Bryan Greene

She often cites this mentorship as the moment she turned from being sensitive into calling herself a medium.

I'm sensitive.

Seriously, I'm a sensitive dude.

But when my wife tells me that an episode of TCB ain't funny, I do what any husband would immediately do.

I get defensive, tell my wife she doesn't know what's funny, and that she doesn't have to listen to my podcast anymore if she doesn't want to.

I then immediately regret my emotional outburst and apologize to my wife in the morning.

for cheating on her in her dreams.

But I've never once had an emotional boo-boo that made me believe I was being contacted by the afterlife.

My sensitivities are not a reason to call Peter Venkman.

The Ghostbusters aren't gonna save me from my own self.

After a couple years in the probably unpaid mentorship with Pat Longo from Long Island, Teresa begins practicing on family and friends.

She gives informal readings at home, and the word spreads in the community.

Soon, she's building a small business and doing private sessions, as one would do if they were, in fact, the eighth wonder of the world.

And this is where I get a little bit confused about most of these psychic healers.

They will not put themselves up for additional scrutiny, not scientifically, not by critics or skeptics.

They very rarely go into a hostile environment and they almost always know the mark.

I'd rather not discuss what I do.

While it's true that Teresa had her brain scanned for an episode of the Dr. Oz show, the Dr. Oz show is not a trusted source of scientific data, nor did they seem to really come to any kind of conclusion, except that when Teresa was doing a reading, her frontal lobe got activated.

Same part of your brain that gets activated when you're full of shit.

Before TLC came calling, she worked in her family oil company's business while she was doing psychic readings on the side.