Hey, one more thing before you go.

What does it mean to create a life of alignment and fulfillment?

How can we blend spirituality, mindfulness and mindset work to help us break free from the cycles that hold us back?

You're in luck because today I'm joined by a guest who embodies the kind of deep, engaging and thought provoking discussions we love to have here on the show.

Stay tuned.

We're going to answer those questions and many more.

I'm your host, Michael Hirsch.

Welcome to One more Thing before you go.

Daniel Anderson is a holistic success and legacy coach who guides people through personal transformations, helping them break free from burnout, disconnection and limiting patterns to create a life of purpose, which is what we all want, an alignment.

Passionate about exploring everything from pop culture to the greater mysteries of life, Daniel combines spiritual spirituality, mindfulness and mindset work to uncover profound insights into human connection and the broader mysteries of existence.

In this episode, we're going to discuss Daniel's powerful framework like the Legacy method and how they can help you step into a more meaningful, authentic life.

Plus, we're going to explore breaking free from inherited patterns and redefining success that can pave the way to a purposeful legacy.

If you're ready for an engaging and inspiring conversation that leaves you with actionable insights, you're in the right place.

Let's dive in.

Welcome to the show, Daniel.

Thank you for having me.

What an, what an amazing journey your life has taken and where you've come to now.

It sure has been quite, quite the ride from being the youngest of eight children and not really finding my voice or knowing I had a message or a voice, to be honest with you, to finding my true purpose in life and now helping other people discover theirs and guide them on their journeys as they grow and learn.

That's a big family.

I had an older brother, older sister, younger brother, and, you know, that in itself was enough chaos.

I can't imagine being with eight.

Yeah, it was very, very chaotic.

But since there was such a big age difference, I'm 16, 15, and 14 years younger than my three oldest siblings, so things calmed down fairly quickly, but it was always hectic.

We had a lot of fun, though, and especially around the holidays when we would all get together.

Now that, that I can relate to overall.

We have a big family.

My grandmother on my mother's side, she had nine kids.

So when we got together for family events, there was like, I don't know, 60 everything.

Kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, cousins, you name it.

Everybody showed up and we took up, like, the whole block almost.

It was.

It was a lot of fun.

I always love that.

Yeah, a lot of fun.

Made for great football out in the.

Out in the front yard.

Made for great baseball games.

It made for great basketball games.

But you had to get in line first to get to the food.

I will say that.

Sounds familiar.

So where I could start at the beginning.

Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called Wauwatosa.

And house I grew up in, as it turned out, was really haunted.

Now, that's cool.

I, on many occasions, have seen spirits growing up, as well as several other family members have in that house.

And I've had the opportunity to hear some stories from a couple people that lived there after I did, and they were experiencing much of the same thing.

And I think we need to explore that just a little.

Just a wee bit more, I think.

You know, anytime anybody goes up in a haunted house, we have to.

We have to change direction just a wee bit.

No problem.

How old's the house?

1940S-60S, I think.

It was built somewhere.

So not super old.

But then again, for me, it feels like 1980 was 20 years ago.

Yes, I can relate to that statement.

Very much so.

So what was your first experience?

When did you first experience seeing a spiritual being or a ghost or anything like that?

First time was between ages of 7 and 8.

And what really seemed odd was how it showed up to me.

And I always thought I was a little crazy for it, but I was coming down the stairs in the front of my house, and there was a dining room and, like, a little entryway that connected the dining room and living room.

And something formed out of the corner of my eye.

And when I looked, it was a black that I can't describe how deeply black.

It was a pair of pants, and it looked like there was a body in it, but you couldn't see the body.

All I could see were the pants.

And they walked from the dining room into the living room, and then they disappeared.

Scared the bejesus out of me.

I would think it would.

I think it would.

Did you ever find out or know whether anybody died in the house or died in.

In the area?

Yes, I.

I do.

The family that lived there before us were owners of a bakery that used to be pretty well known.

See?

Oh, my God.

I can't think of the name of the Bread.

Jaeger.

Jaeger Bakery, which was similar to the.

The Wonder Bread we have today.

And they owned the house before us.

And they had a 16 year old son named Tim who tragically took his own life in the hub in that home.

Unfortunate, but it also leaves it open for unfinished business.

Yep.

And then I'm not sure if his mom died there, but shortly after that she passed away.

So I know for sure that there was somebody upstairs, there was somebody on the main floor and definitely some things in the basement.

