Unveiling Hidden Powers: Hypnosis and Faith

Discover the captivating journey of Celeste Hackett, a former radio announcer who found her calling as a board-certified hypnotist and founded Family First Hypnosis in Plano, Texas. Celeste takes us through her transformative path, sharing how her innovative age regression techniques have the power to change not just individuals, but entire families. Alongside Celeste's insights, we reflect on the personal resilience required in the face of challenges like Hurricane Milton, and how spirituality can provide a unique perspective on life's trials.

Celeste Hackett

• Email: Celestehackett@gmail.com
• Website: http://www.familyfirsthypnosis.com/
• Telephone: +1 (972) 673 0110
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/celeste-hackett-137a762/

Finally, we delve into the world of hypnosis as a career, guided by Celeste's personal anecdotes. She shares how early life experiences and influential figures shaped her journey, from overcoming childhood academic challenges to finding opportunities in radio, and ultimately embracing hypnosis as a tool for profound change. This episode promises to leave you reflecting on the power of suggestion, the importance of boldness and risk-taking, and the enduring influence of those who inspire us. Join us as we explore these fascinating themes and offer fresh perspectives on personal and professional growth.

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Chapters

• 0:03 Journey With Business Professionals and Hypnotist
• 5:59 Exploring Santeria and Hypnotism
• 14:10 Discovering Hypnosis as a Career
• 21:25 Impactful Life Lessons

Transcript

Voiceover: 0:03

Tales from the wild, stories from the heart. A journey into the mind and soul of fired up business professionals, where they share their vision for the future and hear from a different non-profit organization every month as they create awareness of their goals and their needs. Dive into a world of untamed passion as we join our host, Shireen B otha, for this month's episode of Friends from Wild Places.

Shireen Botha: 0:37

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Tanya Scotece: 1:41

Okay, well, good morning Shireen, Nice to be here with you. So yes, we had quite the adventure with Hurricane Milton, which was preceded by Hurricane Helene. So it's been. That's what living in Florida is. So, as many of you know, I am from Venice, Florida, so a lot of friends and family actually headed my way to be safe during that hurricane time. So everyone got back safe and sound and here we are again, happy to join you and we have a beautiful guest this morning. Ms Celeste, Hello everyone.

Celeste Hackett: 2:16

I'm Celeste Hackett, a board certified hypnotist. My business is Family First Hypnosis. I'm located in Plano, Texas.

Shireen Botha: 2:23

Thank you, nice to have you with us. Yes, welcome, celeste. We love having us women-owned businesses and entrepreneurs from all over the world. That is our focus, as well as just a little extra for you guys as listeners. I know we've mentioned this before, but we are making extra content for you guys behind a paywall, for as little as $5 a month. You can catch that anywhere. It'll be locked, obviously, on all the platforms, but if you subscribe today, you'll get all the juicy content that Tanya and I are creating Today. You'll get all the juicy content that Tanya and I are creating. It's really basic issues that we all deal with day to day, but we go really deep on some of these topics, so I'm really excited about that. So we're looking forward to seeing you there. But yeah, so let's go ahead and introduce Celeste.

Shireen Botha: 3:25

Celeste is the renowned hypnosis professional with over two decades of experience, specializing in groundbreaking age regression techniques. Interesting, so, yes, celeste is the founder of family first hypnosis, a practice built on the belief that when one family member makes a change, it positively affects the entire family. A former radio announcer turned subconscious expert, celeste's communication skills allow her to connect deeply with her clients. When she's not working with clients. Celeste loves being you, loves being in her garden doing some awesome gardening and connecting with nature. So welcome again, celeste. We are so happy to have you.

Celeste Hackett: 4:14

It is my pleasure to be here. I'm so excited to join your audience and you guys.

