In this episode of The Boulos Beat, host Greg Boulos sits down with Melissa Boyd, a renowned spiritual medium and transformational business coach. Melissa shares her inspiring personal journey, including her 150-pound weight loss through yoga, and discusses how intuition and mediumship have shaped her life and career. Melissa reflects on her work with General Colin Powell, her advanced training at the Arthur Findlay College in England, and her contributions to public policy. Greg and Melissa explore the role of intuition in business decision-making, touching on techniques such as numerology and energy awareness. Melissa also highlights her philanthropic work, donating 10% of proceeds from her Luminous Eight program to nonprofit organizations. The conversation concludes with thoughtful insights on the evolution of human consciousness and the growing influence of energy in both personal and professional transformation.
In this episode of The Boulos Beat, host Greg Boulos sits down with Melissa Boyd, a renowned spiritual medium and transformational business coach. Melissa shares her inspiring personal journey, including her 150-pound weight loss through yoga, and discusses how intuition and mediumship have shaped her life and career.
Melissa reflects on her work with General Colin Powell, her advanced training at the Arthur Findlay College in England, and her contributions to public policy. Greg and Melissa explore the role of intuition in business decision-making, touching on techniques such as numerology and energy awareness.
Melissa also highlights her philanthropic work, donating 10% of proceeds from her Luminous Eight program to nonprofit organizations. The conversation concludes with thoughtful insights on the evolution of human consciousness and the growing influence of energy in both personal and professional transformation.
MSD 25-0276 Melissa Boyd EDIT (1)
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 2:20PM • 1:05:41
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Spiritual medium, intuition, energy, transformational business coach, public policy, spirit guides, psychic medium, therapeutic yoga, Arthur Findlay College, Deepak Chopra, Dalai Lama, reincarnation, Sanskrit, meditation, business decision making.
SPEAKERS
Speaker 1, Melissa Boyd, Greg Boulos
Greg Boulos 00:00
Greg, I'd like to welcome our listeners to the Boulos Beat podcast. I'm your host. Greg Boulos, The Boulos Company is northern New England's largest commercial real estate services firm with offices in Portland, Maine as well as Manchester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We've been selling and leasing real estate in Maine, New Hampshire, since 1975 This podcast is designed to provide insight into Maine's leaders, its movers and shakers. And speaking of movers and shakers, I'd like to introduce Melissa Boyd. Melissa is an internationally known spiritual medium, transformational business coach and founder of Grow Your knowing LLC based in Brunswick Maine, channeling her profound insights into real world applications, Melissa was able to mainstream the conversation on spiritual intuition to help everyday decision making and leadership. Melissa first realized she was able to communicate with her spirit guides when she was five years old. Growing up in a challenging household with an abusive father, she found solace in her spiritual connections, often seeing future events. Melissa holds a bachelor's degree in communications with a focus on public relations, and a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Management from the Muskie Institute at the University of Southern Maine, blending her intuition with strategy, her visions have been instrumental in bringing retired General Colin Powell to Maine that launched the giving means promised campaign on wgme 13. As an advocate, she worked closely with senators Olympia Snowe and Senator Susan Collins on halting nuclear weapons production for the United States. Clients across the globe keep coming back to her for down to earth, energy, strategic visions and real world credibility. Melissa's spiritual development includes studies at the Arthur Findlay College in England, the world's foremost school for psychic sciences, and training under notable figures such as Deepak Chopra and the Dalai Lama. After losing over 150 pounds through yoga, Melissa became an advanced teacher of therapeutic yoga in order to help others. Melissa lives in the mid coast of Maine with her wife Andrea and two dogs. Welcome Melissa. Welcome Melissa. You know, just to start off with you and I were talking, you let me know that you lost 150 pounds by doing yoga. Is that correct? And and you did it because you had six months to live.
Melissa Boyd 02:23
Yes, yes. So I, I found myself in my early 30s after coming off of a career of being on a plane every three days and being an advocate, doing for others, always going, going, going, sitting at my eye doctors, and he did the puff test, and he pushed his chair back, and he said, Oh my goodness, the pockets of cholesterol in your eyes are that of a 90 year old person, and if you don't lose at least 100 pounds, you're gonna die. And you know, I knew I had been, you know, overeating and doing things. So I went to my doctor, and he said, You're not qualified for weight loss surgery. You're just going to have to do it the good old fashioned way. So I went to a gym and was laughed out of a gym, found yoga and really looked at my own patterns in my body. So I became clean and sober for the first time in my life, since I was nine years old, and I lost over 150 pounds, which I've kept off now for about 22 years.
Greg Boulos 03:32
Wow. Amazing. Congratulations. Thank you. So you said clean and sober since you were nine years old. Were you drinking at nine years old? I
Melissa Boyd 03:38
was Yeah. I grew up in a really abusive household. And I also, you know, had a lot of lot of anxiety, but I also had a lot of intuition, and I found that if I used alcohol, it would just soothe me and push those feelings away.
Greg Boulos 03:56
And I know you grew up in a household where you had an abusive father, yes, and you would to protect yourself. I assume he would go to the closet and hide in there so he wouldn't get you.
Melissa Boyd 04:06
Yes, I would. It was a very it was, it was a very difficult childhood. My dad was, you know, really addicted to alcohol and drugs, and he was really a paranoid guy. So before my brother was born, my brother's nine years younger than me, I would take my cat patches, and I would sit in the back of my closet, put the cat on my shoulders, and sit in the closet and close my eyes. And then one night, I decided, you know, if I take enough cough medicine, I think I can die. And how old were you at this point, I was five, and so I literally sat in the back of the closet and I drew, which is now my logo. I call it the delicious orb of light, because we're all energy. At the time, I didn't know what I was drawing, and I just looked at it. And I was just looking down at it, and I. Heard in my mind, sip in the color. And so I literally sipped in the color. And I was brought to this other place, and I was told, would you like to be a messenger for the world? And it was so real. I said yes. And when I came back, I started getting messages from the other side, and it wasn't, you know, vague messages. It was, you know, this is going to happen at this time, or the first big message was, there was a woman who was going to be at the local Rite Aid at an aisle five, and I was to go there and to give her a message not to kill herself, because she was going to have children and remarry her husband had just died. And my mother didn't hesitate, because I come from a very psychic family, and we went and there was the woman, and she cried, and, you know, hugged me, and then I became the secret to everyone in the family, and I would know things before they happened, and people would use me as a as a conduit.
