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Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald
Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo on Talking to the Dead, Reincarnation and More
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Heather McDonald
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Theresa Caputo
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Heather McDonald
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Theresa Caputo
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Heather McDonald
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Heather McDonald
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Theresa Caputo
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Theresa Caputo
Learn more@hellofresh.com hello, and welcome to Juicy Scoop. You guys, I'm so excited for my east coast Little tour on February 14th. It's New York City. February 15th is D.C. and February 16th is Red Bank, New Jersey. I it's going to be a little combo of hilarious standup comedy, but also I have special guests from the Bravo world who are also comedians. It's going to be so funny and such a great special show with lots of surprises, lots of laughs. You do not want to miss it. I'll also be spilling all the personal Juicy Scoop that I do in these live shows where you have to be in the audience to hear it. So do not miss out. You go to heathermcdall.net and you get those tickets also. That's where you join my Patreon, which has been up for eight years, and you have access to every single episode that I've done there on the level that you joined. And it's always commercial free. So now for such a juicy interview, you're gonna die. I talked to Teresa Caputo, the Long island medium, and really so many interesting things that I've never heard discussed before. So let's get into it. Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop. I am so excited to speak to the one, the only, the Long island medium, Teresa Caputo. How are you? You're looking gorgeous.
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Heather McDonald
Oh, I'm fantastic. And you look amazing.
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Theresa Caputo
So I'm so excited to get your whole life story, but I do need to tell the Juicy Scoopers that you. I was just on your podcast and it was amazing. You did a you read, you talked to. Hey, Spirit is the name of your podcast and you were able to. I can't wait for everyone to hear it. So. But I want to get into to you a little bit of your life now. I, I have, you know, followed you and seen you, and I just want to know you. You mentioned earlier when we were doing your show that you started to see that you had this gift as a young child, right?
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Heather McDonald
Well, I didn't know that's what it was. So I remember at the age of four, always seeing a woman standing at the edge of my bed at night. I would always say to my parents that someone was watching me in my room. I would hear voices. I would just be talking to the drapes, and they're like, who are you talking to? And I would always mention someone in the family that had died, and no one ever really made a big deal about it. You know, they're like, oh, okay. You know, it's just Theresa and, you know, and I come from a very spiritual family, so my parents never made a big deal about those things. And then it wasn't until I was almost 30 that I realized not only that I had the ability to connect with my own loved ones that have died, but everyone else's I had suffered. Because one of the main ways that I communicate with spirit is through feeling. They make me feel things, and they make me feel the way that they died. They, like, bring me through their departure. So I would feel all these things not understanding what it meant. So that's what I had to learn and that I wasn't.
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Theresa Caputo
So was there a moment that you kind of put it together when you said you were 30, like, where you realized what this was all about all these years?
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Heather McDonald
Yeah. So I was suffering terribly. I didn't want to leave my house because every time I left my house, I would have these anxiety attacks. Like, I felt like I couldn't breathe. Like I was feeling choked, like someone was sitting on my chest. I couldn't take a deep breath. But the second I would leave the store, I would feel okay. One of my mom's friends, she's a spiritual healer, and she would teach these spiritual awareness classes. And my mom had said, why don't you go to her class and maybe she can help you? And I did. And through that, I. It was like. It was almost like a safe place for me to explore my gift so I could understand what it was. And I would start saying things to people that meant nothing to me but were life changing to someone else. And then the moment where I put things fully together was I was in Bed, Bath and Beyond, and I was. I was looking at sheets, and I heard a man's voice say to me, the ones on the left. And I stopped. I start looking around, and I'm like, wait, this is crazy. And all of a sudden, I couldn't. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't take a deep breath. And I made myself stay in the store. Ten seconds later, which felt like an eternity, this older woman came up to me and she said, what sheets do you. She said, my husband just died, and I'm redoing the room, and I don't know what sheets to pick. And I said, oh, the ones on the left. And she goes, oh, those are the ones my husband would have picked. I'm going to get the ones on the left. And did you say no? Because at the time, I was going through my gift, and she said, he died suddenly of a heart attack. So that's how I started to put together my signs and symbols of what the meanings, you know, what everything means. So I have also multiple meanings for signs and symbols as well. But that was the moment, like, okay, then 911 happened. Because then at the time, I was struggling with my gift. I was like, how could this be? I'm Catholic. I'm not supposed to be doing this. And 911 happened, and I had a spiritual experience where it was shown to me that thousands of people perished that day, and nobody knew what had happened to their loved ones, and they were suffering from that, that these families were carrying. Bur did you feel that, like, at 9.
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Theresa Caputo
00Am or whatever on the Tuesday or like, where we.
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Heather McDonald
Or around this was at. This was after nine.
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Theresa Caputo
Okay.
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Heather McDonald
Okay. And that it was shown to me that people. When. Sometimes when people lose a loved one, they're left with burdens and guilt and should have, could have, would haves. So I put my gift in God's hands, and I said, look, if this is what I'm supposed to do, I'm putting my gift in your hands. I will walk through these doors with my gift. You have to open them for me. And here I am. Here I was how many years ago, couldn't even leave my house. And now I not only had a television show for over 10 years and written books and now travel all over the country on a tour bus.
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Theresa Caputo
So tell me, so at 30 years old, you. I know you're a mom, but you were married. You're now divorced, but you're a mom and grandma now. So at 30, did you have a couple kids? Like, where. Where did you start to go? Well, maybe I could make this a business, and maybe I could charge someone, like a therapist. Like, I could read them and make money and. And help my family. Like, where did you go from there?
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Heather McDonald
That was never. That was never a thought. It just happened. It just happened.
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Theresa Caputo
But when did you originally start to say, okay, I guess I could charge money?
