For most of us, lottery tickets are not passports to prosperity; they are the litter of the unlucky. But for SarahSpiritual, a West Palm Beach psychic medium, playing the numbers has become an almost surefire way to boost her finances or ease the economic struggles of those around her—with an assist from the Other Side.
“My first win was over 20 years ago,” she says. “But in the past six years, I’ve won about 300 times.” The numbers will appear to Sarah after praying or out of the blue—maybe in the form of a friend’s birth date, or a license plate she notices from the road. They’re not small paydays, she says: The prizes are usually around $500. Clerks at convenience stores have recognized her as a serial victor, and they always receive a tip when she wins.
While beating the house, as it were, has helped her through lean times, “you don’t want to do it too often,” she cautions. “To me, it’s the universe giving me support for the service that I give to humanity. I could charge a lot more for my sessions; I charge $65. Every time I need something to this day, it’s like, ‘a donation would be lovely!’”
We’re speaking from the Expedito Enlightenment Center, the business Sarah established in a nondescript West Palm Beach strip mall in 2006, a space bereft of foot traffic but rich in clientele. (Sarah keeps her private life private, and asked that we not publish her last name.) The center radiates positive energy, from its healing room, where customers book reflexology and astrology sessions; to the main store, which sells potions and oils concocted by Sarah alongside books, crystals and other metaphysical ephemera.
The center is also where Sarah provides psychic readings and other spiritual services—which select listeners may also receive for free if they tune into her radio show, broadcast Wednesday nights on Oldies 95.3 in Palm Beach County and streaming nationally on iHeart Media, YouTube and beyond. Her services boast a 4.9 out of 5 ranking in Google Reviews, and she recently expanded her brand by appearing in “Séance With the Queens,” a reality series, shot in Florida and streaming on TUBI, in which she reads drag queens like Kahmora Hall and Pandora Boxx and horror-movie “scream queens” such as Tuesday Knight.
Viewers of the series might be disarmed to hear Sarah sing parts of her readings, long a trademark of her distinctive style. On her radio show this past November, she helped a caller with her alcoholism by suddenly bursting into verses from “I Have Confidence” from “The Sound of Music.”
“When I connect to people, I will break into song, because that’s the sprit guide coming through,” she says. “Sometimes it’s their grandmother’s favorite song. Some of my readings are just music.”
Songs are also an element from Sarah’s pre-mystical path—a link to a childhood far removed from chakras and auras. Born in New Jersey, she grew up in upstate New York, where her father ran a restaurant business. Despite being tone-deaf as a child, she developed a passion for music, and she won her first talent show as a singer at age 10. She acted in musical theatre productions in high school, competed and won in New York beauty pageants, and eventually found her way into sales—first as a Pink Cadillac-driving senior sales director for Mary Kay Cosmetics and then in the computer business.
It was in a sales position at a CompUSA in Parsippany, New Jersey that she met a customer named Bill, who singlehandedly set in motion her spiritual awakening. As she was taking his credit card information, he read her on the spot, noting the recent departures of her father and grandmother. He returned the next day with bath salts, cilium seeds and a pocket-sized book of psalms.
“He said, ‘you’re holding too much energy, and we need to move the energy in your body,’” Sarah recalls. “I was baptized Greek Orthodox, and I went to Catholic School. Already feeling like a mess, I had become a born-again Christian. I’m thinking, ‘what is he talking about? Are you sure you aren’t working for the guy downstairs?’”
Yet this encounter led to a lifelong mentorship for Sarah. In their sessions, she watched him administer miraculous healings while she honed her own intuition. Finally, after Bill died in 2002—and after his widow, Valerie, persuaded Sarah to move to South Florida, in 2004—Sarah felt confident enough to start her own spiritual practice. Expedito opened two years later. While it may seem a far cry from the performing arts and corporate sales, Sarah believes it’s the culmination of her unpredictable journey.
“I want to use all of my gifts to help people,” she says. “When I look at the Miss America pageants, it’s all about helping women, helping other people. Mary Kay was about making people look and feel better about themselves. My mission was to inspire myself and others to greatness and see the beauty in all things that surround me. So I thought, how can I take all these opportunities and use them in a way that can be of service to humanity—which is ideally what I’m supposed to do.”
This article is from the March 2025 issue of Boca magazine. For more like this, click here to subscribe to the magazine.
