Undercover Agents for God

For years, I felt like I was an undercover agent. In the dark of night, in the private moments of life, I was deeply intuitive, spiritual, and woo-woo! (shhhhh)

On the surface, at work, in public, I was the over-educated professional with a confident steady voice, the public speaker, the teacher, the hot boss mama. (look at meeeee)

I went through rounds of back and forth with this.

Of course, there was my change from lawyer to intuitive. That was a big swing. But this swing of mine didn’t really stop then.

The whole time, I’ve had clients who call me their “shaman” or “psychic” and I’ve had clients that call me their “business strategist” or “marketing specialist.” And frankly, I’d lead with whichever version I thought would go over well in the current room.

But I’ve always been both.

For some years, during the hay-day of online biz building, I went to business conferences for entrepreneurs where everyone was learning strategies to get as many people as possible into programs. And I found a lot of the hard-driving tactics cringy.

Where was the heart, the compassion, the deep commitment to honesty over profit?

Inevitably, I would find a little subset of quieter, creative and gentle entrepreneurs, and we would sort of cling to each other, as if we were refugees from a strange land that spanned business and spirituality.

Together we would gripe and snipe. Fake webinars that aren’t really “live?” That is lying to people. That kind of bullshit in the field tanks the integrity of the business. If we are building businesses with lies baked in, how exactly is God our business partner?

And we looked around, realizing that we were the minority. Our disgust for this stuff was not popular. We hid it from the people on the stage, undercover agents that we were.

We weren’t the only ones. The Undercover Agents for God are everywhere! There are scores of people around you who seem like totally rational straight professionals, and at home they’re pulling Tarot cards and picking random verses out of a book, and listening to the next song on the scrambled playlist like it’s a message from God. (which it often is, I think, BTW)

Look, I’ve spent over 25 years now, doing radically spiritual work with people you’d never know were deeply spiritual. Fortune 100 execs. Mucho millionaire multi-founders. Scientists and techies and electrical engineers. Some real square-seeming cats, Man. And they are actually, secretly, deeply into the woo-woo.

What’s more, their intuitive discernment is how they’ve got themselves into those positions of power.

They learned to express it in ways it can be heard.

“I have a crazy idea. Could it be this?”

Or, “I’m noticing some hesitation in the room. Are we missing something?”

Or even, “I got this download last night…..”

The best Undercover Agents learn to offer their hits, their innovations, their out-of-nowhere ideas in ways that sound like they came out of research/experience/analysis.

But really… it’s their magic speaking.

And couching things in this sort of language can be a great idea. It respects the room, the profession, and the person in front of you. But when you have to hide the source of your knowing all the time, something starts to ache.

You may keep charging for the visible skill while giving away the deeper gift for free.

That is the expensive part of being undercover.

I recently spoke with a professional financial advisor who was also a deep intuitive. When she works with someone around money, she is not only looking at accounts, goals, and numbers. She is also helping them heal trauma around money and value, feeling old patterns coming through family, education, and experience.

Of course she has to couch everything in careful terms, her profession has rules about what belongs in the conversation. I respect those rules. And I also feel the frustration of watching someone bring such a potent gift under the table, where it cannot be fully seen, named, valued, or paid for.

This is where we gifted professionals can start to feel like misfits. You may think the intuitive part makes you harder to explain, less credible, or too strange for the industry. But the thing you are hiding may be the very thing that makes people trust you, open up to you, or respect your savant genius.

Let’s bring it above the covers, shall we? It’s time to talk about the four types of Intuitive Genius, so we can leverage your birthright of wisdom.

Instead of just talking about vague “intuition,” I like to talk about the ways we express this type of savant intuitive intelligence.

• Embodied genius makes you radiate confidence and clarity in your own skin, inspiring trust.

• Creative genius downloads solutions with lightning speed, making you the innovator.

• Relational genius reads the room with ease, weaving collaborations that go farther than any individual could alone.

• Visionary genius sees beyond the current scene, expanding creations out of the box and into unlimited potential.

In professional life, those are not cute side talents. They are not irrelevant gifts or hobbies. They are the most powerful leadership assets.

And yes, I had to learn this one in my own bones.

When my own psychic ability and mediumship opened, people knew me as a lawyer and a Catholic. I had already been rewarded for the approved gifts: communication, negotiation, analysis, all the professional skills that made sense on paper.

Then these other gifts woke up, and I did not have tidy language for them at first. It felt terrifying to imagine being fully revealed. I thought I would have to hide that part forever, and I even moved away to another town because it was too much to process being known in a whole new way.

That was back in 2000, and culture has shifted a lot since then.

Now, when I speak to corporate groups or work with executives, many of them already know something that used to be harder to say out loud.

The best leaders are reading bodies, rooms, patterns, timing, possibility, and the truth underneath the official conversation. They may not call it psychic. They may not call themselves undercover agents for God (though honestly, their loss!).

But they know the leader who can read the room has power. They know the innovator who senses a solution before all the data is in can move a whole project forward. They know the advisor who picks up what has not yet been said can help a client reach the real issue faster.

So maybe the question now is how to come out from undercover with integrity, skill, and language that actually serves the people in front of you. You don’t need to announce every intuitive hit like a thunderbolt from the heavens, violate the boundaries of your profession, or make people adopt your spiritual worldview before they can benefit from your gift.

But you may need to stop treating your intuitive genius like the embarrassing cousin who has to wait in the car.

Your deeper gifts can become part of your brand, your offer, your leadership, your client work, and your decision-making when they are translated well. They can also become part of what you are paid, recognized, and respected for.

What would it take for you to come out from undercover a little more honestly? Because the intuitive gifts you have been hiding are the same ones that make you more trusted, more useful, and more valuable in the work you came here to do.