Connecting to Spirit with Lisa Brandis | Intuition, Channelling & Spiritual Development

My guest this week had a single experience in his late teens that changed the entire direction of his life. He didn't plan for it. He didn't even know what it was called until it was already happening to him. Thirty years and 35 countries later, he's one of the most trusted names in complementary therapy.
Lawrence Ellyard, founder of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, joins me to talk about what actually separates practitioners who quietly practice from the ones who become trusted leaders in this industry. It's not confidence. He'll tell you exactly what comes first, and why most people have it backwards.
We get into a strange little trick he calls the swallow test, a way of using your own body to know if something's true for you before your mind talks you out of it. He also opens up about the lessons he took home from time spent with Sir Richard Branson, and the one quality every high impact practitioner he's ever met has in common.
If you've ever felt the pull to do bigger work in the world but keep waiting to feel ready, this one's for you. Press play, then don't be surprised if you start it again from the top.
Connect with Lawrence at https://www.lawrenceellyard.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/lawrence_ellyard/
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Hosted by Lisa Brandis — bestselling author, founder of Intuitive Reiki International®, Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive channelling expert, and spiritual medium.
Connecting to Spirit is for spiritually aware women ready to strengthen their intuition, trust their gifts, and step into grounded spiritual leadership. Through personal stories, intuitive insight, and practical teachings, each episode explores intuition, energy healing, practitioner growth, and soul-led transformation.
With more than 20 years of experience, Lisa shares conversations designed to help you feel more connected, more confident, and more aligned with who you truly are.
💛 Ready to go deeper?
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📲 Connect with Lisa
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https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
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Website:
https://intuitivereiki.com.au/
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How many courses do you need before you finally trust yourself?  If you've invested years developing your intuitive, healing or spiritual skills, yet still find yourself wondering whether you're ready to take the next step, this episode is for you.
In this episode of Connecting to Spirit, I share a moment that changed the way I saw myself and my work forever.
For years, I believed that confidence would come after I learned enough. After one more course. One more certification. One more piece of proof that I knew what I was doing.
Then a teacher said something to me that stopped me in my tracks:
"Your apprenticeship is over."
What followed was a completely different understanding of readiness, leadership and self-trust.
In this conversation, I explore why so many capable practitioners stay stuck in learning mode, how to recognise when growth has become avoidance, and why confidence is built through action, not preparation.
In this episode you'll discover:
• Why readiness is a decision, not a feeling
• The hidden reason many gifted practitioners struggle to move forward
• How to tell the difference between learning that expands you and learning that keeps you safe
• Why confidence comes from doing, not from knowing more
• What it really means to have a beginner's mind
• The question to ask yourself before signing up for your next course
Ready for the next step?
If you're feeling called to stop preparing and start practising, I share exactly how to do that in my free live training.
Register here: https://www.lisabrandis.com/link