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Heather McDonald
So I started doing readings. And then people were telling me, you have to charge for these readings. I'd be like, okay, what do I charge? I mean, I don't charge people now for their readings. But at the time, it was $175. And then when I started doing the show, I would just have them make a donation to local charities that I supported on Long Island.
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Theresa Caputo
So how many years into doing it, and I'm sure everybody was like, you got to go to this woman named Theresa. Did. Did you catch the eye of someone that said, this is a TV show? And how did that come about?
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Heather McDonald
So I was doing it for 10 years, where I was reading people privately in my home, doing group readings, fundraisers, Large. But at that time, a large venue for me was 300 people.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
So. And then my. My manager, Courtney Mullen, she had come to me for a reading, and I didn't. She wasn't my manager at the time. She just. She had lost her dad, and she was engaged, and she didn't know how to move on, didn't know to get married. She was going. Call of her wedding, and. Because she says, I can't do this without my dad. And she came for the reading, changed her life. And she was a television producer, and she said, people need your gift. They need. I want everyone to. Who has lost a loved one, who feels stuck, who can't move on with their life because of the loss of their loved one. I want them to have the experience that I had. She said, I never thought that I could. She goes, I felt like when I walked into your house, I couldn't breathe. And she said, when I left your house, I finally felt that I could breathe. And she ended up marrying her husband. They have three children, and so.
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Theresa Caputo
Nice.
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Heather McDonald
Yeah.
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Theresa Caputo
And so then she pitched the show to other networks, or she just said.
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Heather McDonald
To me, she goes, would you want to do a television show? And I'm like, okay. See, because the way I. How I work is my brain and insecurities was I would only do things with people that I knew. So it was like. It was like, I. I always say, I know my gift is guided by God. It was like, God always place people in my path that I knew. The woman that had the spiritual awareness class, my mom knew for decades, Courtney. I knew her from the neighborhood because she grew around the corner. So I knew her family, and my daughter did gymnastics with her niece. So I was like, oh, I'm just going to film, like, a television show, like, for a couple. And they used to make fun of me because we're filming the show and I'm making appointments for people for two years later. And they're going, teresa, you got to stop doing that. You're not going to be doing. You're going to have a television show that. And I'm like, what, are you kidding me? I'm like, no. I'm like, I got to go. I got to. I got to. This is. This is how I make a living. I got to, like, this is just a moment. The TV show is what I thought. I never thought.
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Theresa Caputo
And when they presented the show to you, you Know they knew it was them kind of following you around. Sometimes they'd follow you around. You'd start to get the spirits to come to you. But essentially, it was a reality show. We got to see your home. We got to see your family. How did your family and husband feel about that? You know, And. And then when it became successful year after year, you know, how does that work with. Now their celebrities are being recognized and they're no longer private people.
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Heather McDonald
That was hard, you know, because we never thought. I never. Never once doing what I do did I ever think that it would be a business, successful business, let alone have a television show. And we navigated it very well, you know, for many years. My children. For it was almost natural. I can't explain it. From the time that I was little, my mom would always say to me, because the town that I live in still to this day is the town that I grew up in. But so did my grandparents. So my family. My dad's parents had, like, a little deli. It was the only little deli grocery store in Hicksville back in the day. My parents. My dad's a volunteer fireman. He's in the Knights of Columbus. He's very involved in the community. My parents. So my parents would always say, listen, listen. You might not know someone, but I guarantee they're gonna know you. So you always have to be on your best behavior. So it was almost like the way that I grew up, like, I kind of knew, you know, people are gonna know you. You have to act a certain way and conduct yourself. So I always did that with my children. And my children, they kind of grew up with my gift, so they didn't know any different. You know, it was always. My dad is an Italian importer, and my mom talks to dead people. That's just, you know, like, it was, like, so normal for them.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. And does any. Anybody in your family have the gift as well?
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Heather McDonald
So on both sides of my family, I feel that they show abilities. I believe everyone's abilities are different, and especially when it comes to connecting with our own loved ones, I believe we all can do that. You do that, right? You get signs and symbols and feelings from your loved ones.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
So every. This is a soul bond that can't be broken. It never will be broken. So I feel like also, once you.
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Theresa Caputo
I feel like in the last few years, I don't know what it is. If I've just opened myself more to the signs and the manifestations. But, like, the. The. I don't even know what kismic means, but I use that word like the kismic things that sort of happen. Like. Like I reconnected with someone and. And the next day I went to a taping of a sitcom, and I said, oh, I haven't. And I thought I knew I was going to this taping, but I was like, oh, I haven't been to a taping of a sitcom until this. And it was the exact same set that the person I connected with was a guest star and Friends. And then I went to Leanne Morgan's taping of her sitcom, and they're like, oh, you know, this is the set. Friends set. And the meeting that I had with the person the day before who was the guest star in Friends was an extremely important thing. It was reconnecting with someone that I really was excited to reconnect. So I. I was always like, I feel like when you start to see more signs like that and. And like, hear little things like, oh, you know, where you're like, oh, I shouldn't go to that thing. And someone keeps going, oh, just go. Just go. Or go get that. You know, like, this happened to me with another person. Go get that salad. I'm like, why am. I should turn around? That salad is further than I thought it was. And I go to get the salad, and then in comes this person that, you know, I really needed to connect with. So it's like, there's things like that that I think not necessarily connecting with people that have passed, but just being aware of all that stuff. There's ways that you probably can coach people.
