What leads someone to become a medium? In this episode of The Woo Factor, Rev. Marjorie Rivera shares her remarkable journey—from her Kuna Indian heritage and early spiritual experiences to the synchronicities that led her to Lily Dale and a lifelong calling as a medium, minister, teacher, and healer. Join us for a fascinating conversation about intuition, spirit communication, purpose, and the unexpected paths that shape our lives. ✨ Meet Rev. Marjorie Rivera in person this August at the Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Expo. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT REV. MARJORIE RIVERA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rev. Marjorie Rivera is a Lily Dale-trained and ordained Psychic Medium, Spiritualist Minister, teacher, lecturer, and healer who has served clients for more than 30 years. Born in Panama and rooted in a Kuna Indian maternal lineage of healers, she combines indigenous spiritual wisdom with formal training through Fellowships of the Spirit at Lily Dale Assembly. Known to many as "The Pittsburgh Medium," Rev. Rivera has dedicated her life to helping people connect with loved ones in spirit, gain guidance from higher sources, and better understand their own spiritual path. Through readings, teaching, healing work, and ministry, her mission is to serve the eternal nature of the soul. 🔹 Website: https://revmarjorierivera.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ METAPHYSICAL, HOLISTICAL & MYSTICAL EXPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rev. Marjorie Rivera is a featured presenter at the Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Expo, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn from and connect with her in person. 🔹 Learn more: https://www.metaphysicalholisticalmystical.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT SUZY WOO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suzy Woo is a metaphysician, healer, astrologer, educator, and host of The Woo Factor. She is known for creating immediate, tangible shifts that help people feel lighter, clearer, more empowered, and more connected to themselves. Through her work, she combines healing, intuitive insight, and practical wisdom to help people understand complex patterns and create meaningful change in their lives. 🔹 Website: https://www.suzy-woo.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE WOO FACTOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Woo Factor explores the ideas, people, and experiences that live at the intersection of science, spirit, consciousness, and human potential. Through conversations with thought leaders, practitioners, researchers, and visionaries, the show takes complex and often misunderstood topics and makes them accessible, engaging, and relevant. Grounded conversations for cosmic thinkers. Less woo. More wow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you enjoy conversations that challenge assumptions, expand awareness, and explore what may be possible, subscribe and join us for future episodes of The Woo Factor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Channel connects curious minds with ideas, tools, and conversations that explore the intersection of science, spirit, wellness, and human potential. Whether you're a healer, a seeker, a practitioner, or simply curious about the mysteries of life, you'll find thought-provoking conversations, educational content, and inspiring perspectives designed to expand awareness and encourage exploration. Grounded conversations for cosmic thinkers.

The Woo Factor explores the ideas, people, and perspectives shaping the future of consciousness, spirituality, wellness, and human potential. What if some of the most important planetary influences in astrology aren't the ones most people are talking about? In this inaugural episode of The Woo Factor, Suzy Woo sits down with internationally recognized astrologer Alan Clay, founder of Dwarf Planet University, to explore five transformational dwarf planets and what they reveal about authenticity, crisis, soul growth, divine play, and spiritual fulfillment. Together, they discuss how these emerging planetary archetypes may help us better understand our individual journeys and humanity's evolving future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ALAN CLAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Alan Clay is an internationally recognized astrologer, author, and founder of Dwarf Planet University. His pioneering work explores the role of dwarf planets in modern astrology and their connection to human evolution, soul growth, and personal fulfillment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Introduction 2:30 About the dwarf planets - why launch a university? 6:50 Ixion 12:00 Haumea 13:30 MakeMake 17:48 Eris 26:10 Eris' mythology 28:51 Sedna and Sedna crisis 42:58 Leleakuhonua, and how it applies to us individually, Sabian Symbol of discovery 🔹 Dwarf Planet University: https://www.dwarfplanetastrology.com/ 🔹 Alan Clay on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0035D56DU/allbooks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ METAPHYSICAL, HOLISTICAL & MYSTICAL EXPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Alan Clay is a featured presenter at the Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Expo, where he will offer an immersive workshop exploring these powerful planetary archetypes in greater depth. 🔹 Learn more: https://www.metaphysicalholisticalmystical.com/ TICKETS TO THE FULL DAY WORKSHOP: https://www.suzy-woo.com/event-details/alan-clay-5-new-planets-one-day-workshop-10am-4pm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT SUZY WOO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suzy Woo is a metaphysician, healer, astrologer, educator, and host of The Woo Factor. She is known for creating immediate, tangible shifts that help people feel lighter, clearer, more empowered, and more connected to themselves. Through her work, she combines healing, intuitive insight, and practical wisdom to help people understand complex patterns and create meaningful change in their lives. 🔹 Website: https://www.suzy-woo.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE WOO FACTOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Woo Factor explores the ideas, people, and experiences that live at the intersection of science, spirit, consciousness, and human potential. Through conversations with thought leaders, practitioners, researchers, and visionaries, the show takes complex and often misunderstood topics and makes them accessible, engaging, and relevant. Grounded conversations for cosmic thinkers. Less woo. More wow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you enjoy conversations that challenge assumptions, expand awareness, and explore what may be possible, subscribe and join us for future episodes of The Woo Factor.