Greg Boulos 06:06
And when you went to see this woman, I was five, five years old,
Melissa Boyd 06:11
yeah, but I see the thing is, I really believe that we're all intuitive beings, and I believe that what's happening right now. And I'm not alone in this. There's a lot of research that's showing that people are becoming more aware of their subtle bodies, and our subtle bodies are intuitive. And as kids, people remember who they are. I just never forgot
Greg Boulos 06:34
Interesting, very interesting. Melissa, you said you get messages from the other side. I do explain for the audience, you're not a psychic, right? You're a medium. Could you explain
Melissa Boyd 06:44
I am a psychic medium. So every, every medium is psychic, but not every psychic is medium. So psychic, I mean, I like the word intuitive. I like the word actually, spiritual, intuitive. But the whole idea is that when you have a premonition, which more and more people are having premonition dreams. I mean, everyone is psychic to some degree. So I get psychic imprints around people, but I also get messages from the other side. And the other side is not a place, it's more of a frequency. So we are all energy beings, because we have to be energy before we become physical. And when we connect to our energy bodies, we can open up our own intuition. And I believe that we all get glimpses of the other side. Do
Greg Boulos 07:38
we all have spirit spirit guides? Yes, yes, we do how many or does it just
Melissa Boyd 07:42
depend? It depends. And they can change and deepen over time. They can change and deepen over time.
Greg Boulos 07:49
I mean, I am not terribly intuitive, and I've never met my psychic guides. So how do I know I've got one or two?
Melissa Boyd 08:01
Well, I think that leave me out. No, no. I always say to people, if you're here, you're you're you're, you know, you have a you have a spirit guide. It's just about being open to that energy. And if you think about the fact that you're Greg here, right in this physical place, but in unity consciousness, in the different layers of consciousness, you've been many other people, and there's and what's so exciting about this time in human history is that more and more people are remembering their past lifetimes. They're bringing them in. So who you are is just a small speck of the Divine you.
Greg Boulos 08:43
So you talk about reincarnation,
Melissa Boyd 08:47
reincarnation, but also that you may have met spirits in other lifetimes that guide you in this lifetime. And I always see that happen. That happens quite a bit.
Greg Boulos 08:56
So when you communicate with your spirit guides. Yes, is it? Do you hear them? Do you see them?
Melissa Boyd 09:05
All the above? And I think we all can. I think we
Greg Boulos 09:08
all can. What do they look like? I mean, do they look like in the human form?
Melissa Boyd 09:12
No, they're more of like. Kind of think about some of them look angelic, sometimes a spirit guide could be a plant that's around you. Spirit guides can speak to you through sound, through smell. Sometimes people will get a ringing in their ear, and that's a way for them to know to move forward in their life.
Greg Boulos 09:39
And you say it's like a frequency,
Melissa Boyd 09:41
yes, absolutely. So it's not that
Greg Boulos 09:43
they're up in the cloud somewhere, right, but like a radio station, I think I asked you the other day, when you change this channel, you get different Exactly.
Melissa Boyd 09:53
So the more that we raise our frequency, let me, let me give you the example of light. So. So if every, if every person who's physically in form were to be, I don't know, brought down to energy, they would come into light. So we all are like a light frequency. And Edgar Casey, similar to Nostradamus, was considered to be the sleeping prophet, and he would have visions. He would go into a trance, which is similar to what I do. I really relax my body and allow my conscious state to just leave my body, and then I listen to the frequencies that are speaking. Because, I mean, I can't always listen to myself, but I could listen to you or someone else, and there's images that come through. So Edgar Casey said in the late 1800s that when magenta hit the skies, the New Earth would begin. And what he meant by that was the New Earth of people being awake and aware that we are all living beings, and that we our minds just keep hold us back from what our hearts, intuitive intelligence can tell us. So in 2021 for the first time ever, we started having these solar flares that shone magenta in the sky the UN since the 1900s has had a color of the year. The Color of the Year never before was magenta, for the first time. So it's like an awakening where people are realizing they don't have to use their minds. They can use their hearts. And when you do, there's this subtle energy that starts to pop open for you, and it starts to bring you closer to who you can become and who you will be in the next life as well.
Greg Boulos 11:50
So this awareness that more and more people are having is that part of the evolution of man.
Melissa Boyd 11:58
Yes, we believe that. We believe that if you I spent many years in early childhood development, and there's a lot of research out of the Cleveland Clinic that's showing that children born today are having their capacity, say, at six months is what would be at two years. So we're evolving, you know, as a species. Some even say it's called Homo luminous, which is being aware of this light body. I'm synthetic. There's a lot of people who have something called synthesesia, where, and in fact, a lot of business owners have syntheses. Yeah. So when I work with my clients who are business owners or CEOs or senators, I will say to them, you feel a room when you walk into it, or textures are really, you know, important to you, or color when you're making your notes. And they'll say, yes. So there's 33 different kinds of syntheses. Yeah, most people know Pharrell Williams. He wrote a song Happy, you know, and he's synthetic, and he sees color and music. So I think what's happening is, as we evolve individually, collectively, we'll evolve past our problems and to create new solutions together.
