Dumb Blonde Podcast: Theresa Caputo

Bunnie sits down with world-famous medium Theresa Caputo for a raw conversation about what it’s really like living with the ability to communicate with the other side. Theresa opens up about the anxiety she faced growing up, how faith and her parents’ support helped her finally accept her gift, and the misconceptions people still have about mediumship. She also shares the personal side of her journey—from balancing her work with family life to prioritizing her mental and physical health. Theresa talks about trading weightlifting for Pilates, protecting her energy, and the self-care routines that help keep her grounded while doing emotionally intense work. From faith and healing to the powerful impact messages from loved ones can have, this conversation dives into the reality behind Theresa’s gift and the lives it continues to change. Theresa Caputo: Website https://theresacaputo.com Watch Full Episodes & More: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Dumbblondepod

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:11Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on? Hi babies. Most people think they know Teresa Caputo. They know the hair, the accent, the moments that made them cry. But today isn't about all of that razzle dazzle. It's about the woman behind the gift, the anxiety, the faith, the doubt, the love, and the cost of being open to everyone else's pain. Please welcome Teresa Caputo.

• 0:34Speaker 01

  Aw, thank you. It's so great to see you.

• 0:38Bunnie XO?

  It is so good to see you again. Ever since we met, like when I sat down, I don't know if we're allowed to talk about it yet, but I sat down on your podcast with you. And ever since then, I just felt like such a connection to you because you just are such a bright light in this world.

• 0:52Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 0:53Bunnie XO?

  And it's amazing how you, one of the things that resonated with me whenever we did sit down is you said that you only use your gift for good. And you talk about how you struggled with it also.

• 1:07Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:07Bunnie XO?

  And I confided in you that I've always had a gift, but I've been scared too because of my religious background. So I think that this, this avenue in life, like you know, mediumship and stuff like that, needs somebody like you. And we've needed somebody like you for a really long time that can show the difference between light and dark because gifts like this can be used for such, you know, different things, sometimes things that aren't good. And I just wanted to tell you in person that I really appreciated our time together.

• 1:39Speaker 01

  Thank you. I know it was so special. It was, it was so amazing. I mean, even from the moment that I walked into the space, you know, and how your loved ones' souls were like hanging out there already. Like I still can't get, like when I was drawn to that corner, you know, it was just, it was just amazing.

• 1:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, it was awesome. I can't get over your style though. That was like one of the main things that I loved about you. I want to dress like you. Like I love your style. You're so cute.

• 2:06Speaker 01

  Aw, thank you.

• 2:07Bunnie XO?

  And then the legs. I need to know, how are you maintaining this muscle tone?

• 2:11Speaker 01

  Well, I have good genes.

• 2:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 2:14Speaker 01

  But I do, I work out, I do Pilates. I've always liked strength training and stuff like that. And as I got older, I realized I can't work out like that anymore. So for the past year, I've been doing Pilates and. Just kind of changing it up a little bit.

• 2:28Bunnie XO?

  So I need to stop weightlifting and start doing Pilates because I need legs like this.

• 2:33Speaker 01

  You could do, well, I, you know, it's hard because I've always had really good legs, you know?

• 2:36Bunnie XO?

  Have you always been athletic?

• 2:38Speaker 01

  Always been athletic. Yeah. So I used to, I used to deadlift. I used to do all that. And I just, I can't do that anymore. I tore my ACL seven years ago. So once I had that repaired, I really couldn't do it anymore. And at the end of the day, I'm 58. I can't be deadlifting anymore. I, my body just, I can't. But the Pilates really changed. I could feel the change within my body.

• 2:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. And you become like connected with your, with your muscles more too. I feel like when you're lifting weights, you're kind of like concentrating on not dying. And in Pilates, you can kind of like connect with your body more.

• 3:09Speaker 01

  Yeah. And the thing that I find interesting about it is that it never stops getting hard. It's always hard. And what I've noticed, it's because I'm getting stronger. And it's a different strength. It's a completely different strength.

• 3:21Bunnie XO?

  Have you ever used a reformer?

• 3:22Speaker 01

  That's what I do.

• 3:23Bunnie XO?

  I love those.

• 3:24Speaker 01

  I have the, I go to a class where it's, it's a reformer.

• 3:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, it's amazing. If anybody out there has ever done yoga, I get really bored doing yoga, like regular yoga.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  Me too.

• 3:35Bunnie XO?

  But the reformer, I'm telling you, is a game changer because you have to really concentrate and it's hard.

• 3:40Speaker 01

  It is hard.

• 3:41Bunnie XO?

  You would think like stretching and, and putting your leg in certain positions on a, you know, like you're, it's there. It's like a table that you lay on that has bands. I don't know how to really explain a, a reformer. And you're moving your body and contorting it in different ways, but you're holding these positions. And you would think it would be easy, but it's not.

• 3:58Speaker 01

  It's not. And the reformer is only moving because you're whether lifting from your core or, or you're lunging forward and it's not, it's really hard.

• 4:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, it's crazy.

• 4:08Speaker 01

  I find that crazy that you were talking about my style because I, I watch, I follow you and I'm like, does this girl ever like have a bad day? Like you always look amazing, like whether they're in your leggings or like you have no makeup on and your hair, you always just look, you'd always just look beautiful.

• 4:24Bunnie XO?

  You're so sweet.

• 4:25Speaker 01

  But I think it also comes from the soul. So I think beauty comes from the soul as well. So.

• 4:30Bunnie XO?

  100%. You could be the most beautiful woman on the outside and if your soul is ugly.

• 4:34Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 4:34Bunnie XO?

  It, it resonates. And that's how I feel about you though. I just love everything about you. I think you're just so sweet. You fascinate me. You are literally everywhere. Does anybody just ever stop and ask you like, hey, how are you doing?

• 4:49Speaker 01

  Would he, no, now, well, yeah, I guess.

• 4:52Bunnie XO?

  I feel like I just want to ask you, like, how are you? Because I feel like you are just always on the go 24/7. It's like, do you ever have time to stop and like, catch a breath and like, process emotions? Because reading people every day and having spirits talk to you every day, you know, like, do you ever just have time to just breathe and be?

• 5:17Speaker 01

  It's, I'm starting to learn to incorporate that into my, my schedule.

• 5:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 5:22Speaker 01

  Because it is, it is very hard. I always say it, I make what I do look very easy. And it's the hardest thing, but I don't know how to be anything else but me. So it's hard to find that balance. But now that I'm a grandma, I really work really hard. I mean, it's always been the center of my touring. You know, I've been touring for 15 years, 14 years. So it's always like, we're home for the holidays. I try to make it home for every, make sure we're home for every milestone in the family, birthdays and things like that, so.

• 5:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it's got to, I don't know how you have so much energy because I, I know we have the next two weeks are about to be crazy and I'm already exhausted.

• 6:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:02Bunnie XO?

  Watching you though, I'm like, okay, I can do it. If Teresa can do it, I can do it. I swear.

• 6:06Speaker 01

  I literally was saying this to, this morning to Jenny. I was like, I had a dream that I was complaining to her that I was just so exhausted.

• 6:14Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 6:15Speaker 01

  Because the, you know, we flew and we lost two hours this morning. So it was just like, I couldn't peel myself out of bed this morning. I was like, what?

• 6:22Bunnie XO?

  And you're doing this on your day off too. That, that hurt my heart when I heard that because I know how special day offs are, you know, especially in our business. So for you to be here on your day off means so much.

• 6:32Speaker 01

  Well, I appreciate it. I mean, I feel like it's, it's an honor and, and I do, I feel that connection with you. And I love how you respect not only me, but my gifts. So I want to thank you for that.

• 6:44Bunnie XO?

  Now you are, I, I was thinking yesterday when I was writing down all your notes, I was like, why couldn't I have a woman like this to grow up with? You know, like, I just feel like, you know. We'll get into that a little bit later when we talk about your family. But I just feel like if I could have had like a role model such as yourself that like my mom was so scared of her gifts that she became a drug addict. And the rest of my family, they were all so scared of their gifts. Is there other people in your lineage that have this gift also that you were able to lean on?

