Johanna Bloom: The space where intuition speaks // #40

There are moments when something shifts in a way your body recognizes before your mind can explain it.

In this conversation, I'm sitting down with returning guest + my animal communication mentor Johanna Bloom to explore what happens when you begin to trust what you’re hearing, sensing, and receiving … even when it doesn’t make logical sense.

What unfolds is a layered, deeply human exploration of intuition, energetic boundaries, and the unseen connections that exist between humans, animals, and beyond.

We move through real experiences … the kind that don’t fit neatly into explanations … where confirmation arrives in ways that feel almost impossible to deny.

This episode touches the edge of what we’ve been taught is “real” and invites you to consider what might be available when you stop dismissing what you feel.

There's something here about trust, perception, and the moment you realize it might not just be your imagination.

Join us as we explore:

• The unexpected moment that proved something invisible was real!
•  What it feels like when intuitive information comes through you.
•  The difference between imagination … and something else entirely.
•  Why the things you’re dismissing might be the doorway.
•  A story that changed how one message moved between worlds.
•  The subtle way your body recognizes truth before your mind does. 
•  What happens when you don’t set energetic boundaries, and the shift that happens when you finally do.
•  A perspective on fear, frequency, and what you’re actually connecting to.
•  Why some connections drain you … and others expand you. 
•  What “getting it wrong” is doing to your ability to receive.
•  A reframe that completely changes how you relate to your intuition.
•  How trust is built when you can’t see what you’re trusting yet.

If you’ve ever had a moment where something came through and you brushed it off ... well, this might be the episode that makes you look again! 👀

About Johanna Bloom:
Johanna is an animal communicator and intuitive who helps humans hear the soul-level messages of their animals, both living and passed. A former horse trainer known for working with the “difficult” ones, she now bridges the unseen bond between species, offering clarity, healing, and connection across all realms. For Johanna, animal communication is a sacred remembering, and every session is a conversation with love.

Connect with Johanna:

• Book // The Ultimate Animal Communication Quote Book
• Explore ways to work with her genius
• Hang out with her on TikTok and Instagram
• Curious about a session with Johanna? I've recorded 3 episodes featuring her magic!
  • Listening beyond words: The magic of animal communication
  • Cosmic conversations with my cats
  • My dog taught me how to manifest money

Disclaimer: 
This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your doctor, therapist, or financial advisor for medical, mental health, or financial advice.

Transcript

Ashley Mondor: [00:00:00] Oh my God, I am so excited. Hello. Welcome. Thank you for being here. I have the. Johanna Bloom back with us. She's my first returning guest, actually, which is really exciting because she was my mentor and I, um, towards the end of our mentorship, our conversations were so illuminating for me and so fun and so magical, and I was learning so much that I was like, Johanna, can I have another, you know, podcast interview with you?

Would you be down for that? Because there are some things that we had worked through that I think would be beneficial for so many people to hear. But first and foremost, Johanna, how are you? Tell me all the things.

Johanna Bloom: Hi, Ashley. I'm so excited to be back. I'm very honored to be your first returning guest and 

Ashley just got back from a hiatus and I missed her and it sucked.

Um, so I'm really glad she's back. I missed your energy.

Ashley Mondor: Oh, Johanna, thank you. I follow her on TikTok obviously and Instagram and probably threads and like all the places. [00:01:00] But my favorite thing is when I look at all of her content, I leave comments and things and stuff. So I was like, sorry for flooding your entire feed, but I needed a break.

I took a week long break from, social media pretty much. And I think everyone should do that, by the way. 'cause your creativity is different and you're less anxious and you don't realize how much you're performing and all these things. But thank you for saying that. I appreciate it. So first to dig in, 'cause there are many topics I wanna ask you about.

The painting that you have behind you. Where did this come from and what did you learn from this being? 

Johanna Bloom: So this is a painting I actually made in a tattoo shop. If you're on the podcast and you can't see it, it is a big horn, sheep, uh, it's like a very stylized line drawing with some watercolor drips.

And I was, a lot of art happens in tattoo shops. I used to be a tattoo artist and I was sitting there between clients one day and this really strong mental image of a bighorn sheep just popped up and I [00:02:00] loved it. Um, and I, I, uh, originally came from Colorado, so I used to see bighorn sheep on mountain drives.

So I drew it and I didn't really think much of it. I think I advertised it maybe as a tattoo. I don't think it ever sold. And the design just kind of followed me. I eventually made it into a, a painting. And, just recently I started to get a channel from this animal. I was looking at the painting and I started to hear a conversation come through and I thought, oh, like I'm gonna need to sit down and, and record this because if I don't write down my channels, I forget a lot of the information that comes through.

It's like I become a vessel, so things just go in one ear and out the other. And if I don't make some kind of record, a lot of it I just lose, which I've learned to be okay with. Like, sometimes it's okay to just flow through information like that, but this one felt important. Um, so I actually just posted a TikTok video about the whole conversation I had with this big horn sheep.

Do you wanna, Ashley saw it. Do you wanna talk about what, what you noticed from that conversation?

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. [00:03:00] Okay. So what I found to be so fascinating is the sheep brought through the idea of being connected to the mountain through its hooves. And I know, you know. Humans, we should be grounding and putting our bare feet on the ground, especially for what that does to our system because we're electric beings.

But the way that the hoofs were was just so intriguing to me. And the metaphor that it gave you was fascinating.

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. It talked about it's hooves being puzzle pieces connecting with the mountain. And it also gave me a warning. It asked for humans to not hoard water. It talked about being a big horn sheep being at the, the source of the snow melt water that comes down from the rocky mountains and feeds, I think several states.

The Colorado River, I think goes all the way to the Grand Canyon. And it talked about human dams and how when a beaver builds a dam, it becomes like an oasis for forest life. [00:04:00] But when humans build a dam, it becomes, I think it said like a gravel waste land. Like nothing grows there, it's just this huge reservoir of water.

And um, the ram told me that the snow melt is the birthright of the animals and plants down the line. And that when we hoard the water like that and damn all of it, we are keeping their birthright from them.

Ashley Mondor: I mean, I, I watched that and read it 'cause she puts quotes in her content and was like, God, 

first being a little bit bummed about humanity, you know, but also the birthright, of course it would be, and we can impact the, the ecosystem by being more mindful.

And I think more of that's gonna happen because, you know, consciousness is expanding in such a way and having more people tune into animals I think is, is only going to help us. And so for a little bit of context, I had been working with multiple [00:05:00] mentors for years now, but only last year did I really start focusing on like psychic development and things like that.

So I found a mentor that I liked, but I didn't, it wasn't the depth that I needed. And so when I had a few sessions with Johanna, I remember sitting in the car after getting this like fancy UBE latte, which is like this purple potato and sipping it and being like, oh my God, does Johanna offer mentorship?

Because if there's anything that I have always wanted to learn as, especially as someone who loved the thorn berries growing up, I was like, oh, if I could talk to animals, that would be amazing. And then you meet someone who can do it and then immediately I'm like, I, oh, I can't do that. I definitely can't do that.

But I thought, well, why not expand? If you hear that it's my cat. I didn't want to close close any of my three cats out of the session. That's Furnie Burnie Puddin Pop A.K.A.. Professor Fernicus, my Night Ninja Prince. Alright, amazing. Also, behind me, I have Knox, but you can't [00:06:00] see him. He's sleeping. And Johanna was like, yeah, hold the space.

