Spiritual Hierarchy: When Your Spirit Guide Is Named Jim

The fastest way to sabotage your spiritual growth is to turn it into a status game. If you’ve ever felt a sting of jealousy when someone says they work with an archangel, or you’ve worried you’re “not advanced” because your guide doesn’t have a famous name, we get it and we go straight into the root of it: human conditioning around hierarchy, worthiness, and perfectionism.

We talk about spirit guides, Reiki, mediumship, channeling, ascended masters, deities, and even God, but the real question underneath all of those labels is simple: do you trust that you’re supported without needing to earn it? I share how realizing my guide “Gabrielle” was actually Archangel Gabriel brought up excitement and intimidation at the same time, and how that reaction mirrored my old corporate America wiring around bosses, performance, and fear of messing up. From there, we unpack the law of oneness with a grounded metaphor that makes the “no hierarchy in the spirit world” message finally click.

You’ll also hear why I’m learning to stop controlling who shows up in a reading and instead surrender to the exact frequency that serves you best, whether that’s a council of ascended masters or your grandmother. We end with practical guidance for developing intuition: researching what you feel drawn to, tracking body signals like goosebumps or sudden stillness, and asking for clear signs so you can build a real relationship with your guides over time.

If this hits home, subscribe for more back-to-basics spirituality, share this with a friend who feels “not spiritual enough,” and leave a review so more people can find the conversation. What guide, deity, or energy do you feel most drawn to right now?

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Nicole is an evidential medium and former corporate executive who blends data, systems, and spirit communication after her son began seeing the dead. She’s obsessed with exposing the hidden patterns and frequencies keeping you stuck, and recoding them so you can finally live the life your soul designed for you. She offers private readings, mentorship, and classes in mediumship, spiritual growth, and soul-aligned business. 