• 7:16Speaker 01

  Well, I always say I would not be who I am first and foremost without my mom and my dad. Because my mom, they're like my biggest cheerleaders, you know? They always just encouraged me, you know, like growing up, like doing and saying like odd things and my mom is very spiritual and so is my dad. So I come from a very spiritual, but also a strong faith family. And I think that's the thing that has always kept me grounded, you know, is to have that faith and that belief. And I know I come from a long line of people that have gifts. But I know everyone's gift is different, you know? Everyone's, maybe it's an intuition. I remember my mom telling me a story about my grandmother that she had, she would soul

• 8:00Speaker 01

  travel, like she would leave her soul and she'd be like, get back in that body. And she would like yell at herself to get back in the body. So, you know, everyone does have gifts and an intuitiveness. And you also know that I've shared this with you that I believe we all have the ability to connect with our own loved ones that have died. So that's a soul bond that can never be broken. But to have the ability to be so sensitive to people's emotions or energies around you, that's difficult.

• 8:30Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. Is the grandma that had the gift, the same grandma, the first grandma that appeared to you?

• 8:37Speaker 01

  No, that was my great, but it was her, it was her mom.

• 8:41Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 8:41Speaker 01

  Her mom.

• 8:42Bunnie XO?

  Okay, so it's kind of passed down between you guys. That's amazing.

• 8:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:47Bunnie XO?

  Can you take me on that journey? I know you've told the story numerous times before, but to anybody who hasn't heard it, you started seeing spirits around the age of four.

• 8:55Speaker 01

  Right.

• 8:55Bunnie XO?

  Take me on that journey.

• 8:56Speaker 01

  So I would always remember a woman standing at the end of my bed. And I would always feel like a protection. So I would always like wake up like with these blood curdling screams. But I would always just see a woman, but I always felt safe when I saw her. And it wasn't until I started realizing that I had an ability or something different than the average person. And I remember seeing a picture of my grandmother's house and I said to her, I said, "Graham," I go, "Who is this woman?" The picture just looked very different to me. And she's like, "That's my mom."

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• 10:54Speaker 01

  And of course, I've seen pictures of my great-grandmother before, but never realizing that that was her. And it just clicked in that moment. Wait, that was the woman that I would see standing at the end of my bed at night. Um, so you know, growing up was difficult. Um, there are many a times where I had my dad would have to get, I would tell him that there are people looking at me, you know, through the window in my room and my dad would be out at three o'clock in the morning with a ladder up to my, my, my window, looking and my brother would be like, yep, I'm, my sister's making us go up on the roof today, looking for people that aren't there.

• 11:27Bunnie XO?

  Oh, my goodness. That must've been a lot to process though, at such a young age. Like, did that start to create like, um, you know, like, you know, like when you can't express yourself, especially being that young, did it create like an OCD loop or did it create like certain behaviors?

• 11:44Speaker 01

  So I don't, I think through me, it was more of just that anxiety of, of the racing of the heart and feeling like something was going to happen to me if I did not leave that space immediately. So that's how I grew up. And I would say to my mom constantly, be like, Mom, I don't feel right. I feel different than everyone else. I don't feel like I belong here. Like something's not right. And my mom, you know, would say to me, she's like, listen, she's like, we love you. You belong to this family. And I always just felt loved and safe with my parents.

• 12:14Bunnie XO?

  That's so important.

• 12:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. And they, I think it was because my mom also gave me that space to kind of express what I was feeling and not to make a big deal about it or not to make me feel embarrassed, um, or even weird about it, you know, because I would just say like, you didn't just see that woman like over there and like, no, we didn't, we didn't see that woman standing in front of the TV. Like everything was just so matter of fact. So whether if my mom was scared.

• 12:43Bunnie XO?

  That was my next question. It's like, did they ever try to take you to like counselors or like therapy or anything like that? Or did they just accept it and roll with it?

• 12:52Speaker 01

  In the beginning, accepted and rolled with it. And then as I got older, um, I did go to therapy for my anxiety. And then my mom was the one that suggested that I go see a spiritual healer. Because of my anxiety was so I couldn't even leave the house. That's how crippling it was. And I had just had my daughter Victoria. And so I would attend these spiritual awareness classes and that was a space for me to kind of navigate my gift. And I would only open up there.

• 13:22Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 13:23Speaker 01

  So I was blocking it all. I was holding it in and that's what was causing the anxiety. Because souls make me feel how they died. So I would all of a sudden feel like I couldn't breathe. I would all of a sudden just start tasting blood and my, my mouth wouldn't be bleeding. So all these things were happening to me and I couldn't understand it. So through this class, I was able to work through it and understand what it was that I was sensing and feeling and why I would be feeling that.

• 13:50Bunnie XO?

  We're going to circle back to the, the spiritual teachings.

• 13:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:53Bunnie XO?

  But I just want to touch base on the fact that you lived with this from the time you were four until you had your first child.

• 14:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, I, I, for my, my entire life, I've lived with this. I was almost 30.

• 14:06Bunnie XO?

  And nothing, did you know that you were like psychic?

• 14:09Speaker 01

  No.

• 14:10Bunnie XO?

  You just thought it was just severe panic, panic disorder?

• 14:13Speaker 01

  I knew that I was sensing and feeling things that other people didn't.

• 14:16Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 14:16Speaker 01

  And we, I was just talking about this this morning and I think this is interesting. So like if people are thinking they don't know how to connect with their loved ones or they're not getting signs. I said to Jenny when we were getting ready this morning, I was like, for some reason I felt like I needed to wear my grandmother's cross today. And I just, I, this is my dad's mom. And I was like, I feel like I need to wear this today. I, I have to put this on. And she's like, okay, so you know, wear it. And I'm like, yeah, I, I just feel like I have, and then all of a sudden I sat back and I looked at my calendar. Today is the day she died.

• 14:47Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 14:48Speaker 01

  Forty-three years ago.

• 14:49Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 14:50Speaker 01

  Yeah. So like little things like that, like an intuition. And to me, that was a sign from her of her saying, you know, Wear me today.

• 14:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 14:59Speaker 01

  Right?

• 15:00Bunnie XO?

  Remember me.

• 15:00Speaker 01

  Remember me. Bring me with you too, even though she's always with me.

• 15:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:04Speaker 01

  But I just, this is all part of like intuition and some people then it, I always say, because if people are very intuitive, right, like, like you're an intuitive, you're very intuitive, that doesn't mean that then you have to be a medium.

• 15:17Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 15:17Speaker 01

  Does that make sense?

• 15:18Bunnie XO?

  Right, yes.

• 15:18Speaker 01

  Like, there's a difference. I know I was born this way. I was built, my physical body was built to do this kind of work because it's not easy. And I know my gift is guided by God, because through that struggle of going to the spiritual awareness classes, I was fighting it. And I was like, well, why would, why would God give me this gift? Like, this is crazy. And then, once I kind of accepted, I was like, okay, this is great. Then I was like, okay, but now who's going to want to come and speak to a medium? Who wants to talk to their loved ones that have died? I could not understand that. You have to remember, this was back in the 90s now.

• 15:55Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 15:55Speaker 01

  Right? So I was struggling with it, then 9/11 happened. So now we have this six years where I was battling this gift. And, or the acceptance of, and 9/11 happened, and that's when I put my gift in God's hands. I said, listen, if this is my soul's journey, then I will put your gift in my, I will put my gift in your hands. You open the doors, I will walk through them with my gift. But I only want to use it for healing purposes. I don't want to see scary things. I can't keep seeing people in full form.

• 16:33Speaker 01

  And remember, I'm afraid of the dark.

• 16:34Bunnie XO?

  Yes. Yes.

• 16:37Speaker 01

  So.

• 16:38Bunnie XO?

  I'd be afraid of the dark too, if I had to see what you had to see all the time.

• 16:41Speaker 01

  Yeah. It's startling when you feel, see, well, my thing was, is because I would feel things and see things. So if I opened my eyes and it was dark and I was still feeling something, I couldn't put it together. So by always having a light or a little brightness to it, I felt safer.

• 16:58Bunnie XO?

  You do talk about that you only channel white light. How do you decipher and how, because I know the spirit world, especially the dark side of the spirit world.

