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Peeling The Artichoke To Reveal The Heart with Tiffany Cano | Ep. 53

ByMegan North

On this week’s episode of The True North Show I am joined by Tiffany Cano, an incredible and wonderful woman who, and the heart of everything, is here to serve.  Her story is filled with so many moments of insight, nudges and advice from her parents that it seems she has had no other choice but to do what she does – and she loves that.  Tiffany and I have quite a few laughs along the way and she shares so much wisdom, particularly the grounding technique that she does, you will not want to miss that!

Bio:

Tiffany Cano is the CEO of Highly Perceptive People Academy.

She has been getting paid for healing since she was 8 years old.

Many empaths, intuitives, transformational workshop leaders and coaches hire her to help them see and heal their blinds pots, be better at holding space and with their boundaries because most are overwhelmed, subconsciously guarded, take things personally and contract when feeling fear and negativity.  So she helps them be more clear and trust their intuition, feel safe to take confident and empowered action and own your sense of Self.

In essence, Tiffany gets you even more aligned and congruent so that you can be even better at receiving more money, love and joy!

She is the author of Sacred Body, Sacred Soul, Loved Seen Heard (coming out soon), co-author of Women of Wisdom, and the Art of Connection.

Tiffany will be featured in 3 upcoming A-List Transformation Movie Documentaries: Frequency of Miracles, Pillars of Power, and Rise of the Lioness. She is also the creator of “Soul of An Empath” Podcast, the “Knowing You” Show, Embodiment Program: Conscious Creation, Love & Empowerment, and the Highly Perceptive People Online Program.

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Transcript:

[00:34] Megan North:
Hello and welcome to the True North Show. I’m your host Megan North.

Today I am thrilled to welcome Tiffany Cano, the CEO of Highly Perceptive People Academy. And if that title intrigues you, just wait until you hear her story. Tiffany has been getting paid for healing since she was eight years old. Today she works with empaths, intuitives, transformational coaches, and workshop leaders, the very people who spend their lives holding space for others, helping them identify and heal their own blind spots, strengthen their boundaries, and trust their intuition more deeply. Because even the healers need healing.

The people she works with are often overwhelmed, subconsciously guarded, and find themselves contracting when fear and negativity creep in. Tiffany helps them feel safe, confident, and deeply aligned so they can show up fully and open themselves to receiving more money, more love, and more joy.

She is the author of Sacred Body Sacred Soul and the soon to be released Love Seen Heard, as well as co-author of Women of Wisdom and the Art of Connection. She is also set to be featured in three transformation documentary films: Pillars of Power, which has just been released, and Frequency of Miracles and Rise of the Lioness, which will be released later this year and in early 2026.

Tiffany is also the creator of the Soul of an Empath podcast, The Knowing You Show, and the Highly Perceptive People Online Program. She is quite simply someone who has dedicated her whole entire life to helping others come home to themselves.

Tiffany, welcome to the True North Show. I am thrilled that we are having this conversation.

[02:40] Tiffany Cano:
Thank you. I loved your mention of intuition and soul guidance. That is what guides my entire life.

[02:51] Megan North:
I love that. Tiffany has been healing people since she was eight years old, and the work she does today goes deeper than most of us could ever imagine. Let’s start with what I know everyone is thinking. What does it mean to be a highly perceptive person, and how do you know if you are one?

[04:19] Tiffany Cano:
Most empathic people, the feelers of the world, which I think you are and I know I am, have these perceptions about life, about people. We have things that we simply know. We bring in the elements of claircognizance, to know; clairsentience, to feel; clairaudience, to hear; and clairvoyance, to see. When that perception is present, we know things. It is like our intuition, our true north compass.

[05:06] Megan North:
I love that. And for you personally, do you have all of the clairs, or is one stronger than the others?

[05:24] Tiffany Cano:
I have all the clairs. There are even a few I don’t always love having, like clairolfaction and clairgustance, the ability to smell and taste energy. When I’m around roses, I’m happy to have that sense. But there are times when it’s a little overwhelming and I’m quietly asking God to turn the volume down.

[06:02] Megan North:
Yes. And even roses, as beautiful as they are, can be a bit much sometimes, can’t they? The rose is actually the highest vibrational flower. I’ve had a guest on this show twice who runs Bloom College and works with flower healing, and she talks about roses a lot in the context of their extraordinary frequency.

Now the other thing I imagine everyone is curious about is blind spots. What do you mean when you use that term?