So we're letting that happen. Oh, okay. Human moments. So I reached out to Johanna and I was like, Hey, do you offer mentorship? What does that look like? Just wondering. And she responded back. And then we, at the jump we started, and I wanted to bring her on to talk about her mentorship and things because it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life to be led by someone like her because, and I wish, like I wish, like I wish I would've started with animal communication first before I dove into the Akashic records, or, you know, channeling your higher self.

Although that, that one specifically makes a lot of sense. But when you don't trust yourself. It's hard to make that connection or believe in it. And so when I was working with Johanna, something that moved me was having the ability to work with someone who can tune into tangible, physical aspects. [00:07:00] And then you do it and you get confirmation and then you cry because you're like, wait, that's real.

You know? So before we dig into the mentor part, 'cause I wanted to tee that up, I had where we were talking a little bit about something that I was really curious and I wanted to bring to everyone because Johanna has experienced this. Would you be open to sharing more about your process and your early experiences with opening up to beings who didn't have your highest intention, and what did you learn?

Johanna Bloom: This is such a loaded question. I'm so excited. So when I first started to wake up to my psychic abilities, I was working at a very remote horse farm. I used to train horses for a living, and I, had just gotten outta a really bad relationship. Ran away to Indiana, um, was working at this really remote barn, which I wanted.

I like, just wanted some space. And the very [00:08:00] first night I was there, the employees put me up in this big, beautiful like colonial farmhouse that had all this antique furniture. And they told me, this is where you're gonna be staying for the night. Sometimes the house makes weird noises, like, you know, sometimes people get a little freaked out.

It's like an old house, so call us if you need anything. And in my mind I'm like, oh, it's a haunted house. And so I was really excited actually. I was ready, like for this kind of experience. And I remember, I mean, all kinds of weird stuff happened that night. I heard a clicking sound coming and going through the house.

I heard something grating in the basement, like a big stone was being moved. I felt physical sensations like this sort of icy swooping sensation, like someone was going through me. And ultimately I felt like I was, they were trying to scare me off. There were, there was this feeling like, you know, make it creepy, scare her off.

And I didn't get scared off. I just sort of waited it out. And then I felt these energies start interacting with me and start getting curious. And it's, it was the [00:09:00] same experience I've had when I'm training a young horse or a difficult horse. And the horse charges me and tries to get a reaction out of me, tries to frighten me.

And if I just hold my ground, the horse usually backs down and becomes very curious. And I had the, the same experience with these, this, I don't know, I call them ghosts, in the house. And I started to experience more and more. That was just the first night I was there. I got the job. That was my interview process.

I got the job moved, to a little property on site and started working there full time. And the experiences kind of grew from there. And I had my first confirmation experience, um, my first time where I had physical evidence that what I was hearing was, was someone real, was like a real human being who had once walked the earth.

Do you wanna hear the story? 

Ashley Mondor: Yes. What? Bring it. Okay.

Johanna Bloom: So I won't, I won't use names, I wanna keep this anonymous, but there was a couple that owned this [00:10:00] farm. It was a very large property, 2000 acres. And, the husband had passed away and the wife was like 89, 90 years old. And, she was still running her horse training business and that's why she hired me was to, basically finish training the horses that she'd bred, get them to new homes and sort of close out the business for her.

So one day I was, sitting in my office right next to the indoor arena and the door blew open. And it was strange because it wasn't necessarily a windy day and I felt like a presence entered the room and I stayed calm. 'cause at this point this was fairly normal. Like the paranormal experiences at this place were just crazy.

And I, I was on my phone and I was shopping for a Christmas present for my boss, and I was kind of stumped. I didn't really know her that well. And I heard a voice come from the left side of my head and say very clearly, hi, my name is, and it was the man's name who was her late husband. Do you want some help?[00:11:00]

Like, right as the door blew open. And I was, I, I felt fear, but I also was very curious. So I was like, I mean, yeah, like what? Like what could, what's the worst that could happen? You know, like, let, let me just open up to this. So I said, sure, I'm trying to find a present for your wife. And he said, oh, um.

The word hydrangea dropped into my head, and I didn't even know what that was. I had to Google it. It's a type of flower. And so I, I was like, well, where am I gonna get hydrangeas at Christmas? Like there's, it's winter. So I found just a little pin, like the kind of old people jewelry that my grandma used to like, and I found one that was a hydrangea, and the, the voice again, specifically told me that I should get a blue one, and she would know it was from him.

And so I was like, okay, like this is a good little experiment, right? I felt sort of crazy, but I went with it. I ordered the blue one, [00:12:00] and people have asked me, when I tell this story, you know what the voice sounded like, and it sounded like me. It sounded like my own voice, but it was coming from a different part of my mind, and it was saying things that I wouldn't say.

I mean, it was using words that I didn't even know. So I just kind of went with it and ordered this pin, gave it to my boss for Christmas. She immediately started crying, as soon as she saw it and told me about a bush of blue hydrangeas that had used to be located right at the entrance of their house.

And it wasn't there anymore. It had died years previously. But, and I, I got brave and I just told her like, um, your husband told me to get this for you. Like this is a present from him. And I thought maybe she would be freaked out. She wasn't. She just said, wow, you're very sensitive to spirits. And like, put the little pin, on a scarf at the entryway.

She didn't get outta the house very much 'cause she was very elderly and had a walker and everything. But, I noticed it that then [00:13:00] anytime I visited the house after that, it was like, the first thing I noticed when I came in was a little blue hydrangea pin. And that was the first confirmation I'd ever had that the insights that I got.

Some, like, this was not my first psychic experience, but it was the first time that I had actually opened up to someone else about it and had this sort of physical confirmation that, wow, this, this is like a real thing. Like this, this object, this blue hydrangea connects these two people. One is living, one is not.

And I was able to hear him like I, I could hear both sides of it and like bring a message through. Kind of, it like really blew my mind. It was a turning point for me. 

Ashley Mondor: I cannot imagine a more meaningful gift. To have it be confirmed. And also when you were talking about, and this was something that was helpful in my mentorship with you, is how the information came through and where you felt it, like how you knew.

Because for me, I, [00:14:00] I realized in practicing with Johanna that I get it on the opposite side, and I just found that to be so fascinating and also what the heck? That is so cool. Okay. Oh, so you had a delightful, magical experience that confirmed and anchored your gift and like what you received was real.

Tell me about the spooky things.

Johanna Bloom: So that was the most positive experience I had. Talking to ghosts, most of them were way more negative. I had one time where I had a different ghost haunting my personal house, and it used to mess with the garage door at night, like the garage door would go open and shut all the time.

I would get these like waves of strange energy. I'd get these weird nightmares, like faucets would turn on and off, stuff like that. And ultimately I wasn't too bothered, the staff and I had lots of spooky conversations about, about it. We like downloaded apps on our phones that were supposed to translate for ghosts.

You know, we were, we were curious. We were trying to get to the bottom of it. But, there was definitely some very [00:15:00] disturbed energy at that ranch. Our theory was the, the ranch was set on limestone and there was a lot of water. There was a lot of like underground water and which conducts electricity.

So we were thinking, oh, maybe this is like a good place for communication to come through, just 'cause it's so electric. And I had a coworker who did reiki, she actually introduced me to Reiki, um, and did my first sessions there. And she would get, um, I. Impressions about Native Americans who had lived there and about violence that had happened when the area had been basically colonialized colonized.