Shireen Botha: 4:19

Thank you, thank you, thank you. So first things first, guys, I just shared with you earlier an interview with Michael Knowles, with a gentleman by the name of John Ramirez who was an ex-Satanist turned evangelist. Right, but if you, if, if, listeners, if you want to go and listen to the whole interview of Michael John Knowles, you can. It's on YouTube. I think this is quite interesting and, because it's the spooky month, I just thought this would be quite a cool discussion, lots to actually talk about, but we won't go too much into it because we've got lots to cover. But basically and we've spoken about Michael Knowles before he's an American conservative political commentator, youtuber, author and media host. He has worked for the Daily Wire since 2016. And he's the one that interviews Mr John Ramirez, who was involved in Satanism, santeria, which is quite interesting. Never heard of the religion Santeria before, and he was a high priest in this order in New York City and he recruited souls into the occult, which I can only imagine what that means. But yeah, so Ramirez's story is told in his book Out of the Devil's Cauldron A Journey from Darkness to Light, so that's also something that you can go read if this interests you.

Shireen Botha: 5:59

But, ladies, ladies, first of all, I don't even know that there was a religion called Santa Maria, santa Ria Sorry, santa Ria, I don't want to confuse the names. There's a couple of different names of places and you know things. But, my goodness, a little background of this religion is. It's an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba beliefs and traditions, with some Roman Catholic elements added. The religion is also known as La Rejla Lusumi and the rule of Osha. Santeria is a syncretic religion that grew out of the slave trade in Cuba. I would love to hear your thoughts, ladies, like this blew my mind, so please go ahead. What was interesting to you, ladies?

Tanya Scotece: 6:57

Let's have you start us off, celeste. Any comments or thoughts? Or you know, involvement as far as are you familiar with it or not familiar? Let's start there.

Celeste Hackett: 7:09

Well, not, I had never heard of Santa Ria precisely, but I'm from Louisiana and I lived in New Orleans, so you know the voodoo that happens down there, some of that kind of stuff.

Celeste Hackett: 7:21

There's some similarities, some of that kind of stuff.

Celeste Hackett: 7:26

There's some similarities and, as a hypnotist doing the kind of work that I do, we're finding root causes of things all the time, and there can be within a person you could call it, a mental construct or a belief or an actual being in them, like people in this way of thinking, when you do hypnosis, can be haunted by an ignorant spirit and also, um, there there can be what what one might call a demon or a devil, and then multiple, multiple ones within a being.

Celeste Hackett: 7:59

So sometimes those people can show up in our offices and they don't even know they have this problem, and then, when you can't help them and you do some digging, some of these ideas are coming up, some of these beliefs or whatever this is. We treat it, um, or we handle it, I should say, as if it's real and we get very good results. We have a protocol, for that's very much like an exorcism, I guess you could say you're sending the being away. I don't see much of this kind of thing. I'm very aware of it and the same protocol or some other protocols are out there for spells that have been put on people and that kind of thing.

Tanya Scotece: 8:37

It's not my expertise, but I'm familiar with it and I've had a few moments in my history as a hypnotist with a few interesting things that have happened, but mostly it's not what I deal with interesting, interesting, yeah, and myself, yeah, I have there's here, especially here in Miami, familiar with it, and there's the part that's just I don't want to say it's not interesting, but if you understand the center, there's a lot of animal sacrifice. Posting on our local community Nextdoor app is very popular here where animals are found, you know, beheaded and sacrificed. So it can be quite disturbing from that point, especially for all the animal lovers out there. You know, as far as the rituals that go into place, but yes, I am familiar with it.

Shireen Botha: 9:31

Gosh, that's an Antonia. I don't know how you felt, but he was actually talking about that, miami specifically, and he even mentioned for the human sacrifices that they have sources. They have sources of where they get human body parts and et cetera, which is okay. I don't want to know exactly who the sources are, but you can kind of imagine where these places could be. But the other thing that he said which was also quite interesting was he spoke and I think this is his and he said so that this is his main goal is exposing the work of the devil and demons and all that. And he actually spoke about mediums, tarot cards and what really happens when you go to a medium and she actually it's a money-making thing, so it's both. It's obviously curses and all that, but it's also them trying to make money and they kind of put curses on the people, the innocent people. They come there and they go away and the, the um, inhuman spirits actually follow them home and the curse happens which brings them back to the medium and the which they pay all the money which was quoted to them and from there they listen to all the information that these inhuman spirits told them and it's wow, it's mind-blowing. Um again, if you want to know more, go listen to Michael Knowles' interview with John Ramirez, and John Ramirez does have a book. But yeah, it was quite an interesting interview, but we can't stay too long there, we have so much to cover.

