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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – It’s the Friday before the Oscars, and I’m sitting across from a man who has coached celebrities and business executives alike.
She is not a director. She’s not even a CEO. She is intuitive or psychic, depending on who you ask, but she says she is not picky about words. Her name is Laura Day. She has written several books on intuition, the most recent of which was released last year, The Prism: 7 Steps to Healing the Past and Transforming the Future.
Day spoke about her life and abilities in interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Hoda Kotb, and Kelly Clarkson. Her longtime friend Demi Moore told Hello! According to the magazine, “There are many people with this kind of talent, but none with the precision that Laura has.” And now I’m spending an afternoon with her in Beverly Hills (home of a Hollywood A-lister who is also one of Day’s closest friends) before she heads off to a party.
I have never been in the presence of a famous psychic like Day. To be honest, I’m here for two reasons. The first objective is to interview her and learn more about her experience. Second, to see if she could offer any spiritual insight about me. Essentially I’m skeptical of spiritualism, but I’m open to changing my mind.
“I don’t tell people, ‘You should do this,’ or ‘You shouldn’t do this,'” Day says of his job. “I said, ‘This is what happens when you do this. This is what happens when you do that.'”
“Everyone has these abilities.”
Day has previously spoken of her traumatic upbringing, including abuse and the suicide of her mother and brother. She believes these challenges helped develop her intuition, which she says came out of necessity.
“Basically, how well your intuition functions in your life is primarily a product of trauma,” Day says. “I needed to know what to do early on to know what to do far beyond my pay grade.”
Currently, Day does not provide psychic readings to civilians. Rather, she says she only lends her talents to four companies. Companies pay a lot of money for information to make business decisions. When I asked her which company it was, she politely declined to give her name, saying only that it was a “publicly traded multi-billion dollar company.”
“I predict the future of four companies, but it’s not mystical and I don’t give them advice,” Day says. “They say, ‘What’s going to happen here?’ And I tell them what I experienced. So I go to that point in space and time and report. But it’s like a big gallon of clean water, so I’m very careful about what I say. One drop of red dye and everything is ruined. So one wrong step and you can’t trust it anymore.”
Day explains intuition in practical terms. She doesn’t spiritualize it. Nor does she claim to have performed miracles. In fact, she believes that everyone is capable of doing more or less what she is capable of, to varying degrees. That’s why she started hosting boot camps and other events where people can pay to learn how to develop and hone their intuition.
“We all have these abilities,” Day says. “They’re perplexed, because it’s just good business. I mean, what are you selling if everyone can do it? But everyone has it.”
She says not everyone is happy with what Day has to say. She jokes that her intuition wasn’t very popular when she was in third grade. It still bothers her sometimes.
“I feel very connected to people,” Day says. “There was someone getting married, and I thought, ‘Don’t you think he proved who he is last year?’ But I didn’t know her or him. It was a professional dinner. I didn’t really mean to say it, but it was like everyone was talking. I’m not good at social conversation, so sometimes I end up saying all the right things.”
What Laura Day Taught Me
After the hour-long interview, I don’t think I’ll get a reading, but that’s okay. Day has already given enough time. She also has a party. And she has previously made it clear that she doesn’t do readings for just anyone.
But before I left, her eyes narrowed. She said I felt drawn into old dynamics. My heart is pounding. Does your ex want to get back together? Are there any habits I need to break? And I end up with something that I feel resonates with me: an artistic opportunity that I’ve been lost in. When I mentioned it to Day, she said I should jump at it.
Then she said something a little surprising. She saw me on stage with a microphone. Am I giving a speech? monologue? She’s pretty sure it’s stand-up comedy. Apparently I have a real talent for it, and that’s news to me. Did I have a hidden talent?
I end the afternoon with Day thinking about her comments. Is she right? The only way to find out might be to try it and see what happens.
And if someday I turn out to be a killer comic, well, we’ll see who called it first.
