Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

How do you build a full-time spiritual, healing, or coaching business without compromising your integrity?

After 10 years of running my own Akashic Records practice, here are the 7 principles that have kept my business sustainable, profitable, and deeply aligned.

In 2017, I left a successful career teaching college-level English and Shakespeare to do spiritual work full-time. I didn't know where life would take me! In the ensuing years, I've created far more abundance and stability through this work than I ever did in academia. (Not to mention that I get to work with my Soulmate clients every...

What belief is quietly running your decisions right now, and likely not serving you?

In this pick-a-card reading, we'll work with the Akashic Records and the Tarot to bring a hidden belief into the light so you can see it clearly and begin to shift it.

Some of the most influential beliefs in our lives don't feel painful at all. They feel like virtues, or part of our core identity and simply "who we are." This reading invites you to look much deeper and release what's not supporting your growth and expansion.

Choose...

If you've taken an Akashic Records course (or read about the Records online) and thought "is this all there is??" or were left wanting more depth, this episode of INNER WORK is for you.

In this discussion, I share why many people get stuck or hit up against self-doubt as they develop their Akashic Records connection, and practical ways to go beyond the basics. 

Join me for a discussion of:

Welcome! For this month's Akashic Records forecast, I'm tapping into the Field and pulling a 3-card Tarot spread to explore the incoming energy for October.

We'll explore:

This is a NEW heart-opening meditation and guided journey in the Akashic Records. 

We'll open the Records together and tune into this powerful field of quantum healing, Divine wisdom, and unconditional Love... which will enable you to:

No two people experience the Akashic Records the same exact way. Even the same person accessing the Records on two different occasions will likely have two different experiences.

The Akashic Records will ALWAYS provide you with whatever you most need to heal, see, understand, feel, or know. The Records will orchestrate the most relevant, useful, meaningful, and necessary experience for you, every single time you journey there.

To illustrate this point, I'm sharing two real case studies in this episode of INNER WORK: one of my very first openings of the Records back in 2004, and...

We're living through a collective crisis of purpose. Disconnection, confusion, loss of direction... so many people are waking up and questioning WHY they're here and WHO they really are.

In this episode of INNER WORK, I explore why now — at this crucial moment in our personal and collective history — so many of us are being called back to the Akashic Records (or what I like to call "Akashic Resonance"): a living field of unconditional love, wholeness, and Divine connection that's always available to us.

We'll talk about:

This guided meditation and spiritual practice is designed to help you connect with your Spirit Guides. Whether you're new to Spirit Guide communication or looking to deepen an existing connection, this practice will help you meet, recognize, and receive messages from the Guide who most needs to reach you right now.

In this session, you'll be guided through breathwork and visualization to raise your consciousness, activate your intuition, and open yourself to receive guidance, healing, and support from the spiritual dimension.

Spirit Guides can appear in many forms: as light, color, animals, archetypal figures, or...

Our Akashic Records Guidance + Forecast for September 2026 is a BIG one.

Behind-the-scenes note: I originally planned to record for 30 minutes, but ended up going much longer because the Records were sharing so much with us!

You'll especially want to tune in for the second Tarot card (and Akashic messages) that came through, as it's directly connected to the individual and collective paths of awakening and Higher Purpose we're being called to step into.

September will be a month of spiritual acceleration, deeper awakening, and re-aligning to the higher frequency you're here to hold...

Have you often felt a pull towards something beyond the physical world? A knowing that there's more going on than what science and logic alone can explain?

You might be one of the select people whose Soul came into this lifetime specifically to work with the Akashic Records.

In this episode of INNER WORK, I'm sharing 5 signs the Akashic Records are calling you to access them, including:

Announcement for upcoming LIVE Akashic Records Level 1 Training in October/November 2026.

Breakdown for Level 1 course content: https://josephinehardman.com/work-with-me/akashic-records-training-level-1/

To get specific details (schedule, pricing, etc) for this live training as a PDF, please email [email protected]

If you've already purchased the Level 1 self-paced course, you have lifetime access to it and can join this training by purchasing a ticket for the live calls ONLY (i.e., you would not pay for the Level 1 course content twice).

Thank you for tuning in, and I look forward to working i...

Ever open the Akashic Records and feel like you're getting... nothing? Crickets, silence, a blank space where you expected downloads, information, Divine messages?

If yes, you're not alone... and it doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong.

In this episode of INNER WORK, I'm breaking down exactly what's happening when you feel "stuck" in the Records or when it seems like you're not getting anything, including:

This is a guided meditation to raise your vibration and set the highest possible energy for the day ahead.

In this high-vibration morning reset, I'll walk you through grounding breathwork and powerful affirmations designed to raise your frequency, release old patterns & beliefs weighing you down, and anchor you into the truth that you are a Divine being of light before you step into the world. 

