Welcome back to part 2 of An Interview with Psychic Medium David Maddock. If you tuned in to part 1 you will have learnt more about me and how I got into the world of mediumship. Read more below about me and my spiritual path.
Megan:
I’m going to ask you a couple of questions now that I would like you to know, different questions. They are about you, obviously, but aside from you as a spiritual reader, as a psychic medium, I want you to answer these questions as you, David Maddock. Okay. Not as a spiritual practitioner. Okay. Okay. First one, what is one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you?
David:
That I’m a massive Elvis Presley fan. Massive.
60s, 70s, massive music from today, I probably couldn’t tell you much. But then on the flip side of that, I do like, I don’t know, I’m just so very, like my variety of music.
Megan:
Okay, next one. If you could meet any historical figure, Who would it be and why? You can’t have Elvis because that was your music question.
David:
Ooh, Meg. Oh, you’ve put me on the spot, Meg. I know. I don’t know. I’m going to be kicking myself after being like, Why didn’t I say this? Yeah, because you’ve just caught me well off guard. And I’d have to stick with Elvis. I’d have to. He would be the one you’d want to meet. Yeah, definitely. Like a thousand percent. Just to…
Yeah, it just would be. I can’t think.
Um…
Megan:
I’ve stumped him. I’ve stumped him. Okay, stick with Elvis. If he was to walk in and start speaking to you, what would you want to say to him?
David:
Uh huh. No. That was his impression. No, I’m just asking about his career and just, I don’t know, probably be starstruck for quite a bit. But then, yeah, probably just ask him, you know.
I don’t know all about his music, the way he moves. The way he moves. Yeah, but back then though, what I mean is like all the controversy that he created and that’s what I remember that. So, yeah. Well, there you go. Oh, actually, actually, someone else would be Muhammad Ali. I’m a boxing fan. Oh, OK. So Muhammad Ali would probably be another one as well. So, yeah.
Megan:
Okay, that was just your little breather from talking about your readings and things. But I’m going to take you straight back there. Okay. How do you prepare for your one-to-one readings? Because it isn’t just the shows that you do, you do do them one-to-one online in person. How do you go about preparing for your readings? Do you have any rituals or routines that you have to do?
David:
Yeah, yeah. So lighting my incenses first. So incenses to me is like the polish. So we’re cleaning the ends.
We’re cleaning the energy in the room. I don’t know where that come from. We clean the energy in the room to make sure it’s been polished and we’re cleaning that energy. Or then meditating prayers. So meditation can be, you know, simple breathing techniques, put my music on, um, and then prayer and then open my chakras and then close my chakras.
Megan:
Okay, so for people that are listening that might not know what they are, what are your chakras?
David:
Well, we’ve got seven major energy centers that run through our body from the base of the spine right the way to the crown of the head. And those kind of on a spiritual level help us and are there day to day. So I just, it’s another subject that I’ll go too deep with Meg. So.
Megan:
Maybe we’ll do another session on the chakras.
David:
If people are listening, Google chakras. Google, you know, chakras. And then just do a little bit of research on what each chakra represents and what it means. Because then what you might do is you might associate that chakra with like how you’ve been feeling. So then all of a sudden you’ll be like, oh, that’s associated with that. Now I understand why I’ve been feeling that way. I need to focus on this color chakra and things like that.
Megan:
So they’re the things that you, do you have to leave a certain amount of time before you start a reading to open yourself up or?
David:
It can vary, but on average, a lot means since about 45 minutes before the session, half an hour before I’ll be in the room, just getting myself prepared, just getting comfortable. Mm, yeah.
Megan:
Do you have to do the same thing when you’re finishing a reading or?
David:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Megan: Is it something that just goes?
David:
No, no, no, no. You’ve got to kind of, you know.
you’ve got to shut yourself down. You know, it’s like a lot. I always say you can’t always leave a light on because then it drains. So you just got to make sure that you just keep yourself closed and you know. But everybody’s different now. There might be people who are listening now who are spiritual practitioners in their own way and they might just have a different process. I’ve just got mine and they’ve got theirs.
David:
You’ve led quite nicely onto my next question actually. Do you have any advice for someone who feels that they might have psychic abilities themselves?
Yeah, start off with the basics of meditation, prayer, keeping yourself safe and protected, cleansing the energy in the room, and then find your spot. And what I mean by that is find your spot in terms of in the room or wherever you decide to be, that’s gonna be my meditation place. Then make sure that it’s always got your candle on, make sure it’s always got the incense. Just make sure that that becomes, and then you build a rapport with it, you build the energy in that one spot. Which will really help you then continue on this path. But don’t let it scare you and don’t let other people worry you either because some people kind of like, just, yeah.