Greg Boulos 13:16
And when you hear or perceive these voices or messages, do they come to you randomly? And can you, let's just say you want to read a book and be left alone. Yeah, can you? Can you say,
Melissa Boyd 13:29
you know, I can. I can now. I can now. I didn't in the beginning. I so there's two different types of mediumship. There's people who are born mediumship, which I am, and there's people who are taught I am both. So I've trained with a woman who in London, in the UK, mediumship, spiritual mediumship is normal. You know, it's everyone who's everyone goes to, you know, mediumship events on a Friday night to receive messages from their spirit guides, to know that they're not alone, and really to bring evidence forward. And that's the big thing about mediumship, it's this evidential information. So I've learned over time to have an on and off switch. It's not always easy, though. I mean, there's times when it when it kind of, I have to tell someone something, and then it ends up being, you know, like with that woman in the store. It ends up becoming like a life changing
Greg Boulos 14:28
Yeah, otherwise, if you can't shut it off, it'd drive you insane. Yes, yeah. And
Melissa Boyd 14:33
I think meditation is the way to do that, because the more I mean, the average person has 60,000 thoughts per day. But unfortunately, they're the same 60,000 thoughts. So if we can shift our thinking and go past that, the ability for us to solve problems in a new way is it's really like unlimited so.
Greg Boulos 15:00
When you walk into a room, can you feel the energy? Yeah, absolutely, yes. And I think you told me that 85% of communication is nonverbal, yes, absolutely, part of the energy that you feel.
Melissa Boyd 15:12
It is, it is part of the energy. And I so what I believe, what I teach people, is you can do this too, maybe not to the level I do it. But so I teach people. I mean, for example, we communicate, right? But we don't talk about, are you visual, auditory or a kinesthetic learner? People don't even know how they learn. So we have all these different communication methods. So I first help people break down, what's your communication style, and then what's going to help you enhance that? And then how can you talk to other people? Then they go, Oh, my goodness, I get this clear yourself, and then open up to your own intuition.
Greg Boulos 15:53
You know, with my two children, who are now adults, but when they were kids living in the house, if I had a bad day I come in the in the house, they would say, Oh, watch out for dad. Like we can feel his vibes. A clam, but they could feel it, yeah, and I think to this day they still can. So they stay away when I
Melissa Boyd 16:15
well, just, just to add to that, I mean, I think it was, I want to say it was January 2021, the front page of The New York Times said, people have ghosts in their house. People started reporting strange occurrences because they were home in their houses for so long that they could actually feel the vibrational energy of their homes. And, you know, and I don't necessarily say I believe in ghosts. I believe that, you know, spirit beings can work with us, and we can actually call them in to work with us. And you don't have to believe it for it to be true. That's the other piece about it,
Greg Boulos 16:58
is your ability to communicate with those who have passed, do you consider that a blessing, a curse, or something both?
Melissa Boyd 17:05
I would say both. I would say both.
Greg Boulos 17:08
How is it a curse?
Melissa Boyd 17:12
I would say, from the age of like, 10 to 15, I would see really horrible things that would happen in the world, and I thought that I caused them. So that's really hard. It's hard when you know that someone's going to make a wrong turn or and they're not listening to you. I think the hardest thing for me, just a really quick story to give you an example, is when I see a world event, I actually saw this tsunami and the Fukushima event nine months before it happened. And I was I was working with Physicians for Social Responsibility, and I called the only person I thought would I wrote, the only person I thought would listen to me, which was Dr Helen Caldicott, who is founded international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. And I wrote her and I said, you know, I met you when I was 13. I love what you do for the world. Because she's all about nuclear disarmament. I know there is event, an event coming up. It's going to be a nuclear disaster. I can tell you where it's going to be. I don't know what to do. I know this sounds crazy. And then she wrote back to me within two hours and said, Call me. So I'm calling her in Australia. And she says to me, have you read my autobiography? I said, No. And she said, you haven't. I said, No, I haven't. And she said, Well, I'll tell you that the first two lines are, my mother was a medium, and we had seances in her house, and I've always learned to trust my intuition. So Helen Caldicott had a vision of Chernobyl, and so she took all the money that she had, and put it together for Physicians for Social Responsibility. Took out an ad on the on the back of Time magazine with a nuclear explosion. And she said, What will you do if this happens? Please prevent this from happening. Join Physicians for Social Responsibility. It came out, and that week Chernobyl happened,
Greg Boulos 19:23
and the event that you're talking about was in Japan, yeah, Fukushima. And the
Melissa Boyd 19:28
PowerPoint, yes, and she knew it too, and she said, we just have to keep educating people and and trying to help people to understand their actions. There's really, what can you do? Well, there's, there's a lot you can do. You can prepare people for it. I mean, I've had situations where I've given information to the police that has actually arrested people. So there's a lot of people like me that that will do that.
Greg Boulos 19:58
Can you delve into. A little bit more. How that happens? Do you give to somebody? Give you a message? I usually
Melissa Boyd 20:07
it comes in a dream. It comes in a premonition dream, and I will, I will see it, and I will be told, you know who to call, and they will even show me, you know what police department to call. I will call and give the information, and they will say to me, Oh, you're the third person. You're the third medium that's called in the past two hours with the same information, we'll definitely connect on that. You know, 911 was the number one pre cognitive event that more people saw within 50 to 70 years before it happened, than any other event in history.
Greg Boulos 20:46
So, but that thought event 50 to 70?
Melissa Boyd 20:49
Yes, and there are people, so people, I believe people have premonition dreams, and we all get flashes of things. But the problem is, we get so sucked by other electronics that we don't give ourselves the space and the time to become really intuitive and to use that, I mean intuition is like liquid gold, because it just gives you such clarity and insight and it helps you to follow something forward that you may not have even thought of,
Greg Boulos 21:23
what do you think happens to us after we die?
Melissa Boyd 21:27
I think we keep evolving. I mean, I from what I understand is we continue to evolve to a higher state of being. If you look at, you know, the work of Thich Nhat Hanh, who is past and really amazing Buddhist leader, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize many times, and wrote so many books about being in the present moment. He always said, you know, we walk in the path of our ancestors, and if we can be better than them, or we can, you know, work and bring peace to the earth, then we can evolve the whole continuum of of consciousness.
Greg Boulos 22:11
But my question was, you know, you die physically. You die the soul, which I equate to energy.
