150. Mind Power Meets Mystic: Celebrating 150 Episodes of Wisdom, Fun & Growth

Okay, we are live Cinthia, yay. Welcome everybody to 150 episodes of Mind Power Meets Mystic. It's a big deal. Yeah, it is kind of a big deal. So I'm Michelle Walters, and I'm here with Cinthia Varkevisser. I am the mind power part of this podcast, slash show, Cinthia is our mystic part of this show, and we decided to actually do our episode live today on Facebook, because it's a big deal. We've been at this for three years. Three years Cynthia, and we have made 149 episodes, and this will be episode number 150, so yay. Happy birthday to us.

Congratulations to you. So it's up

to you, and a big thank you, and shout out to all the listeners who have been there with us throughout this journey and are continuing to voyage ahead with us.

So what are we going to talk about? There's so many things to talk about at 150

there are. I thought we would spend part of this episode doing some look backs on some of the fun episodes we've had in the past, some of the more touching episodes, some of the cringiest times, and then talk a little bit about where we see this show going forward.

I love it. I love it. So what do you want to start with? You want to start with the ones that were super cringy?

Yeah, let's start with that. My My cringiest moment was actually an off camera moment. I was my my job is part of my job is to do the editing of the show. And I'm not going to name any names, but back at the beginning, or anyway, a long time ago, we had a guest who had a lot of kind of useless things to say, let's put it that way. And so I wound up spending a lot of time editing that episode in order to make the guests sound better. And I think that the episode wound up coming out pretty good, but it was a little cringy on my end, because I had to put in quite a bit of work to pull out the to pull out the the extras,

right? Well, you know what was funny is they that person went off topic, or there were the better way of saying is, there were so many topics that was actually hard to follow the conversation, and they liked leading the conversation, so we couldn't even really steer, you know, and, and it was one of our earlier editions, so I would say it was a great learning moment on so many levels.

Absolutely. What do you want to share as a cringy moment?

Uh, it's also one that is behind the scenes, and we don't do this very often, because we love our interviewees so much, our guests so much. But we had a guest who, again, I wouldn't say that they were off topic, but we realized that they didn't have a whole lot to share on their topic. And so there was a lot of dead time. There was a lot. I mean, it was cringy in the way that it was hard to pull information out, and when the information came, it wasn't, it wasn't

good Cinthia, it was, it was rightfully bad. And I guess if out of 150 episodes, this has only happened once or twice. It's not that big a deal, but, yeah, we, we are here to protect you listeners from the shows that didn't turn out

actually. It was also a really good learning moment about how to interview and we, we did vet that person, and in our vetting process changed up radically.

Yep, it sure did. It sure did. So Cinthia, what was one of the more exciting episodes that that we recorded?

An exciting episode for me came from one of your brilliant ideas, of which you had many and it was the twin episode. I mean, I didn't even realize at that time that your dad was a twin, or I'd forgotten, and so it was great to have my kids on the podcast, and because it was a family moment, you know that I got to share and you got to witness. And my kids are, what is it that your your dad's. Head like they are aggressive. Or I forgot what it was, but it was really funny, because it was a generational thing to have these, you know, women speak up and say these things, you know. So it was, it was very exciting for me at that time

well, and it's cool. We did, we did two twin episodes, one with your girls and one with my dad and his twin, my 80 something year old dad and his twin, and since that time, my dad's still with us. I'm glad and happy about that, but my uncle has passed away, so it's kind of cool to know that some of those twin memories are preserved in that episode of Mind, power meets mystic,

right? They, they were so interesting in such a different way than than, yeah,

you could really see the difference in generations, right?

Well, and, you know, there were other things besides generations. I mean, your dad is an identical twin, so, and my kids are fraternal. And so the thing that was also interesting is it was generational, but there were certain things that I think that they had already it was so embedded deep that they didn't even think to talk about it. That was kind of crazy cool to me too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. What other episodes would you like to reminisce about. Today,

I'd like to talk about where the people who we had on on our episodes, where they took us out of our centeredness, you know, where they touched us so deeply in a certain way that I wouldn't say that, you know, professionals the word, but it just got super touching. And then, you know, if there was something in it that was so crazy cool. So which one was that for you?

Oh, well, one of those goes all the way back to the beginning. And for people who don't know, we started off the podcast with a different name, right off the podcast, called it's all connected, which is part of the reason why the background that we have here has all these little dots behind us that are connected, because we wanted to call it It's All Connected because Cinthia and I believe that pretty much everything is connected. But there were already other podcasts with that name, and people didn't understand what was connected. And so I don't know, maybe in the first six months or so, we change the name from it's all connected to mind, power meets mystic, and that that name has stuck. But going way back to the beginning, one of my happy episodes to listen to and remember was our first interview with Heather Zeitz Wolf. She's been on the show a couple of times, but episode number three, where she talks about being a clown and being an accountant is particularly poignant and memorable for me.