Megan:
Do you think everybody has psychic abilities? Yeah, I think that everybody’s got that intuition. Yeah. Cause I know you get that gut feeling that if you’re in a situation, you know whether that is a situation you want to stay in and you talk about that with being in somebody’s pool or bad energy or something. But is that the same as a psychic ability? How does that go from, okay, I’ve got this gut instinct to actually knowing I can read for people like… That’s what I would call it, the psychic ability, the intuition, the psychic, it’s literally the same thing. You can go a little bit deeper if you wanted to, but you know, you’ve just got to trust your intuition and listen to it.
Megan:
Okay, you heard it here first. Just listen, listen to yourselves.
David:
Yep, and if you feel uncomfortable in a situation around someone or wherever it may be.you know.
Megan:
So if I was to wake up tomorrow and I said to you, I’ve got this really strong inner instinct and I want to follow the same path as you. And you’re saying start with meditation for somebody that has never gone into those types of things or doesn’t know what that means. Like what would be your quick fire 123 step by step to start getting into that work?
David:
like I just said, find your own space in the house. So that, that’d be the first thing to build on. Cleansing the energy in the room, getting crystals or any sort of, you know, get cards, start off with cards, see how you get on with the angel cards, tarot cards, oracle cards. There’s all different decks. There’s all sorts of cards that you can get. Just start off simple, or it could be astrology, it could be numerology, it could be ruins. There’s just so many different things that you can get.
but get the one that feels right for you and then just take baby steps. But always just make sure, you always ask for protection at the beginning and always ask for protection at the end, but just make sure that you keep yourself open, then closed.
Megan:
Okay, you mentioned tarot and angel cards quite a bit. Is there a difference between those or is it?
David:
No, they’re more literally the same thing. Just think of the cards as the cards, but I think there are a lot of people with tarot cards, the difficulty that some people have is that
I prefer putting my own interpretation, using my own intuition on the cards. I just find with the tarot cards that they’re specific in their way. And I’m not saying they’re not a good tool because they are, but I just like mixing it up. So I’ll always buy different cards, different meanings, and then some cards I’ll come back to years later. And I mean, we’ve still got the decks at home where I’ve never even opened them. And you had a deck thing. Yeah, I did, yeah. And how did you feel with that then, Meg? Do you know, I keep,
Megan
It’s weird because every morning I think I need to go into the studio and get those cards and then something else will happen in the day. And I haven’t been to them since. But that first time opening them, I just got that feeling of such calm energy, they’re water based energy cards to keep yourself grounded and with the elements of the earth and things. But yeah, they’re really, really calming. But I don’t know enough about them to kind of
do the things that you do, I guess. But I know they’re there and it’s almost like they’re calling me. That’s what I hear, but then I never go and get them because the day just gets too busy or I’m off doing something else. Would you say that’s because I need to just go in there and sit with them?
David:
That’s your intuition. And that’s what I think that I’m trying to get at when I say about tarot cards is that a lot of people, when you say cards, the first thing is tarot cards, tarot cards. But now there’s a lot of different cards out there. There’s a lot of different.
people that design the cards, make the cards, there’s just so much more to me. And you just need to find the ones that feel right for you, and the fact that you feel that call in, the fact that you’re like, I really need that. I feel like they’re talking to me. So that’s your psychic intuition, that’s your sat-nav telling you that there’s something that you need to be doing with them, or you need to be picking one a day, or whatever else. But know that you’ve told me this, that I’ll make it, I will make sure that you’re picking that one. But like, make cards, now.
Megan:
Yeah, and it’s not that I forget, I think part of it is like, I don’t know what I’m doing.
So there’s a little bit of fear there, but no, they are definitely talking to me. I can hear them.
Megan:
So are there any readings or experiences that you’ve had that kind of left you speechless or surprised? Something that you weren’t expecting but it became like the most memorable reading for you?
David:
Um, well one, going back so many years, my mom’s friend, the one that I told you about with her grandson that came through, that was, um, that was
Even to this day I always remember it clearly. I remember standing there and I was doing the reading for the lady and she was like, you know, I think, I don’t even think he’d come through at the time and I just, I don’t know how to say this without sounding dramatic. It was like an energy that I’ve never felt before as strong as anything and like this massive, bright white light, the side of me. And I just felt like he’d just come in to the, it was so.
And I was like, what on earth’s going on here? And this is all happening in my mind. Sorry, I’m seeing this story unfold.
And yeah, that was a strong one. I’ve done quite a few. Just trying to think off the top of my head though once, there’s just been so many different ones, so many.
Megan:
Are they always quite calming or upbeat for people or are there being any that come through in ways that you just-
David:Are you trying to get at the one in down South when I did that show?