• 17:05Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 17:06Bunnie XO?

  Is not respectful. So how do they respect your boundaries?

• 17:10Speaker 01

  I think because God wins.

• 17:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:14Speaker 01

  Right? If you don't mind me saying.

• 17:15Bunnie XO?

  Of course. We love Jesus around here.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  Yeah. So I, I'm always, I never want people to misinterpret, like I am a practicing Catholic. And I never want people to misinterpret if I'm pushing a religion. I just think faith is important. I don't care what it is, but faith is, is part of our foundation.

• 17:35Bunnie XO?

  Everybody needs something to believe in.

• 17:36Speaker 01

  Exactly. And whatever it is, it doesn't matter as long as you believe in something.

• 17:41Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 17:42Speaker 01

  So I don't know how it is, but I know it's true. I, I can see souls, but I can't receive direct messages from them. They have to be channeled through another soul. So I know I can't lower my vibration low enough for that. And it's happened where I've seen it in readings. And then also I've seen dark energies around people. I cannot get in there, but I'll know what it is and I'll just back off from it. And I'm always protected.

• 18:15Bunnie XO?

  What does, what does a light, a light energy look like and a dark energy look like? Is it pretty self-explanatory or do they come in different forms?

• 18:22Speaker 01

  I could just, a lot of, a lot of my communication is through feeling. But the one instance that I was just referring to, I was doing a live show and there was a woman and I asked her to stand up. And when she stood up, I saw all this just darkness around her. And I was like, and I just got this like pit in my chest and in my stomach. And I literally felt like someone was pushing me back to back away. And I said to her, I said, do you not feel right? Do you feel heavy or like, do you feel like, or do you use the term, I have this black cloud over me? And she said, yes. And I said, well, you played with a Ouija board. And she said, I did. I said, well, you have all of these negative energies attached around you. You need to go home and burn the board.

• 19:06Speaker 01

  Cause that's the only way that you can get rid of, you know, the energy. And, and she, I'll never forget it. She looked at me. She says, I don't want to. And I said, okay.

• 19:17Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 19:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:19Bunnie XO?

  I just got goosebumps. Why would you want that dark energy around you?

• 19:22Speaker 01

  I don't know. I don't know.

• 19:24Bunnie XO?

  We had a spooky situation that happened here because I have a lot of antiques in here. This is just our studio where we film. Literally, we.

• 19:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, that door, that room, when you first walk in.

• 19:33Bunnie XO?

  Uh huh.

• 19:34Speaker 01

  That room, I guess, I don't know, I walked in and then to the right.

• 19:37Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 19:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, you could, I could feel energy in there.

• 19:39Bunnie XO?

  Oh, for sure. There's energy all around here. And this is why I will not bring antiques in my house. We were filming one day and I look over, there's a Dolly Parton Ouija board in here. I love Dolly Parton.

• 19:51Speaker 01

  Well, today's Dolly Parton's birthday, by the way.

• 19:52Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy, right? Yeah.

• 19:54Speaker 01

  A Dolly Parton Ouija board?

• 19:55Bunnie XO?

  A Dolly Parton Ouija board, and we don't know where it came from. Someone just.

• 20:00Speaker 01

  That is bizarre.

• 20:01Bunnie XO?

  Placed it in here. We have no idea where it went. And I, I was like, get it out of here. Like, nobody, even.

• 20:06Speaker 01

  That's so crazy.

• 20:07Bunnie XO?

  It's so crazy. We talked about it and like, people, you know, the fans that watch the show went back and traced like when it appeared and everything like, and we still don't know.

• 20:15Speaker 01

  Don't know where it came.

• 20:16Bunnie XO?

  No, have no idea. Like, it's the craziest thing.

• 20:19Speaker 01

  And, and that you don't maybe not, might not want to know.

• 20:21Bunnie XO?

  No, never want to know. But for her to say, like, that lady to say that she didn't want to go home and burn the Ouija board, like, I wouldn't want that dark energy around me.

• 20:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:31Bunnie XO?

  Do you feel that all Ouija boards invite dark energy?

• 20:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, um, I do because you're, you're, you're calling in energies. You know, you do have this connection and you do have that ability. And I feel like that is just opening a vortex or, or a vessel that you don't want to.

• 20:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:48Speaker 01

  Or you don't really know what to do. I mean, listen, there are times that I end a live show and I can feel energies attached to me. That doesn't mean that it's bad, but I have to do a lot of prayer.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  You know, to make myself feel better, more grounded. A lot of times after a show, I kind of seclude myself for a little bit. Because I don't want, and you know, I don't want to carry that with me. I have to do my own thing to get rid of the energy.

• 21:16Bunnie XO?

  Mm hmm. I couldn't imagine. Every time I go to a funeral home, something attaches to me. We just freaking filmed a Christmas video, or my Christmas song video, in a funeral home. And it was Grandma Got Run Over by a reindeer, but I ended up with the worst suicidal ideation.

• 21:34Speaker 01

  Well, wait, did you say that? Because I was literally saying, what, why would she be doing a Christmas video in a funeral home? I was like, why is she doing?

• 21:41Bunnie XO?

  It was Grandma Got Run Over by a reindeer. Yeah. It was literally Grandma Got Run Over by a reindeer, but I paid the price for it because all of December I had the worst depression after filming that.

• 21:52Speaker 01

  I mean, it's real. I mean,

• 21:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it's crazy.

• 21:55Speaker 01

  I, I always say this. I go, people can say whatever they want about what I do. And it, but it's real.

• 22:03Bunnie XO?

  No, it's

• 22:03Speaker 01

  I mean, it is real. But what you, do you protect yourself in, when you go into spaces? Do you protect yourself in white light?

• 22:12Bunnie XO?

  I, I haven't done that and I need to do that more. I actually just did my first Archangel Michael meditation the other day because I need, I wanted to call him in for protection and I really felt a difference. Like it was amazing, but I have crosses tattooed all over my body because I've always, like you, as a child, had severe anxiety to where I couldn't leave the house and have always seen spirits. So my obsession with crosses has always been since I was little. So I have crosses in my house all over my body and I just always pray, but I guess I do need to start doing the white light.

• 22:44Speaker 01

  And I also do Archangel Michael every day. Yeah. Every morning after the rosary, I say the prayer for Saint Michael, Archangel Michael, and then also before every reading that I do, especially a live show.

• 22:59Bunnie XO?

  Wow, that's amazing. And it really did make a difference. Like I felt so much better after I did that meditation.

• 23:03Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 23:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 23:04Speaker 01

  But so you can, what you do is when you go into a space, just like imagine yourself like a white light from God, like coming in through the top of your head and just like filling you and like pulling out all like any

• 23:18Speaker 01

  Energy, okay, any grayness and like imagine yourself like translucent and just trimmed out in white light and then imagine that light that you drained forming into magnificent white light and then filling you up and then showering you in God's white light and protection.

• 23:35Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I love that.

• 23:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, some people do like a bubble, but it's this form of protection where if anything that's gonna come in, you only want for the highest good of all concerned.

• 23:45Bunnie XO?

  Amazing, I will definitely start doing that. Raising your children in this, you know, you know, you had them on TV and just in your lifestyle, have you, has your children known that you were, you had this ability ever since they were born?

• 24:03Speaker 01

  Since they were little, you know, I mean, my kids, when they went to school, you know, people are sharing, you know, oh, what did you, oh, my dad's a police officer, my mom's a teacher, my, my mom's a nurse, there's my kids, my dad's an, an Italian importer and my mom speaks to dead people, like, my kids grew up, that's what they knew.

• 24:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:21Speaker 01

  You know, but they, but the, the beautiful thing about that, they did not think that that was odd, like.

• 24:29Bunnie XO?

  Cause it's all they knew.

• 24:30Speaker 01

  That's all they knew.

• 24:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:32Speaker 01

  I ran into someone recently where it was a mom that was on a baseball team with my son and she's like, I never knew that that's what you did. She goes, you used to say things to me all the time and I thought it, they were, she was like, it always reminded me of my dad. She goes, but now I'm realizing you were channeling my dad on the, at the baseball games, you know, but like, it was just so matter of fact and no one ever, ever made a big deal about it.