Shireen Botha: 11:31

So let's go on the quote of the day. Celeste has given us her favorite quote and I think it's really amazing. Uh, it's go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is plain and simple, short and sweet, and it's possibly by mark twain. Celeste says she's not 100 sure who the first person ever said that was, but it's go out on a limb, that's's where the fruit is. What does that mean to you, celeste?

Celeste Hackett: 12:00

It means think out of the box and take some chances, because that's where things really get interesting. They're way more fun there and that's where you do your highest level of learning and growth. So that's why I like it. And usually by the time people come to see me they've done some of that, because they're not going to come see a hypnotist first thing. They're going to have to start really thinking out of the box. For some people it is taking a chance, so that's why I like it so much.

Celeste Hackett: 12:29

And in my own life I was a radio announcer before there were some things that happened where I just thought you know, I'm going to be very bold, and boldness really wins the day in so many venues and it particularly did in radio broadcasting. It helped me and served me many times. Everything is a double-edged sword. You can go too far with it, but in the and you can. The limb can break, but that's the fun and the excitement of going out on a limb. You just don't always know what's going to happen and you have to take a calculated risk and then see. So I just love that quote.

Shireen Botha: 13:01

I love it as well. I think it's amazing and it speaks a lot. Well, you've started it, celeste, so you might as well continue. Why don't you tell us a little bit about the elements and the events leading up to the change of career? Because, basically, I mean, this is our niche of this podcast. It's for the entrepreneurs and the business owners that didn't realize that that was going to be something that they were going to do later on in life and made the career change quite late on in life, between 30 to 50 years of age. They were in one career and said this is not for me or whatever the case may be, and they let everything go and started on a brand new journey of being a business owner. And so this place, the space that we created here, is really a space of inspiration of what we've been through and how we've overcome it. So, celeste, please share with us and the listeners of the events leading up to the career of you becoming a hypnotist.

Celeste Hackett: 14:10

Well, I can tell you a little bit about the early days of my life, and I won't go too deep into that because it will take too much time. But it is important in this because I didn't go to university and that all started with a first grade teacher. Bless her heart, she'd be heartbroken if she knew she probably did this to me, but she was new and I cheated on a math test in the first grade and she shamed me in front of the class. I went home and told my mother you know that I got in trouble and I was crying and she said to me to clinch the deal with me having a learning disability is what I would call it.

Celeste Hackett: 14:50

Don't worry, girls in our family aren't good at math. Girls in our family aren't good at math. So that was something that I accepted deeply, and it went on to cause me trouble in academia, in my opinion, which caused me not to go to university. And then from there, as I was growing older, about to get out of high school, I realized I had to learn something to do, and I certainly didn't want to do what most women in my hometown were doing, which was either nursing or teaching, and that required university anyway. So I looked around and eventually found a radio station that was really small.

Celeste Hackett: 15:29

I was a very talkative young woman and I had friends and I liked to. You know, just uh, I was just a happy, talkative young girl, and so I ended up going in there and talking my way into a radio show, believe it or not, and then from there I grew my radio career for 24 years. So I started, like at the age of 17, had my own training for free at this radio station and then, right after I turned 18, I had my own radio show which was terrible at the time, but it was a training for free at this radio station.

Celeste Hackett: 15:57

And then, right after I turned 18, I had my own radio show, which was terrible at the time, but it was a radio show. It was quite amusing when I go back and think about that. But um, and then I, I just grew that career and 2002, when I got fired. Now in radio broadcasting there's just all kinds of reasons to get fired. It doesn't really mean that you've done anything wrong. A lot of times they're just changing a format, they're bringing in some new ideas, and I had been fired before, but this time I knew that it was the end of radio for me, and actually I saw it as the end of radio.

