The Drop the Needle Podcast

Joseph Martin coached football and planned his whole life around the NFL. He was the guy with two TVs going on game day. Today he doesn't watch sports at all. Somewhere between the Army, the sidelines and a past life regression in 2021, his life went in a direction nobody saw coming, least of all him.

Joseph is an Army veteran turned minister and hypnosis practitioner. He and his wife, Jennifer, run Ascension Healings outside Pittsburgh, and he's the author of The Ascension Guide books. His work is helping people make sense of spiritual awakenings that look nothing...

Dr. Joy Kong left post-Tiananmen Beijing at 20 with a rejected visa and almost nothing in her pockets. What she did next is something most of us would never try. She opened the Beijing Yellow Pages, found the best hotels in the city, and started calling rooms at random until somebody, somewhere, opened a door.

She calls it poking at the universe. That poking turned into a job as a tour guide in Tibet, a way to America, and eventually a seat at UCLA medical school. Joy became a psychiatrist, spent years watching the psychiatric emergency room work...

Brad Pitzele beat Lyme disease, then autoimmunity, then melanoma. And somewhere in the middle of all that, he stopped just trying to survive and started asking a bigger question: what does the body actually need to heal?

In his thirties Brad developed autoimmune arthritis and ended up on a treadmill of drugs that helped a little less each time, until a known side effect showed up as melanoma. His doctor's answer was another drug in the same class, and to hope for the best. Those words kept ringing in his ears. Years of diets, supplements and treatments...

He drowned in his own pool, woke up on the bottom under a full moon, and came back with an equation for happiness.

For years, Thayne Martin looked like a man who had it all figured out: six-time President's Club, top 10% nationwide, a career built on breaking sales records. Underneath it he was carrying a secret from childhood, abuse that began when he was a boy in Phoenix, and a stack of diagnoses that included dissociative identity disorder, bipolar I and complex PTSD. He tells us how he hid it, how it surfaced in a board meeting...

What if you reach the top of your mountain and it turns out to be the wrong one?

In 2000, Matt Ludmer and his partner were named the No. 1 producing team at DLJ. He walked up to collect the award, and his very next thought was, "Where do I go from here?" Earlier that year he had wandered into a matinee of a play called Wrong Mountain, and its question never left him.

Matt grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, the son of a man who sold staples and nails up and down the Turnpike. He...

What happens when a guy runs for mayor of Los Angeles on a platform of love?

Helix Wolfson did exactly that. He legally changed his name to Paul E. Amori, put on a three-piece red suit, and ran for mayor on one question: what would love do? He came in last. He also walked off a debate stage with a dozen people telling him he'd earned their vote, and he says it felt like winning.

That's one chapter. Helix grew up in the theater, made films, built stages at Burning Man and Lightning in a...

How much of what you're carrying is actually yours?

Connie Smock, Connie Warrior of Light, is back for her third visit, and this time we get practical. Her book, Shift Your Energy, Change Your Life!, is built around one word: fear. After 35 years of readings and energy healings, she says fear is what blocks most people, and a lot of what feeds it is energy they picked up somewhere else and never put down.

We talk about why the people who challenge us most are our biggest teachers, what sales school taught her about celebrating...

What does a child who never spoke a word leave behind?

Mike Gomoll's son Joey died at five. With Butch Vig, he built Joey's Song: $2 million raised for epilepsy research, zero paid staff. Dravet syndrome, Freezing Man, 35 artists playing free.

Joey couldn't speak. When the music came on, he'd find whoever was in the room, grab a finger, and make sure they were dancing. Fifteen years later his dad runs Joey's Song and Freezing Man, two nights at a 2,500-seat room in Madison with members of Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick, Tears for Fears, The...

Drew McManus learned the word that would become his band's name on a mountain pass in Nepal. It means sitting in the company of truth. He's built ten years and six records on it.

The new one is called Elohim, and he didn't pick the title. He was told to.

We talk about the revelatory experience that preceded it and the illness that followed, about a father who was a preacher and told a skateboarding punk rock kid he had a minister's heart, and about the question Drew asked for years growing up poor in...

What if the sacred and the secular were never two different things to begin with?

Rev. Dr. Rob Zahn is a Lutheran pastor, a theologian, a semiotician, and a musician. He wears Converse under his liturgical robes. He also wrote a book about LSD, a drug smuggling ring, and the birth of contemporary Christian music.

To him, none of that is a contradiction. That is the whole point.

In this episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Rob to trace a life that runs from a small town...

What if walking away from the religion you were raised in isn't losing your faith — it's the first honest thing you ever did with it?

Sunshine Witchski was eleven years old when she noticed the contradictions in what she was being taught in Catholic school. She asked. Nobody had an answer she could live with.

What followed was decades of addiction, a rock bottom in Costa Rica, and a long walk back — not to the Church, but to something she could finally call her own.

