We recently had the chance to connect with Joanna Gerard and have shared our conversation below.
Good morning Joanna, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
Every day I wake up between 5 am and 6:30, drink some coffee-and then walk about 3 or 4 miles.
I literally look forward to this walk every day. I’m a morning person.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Joanna Gerard. I worked for 16 years as a professional psychic entertainer, Astrologer and Entreprenuer.
I created my own Astrology deck, called the Praying Manyis Astrology oracle deck with my artist Joseph Priser.
I did live shows in California for about five years and some on-air talent work as well as voice over gigs.
I currently have an Astrology podcast on radio St. Petersburg and I teach Astrology on YouTube.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
I’m a pretty spiritual person, so there is a lot to this, but I will keep it short.
I have no doubt my professional career as a psychic was divinely inspired… because I remember everything that led up to it in such detail.
However, after 16 years of building a succesful business, being flown out to California to perform shows, creating my product, TV, radio, etc…. I finally got to a point of extreme burn out. My mental, physical and spiritual health was being negatively impacted and I went through a tremendous personal loss in 2023- Actually a series of unfortunate events. However, one of them altered the way I see the world forever. After this I reevaluated my life, who I am, my career, my purpose.
At the end there, before I stopped doing readings for the public, I was dealing with a lot of negative energy-not in some mystical or esoteric way-I was dealing with some people in my life whose lifestyles and ethics didn’t align with my morals. I was increasingly uncomfortable and quite frankly my intuition was screaming at me to stop and reinvent myself. So I really let it all go.
There was a time when a little bit of fame was fun to me, but I was also dealing with some really dark energy which was making me sick.
I’m not a people pleaser by nature, but it’s like I was playing that role that I was one. It started to feel the very opposite of free. I need to be me, be my authentic self. I guess that’s why they call it the price of fame:)
I’m not as open as I used to be. I like being social but I value privacy and detachment more . Boundaries are important to me, both personally and professionally.
. . I think the part of me( my past) that no longer serves a purpose is the part of me that felt I needed to prove something-even if just to myself.
I think I proved it and I’m now on to bigger and better. things.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Who’s important and who is not. What’s important and what’s not. I have dealt with a tremendous amount of personal loss in the past three years, along with lots of endings and a little betrayal sprinkled in.
I feel like a completely different person than I was five years ago. I’m attracted to different people, I look at life different, my personality is more guarded, my goals are different, I’m in what they call a Ketu Dasha in Vedic Astrology-which is all about loss, spirituality and transformation.
I guess suffering has to do with attachment if you study Eastern religion or philosophy at all-and suffering definitely made me look at life in a more detached way. I’m not as interested in any outcome anymore, I’m more interested in the ride, the journey.
One thing suffering definitely did was make me much more spiritual and reliant on God.
I’m not so much interested in strangers opinions of me because I know they are not part of my life path. Also, their opinion doesn’t really matter in my life. It has nothing to do with me really. A lot of irrelevant people and things don’t matter too much to me anymore. Suffering created a space for me to weed out and release people who were not aligning with my highest good.
Suffering makes us selective about who we allow in our world.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. Is the public version of you the real you?
Unfortunately, yes….. haha
Like I said before, I have never been accused of being a people pleaser. I do the same thing in business as I do in my private life… if I get a bad vibe from someone, my intuition tells me something is off-I let them go, block them… never to return.
I really follow my intuition all day every day.
But you know I’m born on a cusp-of Libra and Scorpio- so I have two sides. On one hand I’m very social, voiceovers, shows, traveling, meeting lots of people.
However on the other hand I’m private-I’m an Astrology researcher, pretty suspicious of people and increasingly more guarded.
So you really have to know me well to know both sides.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
I think like this already. I have had so many friends in my life pass away young, I just naturally think like this.
I already stopped doing it but the real answer is I don’t look for validation from others at all anymore. I’m most interested in what I think of me, and of course what God thinks of me.
I live my life exactly the way I want to live it. If I want to do something I do it, if it’s a headache to me I don’t. I’m not into following, I’m not into leading.
I’m just into doing my own thing.
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