Robert Schwartz returns to The Curious Soul for a deeper conversation about pre-birth planning, soul contracts, free will, and the idea that our souls may choose certain experiences before we are born for the purpose of growth, healing, service, and transformation.

In this episode, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with Robert Schwartz to explore the stories and teachings in his books "Your Soul's Plan," "Your Soul's Gift," and "Your Soul's Love," and why some of life's most difficult challenges may hold deeper meaning from the perspective of the soul.

Robert shares how his books are built around real-life case studies of people who explored their pre-birth plans, including stories involving illness, addiction, abuse, loss, family relationships, animals, soul contracts, and the search for self-love.

He also explains the major reasons souls may plan challenges before birth, including karma, healing, service to others, contrast, correcting false beliefs about the self, and cultivating divine virtues such as compassion, patience, trust, faith, and unconditional love.

Cristina and Marty ask the questions many people have when they first encounter this work: Why would we choose hardship? Does pre-birth planning blame the victim? If we plan our lives before birth, do we still have free will? And why do we forget our plans once we are here?

The conversation also expands into the veil of forgetfulness, spirit guides, spiritual guidance, signs, abusive relationships, choosing parents, animal soul contracts, children remembering pre-birth plans, extraterrestrial lifetimes, collective consciousness, and why Earth may be such a challenging place for the soul to incarnate.

Whether you are curious about soul contracts, wondering why certain patterns repeat in your life, or trying to understand suffering from a larger spiritual perspective, this conversation invites you to consider that even the hardest parts of life may be held within a much bigger story.

You'll hear:
• What pre-birth planning means
• Why Robert organizes his books around life challenges
• How soul contracts may be formed before birth
• Why Robert says pre-birth planning is not about blaming victims
• The five major reasons souls may choose challenges
• How free will fits into pre-birth planning
• Why we may forget our plans when we are born
• What Robert says about children remembering their pre-birth plans

About Robert Schwartz
Robert Schwartz is a spiritual teacher, speaker, and author of "Your Soul's Plan," "Your Soul's Gift," and "Your Soul's Love." After a profound spiritual awakening in 2003, Robert began researching the idea that our souls may plan many of life's major challenges before birth for the purpose of growth, healing, and transformation. Through his books, workshops, and Between Lives Soul Regression work, he helps people understand their lives from the perspective of the soul and find deeper meaning in their experiences.

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Chapters
00:00 Opening: When We Forget Who We Are
03:47 Meet Robert Schwartz
07:29 Stories of Pre-Birth Planning
12:52 Why Would We Choose Our Challenges?
18:25 Abuse, Self-Love, and Soul Agreements
22:52 The Veil of Forgetfulness and Earth School
26:13 Free Will and Quantum Life Plans
30:47 Animals, Soul Contracts, and Children Remembering

Robert Schwartz spent years in the corporate world feeling a deep sense that he was meant to do something else. Then a session with a psychic medium changed the direction of his life and opened the door to his work on pre-birth planning, soul evolution, and the deeper meaning behind our greatest challenges.

In this episode of The Curious Soul, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with Robert Schwartz to explore Between Lives Soul Regression, pre-birth planning, spirit guides, soul contracts, past lives, and why our souls may choose certain experiences before we incarnate.

Robert shares how his own spiritual awakening began when he was told his spirit guides were present and that he had planned his life, including his biggest challenges, before he was born.

He also explains how Between Lives Soul Regression works, what people may encounter between incarnations, and how connecting with the council of elders can help people understand what they planned, why they planned it, and how they are doing in this lifetime.

Cristina and Marty share their own powerful Between Lives Soul Regression experiences with Robert, including past lives that revealed themes of grief, family, freedom, nature, soul purpose, and the deep knowing that we are all connected.

The conversation also expands into simultaneous lifetimes, healing across timelines, intention, excitement and joy as guidance from the soul, self-love, Atlantis, speaking your truth, unconditional love, and the courage it takes to come to Earth for a physical lifetime.

