How I Learned to Be an Animal Communicator with Nikki Vasconez - Pet Psychic

Nikki Vasconez wasn’t always a pet psychic; her career path started out as an attorney. In fact, it wasn’t until her late 20s that she learned animal communication was even possible. Last July Nikki quit her attorney position and went full-time animal communication. She now spends her days connecting with animals, and teaching all of us to connect with animals, in a way modern society tries to convince us is only possible in movies and fairy tales.

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Welcome to empowered within a soul clenching transformational podcast that will set your soul on fire through candid and inspiring conversations. Leading experts, celebrities, healers, and I share our journeys of how we've overcome challenges to living an empowered life from within I'm your host, Jennifer Pilates. Welcome to another episode of empowered within. Hi there and welcome to the show. I am excited to have back with us, Nikki Vaskin pet psychic extraordinaire. Nikki, wasn't always a pet psychic her career path started out as an attorney. In fact, it wasn't until her late twenties that she learned animal communication was even possible. Last July, Nikki, quit her attorney position and went full time as an animal communicator. She now spends her days connecting with animals and teaching us all how to connect with animals in a way modern society tries to convince us is only possible in movies and fairy tales. Welcome to the show, Nikki. Hi, Jennifer. Thanks for having me on again. Yes, I'm so excited and we have our zoom working today, so we're so excited. We'll have video So let's start with how you truly were inspired to take this leap of faith. It really was just having trust that when we're following our. anything that we want is possible. And it's scary because we need money and we have bills, but I had been growing this animal communication business on the side for about six months before I quit full my lawyer job. And I was like, you know what, it's gonna work. Like it's gonna work. It's what I want. And that's how it all started. But also having a really supportive husband, cuz he was like, just do it. Like we'll figure it out. We didn't have kids or a mortgage at the time. I was like, now is the time to do it right. If not now when that old saying. Right, right, right. That is so amazing. And I love how you just, you fell into alignment and followed your heart with that. And you've had so many people supporting you. That's amazing. What is your day to day life, your reality, now that you're an animal communicator full time. it's really awesome because I spend so much time with my dogs, but it's a lot of work. So what people I think don't realize is that I can't just get up every day and talk to animals unless I'm sleeping well, eating well, exercising, doing all that stuff, assuming I'm doing all of that. So I can stay clear for my sessions. It's I do my sessions in the morning. I hang out with my dogs. I take'em to our grandparents next door at lunchtime. And then the business side of stuff. So like, I think, you know, working for yourself, you almost work more than when you work for somebody else building the business aspect of it. But I spend so much time with my dogs. I. So much from them and it's really empowering and healing for me as I navigate this journey because animals, like, I always say they truly are our greatest teachers. They truly are. And so what does that look like? Because you went from being in the corporate world to now being an entrepreneur. So how have you managed to find that flow for yourself there? so my husband has been a huge part of this because he, I call him my little researcher. Like he will research the best newsletter platform for like three days straight. And I'm like, heck no, I'm gonna Google it. And the first one that comes up, I'm gonna look into, I might look into a couple, but it's been nice having his help there because I like I'm doing the social media and the videos, but he's kind of really doing the research behind the scenes. So it was a dual thing. But once I got into the flow, like you said, figuring out how to navigate a newsletter platform, how to not let social media consume you because in the beginning you wanna see how every video did and how many likes and views and just filming takes a lot of time. Just like with anything in the beginning, it's kind of like, oh my gosh, this is taking forever, but the more you do it, the better you get. And then eventually. You start, it just flows any new business isn't gonna flow, I think right away. Even if you're following your heart's passion, it's gonna flow in the sense of you're doing what you're meant to do, but it's a lot of work and the more you do it, the easier it gets and then everything just kind of, and then you, you find. You find what works and you kind of find your groove in it as you, as you do it. But for me, like this