Erika Gabriel was seven years old when she started telling her parents about a little boy she could sense in their new house. They assumed it was an imaginary friend. Then they found out a child had actually drowned on the property.

For years Erika tried to outrun what she was. She studied theater, moved to Los Angeles, searched through every religion she could find. Then came a dark night of the soul that forced her to stop running and turn around. She has now been working as a professional spiritual medium for nearly two decades, with thousands of readings behind her and features in The New York Times, Forbes, Goop and InStyle.

In this conversation, Erika explains what actually happens during a reading, why she calls herself “just a straw,” how spirit guides work on their own timeline (not ours), what she has learned about grief from sitting with hundreds of grieving parents, and why she will never tell someone that everything happens for a reason.

She also talks about religion and mediumship, the celebrities who won’t let her use their names, the reading that led a woman to her mom’s neighbor and a job, and what she would tell her terrified seven-year-old self.

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Executive producer: Sara Glassman

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At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?

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