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Heather McDonald
Like, we're guided. We're guided. You know, always. I always say that that gut instinct, that little Jiminy Cricket, don't. Don't veer from that, because that. That's your instinct. That's what guides you. Do I feel that our loved ones guide us. Absolutely. Percent do. I do. And I do believe in a God. I believe they guide us. Well, whatever your belief is. And I feel so proud of the work that I do as a medium is I want people to be able to connect with their loved ones on their own. I want them to make. Have it so they can be more spiritual. Knowing that they have this ability, I feel I'm able just to validate it for them in even years. Because people like coming to mediums, but I never want it to be a crutch. I wanted them to use the tools to connect on their own and to be able to heal. And I want people to believe in an afterlife. I mean, a lot of times People, you know, they lose a loved one and they might be the most faithful spiritual person and tragedy strikes the family and all of that goes out the window. And I don't think people realize the work that I do is so much more than just communicating with people that have died. It restores people's faith in themselves and life. It reconnects families. I mean, there are countless stories of where people weren't speaking to one another for years. At a live show, at a live show, I'm reading someone, they're saying, you don't speak to your brother and your sister in law anymore. And here comes walking the sister in law across from the other side of the theater. And they embrace and they have this moment and the family reconnects. I mean, it's just, there's just so many unbelievable things that happen that you can't make it up.
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Theresa Caputo
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Heather McDonald
Well, I don't really look at myself as famous. I don't. I mean I know who I am and what my gift does, but I always still say I'm just Theresa Caputo from Hicksville. I you know, I think the thing that I loved the most was it really was my life. I mean the cameras would just show up. And I remember at the time, one of the. The showrunner was like, we have the easiest job. All we have to do is show up and turn the cameras on. That was it. And the only thing that was done was if I wanted to go and if we were going to go to a place, say I was going shopping, that they had to clear the place. That was it.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
There was no plan. He's like, this is the first show that I've ever done where I throw all my producing things in the book right out the window because we would make a plan and would never go as they planned it, because they know that spirit has their own agenda.
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Theresa Caputo
And so you did it for 10 years, and was there ever a time where you were like, I don't want to do it anymore. Or your family was like, can we. Can we not do this again? Or how did it.
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Heather McDonald
You know, nobody. I never felt that way. I feel very blessed to have the opportunities that I've had. And no one. My son was a little bit more of, like, I don't know if I want to be on the show as much, like, because then he was starting a job and, you know, he had his own career. You know, he's like, ma, I just can't be here all day, you know, waiting for you to film if we're going to go do something, you know, so he's his own life. My daughter still loves, you know, to be a part of it. And my granddaughter, she's on the. On the new show, but no one was ever like, I don't want to do this, you know.
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Theresa Caputo
And then when you got divorced, was that hard, being that you were a public figure?
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Heather McDonald
Very hard, yeah, it was very hard. I mean, I could still get emotional about it, you know, And I always say this, you know, just because. And Larry and I have had this discussion, you know, I've even said to him, look, look, just because we're not married anymore, we're still a family.
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Theresa Caputo
Right? That's.
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Heather McDonald
You know, we're still. You know, we still talk, and when there's family gatherings, you know, we invite each other to everything, and it's hard. I never thought in a million years that I would be divorced. And I don't think Larry did either. But we're better off. We're better off now than we were.
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Theresa Caputo
Can you share a little bit, like, what you think it was that made you come to that decision that you'd be better off separate?
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Heather McDonald
It was a lot. It just wasn't. You know, people automatically think it's the television show. But people have to understand, when I met Larry, I was 17. And this was hard, you know, through therapy and. And I was in therapy at the time that I got engaged, and I was very emotionally unstable. You know, I remember my therapist telling me, you rely on him too much. You know, it's. You're really in no emotional state to be getting married, you know? And what do you do when you.
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Theresa Caputo
When you.
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Heather McDonald
When you hear something from your therapist that you don't want to hear, you stop going, right?
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Theresa Caputo
Wait, so how old were you when you got actually married?
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Heather McDonald
I was. Well, I got engaged. We were. I was 20. And I got. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was 20 and married by 22 and had my son and then had at. By 23 and had my daughter at 24. I wouldn't have changed a thing.
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Theresa Caputo
Right.
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Heather McDonald
But there was always something deep down inside me, Heather, that I was always like, I'm going to get married young. I'm going to have children. It was just something inside me. Never thought because that. That it was because of this. Never in a million years.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
You know, I just thought that was the way that it was. That's what you did. I mean, my mom had me when she was 20. She married my dad at 19, had me at 20. Same thing with my grandmother. And so. But I think that there is one thing that I will always say that I am so proud of. The way that even though it was one of the hardest things that I had to do was get divorced, but the way that Larry and I handled it.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. It seemed like it was really, like, mature and respectful.
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Heather McDonald
Yeah. You know? Cause it's hard when you realize you don't want to get divorced and when you love someone. Because I still love him. But it just wasn't. It just wasn't working. We both were not happy.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. And what about, like, the first time? Like, who was the first person that did, like, an impression of you? Was it someone on SNL or was it Kelly?
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Heather McDonald
It. Was it Kate McKinnon on SNL? I'll never forget it. I had done. I had just finished my shows up at Westboro. It was called Westboro Music Fair at the time. And we were all at the end of the year party, and one of my producers came running over, and they're like, you're not going to believe this. You made it. And I'm like, what do you mean I made it? They're like, you were on snl. They did you on snl.
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Theresa Caputo
And I was like, what? So you Liked it.
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Heather McDonald
Oh, my God, I loved it. Oh, I think it's great when people impersonate me. I think it's fantastic. You know, I think it's. I. I love when the drag queens do it.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
Yeah. And Kelly Ripa, she.
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Theresa Caputo
She did it well.
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Heather McDonald
Yeah, he did it very well. And, you know, there's been a lot.
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Theresa Caputo
Right. And so, like, when you do. Are there any other reality. You know, I saw you at a reality star party. Like, do you watch, like, Real Housewives of New Jersey? Because they.
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Heather McDonald
I used to.