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Transcript

Spirit Guides And Quiet Jealousy

Gabrielle Reveals Her True Identity

Corporate Conditioning Around Hierarchy

The Law Of Oneness Explained

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Unity Code podcast. This is going to be the start of, I think, a few episodes here and there that are a little more on quote unquote like the beginnerslash back to basics side of the house. And this is a really interesting topic for me. I personally, this is something that I've always feared, mainly because my own family upbringing and background, but I feel really nervous about stating opinions, especially from the spiritual side of the house. Because if there's anything that I've learned in my tenure here working with spirit, it's that there is always so much more to uncover. Like there is always so much more that I don't know. And at any moment in time, I'm going to continue to have these opinions. And I know for a fact that eventually spirit will break my brain. I will see things from a different perspective. I will understand things from a perspective I wasn't able to before. And as a result, I'm going to develop these new opinions with old ideas. And I guess this is the wonderful journey of overcoming my perfectionism, everybody. So welcome to Back to Basics. Let's go get over this idea of perfectionism and let's talk about these things that I had very strong opinions on before and yet have changed since, based on what I know. And I think this is very timely because personally I am seeing a wave of folks that are finding me that are newer in their spiritual adventure. It is an adventure, is it not? And so I thought it'd be a wonderful time to reflect that. And by the way, how fucking how magical is that? Like I I haven't been in this sphere long enough to realize there were waves of people that come. And like this is my first time experiencing a wave of newer folks. Um, and it's so interesting. It's such a perspective. I'm gonna have to talk about that at some point. And so, like, this is such a perfect opportunity to talk about some of this stuff that is out there on the internet that is very saturated in predetermined beliefs that people tend to just rinse and repeat out on the marketplace and revisiting these basics with a whole new set of fresh eyes. So, today let's talk about the hierarchy or lack thereof that exists in the spirit world. So, when I started my adventure with spirit guides, I was introduced to several of my guides, and I'll just name a few of them that I know. So, first was Jim, my main guide. Then I also had Isabella, who was my Reiki guide. I had Gabrielle, who was my mediumship guide. And as I started on the spiritual journey, and as I started to reflect on my guides and started to compare my guides to the guides that my friends had, it was always really interesting, especially as we started taking Reiki classes together. My friends and I got certified in Reiki together. And it was always really interesting because my friend's guide at the time was Raphael, Archangel Raphael for Reiki. And my other friend's guide um was working with Freya, right? The Norse um goddess, right? Ding. Ernesto's here too. Deadbell, everybody. Um, just spirit giving the mic drops and back up for me. And so on my journey uncovering and meeting my spirit guides, there was a little bit of jealousy for the fact that I did not have an archangel on my team. I did not have a goddess on my team. It was a very humble beginning for me and an immediate ego check for me in my spiritual journey. Now that was okay because I was so gung-ho about mediumship. I was so gung-ho about Reiki. I was so gung-ho about connecting with the spiritual side of the house that the hierarchy of my spiritual team didn't necessarily matter to me. I was just gonna keep going. But there was always something there underlying at the surface, and I couldn't identify it at the time that was like, that's interesting. I wonder why certain people are assigned certain higher vibrational quote unquote beings, and other people are assigned kind of quote unquote no-name beings. It is interesting, is it not, to understand the why behind it? Um, my ego at the time ended up rationalizing it as well, surely humans couldn't know all of all of the higher vibrational beings on the other side. There must be more deities and saints and archangels and ascended masters, and we probably know what to do with. And this was part supplemented with you know, me connecting my with my team and understanding why. And they're like, everyone gets to be a high vibrational being. And I didn't understand what the fuck they meant at the time. And so as I went on this little bit of ego trip, like jealousy journey, I just continued forward until the day that I don't even know how this happened, but I had this, oh, it connected the dots for me. That's right. Um, because I always saw my guides related to colors. That's kind of how I started my journey. So I always knew Gabrielle was this like yellow or gold color. I knew Isabella, what was Isabelle? Isabella was, I think Isabella was also yellow, but I could tell them apart very easily. And then my main guide gym was like a hunter green, a forest green color. And at some point I was able to connect the dots that Gabrielle with the color and the fact that she was helping me with communicate spirit communication, right? I ended up connecting the dots that Gabrielle was actually Archangel Gabriel. Um, now masculine and feminine people have opinions on that. That's okay. Um, but Gabriel shows up as Gabrielle as a brown-haired angelic woman to me. And so the day that I kind of started putting two to two together and realizing that Gabrielle was in fact an archangel, there was a whole mix of emotional responses. There was denial, there was like an ego trip of excitement, there was like a, oh no, I'm not good enough for her. Why me? Why would she choose me as quote unquote like a disciple to help with mediumship? And so immediately when I started to realize that I was I was engaging with these higher vibrational hierarchy, higher on the hierarchy, vibrational beings in the spiritual world, I started to get nervous and I started to get intimidated. And I think I've said this on a couple of podcast episodes, um, which is a total normal response in terms of the spiritual beliefs and perspectives that we come with, right? Because when I started this work, I was still in corporate America. I was still working with CEOs and board of the board of directors, right? I was still working hand in hand, like I believe the CEO at my private equity firm, he was, on was was the stakeholder on my project. That's how important my project was. And so I was working with, and this is not a small company. Um that explains a lot about me, doesn't it? It was not a small company. It was a very big, very rich company, obviously private equity. And so working with that senior leadership is not necessarily something that's new for me, but for me, it always tied to uh my performance, my pay, right? The success of my journey and adventure. And I always felt like my