And I would get insights. There was this one place in the forest I used to take the horses riding through the forest and there was this one section of trees where they would always spook. They would always get really nervous. And one time I went there on foot and I, I tried to tune in and just, and listen.

And I got, Imma this, this image of like the creek, this, this little section of dry creek. All of a sudden it was full of blood. There was like blood running down and I just got the impression that a murder [00:16:00] had happened there. So there, there was very disturbed energy and I, over the couple years that I worked there, I started to feel exhausted.

I was like, you know, I'm, I'm really open to this. I wanna be open to this. I wanna explore it, but it just doesn't feel healthy, you know, it just feels kind of, um, stressful. Even when I do have conversations. Like, I had a conversation with the ghost that lived in my house. His name was Horace. He had like, been a plumber at the house at one point, and we developed almost like a friendship.

We would have conversations, but he got su super attached to me, and he would be like, trying to influence all my decisions and trying to talk to me all the time. And I just, I felt drained. It didn't feel good. And at that point I had no boundaries. I had no concept of how to put up boundaries energetically that I could even do that.

I was still just kind of in this like. Yeah, beginning of my spiritual awakening, just in awe of the experiences in general. And around that time is when I started to experience animal communication too. I started to get, [00:17:00] images and insights directly from horses while I was riding them, which was very cool and a much more positive experience.

I, I started to focus on those more because they were productive. I would get, insights and I'd be able to work on them and, and train the horses better. Whereas when I talked to ghosts, it was like I would just be up late at night. I would be exhausted. I would wake up tired, I would have nightmares. And I started to realize it wasn't.

It just wasn't helpful. And the, the late husband who I had talked to that one time, he used to come in and have conversations with me and try to convince me to save the farm. Like, like, somehow, somehow I need to get involved and somehow I need to like change the trajectory. This, this couple were very disappointed that their grandson who was going to inherit the farm, was not going to continue breeding horses.

To them, it was like this huge loss that he just wanted to do, like hay farming and the breeding operation would end. And for a while I got sort of wrapped up in this and I was like, oh, I guess I need to like, figure out how to stay here long [00:18:00] term. I don't know if they were trying to set me up with him or something, but,

I eventually had to start setting boundaries. I eventually had to tell this ghost, I can't help you with this. This isn't my job. I'm an employee here. I don't have any influence over what happens to this place. Um, and I read in a book by Sylvia Brown, I started to read and try to study on this stuff.

And she said that the best thing you can do is to tell them to go into the light. So I took that advice and the next time this ghost came and talked to me, I said, Hey, I can't help you with this. This isn't my problem. Like, I have a life to live. You need to go cross over to the other side because obsessing over this thing with the farm isn't good for you.

There's not even really a problem here. Like, so what? Like the farm isn't used for horses anymore. Maybe this place needs a break. There's a lot of like restless spirits here. Maybe we just all need some healing and like return to nature. He actually listened to me and he vanished for a few months.

And the next time he came back, I was grooming my horse in my barn at the [00:19:00] barn at my house. All the windows blew shut all of a sudden, which was this ghost signature move. And so I was like, hello, sir. Like, what do you want? And he came in very clearly from the left side while I was grooming my horse and said, you should leave.

And I said, what? Like, this is the opposite message that I usually get. And his whole demeanor was different. Instead of trying to manipulate me or pressure me, you know, into, into serving his purposes. He told me, my wife is dying. She doesn't know it yet, but her body, you know, is on a decline.

And he apologized for the way she'd been treating me because she had been. Spontaneously firing me, and then like, not remembering later, or claiming not to remember later. So my life was really unstable for a few months where I was like, you know, do I need to find a new job? Am I leaving here? She would cut my pay for no reason.

And so it was, it had turned into a really unstable situation for me. And he told me, he apologized for the way she was treating me and said that it was just her [00:20:00] aging brain and that he wished that I could have known her younger. He asked me not to take it personally and just said, get yourself out.

And I did. I, I think I moved out to the East coast like a month or two later, and within two months she had passed away. Whoa. Yeah. That is an amazing story. Yeah, we kind of came full circle. I mean, we started out with, sort of this bond over his wife and me trying to help her. And, um, he, he, you know. Did some uncool things, trying to manipulate me to serve his, I, I think the stereotype is true.

I think they have unfinished business, whatever, obsession, if it's a, a guilt thing or something that they want to accomplish. And they get obsessed with it and then they can't fully cross over or something. They're somehow stuck. And so then we ended at this place where he pretty much came in and gave me a message that set me free.[00:21:00]

Ashley Mondor: I have chills. What? That is amazing. It reminds me, I may have told you this, but growing up my mom started the first paranormal society in my state. Yeah. And we would go ghost hunting. She had a team, but it wasn't to prove that ghosts were real. Like that was never our aim. Our aim was to help the families who were dealing with the spiritual stuff to find grounded, logical answers.

Like maybe that drumming sound you're healing is actually your pipes. Or maybe there is some electric thing, an issue, right. Trying to make logical answers come to fruition, but so. So often the spirit, 'cause my mom can see spirit, so she can see them in their full form and then I can hear and feel them, but I don't see them as human, right?

I see them as light or shadow and things. So for her, she could actually see them and often it was they didn't want to go to the light yet [00:22:00] because they wanted to relay a message to someone. Or they wanted to have the person who had murdered them, you know, actually come to justice and how could we relay that message to that person's loved ones and stuff like that.

So it's so cool that you not only came full circle and you made a meaningful impact, but that you also were a conduit for spirit and human, and to put boundaries down because you needed to and then to have a different experience. What?

Johanna Bloom: It was pretty transformative. And I think at that point I started doing better with my boundaries in general with like my personal relationships too.

And, um, after that I took some training, from my mentor who taught me animal communication and learned how to set intentions and set boundaries. Anytime I'm entering the, the psychic world that way, energy's like that. Who would want to just feed off of me or manipulate me, can't even access me in the first [00:23:00] place.

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. And that was one of the things that I really appreciated learning from you is your framework. Because every time you are so intentional, especially before you see clients, right? But even just doing this work in general, out of curiosity and connection, you have a framework that is rooted in very precise, clear boundaries energetically, and also from an intention standpoint.

And through this process, once you had this framework in place, have you ever encountered like darker, negative energies?

Johanna Bloom: Yes, but hmm, more like on my own time, I don't think they drop in when I'm doing sessions or anything like that. And I've actually become more wary of interacting with energies like this.

My theory, is that animals, exist on a, a certain vibration, a certain frequency, and I think that ghosts exist on a lower one. It's a lower vibration. It's a, I think there [00:24:00] was not, a coincidence that when I was wounded and sort of fleeing a bad relationship, that's when I was aligning and speaking to those kinds of energies.

And as I healed and moved forward, it, it just sort of fell away. I think that makes sense. Yeah. I think people who are psychologically vulnerable or wounded or have just been through something, or I think especially if you're in any kind of relationship where your boundaries aren't respected, I think that makes you very vulnerable to influence or to just openness to that, that whole realm.

Ashley Mondor: Yeah, I feel that. It's really interesting actually, because I was in a meditation, listening to some sort of songs, on YouTube. And as I was in it, I had this thought, oh, I should go into the Akashic records. And so then I just went into it and instead of actually running through for me, what I learned is that there's a prayer and it is intention plus, you know, being very clear with what you're doing, why you're [00:25:00] there.