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Hosted by Lisa Brandis — bestselling author, founder of Intuitive Reiki International®, Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive channelling expert, and spiritual medium.
Connecting to Spirit is for spiritually aware women ready to strengthen their intuition, trust their gifts, and step into grounded spiritual leadership. Through personal stories, intuitive insight, and practical teachings, each episode explores intuition, energy healing, practitioner growth, and soul-led transformation.
With more than 20 years of experience, Lisa shares conversations designed to help you feel more connected, more confident, and more aligned with who you truly are.
💛 Ready to go deeper?
Explore free trainings, practitioner resources, courses, and upcoming events:
👉 LISABRANDIS.COM
📲 Connect with Lisa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/intuitivereikiinternational
Website:
https://intuitivereiki.com.au/
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She has a doctorate. She worked on world stages — Fashion Week, serious money, serious influence. She still gets offers. Publishing articles for world-famous magazines, opportunities that would turn most heads. And she says no. Right now, she chooses her salon — her loyal staff, many of whom have been with her since she started, and the clients she loves. Not because she had to. Because that's where she's most alive.
That moment stopped me in my tracks.
Because it cracked open something I've been sitting with for a while — a question about money, and what we actually believe about it underneath all the strategies, the income goals, and the business plans.
Most of us were taught to earn money, save it, spend it carefully. We weren't taught how to be in relationship with it. How to love it. How to trust it as a partner in what we're building.
In this episode I'm sharing what has genuinely shifted for me — not as a framework, not as five steps to financial abundance, but as what's been real and true in my own experience of money and the energy we bring to it.
If you've ever felt like you're doing all the right things on paper and still feel like money is something you're chasing rather than receiving, this conversation is for you.
By the end of this episode, you may start to see money not as something to earn harder — but as an energy that follows alignment, love, and the courage to build what genuinely calls you forward.
In This Episode You'll Discover:
Why where your money goes reveals where your heart truly is
How to shift from chasing money to being in relationship with it
The simple practice that transforms how you see every business expense
Why the people at your money table can quietly dismantle your confidence
What it looks like to make decisions from intuition rather than fear
3 Key Takeaways From This Episode:
1️⃣ Heart-led investing changes your energy, not just your decisions The question isn't just "what's the return?" It's "who will I become if I say yes to this?"
2️⃣ Money follows love The most magnetic thing you can do for your business is be genuinely in your element. People feel it. Clients feel it. Opportunities feel it.
3️⃣ Choose your wizards wisely The people you allow into your money story matter enormously. Give that seat only to those who actually believe in what you're building.
Support the show
Hosted by Lisa Brandis — bestselling author, founder of Intuitive Reiki International®, Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive channelling expert, and spiritual medium.
Connecting to Spirit is for spiritually aware women ready to strengthen their intuition, trust their gifts, and step into grounded spiritual leadership. Through personal stories, intuitive insight, and practical teachings, each episode explores intuition, energy healing, practitioner growth, and soul-led transformation.
With more than 20 years of experience, Lisa shares conversations designed to help you feel more connected, more confident, and more aligned with who you truly are.
💛 Ready to go deeper?
Explore free trainings, practitioner resources, courses, and upcoming events:
👉 LISABRANDIS.COM
📲 Connect with Lisa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/intuitivereikiinternational
Website:
https://intuitivereiki.com.au/
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A spiritual business rarely begins with more clients.
It doesn’t start with another qualification, a better website, or finally feeling confident enough.
More often, it begins with a decision.
The moment you stop treating your work like something you do quietly on the side… and start taking yourself seriously as a practitioner.
In this episode, I’m sharing one of the biggest crossroads in my own journey — a time when I lost part-time work, was told to get another job for security, and had to decide whether I would fully commit to the path I’d started building through Reiki and teaching.
At the time, I didn’t feel ready.
I was scared.
I didn’t have complete confidence.
But looking back now, I can see that one decision quietly shaped everything that came after — from local workshops in Perth to building a global Reiki education school.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your healing work could become something more, questioned whether you’re “ready”, or struggled to fully own your gifts as meaningful work, this conversation is for you.
By the end of this episode, you may start to see the difference between having a spiritual hobby… and becoming the practitioner who finally backs herself.
In This Episode We Explore:
• The subtle difference between a spiritual hobby and a spiritual business
• Why confidence often develops after commitment — not before it
• The identity shift that happens when you stop minimising your work
• Why small decisions repeated over time create long-term growth
• How purpose-led work feels different from simply working for a pay cheque
• The opportunities available now for practitioners to build meaningful, flexible businesses
3 Key Takeaways From This Episode:
1️⃣ A practitioner identity begins long before external success appears
The biggest shift often isn’t income or clients. It’s the moment you stop saying, “I just do this on the side,” and begin owning who you are.
2️⃣ Confidence doesn’t always come before commitment
Many people wait to feel ready before taking action. Often, confidence is built through the decision to move forward despite uncertainty.
3️⃣ Meaningful businesses are usually built through small repeated choices
Long-term growth rarely happens through one giant leap. More often, it’s the result of small decisions made consistently over time.

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Hosted by Lisa Brandis — bestselling author, founder of Intuitive Reiki International®, Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive channelling expert, and spiritual medium.
Connecting to Spirit is for spiritually aware women ready to strengthen their intuition, trust their gifts, and step into grounded spiritual leadership. Through personal stories, intuitive insight, and practical teachings, each episode explores intuition, energy healing, practitioner growth, and soul-led transformation.
With more than 20 years of experience, Lisa shares conversations designed to help you feel more connected, more confident, and more aligned with who you truly are.
💛 Ready to go deeper?
Explore free trainings, practitioner resources, courses, and upcoming events:
👉 LISABRANDIS.COM
📲 Connect with Lisa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/intuitivereikiinternational
Website:
https://intuitivereiki.com.au/
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There's a reason so many gifted, sensitive, heart-centred women stay invisible in their work — and it's not the one most people assume.
It's not fear of judgment. It's not worrying about what family will think. The real reason goes deeper than that, and once you understand it, everything changes.
In this episode I'm sharing what I've witnessed after teaching thousands of intuitive practitioners over 23 years — the hidden fear that keeps the most gifted healers from stepping forward, why your sensitivity is actually the thing that makes you safe to do this work, and why staying small isn't just costing you. It's costing the people who need you.
In this episode you'll discover:
The real fear underneath visibility blocks that nobody talks about
Why your deep care for others is proof you're meant to do this work — not a reason to hide
How your body wisdom protects both you and your clients when you're channeling
What real integrity looks like when you make mistakes as a practitioner
Why trust only develops if you actually start
If you've been circling the edge of fully stepping into your gifts, this one is for you.
👉 Free live training — Turn Your Healing Gifts Into a Profitable Practice: https://www.lisabrandis.com/home
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Support the show
Hosted by Lisa Brandis — bestselling author, founder of Intuitive Reiki International®, Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive channelling expert, and spiritual medium.
Connecting to Spirit is for spiritually aware women ready to strengthen their intuition, trust their gifts, and step into grounded spiritual leadership. Through personal stories, intuitive insight, and practical teachings, each episode explores intuition, energy healing, practitioner growth, and soul-led transformation.
With more than 20 years of experience, Lisa shares conversations designed to help you feel more connected, more confident, and more aligned with who you truly are.
💛 Ready to go deeper?
Explore free trainings, practitioner resources, courses, and upcoming events:
👉 LISABRANDIS.COM
📲 Connect with Lisa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/intuitivereikiinternational
Website:
https://intuitivereiki.com.au/
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