Melissa Boyd 22:18
Yes. Where does it go? You go to a collective place where you're given you're given a job, you're given an opportunity to help other souls to evolve. So it's kind of like when you're sleeping at night and you're you're having dreams about things. I mean, our dreams are a way for us to both manifest, because we can manifest in our sleep, which a lot of people don't realize we can, and you can solve problems. So think about that. But on this higher level where you get to, you know, help other souls, either on the physical plane or in the in the spirit world. Let me give you a great example of that, please. So you know, I have an interesting way, because I was born a medium. People didn't know it, and I stepped into politics and public policy and that type of thing, because I knew that I could make changes, especially when it came to environmental issues, because I could see things before they happened, and then I went into becoming a medium full time. So it's a little bit of a strange way. And so I will attract people that maybe other mediums wouldn't attract, because I have a track record of being really successful in what I have done in this world. So I get this people give gift certificates. So I get this gift certificate. This man writes and said, I got a gift certificate. I live in California. My name is Paul, great. So it's a phone reading, and he's very, very skeptical. And for me, he picks up the phone. I do a little meditation, and then I say, you know, I'm going to close my eyes and see what I see. And I was like, oh my goodness, I see you in a helicopter flying over China, and you're with David Brower. And I said, you know, I know this may sound strange. I said, David Brower is the, you know, founder of the Sierra Club, and he helped to make sure the Grand Canyon wasn't dammed. And he said, Oh, no, I know exactly who David Brower is, because I was in a helicopter with him flying over China. And I said, Well, what David Brower is saying? For me to tell you is, finish your book, and he just was completely shocked and very skeptical. So David Brower, who passed was very dear friends with Paul RELLIS, and Paul wrote a book called. Out of the wastelands. He also was a professor in California, and he said, wait for the call. You're going to get a call that you're going to be the keynote speaker for Earth Day for California, and you're going to talk about your book. And that happened, and there's no way I can know that. So David Brower was really helping from the other side to assist this man and finishing his book.
Greg Boulos 25:26
Because when somebody gets a gift certificate and you, they reach out to you, you don't know anything about them, nothing, and actually will personal background here for Christmas, my significant other, Naila, gave me a gift certificate to see you took me over six months to get in, and that's how you and I became acquainted. Yes, yes, and you knew nothing about me, nothing now you do though.
Melissa Boyd 25:55
Sanskrit, yes. Sanskrit, Sanskrit,
Greg Boulos 25:59
how does that relate to energy and what's that all about? Oh,
Melissa Boyd 26:03
gosh. So Sanskrit is considered to be the golden language of light, and so the word Namaste, which means all the goodness in you, bows to all the goodness in me, is, is Sanskrit. It's an old, old light. It's a very old language. It's probably the oldest language we have, and a lot of the the energy that's in Sanskrit, you know, all the different pieces that make up the language are also based in English. So Sanskrit is part of, you know, yogic philosophy, and yoga means the union of the south with the South. And I always tell people that you know Sanskrit and mudras. And mudras are hand poses come from this ancient language, like the okay sign, exactly the okay sign, the better one is if you do thumbs up in energy, medicine, in brain development, this actually helps your brain light up with passion. So we do this, and we're saying, yes, passion, and it's actually helping our bodies, because our bodies are just intuitive machines. But we barely, you know, we, first of all, we barely breathe to stay alive, and we live from the neck up, and then we want to control everything else that's happening without really breathing into this being that can help us. So Sanskrit is this language and and the idea is that, you know, it's the whole thing of, if you want to speak with someone, speak their language. So if you want to grow spiritually, chant Sanskrit and chanting is a wonderful way. I mean, we go to people, go to church. They They sing or they, you know, they use Amen, they use different vowels and consonants that help the body to to to open up because the body is extremely intuitive, and Sanskrit just helps us to really elevate our own energy frequency. And just about frequency, the average person without meditation is about 175 hertz frequency. And if you look, if you think about frequency, cold and flu start at about, say, a 58 to a 60 cancer, a 30 Death starts at 28 so we're we're really not, we're not evolving to the capacity we could be. So when I work with people, and I gave you some mala beads today, which there's 108 beads on that, and it's a tool, especially for people who are very busy, it's a tool so that you take your first thumb and finger to touch your first finger is what do I need to know? That's your finger of knowledge. I know that's from Sanskrit as well, and that's also from energy medicine. And then we take the thumb, which is the power and passion, turning that on, and then you push through each bead, looking down at it, having a soft eye gaze, which we call drishti, and you'll actually feel energy move down your spine. And our back bodies have more power than our front bodies, and it really just helps you to to think in a different way, because one of the things that we learn in Sanskrit and in yogic medicine is that our brains are not in our our back body, our brains are on our front body and our but our mind is in our back body and our spine. So there's so much wisdom inside of us, and this awakening, as you see all around the awakening of intuition, is more and more and more, but it's not New Age. It's old age.
Greg Boulos 30:03
Have you had an experience that just truly blew you away? You couldn't believe
Melissa Boyd 30:08
Oh, so many, okay, um hmm, that's a that's an interesting one, one where I was channeling, or just one in general, one in general. Okay, I guess I'll just talk about my bracelet. I have on my bracelet says he loved to fish. So for years I lived in Kennebunk. I used to do a meditate and donate at River tree art. And we raised, I think it was about 10 or $15,000 over the seven or eight years that I did a meditate and donate there, and I would meditate with people, and then I would do readings, and they would donate to the children's programs, dance camp and things like that. And I there was this spirit of this man, boy who came through, and he said, I missed the curve. I missed the curve. And he kept saying how he loved to fish. And his father was in the back of the room, very skeptical Sean. Now I know the family very well, Sean being very, extremely skeptical. And he kept saying, I said, Your son loves to fish, and he loves his his logo. And he kept saying, I don't know what you're talking about, logo, love to fish. Well, he actually had a bracelet on, I have on Now, that said he loved to fish, and his son was the number one bass fisherman in the state of Maine at the at his age of 17, and he was going to go to SMCC, and he just loved to fish. So I said to his got to know his family, and I had a reading with Aaron and Sean his Thomas's whose passed overs mother and father, and I said, you're going to buy a camp on Sebago Lake, and it's going to be a camp for kids, and you're going to help people. And he thought, that's crazy. I said, Go to where Thomas fished. So he went to where Thomas fished. And he was down there one day, and this man walked up to him and said, This is a nice place, isn't it? And they said, Yeah, it's a beautiful place. Why are you here? Well, my son used to fish here. He goes, Well, that's funny, because I've been trying to, you know, sell some of this land. Would you like it? So he got this land for, you know, a dream, a song for his son. And now all of these kids across Maine go and they get to fish there in the memory of Thomas. So Thomas made all of that happen. What's the name of it? It's called the Thomas be in casting camp, and it's on little Sebago in Maine.