And I didn't run that. And I remember that night I started getting extremely hot in my body. Like I was sweating, but the room wasn't, a volcano of heat. And so I'm like, oh my God, why am I sweating? And then all of a sudden I hear what sounds like claw marks at the end of my bed. And there were no, like, our cats weren't in there because I have three.

And I thought, oh, what have I done? And then I started hearing knocking everywhere. And then I started seeing lights flashing and stuff. And you know in the moment when it's pitch black in your room and you hear that, good God. But I realized that outside of not having the framework and intention, that there was a belief in me that harmonized with an energy that I needed to prove through hardship.

That I could overcome something scary, and that was part of my process and I didn't appreciate it, but your unconscious mind, like you were talking about, energy is like a radio [00:26:00] dial. So if you are tuned into ghosts and they are, you know, a lower level versus wanting to connect to the angelic realm, which is higher, unconsciously, you're gonna connect with things and you're gonna be like, okay, now that we did that, what did we learn?

Yeah. What did we learn And maybe how did we move on from it?

Johanna Bloom: It, it ended up being sort of a stepping stool for me, and I appreciate it. I love that it happened. I also would never wanna go through it again because it was very intense.

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. Oh, just magical things, right? That's why I think you're such a great mentor because you've experienced the, I was gonna say scale, but the, the gradient, right.

Of what can happen and what you can connect with. Also, I am wondering, do you remember when you told me that you had connected with like a galactic being?

Johanna Bloom: Yes. Which time was this? I think it's happened a couple times.

Ashley Mondor: I just wanted to ask mainly [00:27:00] because, there's this thing that I'm seeing in the spiritual space right now where people who have been heavily conditioned through religion, that they are saying that aliens are demons, that they're fallen angels and their demons and they cannot see beyond that.

And you grew up religious right, and had to do your own deconditioning. And so I was like wondering, you know, when you went through that experience of connecting with an alien or interdimensional, galactic being right, knowing that. You can connect with the darker forces if you have a belief of fear, or we also have forces who are helping humanity and the earth evolve and that it's also a, it can be a very loving experience.

You know.

Johanna Bloom: I can tell you, I do remember it being a very loving experience when I connected with a being that identified themselves as like from outer space and like here to help humanity. I remember the message that I got, not the specifics, but the overall idea was that earth is the sort of. [00:28:00] Dark alley where people lock their cars.

Like this is the lowest vibration, what we're experiencing here. And so there's nothing out there that is coming to get us or coming. Oh, I'm, I'm remembering it now. There's nothing out there that is coming to get us or coming to harm us. There's no alien that's coming to conquer or, you know, dinosaurs or zombies that are coming to rip us apart.

Our fear of that comes from the internalized knowledge that that's what we do to other species. So this fear that there's someone coming to wipe us out, like that's what we do. And that's like our own internalized guilt, manifesting. The idea of zombies. I know animals have told me about this, like the human fascination with zombies is the idea that, you know, people would turn on each other and cannibalize each other, but they've told me we're already doing that energetically.

It's just sort of zombies are just our physical manifestation for what that feels like. I remember my experiences with ghosts were far more [00:29:00] negative than my experiences with, with aliens or galactic beings. It does, it didn't feel the same at all. The galactic beings came in with this wisdom and calm, and it felt good to me.

It felt like something I wanted more of and it felt really reassuring to know that like, you know, anyone who comes to earth to help you? I don't wanna make blanket statements 'cause obviously I haven't explored this very far, but galactic beings who come to earth and connect with us to help us, they're trying to raise the frequency.

The negative experiences I had that, that I would describe as more demonic, had to do more with ghosts. And I've even posed this question to religious people that I know.

I at this point think that demons are just ghosts. They're just the Souls that are not at peace, that that sort of linger on the earth and wreak havoc. And I think that's all there is to it. I think that's the closest thing there is to a hell. Um, like religion uses hell to threaten people so much and it's like, well, we're already here.

There's, it doesn't [00:30:00] really get much worse than this. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah, I love that. Especially 'cause it's reminding me of, on one of the ghost hunts that we did with my mom, we had met a spirit and we had asked them, why haven't you gone to the light yet? And they were terrified because they were Catholic and they felt that they were a sinner and that they were going to for eternity, you know, go to their own personal hell and there would be only suffering for

eternity. And I just thought that that was so profound, I thought that was so profound because of how deep the belief system goes that would have you believe that source, which we all are, a fractal from the same ray of light. All of us are, even though people have tried to battle me on this, which is weird 'cause I don't wanna battle, I just want peace.

But they were saying that it's not true and only the Messiah will save your soul. And we have this whole thing right now with the rapture happening [00:31:00] and people thinking it's like it's the end of times when really it's the end of time and our connection and really being chained to linear, past, present, future, and patriarchy systems and systems of control and oppression and fear.

And that's coming back to everything is the vibration of fear. And when you are tuning into a spirit who may be in suffering or grief or fear and the weight of it, and maybe there's something in you that needed to go through that experience in order to be like, oh, I have something unresolved in me. Or the boundary piece, right?

Like I grew up as a people pleaser. We don't rock the boat. There is no conflict, right? But, but then you go through life and you're like, wow, that was at my detriment.

Johanna Bloom: Yes, and I, I, that really resonates with me and especially this concept that hell isn't like a separate place that you get sent to if you're bad.

Rather it's being stuck [00:32:00] between places, because that's in my mind what a ghost is. You know, it's someone who doesn't belong in the physical world anymore, but is, is too afraid or too reluctant to cross to the other side. So they're stuck between, and therefore they don't have an energy source.

They can't eat, they can't receive energy from the sun like a plant would, and they're, not connected to source on the other side. So then they have to find someone who's energy to feed off of. You know, maybe they find someone like me who's just waking up to their psychic abilities and can hear them and can talk to them and even create a sort of relationship.

And then they become dependent on me and I become drained and it goes on until I finally set boundaries. And setting boundaries is so simple. Like I was so surprised once I realized I could do that, I could just say go away. And they had to, and I was taught growing up that, um, we, we did sort of touch on energetic boundaries and demonic experiences in a really general way.

And we were taught, if you [00:33:00] have an experience at night with like some creepy energy who you can hear moving around and, uh, a really common symptom is like pressure on your chest. You feel pressure on your chest, you can't breathe. You have like that, those scary sleep paralysis dreams. All you have to say is in the name of Jesus, be gone.

And I did that for years and it does work. But I, I learned after that point too. It's not necessarily the name of Jesus that carries all the power there. It's just me saying, go away. I have authority to tell, an unwanted energy that needs to leave and it has to leave. Like if I set an energetic boundary, it's just gone.

Not to negate anyone's religious beliefs. If you want to use Jesus' name, by all means, go for it. But I also think that touches on your point about the rapture, about, you know, someone's coming to save me. You know, things are bad. Jesus has to come back and save me. It's outsourcing our own power. And it's putting us in a state of helplessness where we are dependent on [00:34:00] someone else to come in and fix all of this.

And then it sort of releases us also from any accountability or responsibility for like, well, what part do we humans have in the way the world looks right now? And the fact that we, we all feel like we're in the end times. And I don't think that's necessarily healthy. For me, It was a really, powerful experience to just learn about my own autonomy and learn that I can set energetic boundaries.

I don't have to, I don't have to actually call upon a religious figure to come save me in any of these contexts. I have the authority to do that. I have the authority to save myself and set my own boundaries at any moment.