• 24:55Bunnie XO?

  Do any of your kids have gifts as well?

• 24:58Speaker 01

  Of course they do.

• 24:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 25:00Speaker 01

  You know, my son is just very intuitive, he's very sensitive. My daughter shows signs to be able to do more like what I can do.

• 25:10Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 25:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, but she, but she also struggles with, you know, mental illness and she's very, very open about it.

• 25:17Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 25:18Speaker 01

  And she's good when she, when she puts her mind to it.

• 25:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 25:22Speaker 01

  She's really good at it, but she doesn't want to.

• 25:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, and you have to want to, to, to be able to, but it's a big responsibility.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  Right.

• 25:32Bunnie XO?

  She probably has to watch what you've gone through.

• 25:35Speaker 01

  Yes, and, and I say this all the time, I'm like, I make what I do look very easy.

• 25:40Bunnie XO?

  It's not.

• 25:40Speaker 01

  But it's the hardest thing to allow a soul to channel through me. Take people on this emotional roller coaster, right? And I don't think I realize, I realize what I do changes people's life in a positive way. But I just got a text message from someone two days ago saying that I read someone in prison. And it changed his life that he said to the person, can you please reach out to Teresa and tell her that I want to thank her because I feel worthy and he just got married. So he got out of prison and he's married and it's just, I don't real, I know what I do changes people's lives,

• 26:24Speaker 01

  but you can't even imagine to what level on how it changes someone's life.

• 26:28Bunnie XO?

  Who heals the healer? Because you are a healer in a sense, you are bringing so much light to people, so much closure that most people would never have if they had, like you brought me a ton of closure. So I could only imagine you doing that times the thousands and millions of people that you have reached. Who heals the healer though?

• 26:49Speaker 01

  God.

• 26:49Bunnie XO?

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, because it's that, I mean, in the beginning, um, I would say I would get it from, um, the woman who helped me with my gift and unfortunately she has passed away. But that was in the very beginning and then since then, uh, it's been my faith.

• 27:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I would be, I just, I, you're, uh, you're an anomaly because I know how like, you know, I, I'm not even on your level and I know how exhausted I get picking up people's energies. I could not imagine what you do like, and you don't get like, do you ever get physically ill from reading so many people or do you, are you constantly protecting yourself?

• 27:29Speaker 01

  No, I'm constantly protecting myself. In the beginning, that's interesting that you asked me that. In the beginning, uh, I did become very physically ill.

• 27:42Speaker 01

  This was when I was struggling with my gift and I don't even know if I even shared this. Courtney, you might know this. My dad had to physically carry me into the doctor. I was, and I was ill out of nowhere. My, my kids were babies and I was literally in bed for two weeks, but at the time I smoked.

• 28:00Bunnie XO?

  Cigarettes or weed?

• 28:01Speaker 01

  No, cigarettes.

• 28:02Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 28:03Speaker 01

  No, not weed. I don't know what that would, I don't know what that would look like.

• 28:07Bunnie XO?

  Clarify these days.

• 28:08Speaker 01

  Listen, people do them, that, that would probably be a disaster.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, I was never one to really dabble, you know, with things like that. I guess it's like also so like a controlled thing. I didn't like that feeling.

• 28:25Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 28:26Speaker 01

  So it was almost like a way I felt of God detoxing me because I couldn't do the work that I do with filling and putting toxins in my body.

• 28:33Bunnie XO?

  Right. Oh, absolutely.

• 28:35Speaker 01

  So I know that that and literally my mom said to me was like a couple of weeks after I had stopped smoking. My mom said to me, she goes, you are such a bitch. She goes, you need to go back to smoking. And I go, no, God doesn't want me to smoke. And we both looked at each other and we were like, whoa. Like, but these are things that I would say, like, why would, who would say that?

• 28:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 28:55Speaker 01

  And I knew it was for a higher purpose.

• 28:58Bunnie XO?

  When you were, when your dad had to carry, your dad or your husband?

• 29:01Speaker 01

  My dad.

• 29:02Bunnie XO?

  Dad had to carry you into the hospital. What was the diagnosis then? Was it just severe stress and just taking on everything?

• 29:09Speaker 01

  It was just, I think they chalked it up to like a flu.

• 29:11Bunnie XO?

  Wow. And it was just from reading people.

• 29:14Speaker 01

  It was me battling and fighting and resisting. And I do believe that sometimes when the worst things happen to us, things happen, but it's always for a reason. So even though that was the wor, at that time, it was awful. But I know it was a time for me, like, there was just something deep in my soul that I knew I had to stop smoking and that I had to accept my gift.

• 29:39Bunnie XO?

  Yes, it's growth. I always say there's a blessing and a lesson in everything that we go through. You were married and raising kids before you ever fully stepped into this work. Do you think motherhood delayed your awakening or do you think it prepared you for it?

• 29:53Speaker 01

  I think it prepared me. Again, as a child, I always knew that I wanted to get married young and have children. That was, I knew I wanted to be a young mom and I think most people feel that way, but I would not be able to do what I do and travel and all the things that I've done if I did not have children at a young age.

• 30:12Bunnie XO?

  Right, absolutely. How, how, sorry. How did being a medium affect your marriage in ways that nobody could see?

• 30:20Speaker 01

  Well, I do have to say Larry was a great supporter through that. I mean, I used to say I see shadows. Like, if you think you see shadows, go, you see shadows. Like, he really, he really didn't believe.

• 30:33Speaker 01

  Or I like to use the word understand. He didn't understand it. But what he understood was that when I read, I became better.

• 30:42Bunnie XO?

  Like it was like a release.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 30:44Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 30:44Speaker 01

  Because the anxiety came from me trapping all the energy inside. Um, so he did notice that once I started reading, I was more relaxed. I didn't have anxiety. Um, so he was like, I don't care if you think talking to dead people makes you better. He goes, then you talk to all the dead people you want.

• 31:05Bunnie XO?

  Oh, he's like, if mama ain't happy, nobody happy. Did you ever feel guilty, like you were more emotionally available for strangers than, but you were like exhausted at home?

• 31:15Speaker 01

  100%. I still feel that way. I still feel that way.

• 31:20Bunnie XO?

  And that's why you're trying now to kind of slow down and take time.

• 31:23Speaker 01

  And, and I know that that's not true. Like, I know, because I work very hard. I have amazing relationships and bonds with my family. Um, you know, I still live next door to my parents.

• 31:32Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I love that about you. I love the fact that they're friends. Ticking. I mean, that's amazing.

• 31:38Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. My dad is 85 and my mom is 78. Yeah. And my dad, you would not think, he's so active. He's unbelievable, my dad.

• 31:47Bunnie XO?

  You light up when you talk about your family.

• 31:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:49Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I love that.

• 31:50Speaker 01

  Well, I wouldn't be who I am without them. I feel so blessed, not only to still have my parents, but to have them. They were the, they are the most amazing role models and the best parents that anyone could ever ask for.

• 32:04Bunnie XO?

  They sound amazing because a lot of parents, especially hearing stuff like this from their child at four years old, would have been like immediately trying to like put them in a mental institution or put them on medication or, you know, like you never, you never know what to do with something like that, especially.

• 32:21Speaker 01

  I say that, that I would, I might've been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

• 32:25Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 32:25Speaker 01

  And yet unfortunately, that is a real mental illness. But I could have very been easily diagnosed with something else and not, if it wasn't for my parents. I mean, trust me, my dad is very afraid of my gift.

• 32:40Speaker 01

  He's always like, you're taking the dead people with you, right?

• 32:44Bunnie XO?

  He's like, keep it over there though.

• 32:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, but he's like my number one supporter. Like, you know, he's always handing out pictures of me and you know, he's just, yeah, he's just, he's the best.

• 32:54Bunnie XO?

  Does he ever come to you for readings at all?

• 32:55Speaker 01

  No.

• 32:56Bunnie XO?

  Or is he just completely?