Greg Boulos 32:54
You said he was a skeptic to begin with? Yes. So you must get a lot of people who don't believe absolutely quackery. How do you how do you address that? Well,
Melissa Boyd 33:05
I've been doing this since I was five, and I'm 53 so I don't even let it bother me anymore. And I know, and then also, because I think that, you know, I feel like I work for the spirit world. That's what I tell people, you know, I work for the spirit world, and I am fortunate enough to have so many people come forward and say, you know, this changed my life. This, this one instance, helped me in my life. And it's just been, it's been absolutely amazing. It must
Greg Boulos 33:41
be very satisfying when that happens. But reaffirming,
Melissa Boyd 33:45
it is reaffirming, and not just it's not about me, it's about reaffirming to others, to know that we live, we live beyond death. You know, I think one of the another really cool experience was, I won't get into all the details, but for some reason, I ended up running into a man I had no idea who he was. I opened a door. I wasn't supposed to be in his office, and I kept hearing the snoopies cartoon, and I walked in, and this man was actually drawing a cartoon. I had no idea who he was. And I said, I don't know what you're doing or who you are, but I have to tell you that Charles Schultz says you have to go to San Diego you're going to win this award. And he said, I can't believe you're saying this, because I just got nominated for cartoonist of the year. And he ended up going to San Diego and winning cartoonist of the year. And his name is Wiley Miller, and his his comic strip is called non sequitur. He used to work with the Washington Post, and he had the first i. First cartoon that was in color. And Charles Schultz was one of his dearest friends.
Greg Boulos 35:06
Charles Schultz, when you gave the message to this gentleman, he
Melissa Boyd 35:10
had passed Yes, and he was very, very dear friends with him. And Wiley has said to me over the years how how profound that has been to him, how it's helped him in his life and his work, and to know that his dear friend Charles Schultz is right near him gives him such, such a hope, such an inspiring way forward.
Greg Boulos 35:36
And Wiley didn't, wasn't going to go,
Melissa Boyd 35:40
or did he did he was, he was not gonna go. He said, nobody ever gets nominated the first time and wins the award. And the night he won, he sent me a text message, message of him holding, because you get the hold the award for a year. And it was this, it's this huge trophy, and it has like, you know, Donald Duck on it, and Snoopy, and he's holding this award, and he says, We did it. We did it, you know. And so it's really, it's empowered him to lean into his own intuition and to know that Charles Schulz, who also was very spiritual. I mean, I think that's the thing. So many people who are creative are spiritual. They trust their intuition, and we just don't even realize that we have it. And that's what I'm trying to teach people, is that we can have these glimmers of hope, and just imagine that, you know, all around us is this energy that wants to, wants to help us forward. Are you afraid of death at all? I am not afraid of death at all. I
Greg Boulos 36:48
kind of thought you would say that
Melissa Boyd 36:51
it's, you know, it's, it's such a peaceful, such a beautiful experience. Sometimes I feel like, you know, I have this privilege to step into the other side and see this energy. And the research coming out of hospice now is people will be around the bedside and they'll actually feel energy, and the person will wake up and look and talk to their mother, who's been gone for 50 Years and follow them into a higher, higher sense of being
Greg Boulos 37:26
so you say just before they pass? Yes, and I've heard that a lot, and doctors will say, Well, it's the medication they're on. It's the morphine or whatever. I mean, that's how they dismiss it, right? Would you say it's more
Melissa Boyd 37:37
than that? Absolutely,
Greg Boulos 37:41
just changing pace here for a second. You've been involved with the Maine legislature, legislature, which was several years ago. And what was your role?
Melissa Boyd 37:52
I had many roles. I i was a lobbyist for a while for moose rich associates and I lobbied for AARP disability rights, behavioral health and women's issues, as well as I worked with alcohol prevention and The methamphetamine Task Force.
Greg Boulos 38:20
And how did you meet Colin Powell?
Melissa Boyd 38:25
That's going back farther. He was US Secretary of State. Yes, he was so in I'm trying to remember the exact year so I was working at USM recycles in my 20s, and I was approached by a legislature to bring AmeriCorps to the state of Maine. So I became an AmeriCorps member in the 90s. Later, I was asked to be an AmeriCorps Promise Fellow, which was America's Promise. The Alliance for youth was established under retired General Colin Powell, and it was part of the Corporation for National and Community Service. And he really believed that, you know, winning the war and and being a general was important, but he really felt like there was a bigger war which was helping helping kids. So he started this America's Promise. And Maine was, we had something called Maine's promise. My role at the time was to develop the Maine promise book, which was an online resource. I would, I had the wonderful privilege of calling up banks and saying, will you give money to children in Maine to go to school, and I would really talk about how we can resource our community. And at the time General Colin Powell was not traveling at all. He was only working on apartheid issues in Africa, South Africa, and so he was not traveling. Saying no speaking engagements whatsoever. And of course, there was, you know, 36 states that were involved with America's Promise, and each state had a different aspect of it. And every time I went to sleep, I kept seeing Colin Powell in Maine, and I saw myself on stage with Colin Powell. And it was the strangest thing. And I saw Mary Herman, and I saw Angus King, and I saw Olympia Snowe. I saw everyone on stage, and I kept thinking, Yeah, but he's not coming to Maine. And then I heard, you have to bring him to Maine. So I went into then Governor Angus King's office, and I said, you know Colin Powell is going to come to Maine, I just know what's going to happen. So this dream basically showed me what needed to happen. So I put together the letter that was shown, sent off down to Alexandria, Virginia, and we got the answer back that he was indeed coming to Maine. And everyone was shocked, but I was not shocked, because I knew you'd be coming to Maine, and I was in my 20s. I you know, we had this huge event up in Waterville Maine. The night before we had this event, I got a call from Colonel smallum, who I thought it was a joke. I hung up on him, and then he called back, and he said, Melissa, this is Colonel smallham. I'm calling on behalf of General Colin Powell. He wants to meet you. So I was picked up in an armored car with then Governor King, and we were brought to a secure location. I got out of the car. He wanted to sit with me. He sat with me, looked in my eyes, and he said, Thank you for trusting your intuition. I'm so happy that you brought me to Maine. And it was this really life changing experience, because he was so full of service. And then since then, I have had the privilege to channel him since he has passed. So he's come to you, he has come to me with some of the work that I do for folks in DC,
Greg Boulos 42:08
with any particular message.