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Theresa Caputo
You kind of have that, but, like, similar vibe of those type of women. And what. You know, like, have they ever approached you and wanted you to, like, read them or anything? Because I know Teresa and Joe have, you know, lost their parents, and they are now estranged as siblings. When you talk about that, like, I kind of wonder, like, if you've ever encountered that or haven't.
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Heather McDonald
I did not. I did not. As they have never reached out. Luann was on my podcast several years back. Dorit was on.
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Theresa Caputo
Beverly Hills.
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Heather McDonald
Yeah. Yeah. And I can't. I don't know why the names are not coming to me, but there were a couple of them that had been on. I really, honestly. I know it sounds terrible, but I don't really watch tv.
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Theresa Caputo
I understand that if I do watch.
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Heather McDonald
Tv, there's no laughing here, Heather. It's the Game Show Network or hgtv. That's it.
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Theresa Caputo
And do you think that's because you kind of need a really simple escape? Like, you don't want to watch, like, a Dateline. You don't want to watch things that are, like, perfect.
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Heather McDonald
No. And nobody wants to watch them with me, because if I watch them, I'm like, oh, it was the neighbor. And they're like, oh, well, forget it. We're not gonna watch this now. It was the neighbor. And then the next thing, here comes the neighbor.
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Theresa Caputo
That's amazing.
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Heather McDonald
Listen, I don't like to be scared. I do not like horror movies. I don't like scary movies. I don't like paranormal things. I don't like it.
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Theresa Caputo
Now, speaking of that being that you speak to, you know, the spirits as they pass, have you ever. Than when someone is like, who killed my. My loved one? And you actually have helped in a case or given a tip or anything.
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Heather McDonald
I've never worked with the police. I believe that there are certain. And it's interesting, like, no one has ever approached me with it, but it's almost like I use my gift differently. I believe there are psychics and mediums that do use their gift in that way. There was one time where an old client had called me and her dad was missing and said. He. I said, I keep seeing a bridge and like these big rocks, like these big boulders. And she's like, oh. She says, I don't know. My dad, you know, he has al. He had like, Alzheimer's and he left the house and six months later they found him by one of the bridges where the big rocks in the water.
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Theresa Caputo
Oh.
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Heather McDonald
But unfortunately, with my live shows, there are people that are murdered and there's no one held accountable. And do. And do they.
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Theresa Caputo
Have you had someone say it was.
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Heather McDonald
Joey or whatever, that it's never a. I don't use a lot of names when I channel because I feel names are common. I try to be as. Where people can't be like, oh, well, of course someone lost their dad and his name was Michael. Like, you know, I can't help. There are common things. So I. I try not to use a lot of names. There have been cases where they'll say, you know, listen, there were three people involved. And they'll be like, yes, there were, but no one, you know, so they'll give spirit, will give validations that they know what is going on. They know how hard their families are trying and not to give up on, say, the justice system at some point of that. Not that it's not being like. Like the case isn't being worked on.
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Theresa Caputo
Right.
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Heather McDonald
And sometimes they'll say, justice will be served. There have been times late, you know, like six months later, we'll. We'll get an email saying, oh, really? Ye.
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Theresa Caputo
Oh, that's amazing. I love back. Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
Come back and where it comes back around and.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. And when it went. So when you saw the movie, like Sixth Sense and did you know what it was about when you saw it? Because.
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Heather McDonald
Because that was me. And I was surprised that everyone did not know that Bruce Willis was dead. I was like, how did you not know he died?
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Theresa Caputo
So when you watched it, you already.
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Heather McDonald
Knew I knew he was dead, yes.
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Theresa Caputo
Oh, my gosh.
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Heather McDonald
Because that was the best movie. And Ghost. Yeah, those were the. The two movies for how I see spirit, how I feel things, how I see things, But I see things differently than the way we see here in the physical world. So it's not. It's a different seeing. I can't even explain it. So, I mean, I've always said I don't know what happens when I start to channel. My friends will say I get a certain look on my face and in my Eyes that when I'm. When I'm connecting. But it's almost like I get. Like I have no personal thought, feelings, or emotions. Like, it's like my mind goes blank. And I actually did something on Dr. Oz with Dr. Amen, and he actually read my brain. Live on Dr. Oz read my brain as I was reading someone. And I'll Never forget it, Dr. Oz came up to me and said, aren't you nervous? And I'm like, no, why would I be nervous? He's like, well, what if nothing happens? I go, oh, something happened. I don't know what it is. I said, but I'm not, because I know. And Dr. Raymond said that my. I'm able to access a part of my brain that we typically don't, and that when I was reading it showed that I had no activity in my brain, but I was speaking, so I don't know how to explain that.
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Theresa Caputo
Wow. Yeah. You know, there's this new thing that I just saw, like, on TikTok, where certain. They're taking kids that are autistic and they're. They're covering their eyes and they're like, what color am I holding up? And they're. They're able to. And it's called like. And so there's. It's. I feel like we're into this new. That there. We're going to be discovering more about how people's brains work differently based on their talents or whatever. Like, how is that even possible that one person would be able to. Now how do you feel being that you're out on the East Coast? How do you feel about all these drones and these New Jersey drones? And, like, what do you. Can you tell us what's going on? Because people are like, why does everyone think they're angel. They're aliens. Maybe they're angels, these orbs and things.
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Heather McDonald
I don't know. And honestly, I don't know anything about the drones.
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Theresa Caputo
Just the thing around.
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Heather McDonald
I heard someone said that someone was like, oh, there's drones, and now there's something wrong with the water. And I'm like, okay, I don't know about. About that, but if there's drones, there's drones. I don't know.
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Theresa Caputo
Do you believe in aliens? And do you believe there's other life forms?
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Heather McDonald
I believe. I believe there. There is other life forms.
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Theresa Caputo
Really?
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Heather McDonald
Yeah, I do.
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Theresa Caputo
I do. I do, too. I believe there's.