Ashley Mondor: Yes. Oh man. It's just, it's so good because it's reminding me, I grew up part Catholic, part spiritual, because my mom practiced one and my dad practiced the other, which I think was on purpose from a soul development plan so that I could understand the framework that people are coming from, specifically from fear and hierarchy and control.

[00:35:00] Because isn't it interesting that at least in religion and in patriarchy and capitalism, there's a top of the pyramid, and if you are good and worthy, that's where all the things are. Right? But you have to submit and you have to be able to have someone above you be the source of power.

If we realize that the truth of our being that we would thrive in like a matriarchy system and we would thrive in circles instead of hierarchies, what would happen? And if there is no one outside of you who is greter greter, greater or better, I just made a word. Better than you. Who's more powerful than you?

Who is more worthy than you? Then what does that make that mean about you and our power?

Johanna Bloom: Oh, it's so true. It's amazing. And it's amazing when you start to tap into the, magic that is inherent to the human experience. Like, I mean, animal communication. If you told me just a few years ago that it was possible to actually hear our animals' thoughts, it [00:36:00] sounded like something out of a fantasy novel, you know?

And now it's my daily life, and I introduce people to this, and it's so magical to them and to me it's now the new normal. It's like, well, this is just reality now where we all have very magical abilities to connect with each other on an energetic level. And people have developed this in, in all kinds of different ways.

And this just should be normal. Like, this is the world everyone should live in.

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. I've seen it multiple times. Um, one in your book. Which we're gonna get to, but in your content where it's like, this is actually your first language is telepathy and, and you are remembering it. But it's interesting when we have these ideas, like, you know, we have moments, I think many people have had moments of telepathy or telempathy, which is where your heart connects and you receive information with your partner, right?

Or you guys have the same thought or the same song lyric is playing and you're like, oh my God. Like, [00:37:00] where did you hear that song? What, okay, in your head, right? Or in your heart. But to actually watch someone have communication with animals in a way where not only does Johanna nail physical details or medical things, right?

They're characteristics of animals she's never even seen before. Your pets bringing through information that resonates with people so much so like me that cry, because I cannot believe that you would pull through something like that that is so specific for me. It's important because it means that I've seen you do this.

My mirror neurons in my unconscious mind understand if that's possible for her as a human. It's possible for me.

I mean, what? And so it's so cool that you are leading by example, and like you said, this is your reality now. I mean, you grew up religious, like this is not, this is not a good thing in religion, you know, to be able, they're demons, it's the demon, and you're like, no, it's actually, you know, my bunny. Like, what are you talking about?

Johanna Bloom: It's [00:38:00] true. And it, it's sad. I, I've lost most of the relationships with my family over this practice and that was a very like conscious step-by-step thing for me when I decided like how much to tell them or, you know, whether to reveal this next layer of what I'm doing and they just progressively, you know, could not handle it and could not meet me in the middle anymore.

But I think, uh, for me, that was also very liberating because the types of relationships that I lost, the types of people that I lost by doing this openly were the types of relationships where I wasn't being very respected in the first place. I wasn't really allowed to have boundaries. And so those were the type of people who benefited off of me operating from a wounded state instead of me operating from an empowered state.

So I have no regrets really.

Ashley Mondor: Well, and what's so cool, as you're saying that I'm, my heart is lighting up because it's like, if you did not follow your heart, we would not be friends. I wouldn't know you. And there is something that like, oh, I can't even [00:39:00] imagine not having you be in my life, and your magic and everything that you're doing in the world.

Like that would be so sad. So you created space for more aligned people to meet you because you know, like I respect your boundaries. Also teach me everything you know.

Johanna Bloom: Thank you. I feel the same way about you. It's, it's like if you, we gotta let the weird flag fly so our people can find us.

Ashley Mondor: Yes. Okay.

So you were talking about how you created a more magical world and now you live it and this is just the truth of how you live, what you live. Right. Can you tell me the story about how Horizon came into your life?

Johanna Bloom: Sure. So Horizon is my horse. Uh, she's my second horse. And she's a wild Mustang. And, I have been trying to adopt a wild Mustang for about 10 years now.

I had a wild Mustang as one of my very first horses. His name was Canyon and he was from Nevada and he was [00:40:00] already trained when I found him. I was 11 years old and, my dad bought him for me and I. Ride him all around our property. And he was so steady and reliable and safe that my parents would let me ride him on the bluffs and the mountain trails all over our area.

And he was my first taste of freedom because I was a very sheltered religious child. So I wasn't really allowed to get out until I had my horse. And then we could, we could go anywhere. And so I've always been very drawn to Mustangs and very interested in the process that the United States has for, for gathering herds and adopting them out.

There's good things and bad things about how we do it. And so I would like to, I like bringing awareness to the whole thing 'cause we need more people in this conversation. Horizon, I, I tried to adopt a wild Mustang twice. Once I showed up, I drove six hours to an auction and due to a miscommunication, I missed the auction by 15 minutes.

And that put me off for a little while. The second time I tried to [00:41:00] adopt a Mustang from a sanctuary. And she would not load in the trailer like we tried for four hours and she absolutely would not load in the trailer. And that was, actually one of the things that catapulted me into animal communication.

'cause I was like, I still have this goal. This thing still feels so important to me to adopt a wild horse, but how am I going to do it if I don't know if the horse wants to come home with me? 'Cause I had even met this horse beforehand and like I thought we had a connection. She clearly didn't, um, or not enough of one to like come home with me.

She wasn't aligned. So that's when I started learning the distance communication. And I remember when I found it, I was like, this is how I'm gonna do it. I'm going to talk to a horse using a photo long distance and find out who wants to come home with me. But she came to me first. I was like starting this process and I was looking at auctions and looking at sanctuaries and everything.

And it was like a little more than a year ago, probably last fall, I started to get these images of a white horse with blue eyes in the middle of my [00:42:00] sessions. Like I would be doing a session with you and your cats and just all of a sudden image of a white horse with blue eyes. And it was very brief.

She would just like come and go and I would have no context or no clue. I would ask my client, do you know this horse? And my client never did. And it happened enough times that I was like, this is a pattern now. Like there is a horse trying to drop in on me. But she's shy. Like it was like trying to grab wet soap.

Like anytime I actually focused on her, she would just vanish. So I asked my mentor to channel with me, and between the two of us, we managed to get some more information and we got the same image about the front, the shape of the front of her nose being a little bit convex. We got the same colors, we got the same impressions about this being a really young horse.

And the idea that she was thinking about coming home with me, like she was interested, uh, and it was almost like we dated for a few months. Like we, we kind of got to know each other. She would let me channel with her more and more directly. And she wouldn't ever exactly answer [00:43:00] me when I asked her, like, do you wanna come home with me?

How do I find you? It would always kind of be like, um, I don't know. Like she, she would get vague about it. But, uh, there was one day I was, I had just visited Wild Mustangs in Arizona. I had flown out there to go look at the Salt River and like photograph some wild mustangs was the first time I'd seen them in real life.

So it was a very magical experience for me. And I was on the plane on the way home and my friend texted me a picture of a white horse with blue eyes and said, Hey, this horse is in the auction. Um, is, is this the one? And I, I looked at her and I did a channel, on the plane, like in the air. I was like channeling with her and I got a match.

