Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast

Marta The Medium
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Spiritual teacher and mentor Marta the Medium hosts a grounded spiritual podcast about intuition, mediumship, sensitivity and self-trust. A psychic medium and intuitive guide, she blends honest conversation with practical spiritual development, so you can trust yourself and feel supported by Spirit. Through guest interviews and solo reflections, the show explores intuition, being an empath, self-trust and anxiety, for intelligent, sensitive people who feel deeply and want to bring it into everyday life. New episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

  1. 1d ago

    The Art of Surrender: Forgiveness, Grief & Faith | Dr. Malaysia Harrell

    How do you begin to surrender when you’ve spent your life holding everything together? And how do you make room for who you are becoming while grieving who you used to be? In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Malaysia Harrell, psychotherapist, veteran and author of God Has My Six. Together, we explore surrender, forgiveness, grief and the changing meaning of being of service. Malaysia shares how childhood experiences shaped her desire to help others and the successful life she built while keeping her own pain carefully packed away. After developing sepsis and coming close to death, she found herself receiving care and facing changes in her body, her identity and her understanding of what mattered. Our conversation moves between her work counselling people on death row, her military service, and the experiences that deepened her relationship with God. We consider the possibility of redemption, the responsibility of living the changes we seek, and what forgiveness might mean when anger is still present. Malaysia also speaks about her grandmother appearing in a dream before her hospitalisation, the peace she felt when she believed she was approaching death, and the simple experiences she wished she had enjoyed. We talk about survivor’s guilt, the loneliness of transformation and grieving your former self. Malaysia describes reconnecting with the little girl she spent a lifetime protecting and making room for her to experience joy. Towards the end, a conversation with her mother brings us back to the complexity of love, forgiveness and choice. We close with a reflection from Spirit on the possibility of working on our relationships with loved ones after they have transitioned, should we choose to. ✨ In this episode we explored: • Childhood experiences and the mask of success• Receiving care after a lifetime of helping others• Surrender as an ongoing practice• Lessons about life and redemption from working on death row• Forgiveness, accountability and personal responsibility• Service, self-care and what we offer others• Reconnecting with your younger self• Dreams, spiritual guidance and connection with loved ones• Grief, survivor’s guilt and grieving your former identity• Faith and developing a personal relationship with God• Love, boundaries and choice in difficult relationships ✨ About Malaysia Dr. Malaysia Harrell is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO, author, international keynote speaker, wellness mogul, and proud veteran whose life and work are a testament to resilience, purpose, and soul-aligned success. With over 30 years of experience in mental and behavioral health, Dr. Malaysia has served as a licensed psychotherapist, board-certified clinical social worker, and spiritual transformation coach, empowering individuals and communities through healing-centered leadership. As the founder of Blissful Life Consulting and The Malaysia Harrell Foundation, her mission is clear: to inspire others to rise, realign, and lead from the inside out, because true success starts with the soul. ✨ Connect with Malaysia Website → www.malaysiaharrell.comInstagram → instagram.com/malaysiahharrellEmail → info@malaysiaharrell.com 📖 Her book: God Has My Six ✨ Connect with Marta Explore readings, mentorship, courses & more → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → instagram.com/martathemedium Thank you for being here. I hope this conversation offers you a moment of reflection, a sense of possibility, or companionship in what you are experiencing. Follow the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast for more honest conversations about our spiritual experiences and our human lives. If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who would value it. Lots of love,Marta 🩷✨