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Heather McDonald
I believe.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
But I also believe, Heather, that there are certain things that we shouldn't know either.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
Like, I don't know I don't want any like, like hate comments for this, but I believe we, we have a right to know things. But I also do believe that there are certain things that we shouldn't know to protect us. You mean protect us?
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Theresa Caputo
Absolutely.
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Heather McDonald
Absolutely.
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Theresa Caputo
Interesting.
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Heather McDonald
You know, so whatever they are, I, I, I don't know. I don't know. What do these look like regular drones or what are they saying?
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Theresa Caputo
Well, there's, there's two things. There's the, the drones that are like the size of cars that have been going around for like the last month. Month. Then there's video that people have taken where it's like these orbs where it's like, it looks kind of like, kind of looks like a crystal ball in the sky. And then like another one will, will emit from it. And that's where people believe that's angels. And they're like, if it's, Is it aliens? Is it angels? What is it? Or is it just some government test and they just don't want to tell us what it is? So I kind of like, well, at a certain point, there's really nothing we can do but live every day like it's our last. So, you know, be nice to people and have a good day. Like, I don't know what to do at this point.
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Heather McDonald
That's my motto. That's my motto. Just be nice to people. And if I can say it, don't be an asshole.
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Theresa Caputo
Right? Yes.
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Heather McDonald
Life is very simple. Right?
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Theresa Caputo
When have you ever had someone where you're. Oh, wait, you said back in the 70s you saw something.
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Heather McDonald
Back in the 70s, we used to see things out here on Long Island. Like, they were. They were saying that we. They didn't know they were UFOs.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who knows?
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Heather McDonald
Like, who knows?
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Theresa Caputo
So my other question is now. I sometimes have joked because I've said, you know, when you see these readings with mediums, I'm like, yeah, it's now. And maybe you can, maybe you could say that's true. I never hear some, like, someone being mad. Like, I never see someone, like, whose grandmother comes through and is like, you know, I didn't like that you and your sister wore pants to my funeral. Like, are they never, like, mad at you? Like, are they never, like, is it because they're in heaven that it's. It's like they're not hope. They're not experiencing negative thoughts.
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Heather McDonald
Yes. I think there are several things. And I can only speak from my experience.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
And my experience with spirit. First of all, I only want to channel souls that are in God's white light. And more importantly, that I treat them like my children. If you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all. Anything. Spirit will joke around and say, what were you crazy for burying me in that? And they'll laugh because I go, oh, my God, we were going to bury them in this, you know, okay, okay. Joking way. But souls will, if they do want to bring up something that negative happened here, either that we did or they did. If they learned that lesson, where they went through their life review and they learned from that. Then they have the ability to come through and apologize and acknowledge for it.
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Theresa Caputo
It.
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Heather McDonald
But I've never had in my. Have I had souls be a little bit more feisty as they channel, because that was their personality. Absolutely. But that's what I want. I want them to channel with their personality, with their feistiness, if that's the way they were.
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Theresa Caputo
So when you say you only channel the spirits that are in God's white light. So do you believe there is a hell?
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Heather McDonald
Spirits never said to me, it's hot down here. So I go with that. There is no hell. But I do think that there is a vibration that I cannot lower myself to. So how I know that is because one specific time I remember there was a woman I was reading and I said to her daughter was murdered by her boyfriend. And the daughter came through and said to me, please tell my mom, you know, that he is remorseful and that he's sorry and that he knows what he has taken from her. And I could see a soul, like a shadow, a soul below her, but I couldn't hear anything from them. So what had happened? She had lowered her vibration enough where she could speak to him and then translate it to me, but I couldn't connect with him because I couldn't because.
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Theresa Caputo
The boyfriend was dead too.
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Heather McDonald
He. That he was a murder suicide. Yeah. And I said to her, I cannot say this to your mother. And she showed me the soul and said, this is why my mom came here. She wanted to know if he was remorseful and tell her that my soul is at peace with God and his soul is learning lessons. So I said that. I repeated everything to the mom, and the mom said, that's why I came here. I wanted to know if he was remorseful for killing my daughter.
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Theresa Caputo
That is so interesting. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what I was thinking about the times where it. It wasn't ending. Okay, my other question is, so if a couple.
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Heather McDonald
Here's the other having sex, is this a sex question at all?
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Theresa Caputo
No, no. It.
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Heather McDonald
It.
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Theresa Caputo
It. Okay. You know, like my. You read me. And my parents came together and they. They were married together. They were only each other's spouse, and they, you know, died as they were married. So they are hanging out together. But what if, you know, someone really loved their spouse and then spouse dies, but the other spouse was not that in love with that person. Are they in heaven? Do they stop? Is one person able to get to a soul that doesn't Want to hang out with them in heaven. Do you know what I mean?
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Heather McDonald
Like, I don't know what goes on.
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Theresa Caputo
Like, between two souls. Do you know what I'm saying?
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Heather McDonald
What spirit has shown me that we have soul circles, okay, so where our souls are. Where if you. I don't know if you believe in past lives. So I don't know.
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Theresa Caputo
Do you believe in past lives?
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Heather McDonald
I do. I think.
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Theresa Caputo
Explain what in your idea, what you think past lives mean for people.
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Heather McDonald
So past lives is that my soul has lived in other lifetimes in different physical bodies.
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Theresa Caputo
But would it be your same personality?
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Heather McDonald
No, no, no. I was a young man in a previous life. One of the life. I was a disabled young girl.
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Theresa Caputo
And how do you know all this?