• 32:57Speaker 01

  If I say one thing to my dad, he's like, gotta go. I, but it's also hard. Like, I always say this, my family and friends get screwed out of readings all the time. Because am I getting, this is what people also don't understand. If I know something about someone, it's harder for me to read them. Because when I get the information, it's like, oh, did I know that about them? Or is this my own memory that I'm recalling? So when I read, I can't have any personal thoughts, feelings, or emotions. They have to strictly be the emotions of the souls of the departed or the person that I'm reading. So when I take, I take great pride when I say, if I read someone that's in the public eye, and I'm like, I don't know anything about them.

• 33:37Bunnie XO?

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• 35:46Speaker 01

  It's such a beautiful thing because it just makes the experience so much more authentic.

• 35:53Bunnie XO?

  You are definitely the real deal. I will say I was a little skeptical when I went into our podcast. Not that I was skeptical, because I totally believe in it. But you know, people nowadays, you never know. The stuff that you have, I can't wait till you guys can actually watch this podcast with us. The stuff that you were saying, down to the fact that my mom was hiding behind people because I had told her to not appear in this reading. And she was like, you were like, your mom's like hiding behind people. And I'm like, it's because I told her not to be, step up in this reading. And it was just, there were so many other things too that you pulled out. Like, it was crazy. You are definitely the real deal. Moving on to when you were doing this with your spiritual teacher, you studied with a spiritual teacher, you learned boundaries, grounding, discernment,

• 36:37Bunnie XO?

  and structure. You didn't just wake up and start doing readings, you trained. What was the hardest discipline you had to learn?

• 36:45Speaker 01

  I don't know, I don't know if I would look at it in that way. The only thing that, how I could describe it to you Bunny is that I put my gift in God's hands and I realized that this had nothing to do with me.

• 37:02Speaker 01

  I know that some people might not understand that, but this, I'm just the vessel that they're using. I'm just crazy enough to remove myself from it and allow them to take over my physical being, to be able to deliver messages.

• 37:20Speaker 01

  So I think that was the hardest thing, if you might say that, I had to learn. Because I'm just Teresa Caputo from Hicksville. That's literally how I still view myself. And this does have to do with the souls, not me.

• 37:34Bunnie XO?

  It's so selfless that you have dedicated your entire life to just putting yourself aside so that you can help other people.

• 37:42Speaker 01

  Well, I didn't realize that this was going to be my life. You know, I never in a million years thought that I would be where I am today.

• 37:52Speaker 01

  I didn't, if you want to refer to it as a business, I had a business card. I didn't even have a website, I didn't even have an email. I had a business card with a phone number on it, which was the sign of the cross, by the way.

• 38:07Speaker 01

  And it was a business card, I had a two-year waiting list. I was booked for two years. And then one day Courtney, my manager, she came to me, well unfortunately Courtney lost her dad. And she was having, you don't mind me sharing this, do you?

• 38:23Speaker 01

  Trouble moving on and her sister Victoria said, "Why don't you go see Teresa?" And she came for a reading and it changed her life. And she's involved in television and she had said, Everyone should have this experience, should be given this opportunity that I had. And she came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a TV show and I was like, alright, you know. It's like, okay, so I thought I was just gonna like film a couple of episodes. I'd be like on my break from filming, like making appointments and they used to be laughing at me. They're like, what is she making all these appointments for? She's not gonna be able to do this. She's gonna be filming a TV show and all this. And most certainly, I never thought that I would be traveling all over the country,

• 39:06Speaker 01

  living on a tour bus, doing live shows.

• 39:10Bunnie XO?

  So many back to back to back to back shows. Like you have a tour schedule like my husband.

• 39:14Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 39:15Bunnie XO?

  It's insane.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 39:17Bunnie XO?

  You have to be proud of yourself. Do you ever just stop and like pat yourself on the back? And like, you should.

• 39:23Speaker 01

  I am proud of myself because where I am,

• 39:28Speaker 01

  here's this little girl who couldn't even leave her house because of the anxiety and the fear, insecurities, whatever they may be.

• 39:40Speaker 01

  And then, you know, to go through your own losses, and then to be strong enough to take my abilities to this level, to take these chances. But again, I always just put, I just put it out to God and put it in His hands. Like if this is what I'm supposed to do, every new venture, I do that.

• 40:02Bunnie XO?

  Well, I'm proud of you.

• 40:03Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 40:03Bunnie XO?

  And I'm, you are somebody that I love to look up to and I'm happy that we have role models like you.

• 40:09Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 40:10Bunnie XO?

  What's the biggest misconception people have about how controlled and intentional your work actually is?

• 40:15Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, I always say if people think that, then they don't know me.

• 40:22Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:23Speaker 01

  They don't know the first thing about me. And I get it, I mean. I get I'm honestly the first one to say that what I do is crazy. How in the world can someone communicate with someone that has died?

• 40:34Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:34Speaker 01

  But you witnessed it yourself. There were things that there's no way. Yeah, there might be common things because there's only so many different ways that people can die.

• 40:42Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. So those things are common. I can't help that. But these other things of, and I think that was the thing that I loved about your experience was the souls really delivered on communicating with their personality. Respecting you, what you asked for, for the first time.

• 40:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 40:59Speaker 01

  I mean, to me, that still stays with me and I don't remember my readings. That stood out to me.

• 41:04Bunnie XO?

  And they all showed up. I mean, it was crazy. There was a lot of people that showed up in that reading. It was really, really wild.

• 41:10Speaker 01

  It was crazy.

• 41:12Bunnie XO?

  They were like standing in line. It's like, but I feel like they wanted to talk to you as much as they wanted to talk to me. They were like, oh shit, they're together? Like, let's, it's time to show up and show out. Like, you know, like, I really feel like they were just like, this is our time to shine.

• 41:26Speaker 01

  Can I just go back to something? Cause you, you said something to me and I, and I don't know if it's something because I never just, I'm, I am who I am. Do I take, I don't even know how to say this, if this is correct, to say like, credit for where I am? Yes, I did it. But I always say, I would not be who I am without the people around me. Including my family, but also my team. I have the most incredible team around me. And people have been with me since day one. So I'm very blessed and I don't take any of that for granted. Because I know that if I didn't have these people in my life,

• 42:09Speaker 01

  things could have been very different for me.

• 42:12Bunnie XO?

  Your vibe attracts your tribe and I feel like you've attracted people who are just like you. So that's a testament again of who you are as a person and then also your team that you have around you. So you have to be proud. I want you to start practicing on saying, I'm proud of myself.

• 42:26Speaker 01

  I'm proud of myself.

• 42:27Bunnie XO?

  There you go.

• 42:28Speaker 01

  You hear that? I'm proud of myself. Did you guys hear that? I'm proud of myself.

• 42:31Bunnie XO?

  There you go, sister. So your life changed overnight with Long Island Medium. When the show exploded, what part of your life disappeared first? Because that show, I mean, you were everywhere and you still are.

• 42:47Speaker 01

  Um, I would say being home or all that, you know, just being home and also the freedom of um, just going out, you know, um, that, that's hard. You know, you go out and I, I love people. I will stop and I will talk to people, you know, but people also have to understand if I'm, if you're out, you're doing errands, you're doing things. You can't do things like that for yourself. So I think that was hard because I am such um, a people person and I, and I just love to be out there.

• 43:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 43:22Speaker 01

  So that was just harder than just being home.

• 43:25Bunnie XO?

  I think people, you know, when people hear stuff like this, they're always like, well, you chose this life or like, you know, you, you know what you signed up for and half the time we didn't know what we signed up for.

• 43:34Speaker 01

  I didn't, right.

• 43:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you know, like my poor husband, you know, even wants to go to like his son's basketball game and he's getting filmed, you know, so it's like you totally forfeit.

• 43:45Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 43:45Bunnie XO?

  Privacy and like little things, like even being able to go eat dinner with, with your kids, you know, something like that.

• 43:52Speaker 01

  You can't.

• 43:53Bunnie XO?

  And we're, we're in no way complaining.

• 43:54Speaker 01

  Not at all, not at all.

• 43:56Bunnie XO?

  It does affect us as humans. So.

