Cory Jacob moved to Los Angeles from a Wisconsin town of 3,000 people to honor his brother, who took his own life at 20. Two decades later you have seen him on NCIS, American Housewife, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and in more national commercials than he can count. He is a standup comedian, a father of twins he raised on his own for ten years, and the owner of Yes Baby! Vintage, a Burbank shop he runs as a third space for artists and anyone who needs somewhere to belong.

We talk about the drive to theater rehearsal that changed the direction of his life, and the choice he made instead. From there: comedy as an art you live in real time, midlife at 45, taking inventory of your friendships, the ripple effect of making one person's day better, and why the more you are yourself, the stronger your signal is.

This conversation includes discussion of suicide loss and past drug use. If you are struggling, you are not alone. In the US, call or text 988.

Connect with Cory: Instagram @coryjacobcomedy | Yes Baby! Vintage, 3420 W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA

If something in this conversation stirred, I offer a free 15 minute call: https://www.jamesoneillguide.com

Essays at Dark Night Alchemy: https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com



Tell Your Friends You Love Them: Cory Jacob on Comedy, Loss, and the Ripple Effect

Jordan Start is a clinical therapist and a demonologist, a pairing you almost never hear spoken about out loud. A registered social worker with a master's in the field, she has spent years in the trenches of trauma and abuse before spirit called her into demonology and spirit rescue. She said no for a long time before she said yes.

In this episode, Jordan and James, both therapists, explore where clinical work and the spirit world meet, and how often they turn out to be describing the same thing. How darker energies find us through our unhealed wounds. Why fear amplifies them. And the one instruction her spiritual team never changed: do your inner work. You are a divine soul, you have the right to say no, and your healing is the strongest protection you will ever have.

Jordan Start: startsistersoflight.com | Spirit Rescue Talk podcast | Spirit Rescue Center

James O'Neill: jamesoneillguide.com | Substack: jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com | @jamesoneillguide | Sessions, Walk-and-Talk, MBSR & hypnotherapy

Follow Make Your Own World wherever you listen. May you be well.

The Therapist Who Removes Demons: A Conversation with Jordan Start

What if nothing that ever happened to you was a punishment?

Jamye Price has spent two decades teaching people to live from that question. An internationally known channeler and the creator of Crystalline Soul Healing and Opening to Light Language, she works with the Lyran Council and a being she calls Arion to move energy that the mind alone cannot reach.

In this conversation, Jamye and James sit with what it means to stop reading life as reward and punishment. They talk about trauma as stored energy rather than verdict, the subtle realm and how it actually speaks, light language as a tool for the parts of us that words cannot find, and what love asks of a person who is finally ready to heal.

The whole episode moves out from a single line: we are never being punished by life.

More from Jamye Price: https://jamyeprice.com [https://jamyeprice.com/]

The writing lives at Dark Night Alchemy: https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com [https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com/]

James O'Neill: https://jamesoneillguide.com [https://jamesoneillguide.com/]

Jamye Price: We Are Never Being Punished by Life

What happens when you stop pushing and start listening? Elizabeth Tripp channels a whale consciousness named Ohana live, with messages on fear, change, and trusting yourself. 

Connect with Elizabeth: elizabethtripp.com | Instagram @theunboundheart 

More from James: Dark Night Alchemy on Substack:https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com/

 and jamesoneillguide.com | @jamesoneillguide 





Elizabeth Tripp: Channeling a Whale Consciousness Named Ohana

Some instruments are played. Others play you.

Benjamin Symes is one of the world's most visible practitioners of the Pyradym, a chakra-aligned analog sound and light instrument with fewer than sixty in existence. He came to it from an unlikely place: the New York underground house scene, where his ear was already attuned to low frequency and its effect on the body. What he found in the Pyradym, and what found him, became the work of his life.

In this conversation we get into:

• How a DJ from NYC nightlife became a sound practitioner 

• What the Pyradym actually is, and why so few exist in the world 

• Sothis, Sirian contact, and the channeled message that redirected his path 

• Sound as a carrier of information, not just vibration 

• What it asks of a person to surrender to an instrument that carries its own intelligence

This is episode one of Make Your Own World, the rebranded continuation of the Journey Mindfulness Podcast. Same host. Broader frame. We're going where the work has always pointed.