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Heather McDonald
So I did a past life regression where you go under. There was a book called Many Lives, Many Masters and where you go back and you relive your past lives. And one. You know, one. At first I was like, all right, this might be crazy. Am I, like, dreaming? Am I doing this? You know, Like, I don't know how this works. And I was under. And there was one particular lifetime. I remember I was a young man. I was maybe in my teens, and I was. And I was wearing, like, puffy knickers and a. It was so specific, a puffy white shirt and suspenders. And we were on a farm, a lot of property, and there was a house burning. And I went in and I needed to save my brother. And because I have this on tape, and it was saying, I need to save my brother. I need to save my brother. And when I pulled my brother out of the fire, the woman that was doing the past life regression said to me, look into your brother's eyes and who do you see? And I saw my nephew, who was just born. So my nephew was my brother in a previous life.
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Theresa Caputo
And how is your connection with your nephew? Do you feel like you're sort of. How old is your nephew now?
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Heather McDonald
My nephew, he just turned 24 the other day.
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Theresa Caputo
So do you feel like you have a. Interesting connection with him? That's not so much aunt nephew, or does it.
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Heather McDonald
Well, I don't know. I feel like I have a special bond and a different bond with everyone in my life, like, especially my nieces, my children.
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Theresa Caputo
Right.
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Heather McDonald
And there was another. And here's another example which doesn't involve me, but I was reading a woman. It was a mother and a daughter. One of the. The other daughters had passed away. And I'm like, I feel like I. I see your. I feel like I'm talking to your sister, but I can't see her. And she, and I feel like somebody else is telling you used to see her all the time, but you don't see her anymore. And the woman looked at me and she said, I used to dream of my, my sister every night until my daughter was born and I stopped seeing my sister.
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Theresa Caputo
And so her sister is her daughter.
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Heather McDonald
It's her daughter. Yeah. These are very rare cases. I mean this. Yeah, it's like I could like there are maybe three cases that, where that has happened where I've seen that. You know what I mean? It's not something that is typical that typically happens and I don't know how it works. I' find out when I get there, you know.
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Theresa Caputo
You know, I've seen interesting little videos, you know, that people have filmed of their kid, like, like a four year old being like saying something like I was in that building and like. Or like not. There's been a few, like a handful too of like very weird, possible 9, 11 victims who have now been put into other bodies where these kids are saying something so specific that nobody would know. Yeah. Like, oh, I jumped out of that building because it was hot and it was burning and, and they're like, what are you talking about? You know, and there's no way they would have seen it. They're too young to have known the history. And I always kind of wonder, okay, if you have that kind of like pretty solid knowledge that maybe your child is another soul that was like a 35 year old stockbroker or whatever. 9, 11, like, like how do you. It would be hard, I don't know, it'd be hard to raise your child like not know how do you just. You know what I mean? What would be your suggestion if you feel like maybe your child is this like old soul, Literally an old soul, like literally an old soul that can remember or connect. I wonder, does that child stop talking like that after a certain age? Like they kind of forget, like they give you the sign and then just live their life as a kid in 2025.
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Heather McDonald
Or they might, I think old, I think a lot of children are. I don't know how that works with the soul because I don't have that much experience with that where a soul re enter reentering into a. A life now. Yeah, but there are children, like you said that. I have heard that. And also children that will speak about people that have passed away. Oh yeah, people say oh yeah, my grandma's sitting right on the couch over there and you Know, talking about her as if she was just in the room or if so. Young children are very sensitive to the souls of the departed, even animals, because their minds aren't busy. They're not filled with burdens and busyness. It's just. It's clear. You know, kids say the darndest things, and it's the truth. So they say, really, whatever it is that they're seeing, experiencing, feeling. And as they get older, sometimes that stays with us and sometimes it's just not a part of us anymore.
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Theresa Caputo
I had somebody who was like a listener of mine, and they sent me this thing and they said, this is who. I think this is who your past life was. Whatever.
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Heather McDonald
Oh, and it was interesting comedian lady.
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Theresa Caputo
From, like, you know, started in, like, radio or whatever.
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Heather McDonald
Okay.
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Theresa Caputo
And so I kind of looked because I was like, wait, this is a lot of weird, interesting similarities. And I was like, well, she has to have been dead right before I was born or conceived. And it was within, like a couple years. Does that. I guess we wouldn't really know, but a soul is not like, the minute you die, you go to another. We don't know. But you would have to. If you. Someone. If someone really thought that was the case, it would be that the person would have had to have passed, obviously, before you were conceived.
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Heather McDonald
Right, Right.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
Souls have acknowledged that they will show their souls through. So, like, people would. Will have, say. Let's hypothetically say there's a woman that I'm reading and. And her child will all of a sudden look exactly like her brother.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
Like, for that second, like, we'll do something or say something that was like the spitting image. Somehow the soul is able to enter. It's the same way when I channel and kind of take over. But because they're young, they don't understand their children. And it just. They really are able to communicate through them. That has happened as well. And I'll say a part, or they'll say a part of my soul lives within, where that means that they can come in and out, where they show themselves to their loved one through a child that has happened and.
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Theresa Caputo
Have you ever had. You know, I feel like, you know, there were psychics and tv, you know, people that would do things before you that were wrong about a lot of things. You know, not mediums, more like.
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Heather McDonald
I don't. I don't know a lot about that. I. Listen, this is how I feel. We, spirit can show us things, we can know things, but it's every. A life is about free will, choice.
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Theresa Caputo
Right.
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Heather McDonald
And it sometimes is. Isn't our choice to make. We have no control over that.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
So I'm very careful with spirit. And I tell them, you cannot tell someone what they should or shouldn't do. You can acknowledge that you know what's going on in their life and that you will support a choice of decision if they choose it. But at the end of the day, I would never want someone to make a life altering decision or any decision based on spirit said I should do this. You know, you receive a healing message and then you, you know, and, and you decide to make that decision on your own. That's your choice. But I don't, I don't believe in for myself and my gift doesn't work like that. I don't believe it. Listen, I can say I did it with my sister in law. I knew my niece for some reason. It was like, she's going to be born on March 7th. I don't do this all the time. It was a fleeting thought. I was like, no, she's gonna be born on March 7th. 7th. And I'll never forget it. My sin. This was 20 years ago. My sister in law called me up and said, well, my water broke. I guess you were wrong. I'm on my way to the hospital. This was March 5th.
