with the commandments and I needed to know, and I said, if you want me to do this work, I need you to work with me. I need to know that I'm not doing anything against you, God, and that I need to know that I'm not going to be condemned to hell. At that time, I didn't know much. I am a seeker of the truth. I now know that we all have this ability to connect with energy, and that's all this is, is energy. Honestly,

 

Mel Robbins (00:26:29):

I have so many questions to ask you.

 

Kim Russo (00:26:31):

Okay,

 

Mel Robbins (00:26:32):

Shoot. I'm all ears. So you get electrocuted as a little girl. You start to see these five spirits and energetic consciousness at the end of your bed. You then move and you sense that they're following you, but they don't come to the new house. What is it that happened as you got older that made you realize, holy cow, this isn't some weird thing. I actually have a gift. What was that

 

Kim Russo (00:27:03):

Moment? Okay, so fast forward, my sister had called me one day. Now we're both adults. We both have our children. Everything is normal. I don't see dead people. I don't hear dead people. My life is normal. When I married my husband, my life was normal. I wasn't a psychic. I wasn't seeing dead people, nothing, nothing like that. My sister said, there's this psychic going to be in town. Would you like to go? I said, oh, yeah, that sounds like fun. We go see this woman. She was not giving readings. She was giving a lecture, and her lecture was about how she became, she walked into her mediumship gifts after her sister passed away.

 

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When we walked in, she had us sign this mailing list with our phone number and our address. I didn't think anything, okay, phone number address. My sister signed it right after me. About a month later, I get a call from that same woman telling me that she lived in my area. Actually, she did. She lived pretty much around the corner from me and that she told me I am a medium and that I was meant to do big things with my gifts and that she was given classes on mediumship. Now, first of all, I am a New Yorker. I don't trust. I don't fall for anything. I'm very levelheaded as much as I know, and I was very skeptical. I'm like, this lady needs students. She's targeting me. I live around the corner. I said, oh, I don't have childcare. Her classes were in the morning,

 

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And I had just had my third son. I had no sitter. I was a stay-at-home mom, and she said, I'm going to let you slide, but I won't forget about you. So I called my sister. I said, did that woman Ali call you for her classes? She said, no, I didn't get a call. Okay. One year later, she calls me again. She said, I am being pushed. You need to take my class. She said, but guess what? It's not in the morning. It's at the night. My classes are at night. You have no excuse. So now I didn't know what I would see. She really did not take no for an answer at all. So I did go to her class and I didn't know if I was going to see chickens getting their heads cut or voodoo. I didn't know what this was. So I looked around, I saw everybody look kind of normal, and I was ready to bolt out the door if I saw anything that did not resonate. She was a nice Jewish woman. So I looked at where does religion fit into this? That was my question. I went to 12 classes in total every time. There was once a month that she invited us to read each other, and I never went. I never went to that. I didn't want to read anybody, so she wouldn't stop. She's telling me that my name will be well known. I didn't believe a word. She said, none of it. You're meant to do this. You're going to be. So anyway, I'm done with her classes.

 

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Another month later, she calls me to do one of her psychic faires. I said, I don't read. She said, yes, you do. I said, no, I don't read. I said, Holly, did you ever see me come to any of your classes and do reading? She said, no, you never showed up. I said, so why are you calling me? I can't do it. She said, okay. I didn't do the fair. Within that month, that's when the water faucet turned on. I was hearing everybody in the heavens as I would do mundane tasks, I was blow drying my hair. I was vacuuming, I was washing dishes, and this is what I would hear. Hi, my name is Lisa. I dart in a car accident. Hi, my name is Tracy. Please get in touch with my mother. And I'm like, no, this can't even be real. I'm imagining this. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I had to call her. She said, I've been expecting your call. I said, well, you know what I'm about to say? And she laughed. She's deceased now. Anyway, by the way, this wonderful woman who was such a catalyst on my journey, I said, Holly, how do I stop the voices? She said, you can't.

