We Asked for a Sign and Received It In 6 Days

 In this episode of Curating Connection, we explore what happens when you intentionally ask for a sign—and receive answers in unexpected ways. 

We share a real-life synchronicity experiment using the SIGN method: Silence, Intention, Gratitude, and Noticing—and test what happens when we ask clearly for a sign and set a specific timeline. 

A stranger holds the door, says “Get home safe, son,” and a rare old-school diving helmet appears at the exact moment it matters. Two days after asking for a childhood symbol, a pair of gold stars literally falls into view during a brutal hospital night shift. When moments like that land, they don’t feel like random coincidence, they feel like connection.

The conversation also goes deeper into grief and healing. We talk about what it’s like to work near life-and-death moments, how calm presence can become a kind of stillness, and why end-of-life stories often change the way people relate to spirituality, synchronicity, and comfort after loss. If you’ve been missing someone and wondering whether you can still feel them close, you’ll leave with a simple practice you can try today and a way to document your own evidence.

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Transcript

Jed Asks Dad For A Sign

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Welcome back to another episode of Curating Connection. Before we dive in, here's a quick reminder of the sign challenge that Jed and I had sought out for ourselves in episode number six. It was labeled, is a sign someone reaching out because they miss you. We invited all of you to join us in using my sign method to intentionally receive a sign from a loved one or from the universe. And we added one extra twist. We set a specific timeline for what we wanted that sign to show up. Here's a recap. For the sign method, S is for silence or stillness. Create a small moment of quiet throughout your day so that you're actually able to receive what's already being sent your way. I isn't for intention. Set a clear intention for the sign you want, say it out loud, write it down, or name the person you hope to hear from. G is for gratitude. Feel grateful before the sign appears. Gratitude opens your energy, heightens awareness, and helps you tune in. Think of all the things you're grateful for, the person you're hoping to hear from. N for noticing. Watch for synchronicities, repeated symbols, songs, numbers, memories, or unexpected moments. Write down anything that catches your attention so you build your own evidence. So the challenge for all of us was use a sign method, set your intention, choose a timeline, and see what arrives. Today, Jed is back here with us, and he and I are sharing exactly what happened. And we'd also love to hear what showed up for you. Jed, welcome back to the show.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Hello, how are we doing, Kim?

SPEAKER_01 3:11

We are doing fabulous. It's been a little bit of a time break since we had our challenge put out there. But I think the audience is going to be pleasantly surprised we didn't need this whole time frame to be able to get our sign, receive our sign.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

I'm curious. Do you want to be the first to dive in here today and tell us if you use the sign method and what showed up, what you asked for, what was expected, what was unexpected, disappointments, highlights, go for it.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

All right. Yes, I was using the sign method. I wanted to give it a legitimate and honest approach. So I had been kind of setting myself up, I think, for success. In this particular case, I was looking for a sign. I was hoping to see from dad. And I set a timeline of, I believe, a month, and I was pleasantly surprised. I picked something up in under a week. And I specifically picked something that I did not think I would run into in day-to-day life just by you know accident or coincidence. So it happened pretty quickly. I was very shocked to see that. I believe I called you on the way home from it was happening and left you a voicemail about it.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

You did. And I love the fact that you chose something unusual. And that might even be part of our challenge. But that way we knew, right, that it was going to be like in our face, like this is it. Let's hear what that sign was that you were hoping from dad.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, I just wanted to, I wanted to, I picked something from our shared history that I thought was unusual. So I don't know if you remember at the World Cabin, Dad had that ice bucket that looked like a diver's helmet, like an old-timey metal diver's helmet with the big circular opening and the across the uh rebar kind of stuff on it. Um that was what I picked because I figured, you know, we're I'm in kind of a landlocked area. I'm not going to see a lot of scuba stuff around. And if I did, it certainly wouldn't be that older type stuff. So that was the key that I earned, the key, the token that I was kind of using.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

And were you expecting to see like a duplicate of that? Because I think I actually have that particular item. And I think it was very sentimental to him after he had spent time working in Hawaii, if I recall correctly. So I'm curious, were you like letting the sign come to you automatically, or were you out in the thrift stores hunting for an ice bucket that looked like a scuba helmet? Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