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Theresa Caputo
Okay.
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Heather McDonald
She had my niece on March 7th. I don't know why that happens. I have no idea. You know, I don't know why. It's not something that I do sometimes I get things like that. But.
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Theresa Caputo
And do you ever, do they ever. Do the spirits ever, like I wonder if you, if someone was struggling with something, if someone was like, you know, in a horrible trial situation, it's like, does this, does their loved one not see that? Because if that, if it was real life, they'd have to sit there and that would be a horrible time in their life. So because they're in heaven, do they only see like the good?
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Heather McDonald
No, they, they, they see the struggles.
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Theresa Caputo
Oh, okay.
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Heather McDonald
Because spirit has acknowledged things like if people were incarcerated or that. And sometimes someone passes away while their loved one is incarcerated. Yeah. So I know that they do live, they live our life. They live their souls through our eyes once they leave the physical world.
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Theresa Caputo
Oh, okay.
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Heather McDonald
So they do experience everything, but there's only so much that they can do.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
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Heather McDonald
To, you know, to help us. It's up. It's up to us.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. Wow, this is so amazing. So now you are. So now you said you were doing a new show. Wait, is there or just, or you're just doing you have a new TV show or are you also just going on the road?
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Heather McDonald
Right now I'm just on the road, but I have, I did a new series, Raising Spirits with Lifetime, which, which you can stream. Same thing with Long Island Medium, you can stream. And right now I'm just focusing on my live shows.
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Theresa Caputo
And how does that work for people that want to go?
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Heather McDonald
They just buy a ticket and then it's just show up.
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Theresa Caputo
And you just show up and you're. And then you go like, here's like, there's no lucky ticket.
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Heather McDonald
There's no, like, no how many. This is the thing that I love about the live shows. And, and I love how people will say, oh, she does this. I don't even know how this shit works. So I'm so glad everyone else knows how I do this. Yeah, I liter. I wish there was like a live stream of that. Them showing me like what my day entails, you know, And I come out on the stage, I give a little quick speech, and then once I start sensing and feeling spirit, I allow the souls to guide me around the theater. And I will just randomly stop and stare at someone and start saying things. And it's amazing when they just look at me and they're like, no. And then all of a sudden that light bulb goes off and they're like, well, I didn't come here to get red. I only came because my friends had an extra ticket.
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Theresa Caputo
Wow.
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Heather McDonald
Those are the moments that I love because it's always, it's. It's never what we want. It's really what we need. And it, it really is something to be in in a theater and there are thousands of people in the theater. To watch someone heal right in front of you, to feel the energy to watch perfect strangers console one another, it's something truly extraordinary and beautiful. And I've been doing live shows for probably 13 years now and there has never been a same live show.
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Theresa Caputo
And is there anything that you do in preparation to be in the right space or anything?
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Heather McDonald
Same thing I did before I read you. I have my sage. I sage and I do my meditation. I treat every reading the same, whether if it's one person or for 5,000 people.
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Theresa Caputo
And is it ever like, I want to turn it off? Like, I'm going on a five hour flight and I really don't need spirits talking to me. From the stewardess to the pilot to the guy next to me. Like, is there ever a time where.
- [54:22]
Heather McDonald
You'Re like, it doesn't happen, unfortunately.
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Theresa Caputo
Yeah. Yeah, I would think. Do you turn it. You can't really turn it off.
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Heather McDonald
It's not. I don't even know how to explain it because I'm always sensing and feeling things, and spirit has to push me. I should say, not push me. Show me three specific things before I approach someone if they're not prepared to be read.
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Theresa Caputo
Okay.
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Heather McDonald
So it's always. Because I could. I could walk in and I can see someone. And I'm going to be honest with you today, before I came and. And I literally know nothing about you. I know when I met you that night, you had said that you were a comedian and you had a podcast and. But that was it, right? Since yesterday, because I had recorded for my podcast yesterday, there were two young males with me all day, and they never stepped forward to be read. And they kept telling me that they died tragically, that they took responsibility for their departures, and that was it. And I know that they were preparing for what had happened earlier with you and still very private, very cautious. And I never push spirit. I guess I'm saying this because I take a lot of pride on how I choose to use my gift and how I handle sensitive situations with dignity and grace.
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Theresa Caputo
Wow.
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Heather McDonald
And it's. I always say to people, I make what I do look very easy. It's the hardest thing that I have to do, especially in a live show. Have a soul guide me around a space, stop in front of someone, and take us on this emotional roller coaster, right? Of pain, sorrow, loss, grief, and then have everyone laughing in the next breath. Breath. It's the hardest thing that I have to do.
- [56:20]
Theresa Caputo
My last question is for you is, what about when you see your experience or hear about somebody that you truly believe is a con person, saying they have the gift and they clearly don't.
- [56:34]
Heather McDonald
Like, I don't know any. I don't. I don't. I'm being honest with you. I don't follow any other mediums. And more importantly, I always say if someone is using that gift to help people, then I support them. I don't watch any other mediums. I really don't know of any other mediums. I have one dear friend that is. But she's a very dear friend of mine that I had helped her with her gift many years ago, but that's it.
- [57:04]
Theresa Caputo
But has anyone ever come to you and said, oh, my gosh, I'm so glad I came to you, because in the past, I've gone to these other people, and I really felt like it wasn't right, you know, like they were.