  2. Oct 26

    How Do You Know Which Medium to Trust? | Sally Hawk

    How do you know which medium to trust? Behind that question lies a responsibility that goes beyond receiving information: how we care for the person who has come to us, and the grief they bring. 🌷 Host: Marta the Medium🌷 Guest: Sally Hawk, evidential medium and founder of VerySoul ✨ About the episode Sally Hawk had retired from a career leading global businesses. She was looking forward to travelling and was content to practise mediumship part-time. Building an international community was not part of her plans. Yet, as she shares in this conversation, Spirit presented her with the fully formed design for VerySoul. It addressed something she had struggled to find during her own development. There were dedicated teachers and valuable courses, but opportunities to practise were harder to come by. Mediums needed experience with different people to distinguish their own thoughts from the subtle impressions they received, and honest feedback to understand what was reaching the person sitting opposite them. We explore how VerySoul creates those opportunities while caring for both medium and client. Sally explains its approach to evidence: allowing each medium to work through their own abilities, while asking whether the recipient recognised their loved one and found the experience meaningful. She describes its Spirit-led matching process and how mediums progress from practising together to working with the public. Sally shares a defining experience: after almost a year of hesitation, she contacted a grieving mother who confirmed the evidence she had received from her son in Spirit. That confirmation prompted her to seek training and develop her abilities responsibly. Our conversation takes us into celebrity mediumship, humility, scams, religious fears, and the experiences with loved ones in Spirit that people often keep to themselves. Throughout, we return to connection beyond the reading: helping people trust their own experiences and carry that relationship into everyday life. ✨ About my guest Sally Hawk never imagined that a career spent transforming global businesses would lead her to exploring the continuation of consciousness. A former Fortune 50 executive with Bank of America and General Electric, Sally is an actuary, risk manager, and Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She led organizations of more than 20,000 people and was responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars. But a series of extraordinary personal experiences took her life in a completely unexpected direction. Today, Sally is an evidential medium and the founder of VerySoul, a global community of more than 3,500 medium practitioners across 55 countries. She and her team are transforming how mediums develop their abilities and how people connect with loved ones who have passed, making these experiences safe, accessible, and available to everyone. Sally believes that mediumship is more than a way to connect with loved ones. It’s a doorway to discovering just how extraordinary human consciousness and our own potential really are. ✨ In this episode we talk about: • Practice, evidence and confidence in developing mediumship• Feedback beyond a checklist• VerySoul’s four programmes and Spirit-led matching• Ethics, client care and the no promotions rule• Celebrity mediums, humility and scams• Religion, grief and the freedom to explore• Your own connection with loved ones in Spirit ✨ Connect with Sally Explore VerySoul → www.verysoul.com ✨ Connect with Marta Private readings, mentorship, courses & more → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → www.instagram.com/martathemedium If this conversation speaks to you, share it with someone who would appreciate it. Please follow the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast and leave a rating or review to help these conversations reach more people. Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  3. Oct 19

    Your Body Is Speaking: Womb Wisdom, Anger and Your Voice with Sam Hadadi, The Hormone Goddess

    There is an intimacy to learning to trust yourself. It asks you to notice what you feel, to take your own experience seriously, and sometimes to speak words you have spent years swallowing. In this episode, I’m joined by Sam Hadadi, known as The Hormone Goddess and author of Hormone Goddess: How to Live in Harmony with Your Cycle. Together, we explore our relationships with our bodies, the expression of anger, and the patient work of finding our voices. Our conversation moves between the deeply personal and the beliefs so many of us have inherited about womanhood: the shame surrounding menstruation, the expectation of being agreeable, the unease around female pleasure, and the suggestion that growing older should mean becoming less visible. We talk about menstrual cycle awareness, intuition, and making room for our own rhythms in lives so often organised around other people’s needs. We reflect on what it takes to speak up when conflict has taught us to fall silent, and how we might begin gently, with a boundary practised alone before it can be spoken to someone else. Sam shares her spiritual approach to womb work, her sense of connection to the maternal line, and the place of grief in her own experience of healing. We bring our experiences of birth and motherhood into a wider conversation about feeling safe, expressing ourselves, and what we want more women to know about their bodies. We also share personal experiences of finding greater safety after trauma, befriending our bodies, and discovering that pleasure and enjoyment can have a place alongside healing. There is room here for the fullness of being a woman: tenderness and rage, grief and desire, wisdom and curiosity. And for the freedom of becoming more sure of ourselves with age. In this episode we explored: • Sam’s journey and the beginnings of The Hormone Goddess • The beliefs we inherit about menstruation and womanhood • Raising children with greater understanding of their bodies • Stillness, intuition and learning to listen to yourself • The luteal phase and Sam’s experience of the “wild woman” • Working with your cycle in business and everyday life • Anger, expression and making room for difficult feelings • Sam’s approach to womb work and connection to the maternal line • Grief and the personal meaning of healing • People pleasing, boundaries and learning to speak up • Feeling supported in birth and using your voice • Sam’s perspective on the womb and throat connection • Pleasure, shame and a fuller experience of being alive • Ageing, wisdom and growing self-trust About Sam Sam is a women’s health and hormone coach, somatic practitioner, womb healer, and author. She is passionate about helping women to reclaim their anger, and find their voice and power. Connect with Sam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_hormone_goddess/ As a special invitation for listeners of this episode, Sam is offering 33% off anything in her shop. Use code MARTA to explore what calls to you. Shop: https://samanthahadadi.podia.com/ef9a79c4-0f92-497e-850f-91a59bc7ff4c Her book, Hormone Goddess: How to Live in Harmony with Your Cycle, is available from Waterstones, Amazon and independent bookshops. Connect with Marta Explore readings, mentorship, courses and more: https://www.martathemedium.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martathemedium/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@martathemedium A gentle note: this conversation includes discussion of miscarriage, abortion, sexual violence, abusive relationships and eating disorders, as well as strong language. Please listen in whatever way feels right for you. We share personal experiences and spiritual perspectives alongside discussion of women’s health. This episode is not a substitute for medical advice. Thank you for listening. If this conversation resonates with you, please follow the podcast, leave a rating or review, and share it with someone who would value it. Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  4. Oct 12

