Conversation with Tracy Sharman, Co-Founder of Talking Spirit and lover of all things Spiritual.

In a special new series introducing members of the Talking Spirit team, Sue Pritchard speaks

with co-founder Tracy Sharman.

I believe we meet people for a reason, and I will never forget the first time I met Tracy

Sharman from Talking Spirit.

I was quite nervous, unsure of what to expect, when I sat down with Tracy for my first card

reading in October 2022. What I certainly didn’t expect was for her to steer my life off on a

magical adventure, helping me believe I can catch my abandoned childhood dream of becoming an author.

Empowering

Tracy is the co-founder of Talking Spirit in West Malling, Kent. It’s a spiritual well-being

business she runs with co-founder Clare Teale, along with a team of spiritual practitioners

who offer heart-centred clarity, healing, and direction for those in need.

After meeting at the Arthur Findlay College in Stansted, Tracy and Clare clicked together

straight away.

“We both realised we wanted to show others that connecting to spirit and our intuition isn’t

just for those giving a demonstration up on the stage,” Tracy says. “It’s for everybody.”

Adding that she really believes in empowerment, Tracy admits she’s uncomfortable when

spiritual work becomes ego driven, with some trying to claim all the glory for themselves.

“For me it’s about helping to change the world and showing people what they can do,” she

said. “Showing people that they have so much potential within them has a wonderful ripple

effect. If someone realises they are this amazing soul, they can go on and show others they

are amazing souls too. It creates a beautiful domino effect.”

We’re all capable of this, Tracy believes, because we all have a sixth sense. It was something

we used thousands of years ago but for some reason is now viewed as being supernatural.

“And I really don’t understand why,” she says. “It’s one of our senses. The same as our sense

of smell or taste. We can all tune into it by recognising that and practising and trusting it.

I think we put too much emphasis on our brains for being right. But our gut brain, our intuition,

is far more powerful.”

Although we all have this intuitive knowledge, we often forget it’s there, needing someone

else to point out what we’re capable of. And Tracy feels honoured to be able to teach people

how to rediscover this.

“My greatest teacher was Pauline Soulsby,” Tracy remembers fondly. “She was our astrology

person at Talking Spirit. She was so wise and yet so dry and smart with her sense of humour.

Through astrology and her own beautiful self, she helped me to understand people more. She

helped me understand what people are made of astrologically, and why they can be the way

they are.

“Pauline also had a beautiful saying of: Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

She was my greatest teacher,” Tracy added.

Greatest Lesson

If Pauline was her greatest teacher, what has been Tracy’s greatest lesson in life so far?

“You cannot be responsible for how everybody feels,” she answers without hesitation. “You

cannot be responsible for what goes on in people’s minds, and you cannot be responsible for

how people take your words.

“I learnt not so long ago that I am a good person,” Tracy says. “And so how someone

interprets what I say is through their own filter, not mine. As long as I come from a place of a

good heart, then I can sleep at night.”

Coming Out

Until my own life was turned upside down when my dad died suddenly in 2009, I’d honestly

never been interested in the spiritual world, and was easily spooked by inexplicable

phenomena. As everyone has different reasons behind why and when they become spiritually

curious, I asked Tracy if it was something that had always captured her attention.

“I’ve always been interested in mediumship and spirit and those sorts of things,” she replied.

“I’d occasionally go to a spiritual centre with my mum when I was younger, just to watch a

mediumship demonstration. Then when I was 14 I saw the spirit of my grandad at home. He

stayed with me for the rest of the evening. I really couldn’t deny spirit’s existence after that.”

Tracy then went on to set up Talking Spirit in 2007, a time she admits when spirituality “was

still considered quite woo-woo”. Does she believe things have changed in recent years?

“They certainly have,” she says. “It may have been my own insecurities or nervousness about

coming out of the spiritual closet, but I wasn’t able to talk about it so openly back then. Kids

these days talk about the universe and energy just like that, whereas we were more of a secret

society in the hangover days of burning witches,” she laughs. “Nowadays though I’m more

confident about it, and maybe people are more open to it as well.”