It felt like the same energy. And she was a lot older than I had expected. I had been watching the auctions, but she had presented herself as so young and sort of, um, timid that I was looking for like a foal, like a baby horse. This horse was two years old. And so I had missed her in my filters, but my friend [00:44:00] had found her and sent her over.

And, I bid on her and I won the auction. And then just this summer, she came out and I had to have her shipped all the way from Nevada. She's from Nevada, just like my first Mustang, um, all the way from Nevada to Pennsylvania. And the most magical moment for me was that she loaded herself directly in the trailer.

I didn't even put any pressure on her. We just sort of opened up the shoot and she walked right on. And especially after that last experience where we'd been trying and trying for four hours to get this horse in the trailer, to have this one just be like, okay. I was like, oh, this is my horse. Right? 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, also a wild mustang, you know, just walking in on something that.

You're like, what? You have you done this before? And to feel that happen, to crystallize in your reality and for you guys to meet. So when you guys were connecting, uh, when she came to [00:45:00] you, because she came from Nevada and you live in a different state now, don't you? Pennsylvania . Oh, okay. Yeah. With winter.

Right. So I, I'm wondering how has that process been going? Because you can speak with her. What have you been learning from her? Because I had a session with her through Johanna, which was like, so amazing and I'm gonna speak to it. But first for you, what has she been teaching you?

Johanna Bloom: She is amazingly mature.

And she has such a strong sense of boundaries, which is incredible to me. 'cause I had to learn that. Took me like 30 years to learn how to have boundaries. And she just has it so naturally she'll set them with me all the time in a very direct and kind way. And I think, my horse training experience helps because I also know not to push her when she sets a boundary, I'm like, okay, you know, we don't need to do the dominance thing.

Like, that's, that's her saying no. But the one we've been working through [00:46:00] recently, she told me that she would not allow me to trim her hooves until the weather warmed up. And I did not like this boundary because, uh, it's been six months since I adopted her. And her hooves are uneven. You know, they're, they're growing unevenly and I've been trying every single day to, to handle her feet and to teach her how to do this.

And she just didn't make any progress. Most other things, she made really rapid progress. But this one thing, she just couldn't do it. She told me that, that she wanted extra foot during the winter. She did not want her feet short when there, because she wanted insulation between her foot and the ground.

I, had been gently trying to push back on this boundary for months and just today, actually just this week it finally warmed up and it got up into the forties and the fifties. And I went through my normal routine trying to lift her feet and she lets me hold them for like a second and then slams them back down.

Just this week she suddenly started letting me work on them just outta nowhere out of [00:47:00] the blue, like big complete, like 180 degree transformation. And it lines up exactly with what she told me about waiting until the weather warms up. 

Ashley Mondor: Boundaries, ladies. Okay. First and foremost, but also I remember because we were jamming on a session, and this will come up again, but she is

Also teaching you about the frequency of abundance.

Johanna Bloom: Yes, that's true too. When she entered my life, I remember the day I was supposed to go pick her up from the auction. We had a trailer delay, like the shipping company I, I was using, decided to wait another day or two to go pick her up. And I was very upset because I was so excited and I wanted to meet her so badly.

And I talked to her about it and she said, actually, I manifested this delay because I'm tired. And I'm in this energy of urgency, right? Like trying to make this thing happen that I've wanted for like 10 years. And she was just so calm about it. And she just [00:48:00] said like, why would we hurry?

Like, I just don't feel well yet. I've had a very long trip and I'm happy for the delay. And she was just not bothered about it. And she's brought that energy. As soon as I adopted her, my whole life changed. Like my, I was in, I was engaged, I was in a relationship. The whole thing just suddenly catastrophically fell through.

I had to move out. I had to move into my own place. One my horses got diagnosed with a disease, like all of these things just happened. At the same time, my cat had to have surgery. And it felt like this major, like clearing, all this stuff came to the surface. And I just had to step into my power and step out of these old ideas that I think that the thing I was stepping away from the was this patriarchal idea that I needed someone to provide for me.

Like I needed, a man in my life or a job or a boss or some kind of structure where I felt safe. And ever since I met Horizon, even [00:49:00] energetically, it was like I was being called into this, like having my own business and being single again and just stepping into like, I can do this. I can be alone.

I can be in my power and everything is fine. We have abundance. And that's, that's what it comes from is this idea that we have enough. We don't need to rely on a system to have enough and survive. We have enough. And you're like, and two horses. Hello? Yes I have never had two horses. This feels so outlandish to me.

And I was so worried about my, my money when I adopted her, but my finances just expanded. Like, I think my income has doubled since I adopted her. 

Ashley Mondor: 'cause she's a unicorn, if we're gonna be honest.

Johanna Bloom: She really is. She is.

Ashley Mondor: Yes. Can I talk a little bit about my experience? Please do. Oh my God. Okay. When I started working with Johanna, she taught me her framework. And so part of that framework is you learn how to connect, right? How to, you know, be clear who you're specifically [00:50:00] connecting with, what you are not connecting with, right? Like it's a very precise framework that you follow.

And so in working with her, what she would do is she would give me one animal, sometimes two later on in our journey to connect with. And so what I would do is I would meditate for about 20 minutes. I would run through her framework, which she teaches you, in her mentorship and then. She would give me three to four questions and then at the end it's like also asking them what did I do well, what could I do better?

Which was also confronting and great. But I would have these questions. I would go in and I remember first meeting her horse Diddy. And I remember the voice because usually when I connect it's my voice. Like you had shared, this voice was so like a little bit proper, like an English professor. And I was like, what is this?

I know this is not me. And then he had this information to share with me. And I remember sending it to Johanna, sweating from my pits, man. I was like, oh my [00:51:00] God, this is silly. I, and I sent it and your response back to me healed something. In me because it wasn't so much about validation, although we want that, right?

Especially if you have clients, we want to validate and confirm certain things. It was the fact that there are things I touched on that I felt like I imagined or made up, but were true. And so that has been like a theme through our mentorship is trusting actually what comes through, even if it feels weird or silly or wild or doesn't make any sense.

So, one of the things we also learned is that my favorite way to connect is when we're in expanded state. Meaning I don't wanna touch on the physical details. I don't want to prove to someone to like, what color is Diddy? I got that wrong, which was amazing. And I was like, what? Oh God, what happens then?

And then I'm like, everything's gonna be wrong. But then you start tuning in and you get this information. You, you relax really is what Diddy told me. I need to relax [00:52:00] and. So like Johanna is amazing, just well-rounded, right? And watching you pull through details. Like when you pulled through Fern, you're like, he has these, or Aziza, my stray cat.

We pulled in these amazing green eyes and I was like, yeah, actually you have no idea. You've never seen, or, um, my lynx point, right? You were like, why such a big paws? What is happening here? Blah, blah, blah. And for me, I really struggle with getting the physical details right, because there is such a huge chance of being wrong that it does something in my brain out of fear.

But when you were like, okay, now ask about the nature of this, or what did they learn in their life experience? Because it was so expanded, I could pull through the information I was most excited about because I'm like, well, I'm connecting to consciousness. How could I be wrong about consciousness? Versus like, that horse is not, you know, brown or something, right?

So when she let me connect with Horizon, I secretly had [00:53:00] been waiting to connect. With this specific course, because I have been following Johanna's journey with Horizon, the moment that she got her and started sharing her on social. But I never brought it up because I was like, in due time it will happen.