Well, I love her so much, and she has so much contact content and is so funny about it that we've actually had her on a couple times, and since then, she has expanded her business, which was another reason why we had her back on so she's fascinating on a bazillion different levels. Always a good time. Always a good time. Yeah,

what's one for

you? For me? Way, it wasn't that long ago. It was episode 123 with Carolyn pistoni and I, we were on a topic Carolyn. I love Carolyn. We were on a topic about women and and I asked her question about people of color, especially women of color, and her response was so poignant and so sincere that even thinking about it, I'm getting I get teary eyed, so which doesn't happen very often. So that one was a big one for me. Do you have any

others? Another one that was a big one for me was I had watched a show on, I don't know who recorded it originally, but I watched it, I think on Netflix or prime, probably prime, called alone, where these it's like the only reality TV show I am interested in at all, but where these people go out to the wilderness and survive. And the almost winner of one of the episodes was a woman named Karie Lee Knoke. And I was like, this woman is fabulous. I wonder if she'd be on the podcast, and I reached out to her, and she came on the podcast, and she was just amazing. And so it was kind of, I I'm not really a big one for celebrities or reach outs or that kind of a thing, but, but that was kind of my moment, doing something like that, and it worked out. So that was exciting for me. It

worked out really well. And you didn't fangirl, which is great. And if you ever watched that, that season of alone, Karie Lee was silly, and she had this childlike energy up until, you know, near the end of the series, where even then she had. This great spirit, and you could hear it in her episode with us, but she's a pretty amazing human being. So yeah, and I love the work that she's doing now.

Yeah, very, very cool. What about you?

I have so many, but the other one that I love was the episode with Jen darling, which is episode 120 and if anybody ever has a chance to talk with Jen darling, she's intense, she's passionate, and you can't help but raise your energy level to be with her energy level. So she's like a shot of caffeine without the without the side effects and with all that, she's still so very heart centered. What do you

think, absolutely, absolutely, the episode with Jen darling was really, very, very touching,

right? Do you have any others?

Yeah, so I wanted to revisit one that made us laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. There we interviewed a Chinese astrologer. She's actually been on multiple times, named Janet Louie, and her she's on a couple of times, but the episode that was so funny that made us laugh so much goes all the way back to Episode 11, right? And it's a crack up. So if you want to listen to kind of a funny episode, check out episode 11, that has to do with botsy, which is Chinese astrology, and Janet Louie that that was a that was a kick in the pants, that

was we were howling. It was so much fun. It was so

much fun. She was hilarious at that time. Any more you want to remember here Cinthia, I do. I

have one more, and that is fairly recent, right? 146 with, with Caterina Rando, and she was we had her on for the second chakra and femininity. And her business is all about women, helping women, women, you know, raising women, right? It's just an amazing she's an amazing person, an amazing coach and and you could tell that she really does live her message. So it was that was a lot of fun. And, you know, I don't usually talk about being a woman. I identify more person of color than I do as a woman. And if you ever call me a woman, I still, well, now at the tender of age 58 I can say I'm a woman, but up until just a few years ago, I'm like, Am I really a woman? I don't think I'm I don't think I'm mature enough, but, you know, now I got the sag to prove it. Oh god, that's so not true, right? That's, there's a Shakespeare line that says, you know that were old before that were, you know, were wise. That's not true. So. But anyway, what about you? Do you have any

there who's trying to date in: 2025

it was. And the thing that I liked is for you, and you could see it in your face, is you could see the light bulb moments happening. And it was like, ding, ding, ding, ding. And you're an incredibly smart person, so to see these light bulb moments was, you know, an extra for me. You know, she was great.

I've got two more episodes. I want to point out, because they, they fall into the list of some of the most popular. Mm. One was your guest, Bridget? Tell us about Bridget.

Bridget's one of the my favorite people in the whole wide world. She is a Reiki Master living out in Long Island, New York, and it's all about her journey with cancer, about her faith, about how she advocated for herself, and how, through this process of being so focused and so aligned with her message that she she came out healthy and ahead of schedule and and she loved, I mean, when I asked her, The thing that I love the most is, I asked her, will you be on the episode? It's so fascinating, this journey. And she says, Oh, thank God, because I'm tired of telling the story. So if I just tell it once, if I tell it once, then I don't need to say it again.