Celeste Hackett: 16:39

And and this was because I could see the internet coming up and what was happening there and I knew that everything was going to go online. So I knew I needed to find something else to do and my my whole life I had this burning desire to help people, but I didn't feel like I was smart enough to go become a psychologist or a therapist and I didn't have the confidence for that. But when I, you know, years had passed and by this time I also didn't want to waste any time going to college. So I was still looking for a way to help people that would be really useful. So I ended up looking into how people actually change deeply change in a sustainable way, and what came in my research was if you want to change someone deeply, you need to be able to do that kind of work in a subconscious area.

Celeste Hackett: 17:34

And then when I learned or looked into how you access the subconscious, hypnosis came up again and again. So eventually I found a school. The first one wasn't very good. Then I found a school that I love a lot and I still am in association with the school. I had a state licensed school, myself teaching their method. It's Banyan Hypnosis Center. I still teach at a national level at their symposium, and so that's how I came into first hypnosis and then just seeing tons and tons of clients, you know, experiences, everything. I've gotten to the top of my field. So that's my story.

Tanya Scotece: 18:14

Wow, that's amazing, amazing. So I have just a couple of just follow up just to dive a little bit deeper. So had you experienced hypnosis before you actually went to learn about it? Well, Not.

Celeste Hackett: 18:24

Well, not formally, no. But looking back, yes, the hypnotic state is a state that you slip into. It's just an ability you slip into whereby deeper information can come to your awareness. She just gave me direct suggestion and with children, especially if a parent is confident, just saying something to you can really have an effect on you. So I, I was a thumb sucker and my parents did not shame me for that or make a big deal out of it, because my mother knew that wouldn't be the best thing. She was just a very wise, naturally wise soul and um, so if anybody said anything to me about it, she would always say leave her alone, she'll stop when she's ready. So she was planting those seeds throughout my childhood, from a very early age.

Celeste Hackett: 19:17

And then one day and this is the best time if you want to make a change with children, they have to feel motivated. So she was waiting for the moment when I might be motivated and the moment came when a little friend of mine I'll never forget her name was Teresa Carbo. We were in the fourth grade and we would walk home and to school together and she invited me to spend the night with her, and I really wanted to go. So my mother was cooking in the kitchen and I asked my mother if I could spend the night with Teresa Carbo and my mother said you know, I think that would be fine, I think you're old enough. And I got really excited. And then I thought about something and I just became deflated and she saw me and she said what's wrong? I said she's going to see me suck my thumb and she said this is her opportunity.

Celeste Hackett: 20:12

Don't worry about it, I'm going to tell you just what to do, she said. When you're laying in bed and you're just about to put your thumb in your mouth, what you'll remember to do at that moment is instead put your thumb under the blanket, just hold it there for a little while and you'll fall asleep, and the next morning you'll be so proud of yourself because you didn't suck your thumb. So that's exactly what I did. I never sucked my thumb again until I was 30 years old, when I accidentally just woke up with my thumb in my mouth after having a very traumatic time in my life. I'm like, oh my God, because sometimes things will get triggered and you know, never happened again after that. It was weird that day when I was 30. But so it's moments like that.

Celeste Hackett: 20:58

So that's probably my knowledge of my first, you know, looking back time when I was hypnotized. As far as going to a hypnotist, I know I went to one, but I can't remember it. Somebody was dabbling in it and worked with me, cause I remember when I was in the class. I'm like this sounds familiar. So I don't know if that person told me that I would forget and I accepted that suggestion. I just didn't make enough of an impression on me, but I hope that answer wasn't too long.

Tanya Scotece: 21:25

No, no no, it's fascinating. It's, you know, and Shireen and I have, you know, dived into different subjects about, for example, like you had mentioned, the teacher you know, and in first grade for yourself, and I think you know a lot of times, like just people in general, whether it's you know a teacher or somebody that you look up to, maybe a pastor. You know, whoever it is in the community, the impact that those single statements can make or the acts that people do like their lifelong, like we still deal with them today. You know, like, and it's, it's just fascinating how as many positive things and blessings that happen to us but sometimes that focus just goes there, you know, and it's like that's what you kind of live and relive in the story that you tell yourself. So that's fascinating. Tune in next week for part two from Friends from Wild Places.

Voiceover: 22:19

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