is, I work so much more now than I did as a lawyer, but it doesn't feel like that, you know, that cliche comment, it's not work if you love it. And it's, that's truly true. It really is. It truly is. And I love and appreciate your authenticity with sharing that, you know, transitioning to being an entrepreneur or being your own boss. It's not easy, but it's, you know, it's so worthwhile in the end when you're doing what you love. Yeah. And what's what has been, my struggle still is like shutting down for the night because it'll be eight, nine o'clock and I'm like, oh, I could change this on my website or, Hey babe, what do you think about this? And I I'm learning. Like six o'clock seven o'clock my goal is no phones, no email. You don't need to respond to people within five minutes. Like it's okay, Nikki. exactly. I do the same thing. And it's very difficult because especially when you work from home and you walk past the office, regardless if that door's open or not, you could go, right. Oh, well, I could just do this one more thing and no, I'm like you, I need time to, and I imagine you do too, to, to unplug, to unwind. Yeah. To release the. definitely and if I don't like today, for example, I was doing stuff last night, way too late. And I know if I'm on the computer doing stuff too late, and the eyeballs are fixed on the screen. I'm not, I'm probably not gonna wake up in the morning feeling very clear to do sessions. And that's what happened this morning. So I know it's just, we gotta get out of our own way sometimes. So when that does happen on a day, like today, do you then shift and will you do the readings in the afternoon or do you just, you wait and you always do them in the morning, so you'll do them. yeah, I'll do'em tomorrow, because for me I'm the most clear when it's first thing in the morning. Um, and then if I'm not feeling clear enough to do readings, I'll jump into other stuff on the computer. And then after I'm on the computer for a couple hours, I don't wanna do readings cause I just, I, I probably could, but I just feel like my energetic body is the most clear pre. Computers phones, social media and all of that. No, I agree with you a hundred percent. I'm like you, I prefer to do everything in the morning when I'm clear, when I'm good. yeah. How does it look for you? How are your sessions? How do you begin? And then, you know, you have your session with the animal and then how do you end? How do you clear, how do you dis. I love that question. And it's gonna be funny when I show you, I start the, the session itself is very boring to look at. Like, people are always like post a video of you doing a session and I'm like, well, it would be me sitting in a chair with my eyes shut, not moving for an hour. Like not really fun to look at. When I first enter into the session, I sit in a quiet room right behind me and I'm just in my chair. My eyes are shut and I take five ish, 10, five to 10 minutes, really to just. Center myself kind of breathe, kind of meditate a little bit, just to clear the energetic body and, and really connect in with the animals. The session itself is about an hour and again, my eyes are shut. If I was doing this reading for myself, like my own dogs, it would be completely silent. But because I have to give this to somebody else. I record myself talking, so I will speak out loud. The question that I'm asking the animal, and then I will say their answer out loud and I'm recording myself on my phone with the voice memo. Then I send the people the audio file to listen to after the fact. So my sessions are done completely remotely on my own time. I'm not on the phone with the people. I'm not on zoom for me. I think I can connect in a lot deeper when I'm just my own energy and my own space. 7:00 AM. And it's quiet. And then to disconnect. It's so funny. Every time I teach a workshop, I make the people do what I do just to build the habit. So I literally stand up, I shake it off. I shake my butt. I do the hokey pokey and I just shake off the energy. And I visualize. So when I connect in with the animal, I visualize like a beam of light going from my heart center to their heart. When I disconnect, I imagine that light coming, leaving the animal's heart center, coming back into mine. And I do this thing. I don't know why, where I like go and I like shoot the energy up and I shoot the energy down. And it's me visualizing, like creating this barrier in front of me, separating from the animals, just a visualization I do to disconnect because in the beginning I would always forget to dis. And then I would carry the animal with me all day. Like if the animal had like a horse, for example, I still remember their right kidney was achy their right kidney area and all day, my right side hip was bothering me and then five o'clock at night. I'm like, oh my gosh, that was because of that horse. So when I teach these workshops, I literally make people get up, do the hokey pokey, shake it off because