Melissa Boyd 42:10
I can't discuss the messages because they were of a Yeah, hi, yeah. I can't get into that, but they were validated. So that's wonderful. And
Greg Boulos 42:23
as I understand it, you came out publicly as a medium on the green light, main TV show in 2010 Yes, what was that like? It
Melissa Boyd 42:30
might have been go Augusta. I was on both shows. So it was, it was incredible experience. I was actually, I've been working appropriations for, you know, a couple years. And were you a commissioner at the time? I was a commissioner later, but at that time, I was actually a lobbyist, and we were talking about prevention and voting on voting on legislation that had to do with treatment. And prevention in Maine, and I was on it with three different I think it was, I believe it was Brian Langley, and it was Senator Margaret Craven, who I've known for a very long time, and she's, she's a good friend of yours. She's a wonderful person, yes, wonderful person. So we're on, on the show and and we start talking about what's going on. And I just said, Well, you know, as an intuitive medium. And they all went, what? And I thought, oh my gosh, I'm going to lose my job. And she said, Well, how does that relate to politics? I said, Well, everything's energy, and so people need to be drinking, you know, lemon water, and not smoking cigarettes, and really sitting and breathing into the fact that everyone is is important here, and really putting themselves in the situation instead of just pushing a pen or a paper or, you know, being bought by, you know, this group or that group, and I really brought it down to the whole idea of the heart, and really just tapping into your heart and just being more thoughtful when you're taking a vote. And people had known me because I was the one at three o'clock in the morning who'd be blowing bubbles in the hallways to wake up the senators that were going in to vote, and they would laugh, and I would say, No, we need to keep you awake, and you need to be aware. And this is, this is vibrational. And so I went to the state house the next day and thought, Oh, I'm in trouble. And people came up very curiously and said, you know, can you read me? Can you tell me things about myself? And I just thought, Well, why not? What do I have to lose? And I would I pulled this very at the time. People had thought he was a very difficult man, always argumentative with everyone, including probably himself. I pulled him over in the corner, very skeptical. How. This hands, politician, politician. We sat and turns out that his mother was really not a very nice person to him. Died. He was very angry with her. She apologized and gave really great detail about their relationship and how she wanted to bring peace to him. And then the next morning, he got on the floor of the Senate and gave a speech like no one had ever heard before. He almost started to cry, and he changed his idea about this vote, and everyone would come up to me and said, What did you say to him? I said, Well, I can't tell you what I said to him. And they said, Well, I want a session. I want a session. I want a session. So I literally left my lobbying career. You know, I was, I was also planning, after that, to run for state legislature myself. And I left, and I started with a cardboard sign because I was told I would have a free office in Kennebunk Maine. I dreamed it and I went to a art show, and this woman said, you know, we're having an opening at this art place. And I said, Well, do you have anyone doing readings? She said, No. I said, Well, I do readings. I sat. I did readings for everybody from the chief of police all the way down. And she said, Well, here's a key. You can have the broom closet in the back. And that was 15 years ago, and I work worldwide, six months out, you know, since that day. So it's been 15 years now.
