From the desk of Tristan Rimbaud:
“After years-long deliberation, I have decided to retire as a working psychic medium after 22 years and 5 months of service effective on January 1, 2024. As someone who has said multiple times on radio and television programs across the United States and Canada that I would never retire, I would like to offer some context to this heavy decision. I am honored and ecstatic to have been able to work as many years as I have, often against seemingly insurmountable odds to have become as successful as I have been. It all began in July 2001 with the debut of my official website. There have been so many milestones for me in the past twenty-two years. From being interviewed by Jamie White and Danny Bonaduce in Los Angeles, California on the radio program Jamie and Danny, to appearing on two episodes of Trading Spouses on FOX with the infamous “God Warrior” Marguerite Perrin. I’ve been blessed to be able to appear on dozens of radio and television programs as a guest expert. Throughout those appearances, I have met some amazing people. A very special thank you to Jennifer English of the former radio program Don’t Talk With Your Mouth Full. I was a guest on her radio program a whopping twenty times! Those guest expert appearances were some of my favorites to have been a part of.
I have offered psychic readings to quite literally thousands of clients over these many years, and have cherished every single second of being able to do so. I have a large file in my home office with dozens of letters and printed emails from clients over the years expressing their gratitude for the reading I did for them, and letting me know about how the accuracy has positively affected the lives of their family and themselves. I cry every single time I open that file and read those heartfelt messages. I have always wanted my legacy to be one of being of service to others, and pursuing what I felt God had drawn me to do. For many years, my identify was directly tied to my work. As I’ve gotten older, that has changed. Please note that I started my business at age 20, and am now 43. Your mentality changes as you age.
I have appeared as a vendor dozens of times at festivals and expo’s offering in-person psychic readings, selling my own line of scented prayer candles, and supporting both the New Age and LGBTQ+ communities. I was often the first psychic medium to appear at many of those events. I also had the blessing of being able to host regular classes on spirit communication and intuitive timing at Mystic Valley Books & Cafe in St. Louis, Missouri for many years. A special thank you to the women who own that store, and to the clients who had met me there over those years. Many attendees became regulars clients after attending those classes, and they were always extremely special to me to be a part of.
As an author, I had the blessing of being able to self-publish three books, author multiple published articles, win several awards for my poetry and short stories, and even write regular horoscopes columns for a time for Texas Triangle Newsweekly and Chicago Pride Magazine.
This decision to retire has been cultivating for years. The great recession (2007-2009) really crippled my business. It took years to see the full effects, but by 2011 I had to get a second part-time job to stay afloat. Essentially, while I still had a stable business, it went from being full-time to part-time due to a change in appointment bookings. Many of my clients were furloughed or laid off during that time, had to pivot, and began booking psychic telephone readings every other year or every few years instead of once or twice a year. By 2011, that dip in bookings was evident. I tried to go back out on the road to appear on radio and television programs again to promote my work, but I had lost almost all of my regular contacts. Some had retired, some had passed away, and the new producers either didn’t want to continue to have a psychic on their program, or they had someone else that was their new “favorite”. Just as it is for aging actors, often you get replaced by the “new girl”. With the shift away from standard FM/AM radio programming due to corporate buyouts, the podcast community was just something I never seemed to be able to break into fully. There were some shows here and there after 2011, and I thank every single one of them for giving me a spot.
I realized in having a second part-time job that if I was going to have to work for someone else, I wanted to control the trajectory of my secondary career. My inner “sole proprietor” fought heavily for years with the concept of not being in control of my environment. Once again, time and experience changes that. I went to college and got an Associate of Applied Science degree in Business Operations, Applications, and Technology alongside certification’s in Business Administration, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Access. I was blessed to be able to graduate with honors maintaining a 3.8 GPA.
Over the past several years, my secondary career has become my main focus as I have moved up the corporate ladder out of school. I am working with a great team now, and am happy with my advancements. My psychic work has continued to be a steady part-time career. We are at a point in American society where “gigging” is a normal experience for most Americans, meaning working more than one job to get by. However, my passion for it has waned over the past several years. With working a 51-hour work week at my day job, it has become increasingly difficult to work as a psychic medium and still balance my personal life. I spend almost all of my weekends doing laundry, dishes, vacuuming, dusting, mopping, taking the trash out, etc. I have become Cinderella.
I have been praying to God for years for guidance as to what I should do, and I feel his answer is to step away from my psychic work (for now). I state it as such, because I do intuitively feel that I will potentially return to it when I near retirement from my current career path. Meaning, as a senior, I may reopen New Life Old Soul and begin to offer appointments again in my 60s and 70s. As such, while my official website will become inactive on May 1, 2024, I will keep my official social media pages active (X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube). I will continue to post photographs, spiritual quotations, and just general life updates in the future. As a side note, I have been an active toy collector of vintage and modern toys since the 1980s. It is my main hobby, and I will be launching a YouTube channel with regular toy collecting video content in 2024. I have already launched the X page for the upcoming channel. It is called “Bowtie Toy Guy“. Please click here to check out the X page for my upcoming toy collecting journey and follow me! It’s something I’ve been having fun working on creatively in my sparse free time.
Lastly, I want to simply say thank you. Many of you who read this have been with me for decades. I started out as one of the youngest psychic mediums in the world on radio and television programs, and it has blossomed into such a fulfilling journey. I love you. May God keep you. All glory be to God for everything.”
Tristan Rimbaud
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