Well, you know, as a kid we see more things than adults do because in, you know, as, you know, society and culture, for the most part at least an hour, neck of the woods kind of quashes at that.

You think you saw a ghost, you saw a spirit, and they go, no, that doesn't exist, or no.

Did you tell your parents?

Yes.

And it wasn't until years later that, I mean, I know they told me back then that I was just seeing things or imagining things because of how little I was.

But my mom really started becoming a believer because when we were home, and I've been home with her plenty of times growing up, obviously, and we would hear stomping around in the, in the upstairs when it was just her and I down in the main floor.

Whoa.

Timmy would go and steal my mom's keys or her purse and then she'd yell at them and they would show back up where she just looked a couple of minutes prior that they weren't there.

Now that's pretty crazy that, you know, I've had a lot, I had a lot of conversations over the years with paranormal investigators and ghost hunters and, you know, anybody that's looking within that realm, psychics, mediums, you name it.

The fact that you interacted with that, that entity the way that you did your mother, you know, enacted with that, that entity and it listened to her.

That's kind of profound, actually.

Yeah.

And it's really funny because when he would make a lot of noise stomping around and she would finally get sick of it and yell at him and it would stop immediately.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

You know, it's, that's.

That, that in itself I think is an amazing.

You guys should get somebody like the ghost adventures there to kind of really talk to them and get them out in the open.

Well, they're, to be honest, ghost adventures.

They are fake.

Or I can refer you somebody that would love to come to your house that.

Well, I'm really, honestly, I'm a paranormal investigator too.

It really sparked my interest throughout my life.

And starting a few years ago, I started doing it as a hobby.

And I'm on my third team now and hopefully I can reach out to somebody that lives there.

So because I want to investigate it myself.

I find the most interesting part of that is typically you don't you.

You know, people will see a dark shadow, people will hear something going on, people will feel it.

But to have somebody like your mother say, give me my purse back and the purse shows back up again or stop doing that and they go, oh, oh, sorry.

That's kind of a new approach.

I like that.

I like that I should bring her.

With me on one of my investigations.

Exactly.

I need you to talk to me.

Need you to talk to me now.

Nothing like a mom, right?

Yep.

You got to stand up.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

So you got, you got interested in paranormal investigation from about what age.

I was interested obviously growing up, you know, with all the experiences that I've had.

There had another one where one of my friends and I were outside and we happened to look up into the attic window and we saw somebody standing in there.

And it was somebody around the age of 16.

We could see him pretty clearly, but see the boxes that were behind him.

And then that was probably when I was about 12 years old.

And then in high school I've had four of my friends and I see a full bodied thing walking down the back stairs, stop, look down at something, turn around and float back up.

And I can tell you honestly that we were all standing outside looking inside the house and my house was empty because my parents were in three hours away.

So really I've had an interest in.

In paranormal investigating without really realizing it ever since my first encounter.

I think that sparks the interest in all of us that have a fascination with that or an interest in it to even explore it the way we have.

That's what got me into talking to people on this program.

And you know, I've been lucky enough to meet some individuals that really have some amazing stories.

Soul sisters.

Sumner had come on here, Chris Sumner and she came in and was talking about when they went to investigate mall and Ma Barker and I forgot Ma Barker's kid's name, but where they had the shootout with the FBI and, and where they ended up dying.

And she went, she got into there and she was able to record and she recorded.

It was.

Sounded like Ma Barker and her kid in there talking about how they were going to try to rush the police and her saying, no, we got to shoot it out here.

And it was the most amazing piece of thing that I've heard because it was just.

You could hear the distinction between a Female and a male voice.

You could hear them getting ready, like getting ready for the cops to come in.

And.

Yeah, it was pretty.

Pretty profound, actually.

She's pretty amazing.

Yeah, she's done things with the Allegheny.

Was it Allegheny Mental Hospital out there?

She's done things actually, all over the east coast and the south.

And her.

And another woman, she called herself the biker.

The ghost biker.

She goes and does.

Because she loves history.

She goes and does historical places and then ghost hunts while she's at those historical places.

Opened a museum down in Tennessee, I believe.

That is very cool.

So what you said you've had other experiences other than your own home?

I have.

The.

The one that will always stick with me is I was at my best friend's house and we were in high school and we were in his basement and nobody was home that time either at his house.