Megan:
Whichever one you want to share David. I might be trying to guide you somewhere.
David:
Yes, yes, I thought so. Well, that would be the, you know, we went down to one of my shows in a mecca bingo hall and I’m gonna need a drink for this one. Not a drink drink. It’s just.
Excuse me. Yeah, we went down, me and my mom, I think my sister and brother come as well. And we went down, we went into the room. And I was on there at the evening, and I remember going out in the hall. And I started doing my reading. And towards the end, I think it was at the first, yeah, well, it would have been towards the end of the first half.
I had this horrible, it was like, honestly I actually thought somebody turned all the, I thought the dad had a power cut. And I remember like, you know when something happens so quick, but then it feels so long, it’s really hard to explain. Like I remember, I thought somebody turned all the lights off in the room, the machines was all still on, and it was like a quick like, and then I felt this feeling of, I do not like this energy.
did not like it at all and when I speak about energy, intuition, people around you, people who step into your aura and I had this moment of I do not like it and I got an impact feeling so whenever I’m doing a reading, when I say an impact I either go back to when I got hit by a car because that’s an impact, I either get the feeling of an impact within my chest area which can either be like some sort of
gunshot, stabbing, anything like that or something on the chest, something that would create an impact. And this one time I felt this impact and I saw a gun and I was like, whoa, somebody’s been shot, you know. Now in the UK, in America, if I get this, you know, the laws over America are different so if I feel this it’s a little bit more different in America than what it is in the UK. So to feel it in the UK I thought this is strange. And I was like, you know.
I don’t know the energy but somebody’s been shot and…
I remember the lady at the back of the room put her hand up. Well I was being pulled to the back of the room, this lady, she had her head down. And I went to her and I said I’ve got a horrible energy here and I said I’m really sorry I just don’t like it and I said I’m just being very specific, direct here. Not keen on the energy but I need to know somebody passed with like an impact and she says I can take that. And I says and then there’s a, I said there’s a trolled energy.
with this man, said, is this your husband? She said, I don’t know if it was her ex-husband or her husband, I can’t remember. She went, he basically, makes me feel real uncomfortable. He basically shot their son and then shot himself. And like at that moment I was like, I need to, I need some, that was the one time. Yeah.
Megan:
Yeah, that must have been real tough.
David:
Yeah, and all I wanted to do was hug that lady. And then when I come out after and tried to fight, everybody said she was like that distraught that she went home. Like, yeah. But then I’ve seen other more uplifting stuff. Well, yeah, most of them that I’ve seen are uplifting.
Megan:
I wasn’t sure whether you would want to actually share that story, but I suppose not everything is always. No. As you put it, full of rainbows. And when you’re connecting with people’s loved ones and the scenarios that they’ve been in to pass over.
Megan:
Do you get any inkling that that is what’s going to come through beforehand before a show or is it literally in the moment when you open yourself up and you’re in the room with people?
David:
Yeah, well, I try. I don’t open myself up until you’re in the room until well, you know, that yourself. Meg, I mean, we’re always there on time, well early and I. And. I spend so much time behind the scenes.
I don’t meet people, I don’t see anybody. But I just like to get a feel, it just takes me a little time. To me, it’s like I’m making that, how I said to people earlier about if you wanna get into this work, do your meditation prayer, find your space, find your room that suits you. And you have to build a relationship with this place and this space. And that’s what I do when I go to a show, that’s why I like to be there early, just to make sure the energy’s cleansed, keep lighting incense, keep doing what I need to do.
and um..
Yeah, so when you go to a show, we get there early and make sure that the room, the energy is cleansed and sometimes I’ll start picking things up, you know, like I’m getting pulled around the room and then I’m like, oh, and then I’ll wait until the actual evening before I open myself up fully. But before I do that, I do have, sometimes I can get like an inkling. It’s as if like,
They’re knocking on the door like, hey, I’m ready to come through. I’ve got this, this and this. Well, you know yourself Meg, to be honest, you do say to me, look, Dave, you got any feelings or have you?
Megan:
Because it makes me nervous otherwise. And I think because I am the spectator and I’m with you all of the day before the show, you know, I’m with you all of the time. For me, it makes me very, very nervous that you’re going out to do this work and you are so specific. You get it spot on every time that you’re up there.
David: Oh, thank you.
Megan: I just get nervous for you.
And I suppose you do for me when I’m doing my shows and things. So that’s part of me needing some not reassurance because I know you’ll go up there and absolutely smash it. Yeah. But I, that gives me that little bit of breathing space to go, it’s all right. He’s here. He’s in the space. It’s all going to be fine. Um, you know, it isn’t your normal nine to five job, is it? It’s not, you don’t go into an office, sit in, typing at a computer all day. It isn’t that world that you’re living in and working with.