Amazing World

“My journey with Talking Spirit started out as a desire to really inspire others to look at this

amazing world of spirit,” Tracy goes on to explain. Although when having to describe what

her job entails, she admits she still finds it quite tricky.

“I finally settled on calling it a spiritual well-being business,” she said. “We don’t just offer

readings; it’s therapy and life guidance as well. And hands down the best part of my job is

seeing people thrive.

“It’s all about helping people understand who they really are, realising their potential, and

distancing themselves from any historical limiting beliefs and past trauma. It’s about helping

them to find the courage to finally say no, this is who I am now, and this is what I can

achieve. It’s so powerful,” Tracy says.

As anyone who runs a business knows, it takes a lot of hard work and people often can’t see

what goes on behind the scenes. The most challenging part for Tracy though, is working with

clients who are so low and have experienced so much trauma in their lives.

“You have to stay neutral but at the same time your heart breaks for them,” she almost sighs.

So, is this how spirituality can be used in a positive way, helping people in their everyday

lives?

“Yes,” Tracy agrees. “Spirituality is about understanding who you really are, unlearning all

the things life has shown you and thrown at you. It’s about understanding what’s real and

what’s not. As humans we really struggle to find or remember our own identities. We often

get all these labels attached to us and start to believe them – regardless of whether they are

true or not. So for me, spirituality is about finding yourself underneath all of this and

connecting back to your soul.”

And it all begins from the inside out.

“Instead of looking outside for the answers all the time,” Tracy carries on explaining,

“spirituality can help you focus inwards. It gives you the strength to believe you have your

own guidance, because we all have an inner compass helping us to find our way through life.

When we clear the outside distractions, when we clear the brain noise away, not only do we

feel better within ourselves, but we can also see our path more clearly too. Rather than

reacting to it, spirituality helps us to feel our way through life. It helps us focus on being a

good person, whatever that may mean for you, rather than telling everyone else how they

should live their lives.”

Everyday Magic

In the few years I’ve known her, one thing I’ve noticed about Tracy is that she talks about

magic all the time.

“I do believe magic exists in our everyday life,” she says. “But we do have to look for it and

believe it’s there to see it. I always tell my daughter if you believe it, it’s real.”

“There are times in our lives when it can be hard to evoke magic, because we’re not feeling

that playful childlike energy when we can see it more freely,” Tracy admits. When we can see

it though, she describes magic as being in the form of more spiritual signs such as feathers,

birds, butterflies, and the entertaining phenomena of table tipping.

“The first time I ever saw table tipping it was like something from the Fantasia cartoon,”

Tracy laughs. “We literally watched this table walk sideways across the room, and leave,

without any of our fingers touching it. We were gob smacked. This has stuck in my mind ever

since and I always remember it as being pretty damn impressive.

“It is quite magical to watch a room full of people laughing and having so much joy in

connecting to spirit,” she continues. “And it’s even more magical how spirit can make things

like table tipping happen.”

In comparison, Tracy also believes magic can be the more subtle everyday things, such as

someone saying what you needed to hear at the right moment, or that connection with an

animal when they rest their head on your lap or jump up for a cuddle when they know you

need it.

“And let’s face it,” Tracy adds with a smile, “coffee is magic as well. Whatever you believe

magic to be though, the more you look for it,” she says, “the more you will find it.”

Tracy’s love of magic has inspired my own spiritual and writing journeys, and now one of my

daily mantras is to always be a seeker of everyday magic.

“I love that this is becoming pretty much a normal way of life,” she says, reflecting on her

own spiritual journey. “Spirituality is blending into the wellbeing side of life more. People are

experiencing spiritual things whilst signing up for, perhaps what you might call, the more

user-friendly wellbeing activities. Although meditation has been around for thousands of

years, some people are more inclined to go to a gong bath than really look inside themselves.

Maybe they feel safer that way. But there’s still time,” Tracy believes. “I think there’s been

such a huge leap around everything to do with spirituality. In the 18 years I’ve been at

Talking Spirit there’s been so much progress. And now, I’m so excited about what’s going to

happen over the next 18 years.”