Whether you are curious about past lives, wondering why certain challenges keep appearing in your life, or searching for deeper meaning in your own story, this conversation invites you to consider that your soul may understand your life from a much bigger perspective.

You'll hear:
• What Between Lives Soul Regression is
• How Robert's session with a psychic medium changed his life
• Why Robert believes we plan our biggest challenges before birth
• What spirit guides and the council of elders may reveal during regression
• How Marty's regression helped her understand grief, loss, and healing
• How Cristina's regression connected nature, family, purpose, and soul memory
• Why excitement and joy may be guidance from the soul
• What Robert says about courage, self-love, and why we come to Earth

About Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz is a spiritual teacher, speaker, and author of "Your Soul's Plan," "Your Soul's Gift," and "Your Soul's Love." After a profound spiritual awakening in 2003, Robert began researching the idea that our souls may plan many of life's major challenges before birth for the purpose of growth, healing, and transformation. Through his books, workshops, and Between Lives Soul Regression work, he helps people understand their lives from the perspective of the soul and find deeper meaning in their experiences.

What part of Robert's conversation stayed with you most? Tell us in the comments.

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Chapters

00:00 Opening: You Planned Your Life Before You Were Born
03:55 Meet Robert Schwartz
09:40 A Spiritual Awakening of Unconditional Love
14:58 How Between Lives Soul Regression Works
19:36 Marty's Regression and the Healing of Grief
27:47 Cristina's Regression and Remembering Purpose
37:09 Time, Past Lives, and the Soul's Perspective
44:56 Self-Love, Atlantis, and Speaking Your Truth

When Sara Akhteh was driving down a dark road in Abiquiu, New Mexico after a film shoot, she saw something she could not explain. The moment was so strange and disorienting that a tear fell down her face before she even understood why.

In this episode of The Curious Soul, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with Sara Akhteh and Jane Phillips to explore unexplained experiences, orbs, ghost energy, intuitive perception, and what can happen when something outside ordinary reality suddenly appears.

Sara shares the story of a white orb that appeared in front of the car in complete darkness, seemed to move with them, and left both her and her colleague with very different emotional reactions.

Jane Phillips, a certified medical intuitive, psychic medium, paranormal investigator, dowser, and energy clearing practitioner, helps unpack what Sara may have seen and why certain energies can appear as orbs, lights, presences, or other unexplained phenomena.

Cristina, Marty, Sara, and Jane explore why some experiences feel meant for us, why one person may feel curiosity while another feels fear, and how emotion can sometimes become part of the information we receive.

The conversation also expands into New Mexico, Ghost Ranch, nature spirits, fairies, ghosts, earthbound energies, dark or dense energy, skinwalkers, protection, discernment, psychic development, and why some experiences may be invitations to pay closer attention.

Whether you have seen something you cannot explain, felt a presence you could not identify, or wondered what mysterious experiences might mean, this conversation invites you to stay curious without rushing to one answer.

You'll hear:
• What Sara saw while driving in Abiquiu, New Mexico
• Why the experience brought her to tears
• How Jane interprets orbs, lights, and unexplained energies
• Why orbs are not always ghosts
• How emotion can become part of an intuitive experience
• What Jane says about earthbound spirits and crossing energies over
• Why discernment matters when exploring the paranormal
• How unexplained experiences can open us to bigger questions

About Sara Akhteh and Jane Phillips

Sara Akhteh is a technology professional and filmmaker whose work explores the connection between storytelling, innovation, and human experience. Her unexplained experience in New Mexico became the starting point for this conversation about mystery, perception, and what may exist beyond ordinary explanation.

Jane Phillips is a certified medical intuitive, psychic medium, paranormal investigator, professional dowser, and certified Body Code and Emotion Code practitioner based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 2010, she has cleared hundreds of properties and worked with thousands of people to help shift heavy, stuck, or interfering energies.