 

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I did her next psychic fare. I was never more terrified in my life after the first reading. It hasn't stopped, and I've been on this journey ever since. And that's my story.

 

Mel Robbins (00:32:01):

Wow.

 

Kim Russo (00:32:03):

I mean, there's a lot more in between, but I gave you the cliff notes.

 

Mel Robbins (00:32:08):

Well, what I love about it is you had to do that moment of letting go and leaning in that something bigger that cannot be explained is actually what's meant for you. I would love for you to talk directly to the person listening that has a sense that they maybe have this gift to. What would you say to somebody who feels like they've had these experiences, but they don't know what to make of it and they don't know how to tap into it?

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Not trusting is part of your ego, and then there's a healthy ego getting washed every day, focusing, committing to a purpose. That's also the healthy ego, but getting rid of the ego. So if something is telling you on your way to work every day, you have the best route route mapped out, but something is telling you, make a left. Don't go your usual route. Do not discount that. Please, that's your spirit guides or your higher wisdom of your own soul telling you, guiding you to avoid something major. Cancel that trip. What do you mean cancel that trip? I paid a lot of money for that. It's my 60th anniversary. I can't cancel that trip. Cancel that trip in your gut, in your solar plexus. Some people get it in their heart like a pounding. So these are our chakra centers, the fuse box to the house where energy comes in. We have fuse boxes in our body called chakras. We all have them. They're energy centers. And this is what allows us to stay connected to the 3D Earth, and it allows us to navigate how we react in this world, how we transfuse anxiety or just so many things or chakras have a lot to do with it. And chakras are very much based on belief systems. So if you refuse that little voice,

 

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You are going to wish you didn't. I teach this to everyone. You cannot put faith and logic in the same sentence. It doesn't go together. Logic is what you were trying to use to. I have my business here in Boston. I dedicated everything here, but something's telling me to let go of it all

 

Mel Robbins (00:35:46):

And

 

Kim Russo (00:35:46):

Go to the next chapter because there's something in that chapter that's waiting for you. And I always say, nothing changes if nothing changes. And that's the God's honest truth. So we have to get off of the loop of everything we've always done and step out in faith. We all have innate abilities, and what I was about to say earlier is if the conscious mind does not allow you to tap in, these abilities will show up in your dream state. And why? Because the conscious mind, the guard dog is sleeping. It's put to the side. It's not doing all the logic and the rationalization. The left brain is put to the side, and your psychic awareness will come through precognitive dreams where you have dreams of future events. Do you ever wake up and say, gee, I'm thinking of so-and-so. Why am I thinking of them? Something in your sleeping state was telling you to call them when you woke up.

 

Mel Robbins (00:36:56):

Wow.

 

Kim Russo (00:36:57):

So I like to teach people to pay attention while you are awake. Allow the subconscious mind or the soul to filter through the conscious mind, even if it doesn't make sense. Something is telling you this, even if it's not a voice, it could just be a feeling. I work mostly on feelings, which is called Clair sentience. You've heard of clairvoyance?

 

Mel Robbins (00:37:28):

Yes.

 

Kim Russo (00:37:28):

That's where people could see the visions. Clear audience is when they can hear the voices clear. Sentance is when you could feel something doesn't feel right when you walk in a room and it looks beautiful, but it doesn't feel right, something, maybe someone just had an argument in that space and you are picking up on the vibrations of that. We do this every day. We just don't have a name for it. We just don't know, and we don't want to give ourselves so much credit. That's a thing. People don't like to take credit. I'm not a psychic. I'm not a medium. I'm like, yes, you are. I tell everyone, yes you are.

 

Mel Robbins (00:38:11):

Everybody's a medium.

 

Kim Russo (00:38:13):

Everyone's a medium. Now, a medium is not only someone who could connect to dead people. That's another misconception. A medium can just channel for the moment, for the moment, medium for the moment. We all have done this at some point in our lives.

 

Mel Robbins (00:38:33):

Give me an example of the way that you can be a medium in the moment.