Connect with Ben

Website: yarahformation.org 

Instagram: @yarahformation (instagram.com/yarahformation)

For more from James

Dark Night Alchemy on Substack: jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com 

jamesoneillguide.com

If something in this conversation moved you, the most useful thing you can do is send it to one person who would actually listen.

Benjamin Symes: From the NYC Underground to Frequency Medicine 

Casey Claar is a Consciousness Explorer, visual and vocal channel, and founder of consciousnessexploration.com, known online as the Galactic Travel Channel.

In 2009, at age forty-four, a four-year Kundalini awakening began that brought nightly out-of-body experiences and a slow rebuilding of her central nervous system to hold what was coming through. In this conversation, Casey shares her framework for OBEs as conscious state-shifts, why she says disclosure does not happen in 3D, and the work she does with a single quartz crystal that has brought more than four hundred beings through as faces and forms.

Underneath all of it sits one quiet question that runs through her teaching: is this a reason to love, or a reason to fear.

You are the reality you are experiencing. You lock and unlock your own doors.

Find Casey: https://consciousnessexploration.com [https://consciousnessexploration.com/]

Find me: https://jamesoneillguide.com [https://jamesoneillguide.com/]

The practice: https://journeymindfulness.com [https://journeymindfulness.com/]

Casey Claar | Out-of-Body Experiences, Kundalini, and the Crystal That Shows Other Beings

Zohar Bahir spent decades flying Boeing 767s across the globe. She also spent those years quietly deepening a spiritual practice that eventually led her to the jungles of Peru, a shamanic initiation with the Shipibo, and a 28-year channeling relationship with Sothis, a collective of light beings connected to the star system Sirius. In this episode, Zohar shares her journey from cockpit to channel, and Sothis comes through live with a transmission on reality creation, working with spirit allies, and why this is a pivotal lifetime for those on the path of awakening.

Connect with Zohar Bahir and explore Sothis transmissions: https://zoharbahir.com [https://zoharbahir.com/]

Learn more about James O'Neill and Journey Mindfulness: https://journeymindfulness.com [https://journeymindfulness.com/]

Zohar Bahir: From Airline Pilot to Channeling Sothis

What happens when a clinician with a doctorate in psychology starts channeling Arcturian star beings?

Dr. Dorie LeSieur, PsyD, is a psycho-spiritual therapist and creator of Galactic Akashic Family Constellations — a healing modality that works across timelines, dimensions, and generations. In this conversation, we explore why talk therapy alone can't reach where real healing happens, how unresolved galactic and ancestral trauma blocks manifestation, and what it looks like when science and cosmic intelligence meet in one practice.

We go deep into shadow work as the missing key to manifestation, how family constellations reveal hidden energetic entanglements keeping you stuck, the Arcturian mission on Earth, spiritual hygiene for healers and empaths, and working with the Adult Self, Inner Child, and Higher Self at the same time.

This episode includes a guided HeartMath heart coherence meditation and a live Arcturian heart chakra activation with light language.

Whether you're a clinician, a healer, or someone who's done all the work and still feels something unnamed missing — this one is for you.

🔗 CONNECT WITH DR. DORIE LESIEUR:  

https://celestialtherapeuticboutique.com/ https://www.instagram.com/celestialtherapeuticboutique/  

🔗BOOKS: 

The Holographic Multidimensional Soul 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-holographic-multidimensional-soul-dorie-le-sieur/1147096583?ean=9798992459432

Healing Multidimensional Trauma - Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Family Constellations Therapy 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/healing-multidimensional-trauma-integrating-internal-family-systems-dorie-le-sieur/1147848238?ean=9798992459494   

🔗 CONNECT WITH JAMES: 

Website: https://journeymindfulness.com 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Journey_Mindfulness

https://www.instagram.com/mindfulbmore/

Psychologist. Channels Star Beings. | with Dr. Dorie LeSieur, PsyD

What happens when psychotherapy meets the “high strangeness” of UFO contact?

