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Shazie Daniels' multifaceted media career has seen her both in front of and behind the camera
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for many years as a producer for her husband Grant together, the couple and her strangers to the
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spotlight, showing their lives on podcasts, in magazines and online. Yeah, but there was one
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part of herself that Shazie kept hidden away until now. The weird little girl who talked to ghosts
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is more than just a memoir, as she reveals why her connection to the spirit world has been a
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remarkable gift. Yes, yes, how is Shazie Daniels? Thank you. You say you've always felt some
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little bit of a connection to the spirit world, but you felt that you needed to hide that part
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of yourself. What was it that brought it out? Well, there was a lot of things that brought it out.
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I think I went to a Catholic school and it wasn't kind of aligned with the Catholic teaching,
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so I got into trouble from the nuns often when I asked questions. I wanted to be a serious journalist,
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so I think I really started to block out that connection. And what brought it out? A few things,
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I think, seeing it in my daughters and seeing how I blocked it in one of my daughters made me
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realise that maybe I needed to lean into this more, and also experiences that I couldn't explain
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after a very close friend passed away and she pushed me into this world. From the other side of
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something. From the other side. Okay, so you become curious all of a sudden. You want to look into
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it and you start getting up at three o'clock in the morning, starting to study online. What about
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the moment you go? I want to tell people about this. I want to write a book about this.
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Well, I never set out to write a book, so this book was never going to happen. And I did my certification,
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which was an eight-month course with the Medium School in Canada, and I did my final examination
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and received honors, and I was so happy with myself. I couldn't believe it, but I left the connection
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open. And over the course of the following four days, I had 400 spirits coming to me, wanting
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me to connect them with their loved ones. First of all, it started out being little children,
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and then it was parents, and so I thought I was having a mental breakdown. I had to seek some
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advice from my mentors, and they said to start writing down the messages. So that's what I started
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doing. So that's how the book came about. The heart of the book was, I have hundreds of thousands
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of messages coming through. Yeah. What was the message from your girlfriend that passed that
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said sort of pushed you into that? Was there an experience that you can share with us that was
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one of those things that said, I have to listen to this talent. Yeah. There was a lot. She
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was very persistent, and I talk about her in the book. After she passed, I had birds flying
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into the windows, and I think on the 15th bird, I said to Grant, I think this could be a message
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from something is trying to tell. I thought it was his grandparents, maybe trying to tell him to
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do something. Get a haircut. Yeah, pack up your clothes or something. And we had a couple of
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psychics on our podcast, and little bits were starting to come out. Then I had a private reading,
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and she came through very strong and pushed me on this path. Well, what a twist Jersey for you.
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We asked your hubby, Gold Logi winner. His name's Grant, right? Some of you may have heard of him,
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I can't place him. We asked him about his favourite part of the book, and he's a tiny snippet now.
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Hey, because I like playing children's hands. It was sounded so bizarre, and...
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As it turns out, which craft is real?
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Joking, problematic word, clearly. I've been living in like, I don't know, a hook. I thought I was.
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It's all as more in here. That was just one tiny example. A lot of
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crazy things. Which we've learnt along the way. So crazy, after all. Get a room, you two. He jokes
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about this crazy, but weird. It's right in there in the title. He's a pretty supportive fellow,
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that one. He's very supportive, but it really terrified him, I think, at the start of this whole
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process, because I would say to him something's going to happen today, and then books would fly off
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the bookshelf, and he'd be like, what are you doing? Or, you know, the lights had flickered,
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and I... Actually, Shazie. Yeah. Yeah. So, like really tangible things, because he doesn't, well,
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he does now, but he didn't believe in any of this stuff. I mean, I was probably more open to it,
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but he's definitely now a convert, so he's very supportive. Fascinating.
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Well, this has certainly picked out interest. If you want to know more, the weird little girl
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who talked to ghosts more than just a memoir, but memoir by Shazie Danielle is out. Now,
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that's what it looks like, and that's actually you want to cover as the ears. It's actually
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no. Wow. Grant's working on his book just called The Weird Little Boy. That's coming out soon.
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Thanks, Shazie. Good to see you. Simply, we're alive to milk.