[06:52] Tiffany Cano:
Blind spots are things that are often in our subconscious, hidden from our everyday way of thinking, but influencing us at a subliminal level. Within the subconscious there are old programs, traumas, and wounds that haven’t yet been healed. For every 100 to 200 conscious thoughts we have, there are 11 million subconscious ones. And it’s that 11 million that I tune into and see, because that’s often what gets in the way of manifesting the life we want.

You might be consciously affirming: I am open and receptive to money. But underneath, if I’m looking at someone’s subconscious, there might be wounds around money from childhood. Maybe mum and dad fought about it. Maybe there’s an embedded belief that money is scary, that money is bad, that money causes conflict, that there is never enough. That inner child’s belief is still vibrating in the adult body, without the proper internal upgrade. So that’s what I do. I tune in to what is getting in the way of someone’s money, love, health, spirituality, or relationships, and help them get aligned and congruent.

[08:35] Megan North:
It’s similar to the limiting beliefs work that I do. I had a perfect example of this myself. At one stage I had a permanent job and multiple other income streams, and suddenly everything except the permanent job stopped, all at once. That was strange enough that I went to a healer because I couldn’t see it myself. We uncovered that my father’s belief had bubbled up in me. He worked on the railway his entire life and used to say you can only have one job. Once we identified it and cleared it, everything began to flow again. It’s fascinating how those inherited beliefs can emerge seemingly out of nowhere, but only when they’re ready to be cleared.

[09:54] Tiffany Cano:
Yes. It’s not always comfortable or easy or fun in the middle of it, but it’s such a blessing when those things surface as a mirror showing you what still needs to be healed or upgraded. Triggers are not fun when you’re in them. But the breakthroughs, the new possibilities, the new ways of being, the insights and wisdom you gain, those are so powerful.

And I’ll say, when people have been working on something for twenty years and they’re frustrated that they’re still not where they want to be, I’ll often look and see they’re only around seventy-eight percent aligned with that goal. Even ninety-eight percent alignment means there’s a two percent gap that can make all the difference. That last two percent could be the reason they’re attracting their soulmate or still frustrated in dating. It could be why they manifest nine thousand a month instead of the fifteen thousand they set as a goal. They can only own what they’re truly congruent with.

So doing that inner work to see what’s getting in the way matters enormously. And when you have someone like you or like me who isn’t attached to your stuff and can see and sense and feel what’s happening beneath the surface, it makes the clearing fast and effective. I have a wide range of healing modalities I can draw from depending on what I sense is needed.

[12:01] Megan North:
Yes. Sometimes it’s about getting out of your own way and being genuinely open to exploring. I love approaching it with curiosity, like: let’s find out what this is and work on it together. Sometimes what you uncover is surprisingly simple. Sometimes it’s much deeper. And what about you? When you feel like you’re in your own way, do you have people you work with?

[12:45] Tiffany Cano:
Absolutely. Recently I uncovered a blind spot about how I was rationalising and justifying something, and it got me into difficulty with someone important to me. In the middle of the trigger it was not comfortable. At first I was still defending myself, even to myself. And then I stopped and thought: I would rather have peace than be right in this situation with this person. Let me own my part. I made the mess, so let me clean it up.

[13:28] Megan North:
Yes. And when we feel settled enough in ourselves to go back to that person and say: I’ve uncovered something in myself, this is what I’ve found, it changes the entire relationship. There’s an openness and honesty there that shifts everything.

[14:24] Tiffany Cano:
Yes. And there were things I could have done that would have saved the whole situation if I had remembered to do them. So let me share a shortcut.

Number one: is this the right time to have this conversation? Yes or no. If no, move on. If yes, then: is this person open and receptive to having this conversation? If no, move on. If yes, then: what is the best way to have this conversation? Text, email, phone call, or in person?

These small, nuanced questions matter so much in human dynamics. Because I’ve been receiving downloads, intuition, and messages my whole life, and I used to assume that because I received the intuition, I was meant to act on it immediately. I learned that was not always true. My go-to question now is: by when do you want me to take action on this? And then: how? Getting more granular and more detailed.

Not everyone has the level of consciousness to have a conscious, partnering kind of conversation. We can’t project our goodness onto someone and assume they have the same skills, training, or growth. Sometimes the most loving thing is to accept them where they are rather than push the envelope.

[17:06] Megan North:
Yes. And it’s also about where we are energetically when we’re delivering something to someone. Pausing to ask: is my energy in the right space for this? Sometimes I receive information about someone and I’m told: this is just for you, there’s nothing to do here. Because it’s their journey, not mine to direct.