In this episode, James O’Neill, LCPC, speaks with Barbara Lamb, a pioneering psychotherapist and regression therapist with over four decades of experience working with individuals who report anomalous contact experiences.

Moving beyond the question of “Is it real?”, this conversation focuses on the therapeutic work of integration—how extraordinary experiences are remembered, processed, and woven into a healthy human psyche. Topics include regression therapy, memory and the subconscious, healing experiences, reported hybrid phenomena, and the ethical responsibilities of clinicians working at the edges of human experience.

This is a thoughtful, grounded dialogue for clinicians, experiencers, and curious listeners interested in how psychotherapy meets the unknown.

Learn more about Barbara Lamb’s work:
https://barbaralambregression.com/

About the host:
James O’Neill, LCPC, is a psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher at Journey Mindfulness.
https://www.journeymindfulness.com/

Psychotherapists Discuss UFO Contact: Inside the Work of Barbara Lamb

Debbi Dachinger is an international bestselling author, shamanic energy practitioner, and host of the award-winning Dare to Dream Podcast.

In this conversation, Debbi shares the personal journey that led her from skepticism into shamanic work — including experiences that challenged her worldview and ultimately changed the direction of her life.

We talk about listening to inner guidance, surrendering when the path isn’t clear, healing generational patterns, and why stillness continues to be an essential part of her work.

This episode is an exploration of what can unfold when we stop resisting a calling we don’t yet fully understand.

Connect with Debbi:
https://debbidachinger.com/

James O'Neill & Journey Mindfulness:
https://journeymindfulness.com/

Debbi Dachinger — From Skeptic to Shaman

Welcome to the Brave Journey Within with Jim and Jenn! This show is about the spiritual journey and all of the challenges, healing, and expansion along the way. Join us as we bravely explore topics of metaphysics, spirituality, healing, mindfulness, and ascension. We will be sharing our experiences and wisdom, as well as diving deeply into various topics so that you can better understand your own journey. Whether you are just starting out or have been on the spiritual path for many years, this show is a space for you to learn, grow, and be inspired. 

Also find us on:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uZ610Q1CdewYbVmzu7HId

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brave-journey-within-with-jim-jenn/id1719187161

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy56ZW5jYXN0ci5jb20vZi81VkI1UUI4My5yc3M

To learn more about Jenn: https://jenn-palmer.com/

Jenn Palmer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JennPalmerHealer/

To Learn more about Jim and Journey Mindfulness: https://journeymindfulness.com/

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To learn more about James and Journey Mindfulness:

https://journeymindfulness.com/

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Free Warrior Spirit Guided Meditation:

https://www.journeymindfulness.com/warrior_spirit_meditation

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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction 8 Week Online Course

(Self-Guided):

https://www.journeymindfulness.com/MBSR

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Guided Self-Hypnosis to Conquer Fear & Doubt (digital download)

https://www.journeymindfulness.com/hypnosis

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Socials:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Journey_Mindfulness

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulbmore/

Twitter (X): https://x.com/MindfulBmore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MindfulBmore/

Disclaimer: All information and guidance given on this channel is meant to help empower you and is not to be considered medical or psychological advice. Please seek medical and psychological support as appropriate for your concerns.

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Brave Journey Within with Jim & Jenn

Make Your Own World with James O'Neill, licensed therapist, mindfulness teacher, and hypnotherapist.

Each episode explores the territory where psychology meets soul and the personality learns to serve something deeper. Through honest conversations about inner work, expanded consciousness, channeling, near-death experiences, and integration, discover that the dark night is an opportunity, and alchemy is what happens when you finally flow with it instead of against it.

You don't find your world. Make it.

Ready to go deeper? Schedule a free 15-minute call with James. [https://tidycal.com/1vwkqy3/15-minute-meeting]

Connect & Explore More: 

🌐 Website: https://jamesoneillguide.com [https://jamesoneillguide.com/]

✍️ Substack (Dark Night Alchemy): https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com [https://jamesoneilllcpc.substack.com/]

📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jamesoneillguide

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesoneillguide🎵 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jamesoneillguide

Disclaimer: For inspiration and exploration, not medical advice.