Episode 640 From Iraq to Intuition: Psychic Medium Drew Cali on Sobriety, Loss, and Spiritual AwakeningEpisode 640 From Iraq to Intuition: Psychic Medium Drew Cali on Sobriety, Loss, and Spiritual Awakening
Busy Living Sober with Host Elizabeth Chance
Psychic medium and veteran Drew Cali talks with Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance about his path from addiction and devastating loss into sobriety and evidential mediumship. Their conversation blends raw recovery stories, spiritual experiences, and humour to show how faith and honesty can support healing.
56:16•14 May 2026
From Booze to Spirit Messages: Drew Cali on Sobriety, Loss and Mediumship
Episode Overview
- Sobriety became the turning point after multiple family losses, leading Drew from heavy drinking and pills into meetings, prayer, and a different way of living.
- A year into being sober, quiet meditation opened the door to subtle but powerful spiritual experiences that he later recognised as mediumship.
- Drew focuses on clear, verifiable details in readings, believing that if it doesn’t help or heal, it’s probably not real.
- Recovery principles keep his spiritual work grounded: he avoids ego, questions what he can’t prove, and sees the abilities as “gifts for other people.”
- Both Drew and Elizabeth stress that faith, community, and honest conversation are vital in coping with addiction, grief, and spiritual questions.
“These abilities are gifts for other people. I don’t get to sit around and talk to my people all day.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation between host Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance and psychic medium Drew Cali follows that question through addiction, grief, and an unexpected spiritual calling. Drew shares openly about being a “troubled” teen, heavy drinking and drug use, serving in Iraq, and then building a high‑earning corporate life where, as he puts it, “I drank, I worked.
I took pills in the morning, drank in the evening, and I worked.” Sobriety only became possible after a series of devastating losses: his mother’s death from cancer, the stillbirth of his daughter, and his brother‑in‑law’s suicide. Therapy, meetings, and a straight‑talking sober therapist named Kathy slowly shifted his mindset. He jokes about early slips where he’d go to a bar “and tell people how sober I am,” before finally getting serious around 2015. From there, things get unusual.
About a year into sobriety, quiet meditation sparked intense experiences that led Drew into evidential mediumship. He stresses he’s no floating mystic: “I curse like a truck driver. I don’t levitate… every day I wake up, I’m like, please work.” His work focuses on grounded, verifiable details that bring comfort to the bereaved, especially parents and families in deep shock. You’ll hear how sobriety became the foundation that keeps his mediumship honest, humble, and practical.
He talks about money, ego, and success, and why he turned down a near seven‑figure contract because, after recovery, he couldn’t return to a life that didn’t fit. There’s plenty of humour too, including a wildly awkward-but-accurate reading involving shamrock underwear and a cheeky nickname from the other side.
For anyone curious about how recovery, grief, faith, and spiritual experiences can intersect, this chat offers raw honesty, gentle reassurance, and a reminder that, as Elizabeth repeats, “you are not alone.” So where might sobriety be trying to lead you next?
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