• 43:59Speaker 01

  Because we just want to do things. I mean, people will come up to me and say, what are you doing here? Like I'll be in Target, this man literally came up to me, he's like, what are you doing here? I go, I don't know, I'm buying toilet paper. What are you doing here? Like I'm doing the same thing you're doing. Like I have to, and, and he literally said to me, don't you have people to do that?

• 44:17Bunnie XO?

  I get that all the time. That's so weird.

• 44:19Speaker 01

  I, I said to myself, it's such a different misconception. And I think that is one thing, Bunny, that I work on myself because I think we all do it to an extent, judgment. We judge, right? And you don't, my mom always says, don't judge because you don't know the whole story.

• 44:33Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 44:34Speaker 01

  And it, and it's true, you know, um, but yeah, of course, but they're, they're here to help me, not to go, you know what I mean?

• 44:42Bunnie XO?

  Shopping for you.

• 44:43Speaker 01

  I could go do my own thing. CVS is my favorite hiding shopping place. I'm like CVS has become my one stop shopping.

• 44:51Bunnie XO?

  I love that. Okay. Well, now everybody's gonna, everybody's gonna be looking for you at CVS in your hometown now.

• 44:59Bunnie XO?

  Do you ever feel pressure to be on spiritually, even when you're emotionally empty?

• 45:04Speaker 01

  I don't because there's something that I feel a spirit knows as part of the boundaries. Because of course I feel energy now and I feel things, but I'm not being pushed to say anything. That's several things. It means that maybe the soul doesn't need to communicate. Maybe the person doesn't want to hear from their loved ones because not everyone wants to hear from their loved ones that have died. Right? So, um, I don't really ever feel pressure and it's hard when people say, oh, are you always on? It's not an on thing. I can't explain it. It's not so, I don't know.

• 45:45Bunnie XO?

  It's a lifestyle.

• 45:46Speaker 01

  But I don't know how. I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know how to turn on. It just happens.

• 45:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I understand. What is the funniest thing a spirit has ever said to you?

• 45:58Speaker 01

  Oh, there's so many things that just popped into my head. I remember doing a live show and it was an older woman. She was, I think in her eighties and her husband had passed away. And he goes, tell my wife she still has it. And then he showed me him chasing her around the dining room table. And then him and her on the dining room table. And I was like, oh, God, oh, God, I don't know what is, how do I see this? So I tried to deliver this in a way of where, and I said, oh, your, your husband says you still have it. And then I felt him like hit me on the butt and she goes, oh, she goes, he would do that to me all the time. And then she says, and he used to chase me around the dining room table. I'm like, oh, la, la, la, la, la. I don't want to hear this again.

• 46:41Bunnie XO?

  You're like, I know, I just saw it.

• 46:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly.

• 46:44Bunnie XO?

  That is so funny.

• 46:46Speaker 01

  But those are the things that I love. Like, so there are always levity moments because I want spirit to communicate with personality and laughter. Because I feel that is the best medicine for the soul. And I, and I think in a way, it also gives us permission to kind of live life with happiness and joy. Even though we're missing our loved ones that have died.

• 47:05Bunnie XO?

  Yes. Amen, sister.

• 47:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:08Bunnie XO?

  What's one thing you wish people would stop asking you?

• 47:12Speaker 01

  Um, stop asking me.

• 47:15Bunnie XO?

  What are you doing here while you're on Target?

• 47:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, what are you doing here? Why are you on Target? Um, I don't know. What would it be? Because usually for the most part, when I see people, they're never like, oh, what are you getting? Like, people never say that to me. They're always just thanking me for what I do. They want to share with how would I do change their life? Um, and they just want, and they just want a picture. Oh, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna, this is it. Stop asking me to change my hair. It's not gonna happen.

• 47:42Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 47:43Speaker 01

  I love my hair. And the reason why I wear my hair this way is because I don't like it on my face. So when my hair isn't done, my hands are constantly in my hair. And then your hair becomes greasy and like dirty. And I don't like that.

• 47:59Bunnie XO?

  The higher the hair, the closer to God.

• 48:01Speaker 01

  I like it. I don't know why. I just love big hair.

• 48:04Bunnie XO?

  I think it's your signature. I don't, if you changed your hair, I don't think anybody would recognize you.

• 48:09Speaker 01

  Oh, they do. Even in a baseball hat, someone will say, I noticed the way you stood, the way you walked, I heard you talk.

• 48:15Bunnie XO?

  The voice. The voice gives it away. Yeah, it's definitely a trademark.

• 48:18Speaker 01

  Even if I don't do my hair, it's always like in a little poof, like, I just love a poof. I think I look better with my hair bigger.

• 48:25Bunnie XO?

  I love it. I tell, when she's doing my hair, I'm like, tease it. Tease, I want bed hair. I want to look like I just got banged type hair. Like, and when I get my hair done.

• 48:33Speaker 01

  We were just talking about that. You love that tussled hair, right? And I was just saying tussled hair. And then somebody said, oh, like you, like you just.

• 48:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:46Bunnie XO?

  Great minds think alike.

• 48:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, and I was like, I didn't think of it like that.

• 48:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, that's exactly what it is. I love it. I love bed hair. It's amazing. What do you think the biggest myth about mediums is?

• 48:58Speaker 01

  Uh, I think that it's not real. Um, and I, I only speak for myself. Um, I feel that there are people out there that do have abilities. Um, and I always say if someone is helping someone live their life in a positive way, then I support them, you know? Um, and I can't explain what I do. It just, it just happens. So when people, I'm like, I don't know. This is just me.

• 49:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 49:27Speaker 01

  So.

• 49:27Bunnie XO?

  Do you have friends that are mediums too?

• 49:29Speaker 01

  I do. I do. I have one really good friend. Um, and she, um, I kind of helped her along or encouraged her to.

• 49:39Speaker 01

  To do this because she had, she was, but then she stopped. Um, so she's one of my best friends.

• 49:47Bunnie XO?

  Would you ever get into teachings like actually like letting people learn from you or mentor mentoring somebody?

• 49:53Speaker 01

  I don't know. Um, because I always just share with people, people, if they ever ask me, like if they're struggling with their own gifts, I just share with them what I do and what has helped me. But because it's such a personal thing and the way mediums communicate, well, all different, not one better than another. We're just different on how we get and receive messages. So for me, it's more of a feeling and just a knowing. Like when I hear someone speak to me, I'm not really hearing someone speak to me. I can't explain it. They're really not speaking to me, but they're speaking to me.

• 50:27Bunnie XO?

  Right. It's, but you feel it and you see it and.

• 50:29Speaker 01

  Yes. And I can't, and it's just something that I feel like deep in my soul.

• 50:34Bunnie XO?

  What would you be doing if you weren't a medium?

• 50:37Speaker 01

  I don't know. So I had, these are the several things that I thought I was going to be. Well, I, I always wanted to, well, I feel like I accomplished it because I always just wanted to be a mom. Because I feel like being a parent is the most important job here in the physical world. So I feel like I did accomplish that, but I wanted to be a Dallas Cal girl cheerleader.

• 50:56Bunnie XO?

  With those legs, you could have definitely done it, sister. Okay.

• 51:00Speaker 01

  And I wanted to be a legal secretary or a stenographer.

• 51:06Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing. So you just wanted to sit there and type in a courtroom?

• 51:09Speaker 01

  And I always had long nails, so I, it was always.

• 51:11Bunnie XO?

  I could just hear you just clicking away in the courtroom. That would be amazing. Would you ever try to do that? Like in the second part of life, just be like, you know what? I don't want to be a medium anymore. I'm going to go be a stenographer.

• 51:21Speaker 01

  No, no, because I, I feel like I would get like too engrossed in the whole, I'd be like, what?

• 51:30Bunnie XO?

  Like a true crime documentary, just right, right in front of your eyes.

• 51:34Speaker 01

  And honestly, I can't, I know this is, is going to sound crazy because it's probably the not normal. But I feel, I will never stop doing what I do because this is who I'm supposed to be. And even being on television and having cameras and to me, it was the most natural feeling. I can't explain it. And I even think my, my family felt the same way, like it was never uncomfortable. It was always comfortable. It was always like, this is what was supposed to happen.

• 52:03Bunnie XO?

