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

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
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https://www.instagram.com/lisabrandis_/
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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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There’s a question I’ve been sitting with recently… and it might change the way you think about channeling completely.
In this episode, I explore one of the most important (and often misunderstood) aspects of intuitive work:
👉 Are we accessing higher guidance… or subtly giving our power away?
We dive into:
 The difference between channeling and inner wisdom 
 Why discernment matters more than accuracy 
 How your state (stress, regulation, grounding) impacts what you receive 
 The truth about “guides” vs your own consciousness 
 Why two things can be true at once when it comes to channeling 
I also share a live channeled transmission from Anya, so you can feel the difference—not just understand it.
This isn’t about choosing the “right” way.
It’s about learning how to stay in your authority—no matter how the guidance comes through.
Listen now and begin refining the way you trust what comes through you.
🔗 https://www.connectedtospirit.com/
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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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Have you ever received something, a feeling, a message, a sense, and immediately thought, I’m just making this up?  Because what if that’s not what’s happening at all?
What if you’re already channeling… and the only thing getting in the way is that you don’t trust it yet?
In this episode, I’m speaking to the experience of receiving something subtle and dismissing it before it’s even given the chance to develop.
Because channeling doesn’t usually begin in the way people expect.
It’s not always clear.
It’s not always strong.
And it rarely feels undeniable at the beginning.
Instead, it often shows up quietly.
As a shift in your awareness.
A feeling in the body.
A thought that feels slightly different to your usual thinking.
And because it’s happening through you, it’s very easy to question it…
or assume it isn’t real.
I share a personal experience from a practice session that shaped how I understand this work, and what it revealed about trust, choice, and the way we work with spirit.
Because even when something is coming through, you don’t lose control.
You don’t override your body.
You don’t ignore what doesn’t feel right.
You are part of it.
And the moment you start to recognise that, something begins to shift.
This episode isn’t about trying to receive more.
It’s about recognising what’s already there, and beginning to trust what you’re channeling.
You’re not learning how to channel.
You’re learning how to trust what’s already coming through.
If this resonated, go back and listen to the episode "Channeling Is Not What You Think It Is (The Truth Explained)" on what channeling actually is. It will give you the foundation for everything you’re starting to notice now.

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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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Channeling is not what you think it is. You are not being taken over.  You are not losing control and you’re definitely not opening yourself up to something dark.
In this episode, I’m breaking down what channeling actually is — not the version you’ve seen in movies, and not the fear-based stories people often believe, but the real, grounded human experience of it.
I’m sharing my own journey into trance channeling, including the first time I allowed a direct message to come through, what that felt like, and how everything shifted from that moment.
Because when you understand this properly… everything changes.
In This Episode, I Share:
 What channeling really is (and what it’s not) 
 My first experience of trance channeling and what it felt like in my body 
 Why channeling is about allowing, not losing control 
 The truth behind the fear of “channeling something dark” 
 How love, grounding, and intention shape your connection 
 Why I always recommend starting with Reiki 
 A simple way to begin opening your own intuitive connection 
The Truth About Channeling
Channeling isn’t about losing yourself.
 It’s about learning to allow more of who you are.
🔗 Next Steps
If this episode opened something up for you, I go deeper into this work in my free training, where I walk you through the foundations of energy, intuition, and how this naturally leads into channeling in a grounded and practical way.
And if you’re ready to keep building this connection, the next episode I recommend is:
How to Strengthen Your Intuition: 3 Simple Daily Practices
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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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Follow, rate, review, or share this episode — it helps more spiritually gifted women discover the support, confidence, and community they’ve been searching for.