Hey, it's Jim. I'm excited to remind you that this weekend I'll be in Michigan making my very first podcast convention appearance.

That's right, I'm digging myself out of this little Heidi Hole hiatus that I've been on to meet you in person. The event is

November 4th and 5th. It's mid-Michigan Paracon and at 10 a.m. on November 5th I'm

actually doing a live podcast recording in front of an audience and I love you to be there as a

listener of this program and I love to meet you. You can still get tickets. It's at mid-Michiganper.com come and meet me come and hang out

come and help me make this first paranormal convention appearance a success.

Get your tickets now at mid Michigan paracon.com and make sure to find me and say hello and I'll see you this weekend. So to paint a picture of my grandmother, my parents separated when I was three and at that time you know my mom was a flight

attendant and my dad was traveling the world starting his business and because of that I

spent a lot of time with my grandparents and my grandmother was like my mother to me and mentioning

H. P. Vavavolotsky a lot my grandmother looked like her but with blonde hair

and had a Kathleen Turner voice. On top of that this is a woman that was not

afraid to share her opinion. Her mother was in the Eastern Star and she was really into

witchcraft, demonology, loved Alistair Crowley, very much into the philosophical aspects of the occult.

But hated the Catholic Church, and from the time I was like five, you know, at dinner, family dinner, she'd be talking about how all, they're all pedophiles and thieves and that the Catholic church is corrupt and to keep an open mind and that religion is evil and it's all about like learning the secrets.

My grandmother knew that I was very old soul. Since I was little I would dream

things they would come true. My mom's not spiritual at all.

So when I tell her these things, it scared her,

but my grandmother really nurtured this gift within me.

And she had this oracle card deck.

We used to sit at her kitchen table and take the deck and put all the cards

face down and I'd pull them up one at a time and she'd ask me how it made me feel.

And that's what taught me to use my intuition to kind of divine and read things and people from this

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