Greg Boulos 46:38
Tell us what is the luminous eight, professional development for your soul program, which you created, and what does it
Melissa Boyd 46:45
focus on? Yeah, so I also have a My background is in communications, public relations, and masters in policy and management, and I've always believed that, you know, service is important, and we need to serve other people. And I had gone to a lot of different conferences. And in one particular conference, I had the opportunity to meet Dr Stephen Covey, who everyone knows him from Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the eighth habit. And I got there early, and I went up to him, and I said, I read your book. And he said, everyone read my book. I said, No, I read the book that you wrote in 1972 which is spiritual roots to human evolution. And he said, Okay, let's talk. So he took me in the other room, and we talked, and he wanted to know what I loved about the book. And I said, Well, I loved that the roots were really about love and compassion and service. And he said, yeah, it made me sad, because, you know, no one really got the book, so it just got me to thinking and over the years and all of my positions, whether I was the executive director of an organization, or whether I was on a board or a commissioner, I always leaned back into Stephen Covey's words, and I started to talk about looking at corporations and businesses through the love. So when I work with people, I work with them on eight methods, and I really help them look at, you know, who are you and what do you love? I also talk about people with the idea of being unconditional. So, what would you do if you could do anything, and it's it's helping people, like look at things in a different lens. And I use the word luminous because lumen. Is in our bodies, and the more that we change our perspective, the deeper we become in our own self and cells. And so it allows us to grow both, you know, in our own bodies, but also spiritually. So what I do is I coach people around the world, and I have different coaching packages for people and help them to really move through different rhythms of being. And again, starting back with the idea of what kind of learner are you, and how does your intuition show up in your life? You know, how do you use numbers? Because numbers are numbers were the second, language symbols were the first. And numerology helps us to really understand who we are intrinsically and how we can look at our own patterns, because we're always trying to figure things out in a puzzle piece. But what if we could go beyond where we're going? And I think that's really that's very important. And I think about one of the people I've had the privilege to channel, which was also very interesting, is actually Edmund Muskie and I went to the Muskie Institute. So that was a very, yeah, that was a very interesting experience. His granddaughter had come to see me, and. When I lived in Kennebunk, and I was starting my my starting my practice, I didn't have a lot of, you know, people coming in, but there was a lot of houses, you know, the beautiful houses on Summer Street and down in the port, and people would call me to have me, you know, speak to their houses. So I had actually gone to the day before this woman came in, I had only known her first name, and the day before she had come in, I had, I had walked through his home. I did not know it was his home, but I went to this desk and I talked about how he came up with all these, you know, treaties and ideas in this room, and the woman was just blown away. And then the next day, his daughter came in, his granddaughter came in, and it was amazing. Olivia muskie,
Greg Boulos 50:48
so when you read a house, yes, what does that mean? So
Melissa Boyd 50:53
everything has energy. And a lot of people would call me because they couldn't sell a house on Summer Street, and it was because there was an imprint of someone who was there. So we had to kind of get that energy out of there. So on Summer Street and in for your listeners who might not know, there's beautiful old captain's houses, I mean houses that would have anywhere from 25 to 30 rooms. And I would walk into the house and ask permission from the house to listen to the bones of it, to listen to the stories that were in the house. And then I would walk through the home, and then I would say to someone, oh, this room. And they would all laugh, Oh, no. No one likes to stay in this guest room. It's haunted. Things move in this room. And I would say, well, it was owned by a woman. This house was owned by a woman. And people would be a little skeptical, and then they would go and they would get the deed to the house and start going down the line and find out, Oh my gosh, it was owned by a woman. And so then we would actually sit in the room and thank the energy, and ask the woman to leave, and say to the home, these people are ready to leave the home, you know, the family, and then the house would sell. So it's the whole idea that, you know, there's imprints everywhere.
Greg Boulos 52:13
So are these spirit guides or spirits in the house that are trapped there?
Melissa Boyd 52:21
They're they're hanging on because they did not get they feel like they they want to evolve, they want to go to another level, but they just can't figure out how to get there. So it's honoring their energy and just letting them go.
Greg Boulos 52:38
And is it because of a traumatic experience that happened in that house
Melissa Boyd 52:44
sometimes, but other times it's that they died at sea and they didn't get a chance to really say goodbye to their home.
Greg Boulos 52:57
I understand you donate 10% of luminous eight proceeds to nonprofits such as Yes, Olympia, snows, Women's Leadership Institute, Center for grieving children, Thomas bean casting camp that we talked about, a place to start and more. How does giving back tie into your mission?
Melissa Boyd 53:17
You know where I grew up? I grew up in a trailer on top of a mountain, and in me no in Massachusetts, and there was times when, you know, if it didn't rain, we would have to go and fill up our jugs at the well To get water. And I remember even as a child, just wanting to give back to others. And my my grandmother was really involved with volunteer work, and so I always would give. And I think giving is a really important way to to create change, you know, and I believe that helping youth is very important. It's a really, really important thing. I i read nine and counting the women of the Senate when I was in my 20s, and then when I got my master's degree and I was working with Physicians for Social Responsibility, I got to go to DC and work with Senator Olympia Snowe on both helping, assisting, educating her on halting nuclear weapons production for the United States. And then, as a commissioner, I helped to craft the Serve America Act, which is giving people back who have worked for public service, a loan forgiveness program, which she helped to to pass so and now she's helping, you know, young women in Maine to move forward. So I just think it's really important to, I like to say, Take compassionate action, because we all can do that.
Greg Boulos 54:57
I. How does intuition figure into business decision making?
Melissa Boyd 55:06
I think it's about 87% I would say it's about 87% of and so what I do with people is I really help them. What symbol is your yes, what symbol is your no? And I help people to really, you know, hone that energy and also to develop like a manifesting map to where where they want to go in their own businesses. Because that's also very important.
Greg Boulos 55:32
Because I was interesting you say that because I was going to ask you, how do you help people manifest what they want?
Melissa Boyd 55:40
I think first you have to clear. You have to clear where you are. And I always say people, you know, we should all have, everyone should have someone that you aspire to be like, you know, like your own like. Who do you want to aspire to be like? So on my while in my office, I have a picture of Nelson Mandela, and I aspire to be like him. So it's this idea of, I asked my client, you know, who do you want to be in your on your board of directors, your spiritual board of directors? And when they do that, it's really phenomenal. It's a phenomenal, phenomenal thing that starts to happen.
Greg Boulos 56:20
And how do you get people, or teach people, to tap into their own energy,
Melissa Boyd 56:27
first, to empty Be quiet and silent, to create a daily routine, even if it's five or 10 minutes, to just drop into themselves and not get caught up in the chatter, you know, to connect more to nature, to have a breath work practice, because we barely breathe, to stay alive in our breath. If we really get deep within our breathing, our breath has eyes to see all dimensions. You
Greg Boulos 56:56
know, I've done meditation in the past, and it was very difficult for me to take 20 minutes a day, which I was told, like what I should do, to meditate, because while I'm lying there, all I'm thinking about is my to do list, right, right? So it's not as easy as you might think.
Melissa Boyd 57:14
No, it's not. And I think there's different ways. I always tell people, you know, do the Einstein walk the cat nap came from Einstein. Einstein never really slept a day in his life. He slept for 20 minutes at a time, and what he would do is he would stand up, and with every step he took, he would say something he's grateful for. And when he did that, he got tons of ideas, and he also was meditating.
Greg Boulos 57:36
Interesting. Now, this is a real estate
Melissa Boyd 57:40
podcast, yes.
Greg Boulos 57:42
How would juice? How could you help somebody like myself who's a commercial real estate
Speaker 1 57:46
broker? Oh, I love working with people, like, limited time here, no.