And all of a sudden we hear the back door opening up the screen and the heavy.

The heavy door itself and both close.

His dog at the time always barked when somebody walked in the house and would run upstairs.

And she did that, but then she never came down.

And we never heard anybody else at all walking around or talking or called down to us.

And nobody left the house again.

So after like half an hour, my friend and I thought that was really odd.

So we went upstairs and looked, and there was nobody there.

We looked in closets.

We looked everywhere.

And we started to freak out because we thought somebody was.

Had broken in and was hiding there.

So we ended up running out of the house to a different friend's house and got his dad to come over with us and a couple golf clubs just in case.

And we all searched the house again and there was no sign of anybody ever being there.

That's.

That is.

That's significant.

I think that I told you I was a police.

I'll retire police sergeant.

And we had a place in the city that I worked in that had burned down three times.

And huge hotel actually, and famous hotel actually.

And by the.

The third time it had burned down.

The second and the third time there were people that had died.

So they pretty much abandoned it after the.

The third time.

And they've since rebuilt it into something absolutely beautiful.

But we used to get calls out there all the time because people would see who they thought was somebody walking around the old.

The building.

So we'd have the cops walking around looking for somebody in this huge building.

And of course, we never found anybody, at least from the paranormal part.

We did find.

We did find people that were kids that were Going in there and, you know, Daria, I.

Daria, I, Daria.

And those kind of things, you know, we're just here to see the haunted.

Haunted hotel.

You know, that's all we're here for and things like that.

But I unfortunately never had any experiences in there.

I wish I would have.

They can be life altering.

And it's.

It's funny because the reason I started my spiritual journey a couple years ago actually was to become a better paranormal investigator and really tap into the gifts that I had when I was younger.

Because, you know, being little and when you grow up, you tend to lose some of your abilities or you just block them or whatever.

And so I started an internal journey thinking that it would make me get those abilities back and make me better at what I love to do, which was investigating.

And it turns out that the journey that I went on went way deeper than that.

It led me to my divine calling of becoming a coach.

It led me to everything that I've been doing with the business for the last couple years.

It led me to write that book and get, I think, 17 diplomas and certificates in different modalities.

Wow.

Mostly in 2023, and I've gotten probably five more since 2024.

That pretty much devoted myself now to learning to something.

Also weird, because I hated school growing up.

I think we all have.

My grades weren't great in high school, but when I went to college, you had to pay for it.

All of a sudden I was getting good grades.

You know, it kind of changes your perspective.

Plus, I think the desire for wanting us to learn more comes with maturity and it comes with, you know, our age.

It evolves us into something that we want to learn and we want to expand.

That's quite an education you built around yourself.

Some, you know, some of the courses have been just for fun.

I've got a parapsychology diploma, a paranormal investigation diploma, one in cryptozoology.

And like I said, those are just.

Those were for complete enjoyment.

I still got the diploma in distinction like I did with pretty much everything.

Well, you know, it.

It's.

I think that going into this hobby and turning it into something more than a hobby allows you the opportunity to utilize what you've learned in all of those.

I've got a friend of mine that actually, his podcast called the thirteenth Floor Podcast, and they do a lot of stories in interviews and investigations with cryptoids and, you know, things like that, Bigfoot, and, you know, a whole slew of those opportunities.

So, you know, anytime you get opportunity, I think That's a good thing.

The spiritual journey that you, that you came to now, I mean, theoretically.

Let me, let me regress just a minute.

I know that you say you have a lot of education, you got a lot of certificates and diplomas.

When you left high school, what did you want to be when you grow up?

Did you want to go into being a paranormal investigator or.

Or from where you're at now, what did you, what did you want to be?

I wanted to be a teacher growing up.

I even had my classes registered and picked out and everything and was getting ready to go to a really, really great university here in Wisconsin.

And I decided to screw off one day in high school and skipped out of going to a teacher's assistant position that I was holding.

It was for a course credit and a paycheck, but I blew it off and went to the mall instead because I was a dumb 18 year old.

So my dad, who was going to pay for my college at the time, he said that if you're going to screw around for free in California in high school, I'm not going to pay 20 plus grand a year for you to screw around in college.

So I blew my opportunity.

And after that, I ended up following in his footsteps in the dry cleaning business, which he had been in for.

He was in for 71 years and worked actually three weeks until three weeks before he passed away, which was two weeks ago.

I'm sorry if I can.