you have to disconnect, which is I'm so glad you asked that question. Cause a lot of people. They forget about that, but with energy, like you really gotta cut the cord. Yeah, absolutely. I love your hokey pokey. I think that's fabulous. I think that is so cool. Well, I'm excited that you brought up your workshop because I am signed up for your workshop in two weeks and I am so excited. So do you do these, let's talk about your workshops. Do you do these every month and what's in them and because we want everyone to be a part of. what's really great is I started doing workshops this year and I was doing them like every other month and they were filling like right away. And I was like, there's a need for this. So now I do them every month and I cap it at 25 people per workshop because I wanna have time for everyone to share. And it's really fascinating. I cap it at 25, but every single workshop, since February 16 people show up. We always have 16 people. I have no idea why it's always the same numbers, which is the. That we all can share. And it's a good time. It's two and a half hours. I actually had to extend the workshop. They used to be two hours, but we were always going over. So now it's two and a half, but anyway, I started doing them every month and they were filling instantly. So next month in September. I'm hosting four. I was doing two every month, a Saturday and a Sunday. Next month, I'm doing four. And the first two workshops filled in two hours. Like I sent a broadcast out to my list within two hours. The one was filled within three hours, the second one. And then like the next night the other two have filled. So I'm like, there is a need for this, which is super great because yes, I'm an animal communicator and people pay me for sessions and that's all fine and dandy. And. But my main goal is to show people that, Hey, like you can all do this. And this is I have so 25, I have a hundred people a month doing these workshops. And every single person is seeing, oh my gosh, I just did this. And I quote, didn't know anything or how to do it. And it's just really, really awesome. So every month I'm gonna do at least two, I'm creating a membership platform right now. Hopefully it'll go live October, November. Where people pay monthly, a smaller fee and they can practice. And we have live workshops and weekly calls because there is really a need for people to learn animal communication. Yeah. I think it's amazing. And I am so excited. And so I know that you said that we could, what send in picture, well, you're gonna pick, right. Do so do you connect you choose a couple of animals and then you say, okay, this is my example of how this happens. so the way that the workshop goes, and I'm not gonna give you specific details because I don't wanna give it away for you, but, well, I'll just tell you it's okay. So each workshop we talk to three animals. I give everyone who signs up a chance to volunteer their pet to be talked to, and then I'll randomly select three. Yep. So, so I have a whole, the Excel spreadsheet where people put all their, you know, my name, my animal cat, dog, horse, whatever it is, I'll randomly select three. And then ahead of time, I'll email those people and say, Hey, your animal was chosen. Please send me a picture. And then on the workshop, I will share the screen. We'll show you the pictures, the first animal that you all talked to. And I'm only telling you this because you asked about it. I don't wanna lie the first animal. I just say here's a picture. Do it. I give you no instruction, no tips, because I want you to see that without me even giving you any guidance whatsoever. you can do it. And every single person is gonna get something from this animal. And it's really empowering for people to be like, wow, like, I didn't know anything. And they told me about their favorite color, toy, whatever, which is really cool. And then, so after that, everyone talks to the animal. Everyone on the call will share what they got. And then afterwards, the owner who's also on the zoom will give. And then I give some tips and advice. We talk about it. We do the second animal. Everyone shares owner gives feedback. I give more guidance and that's kind of the flow of the workshops. I know I'm so excited. I wanted to sign up for all four and I thought, well, that might be kind of selfish of me. Like surely there's cuz I was like, this is so exciting. Yeah. That you just opened up a whole nother world for me. And the reason that I am creating this membership platform is. There are three people that every single month sign up for every workshop. And I was like, and I'm seeing the same names and I'm seeing the same faces. And I'm like, oh my gosh, like they're signing up for every single one. And here I thought I was gonna be selfish to sign up for two. I should have And so I was like, people want this? Yeah. Like they, they, they need it because when you're, when you're a pet lover, an animal lover, like what