Melissa Boyd 57:51
So the the idea of realizing that your energy and you're selling energy. So I always tell people that are real estate agents, get to know your house, and thank the houses that you're going to be selling. Get to know the space, walk around the space, move in the space, touch the walls, and just listen like, literally listen like, you know what's missing in this space. What do I feel the space needs and then ask for the highest vibrational match for that space to come in, because intention is everything. You know. Our minds don't know the difference between something that's real and imagined. I would say also, the one thing I do say for sure is to play solfeggio frequencies in the space before you show it or sell it. And solfeggio frequencies, what is that? They're tones that are hidden in Gregorian chant that when the body or a space hears it, it changes the vibration so it gives it like an ambiance that that's very bold. And I would say 528, hertz frequency, which is DNA repair, and many countries are using it to cure cancer. They're finding that listening to that tone, and it's a cymatic tone, it changes the frequency. So
Greg Boulos 59:12
if I Googled it, what would I Google? I
Melissa Boyd 59:15
would say meditative mind, 528, hertz frequency, and
Greg Boulos 59:18
that will bring up this Yes. Okay, interesting, yes. And what you're saying could apply to commercial real estate too.
Melissa Boyd 59:26
Absolutely, absolutely.
Greg Boulos 59:32
In real estate, location and timing are everything. How can intuition help recognize the right opportunity?
Melissa Boyd 59:40
Perfect question. So our bodies are pendulums, and this is an exercise that I, that I, that I share with a lot of people. And so your belly button, if you think about it, is what we call an energy medicine. Your Heart. A chakra. It's how you come into this lifetime, this time. But we don't always think about it. So I have people that are either doing stocks or real estate, and you're going to take, let's say you have five different locations. You would take a piece of paper, and it would all be the same size, and you would write the different locations, one on each of the five papers. Fold it in half. Stand get really grounded in yourself. Bring your hands to your belly button. I would like people to work on that first their breathing method. Put on 741 hertz frequency, which has everything to do with your throat, your intuition and timing. That's a good tone for that. Hold the one of the papers to your belly. Don't look at it. You won't know which one it is. And if your body goes forward, it's a yes. If it goes backwards, it's a no. And you would actually say, show me the timeline. What one should I show first? And it will show you, you will actually feel yourself going forward or backward.
Greg Boulos 1:01:07
And this could work with stocks too. I believe
Melissa Boyd 1:01:09
absolutely, absolutely any
Greg Boulos 1:01:13
particular tips for today's audience?
Melissa Boyd 1:01:17
Well, it's, you know, I would say for stocks. What's interesting is, one of the people that I've trained with, Pam Coronado, who works with the CIA and actually teaches remote viewing, is that when you sit and you and you see, like a waterfall, that would be a yes. And if you see, if you feel a roller coaster, that's a no. So you can actually train your body. So we can all train ourselves to know this, and when we train ourselves like you know you get hunger pain you don't eat, or you know when you're going to eat. Why can't we train ourselves to know yes or no, high or low? We can. We can train ourselves if we just tune into our bodies.
Greg Boulos 1:02:05
My experience with people who I deal with a lot of type A people, right? And I think it's very difficult for myself included. I think it's very difficult for us to make space in our lives, right? And I think it's particularly difficult with cell phones now. I mean, I'm addicted to my cell phone. The fact that I've got it off here in the studio is killing me, but I do know that when I put it away. So now when I exercise, I don't have it right. When I go into a meeting, I don't have it right. And I do feel that that allows for more space
Melissa Boyd 1:02:36
Absolutely. I mean, digital detoxes are very important for us, and getting out in nature is really important. There's a lot of changes happening on the earth and including gravitational changes, and so I think it's important to, you know, take time to ground. But the other thing about the phone is that there's a lot of research that shows that cell phones are actually teaching people to become more telepathic, because you can actually feel the pings when they come
Greg Boulos 1:03:06
well, it's like Pavlos dog. I mean, you hear the ping and then
Melissa Boyd 1:03:10
you react. No, no, no. I mean, your phone will be down and you'll be thinking of someone, oh, you can actually feel that energy. So there's this talk of technology is actually teaching us to become more telepathic as a world.
Greg Boulos 1:03:25
Yeah. So that happens with me too. I mean, geez, I got to reach out to zoom so
Melissa Boyd 1:03:30
and so that that's your intuition. That's your you getting into your vibrational essence. Because as I look at you right now, you're sitting there, but then there's all these different some people can see auric fields. I can see them. So you see colors around, I see colors around and
Greg Boulos 1:03:49
they also load a black around me.
Melissa Boyd 1:03:52
No, there's actually, there's a lot of cobalt blue around you, which is, you tell it like it is, and you speak the truth, you know. And that's something that feels like you've always been able to do, yeah, it gets me in trouble too. It's also important. It's important to know, you know how that, how that walks you forward in your life.
Greg Boulos 1:04:11
You've worked with entrepreneurs, executives and spiritual leaders. What challenges do you do? You find they have in common?
Melissa Boyd 1:04:20
I go back to the meditation, the one thing I always hear is I don't have time to meditate, and I think it's about carving that time. It's the most important thing, because when people carve that time out for themselves, they can get so much more done. They can. It's kind of like I always say, I want to help you move your business forward by standing still. It's about less is more, and when you do that, you can radiate so much clarity and joy in so many directions.
Greg Boulos 1:04:58
Thank you, Melissa, thank you for. Being our guest on the bolus beat. Thank you so much, Greg, Melissa, thank you for being our guest today on the bolus beat, a bolus company podcast. I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with us. You can learn more about Melissa at her website. Melissa boyd.net on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, at grow your knowing. And if you'd like to learn more about The Boulos Company, please be sure to visit us@bolus.com you can also find us at The Boulos Company on Facebook and LinkedIn, and at the bolus CO on Instagram and x and lastly, if you want to know the secret to owning real estate, it's pretty simple, just be sure to outlive your debt. You.