The $10,000-a-Month Psychic

[lildreamer316]

When business people need a crystal ball, they turn to consultant Laura Day, the 'intuitionist.'

When Seagate Technology, the $11 billion-a-year maker of hard drives for the Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox, went searching for a consultant to run one of its management workshops in the fall of 2006, it bypassed the usual list of Silicon Valley gurus. Instead, Seagate's executive director of software engineering, Gabriel Lawson, invited Laura Day—a stylish New Yorker with no tech experience—to train his Colorado-based team. "She was amazing," Lawson tells NEWSWEEK, recalling Day's quick insights into the poor coordination between the company's research and marketing teams. "Anybody who can afford her will get 100 times their money's worth." What exactly is Day's expertise? While she likes to downplay it as mere "intuition," her clients prefer another explanation: she's a psychic.

Day's feel for the unknown has become a hot commodity among certain high-profile business people, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the 49-year-old mother in the process. The William Morris talent agency has used Day to help it decide whom to represent and how to help the company grow. "It's like looking over at your opponent's cards in a poker game," says Jennifer Walsh, executive vice president of William Morris's literary department, which reps Day. A big Hollywood producer says Day advised him in 2006 to pass on a can't-miss animated film, predicting it would bomb at the box office. It did. (The producer didn't want to be named for fear of public ridicule.)

A Manhattan attorney who serves as special counsel to several white-shoe law firms has used Day's insights to help her select juries and anticipate the opposing team's arguments. "Day saves me thousands of minutes on my cell phone" working a case, says the attorney, who also didn't want to be publicly identified.

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[BlueIris]

1. Laura Day's book, "Practical Intuition," changed my life. I've read it twice.

And rec'd it to people here before. There's actually a chapter in it which teaches you how to "be your own psychic hotline."

[Celebration]

2. there's a whole group of business consultants

That use esoteric techniques--either muscle testing ala David Hawkins, or pendulum things or just plain psychic. The smart ones never let on, and just call it intuitive. It is all about presenting a very busines no nonsense side, in a very professional veneer, and then just doing your thing.

It would go really well with a marketing consulting business. I am too much into health things to use it well for business at this point. So instead of telling my bank owner friend where to find more business, I told him he didn't utilize Vitamin C properly. There is no intuitive cover for something like that. It's like, "she is weird."

Selecting juries, though is something I would love to try to do if I was younger and wanted to start a new business. At the very least I could check to see who has what chakra out, who has a good relationship with their mother, who hates his job, who has a problem with women, etc.

[windoe]

3. If the police can use them

(but not admit it), why not anyone else? :) (and then not admit it)

[Shine]

4. Seagate Technology is based in my town.

Scotts Valley, CA.

Cool, I've known many who have worked for Seagate, but I didn't know this little factoid about them using a psychic for business advice.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

:hi:

[stellanoir]

5. I've ***got *** to get a better agent.

I've done this kind of work for decades and barely earned squat. It's tough to be a Lemeurian in a capitalistic land.

Yikes.

[I Have A Dream]

6. I don't know why, but something just doesn't feel right about this to me.

(Especially the attorney part.)

I'm all for psychics making money, so that's not my issue. It sort of feels the same as Ronald Reagan using astrology to get away with the stuff that he did; it just feels like a misuse of a spiritual gift if it could end up hurting someone in the process. I'd hate to think that an innocent person would be found guilty because of something like this. :(

[Love Bug]

7. The CIA and the Soviets use(d) psychics to spy on each other

by using remote viewing. That's always made me feel uncomfortable because in so doing, those psychics are helping their governments do what, exactly? Cheat? Get an advantage to they can start a war? It's one thing to use one's gifts to help a business know what their customers want; it's another to help stack a jury so a guilty party can go free or help a government start a war. YMMV, but that's karma I'd rather not have.

I agree with you, Dream.