 

Kim Russo (00:38:36):

Have you ever had a conversation with a friend and they're telling you their problems? Let's just

 

Mel Robbins (00:38:43):

Say

 

Kim Russo (00:38:44):

Talking about their husband, their relationship, their boyfriend, and you are listening, right? And you're listening with empathy, compassion. You're a good friend. You're a decent person and you want to help people, and you want to help your friends. Something tells you inside. Don't even worry about it. You're not even going to be with this guy. And you say that to your friends, you say that and they're like, what do you mean? I'm not going to be with him? I don't know what it means, but you're not going to be with him anyway. Something's going to happen that will take him out of your path. So don't even worry about it. And they push you. What does that mean? What do you know? What do you know? I don't know. I just felt that, I felt that in the moment that you're not even going to be with this guy anymore. Maybe he'll die. Maybe he'll cheat on you. Maybe something. Maybe he'll get a job transfer and you don't know what it means, but you knew you needed to say that because you felt it. Has that ever happened to you, Mel?

 

Mel Robbins (00:39:48):

Of course. It's happening to me right now with somebody that I love in my life, and I'm smart enough not to really say anything because I know that'll make them clinging to them tighter. I just, I know. I know that this is not forever. How does the other side, people who have passed on communicate with us? Is it a language? Do they move stuff? How can we tap into that?

 

Kim Russo (00:40:15):

Great question. Again, it's the language of energy

 

Mel Robbins (00:40:19):

And what is the language of energy? If you're trying to tap into it for the first time,

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And I can tell you what's happening in that movie. A lot of spirits who didn't speak English communicate with me through a movie because the language, they also can give me feelings because love is a universal feeling. So with sadness, everybody knows what that feels like. So I would say pay attention to your strongest. Remember the pit in your stomach, your feeling something, and it's not right. That's why it's called the gut feeling. It's in your gut. If you get a vision of something out of nowhere, like a fire or something, pay attention to that. Why did that vision come out of nowhere? So the first thing I would say is pay attention to how things make you feel

 

Mel Robbins (00:42:12):

And be open to it being a message and guidance.

 

Kim Russo (00:42:17):

Yes, and the message doesn't always translate in the moment. Sometimes it makes sense later.

 

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That happens a lot because time is not linear in the other realms or in the language of energy, I should say. Or even in the quantum field. Quantum mechanics talks about energy. Time is not linear at all, so it's only linear based on our clock and our time system, our calendar right here in the 3D, but in the quantum, it's not linear. So that's why they talk about manifestation. You put a thought out there and based on the intensity of the belief system and the emotion, it will come back to you like a magnet. Not always. If you're having pessimistic thoughts about getting that manifestation, you just kind of canceled it out. So we have to release. Here's a great example. I love this example. When you go through a drive-through McDonald's, wherever Taco Bell, which hopefully you don't, but if

 

Mel Robbins (00:43:29):

Dunking Donuts, Starbucks, you're getting your coffee, okay,

 

Kim Russo (00:43:33):

You place an order through this little machine, this voice, when you pick up your order, you expect it to be exactly as you gave it out.

 

Mel Robbins (00:43:43):

Yes.

 

Kim Russo (00:43:44):

Same thing with the universe. You put a thought out, you expect the result to be delivered and nothing more, nothing less, except if it's not for the highest good of all concerns, because the universe won't give to you and take from someone else. It's a fair universe. So it has to always be for the highest good. When you ask for something,

 

Mel Robbins (00:44:10):

What does that mean? What if I'm manifesting that I don't know that my loved one goes into remission?

 

Kim Russo (00:44:22):

Okay, that's a good one. If your loved one contracted for a certain exit point in this lifetime, you probably won't be able to manifest that because there's a soul contract with that loved one. I am exiting at this date, at this time, in this manner.

 

Mel Robbins (00:44:42):

What is a soul contract?

 

Kim Russo (00:44:44):

It's a contract every soul has before they come to earth. And the contract is, well, let's talk about you. Me? Yeah, why not?

 

Mel Robbins (00:44:55):

Oh God, okay.