For you, Lawson, your father, that's what.

Long career.

Wow.

Yes.

He would have been 90 years old today, which is a huge part why I wanted to come on this podcast and talk with you on this specific day, because I knew it would be something that he'd want.

Great.

Well, I'm honored.

I appreciate that very much.

I think that, you know, maybe he's with you at the moment and have you had any opportunity to try to connect or reach out to him?

I have, actually.

One of the gifts I found out that I have is using a pendulum.

So I can make any of these dangling weights on a string.

I can make anything.

Have conversations with me.

I call forward angels.

I speak to them constantly.

I have spoken to my father now think.

And I'm so thankful for that.

I've gotten to speak to him three times since his death and he had told me, because he was never a religious person at all, he had told me, I can't believe this, but God is real.

And that's the first thing that he told me.

And he said he went in peace and all he feels now is peace and love and that's how we're supposed to act.

He had been divorced from my mom for close to 30 years after being married for 35.

And he had remarried and been remarried for an additional 25 years.

Wow.

And he had said to me a few days, actually late last week he came and he's like, you know, I'm really sorry for leaving you guys when I did, but it was just time.

And he said, tell your mother when it's her time to go to come look for me so we can spend eternity together.

What a, what a profound statement, a message, a heartfelt and hope and love and compassion that he gave you to give to your mother.

And then we had a.

He didn't want a funeral per se, but you know, we still had a service for him.

And then he said, I want to throw a party.

And he had told my sisters that he was going to pay for it because all he wants is to be celebrated and to have a huge party.

And if huge party it was.

There was I think around 130 people at the service and holy smokes, I think 99% of them showed up to the party afterwards because of the open bar.

That's a testament to either.

Well, it could be a testament to both actually.

Open bar and you know, your ability for your father to connect with the community.

Yes, he, he really had a very strong legacy.

He owned two dry cleaners in the inner city of Milwaukee and service.

The, the.

Some of the poorest people around in our town and just built relationships with them.

We had, you know, employees and former employees show up to his service customers of his for many years.

It's just, it was really amazing to see how many people were there that my father had an influence on.

That's very cool.

It's got to be heartwarming for your, for your soul in regard to at least that portion of it.

And you know, the, the one more thing before you go is the whole reason.

One more thing before you go being created was based upon my personal life and my career.

Because I lost my father at a very young age.

I didn't have the opportunity to say goodbye to him.

I didn't have the opportunity to say what I wanted to say to him.

My mother, the same thing I lost my mother did not have that opportunity.

I was with too many people that didn't.

I was the last person that they saw.

And you know, it was.

Can you please tell my wife I love them?

My husband, I love them.

My, my sons, my.

Proud of my sons.

And my daughters, my, you know, my grandma, my uncle, et cetera, et cetera.

And gave me the motivation, especially in the beginning of this podcast, was to give people a voice when they didn't have the opportunity to get to say what they wanted to say or do what they wanted to do before losing somebody.

So I appreciate your story in the fact that you emphasize that to the viewer, my audience, and my community, that we always have one more thing that we can do.

We always have one more opportunity for us.

And you got that opportunity presented to you to be able to talk to your father after he passed on, so that you had that connection.

You got some answers from him in regard to it.

You were able to get some closure some more, I'm assuming, some additional closure in regard to the fact that he is in a good place.

And.

And to.

That's.

I mean, that's.

Thank you for doing that, because you were able to validate something my community is.

Is always seeking and, you know, and looking for.

Yep.

So what I've learned now really, is there's really no such thing as death.

And I've learned this through my spiritual journey, too.

There's really no such thing as death.

It's just transition.

Because when.

When the Bible had said that God made us in his image, it didn't mean this, because you look at pictures of yourself from when you're 4 years old to 12 years old, to 30 years old to 50 years old, and even more, what you see back in the mirror isn't the same person you saw at those other times, but you feel exactly the same because that you and me is inside of us.

And we are our souls, and they never die.

Our bodies may give out and may go away, but that doesn't mean our loved ones do.

I can honestly feel my dad standing right behind me right now.

And also my sister took a picture today of her, one of my brothers and my sister's son from a little diner.

And coming swooping across them in the picture are just a rainbow, beams of light.

And we think that's my dad.

Because the.

The sun was shining from the south, and these beams of light were coming in from the east.

So our loved ones, they never leave us.

They're always with us.