And it did on one of our, I think second to last sessions. And so I wanted to share some of the things that came through because it was just like scary first for me because of the physical details. But the information she shared with me was so beautiful. And so Johanna knowing that I struggle with the physical details, she was like, okay, so Horizon is struggling with her feet right now.

And she gave me these specific things about what she's going through. Can you ask her what's happening? And stuff like that. And I was so scared because I'm like, Johanna, I'm not like a horse whisperer, A. B, I know nothing about the medical field. I'm not a vet. Vet tech don't, I don't know anything like that.

So for her to give that to me, I was like, Ooh, stretchy. So I [00:54:00] connect, I go through the process and immediately when I, connect with Horizon, there's like this energy in my heart and I'm like, oh yeah, this is good. This feels so good. And so, one of the questions was like, do the hoof cracks hurt you? And I felt like there was this sense of pressure and like a splinter feeling.

And then Johanna had asked like, oh, well what other things can you do for first aid or prevention? And I don't know, I had no idea, but I was like, this feels like fingernails and maybe like oil or is there a mineral supplement you can try? Or is there something that you can seal the hoofs with the cracks that isn't permanent, but maybe like waterproof?

Right? And then, horizon also shared with me, she wants calming music to be played and she wants reassurance and to be told like, this is gonna help her remain grounded and more beautiful. And, you know, this is also a building trust exercise between both of you. And I just felt so silly typing all these things out because I'm hearing it, but I'm like, this is okay, whatever.

So [00:55:00] then, Johanna asked me to ask her, what do you think about the cold and the snow? And I heard, and this could be also my own projection, right? This whole dance of our consciousness is merging and connecting, but I heard the snow is beautiful. Like me, the cold is something we acclimate to. Like you, it's not wonderful in the beginning, but over time you get used to it and then you begin relishing the days you once felt a little disdain towards, um, shifts and temperature shift perspective.

And I was like, God, if that isn't so true, because you know, in the fall we're like, oh, it's pretty, but it's also chilly. And then in the spring it's 30 degrees. People have flip flops on. They're wearing their bikinis outside, you know, so that was really amazing. And then, I got to ask some questions.

Johanna, let me do this, and I asked, what do you love about being with Johanna? And this is what I received. I learn more about the world through her eyes and experiences. She is broadening my own horizons. Every client she works with, every space [00:56:00] she expands through her own consciousness expands my own.

We are a beautiful team together because we both love and enjoy learning. I greatly respect her work and what she's doing for the animal and plant kingdoms. I am teaching her vision that supersedes what she currently has access to in the physical realm. I am opening her eyes to the greater world beyond physical senses.

She's learning to expand her essence and power through what I model and offer energetically. And I was like, whoa, my brain. And then she said, I'm teaching her to hold her power and gifts with great reverence energetically. So she is matched with a flow of resources that support her life and her creations.

It is always, there is more where that came from. And then she told me, daybreak is guaranteed when you look for the sunrise, this is the energy of certainty. One is intent to hold for the inevitable successes of their life. If you knew daybreak was guaranteed just as [00:57:00] much as your success, what would you let go of or no longer carry within you?

Move forward from that inner certainty and watch what happens with dazzling eyes and an open heart. And I remember sitting back before I sent this to you, and I was like, I had like tears. I was like, why? I actually really needed to hear this. And I, I, I don't string sentences together in this way. And so when I sent it to you, one of my most favorite parts is I was so scared to jump on that call with you because, you know, the medical stuff freaked me out.

I have no idea. And then you're like, wait, I have to show you something specifically about the sealant and her hoofs or whatever. And she pulled up this giant white bucket of beeswax and she was like, look it we're starting this. And I was like, shut the front door. Are you kidding? I didn't even know that was a thing.

[00:58:00] Right? And so that was healing for me. But then also the way that she talked about certainty and holding your energy in that way. And if you knew Dawn is coming, daybreak is coming, and you just knew that what happens in your world then if you know that you are worthy, if you are in innately and inherently.

Abundant. And so it was just like a really transformative experience that I wanted to speak to because I'm not the only one who has benefited from Horizon's wisdom, right? Like you have these clients who are working with your other animals, or even animal bridge communication with your pets who have gone to the other side.

So it's just like, I just wanted to say all of that and get it off my chest. Thank you so much.

Johanna Bloom: Thank you for sharing. That's amazing. It's so fun for me to find out what stands out to you and what you remember through this too. And yeah, like literally right as you pulled through the, the concept about oil or sealant on the hoves, I was in the process of ordering the [00:59:00] beeswax, 'cause she had been telling me the same thing.

Your insight, you, she told you to have me play soft music while I worked with her, and that was the turning point between being able to like regularly lift her feet at all. Sometimes she would refuse to lift them in the first place. As long as I was playing music, she would at least let me pick 'em up.

Shortly after you did that session with her, I was watching her in the pasture and this insight just came through. She said The most magical thing about humans is your ability to make music. You have the magic of birds.

Oh, I have chills. And she, she loves the music and I didn't realize how much until you did that session with her. 

Ashley Mondor: Oh, thank you for saying that. Oh, holy buckets. That is so cool. Especially the music piece, because there is a part of your energy that actually goes into creating that and then bringing it through your body, whether it's your singing or your breath, to be able to create a musical tone is [01:00:00] just, oh, that's everything to me.

And I wanted to speak to some of the things that I had learned from you, because I think it's important A: Even for just finding a mentor, really feel into someone that you resonate with, right? I had a few, I think three or four sessions with you because I have like five animals. And at some point I was like, listen, I gotta learn from her.

So I think it's important that you sit and you resonate and you ask questions, right? And see how does it feel to be in her presence? Do I feel like I can learn something? But with you, I learned to trust myself in such a way that I didn't even know was possible. And I still have moments where I slip up because the ego, right?

But when we started working together around the physical traits and you know, just like nailing it in ways that I could, I didn't even know were possible. That's why I thought I wish I could have gone back in time and started with animal communication before I started digging into channeling or the Akashic records or anything like that.

And I think. It would just benefit [01:01:00] people so much to have a physical, tangible thing instead of like, the Akashic records are like, there is this information about this past life for this future life, blah, blah, blah, but you're like, this is your cat. You know, Burnaby or whatever, and you did, you get the traits right?

Johanna Bloom: Yeah. That physical evidence is a big deal. I've, I've talked with this about other, an two other animal communicators. This like, it ends up being a step stool because it proves to you, you have the physical proof that this is real. I remember my first animal communication, my first distance session, we did Diddy first.

And, the, my friend who later became my mentor, the first thing she started talking about was she, she accurately described his bridal. She was like exactly describing like the thick, padded black leather and the jeweled crown piece. And then she started accurately describing his trailer. Oh, it's like a white two horse trailer and you've had it for a long time and he likes it because there's sentimental value.

'cause you've been on really big trips in this trailer [01:02:00] and it was like one after another, after another, after another. And like, nobody's a hundred percent accurate. So obviously there's like a couple things that are, you know, maybe a little off throughout the reading, but just a couple like over, it was just overwhelming the amount of proof and evidence that she had no way of knowing.

And I just, within five minutes I was like, this is real. Um, she is talking to my horse. And then the things that came through after that, the emotional things that I really needed to hear about working together with him and the fact that he actually liked working with me, like the, the goals that he had that actually matched mine because I was so afraid that I was like pushing my own agenda onto him.