cooler thing to experience in life. Speaking and hearing your pet's voice, like, oh my gosh, it's amazing. I think it's really incredible. And since our first conversation and I, and for people, I want everyone to know this is arch Shary, second episode. So we have a different episode that you can go back and there it's all, it's completely different information. But what I did share is that I came across Nikki on social media. and reached out and I thought there's something so spectacular. And her energy was amazing. Totally wanted to have her on the show and after our first conversation and I've had, I mean, being an intuitive empath, I have a very good relationship with, with my, animals, it deep into a whole nother level, like just having had conversations with you. And then since then I realized, and it, it was very interesting. I never thought about. Animal communication or pet psychics. I've always been around intuitive advisors. I'm one myself. And then I had a call from a client and she goes, oh my God, Jennifer, you're not gonna believe this. Like Benny died. What am I gonna do? Da da. And I was like, oh, no worries. Like, and I wasn't even thinking about you Nicky. Right. So I just do what I always do, which was, I tuned in to Benny had a conversation with her and Benny and, and I moved on with my day. And then I sat down. And you popped up on my phone and I realized, oh my gosh, I've actually been doing this for years. Yep. Never paid attention. Never thought about deciphering down nicheing down. So to speak to this. And I thought what an incredible gift that you have given to me to shine light on a path that I was on, but didn't realize I was on. Right. And that's where I was supposed to be as an intuitive coach. Like, like you're, like you said, you. intuitive messages. Telepathic messages are so quick. Like, if you, you can miss them and just assume like an example, like your dog is thirsty and you just get a feeling. My dog's thirsty, the water Bowl's empty. You go over. It's empty. You feel it. You continue doing what you're doing. It's easy to be like, wait a minute. Whoa. My dog just told me they were thirsty. So these messages, so many people they're already doing it like yourself, but they just aren't aware of it until they become aware of it. And then they're like, oh my goodness, this is happening all of the time. Oh, all of the time. It is. So there were so many and, and now I've always communicated with my first baby that passed. But again, I never thought. About it being animal communication. And so you and I had talked about various books that one could get. And so I sat down and I was on Amazon and I was, I was ordering them. And then I looked up in my baby's picture as above the refrigerator. And as I looked up and I looked down, makes me wanna cry. There were two books that you said to get well above them. There was another. which is about reincarnation, which brings me into my next question I wanted to talk about. So I looked at it and I started, and I said, this book Jackson. And he said, yes, that book. So I said, okay. So, so again, here I am doing everything. not mm-hmm, not actually recognizing it, you know, to speak to what you're speaking of. Yeah. And so I ordered the book, it came in. I was so. and I read like the first three pages, hysterically crying, like hysterically realizing, oh my gosh. You're trying to tell me that you're reincarnated here. Oh my. And I've always what's that book. Do you know that, remember the title? Ooh, it's in the other room. I will grab it for you. Let me know. I like to follow the rabbit trail of books. People who mention books, I'm like, yep. I'm ordering ITM. Ordering it. It's it's phenomenal. It's by Brent Atwater. Okay. So the title of the book is I'm home. A cat's never ending love story return from rainbow bridge. I mean, right there, if you don't start crying at the title, like I I'm, I might question the cat lover in you. And so it was amazing of this woman's story of how her. Her new cats are acting like the old cat. And now do both of mine. Absolutely have tendencies to look like Jackson. What, it just struck me in such a way, which you know, of course brings me to my question to you is how do you feel about pet's reincarnating I like to say animals. I don't like to say pets. I am on the same thing. Yeah. Don't say how do, yeah. How do you feel about animals reincarnating and not only that I question can an animal sort of reincarnate or can their spirit come through two different animals at one time? I wonder this is where I'm at with that I've learned from talking to animals that I know nothing and everything is possible. Now to that, I did a session a like a year ago at this. and I forgot all about it. I got a message last week from the human. So I did a session with a cat and she apparently told me last year, I'm gonna come back to mom in this lifetime as a male dog with funny ears. And there's gonna be something unique about the letter