And you are always with our Creator, and our creator is always with you.

So there's nothing to fear in life.

If you have any dreams that you want to go for, don't hesitate and go for them, because you're not alone.

You can do whatever you put your mind to.

And I firmly Believe in the mantra that it's not.

You'll see it.

You'll believe it when you see it.

It's you will see.

You will see it once you believe it.

Because where we put our energy is where, you know, the focus goes, is where the energy flows.

And we are the creators of our own doing.

And people find that really hard to believe.

But yet if they.

If you really think about it and you just focus on bad things and the lack of money and the lack of freedom and the lack of time, that's Keith, that's what you keep seeing.

So maybe if you challenge your limiting beliefs by questioning them if they're real or not, and trying to figure out evidence of whether or not it's valid, which generally those negative things are not, then you realize that you create the negative stuff.

So start thinking about the positive things and the things that are coming to you, because once you know they're coming to you, and once you ask for them, they will come to you.

I agree with you.

I think that we as human beings are innately always are seeking answers and we're always seeking approval.

We always want approval from someone or somebody.

Even within ourselves, we're looking and seeking approval.

We also want to understand life from the perspective of what we have and what we don't have.

Issues, I think, built into us from the time we're children and as we grow up.

I agree with you.

When we start learning that we need to be grateful for what we have and what we are in present, that it allows and opens the door for more to be presented to us in a very positive way.

Because I appreciate what you said about the lack of.

I think too many people focus on.

And I'm guilty of it.

Not, you know, as well, I slip back into those old bows like everybody else.

Because we're human.

We're always focusing on what I don't have and not what I do have.

Is that where legacy, your legacy method, was born from?

Yes, absolutely.

And has to do with learning to take personal responsibility and accepting responsibility for everything you do in your life.

The next phase of it, because legacy is a.

An acronym.

So it's learning to take responsibility.

And then it goes into examining the subconscious mind.

Let me go back here.

L is for leveraging responsibility and ownership.

E is taking a deeper examination into the subconscious mind and kind of goes into the limiting beliefs and why we think the way we do.

G in the legacy is growing new belief systems, which is challenging your limiting beliefs and autopilot behaviors that are keeping you stuck and it will help you replace the outdated definitions and societal definitions of success, what your self worth is and your happiness.

And it aligns you with your beliefs and true values and aspirations.

So then we go into a in legacy which is align values with actions.

So it's a way to ensure that you show up daily or how you show up daily reflects your true priorities.

And we also get into the fact that success doesn't mean much if it doesn't align with your purpose and what truly matters to you.

And then it's in that part of the program where you're going to bridge the gap between who you are now and who you are destined to become.

Because you every.

Everybody here is here for a purpose and a destiny.

And it's just.

It takes a little nudge sometimes to.

To figure out what it is.

The C and legacy stands for cultivating fulfillment.

And we do that through the six human needs.

And basically it's a kind of a psychological portion of the program too where you learn to fulfill the.

The six human needs of certainty, variety, significance, love and connection, growth and contribution in healthy ways rather than destructive ways.

And why is stands for your emotional mastery.

And it's basically teaches you to navigate challenges and build your.

Resist your resilience with presence and clarity.

Because when you become a master of your emotions, you no longer react out of fear or react from past wounds.

You respond with intention and become the conscious creator of your life.

Which is something I think we all need to try to strive for.

You have a passion for exploring life's mysteries.

And I'm saying that out loud because I think even bringing up the paranormal and the spirituality perspective of paranormal, we all, every one of us, unless you've really experienced it yourself and have firsthand knowledge of experience, really want to know what's out there and how we fit into it all.

Do you think that.

That how do you incorporate the curiosity about the universe into your.

Like into your, your coaching or what we just talked about when you bring it there and your experiences with all this.

Well, for me what really led everything and where I, where I try to come from is we all.

Some.

I'm sure all of us.

I know I spent most of my life just thinking is this all there is to life?

What is, what else is out there?

What you know, I know I'm meant for more and why am I stuck in this?

And that comes from our higher self.

Who knows?

Our higher purpose.

Us.

And you know, people may get uncomfortable calling it God, but God and Allah in the universe and the Creator and Source.

It's all the same thing.

It's in my studies, you know, Right.

There was an ancient text, the Dowda Ching, and then it says the Dao, which is, you know, that the source of creation, the dao that can be named is no longer the Dao, which means basically, putting a label on God doesn't make it more or less God than if you call it Bob.

