The Debbie Nigro Show

I've had some very interesting experiences with psychics and psychic mediums throughout my life. I'm always open-minded and do believe that some on this planet can see farther than the eye can see. On more than one occasion, I've had a psychic contact me out of the blue for one reason or another. (vs me asking them to contact someone. LOL) I probably haven't seen Francine Tesler in over 20 years. She's a psychic medium and medical intuitive, best known as the psychic, for people who don't usually go to psychics. She's been making psychic predictions since she was 6 years old. She would see those that had passed on and shock everyone with her accuracy. Something recently came into her head to call ME. So naturally she got in touch. I was happy to hear from her as I remember having great affection for her. I Invited her to stop by the radio show to speak to a story I just read on Medium.com (which is not a site for Mediums rather a medium for writers to share their work with 100 million readers). The story "Predictions for 2024 By Celebrity Psychics" said…" The year 2024 will be a time of awakening and alignment as more people will tune into their intuition and follow their soul's purpose. This will create a positive ripple effect in the world, as people will be more authentic, compassionate, and creative." I'm all for anything positive on this planet and I have in fact noticed more people lately trying to find their true purpose. So Francine came to the studio and I asked her one of my signature questions I often ask guests on my show. "How Does Your Head Work Inside?". Francine said, "I'm originally an artist by trade and I get images that like a slideshow and fragments and I hear things in my head. Yeah, but this week, my hair stands up on my arms. And it was like, you have to call Debbie. And I'm like, you know, reach out to her and I didn't have your number. And that's why I sent you the email and blah, blah, blah." "Why do you think you thought of me?", I asked her. "I think we're meant to be connected again". I myself have been noticing a trend picking up since Covid, where people are now wanting to reconnect more. Are you seeing a trend in that I asked her? "Yes. More happening with each month that passes this year". "More spirituality. People are starting to listen. I'm teaching. When I do my readings or when I do my message circles or my open galleries, I do teach and explain to people that they have to listen to their voice because everyone is psychic to some point." Being a psychic ain't easy... "You know I actually didn't know I was a medium until I had already been doing this probably for at least 10 years because I didn't know the word for it all those years ago. I've been doing this now full-time 40 years. When I first started, it wasn't acceptable and people used to call me Madame Zaza or Grandma Strega, you know, Grandma Witch, and it was a really difficult time." "But you know what? I'm an artist. I found my own thing and I knew that I was getting these images and hearing things and seeing things and there was a reason. So I always gave people the messages. Now as I'm older, I deliver them a little bit more tactfully and make them more edible because I have a good sense of humor." "Everyone calls it the psychic Tourette's. I go into the grocery store and I will walk over to people and say, look, I don't want to bother you. I'm a psychic medium, blah, blah, blah. I got an impression. I'm told to tell you this. And then they look around for cameras. But I try to help people and give a message." I've always noticed people are a little weird when they're around psychics. All they want to know is, what a psychic knows about them? They always want to talk about it. But most people don't want to hear any bad stuff. I wondered how that has affected Francine's personal life. "Do you have a personal life?", I asked her. "Not really. As far as my personal life goes, most guys are scared of it. They don't even want to shake my hands believe it or not and you know either they come in and they try to challenge me to see what I know. You know I'm saying. but it's hard when it comes to yourself. It's hard to be objective. You know you know it is what it is." BUT, professionally men aren't scared of Francine at all. She has a lot of male clients that come to her for business consultations. Mostly by phone and Zoom. "Are you a business psychic?" I asked her, because I often joke that I'm a business psychic. LOL. I'm just highly intuitive when it comes to business. I know where the matches are. I know what people should do. I'm like, what do you mean you haven't thought of that? I see opportunities for people, and I have some fun with that skill as a consultant. Yes, Francine does help many businesses with her skills as a psychic. She's also a medium, and a medical intuitive. She's currently re-branding herself and her website. It's probably why she thought of me. She knows I love helping people re-think new