life was in the hands of these executive leaders that I worked under in corporate America. And so the idea of hierarchy for me immediately jumped to nervous feeling of worthiness questions, of perfectionism and making sure that I'm fulfilling my expectations of these souls or sorry, the my bosses of these businesses at a higher level. And so I had this visceral response to the fact that my mediumship coach, my mediumship guide, which was the number one thing that I wanted to do, was an archangel. I was like, oh fuck, I can't do this. I can't fuck this up. Right. And a lot of people that are coming into the spiritual space are having a very similar reaction as me. It is a very conditioned reaction to fear those at the top. And I don't think it's that's the intention of it by any means, but I think that is the natural way that we react to hierarchy as human beings here on planet Earth. And so there's a lot of people that are coming to my readings, and and I'll talk about this in a moment, that are connecting with higher vibrational beings like Ascended Masters and Archangels, and they're having that same response I did. They're questioning their worthiness. They're questioning whether they, you know, how can they make these ascended masters happy? Am I gonna fill the shoes that they're putting in place for me? And this is something that, again, I think is a little bit misconstrued and misunderstood in the spirit world because I would have, when I started my journey, considered the tier of my team a direct reflection of how I was doing the work. Was I doing it at an ascended master level or an account or not an Akashic Records? I guess you could do it that way. Ascended master level or an archangel level. Or did I get the average day-to-day schmo that you don't know who it is? How are you feeling right now as you listen to this? Just reflect on your own body. Reflect on your own. Are you agreeing? Do you know what's gonna come next? Because you know this is not where I'm staying. But just see how that feels in your body. Like reflect back on the guides that you know that you have. Are there some feelings about who you have and how that reflects on you? Because if you do, hopefully I'm gonna break this conditioning that you also have, like I had in my journey. Because as I move forward and started working with literally everyone and everything on the spiritual side of the house in the spirit world, there was a very interesting theme that came forward. And that theme was the law of oneness. And for those of you that don't know, the law of oneness is that we are all of God. We are all a piece of God. I know that can be a stretch for those of us with religious trauma. God is within us, and I have to be honest with you, like we are within God. It goes both ways. And the law of oneness, my team likes to show me, is that God is so if we take a strand of Christmas lights or we take a strand of beautiful patio lights, it's starting to get to be summer up here in the northern hemisphere, and you take that strand of lights and you plug it in. God is the plug and we are the lights. We are the strand of lights, I am a strand of light, you are a strand of light. We are each individual light bulbs on the strand that God has plugged us into. We wouldn't exist without God, but likewise God wouldn't exist without us. What would be the purpose of plugging anything in if there were no lights to show off the beauty? And if you think about a strand of lights, and I'm gonna relate this to a Christmas tree. So again, do what you will with this. The strand of lights does not inherently have hierarchy, does it? I mean, we could play the little tiny violin that says there are lights that are closer to God, but in reality, we are all connected to God because it's a circuit, right? And the energy flows across everybody and everything in the circuit of the strand, but there are not multiple strands that are defined as greater than, as more worthy than, and there are not lower strands that define less than developing, incomplete. Every light bulb is on the same strand. There is no variation and hierarchy of a light strand. And yet, when we are putting these light bulbs on a Christmas tree, don't we try to put them in order? At least for me, I start at the lowest part of the tree. Maybe you start at the upper part of the tree. Either way, that's fine. But as you start to wrap these strands around a Christmas tree, doesn't it look like a hierarchy? Doesn't it start to look like there's a few at the top and many at the bottom? And that is just our brains, our human experience trying to make sense of things we don't understand, trying to respond through again, tears, through better than, through less than, through worthiness, right? And and um and our whole culture is set up under this guise of hierarchy in religion, in corporations, in our family lines, elders are meant to be respected. I think everyone's fucking meant to be respected, not just elders. There's no no, no, no, no. Mm-hmm. And so as we think about the hierarchy that is here in the physical world, it starts become to become very difficult to fathom that there is actually no hierarchy in the spiritual side of the house. And in fact, there is technically no hierarchy here in the 3D experience. We are all birthed through women. We all come into this planet exactly in the same. Others have more resources, others come with a little more money, others come with a little more faith, others come with a little more talent. But aren't we all still born and die the same? It is our human brains and minds that that create separation. It is our reaction to the things and what people do and what they put on paper that make us respond to hierarchy and create, excuse me, this idea of hierarchy. And so it can be a complete mindfuck when you start working with the spirit world and some of these quote unquote higher tier souls are starting to come through as your guides within readings because you're gonna have that visceral reaction that you already have here in the 3D experience, and it's gonna reflect over there. But what I have seen time and time again is that there is no hierarchy in the spirit world. We are one and the same. I work now with I get oh, I understand that now. Sorry, boom, something just landed for me. I understand now that I work with archangels, I work with ascended masters, I work with galactic councils, I work with gods and goddesses and deities that we know here in the physical realm that that were previous gods that we used to, right? Deities that we used to worship here on planet Earth. There is no limitation to the souls that I can work with on the other side, all the way from my individual departed loved ones to family lineage ancestors, to again, spiritual like celebrities that might be departed, spiritual leaders that might be departed, and again, ascended masters, archangels. And yeah, I'm even talking about God. I'm even talking about God, God shows up to work with me. When I need something, sometimes I talk to God. I have clients that when I do readings for them, God shows up.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