And also, you know how I've heard this said, too, where you can't get wet from the word water, so you can it.

You.

You're what you see in life and what you label things are.

Are not exactly what they are.

It's how you perceive them.

You could be totally crazy and.

And point at a tree and tell somebody, that's a.

That's a rock, you know, but it doesn't change the fact that it still is what it really is and doesn't exactly have a name, if that makes any sense.

Well, it does.

I think in society and culture overall, we give a designation for things just so we have a better understanding of what we're looking at or what we're feeling and what we're touching, what we're eating, what we're watching.

And I think that we can accept what that is because that seems to be the societal norm, or we can question what that is, and then there's a balance in between.

We've grown up knowing that what's out there in my front yard that has got bark and is growing in the ground and it's got leaves and branches, is a tree.

That's what we've been told.

That's what we've always been told, that it's a tree.

But in reality, it's hard as a rock.

You know, you go.

You hit.

Hit the bottom of the trunk.

It's hard as a rock.

So I think that our perception.

Our.

Perception of things can also be governed by society.

I mean, even I talk.

We talk pop culture on this podcast as well, on this show.

And I.

I think that even pop culture has an opportunity to give a different perception to people.

Look at social media these days and the messages that are being portrayed and what's normal and what's not normal with somebody.

What we think may be normal and not normal, but in.

In each instance, somebody believes in it to be normal.

Some people believe in it to be not normal.

Do you think that even with that, do you think that, like, your legacy program helps us to have a deeper understanding of the aspects of ourselves and the connection to the world?

Oh, absolutely.

The way I run My programs, I try to, I strive to do a, take a holistic approach.

You know, the mind, body and spirit.

Yeah.

And really everything will change on your outer world once you get a handle on the inner world.

Because what you have inside of you, be it trauma or anything like that, expresses itself in the outside world.

So you know, learning, resiliency and mindset shifts and everything changes how you see everything.

And that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Dr.

Wayne Dyer is change the way.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

And when I first started my journey, I wasn't really sure what that meant even.

But now, you know, with the profound connection that I've got with guys, my spirit guides and angels and everything else, and all the messages I've.

I keep receiving, things have started to look different in my life.

I know if you ask anybody that, that knew me even three or four years ago, say I'm a completely different person now because of how I've grown internally and how I've gotten in touch with my spiritual self and my higher self and surrendered as much as I can up to this point to the greater good in whatever our Creator is designing for me.

And I'm trusting the process because that, that's actually a message I get all the time.

Trust the process and trust God's plan.

And once you really let go and start to put your trust and faith into a higher power, whatever you consider it to be, it's absolutely life changing.

I know that you have mentioned and some of the stuff that I have researched on you and the information that was given to me, you yourself had to overcome trauma within your life in order to reach the spiritual perspective that you are at now.

Is that trauma outside of seeing a dark pair of pants walk through your house?

Yes.

I was actually partially abused growing up.

Of course back in the 70s and early 80s, it was just discipline or spanking.

Some of it went overboard.

So some of it, you know, was from family.

I was horrifically bullied growing up.

So I had a lot of mental trauma and some physical abuse and that scarred me for many years and, and led me to just believe in myself that I was worthless, that I wasn't going to make it, that I wasn't going to do anything.

Right.

I had that little inner voice in my head that would scream at me at high volumes, constantly telling me how worthless I was and how, you know, that I was a failure and just settle for this and settle for that.

So I settled for very low paying jobs.

Pretty much most of my life doing what I thought my father wanted me to do and what society deemed necessary for me to do.

Then I snapped out of my.

My haze, I guess you could really.

The way I look at the movie the Matrix now, it.

It's almost like a documentary with action sequences because we are so wrapped up with our ego self and the way things appear, you know, and that negative feeling voice in our head that once you let that go, your eyes finally are open and you can see what the world really is.

I think as an enemy that a lot of us have to fight is allowing those kind of emotions to be released and let go because they stop too many people from moving forward in a positive way.

Have you been able to.

You and your father have been able to kind of clear the air with that and.

And help you get through some of that?

Yeah, you know, I'm still grieving a lot, understandably, but I've actually, one of our conversations we had, I was able to tell him some stupid things that I did when I was younger and apologized to him for it.

And he accepted my apology, thankfully, because that's.

That's all he is now, his love.