Today she is a psychic medium, soul healer, Reik...

What if the signs you've been asking for are already happening... but you're overlooking them?

Psychic medium Gina Versace, better known as The Inked Medium, believes our loved ones and even our pets, never truly leave us.

From repeating numbers and feathers to dreams and unexpected encounters, Spirit is constantly communicating. The key is learning how to recognize the messages.

Do our loved ones continue communicating after they pass away?

In this heartfelt episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Gina Versace, internationally known as The...

Have you ever wondered if that "gut feeling" was actually Spirit trying to guide you?

In this enlightening episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott welcomes intuitive medium Cheryl Bradley for a heartfelt conversation about mediumship, dreams, spirit guides, intuition, and learning to trust your own inner wisdom.

Cheryl explains the difference between being born with intuitive gifts and experiencing a spiritual awakening later in life. She shares practical ways Spirit communicates through dreams, synchronicities, signs, and those subtle feelings we often dismiss.

More importantly, Cheryl reminds us that the goal...

What do you do when the excitement is gone, nobody is watching, and you no longer feel motivated?

Dre Baldwin calls that moment “The Third Day.”

It's the point where most people stop and where professionals decide to keep going.

From riding the bench in high school to playing professional basketball for nine years, Dre built his career by learning how to perform regardless of how he felt. In this episode, he reveals why discipline, perception, confidence, and the unseen work matter far more than motivation.

What separates professionals from amateurs when...

What if the very thing you've been avoiding is the reason you came here?

In this powerful episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with psychic medium and healer Jennifer Rose to explore what happens when we stop running from our authentic selves.

Jennifer shares her remarkable journey from quietly suppressing her spiritual gifts to embracing mediumship after a life-changing near-death experience during COVID. Together they discuss shadow work, self-love, intuition, health, mediumship, twin flames, and the quantum connection that links us all.

This conversation is grounded, honest, and full...

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt the energy change?

In this special panel episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott brings together the practitioners behind The Listening Field Retreat for an open conversation about spiritual awakening, group energy, intuitive development, mediumship, manifestation, sound healing, and the power of community.

Featuring Julie Grant, Connie Smock, Carolyn Sidgwick, Gail Alexander, and Kerry Muller, this episode explores what can happen when spiritually open people gather with intention and why the energy of the room may become part of the healing experience.

What if grief wasn't the end of your story... but the beginning of your greatest transformation?

After losing her soulmate just months after their dream wedding, Carolyn Sidgwick found herself navigating unimaginable pain. Instead of allowing grief to define her, she transformed it into a mission to help others heal through self-love, spirituality, and connection.

This conversation offers hope for anyone who's experienced loss.

Can love continue after death?

In this deeply moving episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Carolyn Sidgwick, founder of Soul Love and...

What if healing isn't just about medicine... but about frequency?

In this fascinating conversation, physician, evidential medium, and ancestral healer Dr. Lotte Valentin explores how sound, energy, intuition, and frequencies may influence our emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

From Hemi-Sync to quantum entanglement, this episode challenges everything you thought you knew about healing.

In this thought-provoking episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott welcomes back Dr. Lotte Valentin, physician, evidential medium, and ancestral healer, to explore the growing connection between science, spirituality, energy medicine, and frequency healing.

Drawing on her...

Can two near-death experiences completely transform your understanding of life, death, and consciousness?

In this powerful episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Dr. Lotte Valentin, a physician, evidential medium, ancestral healer, and former atheist, to explore the extraordinary experiences that changed the course of her life.

Raised with a scientific worldview, Dr. Valentin never believed in God, the afterlife, or mediumship. But after surviving two near-death experiences, she found herself outside her body, praying to a God she didn't believe in, hearing messages from loved ones who had passed, and...

What if your greatest crisis became the doorway to your life's purpose?

In this thought-provoking episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott welcomes certified hypnotherapist Peter McLaughlin to discuss how a leukaemia diagnosis transformed his understanding of healing, consciousness, and what it truly means to be alive.

Peter shares how illness led him toward hypnotherapy, emotional healing, past-life regression, and decades of exploring the evidence surrounding near-death experiences, reincarnation, and consciousness beyond the physical body.

Together they explore the relationship between trauma and illness, the mind-body connection, spiritual awakening, AI and technology...

What if you don't need to become someone new...

What if your spiritual journey is actually about removing everything that was never truly you?

In this powerful episode, Sue Elliott reveals how limiting beliefs, childhood programming, and self-doubt shape our lives and how angelic guidance can help us reconnect with our authentic selves.

Are your limiting beliefs quietly controlling your life?

In this inspiring episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with author, spiritual coach, and angel communicator Sue Elliott to explore personal transformation, angelic guidance, subconscious programming...