No, I was absolutely uh not looking anywhere out of the blue. And kind of once I had set my intention on that, I kind of had my radar ready to notice things, but I wasn't actively looking. I wanted it to come to me. I didn't want to go search and assign something to that, so to speak. I mean, it just kind of came to me out in the wild.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Ooh, let's hear where you were in the wild when this unfolded.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Sure. A friend of mine owns a pizza place in the bowling alley here in town, and I had done some food photography for him for his menu and stuff. And he asked me to swing in to talk about doing another round of that sort of stuff. So I did, but he was busy. He had got kind of gotten slammed. So I just sat down in the bar and ordered a Coke and just kind of waiting for things to happen. I I have a habit when I go out and I'm meeting people, I like to be out and with them. So I tend to shut my phone off or leave it in the car, just trying to pay them respect for their time as they are with me. And after his little rush was done, he was he was thankful I was there and told me thanks. And I said, No problem. And on my way leaving, there was a gentleman standing outside. Kind of he was interesting to look at because he had what I would uh consider like construction dress clothes, like he had workwear on, but underneath he had like the I'm the uh guy running the uh job site sort of thing that kind of uh you know, Duluth training company over well used workwear sort of thing. Sure. Or underneath big dude had a mustache, like the what do you call it? The the not broom handle, the handlebar. Thank you. Good lord, handlebar mustache and a cowboy hat, which of course around here made him stand out. We got a lot of folks from the oil field passing through, and we got a lot of farmers, but not a ton of ranchers, so I don't see a lot of cowboy hats in the wild. And I held the door open for him coming in as I was going out, and he said, Thank you. Get home safe, son, which is how dad kind of always ended our phone calls, or at least with me, when I was on the road. So that kind of stuck out, and then I noticed under his carhart work jacket, and then that kind of dress shirt, he had a t-shirt on that had a logo for I believe it was an underwater welding thing, like so. I'm guessing that was a pipeline guy, and it had that style of diving helmet on, which I just went, all right. You said something dad said to me a million times. It was the unusual thing that I pictured, and it was in a different form than I pictured it in my head, but it was clearly the same thing. So I think I put that out to the universe or to whatever else is out there, and I think I got my little echo back. So that was a pretty big surprise.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

It's one thing to see something unusual like what you asked for, but when it happens after you ask for it, it certainly hits differently, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Absolutely, oh, for sure. It was, you know, it gets to that point where you just go, oh, that's not a coincidence. And then it just kind of shifts, and then it it hits much harder and sits much more definite.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

I know I have really been reflecting on things like this, that experience that you're describing to us, and we're gonna hear some more shortly. That's what makes these moments feel less like coincidences and more like connection. And I feel like we're curating that connection, and you put it out there and it was returned. I'm curious, what was the time frame that this was returned to you?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Uh, six days. So well before the 30 that I had kind of hoped to see something in, or at least the parameter that I mentally set up. But I think a lot of that was using parts of that method, right? So the phone was on silence. Yes, there was a busy place with people, and I had a chat with my buddy, but I was also intentionally being in this plane and not my phone digging through you know Instagram or whatever. I had set the intention previously, and I that I think allowed me to notice. So it there's absolutely something to the toolbox with that sign method, I think.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Oh, I like on the confirmation that you're sharing around that. I certainly hope it gives a little bit of loose structure for people that aren't receiving signs to start tuning in to the possibility of receiving them because this story that you just shared with us, Jed, is really one of those stories that make you realize we're all receiving signs every day. We just need to be tuned in to it. Would you agree?

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Oh, absolutely. I think you know, I think a lot of this stuff is uh it's kind of mentally tuning your radio, right? You gotta be open to the right station and you have to make sure the conditions are right. That knob's got to be turned to exactly where you want it to be. But we we can have a say in how that happens. And I I think that is probably the best tool is to to follow those things and be open to it. If you're not open to receiving because your receiver isn't on, that's it's gonna make it hard to hear that song.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

So you've shared a few instances of receiving some pretty remarkable signs that I was would say are pretty personal with us. And I'm curious after this specific experiment, experience, are you feeling any different about the reality of receiving signs, or are you feeling any different in interpreting them or the your connection to them, what they bring up emotionally for you?