What does it really mean to love your life? In this episode of The Woo Factor, Suzy Woo sits down with nationally recognized life coach, meditation teacher, retreat leader and designer of crystal jewelry and mala beads, Lori Barresi to explore mindfulness, personal transformation, spiritual growth, and the practical steps we can take to create more peace, purpose, and fulfillment in our everyday lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Introduction, Lori's journey from recovery and transformation 02:20 Teachers and mentors who influenced her path 3:00 Why Mala beads? 7:10 What are mala beads? 9:02 Crystals Lori loves working with 11:54 Her coaching philosophy and client work 14:49 Offerings at the Expo 16:00 Do you blend modalities? 16:44 The bottoming out and choosing to get help 21:00 Art, creativity, and inspiration 22:00 Daily spiritual practices 25:26 Mala beads vs. rosary beads 34:12 Gratitude as a way of life 35:00 Spiritual protection and energetic boundaries ABOUT LORI BARRESI Lori Barresi is a nationally recognized Life Coach, meditation teacher, retreat leader, speaker, and founder of Love Your Life Coaching. She is a Certified Life Coach and Certified Masters of Wisdom, Deeper Still Meditation Teacher who has dedicated decades to helping people cultivate greater peace, purpose, clarity, and fulfillment in their lives. Drawing from over 40 years of business, leadership, and personal development experience, Lori blends practical wisdom with spiritual insight to help individuals navigate life with greater balance and intention. Before founding Love Your Life Coaching, she owned and operated multiple successful businesses and served in executive leadership roles in healthcare, giving her a unique ability to bridge personal transformation with real-world success. Lori has studied with some of the most respected spiritual teachers of our time, including Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Jean Houston, David Simon, and Davidji. Her work combines mindfulness, meditation, ancient Vedic and Buddhist teachings, intuition, humor, and practical life coaching to help people reconnect with themselves and create lives they truly love. 🔹 Website: https://www.loveyourlifewithlori.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE METAPHYSICAL, HOLISTICAL & MYSTICAL EXPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Expo brings together gifted practitioners, healers, psychics, mediums, wellness experts, authors, artisans, and spiritual teachers for a weekend of learning, exploration, and transformation. Attendees can experience readings, healing sessions, workshops, lectures, unique vendors, and opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who share an interest in personal growth, spirituality, wellness, and conscious living. Whether you're just beginning your journey or have been exploring metaphysical topics for years, the Expo offers inspiration, education, and community for every level of experience. ✨ Join us August 15-16, 2026 📍 Ambassador Conference Center, Peach St, Erie PA 🔹 Website: https://www.metaphysicalholisticalmystical.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT SUZY WOO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suzy Woo is a metaphysician, intuitive healer, educator, speaker, and founder of the Metaphysical, Holistical & Mystical Expo. Through her work, she helps individuals gain clarity, overcome energetic blocks, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and create meaningful transformation in their lives. Known for her warm, practical approach to spirituality, Suzy combines intuitive insight with energy healing to help clients navigate life's challenges and opportunities with greater confidence, balance, and purpose. As host of The Woo Factor Podcast, Suzy explores the intersection of spirituality, consciousness, wellness, and human potential through conversations with thought leaders, healers, authors, researchers, and visionaries from around the world. 🔹 Website: https://www.suzy-woo.com 🔹 Healing Sessions: https://www.suzy-woo.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE WOO FACTOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ Subscribe for new conversations exploring spirituality, consciousness, wellness, and human potential. 📱 Facebook & Instagram: @TheWooFactorPodcast #TheWooFactor #SuzyWoo #spirituality #consciousness #wellness #personalgrowth #metaphysical #podcast