    The Myth of the New Self: Why Growth Doesn't Mean Replacing Who You Were

    In this episode I look at where the idea of the new self comes from and why it is so appealing. Then I set it beside what I have found to be true in my own life, in the old Polish wedding customs that marked a woman's passage from one stage of life to the next, and in what people in Spirit show me about who we remain. We travel from Glennon Doyle's cheetah pacing the fence to the painted wooden chest a bride carried into her married life. We visit La Loba, the bone woman from Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves, who never goes looking for a new wolf, and a late poem by Wisława Szymborska in which an older woman meets the girl she once was. Along the way I share what ski slopes, translation and anthropology taught me about reading fear, carrying a message across, and keeping every part of yourself. If you have ever wanted to disown an earlier version of yourself, this episode gives you one simple question to ask instead: what did she pack for you? If this episode spoke to you, please follow the podcast and leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps these conversations reach more people who need them. And send it to a woman who is in the middle of changing. Lots of love,Marta 🩷✨

  5. Oct 5

    Your Spirit Guide Is Already Talking to You | Cindy Anderson

    What if your spirit guide is already communicating with you, but you simply haven’t learnt how to recognise the connection? In this episode of the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast, I’m joined by Cindy “Seer” Anderson, founder of Soulpiphany and self-described “mad spiritual scientist”, for a grounded conversation about spirit guides, intuition and the many ways spiritual communication can actually feel. Cindy came to this work from electrical engineering and a corporate career. After following the conventional checklist for a successful life, she found herself asking one deceptively simple question: Do I have a guide? What followed was more than a decade of exploring whether communication with Spirit could become clear, reliable and teachable. We talk about claircognizance, the body as an antenna, recognising your own unique “fingerprint” for spiritual communication, and how to tell the difference between guidance, fear, ego and the thoughts running through your own mind. Cindy also shares why healthy scepticism belongs in spiritual practice, what she means by “Tuesday morning spirituality”, and why your guide may be an advisor, but you are still the CEO of your own life. We also move into grief, higher selves, forgiveness and the extraordinary letters Cindy’s mother left behind before her death. At its heart, this is a conversation about learning to recognise a connection that may have been there all along, while remaining fully grounded in your own judgement, agency and human life. Cindy’s listener offer:A complimentary five-day, one-to-one challenge with Cindy, around thirty minutes a day by phone, designed to help you explore your own connection with your spirit guide: https://soulpiphany.com/pod Find Cindy at https://soulpiphany.com Find Marta at www.martathemedium.comInstagram: @martathemedium Lots of love,Marta 🩷✨

  6. Sep 28

    Why Humans Create Ritual When Life Falls Apart: Grief, Liminality and the Thresholds Nobody Marks