SPEAKER_00 13:12

I think the interpretation is always going to be up to you unless you receive that really rare lightning bolt of the exact right thing at the exact right time. And it it's just dead on accurate. But yeah, I think once you have one or two of those things that are uh definitive to you as not coincidence, uh it certainly makes you more uh cognizant of those things coming through and able to see that stuff that maybe we ignored 150 times before that. Or we weren't open to because we weren't listening or looking, right? Or noticing. Once you do that, it's it's a little bit like figuring out that Where Zwaldo book. Once you've figured out where he is, it's a little easier to step back and see everything else that's going on. Uh but it's hard to do if you're looking at one tiny thing in there. So it's I think it really helps strengthen your ability to keep your mind open to those things once you've had, you know, one or two of those synchronicities or signs come through that are without a doubt.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

Oh, yeah, that's that's that I really like how you just reframed the whole idea of what it means to receive a sign and what to do with that information. I know gratitude was in that sign method as well. Did you spend any time kind of reflecting on any aspects of dad before or after receiving that sign, or just in your daily practice, are you expressing gratitude or looking at gratitude in any way?

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Well, I will say that again, when that came through, it was kind of like, all right, that's dead. But my gratitude that came through, honestly, not to not to pat you on the back too hard, but it was like, oh, I'm so glad that Kim has made this a conversation point that allowed me to be open to receiving that. That was where most of my gratitude was focused at that time.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

Aw, Jed, for those of you that don't know, Jed is my younger brother. And I am grateful that we are able to have these open conversations, which I think many families are missing, discussing ways that they're staying connected or hope they're having connection after their parents or loved ones or friends pass. So my gratitude is grateful for you to have you here again today, so that our audience can maybe learn from this sibling sign discussion once again. I like me too. And so was our audience, by the way. It was one of our top listened to podcast episodes so far. So go siblings.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Oh, yeah, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Yeah. Is there anything else around this experience you want to share with our listeners today?

SPEAKER_00 16:33

I think it's I want to encourage anybody who's on the fence to give it a shot. Because I promise you, when something comes through, you will carry that with you moving forward. You will continue to have some of those feelings that you got from it, and it'll allow you to uh unpack some things, it'll allow you to relive some good memories, it'll allow you to work through some of the things that may be attached to whatever that is. It's nothing but good for you. One way or another, whether it makes you laugh, whether it makes you cry, or whether you walk away just knowing that you opened up that path, it will continue forward with you in a way that is incredibly meaningful and will resonate for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

I agree. It's almost like a conversation across time continues.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

So I did have some success as well. Are you interested in it? Please tell me hearing my okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

For sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

So I was thinking about how like our grandma Johnson is significant in my book and seeing signs of pink flamingos in there. And I was thinking, okay, let's do something with grandma Brazier. And our grandma Brazier was a school teacher, and she always had all kinds of school materials when she retired. So she had all the primer books, you know, and worksheets and stuff in this big trunk. And I remember that she would have some gold stars, and those are when gold stars were, you know, licked and put on the top of the paper after you've done a good job. And I always was playing teacher back then, and so I thought, oh, I'd love to see a gold star, one for me and one for Jed. So it was two gold stars, is what I was looking for. And so I put that out into the world because I thought it's not something that you see as much as you did back in the years, right? I mean, there's still stickers out there, but whatever. So just like you, I put a time frame on. My time frame was actually two weeks because I was like, we're gonna see how close we can get to a little time frame for people. And so I actually received my sign in two days.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Really?