So what is it that you enjoy most about this work? Because you do say it is about everybody else, but what is that one thing that makes you get up every day and go, I’m going to continue to do this?
David:
Just seeing people’s faces and changing. Like I said to you earlier, the amount of men that come up to me after a show, shaking my hand and the amount of, in a good way, the raw emotion, because I’m giving people that comfort, that peace, that.
you know, whatever word you want to use. And that’s what drives me forward to want to keep pursuing it and keep doing what I’m doing. Because again, it’s not about me and my ego. It’s about helping others.
So yeah, yeah, I do because I genuinely care.
Megan: Well, I think that brings us quite nicely to the end of my questions really. And is there anything that you are moving on to, any new projects, any new exciting things? What’s next for you? Where do we go from here? Cause you’ve got your radio show, you’re here every Monday, 1 p.m. on Burton Radio.
David: I’m building up on TikTok so I can start going live on all of the platforms. So all my platforms and everything else is Connect With David. We’re having a revamp on the website. We are speaking to numerous venues about the potential of doing shows there. We’ve got a few exciting things that are in the pipeline, but until-
Megan:
They’re in the making, aren’t they?
David:
We’ve gotta keep them under wraps for now. Keep them under wraps, but things are really heading in the right direction. And yeah, yeah, I can’t believe the time, Meg.
Megan: I think it’s been quite important to let people know what it is that you actually do and where that has come from, because you haven’t just woken up one morning and decided this is the job for you. But thank you so much for sharing how it has been for you. And it isn’t all the light hearted, nice end of the spectrum. It isn’t. You put in the hours, you work hard and you’re reaping the benefits of that.
David: Yeah, and on the flip side of that, though, I mean, because, well, not on the flip side, but firstly, thank you. But then a massive thank you to you as well, though, because give yourself a pat on the back, because seriously, you helped me achieve a lot of these things. So I want to say a massive thank you, a lot of an air to you for what you do and what you do behind the scenes that people don’t see. There’s the.
you know, the organisation of, you know, literally this morning you was doing an edit for me and you’re contacting venues you speak to, you know, we’ve got so much going on. And, you know, I also want to give a shout out to Helen if she’s listening, so thank you to Helen. Again, a massive thank you to Bob for everything he’s done, my family, my friends and, you know, for the constant love and support and I appreciate each and every one of you.
Megan:
Well, let’s give back a little bit to those that might be listening now. Let’s choose the card of the week.
David:
So which what’s your intuition telling you purple or green? Purple. Purple. Yeah.
I’m gonna shuffle them, Megan, you just tell me when you want to stop.
Megan:
Stop.
David:
Oh, it’s the shadow card.
Megan:
Ooh. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
David:
No, it’s fine. It’s fine. It just means the shadow card just means that you’ve been hiding behind a mask or you’ve been hiding behind something. And literally, it kind of includes what I was saying earlier about me hiding behind this work of wanting to do it. And sometimes you’ve got to pass forward, push forward to get where you need to be. So don’t let the…
the idea of what other people think or say, hold you back. This week, make sure that you do things that make you feel uncomfortable so that you become comfortable being uncomfortable and just putting yourself first and making sure that you get to where you wanna be by putting yourself first, pushing forward and stop hiding behind these excuses that you keep telling yourself and just learn to be, no, this is what I’m doing and this is where I’m going, this is how it’s gonna be and stay.
take back your claim to what you want to do, not what you think everybody else wants you to do, doing what you want to do. There’s also a spiritual connection to this as well. So, law of attraction, if you don’t know much about it, you might wanna do a bit of research into law of attraction as well. And the universe is letting you know that if you’ve been through a lot of crap, or you’ve been through a rubbish period, then just trust the universe in these periods that we go through because we never lose, we learn. So always remember that as well, that we never lose, we learn.
Megan:
I like that. That’s a nice little bit to take into the week, isn’t it?
David:
Yeah. So just keep pushing forward. Meg, this has been fabulous. I love this seat. I think I’m going to sit in this seat more often, Meg. No, no, no. This is a one time thing. Well, to all my listeners, a massive thank you from the bottom of my heart for tuning in, for giving us your time to listen. I hope you’ve learned more about me. I hope you’ve learned more about Megan as well. Maybe.
But yeah, I wanted to do this because a lot of people do say to me, you know, we want it like who is David and I hope that this will give you some sort of insight, but it’s been an absolute pleasure. So thank you, Meg. Thank you for sharing, David. And we will hear more on next week’s show.
David
Yes, 1pm next week. Have a good week. Have a great week
Love and Blessings,
David