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Chapters

00:00 Opening: You're Seeing This Too, Right?
04:36 Meet Sara Akhteh and Jane Phillips
13:42 Orbs, Ghosts, and Nature Spirits
21:31 Why an Energy Might Reveal Itself
28:45 Earthbound Spirits and Crossing Over
34:23 Skinwalkers, Dark Energy, and Discernment
43:12 Protection, Fear, and Psychic Boundaries
51:53 Being Open to What Shows Up

At age 21, John J. Davis went in for surgery, had a reaction to anesthesia, and died. What happened next became one of the most detailed near-death experience stories we have ever heard.

In this episode of The Curious Soul, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with John J. Davis to explore his extraordinary NDE, what he says happened after he crossed over, and the message he came back with about death, God, the afterlife, spirit guides, soul purpose, and why we are here.

John shares how he found himself on the other side of the white light, where he met his spirit guide Alan and was shown what he describes as an orientation center, the reunion souls experience after death, a life review, past lives, soul planning, and a library where everything in history can be studied and understood.

He also describes being shown a planetarium filled with countless worlds and receiving the message that there is far more life in the universe than we can possibly imagine.

Cristina, Marty, and John explore how his near-death experience challenged what he had been taught growing up Catholic, why he believes there is no death, what he learned about hell, why animals are part of the reunion on the other side, and how our hardest experiences may help us grow.

The conversation also expands into spirit guides, soulmates, dreams, loved ones communicating after death, the life review as "the greatest teacher of the soul," and the idea that every lifetime has meaning, even when we cannot see the whole plan.

Whether you are fascinated by near-death experiences, grieving someone you love, questioning what happens after we die, or wondering why we go through difficult things in life, this conversation invites you to consider that death may not be an ending, but a return home.

You'll hear:
• What John says happened when he died during surgery
• Why his experience began on the other side of the white light
• How his spirit guide Alan explained what he was seeing
• What John learned about the orientation center and the reunion after death
• Why the life review may be the greatest teacher of the soul
• What he was shown about past lives, soul planning, and purpose
• The planetarium vision that revealed life beyond Earth
• The message John says he received before returning to his body

About John J. Davis

John J. Davis is a near-death experiencer who was clinically dead for more than seven minutes after a reaction to anesthesia during surgery at age 21. During that time, he says he was taken on a detailed journey through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Alan, and shown what happens after the white light. Today, John shares his story to offer hope, comfort, and a deeper understanding of death, the soul, and why our lives matter.

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Chapters

00:00 Opening: There Is Far More Life in the Universe
03:34 Meet John J. Davis
08:28 What Happens After the White Light
18:02 The Life Review and Lessons of the Soul
25:10 Past Lives, Purpose, and Life Planning
30:26 The Planetarium and Life Beyond Earth
42:13 Meeting Jesus and "There Is No Death"
50:32 Fear, Faith, Dreams, and Why We Are Here

Reiki is often described as gentle, calming, and peaceful, but for Colleen Benelli and Robyn Benelli, it became something much bigger: a doorway into healing, intuition, consciousness, inner truth, and a completely different understanding of what is possible.

In this episode of The Curious Soul, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with mother-daughter Reiki teachers, practitioners, authors, and podcast hosts Colleen and Robyn Benelli to explore what Reiki is, how it works, and why it can support people physically, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically.

Colleen shares how she first discovered Reiki after her horse Dakota suffered a life-changing injury and communicated a message that changed the direction of her life.

Robyn opens up about growing up around spiritual practices, stepping away from that world, entering corporate life, and later experiencing a near-death experience that helped bring her back to her purpose.

Cristina, Marty, Colleen, and Robyn explore Reiki as a tangible energy, a healing modality, a life management tool, and a way to access inner truth rather than relying only on outside authority.

The conversation also expands into shamanism, soul retrieval, energy medicine, chakras, the biofield, the nervous system, spiritual injury, chronic pain, starseeds, religious wounding, raising intuitive children, and the idea that Reiki can meet people exactly where they are.

Whether you are brand new to Reiki, skeptical but curious, or already exploring energy healing, this conversation invites you to consider what might open when healing becomes something you can feel, practice, and experience for yourself.