  As a little girl, did you ever visualize your life like this?

• 52:06Speaker 01

  No.

• 52:06Bunnie XO?

  No, not at all.

• 52:07Speaker 01

  I, I. I always thought that I was never gonna achieve anything in life because I was gonna die.

• 52:15Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 52:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. So like even before I got married, I was like, well, I can't imagine myself married and like not living with my parents. So I'm gonna die.

• 52:24Bunnie XO?

  From natural causes or?

• 52:26Speaker 01

  Just, no, it was, it was just a thought. It wasn't anything like this is how I'm gonna die. And it was same thing when I was pregnant. I was like, oh my God, I can't imagine going through childbirth. Something's gonna happen. I'm just gonna die. You know, like I never really thought.

• 52:39Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 52:40Speaker 01

  That I was gonna grow old.

• 52:42Bunnie XO?

  No, but you're not old. You're hot. I mean, can we talk, are we dating? What's happening? Cause you are way too hot to be out here, single. There's no way that men are not banging your door down. You are so cute.

• 52:55Speaker 01

  Nobody, A, nobody has never banged my door down. I don't know what this is. No one has ever slid in my DMs and was like, hey, no.

• 53:05Bunnie XO?

  What?

• 53:05Speaker 01

  Well, you know what? I have to, full disclosure.

• 53:07Bunnie XO?

  Are you checking the right? Cause there's three inboxes.

• 53:10Speaker 01

  I really don't even check my.

• 53:14Bunnie XO?

  DMs.

• 53:14Speaker 01

  DMs. I'm not even, I'm, I'm, can I, are you allowed to? I'm not a big fan of social media.

• 53:19Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 53:19Speaker 01

  I just don't, um, you know, so I really don't go on it. I'll just go on it to look like if my friends.

• 53:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 53:27Speaker 01

  DM me.

• 53:28Bunnie XO?

  So how is dating life for you now that you are single?

• 53:31Speaker 01

  Well, here it is like I don't, I don't. I don't feel like I ever really dated. Like I've never really dated, like how people, what most people say, oh, I met someone at a bar or I met on a, on an app. It was never like that for me.

• 53:45Bunnie XO?

  I couldn't see you on Tinder.

• 53:46Speaker 01

  No.

• 53:47Bunnie XO?

  There's no way.

• 53:48Speaker 01

  No.

• 53:48Bunnie XO?

  So how do, how does somebody like you meet somebody?

• 53:51Speaker 01

  Well, you, you meet people through connections, through work. That's how, that's how I met my first husband. That's why I met Larry. Um, so, and I never even.

• 54:03Speaker 01

  Thought about dating or wanted to date.

• 54:07Bunnie XO?

  Why have we not made a dating show?

• 54:08Speaker 01

  It just kind of happened. I'm really not a, um, a, a dater or like someone that, and I never was like that. Um, no, I, I am dating. I, well, I'm not like freely dating. I have someone in my life that I've been with for, you know, several years now.

• 54:26Bunnie XO?

  Okay. I did not know that. That didn't come up in any search that I was looking for.

• 54:30Speaker 01

  Well, you also have to realize I, um, this was, my life is out there. He does not choose to live a public life.

• 54:40Bunnie XO?

  I love that. That you guys were able to keep that under the radar though. That's amazing.

• 54:44Speaker 01

  I've always been very open about it, um, when I was dating. So, but I'm not like a dater dater. Does that make sense?

• 54:52Bunnie XO?

  No, I get it.

• 54:52Speaker 01

  You know, and, and I'm very, I have to, I always say this. I am. I, you know, Larry and I, I always say this because I'm very proud, um, of also of how we've handled everything and where we are today. You know, um, we're a family. I always say this, even just because we're not married doesn't mean that we're not together. We're a family. We have children. We have grandchildren. So we're able to have all these special moments together as a family.

• 55:19Bunnie XO?

  That's beautiful. And that's amazing that you guys can go through, you know, such a public divorce and then still just be so amicable and raise the family together because a lot of people let their emotions get in the way.

• 55:32Speaker 01

  Because that's, that's what life is about, right? It's about family. It's about connection. So.

• 55:36Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. What is the most misunderstood part of your personality?

• 55:43Speaker 01

  I don't know. I don't, I don't think people misunderstand me. I think it's pretty black and white of, of who I am. I mean, if, this is what I always say, if people say, yeah, does anyone say anything negative about me?

• 55:55Bunnie XO?

  No, I don't even know. I don't know if it's.

• 55:58Speaker 01

  I don't even know.

• 55:59Bunnie XO?

  No, no, no.

• 56:00Speaker 01

  Not you and I don't care. I like, I don't know.

• 56:04Speaker 03

  I don't say like because you like nice things.

• 56:07Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 56:07Speaker 03

  With the money and she needs money to give it away.

• 56:10Speaker 01

  Right.

• 56:11Speaker 03

  In this planet that it's more of a charity or church. All these charities on Long Island, like one, like.

• 56:18Speaker 01

  Oh, John Theocent. Yeah.

• 56:20Speaker 03

  Buy him a house where he could like do such great work with kids with bowel and cancer. Like she makes money to get her money back.

• 56:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, but I always liked nice things. My grandmother and my mom would always say, we don't know where you came from. You were born with a label on your head. And my grandmother used to tell me, you have champagne taste in a beer pocket.

• 56:41Speaker 04

  Oh, I love that.

• 56:42Speaker 01

  I always, I always loved designer things, always nice things. I always tell this story when I was in fifth grade. That's when Jordache and Sassoon first came out and the Tom McCanns.

• 56:51Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 56:52Speaker 01

  And it was, we were getting ready for school and my mom was like, okay, we're gonna go school shopping. And I was like, well, I want Jordache and Sassoon's and Tom McCanns. So my mom said, look, we could go to TSS and you could get 10 outfits and five pairs of shoes. She said, or you can get one pair of Jordache, one pair of Sassoon's and one pair of Tom McCanns. And I chose the three items.

• 57:18Speaker 04

  You're like, I want all three.

• 57:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, I've always been like that. Like I just, I just like nice things. I don't know why. Again, I was just born this way. And I, and I don't think, I think that is one of the biggest misconceptions about me is that people don't know or realize that what I do is so much more than me communicating with people that have died.

• 57:39Speaker 04

  Behind the scenes.

• 57:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, the behind the scenes things. So I did a fan club because, and I'm very proud. Sylvia runs my fan club along with Victoria. We formed the fan club because people were taking advantage of my ticket prices. So, and they were, and filled with empty promises. So we formed this fan club. It's $19.99 to join. I mean, first of all, that's ridiculous, $19.99. But we did it so they could purchase tickets safely for the correct ticket pricing. So we did that, but all the proceeds after the cost of running the fan club, I donate back to the fans. So we've given, we do like $1,000 gift cards at Christmas time.

• 58:24Speaker 01

  People have said we weren't gonna have a holiday if we didn't receive this. One woman was able to get a job and fix her car because of that. So changing people's lives in so many different ways and doing a lot of work with the John Theisand Children's Foundation. As one of, is the greatest. Foundation that I've ever worked with and the things that he has done for children and families on Long Island is just amazing.

• 58:52Bunnie XO?

  I'll have to look into that. I love donating. I love giving back. Nothing makes me feel better than giving back, especially to strangers. I feel like when I give back to people, I know they don't appreciate it as much, but I feel like when you give to strangers, it's like such a different feeling, you know?

• 59:07Speaker 01

  Because you know what I've also realized, Bunny? You know, people say, "Oh, I have such a close family." So when people tell me that, I think it's like my family. And people don't have that support. That's something that I've learned through my gift, where I felt that I took for granted of having family, you know, parents, a brother, cousins, where we're all so close, and to have support emotionally. And people don't have that.

• 59:33Bunnie XO?

  We create, people who don't have that, because I don't have that, we create our own families and we create our own safe spaces. But yes, you are definitely blessed. But I do believe that, do you believe that we choose our family before we come here?

• 59:47Speaker 01

  I do believe the soul chooses the life, yes.

• 59:51Bunnie XO?