Does he even wanna be doing these shows? You know, it turns out he does. He's completely on the same page, and that's why we, that's why we're together. And I, I now get to give that experience to other people. And I've actually shifted this year. I've noticed I've been doing a lot more students in 2026.

It's just kind of how it's happened. But I get to teach other people how to do this. And like that magical [01:03:00] moment where they connect with an animal they've never seen and they start pulling through accurate information that feels, it always feels like you're making it up. And I've had this conversation with actually two students this week, which is funny.

It's coming up a lot that, that feeling that like, it, it feels like I'm imagining it. I think that's actually one of the confirmation details that you're doing it right. Because when our brain normally processes information through the filter of our experiences, and we're used to pulling from that.

If we're, if we're saying something, if we're coming up with something, it's based on what we know. And this is not, this is, you know, us being a, an instrument and things are just coming in one ear and out the other, where the best way I've heard it described is we are just sinking to a frequency that another being is already on.

And so it's just the same information is now flowing through both of us and. People getting to have that experience and realize like things just come and go and we actually become a lot more [01:04:00] forgetful. I tell my students, you need to be writing things down. If something important comes through, write it down because you're going to forget it within hours or days because it's not going through your normal circuit processing that stores memories.

It's just in one ear and out the other. And so that feeling that you're making it up is actually like part of what makes it real, because it, it's not coming from the same part of your brain that you're used to using. 

Ashley Mondor: I love that. And that was so helpful for me because I'm like, I'm imagining this.

And then it's like, well, yeah, first and foremost, if this is a being that has not been in your life and you can't pull from it, how would you know? And the other part is, and I think this is going to change in our lifetime, but. I think it's why they train imagination out of kids. I remember being so imaginative and curious and playful and lighthearted as a child and like you could make up games on the spot, right?

Like whatever it was. And then you become an adult and it's not safe anymore. [01:05:00] And that actually it's looked down upon and it's, it's not okay it, you start getting into these intuition realms where imagination is a different frequency and it makes so much sense. And one of the things, I had a session with Johanna as part of our mentorship where we got to connect with two of my dogs who are on the other side, and they kept driving home that I need to stop looking at all of the ways I was doing it wrong.

And stop trying to like prove yourself to be wrong and instead look at all of the things that you have been doing right. All of the messages you've pulled through that nailed it. And I remember sitting back like, that is such a problem, isn't it? And that has been so hindering to me on my journey because what if I get it wrong?

If I get it wrong, I'm a failure. I'm gonna be outcasted. No one's gonna wanna work with me again. It's gonna be awful. And one of the things that you taught me is like humans aren't gonna get it a hundred percent correct every time. And when I, I heard that as someone who is actually doing this in the field, like every day I was like, [01:06:00] oh, okay.

Whoa, that's fine. I'm, Hey y'all, I'm human. That's cool. I'm not gonna always get it. Right. And the pressure that re like the way that, that pressure just, you relax. And that's how we connect is by being relaxed. That's part of why meditation is part of your process.

Johanna Bloom: It is so important and it's so insidious, this like perfection, this idea that, and our brain is so active trying to protect us from being wrong because there's such social consequences to being wrong.

You know? And we're so integrated that way. It's like, it's, it's biological safety is, we don't wanna be wrong. We don't wanna, you know, say something that is too triggering to the rest of the group because then we're out on our own. And you have to almost override that survival instinct for a little while when you first start doing this.

Like, this is not going to be acceptable to the rest of my species. And that's very scary. I, I hope that someday that's not a factor. I hope someday this is normalized and practicing this, [01:07:00] learning this as a language is taught in school and it becomes like something that, you know, you can develop your skills in, you could develop your accuracy, certainly.

And so I'm sure some people are more accurate than others, but it doesn't become this, like, if I get one thing wrong, then the whole thing's a bust. 

Ashley Mondor: Yeah. Well, and this reminds me, I was listening to the telepathy tapes and they were talking about how there are, Mind Sight schools popping up all over, mainly in India and China and how they're training their youth for psychic abilities and telepathy and things.

And they shared one story of this little girl who was crushing it. Like she can read books with a complete blackout blindfold behind her head. She can get everything perfectly correct and she'll nail it every single time, which is like here in the US We would find that shocking there. They're like, well, yeah, everyone can do this.

And they were talking about how during the class, her father, who had never come, who was in academics, was sitting outside of the glass. And he was [01:08:00] so curious because he was watching her like, absolutely knock it out of the park. And he had never seen her do this before. So he got up out of his chair, went to grab the handle, and the moment he grabbed the handle, she couldn't do it.

Because she, calibrated to his belief. And so I think that's why it's so important and why I was so excited because working with Johanna is safety. Every time I worked with you, even though I was so afraid to send you what I had, I knew I'm not gonna be judged. I knew you were going to celebrate the things I got right.

And that we would dig into the things that maybe I distorted or got wrong and, and we would play with that. And it wasn't this like, you can't do this. You're wrong. This isn't okay, or that's not real. You were like, yeah, let's just, we'll just dig into it. Like it wasn't a thing, you know? It wasn't this like pressure to perform.

It was like we're just playing.

Johanna Bloom: Oh, that makes me so happy. Thank you. That's the highest compliment.

Ashley Mondor: I just [01:09:00] love you so much.

Johanna Bloom: I love you too. I'm so glad we met.

Ashley Mondor: Me too. Oh my God. Okay.

So my favorite thing is that Johanna launched a book, wrote a book, published a book, and it is completely and fully like she has her art in here. Wait,

I love it. And so I wanted to share two of my favorite quotes, if that's okay. Of course. Okay. So you had shared from a cat, I'm an old soul, but I'm disguised by my goofiness. Humans think that the ultimate goal of enlightenment is intellectual knowledge. That's somewhat true, but joy is the highest frequency.

I'm here to show that many of the most enlightened beings are the silliest. Oh, I love that one. It's so good because we were just talking about being playful. Duh. Okay. And then you also, I have many in here. Because a lot of people struggle with death. [01:10:00] You have in here. When you're thinking about me, I'm probably there on our network.

All you have to do is visualize someone and it signals them to come in energetically. So if you think of me or visualize me while you're doing something, I'll come do it with you. I just, I wanted to bring that to you. And the reason why I wanted to speak to this book is because outside of it being absolutely amazing, and I loved every second of it, and you will laugh and you will cry.

She also talks about the channeling piece, and she talks about mentorship. So this is more than just a quote book. It will literally change you. And I wanted to bring Johanna on today because she has been one of the most profound mentors of my life. And I just appreciate you and respect you and love you so much.

And I'm so proud of everything that you are doing.

Johanna Bloom: Thank you so much. I mean, this book wouldn't be possible without you. Ashley connected me to the, publisher who I used. I actually self-published, but she taught me how to do it. And I, I've never, oh my gosh. It would've taken me 10 years to figure out how to do all the things that she already knows.

So you directed me to that and you helped me [01:11:00] edit all the different versions of it. And it's, it's fully happened because of you. Thank you. So thank you. We did this together.

Ashley Mondor: We did. And I'm so honored. Like when I saw my name in there, I was like, oh my god, I'm famous. So thank you Johanna, for being with me and thank you for everything that you do.

And I love you so much and I hope you have a wonderful magical day.

Johanna Bloom: Thank you. You too. Thank you for studying with me and for jumping into this whole thing with me. 'cause now we get to discuss it together and explore it together.

Ashley Mondor: It's my dream. Okay.