No one else, just God.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

And so when you start to wrap your brain around the fact that, oh shit, it's all accessible to me, it can either be very freeing or it can reflect a little bit of work that you might need to do. I'm just gonna toss that out there. Because if the archangels show up for you, you're worthy of it. If the average Joe in the spirit world like Jim, no accent with that name, shows up for you, you're worthy of it. If God shows up for you, you're worthy of it. There is no difference. There is no difference. And instead, it's more of a refle there's a few things in that's going on in my head right now. It's more of a reflection of the way that I see it now that I've done this work, is that whoever shows up is the exact right frequency that you need at this current time. And I know a lot of you would love, maybe, for you to show up in a reading with me and a council of ascended masters comes to you. Whole boole boatload of them, right? It's happened. And wouldn't it feel amazing if you showed up for a reading and the entire team that helped develop your soul's path showed up for you? That happened in a reading. Twenty souls showed up in this one reading to talk about the life that this woman had planned. Wasn't just one, it was a collective of souls coming together to talk about it. Wouldn't it feel lovely if you showed up for a reading and God showed up?

SPEAKER_00 21:14

But also likewise, if your abuela shows up, if your grandmother shows up, she is the exact medicine that you need at that time.

Letting Spirit Choose The Messenger

SPEAKER_01 21:30

And this is something as a practitioner that I really am evolving and growing into. And I think I might be over the worst of the hurdle, but I've stopped determining who I want to connect to on the other side on behalf of my clients. Because there is sovereignty in this work. I do get to decide do I want to talk to departed loved ones? And you know, I I will obviously align with my clients. That's not what I'm saying. But but do I want to talk to guides? Do I want to talk to, you know, honestly, you could say, do I want to talk to Ascendant Masters? Do I want to talk to the Akashic Records? Do I want to talk to, and and so like me setting the attention of this is who I'd like to talk to is me controlling the reading. And now, especially since I've kind of launched my website and I'm just like, fuck it. I'm totally fucking surrendering to the spirit world. I just show up at the vibration of spirit and I'm like, take me where I'm supposed to go. Where do you want this message, this information to be channeled from? And sometimes it'll be a huge fucking ascended master council, and sometimes it will be your grandfather. And again, the key is not to get a spiritual ego trip about it. The key is to understand that that's the exact message you needed at the time. That's the exact delivery method that you needed at the time. Because if I started my journey walking in, knowing that I had the seraphim that was working with me because that's who works with me now. And it's very fucking intimidating. Still, I'm getting over that. Okay. And I'm totally honest with you. Could you like a collective of fucking angelic beings that say that I'm one of them? That's fucking terrifying. I'll be honest with you. That is my visceral reaction that I'm still getting over. In my in my logical brain, I understand the oneness and I understand there's no hierarchy. I understand they're the exact frequency that I need to work with and channel. And my human energy is not caught up to that. I will get there eventually, I promise. Because it is a little intimidating. But I know that if I started my journey, knowing that eventually I would work with the Seraphim, that I would work directly with God, that I would work directly with the Galactic Federation, and I would work with, you know, quote unquote, what we on earth consider to be the top tiers of spiritual councils, groups, leaders, I would have started this entire journey with a fucking ego trip. It would have set me on the wrong trajectory. I had to trust that whoever is gonna come through and just and I had to do it for the love of the work. I had to do it for the love of connecting with departed loved ones. Because if I showed up and knew that Archangel, we all know I got a little bit of an ego anyway. If I knew that Archangel Gabrielle was my mediumship coach from day one, my mediumship guide from day one, don't you think I would have an ego trip about that? Don't you think I would walk in and have and tell people everywhere that? And it would have maybe shut down some doors that that would that needed to be open for me, right? It would have shut down my ability to receive exactly what I needed to receive on my journey.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