You'll hear:

• What Reiki is and how Colleen and Robyn describe it
• Why Reiki can feel tangible in the body
• The message Colleen received from her horse Dakota
• How Robyn's near-death experience changed her path
• What soul retrieval is and how it relates to healing
• How Reiki works with life force energy, the biofield, chakras, and the nervous system
• Powerful client stories that show how Reiki can support healing
• Why Reiki is accessible, beginner-friendly, and open to anyone

About Colleen and Robyn Benelli

Colleen Benelli is a Reiki master teacher, shaman, author, podcast host, and founder of Reiki Lifestyle. She has spent more than 25 years teaching Reiki and helping students connect with healing, intuition, personal growth, and spiritual guidance. Robyn Benelli is a licensed Reiki master teacher, animal Reiki teacher, author, speaker, co-host of the Reiki Lifestyle podcast, and Colleen's daughter. Together, Colleen and Robyn teach Reiki through Reiki Lifestyle and help students around the world explore energy healing, self-discovery, inner guidance, and a deeper connection to purpose.

What part of Colleen and Robyn's story stayed with you most? Tell us in the comments.

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Chapters

00:00 Opening: If This Is True, What Else Is True?
04:56 Meet Colleen and Robyn Benelli
10:13 Dakota and the Power to Heal
16:24 Robyn's Path Back to Reiki
29:47 Soul Retrieval and Coming Back to Wholeness
34:10 What Happens in a Reiki Session
40:20 Healing Stories That Changed Belief
50:17 Raising Intuitive Children and Reiki for Everyday Life

What if your aura is not just a color around your body, but a living record of your emotions, experiences, relationships, health, memories, and soul?

In this episode of The Curious Soul, Cristina Malavenda and Marty Go sit down with aura reader, teacher, healer, writer, and intuitive guide Judith Collins to explore what auras really are, how color can become a language, and what it means to see the energetic blueprint of a person's life.

Judith shares that she has been seeing auras since she was a very young child, long before she even knew there was a name for what she could see.

She describes growing up with a different kind of language, being able to see colors connected to people's emotions, honesty, health, and inner world.

Then the conversation opens into the story of how strangers arrived at her door and told her she was the energy source they had been searching for.

Cristina, Marty, and Judith explore why Judith believes the aura is not one color, how colors work together like words in a sentence, what she has learned from decades of reading auras, and why she believes each person's aura reflects their uniqueness.

The conversation also expands into childhood sensitivity, being overwhelmed by other people's energy, the role of nature and gardening, the prehistoric part of the brain, spiritual guidance, soul purpose, love, loss, resilience, and what it really means to be human.

Whether you are curious about auras, energy, intuition, or the unseen information we may carry around us, this conversation invites you to consider that we may be more readable, more connected, and more supported than we realize.

You'll hear:

• What Judith believes auras really are
• Why she says an aura is never just one color
• How she experienced color as a language from childhood
• The story of strangers arriving at her door and saying, "You're it"
• How aura reading became part of Judith's life work
• Why Judith believes nature helps awaken our deeper senses
• How colors can reveal emotion, health, stress, purpose, and change
• What Judith says matters most when we look at the world today

About Judith Collins

Judith Collins is an aura reader, teacher, healer, writer, and intuitive guide who has been seeing auras since childhood. Over decades of work, she has taught thousands of people about the human aura, color, energy, intuition, and the deeper connection between body, mind, spirit, and nature. Judith is the author of How to See and Read the Human Aura and Companion Gardening, and her life's work explores how the human aura can reveal the story of who we are.

What part of Judith's story stayed with you most? Tell us in the comments.

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Chapters

00:00 Opening: "You're It"
04:27 Meet Judith Collins
10:37 A Childhood Language of Color
15:51 The Strangers Who Found Her Energy
23:18 Reading Auras in Public for the First Time
29:50 The Prehistoric Brain and Lost Connection
37:22 The Language of Color
42:22 What It Means to Be Human