S in relation to me and my new dog. I forgot all about that. I get a message on Instagram last week from the mom. And she says, Nikki, you're never gonna believe this. And she's like, well, you actually will believe it, but, oh my gosh, let me tell you a story. Her cat. So she has she foster failed this dog named ranger who she has right now. He has the funniest ears ever. Like his ears are like, always like this, like forward and everyone always comments on his funny ears. And then, so she didn't realize it. At first, she realized recently that. Sister who they had first, her name was Spartan and they were fostering her. And then there was some other S name with the mom of the dogs, like the dog mom. But she realized that this dog lays in the same spot. Her cat used to male dog, funny ears, Spartan, and some other S name. And she's like, oh my gosh, like, this is my. So prior to that, like me personally, I've never had personal experience where an animal has come back to me in this lifetime. Cause I've only had my two dogs. Now I have one dog that passed two years ago, so I don't have personal experience with it, but there are stories like that from my clients. Like how, how do you discount that? I mean, I'm gonna come back as a male dog with funny years letter S that happens. Do I think every, so that can happen. I truly do. I also think that sometimes when our animals start doing things, our other animals used to do, it might not always be reincarnation. It could also be what I call like heaven, bootcamp, where your angel and spirit your animal and spirit is kind of saying to your new pet, Hey, do this go there, mom likes this. Dad likes that. I think that can happen too. I don't know that you can always tell. I think whether you realize it's an actual reincarnation, you'll just know in your heart, like, is this. My previous animal. Do I think the spirit can go into two? I don't really know, but I'm open to everything. Because I've just learned that I don't know anything and I feel like everything's possible. But what I do know for sure in my own reality is that when people schedule sessions with their animals that have passed, I never ask how long ago they've passed away. I talked to a cat couple animals that passed like 20 plus years ago, and the sessions are very good and accurate. Even if that animal has since reincarnated, there is still the essence of your animal, your pet in spirit. Like even if they've reincarnated the essence of who they were as your I'm gonna say, pet for, ease of this conversation, the essence of who they were as your pet in this lifetime, I, as an animal communicator can still connect with, even if they've reincarnated because our soul, our spirit, that part of us is in existence forever. I can't explain how it works, but all I can say is that, you know, having talked to animals that I later find out past decades and decades and decades ago, I don't see how there's any other explanation other than that, because I mean, if they've reincarnated, how am I still having a conversation? Right. I find that so fascinating. Have you ever had a conversation where you were talking with a pet that has passed who. then you do find out is already reincarnated or like they tell you like, Hey, like I'm the dog down the street, or, Hey, I'm actually with mom right now. Has that happened yet? How that happened? Ooh, it must be coming. That be so cool. Yes. When I picked up this book again, and this is all attributed to you and I thank you for this, it just made me look at my one kitty so differently. And I went, oh my gosh, like you C whether you are her or not, I'm not sure, but you definitely came through for a long time. And then I look at my other one and I. that really could be you though over here, but you certainly have the essence of your, you know, like what you're saying, those sort of, you know, God angels that are coming. right. So either way it's spectacular and amazing. And it's just, I mean, I've learned so much from you and just all we've had are conversations. We've never dived deep. We've done nothing. and so it's quite amazing. So I've gotta ask you, what is the favorite aspect of your work being an animal communicator now? I think my favorite part of this, it it's so simple. no, not empowering. That's not the right word. Allowing humans to realize they are already communicating and understanding their pets. Because a lot of what comes through in my sessions, you already know which is why you love when I say it, cuz you're like, oh my gosh, that's so true. That's my dog. I knew they loved that. Like you already knew it. It's just cool to hear it from a third party. And I'm the same way I have animal communicators talk with my animals sometimes just because. Even though I really have a good connection with them. I wanna hear it from someone else because it solidifies it. So my favorite part is just allowing, well, one I two teaching you guys how to do this, but also seeing your reaction