And so I was able to.

To clear the air after he was gone.

I wish.

Wish it would be.

Yeah.

With him sitting in front of me.

But, you know, really, you don't need to go to a psychic or a medium or even delve into that world yourself to discover if you have gifts or not.

If you talk to your loved ones after they go, they will hear you.

And if you are able to just center yourself and focus on breathing and quiet the inner.

A hole that we all have in our head and start to listen for the good.

You'll.

You'll hear them, they'll talk back.

Yeah.

What a profound opportunity that was that you had in order to be able to help clear that air.

Because a lot of people don't understand that you do have that opportunity after someone's past to be able to reach out and do that.

You just have to.

You just have to recognize the signs and listen.

Feel in your heart and listen.

Absolutely.

You know, I think we.

We can all take a lesson from that in overcoming that kind of trauma, in breaking the inherited patterns that we bring forward.

I believe in intergenerational trauma as well.

I was introduced to that term about three years ago with a doctor that I had interviewed on the show, and I brought him on the show a couple different times, and I had never thought about it before then, up until the time that I'D interviewed him.

I never heard about it.

And I was a domestic violence investigator for my whole police career.

But in specific, a domestic violence task force.

That's all we did for about four years.

And understanding any kind of domestic situation, whether it be emotional or physical, that kind of trauma sticks with you and creates a PTSD kind of a situation.

You don't have to be a soldier to be ptsd.

You don't have to be a cop or firefighter or doctor to have ptsd.

You can have it with any kind of traumatic incident that.

And I'm not teaching you because you know and understand this.

This is for everybody that's.

Anybody that's listening.

It can be any traumatic situation that leaves, that leaves an effect on you so, so badly or negatively that it doesn't allow you to function in a very positive way or move forward from something because of it.

So do you think that what you just spoke about, in regard to the spirituality, to listening and the talking, do you feel that.

What advice would you give to someone who's feel, who has experienced that, especially with a family member or a loved one and, and how they should approach that and getting it resolved?

That's a long question.

I'm.

I'm sorry.

No, no worries.

Best answer is forgiveness.

They need to start by forgiving themselves.

And that's, that's.

It's a lot of shadow work.

And all that really is, is examining things deep in your soul and saying the things that happened were not your fault, you didn't do anything wrong, you didn't deserve the trauma that you underwent.

And it's all part of the plan, as stupid as that sounds.

I wouldn't be where I am today if I wasn't.

Didn't go through my traumas.

But basically what you really need to do, you need to forgive.

And you forgive the person.

You don't even have to say it to them.

You just say, I forgive you, I love you, and I release you now and just let it go.

It sounds like, I'm sure some of the listeners would be like, oh, come on, that sounds really impossible.

How can I forgive somebody in it?

It's not about forgiving them.

It's about bringing peace back to your own life.

Because letting these generational things and these patterns and old traumas and old abuse and everything linger.

All that's doing is.

Is holding you down and keeping you back and keeping you from where you belong and what you should be doing.

So the forgiveness part is to forgive yourself and also while forgiving them, healing yourself by Letting it go.

That's some good advice.

That's some good advice.

And in your coaching career, has it ever overlapped into your spiritualistic perspective?

Have you gotten messages from anybody else that maybe you were working with somebody and messages had come through or you felt a presence or something that needed to be said?

Not in, not particularly really, but basically the messages that I do get for myself can in a lot of ways go to, towards anybody else.

And that's, you know, trust the process, trust the purpose, trust God's plan, forgive yourself.

And the biggest thing is the one true power in our universe is love.

And love can overcome anything.

That's a fact.

It sounds like a cliche, but it's a fact.

You know, it's one of those statements that's been around for eons and you hear it all the time.

You see it in the movies all the time and see it in TV shows all the time.

But in reality, yeah, it means a.

Lot because yet, you know, people do consider it a cliche.

So they just keep on holding on to the, the hate and the anger.

And fortunately, yeah, it's so it's, it's a cliche because it's true.

It is true.

I never thought that either I was one of the biggest non believers and angry people that you could possibly have ever met.

A few years ago I was lost, I was angry, I was depressed, I was suicidal.

And just when I changed my perspective from the inside and forgave my inner self, that's when everything else changed.

I, I think that everything that I have learned, what you just, that statement you just said in, in yourself, that we have to look inside ourselves and work on ourselves in order to have a, A better perspective of the rest of the world.