  So you think that they pick everything that they go through, like the ailments that they go through, the addiction that they go through? Because I believe that. I truly believe that also.

• 59:59Speaker 01

  And I did a past life regression. And one of the past lives, I was a young man and I was desperately trying to save someone in a fire in my house. And when I finally pulled the young person out of the fire, the person conducting the past life said, "Look into the eyes and who do you see in this lifetime?" And I saw my nephew, my brother's son.

• 1:00:25Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 1:00:25Speaker 01

  Yeah. So he was my brother in a previous life.

• 1:00:29Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 1:00:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00:30Bunnie XO?

  That's insane. I haven't done one of those. I want to do one.

• 1:00:33Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:00:34Bunnie XO?

  Powerful.

• 1:00:34Speaker 01

  Very powerful.

• 1:00:36Bunnie XO?

  I'll have to get a recommendation from you. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast today, especially on your day off. Like,

• 1:00:43Speaker 01

  Oh, my God, this was amazing.

• 1:00:44Bunnie XO?

  I truly appreciate you being here. And I'm so excited for you guys to go check out Good Night Nashville tonight.

• 1:00:49Speaker 01

  Oh, can't wait.

• 1:00:50Bunnie XO?

  I'm so excited.

• 1:00:50Speaker 01

  But I just want to say to you, I just want to thank you, because you, I feel like you really did touch something that people don't

• 1:00:59Speaker 01

  Normally ask or know about me.

• 1:01:01Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 1:01:02Speaker 01

  So, next time someone asks me that, I'm gonna say, "Well, Bunny asked those." You asked aside and wanted to show a side of me that most people don't know, or that people would never even consider knowing.

• 1:01:13Bunnie XO?

  And I know sometimes it might be uncomfortable too, because you know, especially being interviewed, it's hard to answer personal questions like that. So I always try to be respectful, but I think you did really amazing.

• 1:01:23Speaker 01

  Oh, thank you. I feel like I've been here for like five minutes.

• 1:01:26Bunnie XO?

  No, it's been an hour. I think it's been an hour, right? Yeah.

• 1:01:29Speaker 01

  Oh, my God.

• 1:01:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Thank you so much.

• 1:01:31Speaker 01

  Oh, well, thank you.

• 1:01:32Bunnie XO?

  Where can people find you if they don't know how to find you?

• 1:01:35Speaker 01

  Just go to theresacaputo.com. I'm verified on everything. And I'm just gonna say this, if people reach out to you asking for a gift card, saying that it's me and I'm gonna give you a reading, it is not me. There is so much out there for, and this is again, something that through the fan club, we work so hard for. That's why I encourage people to join the fan club, because you have direct access to my team and my team only.

• 1:02:00Bunnie XO?

  Yes, and they can reach that at theresacaputo.com.

• 1:02:02Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 1:02:03Bunnie XO?

  Go sign up for the fan club. I'm gonna go sign up for the fan club. I'm gonna be the number one fan in there. I'm gonna be like a stalker in there, just crazy. I love you, girl. I can't wait to just continue watching your journey, and I'm just so proud of you.

• 1:02:16Speaker 01

  Oh, thank you so much. I'm equal. I am proud of you too.

• 1:02:20Bunnie XO?

  Thank you for being here, and thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Don't Blunt. I'll see you guys next week. Bye.

• 1:02:34Speaker 01

  That came through, and she was like, "I don't know if you don't know exactly what's going on with him, or like if you do, like I don't know if you feel like it, but they just keep showing me like everything's gonna be okay. Is there something with his blood?"

• 1:02:56Speaker 01

  I didn't know this. I knew this was gonna happen. Yeah, so just so you know, like how you always said that you wanna be respectful, like I always feel like, because I feel like you wanted to ask me, but you were afraid to ask.

• 1:03:08Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I would never.

• 1:03:09Speaker 01

  No, I know, I know. So you were afraid, you know, to ask. But I feel like, did you just switch a doctor, or did they just switch the treatment?

• 1:03:23Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah, no, he, he bled out last week. He lost fifty percent of his blood at surgery.

• 1:03:29Speaker 01

  And did they change something? Or did they give him something new? I don't know what it is.

• 1:03:34Speaker 05

  There's switching his nerves that we love so much. It's his last day today. And I've been so scared about that because I swear he's the only reason he's getting better.

• 1:03:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, but he's strong enough now. So he'll like, it's almost like she did her job. Is he home? Um, well, they should be in home, so.

• 1:03:54Speaker 05

  Wednesday. We just found out he's gonna come home Wednesday.

• 1:03:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, so he's, he's strong. It's almost like now he needs to know like he can do all of this. Like it's, he's gonna be fine. But they're telling me like he's a little bit stubborn. Like he doesn't listen. Like if they say eat more protein, he's like, I'm gonna eat vegetables. Like, I'm not gonna eat protein. Or, right? Does that like?

• 1:04:14Speaker 05

  So mad about the protein.

• 1:04:16Speaker 01

  Okay, so he needs to, he needs to, he needs to do the pro, he needs to really, it's very, who's the young male that deported? Connected to you? I feel like it's more of like a brother energy or, uh, or did he have a brother that passed or someone that was like a brother?

• 1:04:33Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:04:34Speaker 01

  And they told me, yes. So, uh, you could just ask him.

• 1:04:39Speaker 01

  Oh, I know what that is. Where's Jenny? She's inside. So that was, okay. So it's gonna be, but he has to just, it's almost like, I don't know if you said to them like death, like knock this shit off, like just do what they say. Like stop being so stubborn. This is your effing life now. Enough is enough. Like he has to, you know, and, and saying he can't give up. He is being a little subtle like, oh, like, oh yeah, you gotta.

• 1:05:11Speaker 05

  He can't eat the fucking protein.

• 1:05:13Speaker 01

  Right, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, he hasn't eaten in eight days, so it's.

• 1:05:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, so he has, but it's gotta, it's gotta be, it's gonna be little. Because it really does, he doesn't feel good when he, like, I get it, but like he's gotta do little like microdosing.

• 1:05:28Speaker 05

  It is.

• 1:05:29Speaker 01

  And he's got, but he will build that, he will build that up, but he has to just allow it to happen. Yeah.

• 1:05:40Speaker 01

  Yeah. But he'll be fine.

• 1:05:43Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 1:05:45Speaker 01

  Wait, did he, did he? I don't know what it is, so were there a lot of changes that they said that he should be making in his life? He doesn't want to do that either.

• 1:05:54Speaker 05

  He doesn't want to quit smoking.

• 1:05:57Speaker 01

  He doesn't want to do any of it, he's like, no way.

• 1:06:02Bunnie XO?

  He's so stubborn.

• 1:06:03Speaker 05

  So stubborn, it's crazy.

• 1:06:05Bunnie XO?

  I told him, I was like, no more surgeries, because it stresses me out. I was like, I forget everybody else.

• 1:06:10Speaker 01

  Did he have to have this surgery?

• 1:06:13Speaker 05

  It was like, either he lived in a catheter the rest of his life, or it was.

• 1:06:17Speaker 01

  Well, the problem with that was, is they're showing like, he waited too long to have.

• 1:06:22Speaker 05

  He did.

• 1:06:22Speaker 01

  Like, if he had, like, so this is a lesson, so we were just talking about this, on how the worst thing that can happen in our life turns out to be the best thing, in a sense. So this is also to acknowledge, if he did this sooner.

• 1:06:37Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:06:38Speaker 01

  Right? If he did this sooner, this never would have happened.

• 1:06:42Speaker 05

  Literally, we talked about it with the doctors, he's been having this prostate issue his whole life. And had they just done this years, but he's with the VA, so they're not worried.

• 1:06:52Speaker 01

  But I'm also just gonna say this, they didn't know so much about it, and I don't know if they were just watching something.

• 1:06:57Speaker 05

  They were.

• 1:06:58Speaker 01

  And then all of a sudden, it was like, shit, we gotta do this now. So, that in itself, so next time things come up, we just have to, like, we don't have to like it, but we have to do it.

• 1:07:10Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:07:11Speaker 01

  Does that make sense?

• 1:07:12Speaker 05

  I was like, no more, just, yeah.

• 1:07:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.