SPEAKER_01 19:23

Two days, Jed. I was super excited. So here's how it unfolded. I work as a registered respiratory therapist in a large health system and I worked the night shift. So I went into work two days later and was getting settled. We usually hear about our my patients I need to take care of, and immediately I got called to go to the emergency room and deal with a life and death situation. Then I went up to all of the medical surgical floors and the intensive care unit and did my work and came down a couple hours later. I sat down and I was trying to catch up on like some emails from work or, you know, do my charting and looking at stuff around the office. And then I got called away to the emergency room again. And it was getting to be kind of late. I was tied up for quite a while before we had a life life link come and transport our patients. So they were pretty sick. I came back down and I sat down and I just in my chair in the office by myself, I thought, whoa, it's kind of been a night, right? And the next thing I know, this little paper falls off the bulletin board that's right next to my computer where I'm sitting at the desk. And somebody had put up a new little note about something. So we had had a new manager or interim manager at the time. And there was two pieces of information she wanted you to know. It was cut into like a little square, probably like I don't even know, like three or four inches by four inches. And they were gold stars right before each thing. Just two. There wasn't like a big list of things, just two little bullet points. And they weren't even like, you know, you know, when you get a bullet point, like if somebody was typing something up and printing it out for staff, you would think they put like a little round bullet point or a square, right? Nope. It was the two stars, and it was almost like the moment that fell from the bulletin board, right? That pin came undone, whatever happened. It was like, here's your sign. I saw what you were doing, helping people tonight. You know, it was like grandma was right there, right? So I was so shocked, and I believe I called you the next day or texted you. I was like, two days, two gold stars. I felt like I got a gold star for like slowing down and recognizing that after I had been in the midst of chaos all through the night, or not through the night, but for the first few hours of my shift.

Healing Work And Openness To Signs

SPEAKER_00 22:12

So that's amazing. I had not heard that story. I do remember getting the text and you letting me know it happened very quickly. That's an awesome way for that to unfold. Can I ask you a question? I haven't I that's never occurred to me. Sure. Okay, and and feel free to cut this out if it's not something you want to talk about or have shared out there. But you mentioned call down to the ER for a life and death situation. Now, I have known you since I the all the time, right? Big sister camp. And we've had a couple of very brief conversations about some of those maybe more difficult moments, but I had never put the two Topics together, do you think your work in that realm when it is so often in a life and death situation, or sometimes people in your vicinity during work to move on? Do you think that is part of what drew you to this topic or what opened your mind to seeing those signs? Is there a correlation there?

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Yeah, I think as what some people may call me like a healer, like my work in the healthcare field comes very natural to me. So in those I call them life and death situations where people probably need CPR or resuscitation or urgent trauma needs or can't breathe, that is just like I'm at my calm at that. So like that would kind of be my stillness. Some of the younger nurses in the last few months, one of them said to me after a very, very intense, chaotic save of a patient, say, Wow, you didn't look like that was much fun, or you wow, you didn't seem like that was a big deal. Like she was so off the adrenaline of it, and like, you know, whatever. And I I think she kind of thought I, I don't know, like I was bored or mean or something standoffish. And I said, Oh my gosh, like I've been doing this for 30 some years on and off, right? And this stuff, like my superpower is just being calm in those periods of time. So I don't get worked up, right? Like I don't, I feel like I don't get that adrenaline drunky high, not that she was, but I I just know what I need to do. And when I worked a children's hospital, the nurses used to call me into the baby's rooms in the pediatric intensive care unit whenever they're like they were like really wild, like their heart rates were high and their respiratory rate was high. Even when it wasn't my patients, they're like, come check on my patients. You always calm your patients down when you have them. And I didn't realize at that time that it was probably my energy that was calming people. I do think that I received signs early on from my childhood best friend, Pammy, who had passed away from aplastic anemia. And I would have visions or dreams of her. And I think that's when I was younger, but they were dismissed often as like, oh, you just have a headache or whatever. Like it wasn't really it, I don't think I could express it to people, right? So that like I would end up like going to the nurse's office and taking a break and going back, right? Because I mean, when you're in six, seven years old, that's really difficult to lose a little best friend.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

