Mary Ellen Popyk on Spirit Fest and Vetting Readers

Inside the Spirit Fest People Fly Across the Country For

Key Takeaways

Mary Ellen Popyk founded Spirit Fest to create a genuine, welcoming community for spiritual seekers, distinguishing it from typical mind, body, and spirit conventions.
Spirit Fest implements a rigorous vetting process for all readers, mediums, and vendors to protect attendees from scams and ensure high standards of professionalism.
Vendors and attendees frequently travel across the country, from states like Washington and Florida, specifically to experience the unique high-vibe atmosphere of the festival.
Future plans for Spirit Fest include an interactive vendor-focused website, wholesale networking opportunities, and potential expansions to the West Coast and new East Coast cities.

Show Notes
Transcript

Live from the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Will and Karen bring a special on-site edition of the show, broadcasting straight from the floor of Spirit Fest, sitting down with the woman who built the whole thing: festival founder Mary Ellen Popyk.

What starts as a quick "thanks for having us" turns into a real look at why this particular mind, body, spirit festival has become a destination event, not just a local pop-up. Mary Ellen explains what separates Spirit Fest from other shows on the circuit: a genuine sense of community that keeps attendees parked in their seats all weekend, vendors flying in from Florida and Washington State, and a vetting process for readers and mediums strict enough that first-timers can walk in without fear of getting scammed.

Along the way, Will and Karen swap stories on past-life research, run into Will's cousin (a fighter pilot) in the crowd, and get a few teasers on what's next for Spirit Fest, including a rebuilt vendor-focused website, a possible West Coast expansion, and big-name additions to the lineup.

In this episode:

What makes Spirit Fest different from other mind, body, spirit conventions
Why vendors travel across the country, twice a year, just to be part of it
How Spirit Fest vets its readers and mediums to protect attendees from scams
A detour into past-life parallels between old relationships and this lifetime
What's coming next: a new interactive website, expansion out West, and bigger-name guests

Guest: Mary Ellen Popyk, Founder of Spirit Fest
Recorded live at: Virginia Beach Convention Center

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Spirit Fest?

Spirit Fest is a popular mind, body, and spirit destination event founded by Mary Ellen Popyk that features intuitive readers, energy healers, aura photography, crystals, and spiritual speakers.

How does Spirit Fest vet its readers and mediums?

Spirit Fest enforces strict screening requirements to evaluate readers and mediums, ensuring they are legitimate professionals and protecting first-time attendees from predatory scams.

Who founded Spirit Fest?

Spirit Fest was founded and built by Mary Ellen Popyk, who aimed to create an immersive destination event centered around authentic spiritual community and connection.

What are the future plans for Spirit Fest?

Spirit Fest is launching a newly redesigned, interactive website with dedicated pages for vendors and wholesalers, along with plans for potential West Coast expansions and new guest speakers.

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Hey there, we're back again.

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You do not need to adjust your set. I know, Karen,

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we don't have that. I do that every time.

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We're just glad that you're here with us today.

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We're back here at the Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach

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And you're watching a special edition of Skeptic Repetitions on

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We are thrilled, blessed, grateful.

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responsible for all the good feels and great energies, Mary

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Well, thank you. And thank you for being here. I'm

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Are you kidding me?

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Thanks for letting us come and have fun and invade

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out here because, uh, that's, it's, it's not easy to

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those of you who aren't in the know, on cruise

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means on deployments.

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People in this area understand what that is, but some

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fighter pilot. Oh, wow. Yes, I was president of the

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Officer's Wife Club for a year.

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sort of like what we're doing with past life research

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that we're doing because I'm a completely different person. That

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life is, he's passed away unfortunately, but that was a

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long time ago. Um, and again, I'm just interested in

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different things. I was very supportive of that lifestyle then,

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but I just think about other things that we tap

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It's really similar.

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did then is good. You take the good, you leave

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the bad. Or anything that doesn't serve us that we

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don't need, we can leave that. So I thought, wow,

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in this lifetime than it is from a past life?

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rabbit holes that go down here. We talked to some

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readers that you had. We've talked to some energy healers.

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Spiritfest that you want to maybe give us a sneak

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Resources, other platforms that they might be on, be able

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I'd love to be able to promote.

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People like you, what you do, just be able to

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be a resource for people to find good mind, body,

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spirit information, really good quality things.

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He's a great singer. Oh, wrong Mark Anthony?

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Wouldn't that be fun to have both? Mark Anthony and

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Mark Anthony. And have them switch.

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All right, Mark Anthony, sing. And you, spirit medium.

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Then Anthony Profeta, who's an amazing sound healer and meditation teacher.

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big giants out there.

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book about beings with six fingers and toes that he's

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done a lot of research that himself, he, this isn't

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somebody who watches YouTube. He goes into the, at the

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very least he goes to the actual library and reads books,

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things like that. And he's got a lot of good information.

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I bet they're really good at piano.

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Really good at piano. Oh, awesome.

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So Marilyn, I would love for you to, look at

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the camera and invite folks to come because it coming

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from the person who's in charge of putting it all together,

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it carries a lot of weight with it.

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kids can build key chains. Um, we've got massage.

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then tons of crystals. And these are vendors who can

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really good readers, and again, from across the country. And

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we don't um just accept anybody we do vet them

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kinds of hoops we just make sure that they're you

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not just any tom dick or harry you actually um

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you have very stringent requirements uh which which adds to

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the professionalism.

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had this kind of work done you don't feel like

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you know is this person going to be a shyster

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That they've been vetted you know oh and it happens

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oh the stories you can tell oh yeah yeah yeah

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they um and and if you ever start to get

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a feeling during a reading that something isn't quite right

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if they're trying to tell you especially negative information um

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they could tell you you might want to look out

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for this but if you know you need to be

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aware of a beware of a woman with a, begins

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with a D name.

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And I think that she might have a curse on you.

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You need to pay me more money. You need to

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run away.

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It is unfortunate. And a lot of other shows that

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are similar to this have those types of people.

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You gotta be careful because they, they make their money

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So hopefully this people can benefit from our, my experience

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and the experience of others.

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I'm telling you, this is, if you come to one

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spirit show, this is the spirit show to come to

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spirit fest because of everything we just talked about. So yeah, Well,

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you're amazing. Thank you so much for having us on,

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having us come here. Thank you for being on the show.

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We had to pull her out of here, screaming, kicking

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and screaming to be on the show because she's so busy,

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but we really appreciate you having us here.

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Thank you so much for being here. I really, your

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energy this weekend has been great. I really, really appreciate it.

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Thank you. We really love being here. Yeah.

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Well, thank you. Come to Florida.

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We are planning on it. And thank you for watching.

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Thank you for listening. Don't forget. We are at the Virginia,

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Virginia beach convention center.

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It's easy.

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Free parking. There's nothing else happening this weekend. So the

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place is to yourself. You don't have to fight for parking.

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It's easy for you to come.

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Come on by.

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We're here till 5.30. So you have a limited time.

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Strike while the iron is hot.

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Thank you so much for listening. Thanks so much for watching.

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We'll now return you to our regularly scheduled programming already

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Bye.