What if every spiritual tradition, meditation practice, and awakening experience was part of a much larger map?

In this mind-expanding conversation, spiritual cartographer George Boyd reveals the 73 spiritual paths, explains higher states of consciousness, and uncovers why some spiritual seekers experience kundalini syndrome, spiritual imbalance, and profound awakenings they aren't prepared for.

If you've ever wondered where you are on your spiritual journey, this episode may completely change how you view consciousness itself.

Is there a map of human consciousness?

In this fascinating episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott...

What happens when a neuroscientist sets out to explore spirituality through experience rather than belief?

In this fascinating episode of the Drop The Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Reverend Dr. Vicki Garlock, a cognitive neuroscientist, interfaith minister, educator, and Guinness World Record holder, to explore the profound connection between science, spirituality, sacred spaces, and human consciousness.

After visiting an astonishing 185 places of worship in just 30 days, Dr. Garlock shares what she learned about the energy of sacred spaces, the common threads connecting the world's major religions, and why spiritual experiences may be more...

In this powerful episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Graham Skidmore for a deep conversation about spiritual awakening, emotional healing, consciousness, and personal transformation.

Graham shares profound insights into how trauma, energy, mindset, and emotional patterns shape our everyday lives and how healing, self-awareness, and spiritual growth can help us reconnect with who we truly are.

Together, they explore intuition, frequency, vibration, mindfulness, and the importance of authenticity in today’s world. This episode offers practical wisdom and emotional insight for anyone seeking deeper peace, healing, and alignment.

✨ Topi...

In this enlightening episode of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Dr. Kelly Edmonds for a profound conversation about spiritual awakening, emotional healing, energy mastery, and consciousness.

Dr. Kelly shares powerful insights into chakras, psychic abilities, soul contracts, energetic protection, and how unresolved emotional trauma can impact our spiritual and physical wellbeing. Together, they explore the balance between spirituality and the human experience while offering practical wisdom for healing, self-awareness, and transformation.

This episode is perfect for anyone seeking deeper clarity, emotional healing, spiritual growth, and a stronger connection to themselves and...

🔥 What if trauma isn’t just emotional… but energetic?

In this mind-expanding episode of DTN Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with spiritual healer and meditation teacher Paul Aryeh to uncover the hidden forces shaping our lives, from sacred geometry and frequencies to ancestral healing and human consciousness.

After spending 14 years training in India, Paul shares powerful insights on:
✨ Healing generational trauma
✨ The science of vibrations & frequencies
✨ Sacred geometry & yantras
✨ Divine energy and spiritual awakening
✨ How your environment affects your mental wellness
✨ Releasing emotional “poison” from the soul

💬 “Trauma contracts the soul.”<...

What if your birth chart isn’t predicting your future, but revealing who you’re meant to become?

What if everything you’ve been searching for purpose, clarity, direction, is already written in your soul’s blueprint?

In this episode of Drop the Needle, we sit down with evolutionary astrologer Jeanne Comeau, who left the corporate tech world to help people reconnect with their authentic selves. This conversation goes beyond horoscopes and predictions, diving deep into how astrology can be a tool for self-awareness, healing, and personal evolution.

We explore the difference between predicti...

In Episode 58 of the Drop the Needle Podcast, Connie Smock, a third-generation intuitive and self-described “warrior of light”, reveals how to awaken your spiritual gifts, protect your energy, and navigate life through higher consciousness.

This powerful conversation dives deep into energy healing, intuition, spiritual protection techniques, and soul contracts, offering practical tools you can use immediately to shield yourself from negative energy and step into your purpose.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, energetically drained, or spiritually curious, this episode will change how you see your life—and your power within it.

🔑 What You’ll Lear...

What happens when the host becomes the guest… and reveals the moment he almost gave up on life, only to awaken to something greater?

For the first time ever, Drop the Needle Podcast host Jim Alstott steps into the hot seat and nothing is off limits.

Interviewed by Nate Scripture, Jim opens up about the deeply personal journey behind his spiritual awakening, including the moment that changed everything. From contemplating suicide to discovering purpose, healing, and transformation, this episode is raw, real, and profoundly human.

Jim shares:

What happens when a rock star walks away from fame… and steps into enlightenment?

In this powerful episode of the Drop the Needle Podcast, Michele Blood shares her extraordinary journey from the music industry to deep spiritual awakening. After a life-altering experience, she discovered the power of affirmations, meditation, and Kundalini energy, leading her down a path of profound transformation.

We explore the reality of Kundalini awakening, the role of spiritual teachers, and what it truly means to live in higher consciousness. Michele also opens up about how awakening impacts relationships, emotions, and the way we...

What if the anxiety, burnout, or emotional pain you carry isn’t just in your mind, but stored in your body?

What happens when trauma becomes the doorway to transformation?