So I knew I think my love for the healthcare field started back then because I still recall the day that we got the phone call that she had passed, even though we knew it was eminent. And when I started reflecting in what I wanted to go into, I could just remember a flash of her and like wanting to save her because at that age I thought from religious upbringing, my limited knowledge that you could pray for somebody and then they wouldn't die, like at that age, right? And then I realized that's not always the case. I do know that I have many nurses or other staff, doctors, respiratory therapists that have heard patients express signs like they're receiving before they pass, or even days ahead of time, or they resite signs they receive from others while they're in the hospital. So I'm not quite sure that fully correlates with the question you're asking, but I think the realm of healing and being open to it and dealing with life and death might make it a little bit easier for me to speak about it. Or I don't know, maybe it is easier for me to receive them at times, but at other times there's signs that I wanted so desperately and I didn't receive them either. So I'm not sure, but there's probably a parallel to it somehow.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Yeah, I would think, I would think. I'm I'll be honest, I'm a little dumbfounded. I never put that together before. I think I've just always been so close to Kim. It never occurred to me that these two parts of Kim uh there may be a significant bridge and and why it works. But just in case nobody has shared it with you recently, Kim. Thank you for what you do.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

It's important work, and I know there have been moments where that one splash of kindness or hope or comfort in somebody's last few moments, complete stranger, was provided by you. And I hope you always recognize that there's a value to that and it's appreciated.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Well, you got me speechless right now, and thank you so much for that. When I did have a transition a few years ago back into direct patient care again, the one thing I did was say I strive every day to make sure I ask a patient. Oh, it's choking me up. I ask a patient about themselves, right? I go in and I do lots of medical things with them and I have conversations, but when I'm done with that, I try to take the conversations a step further. And I learn so much about people. You know, with dad's, you know, hospital stays the last couple of years before he passed, which is a year ago, Thursday. What I learned from observing being in a hospital room with someone you love or in a rehab, you know, physical rehab with someone you love is that sometimes healthcare workers are so busy or so stressed, they they don't often get the love and attention they need. And I thought, I'm gonna change that from my end. And I know having those conversations with my other coworkers, especially um Stacy, who was one of my first podcast episodes, she's doing the same thing now. We can be a sign for someone else, we can show them how valuable they are in the world still to others, even when they're very ill or they're grieving the loss of their health. I think people forget about that. We need to give them signs that they can continue to move forward as well. So thank you for acknowledging that. Healthcare can be a challenge at times, and it's difficult after it's difficult after you've lost both our parents to show up and save lives sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Yeah, yeah, of course. But you are, and you do, and I don't know that there's anything either mom and dad would could possibly be more proud of you for showing up for those people who maybe don't have someone.

How To Practice And Share Signs

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Thank you. And I will be sure to spread that forward to some of my coworkers in the upcoming days and weeks as well. So thank you. Oh my gosh, you guys. So here's the here's the takeaways. So takeaway number one is ask for a sign and you can receive it. Yeah. What's the takeaway you're thinking, Jed, about our experience here?

SPEAKER_00 31:54

You gotta have you gotta have some silence or space to allow your brain to see something else. If you're busy doom scrolling all the time, or you don't allow yourself any time to not be overclocked by all of the stimuli this world throws at us all the time, it's gonna be an awful lot harder to notice those things. So be intentional about it.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Absolutely. And then I also think that while this is an in our sign method, I think that after hearing our discussion today, I think it would be great for people to start having a conversation with somebody they feel safe around or trust about signs. And maybe they just start out with curiosity, like, hey, what do you know about signs from you know, signs from the universe, signs from God, signs from angels, signs from people you've lost? Like, do you believe in that? You know, like if you you're not ready to have a full conversation, start with that curiosity and social media. Oh my gosh, you can pretty much type in signs anywhere, and you will get some living proof, along with this podcast, right? I'm hoping we're creating evidence that their signs are there and the belief and effort affirming that.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Absolutely. I think that's a great place to start, specifically if somebody is curious. You know, sometimes we need to bounce that off somebody else, and having that someone you feel comfortable and safe around, like you said, I think would be incredibly valuable in allowing you to open up that conversation with yourself, even if though it's with someone else.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Exactly. And if you're not ready to do that, pull out a journal, pull out a tablet, start writing down your thoughts, think about the sign method, and start documenting your evidence. And once you have that sign, reach out to me. Let's get your experience on the podcast so your words, your story, your signs can support other during times of grief, ingratitude, right? Doubt. I think I think it's needed.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

I think this is all part of the human experience and sharing those stories, sharing those feelings. That's how we get to know one each other. I but I cannot wait to hear some of the stories that you folks send into camp.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

All right, everyone. Until next time.