I forgot. She said that, yeah, maybe, maybe that's it. She's been sharing her. Story without having to repeat it herself.

Yeah, it was, it was a, it's a really good story. And it's, it's really important about advocacy. And we have people in our lives that that are starting to fall ill, and advocacy is a big deal. It's a, it's a right. So it's a really important episode, because it shows you examples of it's it's good to advocate for yourself, and if you can't have someone else advocate for you, and really think about your health. That was a good one. The second one that was super popular was yours, right? So let's talk about that. And,

yeah, I think that's a good point to start talking about our transitions into what's coming up. Mm, so one of the other popular episodes, as we went back and looked today, is 100 episodes ago. So episode number 50 was one that I recorded about eight powerful symbols for hypnosis. So apparently, a lot of people like that episode, and if you haven't listened to it, you may want to give it a listen.

Yeah, it was very inspiring. I liked it. I liked it a lot,

of August or early September: 2025

Yeah, really exciting. I mean, this has been a great journey, and you can, you can actually experience the journey as you go through our episodes, because when we started with it's all connected. We had, we wanted to be experts. We wanted to be curious. We wanted to talk to other experts, to expand our horizons and the people who are listening with us. And as that happened, so many other things have have come along. So there have been steps in between, and here you are making your app, um, specifically, you had another book that happened right right? Because, right, you had alignment of spirit. I think that had just come out when we were with it's all connected. And then you have the ABCs, right, which is also a brilliant book that's led naturally into this, this app. So it's really exciting to see how we're evolving, right?

Absolutely. So tell our listeners a little bit about you and where you're taking your work.

Well, that's really funny, because the thing that I didn't think I would be expanding on is house clearings, house healings, energy shifting for spaces. So if you go way back in the earlier Mind Power Meets Mystic. It's All Connected. I actually did do a solo episode on House clearings, what it is and who it's for, and what happened from there. I realized that I have so many stories that I'm writing a book on House clearings, what they are, who they're for, but there's going to be a start, a story and a solution for each room in a typical house. So I'm really

it's going to be fantastic. I can't wait to see it.

Yeah, I'm really excited about that, so that we're looking to have out right around right before the holidays. So actually, it's really good timing,

excellent. That'll be perfect timing. Well, and for those of you who have been listening this year, the last couple of months, we have been working on a chakra series, talking to different people and relating their work to one of the seven chakras. We've gone through chakra one and chakra two, and we will be moving on to chakra three in the next couple of weeks. We seem to be getting really good input and feedback on the on the episodes, and it's cool because we've gotten to talk to a number of people on the podcast. Who you know you might not think as being kind of crossing paths with our world, but this has given us a chance to talk to them, which has been a lot of a lot of fun, both entertaining as well as educational. The

other part that was really eye opening is, as we talk to our guests, they realize just how many chakras they use in order to open up the chakra of the clients that they have. And they didn't think about their clients or the people who come in, you know, of interest through one chakra. So once they realize that, oh my gosh, there is this, there is this commonality. It, it brought on a different conversation, which was, you know, it's always fresh and exciting when we get to talk about things from a different perspective,

absolutely. So where else are we going? Cinthia, do we even know yet?

No, that's the fun of it, right? It's, it's always so much fun. But we, we were just talking about how we've had so many people that, if we came in and talked about their connection, so it's actually a little bit of a full circle moment. We did it in the very beginning, but they weren't really connected, like the three astrologers that we had, right? We had Bazi, Western and Vedic, but they weren't together. But as we see these businesses and these professionals coming in, we can see the connections and a deepening conversation. So that's kind of, that's kind of fun. And I mean, we're not even halfway through the chakra series, and that's been fucking amazing, right? Yeah? Just amazing, yeah.

No, I've, I've been loving this chakra series so so much, and I won't be surprised if we decide to repeat it in a different way,

right? Always, always different, but similar, right? So what do you see us doing?

I see us talking to more people, talking more amongst ourselves, and just having a lot of fun. I did not know what to expect. This is the first podcast I've ever made. Your first podcast, too, and it has just been absolutely delightful to get to work with you, to get to meet so many cool, new people. It's just remarkable when you put a mic in front of somebody to see what what comes out. And sometimes it's just gold. And I love that, and I want to keep going.

We are going to go to pod festivals. So that's another thing that can be, that might be in the future, is podcasting from a pod festival be kind

of fun. That would be super fun, right?

Right. Sounds good, alright. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you my friend for being my podcast partner for 150

episodes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you my friend for being my podcast pal for 150 episodes. And may we see 150 more,

plus one, always plus one, plus

one. Alright? Thank you,

Bye, everybody. Thank you bye.