- [57:16]
Heather McDonald
Missing out that has happened. Okay, that does, has happened. But I also say to people, was it, what kind of space were you in? Were you ready to hear certain things? Was your loved one ready to communicate? Were they ready to tell you the things that you needed to hear? You know, and I, I, and I know that because I used to, before my television show, I had a handful of clients that had lost children. And they would come to me once a week if they could. And I said, you can't do that. You can come once a year, you know, because I wanted people to heal. I want people, I want their loved ones to, you know, be able to talk about certain things. There were certain people that I allowed them to come six months because I knew it was helping them.
- [58:02]
Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
- [58:02]
Heather McDonald
And they would say, you weren't ready to hear this two years ago. So, you know, who am I to say that someone isn't for real? You know what I mean?
- [58:16]
Theresa Caputo
So, and when a child does pass, are they always like that age there? They don't get older, Right. Or do they?
- [58:24]
Heather McDonald
Yes, they do. The, the soul. So it's interesting enough, sometimes a child will show me, if they have me look down and then all of a sudden they go like this. To me, that means that the soul's been over there for some time and that the soul has grown. I've had someone say, lose a child at the age of say 27 or 35, but they'll come to me as a seven year old and the person will say, that's how I dream of them. I dream of them as a seven year old. So. But what the souls have shown me, that the souls have grown, even souls that have been lost to a miscarriage or even a termination, they'll show me that they did not get the opportunity to walk here in the physical world, but the soul has continued to grow on the other side. Side.
- [59:05]
Theresa Caputo
Have you done that with a termination? And is there.
- [59:08]
Heather McDonald
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- [59:09]
Theresa Caputo
How is that for the mom, the, the one that, that made that choice?
- [59:14]
Heather McDonald
If you don't mind me sharing this story, this is a very powerful story. There was a woman, she wasn't. I was reading someone here and also, and I turned around to her and I said, you, God wants you to know that he took your baby. God has your child. And the woman looked at me and started bawling her eyes out. And she said to me, she said, 30 years ago, she said, I was molested by a family member and I was pregnant and my family was making me have the baby and I, I could cry she said, and I prayed to God to take my baby because I didn't want to have this child. And she said, and the next day she miscarried, married, and she lost the baby.
- [59:59]
Theresa Caputo
Oh, thank God.
- [60:01]
Heather McDonald
And she cried. And then she said to me, she goes, and now I'm gay. She goes, so I'm definitely going to hell. I said, well, if that's true, I talk to dead people. So we're going together in a hand basket. But.
- [60:14]
Theresa Caputo
Oh, wow.
- [60:16]
Heather McDonald
You know, and sometimes I say things. I mean, I literally said to myself, teresa, what did you just say? You just told this woman that God took her child. And I. And then the. And this is all in a matter of seconds. And then this woman shares this story and she goes, nobody knows this. Nobody knows this. And she's. I carried this for 30 years.
- [60:38]
Theresa Caputo
Wow.
- [60:41]
Heather McDonald
You can't even explain it.
- [60:43]
Theresa Caputo
That is, that is really.
- [60:44]
Heather McDonald
You cannot even explain it. You ha. You have to come check out a live show now.
- [60:48]
Theresa Caputo
I do. Well, where can they find them? And where can they get tickets when you come to their town? And where's all the information?
- [60:54]
Heather McDonald
So at my website, Teresa Caputo.com I encourage people to please join my fan club. I'm not pushing my fan. I push my fan club because I did it for the protection of my fans. It's 1999. You get pre sale tickets. If you purchase tickets after the pre sale, you're at least getting correct ticket pricing.
- [61:14]
Theresa Caputo
Great.
- [61:15]
Heather McDonald
And that's why I do it. All the proceeds after the cost of running my fan club, I give back to the fans. You can see the amazing things that we've done with the proceeds of the fan club. So, So I tell people, if you just want to buy tickets, it's cheaper to join the fan club to buy the tickets. Because my highest price ticket ticket with a VIP and with taxes I think is $175. And that's what a VIP, right.
- [61:38]
Theresa Caputo
And I always tell that to people too. Because if you're not buying it from the source, right? Like all of a sudden someone's like, oh, I'm reselling Heather's tickets. And it's enormous price. I'm like, well, I'm not getting that.
- [61:50]
Heather McDonald
Exactly. Exactly.
- [61:52]
Theresa Caputo
Or whatever. So it's really important that you, when you want to go see an artist, that you go right to their website.
- [61:57]
Heather McDonald
And right to that website.
- [61:58]
Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
- [61:58]
Heather McDonald
And you got to be very, very careful. So I'm, you know, and even if people contact you or reach out and say that it's me, and all you have to do is send me a gift card. It's a scam. Yeah, it's. It's terrible because I don't even charge people for readings.
- [62:12]
Theresa Caputo
Yeah.
- [62:13]
Heather McDonald
My. That are on my podcast or on my television show, so I have people reach out saying to be on my show and get a gift card. It's a complete scam.
- [62:23]
Theresa Caputo
Gosh, that's terrible.
- [62:24]
Heather McDonald
Yeah, it's awful.
- [62:26]
Theresa Caputo
I loved getting to know your life story. I'm so excited that I get to be on your podcast. And this has just been great.
- [62:34]
Heather McDonald
So it's been amazing. I do have to say this. I feel like we're the same person. Like, our lives were very parallel, so many similar things. And I don't know, maybe you can connect with the dead. Because everyone says I could be a comedian, so I don't know.
- [62:53]
Theresa Caputo
Well, let's definitely. Let's definitely stay in touch. I would love that. But, yes, it's been awesome.
- [63:01]
Heather McDonald
It's been fantastic.
- [63:02]
Theresa Caputo
Great.
- [63:03]
Heather McDonald
Oh, thank you. God bless.
- [63:05]
Theresa Caputo
Thanks. Bye.