In this episode of the Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with trauma release practitioner Matan Cohen-Citron, who shares the powerful story of how a near-death experience changed the course of his life.

After the accident, Matan struggled with PTSD, panic attacks, and a nervous system completely out of balance. But through years of study, practice, and more than 20,000 healing sessions, he...

What if the pain in your relationships… your identity… even your spiritual journey… is rooted in one powerful illusion?

Awakening to authenticity, daily meditation, service, and why the essence of who we are is love.

In Episode 54 of Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with spiritual teacher Panache Desai for a profound and expansive conversation about awakening, authenticity, and the illusion of separation.

From leading a global daily meditation practice (Call to Calm) to guiding people through crisis and transformation, Panache shares why true spiritual growth isn’t about transcending your humanity...

What happens when medical science meets mediumship?

In this powerful and deeply human episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, host Jim Alstott sits down with Nick Lodato, an ICU nurse practitioner who also happens to be a gifted psychic medium.

Nick shares his extraordinary journey of discovering his intuitive and mediumistic abilities at a young age, initially mistaking them for anxiety. Through years of working in intensive care, including during COVID, Nick witnessed life, death, and the soul’s transition firsthand, offering him a rare perspective that bridges Western medicine and spiritual understanding.

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What if consciousness isn’t just a belief, but a measurable force?

In this powerful episode of the Drop the Needle Podcast, host Jim Alstott sits down with Dahryn Trivedi, enlightened master and leader of one of the world’s most evidence-based spiritual research organisations, to explore how science and spirituality converge through consciousness.

This conversation goes beyond theory. It challenges long-held assumptions about medicine, mental health, farming, and the limits of modern science, revealing why divine connection may be the missing link in addressing today’s global systems failure.

You’ll also hear a d...

What if everything you’ve been trying to heal… is actually trying to awaken you?

What if suffering isn’t something to escape, but something sacred?

In this episode of the Drop the Needle podcast, host Jim Alstott engages in a deep conversation with Steven Twohig, who shares his journey through shadow work, childhood trauma, spirituality, and personal transformation. From working with Tony Robbins to exploring the healing power of ayahuasca, this episode dives into how unintegrated pain shapes identity, leadership, and purpose.

We explore the concept of metanoia, a profound inner shift that d...

What if your fears, emotional patterns, or life challenges didn’t begin in this lifetime?

In this milestone Episode 50 of the Drop the Needle Podcast, host Jim Alstott sits down with certified hypnotherapist Lynnsey Robinson for a deep and expansive conversation on spiritual hypnotherapy, past-life regression, soul retrieval, and the subconscious mind.

Together, they explore how the subconscious is responsible for nearly 90% of our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours, and how hypnotherapy can help uncover and heal deeply rooted emotional patterns. Lynnsey shares insights from her work with clients, including awakening moments, emotional processing, and how curiosity al...

What do LAPD car chases, Freemasonry myths, and Baroque music have in common? Raymond Foster.

In this episode of the Drop the Needle podcast, host Jim Alstott interviews Raymond Foster, a retired LAPD lieutenant and author. They discuss Raymond's extensive career in law enforcement, including memorable stories from his time on the force, and delve into his involvement with Freemasonry, exploring its myths, symbols, and relevance in today's society. The conversation also touches on Raymond's musical journey, his eclectic taste in music, and the songs that resonate with him personally. The episode concludes with reflections on personal growth...

Prepare for one of the most powerful episodes ever released on Drop the Needle.

In Episode 48, medium and spiritual channel Heather Sprigg steps into a state of deep connection, bringing through the voice, energy, and guidance of Archangel Michael in real time.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t storytelling.
This is live angelic communication that shifts the atmosphere as it happens.

Host Jim Alstott speaks with Heather about her journey from crippling anxiety to profound spiritual awakening, a path that ultimately led her to channel multiple angels and work directly with...

Prepare for one of the most powerful episodes ever released on Drop the Needle.

In Episode 48, medium and spiritual channel Heather Sprigg steps into a state of deep connection, bringing through the voice, energy, and guidance of Archangel Michael in real time.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t storytelling.
This is live angelic communication that shifts the atmosphere as it happens.

Host Jim Alstott speaks with Heather about her journey from crippling anxiety to profound spiritual awakening, a path that ultimately led her to channel multiple angels and work directly with...

What if the emotional patterns, fears, or physical symptoms you’re carrying… didn’t start in this lifetime?

In this powerful episode of Drop the Needle, Jim sits down with Kristine Ovsepian, certified clinical hypnotherapist, intuitive healer, and author, to explore the remarkable world of past life regression, hypnotherapy, and the subconscious mind’s ability to heal.

Kristine shares her personal journey into hypnotherapy after experiencing profound emotional and physical distress, and reveals how past life regression can illuminate the hidden roots of our present-day struggles.

Together, they dive deep into:
✨ Why hypnosis i...