And show whoever is showing up for you, there's purpose in it.

The Morrigan And Shadow Work

SPEAKER_01 25:10

And for my beautiful, lovely, fucking amazing client, where the Ascended Master Council showed up for her, and her jaw was on the floor, and my jaw was on the floor too. I don't think I've ever seen the council of ascended masters show up before. Didn't know there was a council of them, but all of them showed up for this reading. That was the exact medicine that my client needed that day. And there's a big difference in how I started my journey, fucking knowing mediumship was what I was gonna do, and I was gonna be relentless in that journey of uncovering, of learning, and discovering. And it didn't matter who my guides were because I was just gonna go, right? I was just, I was gonna be gung fucking ho and moving forward as fast as possible, versus maybe that's starting, and I'm not saying about you, my lovely, gorgeous client, maybe starting a little more tepid, like maybe starting a little more precarious, maybe hesitating a little bit because you're not sure if you're supposed to go into this work. And wouldn't it be an amazing message to know that you're you you have brought down the ascended masters and your intention with this work is to bring information eventually in at an ascended master level, to channel the information at an ascended master level and heal people at an ascended master level. Wouldn't that just be the perfect kick in the ass some people need to start their journey? And I'm not saying it wasn't true, and I'm not saying it was obviously malicious on the intention of the spirit world. Likewise, the seraphim could have showed up my first fucking spiritual assessment, right? And it probably would have overloaded my nervous system and I would have been like, fuck this. Nope, I'm out. You're you're fucking crazy. If you think that that's part of me, you're fucking crazy. But spirit will show up with the exact guides that you need. So we need to get our heads out of the fucking sand in terms of the hierarchy of the spirit world because it's all accessible. We are all one, we are all the same. I am no better. I am no better than you. You are no better than me. The spiritual leaders that like to say that they channel the ascended masters. Yeah, you can fucking do that too. I promise you. I promise you. And this is why I am kind of here to burn the bridges of the structure of spirituality, the hierarchy of spirituality, the accessibility of spirituality, because it's all out there. It all exists. You get to tap into all of it. The question is, are you ready for it? Are you ready to put your ego aside and receive the exact message, medicine, channeling, energies, frequencies from the exact souls that are going to supplement you and help you on your journey, regardless of what your preconceived notions of them are. And maybe the last thing I'll drop is the Morrigan showed up for me. If you know, you fucking know. Like you fucking know. Like this is Hakate on steroids. I that's that's how I perceive her. And like Hakate, I know is not necessarily the best vibrational match for me. Love her. She's fucking amazing. But the Morrigan fucking showed up for me one day. And I'm like, oh fuck. And I told Rachel the Good Witch of the Northeast, went to go get coffee with her. And I was like, so the Morgan showed up and her jaw was on the floor. She's like, holy shit, because she is the ultimate goddess of duality. She is like the goddess of like I I'm gonna get this totally incorrect. Obviously, I need to work with the Morgan War, but she's more about duality. She's more about like um the goddess of war. And she's known to go to battlefields and like point out the soldiers that are gonna die on the battlefield. So people fucking feared her, but it was more so people feared her because if you didn't show up with integrity, if you didn't show up with positive intent, if you didn't show up to fucking know who you are and know your your worth, she was gonna take you out. And you know what? That's the exact fucking energy I needed at the time. Good and bad. I need someone to fucking hold me accountable for my evolution because sometimes it's scary, sometimes it's intimidating, sometimes I don't want to be here. And I and I say that with complete love, and I think you all know what I mean, and and you don't judge me by it because this work is fucking hard. It is the most deeply rewarding experience and role of my life. I would never change it for a second, and yet at the same time, it mirrors the deep, deep work I have to do on myself to show up the right way for you. It is hard fucking work, not because of my clients, because it's all about going within and fixing all the shit in me so that I can heal that energy and be that heal channeled frequency for you.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