    There are moments after which you are technically still the same person, and yet you know you are not. The world carries on as though nothing has happened, while inside you there is a clear before and after. And sometimes the advice to “move on” is wrong. Maybe you are not stuck. Maybe you are unfinished, standing in the space between what ended and who you are becoming. In this solo episode, I bring together my training in social anthropology and my work as a psychic medium to explore why human beings have always created ritual around death, loss, love and the moments that change who we are. I explore Arnold van Gennep’s rites of passage and Victor Turner’s idea of liminality, why grief and transition live in the body, and what happens when life changes us without giving us a ritual, a witness or even the language to acknowledge what has happened. We look at the transitions modern life often leaves invisible: divorce, miscarriage, estrangement, infertility, leaving a career, children leaving home and losing a version of the future you thought you were going to have. I also explore fire, water, pilgrimage and the physical objects through which human beings make invisible change tangible; what modern spirituality can get wrong about ritual; and the small rituals that may already exist in your everyday life without you ever calling them sacred. And I look at mediumship as a threshold ritual of its own. At its best, a reading is not about escaping this life for the spirit world. It should help us return more fully to the life we are here to live. I close with a simple practice for marking a transition that still feels unfinished. You don’t owe anyone a transformation before transformation has happened. Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re unfinished. If you enjoyed this episode, follow the Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Podcast and leave a rating or review. It helps more people discover the podcast. For readings, mentorship, courses and more, visit www.martathemedium.com Follow me on Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  7. Sep 21

    Before We Called Them Mediums (What Ritual Specialists Understood About Spiritual Authority)

    Spiritual authority was never supposed to come from being closest to spirit. It came from being trustworthy with what happened when you got there. In this solo episode I trace who stood at that threshold long before anyone called them mediums, what their communities actually held them accountable for, and the accountability modern spirituality has quietly lost along the way. I draw on my anthropology background, my work as a psychic medium and my own lived experience throughout. • Why the community never needed you to be special, only useful • Why closing the ritual mattered as much as opening it, and knowing when the work is finished • Why a medium should be able to return, to dinner, to children, to ordinary human life • Evidence as an ethical boundary, not a parlour trick • Why the best mediumship should leave you needing your medium less, not more • Illustrated throughout with the Guślarz, the Greek oracle at Delphi, possession mediumship in parts of Africa and Madagascar, and the birth of modern Spiritualism in 1848 If this episode resonated, follow the show so you don't miss the next one. Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

  8. Sep 14

    Hold Them, Don't Be Held Under | Grief, Mediumship & Why You Don't Have to Let Go

    Somebody told you to let go of your loved one who died. They meant it kindly. And something in you refused, because letting go sounded too much like losing them twice. This episode is about grief, mediumship, and the false choice we're handed between the two, that you either let your loved ones in spirit go or you stay stuck. I use Polish and Slavic death ritual as the lens, not the subject, because these older traditions solved something we're still struggling with, they made space for the dead without asking the living to stop living. Food left out. Doors opened, and closed again. A ritual figure whose real skill wasn't calling spirits in, it was knowing when to send the living back to their lives. I bring that alongside continuing bonds, the idea modern grief psychology arrived at recently that these cultures already understood, and alongside my own experience, my mother, in spirit, and the difference I had to learn between carrying somebody and being buried beside them. Pain is not the measurement of love. Healing does not mean they mattered less. The door can close without the love disappearing. In this episode, we cover • Why the phrase "let them go" fails so many grieving people, and what it actually asks of us • How old death rituals, using Poland as the example, made space for the dead without freezing the living • Thresholds in funeral ritual, and why doors were opened for souls and also closed again • An old folk belief that the dead carry vessels of our tears, and what it says about grief as a burden we place on them • Why pain is not the measurement of love, and what happens when grief has an invisible scoreboard • Why grief benefits from ritual shape rather than one enormous goodbye • The ritual figure who mediated between worlds, and why closing the ritual mattered more than opening it • Why mediumship should never ask you to build your home in the doorway • My own mother in spirit, and what I had to understand about carrying her without staying frozen in the room where I lost her • Continuing bonds in modern grief psychology, and how older cultures already knew it • The flame as the truest image of carrying someone, alive, but never imprisoning you • What letting go actually means, and why the phrase itself might be wrong • A small candle ritual for anyone you love who is in spirit If this episode resonated, hit subscribe and follow wherever you listen. Connect with Marta Website → www.martathemedium.com Instagram → @martathemedium Lots of love, Marta 🩷✨

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Spiritual teacher and mentor Marta the Medium hosts a grounded spiritual podcast about intuition, mediumship, sensitivity and self-trust. A psychic medium and intuitive guide, she blends honest conversation with practical spiritual development, so you can trust yourself and feel supported by Spirit. Through guest interviews and solo reflections, the show explores intuition, being an empath, self-trust and anxiety, for intelligent, sensitive people who feel deeply and want to bring it into everyday life. New episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

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