when you realize you're already doing it, like you were before you even realized you were doing it. I know quite fascinating. I just never thought about the name pet psychic or animal communi. Yep. I never, and I didn't even know, like you said, in the very beginning when you were introducing me, I didn't even know this existed. No. Until my late twenties, like five years. It never, I mean, surely it has crossed my path, but again, like I said, I'm always surrounded by, you know, medical intuitives or intuitives or a psychic or a terror reader or a crystal lover or Reiki. It's a, you, it's a rarity, like you're saying this is so needed. It is a rarity to find APEC communicator, an animal communicator. And, I just thank you for popping onto my social feed when you did, because you really have taken my world and flipped it into such a beautiful place. and it's like so simple, right? Jennifer, like so simple, just talking to your pets more, cuz you're already doing it. It's so you just weren't aware you were doing it. Yeah. Had no idea. You're welcome. I mean, it just, but when I sat back and like I said, I started to go through, and then I started to think about the, the different coachings and the readings I've had with clients. And I'm like, oh my gosh, like you've been doing this Jennifer and you didn't even know what you're. It just came so naturally I didn't even think twice about it. It just was what it was. So yeah, I'm super excited for your workshops. And I, encourage everyone to, head over to her site and everything that she'll share with us so that you can jump onto her October, November, and what a fabulous gift to give to an animal lover, for Christmas, for birthdays, for anything. I mean, oh my. If you need my email, anyone, and you know, I'll send it your way. I'll definitely be joining every month. For sure. Hey, if you, if you wanna do another workshop let me know. We can, I can fit one more. So if, for like note my gift to you, if you wanna come on, I would love it. I would love it. Absolutely. Thank you. I am so excited. Yes, absolutely. Count me in for sure. so we are getting to this point in the show where I asked this one question, which you've answered before, so, oh, I have to think of the answer. Don't ask it. I gotta think of a new answer. Just give that don't no, I'm gonna change the question because you've already asked. Okay, good. Cause you've already answered it, so I'm gonna change it just so everyone knows cuz they they're waiting for that question. Well, you have to go to the other episode and you'll get that question. So today I shall ask you what is the biggest aha moment that you've had in becoming an animal communicator that I can do it and I don't have to try too. Because when you try too hard, you block the flow so it's getting to the point in your journey of doing this, that you trust yourself, you are confident, you realize I can do this and then everything changes. And it is just, it's just trusting yourself, but you don't always start like that in the very beginning. Right? I love that was huge for me because when I had that aha moment and I was like, okay, I can do this. I convinced myself. I was doing. It flows easier because then the human brain is not trying to figure it out. You're just doing it. That's beautiful. Thank you. Will you share with our audience where they can best connect with you and sign up for your workshops? Definitely. So my website is Nikki vasco.com and then my all my social links, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, it's all Nikki Vasco so you. Access my socials from my website. If you click those links, that's usually a safe bet to get to my right, social media account. As we close out the show, will you share an inspiring thought from Nikki talk to your pets, like you would a human family member because it's gonna, you're gonna see a change in their behavior. You're going to see them less. They're going to understand your world a lot better, and they're gonna feel closer to you because all we want as pet owners is for our animals to really know how much we love them and what better way than telling them about your day and your life, because then they have all the details and you will see a difference in your connection. You absolutely will. Nikki, thank you again so much for coming back on. I love your energies. I'm learning so much from you. I'm so grateful for you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jennifer. You're very welcome. All right. Well, as we say everyone until next time. Thank you so much for tuning into another episode, please remember to rate, review and subscribe to empowered within with Jennifer Pilates. Your feedback is important. It helps. Me to connect with you and gives me insight into who you are and what you're enjoying about the show for today's show notes and discount codes from today's sponsors, head over to Jennifer pilates.com until next time may you live an empowered life from within.