And so that's part of your journey too.

Subtle Signs And Final Takeaways

SPEAKER_01 30:26

So I'm gonna give you a little homework. If you know who your guides are, um do a little more digging. Do if they are a name brand, quote unquote, right? If they're not, if they're not an unknown like my buddy Jim, um, do a little research on them. See what kind of frequencies they're bringing in that are gonna supplement you, that are gonna help you on your journey, right? Um, I needed, I we talked about why I needed the Morgan, like I needed Gabrielle because I needed to be the channel. Like I needed to be the best channel that I could be. And it wasn't necessarily about mediumship, it was more about communication and channeling. And I realize that now, right? So if you know your guides, see if you can uncover something else about what is the purpose in them partnering with you, what are the frequencies, what are the values, what are the beliefs, whatever it is, what are they there to teach you that maybe you haven't quite uncovered yet? And for those of you that are not sure who your guides are, no biggie, what you can do is start researching. Like, do you feel really called to Norse mythology? Do you feel really called to Greek or Roman mythology? Do you feel really called to galactic entities? Do you feel really called to ascended masters or archangels? Like, and then just go start researching them and notice where your energy lights up. You feel like you want to stop. Notice where you get goosebumps around certain names or deities or or souls that pop up. And that is 10 times out of 10 an indicator that in some fashion or form they work with you and do a little research. But I want you to base this on feeling and not necessarily your cognitive, cognitive mind. Um, see if, again, you're having those physical visceral reactions in your body. They might be very, very subtle. I'm not saying they're going to be loud, they might be very, very soft, but then do a little research in in the soul, the meet the guide that is popping up for you and see what resonates in terms of how they're helping you. And then you can start to develop a little more relationship with them. You can ask them, hey, show me a sign. Show me a sign if this is the person that if you are working with me, if this is the soul that's working with me. Um, the easiest way that I can describe this is as I started my journey and I was like, I my pendulum broke. I needed to find a new pendulum. And then as I went on Etsy and I was looking for new pendulum pendulums, there was a pendulum that popped up. I believe it was with Raphael. I could be completely wrong with that. It's it's been a little, it's been a hot minute. And this pendulum had an angel at the end and it was Raphael, and I fucking froze. I was scrolling Etsy and I froze and I couldn't scroll anymore. And I hit this like little tiny freeze moment in my energy. I'm like, oh, I work with Archangel Raphael. Got it. It was that subtle. That's what I'm talking about. So give it a go. Let me know if this episode was helpful. Let me know who your guides are, what they're teaching you. I would love to chat about that with you, send it my way. And I just want to thank you for being here today to thinking about spirituality in a different way, being open to the changing beliefs and perspectives and helping helping me personally get over my perfectionism. I really appreciate it. So hopefully now you see things the way that I do. Maybe just a little bit. Maybe I just put a little bit of nugget in your head to show you that there is no hierarchy in the spirit world. And so don't read into necessarily who's working with you because it's more like a direct connection to your highest path, no matter what the soul, who the soul is, where they come from, what their background is. And it's all in the name of your own soul evolution. Have a wonderful fucking day. Take care.