This meditation is flexible — use it exactly how it fits your morning:

🌅 Eyes closed, lying in bed as you wake up
☀️ Playing in the background while you shower, ma...

Welcome back! For this month's Akashic Records forecast, I'm tapping into the Field and pulling a 3-card Tarot spread to explore the incoming energy for August.

We'll explore:

This is a channeled reading straight from the Akashic Records combined with the symbolism and wisdom of the Rider-Waite-Smith...

Every one of us carries innate spiritual gifts - intuition, healing abilities, multidimensional awareness, the capacity to sense what lies beyond the veil. But too often, without realizing it, we get in our own way and engage in habits or patterns that block the full expression of these gifts.

In this episode of INNER WORK, we explore five common (and often unconscious) habits that delay spiritual awakening and keep you from fully activating and living from your gifts... plus how to recognize each one with compassion, not judgment.

This is a deep, honest look at...

Are you ready to awaken and fully claim your intuitive, healing, and multidimensional gifts?

In this powerful guided meditation, we journey into the Akashic Records to clear the blocks, self-doubt, and old fear holding you back... so we can activate your full spiritual potential.

In this session, you'll be guided to activate:

✨ Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing) — receive messages through your spiritual sight & third eye, and be able to see beyond the veil of physical reality 
✨ Clairsentience (Clear Sensing/Feeling) — feel truth in your body and discern intuitive guidance 
✨ Claircognizance (Clear Knowing) — access deep inner kno...

As you heal and continue awakening on your spiritual path, you'll often start doing things like: showing up as authentically yourself in the world, setting healthier boundaries, and saying NO instead of compulsively saying YES to things you don't really want to do.

You'll also start outgrowing certain people, places, relationships, and situations.

As you do all of this, some people will... freak out. Or react defensively. Or take it as a personal rejection. Or minimize the value of what you're doing. Or just not understand.

Unconsciously, people might try to sabotage your...

The Akashic Records are often misunderstood — seen as a static archive of information, reduced to past-life healing, gatekept by claims of special psychic ability, or treated as something you only access through one "correct" method.

In this episode, I'm setting the record *about* the Records straight.

We're breaking down the top misconceptions that keep people from connecting to the Records consistently and confidently, including:

Do you sometimes feel invisible (or like an alien) around other people, maybe even your own family?

Like everyone else is speaking English, or Spanish, or Japanese, or some other "native" language... and you're speaking alien gibberish that no one can understand??

If so, you're not alone!

In this bonus episode of "Navigating the Spiritual Crisis", we'll explore:

In this Akashic Records meditation, we'll carve out sacred time to slow down, retreat from the external world, and return home to your natural inner rhythm.

In our modern, fast-moving, often chaotic world, we've gotten lost in the weeds of external noise & chatter & endless stimuli... which also means we've disconnected from the pace of nature and from our own natural, healthy, aligned, inner rhythms.

In this guided Akashic Records experience, we'll slow everything down so your body, cells, mind, and Spirit can be restored, refreshed, and inevitably find their way back to balance and wholeness.<...

What's really happening during a spiritual crisis, and what is "ego death"?

In this second installment of my "Navigating the Spiritual Crisis" series, we'll explore:

Welcome to your Akashic Records Guidance & Forecast for June 2026!

We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month.

The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of doing healing work.

For our June energy forecast, I did just this: combined the powerful, high-level perspective of the Akashic Records with additional insights, imagery, and messages from...

In this ongoing podcast series, I interview Akashic Records Practitioners who completed my Akashic Records Certification Program to explore how working with the Records has transformed their lives.

We discuss topics such as:

What is the spiritual crisis or "dark night of the Soul" - and are you in one right now? (If you are, you're not alone.)

Some aspects of the spiritual crisis can include:

Is Archangel Metatron the "overseer" or "master keeper" of the Akashic Records? What's his relationship to the Records, if any?

You may have heard or read something about this at some point, so let's clarify this idea and trace it back to where it really comes from.

As always, my highest intention is to provide you with grounded, ethical, clear, and transformative ways to understand and USE the Akashic Records for your evolution.

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll address:

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for May 2026!

We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month.

The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot.

I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of doing healing work. For our May energy forecast, I did just this - combined the powerful, high-level perspective of the Akashic Records with additional insights, imagery, and messages from...

This is a follow-up to bonus episode "Can we keep the Akashic Records open ALL of the time?"

In that previous video, we explored whether it's possible to keep the Akashic Records open all of the time, 24/7... and some of my suggestions for doing so.

In this follow-up, I address a few subscribers' questions to explore:

💫 Get the FREE AKASHIC RECORDS MINI COURSE: https://josephinehardman.com/akashic-records-intro/

"Can I keep my Akashic Records open all of the time?" and "What happens if I forget to close the Records?" are two of the TOP questions I get as an Akashic Records teacher.