 

Kim Russo (00:44:58):

Maybe in your last life or one of your last lives, you hurt some people with your power or your money or your notoriety. This is maybe hypothetical, and in this lifetime you, you're like, you know what? I have to balance that because in the universe, it's the law of balance. There's no way around that. You could call it karma. I don't like that word, by the way, because you always think of a negative connotation when you say the word karma. It's true, but I like to call it the law of balance. That's why I am known as the happy medium, because the happy medium is a phrase that's been coined to find the balance. And if you come back here this time to balance out your soul, you're like, yeah, you know what? I have to dedicate my life to helping people, empowering people, because I took people's power away in other times, and now I have to teach them how to get it, how to keep their power, and how to bring that into fruition this lifetime. So you are the teacher of that for people.

 

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So that's one of your soul contracts. Say you had a lover that died at war and he never came back, that chapter is not closed with that soul. So the contract with that soul is let's go back and get this one right, because we had such a good thing going until you went to war, and my heart has never been the same since, but this lifetime, we're going to write it out and we're going to have, you're not leaving me early and maybe I'll leave you, leave me. So they're just agreements, just like we have agreements here. They usually work with other souls, and it also connects to an experience you want to have, an experience you want to have. So some people say to me, I don't know where I should move. Your case was different. There was a son involved and everything else, and here's what my answer would be. There's no wrong or right answer. What experience would you like to have?

 

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There's no wrong or right answer. You have free will. Now, the experience you'd like to have will really put you on that trajectory of that soul lesson. See, your higher yourself has all the answers. You know exactly why you're here. You have the program downloaded inside of you, the contract. I mean, when an astronaut goes into space, he doesn't go unprepared. He goes with the food, he goes with the right garments, he goes with the right vehicle. He's going on a mission. He knows what he needs to survive going into space, we know what we need to survive coming onto earth. It's no different.

 

Mel Robbins (00:48:00):

So when you become a medium in the moment and you allow yourself to lean into your intuition and your feeling, whether your power is in the visual or the auditory or the feeling, and I would put mine in the feeling category for sure. That's how you tap into that inner wisdom that's programmed in you. That's how you connect with your spirit guides and the guidance of loved ones who have passed on.

 

Kim Russo (00:48:25):

So when you pick up the phone to call anyone that you love here, you kind of do expect them to answer the call unless they're busy. The other side, when we think of them, it's we are calling them. However, they can be busy. They don't sit on a cloud with a harp.

 

Mel Robbins (00:48:52):

What are they doing?

 

Kim Russo (00:48:54):

Well? So they have a lot of jobs there a lot, and it's no different than here, but most of it has to do with helping our planet, and a lot of it has to do with helping souls transition.

 

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Many people have come through to me telling me over the years, I'll give you just some examples. Maybe a young girl would come through who always wanted to have a family, a husband and a life with children, and they never got to realize that here, but they will be working with children on the other side. They'll take the children under their wing. They'll help cross them over into the spirit world, even though they're not children as a soul, their souls cross as children, babies and whatnot. Then I have people tell me they're working with the animal kingdom because they loved pets when they were here. I have people coming through fishing because that was their favorite pastime, and they have everything we have. It's just a dimension of frequency. Here we are, a dimension of physical matter. So there you can think of fishing and you can have that experience, and it's no different. It's just you don't have a physical fishing rod, and I'll just give you examples.

 

Mel Robbins (00:50:21):

It's pure energy.

 

Kim Russo (00:50:23):

It's energy, but everything physical here manifested first with an energetic thought. Think about it. Any inventions we have has been downloaded from the other side. Have you ever seen an invention and say, I thought of that. Why didn't I patent that? I mean, I did. Some people do that. So you're like, well, that thought is going to be given to a lot of different people, but it's the one that acts upon it that's going to be the inventor.

 

Mel Robbins (00:50:58):

That's so true. How many people have thought Airbnb post-it note, I thought of that. You're like, well, you didn't lean into that frequency. You didn't lean into that knowing.