I need to shine a light on Saratoga NY one of the kindest places in America. That's where the idea for a viral event that took place across the country this year called "Leap of Kindness Day' emanated from. It was held on …you guessed it…Leap Day! I love Saratoga. Been there enough times to know I could live there. I invited Todd Shimkus the President of The Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, and originator of the kindness idea, to join me on The Debbie Nigro Show to talk about 'The Kindness Movement' they started in 2016. Leap of Kindness was such a great idea, that 250 other Chambers of Commerce in the US and Canada joined in the movement this year to encourage the spread of meaningful kindness vibes and deeds. It's always worth my time to showcase people on this planet doing beautiful things because most people are good, and I know we sometimes forget that because the world we live in is tough. Speaking of good things, Todd shared all the cool stuff coming up in Saratoga, NY this year. "Oh my God, we have so much going on in our community, especially as we head into this summer. You know, the New York City Ballet is coming back to SPAC, the Philadelphia Orchestra, we are their summer home. They've got some extraordinary performances there. We've got the Universal Preservation Hall, which is new coming out of COVID. It's a fully restored church that was acoustically designed to allow people to perform and the sound to be just amazing for musical events. Cafe Lina, which is one of the oldest venues you'll find for music as well is here. And then of course the Saratoga Racecourse, and our casino. We are hosting the Belmont Stakes Saratoga on June 8th for the first time ever. And it's sold out for Saturday, June 8th."50,000 people will be at the racecourse that day. There's still tickets available for Thursday and Friday and Sunday around that. And we expect a week-long celebration of that just amazing event, especially if there's a Triple Crown potential for one of the horses." That Saratoga Racecourse is special. Sports Illustrated named it one of the world's greatest sporting venues. As I kid I remember that every Summer for years and years, my parents and all my aunts, uncles and their friends would go to Saratoga in August and always stayed at place called The Gideon Putnam, and always left all us kids home. It was decades later that I finally went there myself and got to see what all the fuss was about. It's an incredible place. I was so annoyed they never took us kids all those years! LOL Saratoga Racecourse is a Thoroughbred horse racing opened in 1863 and is considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the country but is actually the fourth oldest racetrack in the U.S. according to Wikipedia. You will feel the nostalgia there and you get to see all the beautiful horses up close. There's a lot more too in Saratoga that captured my soul and I've gone back a few times to enjoy the food, the music, and the beauty of this charming place. And Saratoga has active mineral springs. I just learned there are currently 21 public mineral springs in various locations throughout Saratoga. Most of the springs are naturally carbonated and no two springs taste exactly alike. That's because each spring has its own distinct mineral makeup and flavor profile. There are supposed health benefits from clearing skin, to helping digestion, and even strengthening blood! You can even Design Your Own Mineral Springs Private Tasting Tour. I should also mention it's supposedly the home of the original potato chip. That alone is worth a tasting trip to see about that! Enjoy this podcast of my live conversation with Todd Shimkus the President of The Saratoga Chamber of Commerce on The Debbie Nigro Show.

When it comes to politics these days you can be sure there are LOTS of divisive conversations going on. It's not expected that we'll all agree on the important topics, but come on everybody - can't we at least learn how to respectfully disagree? Before you argue with, block, curse out or cut off individuals due to their political views, learn how to respectfully disagree and build bridges instead of barriers. We need to challenge our own perspective because we all think that we're right, I guess, until we realize maybe we're not 100%, right. That's the message Justin Jones-Fosu is shouting from the rooftops in his upcoming book "I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World". Justin is international speaker and the founder of Work. Meaningful. He shares some great advice on how to handle extreme political conversations. We had a much-needed conversation about this topic live on my radio show and Justin pointed out, "It's been bad for a long time, but it's with the rise of media and everybody having a voice and platform that It's gotten really bad. Even in workplaces, three out of four people say that their management can handle, should handle conflict better." "But just think about anecdotally, as we see online, as people talk to each other, there's these two things that are happening." "One of, we see a respectful disagreement, disrespectful disagreement. But Debbie, there's also an interesting phenomenon we found in our studies, is this other thing called 'disrespectful agreement'. "And I see it in a lot of the audiences and corporations I go in, is that people are in front of your face, they're like, oh Debbie, I think that music was amazing. And then behind the scenes, they're talking to the producer, like, why would you even play that?"" "And that's one of the things that's also causing disrespectful discriminates as well, is because people are passively, or what the new generation is calling gaslighting others." I couldn't agree more with Justin that people need to try harder to build bridges to people rather than barriers from them. He shares some good suggestions about how we all can start to go about doing that better. "I think the foundation for us lies in the statement I've been making for about the last decade is that we can vehemently disagree with someone's ideology and yet still passionately pursue their humanity. That's the starting point. Because oftentimes we consistently attach ideology with identity. And so I'll start with challenging perspective because I think that speaks to what we do. I mean, it starts before any disagreement happens. It's the posture, the position that we put ourselves in. " Justin Shared a Practical Example: "One of the things I started to challenge myself to do is this thing called Circles of Grace, where it's the thing that my mom taught me. My mom took us to events that we didn't know a lot about and that we also disagreed with. And so when you constantly are putting yourself in positions of learning and hearing other people's perspectives, so every six months I go to events, experiences, or I engage with people that I either don't know a lot about or that I disagree with. And that's helped me to consistently challenge my perspective and learn." I'm glad I took the time to chat with Justin. Besides being an author Justin Jones- Fosu is also a full-time dad-e, and social entrepreneur. He speaks 50-60 times a year for professionals, corporations, organizations, and associations. His clients include some of the biggest names in The Fortune 500 to the best spelled names in Fourth Grades across the country he says. LOL I also really like that he's fun. Like me, he often uses humor to get a serious message across. I think it would be meaningful for you to take a few minutes to listen to this podcast of our live conversation from The Debbie Nigro Show. Might save some of your relationships!