The Akashic Records, also known as the "Book of Life", are a vast storehouse of information and Universal guidance. As their name implies, the Records "record" all of our deeds, actions, choices, etc across all dimensions of time and space.

As a Divine tool, the Records give you acc...

In this Akashic Records meditation, I'll guide you through 4 different settings within the Records to harness the energy and healing power of the 4 elements: Water, Air, Earth, and Fire.

We'll also do some healing, releasing, and clearing of what no longer serves you while we spend this time together in the Akashic Field.

Join me for this profound journey where you'll receive healing and light directly from the Records (and from Divine Source).

Suggested guidance to get the MOST from this meditation:

The Akashic Records are a direct line to Divine Source and a powerful field of healing, light, and unconditional Love.

Unlike our human relationships, the Records are unlimited, free of ego, free of personal agendas or attachments... and they love each of us unconditionally.

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore the key differences between human relationships (which tend to be conditional, limited, or based on meeting certain demands or expectations) versus the eternally loving, supportive, healing relationship you can develop with the Akashic Records.

I also share some client experiences related...

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for April 2026!

We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month.

The Akashic Records are a flexible, transformative, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot.

I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of doing healing work. For our April energy forecast, I did just this - combined the powerful, high-level perspective of the Akashic Records with additional insights, imagery, and messages from...

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll cover 4 tell-tale signs that you're here to embody the healer or lightworker archetype as one of your Divine missions in this lifetime.

Self-doubt is one of the greatest blocks (and inner threats) we face as healers and lightworkers, because it holds us back from fully trusting ourselves and stepping into our gifts NOW.

If you've been doubting your intuitive or healing gifts, this episode will support you in remembering the Truth of who you really are & why you're really here... to raise consciousness on this planet and lead...

Someone offered to clone me; or, create an "AI avatar" of me so I could put it everywhere online. Is this where the world is going??

In this bonus episode of INNER WORK, I share the story of what happened, my thoughts on this kind of use of AI in spiritual work (and running an online-based spiritual business), and how I responded to this offer.

Join me for this RANT on the state of the world and the re-commitments I'm making to how I show up for you, dear listener and fellow seeker.

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The Akashic Records are a powerful Divine tool for healing, spiritual evolution, and psychospiritual growth. The Records are here to assist in humanity's evolution, and they contain the FULL trajectory of your Soul's evolution across time and space.

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll explore an essential truth about the Akashic Records that most people get wrong - and which limits their capacity to use the Records for genuine healing and transformation.

Understanding this truth will change your perspective and expand your relationship to the Akashic Records, so you can tap into this vast...

In this Akashic Records guided meditation, we'll tap into the Akashic frequency together and do a body scan for complete healing on ALL levels of your being.

Join me for this profound experience where you'll receive quantum healing and light directly from the Records (and from Divine Source).

Suggested guidance to get the MOST from this meditation:

Welcome to your Akashic Records Forecast for March 2026!

We'll tap into the energy, potentials, and main themes for the upcoming month.

The Akashic Records are a flexible, inclusive, overarching modality that can be blended with many other tools and approaches - including the Tarot. I often hear from students just how much the Records supercharge all of their other spiritual tools or ways of doing healing work.

For our March energy forecast, I did just this - combined the powerful, high-level perspective of the Akashic Records with additional insights, imagery, and messages from t...

Often unknowingly, many Akashic Record readers and practitioners are breaking ethical guidelines and perpetuating harmful power dynamics in the reader-client relationship.

This is not only harmful to the people we're here to serve, but also prevents readers and healers from doing the highest-level, transformative, impactful work they're really here to do. Let's change this!

I believe strongly in RAISING the standards of ethics and professionalism in our spiritual and healing communities, so we can do better both for ourselves and for our clients. 

Join me for this discussion on:

Your intuition is already speaking to you in daily life. Are you listening?

In this episode of INNER WORK, we'll break down 5 ways your intuition can communicate with you and send you helpful messages as you navigate reality and align with your Highest Purpose.

Join me for a discussion of:

The Akashic Records are a vast field of consciousness, information, light, and healing energy.

By exploring what the Records are NOT, in this bonus episode of Inner Work we'll further define what they actually ARE.

Join me for a discussion of how the Akashic Records are NOT:

Thank you for being here, doing your inner work, and leading the way...

Do you struggle with imposter syndrome?     This syndrome has been defined as a "persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately earned as a result of one's own efforts, talents, skills, or gifts." I would also describe imposter syndrome as an ongoing feeling or belief that you're inadequate, not worthy, not good enough, and/or a "fraud" who's about to be find out.     Living with this kind of belief or negative undercurrent in your life can be painful. It can be paralyzing. It can keep you hidden away and playing small to avoid potential rejection, critic...