Exactly.

And there's that saying, nobody's coming to save you.

And all that means is you have to do the work not on the things around you, because the things are that are around you are reflections of what's inside of you.

So work on the inside.

Work on the shadow.

Forgive your inner child.

Learn to love yourself.

Meditate.

It doesn't have to be some sitting on the mountaintop chanting Om.

It can just be closing your eyes and focusing on your breath, focusing on different areas of tension in your body and releasing them.

That's how I started affirmations.

You know, they would make fun of that in TV shows.

Years ago on Saturday Night Live, the Stuart Smalley, I'm good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.

But once you start writing those down, you start Embodying it and you start, you know, and.

And what.

Another thing that I do that's really helped me grow considerably is every day in the morning writing three things you're grateful for, three affirmations for the morning, three things you want to accomplish during the day, and then in the evening you write three more things you're grateful for, three more affirmations, and do a checklist of.

To see if you've actually accomplished any of your goals.

That's some really good advice.

I think that comes a little bit with journaling too.

I think writing those down like that.

I think it also gives us an opportunity to understand the benefits of journaling and writing down, not just the affirmations, but in what you're grateful for, which I think is extremely important.

We said that earlier.

But be grateful for where you have and where you're at because there are others.

You may not love the house that you're living in, but there are people out there that don't live under a roof.

You may not like the food that you're eating, but you have food in your stomach and there are people that don't have it.

Same thing with your job.

You may not like the job that you're in, but there are thousands out there who don't have one.

You have to be grateful for where you're at and what you have in life before more can come to you.

Journaling, I think is important because it allows us.

I'm just asking for an affirmation in regard to this.

It allows us to kind of get our feelings out, whether they be negative or positive, to release them.

For sure.

That's absolutely correct.

Putting them on paper turns them into a reality.

You know, it turns the, the energy of your thoughts into a real thing in, in black and white, basically.

Yeah.

I think thoughts are.

Thoughts can be dangerous to ourselves, I believe.

And you mentioned earlier about you constantly thought yourself your self esteem wasn't where.

Where it needed to be and where it should be as an individual and a human being.

Bruce Lee, I love one of his philosophy quotes is that, you know, you never call yourself ugly.

You never tell yourself something you can't do.

Because if whatever you tell your body, your ma.

Your body listens to you should always tell your body that you're beautiful and that you're happy and that you're, you're, you know, you're being positive and, and treat it that way.

Treat it with respect.

Treat it with the fact that whatever you say to your body, your body's going to listen.

Exactly.

We could talk for another hour, but this hour went by really fast.

Sure did.

So you'll have to come back on.

We'll have to have some more.

We'll have to have some more conversation.

I think that we got some more.

To talk about would be an honor.

I think we'll have some fun.

We can expand a little bit more.

I think.

I think it would be good.

In the meantime, let's tell everybody how they can get to you, how to find your book.

And I know you got some coaching programs, some one on one programs and how to find your website, please.

You can go to my website.

My book is called Stay Focused and Move with the Universe and it's available on Amazon as a hard copy, a softcover or even a Kindle.

And if you have any questions about any of the other programs that I have, you can send me an email@danielachdanielanderson.com and if you want more information on spiritual growth, you can check out my YouTube channel.

Just search up the symbol the Soul Searchers Society.

And I'll make sure that all of those are in the link in the bio and on the webpage that's specifically built for our episode.

It'll be all in there so they can find you quick and easy.

Daniel, thank you very much for coming on the show.

I really appreciate your wisdom, your experience, your.

You gotta go out and find some more spiritual ghosts and, and some more things that we can, you can bring back to me.

I'm hoping to do so soon.

We're gonna be going on a few investigations coming up in the next couple months.

I know.

So I'm looking forward to the evidence.

You'll have to keep me, keep me updated so I can, I can follow you in regard to your journey with that.

Sounds good.

Outstanding.

This is one more thing before you go.

So before we go, do you have any words of wisdom you can share?

Well, just stay focused, trust the process.

Know that when you ask for things, they're going to come.

It's just the matter of what we consider to be time and what the universe's time really is, which is now, are completely different.

So when the time is right, when you get, you will get what you ask for.

Brilliant words of wisdom.

I think we should all take heed to that.

Again.

Daniel, thank you very much.

I'll make sure everything's in the show notes and on the webpage.

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Thank you.

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