[18:05] Tiffany Cano:
Even in sessions, sometimes people come to me and I assume they’re open and receptive and want all the information coming through. But that doesn’t mean they’re ready for it. I learned that in my twenties and thirties, because I’ve been doing paid healing sessions and teaching transformation workshops for over thirty years. Sometimes information comes through simply so I can quietly include it in what I’m clearing for the person in the background. It doesn’t mean it needs to be spoken aloud. Saying it might actually cause embarrassment or make them feel bad about themselves.

There are many more detailed questions we can ask when we receive intuition, rather than assuming we need to deliver everything immediately.

[19:20] Megan North:
Yes. I’ve had that experience too, where something comes through in a healing or reading and I know not to say it, and then a few weeks later when I check in with the person, they ask exactly the right question that opens the door. Because they were ready then. The timing wasn’t right in the original session.

So, you have been doing paid healing work since you were eight. Can you walk us through how that actually started? Was this normal in your household? How did you even know to charge?

[20:21] Tiffany Cano:
First, I should say I did not realise that other people couldn’t see energy, see auras, or communicate with animals. I thought everybody could. I thought everybody could talk to God. I didn’t know that was more rare. I just naturally knew that I could put my hand on something and it would feel better. I didn’t know exactly how, it just felt natural.

I was at my dad’s barn in Malibu. He’s a horse trainer, still is. I was doing something that looked like massage on one of his clients. He’s an entrepreneur with that entrepreneurial mindset, and he said: you should charge them a dollar for ten minutes. I was like: okay daddy. He said: yeah, they can afford it. And that was how it started. Something fairly innocent.

He didn’t really understand the full nature of what I was doing. When he found out more about my healing gifts as a teenager, he made fun of it and teased me. He was quite cruel about it. But later, in my thirties, he started having his own experiences of seeing spirits and became more clairvoyant. Suddenly he was curious and accepting of my nature. He eventually asked me to do readings and healings on his horses. That was a big shift.

My mother, on the other hand, has been supportive my whole life. We did a lot of training together in spiritual and holistic healing from my early teens. I read personal development books as a teenager, which I’m not sure many people do now. When Conversations with God came out, I was a teenager, and I remember thinking: finally, someone gets me. I was learning laying on of hands, reflexology, gemstone healing, shamanism, and Reiki.

I went to college for sports medicine, thinking I would blend Eastern and Western approaches. But I really loved the metaphysical work, so I dove into that. I became a pranic healing instructor throughout my twenties and continued learning Sedona release, EFT, NLP, summit transformation, and many more modalities, because I love learning. When I learn something, I apply it to myself first, and then I know when to pull it out for a client.

After college, with my mum’s help, I opened a holistic healing centre. That was my big dream at the time. We had weekly healing clinics, meditations, pranic healers, massage therapists, reflexologists, a Chinese herbal doctor, a chiropractor. It was wonderful. And then the travel bug hit and I eventually handed the reins to the chiropractor who had been renting there. I’ve been doing distant healings and online workshops ever since.

[26:58] Megan North:
Was your mum a practitioner herself, or was she more there to support you?

[24:33] Tiffany Cano:
My mum liked to learn but didn’t want to be a practitioner herself. She was more behind the scenes. She managed a holistic healing centre when I was a teenager and did reflexology and gemstone healing at that time, but she didn’t want to do it professionally. She really just wanted to support me and what I was building.

[26:58] Megan North:
I love that. And yes, we can do all the energy work and the clearing, but if we don’t embody it and truly live it rather than just understand it intellectually, it stays in the head. It doesn’t become who we are.

So, when you were that eight-year-old girl starting this journey, did you know it was your purpose?

[27:37] Tiffany Cano:
When I was that age, I wanted to be a veterinarian or an astronaut. But I’ve always had this heart to serve. I’ve explored many ways of asking: how can I best serve? I live my life trying to be love in service, and then I ask the divine: show me how you want me to serve, when, where, how, with whom, and in what ways. And then I do that. I’m not particularly attached to the how or the with whom. I just show up where I’m guided.

Speaking of divine guidance, I got a strong push toward the documentary films. My personality would honestly prefer to be in a meditation cave doing Zoom sessions from my bubble. But two different people approached me about being in transformation documentaries within two days of each other.

I blew off the first one. The second one made me pause and ask: are you trying to tell me something?

Then I had a full-blown tantrum about it. My inner child did not want to be that visible, that seen. That felt genuinely frightening. And then I released, I surrendered, I emptied as much as I could, and I asked: okay, I just want to love and serve. Tell me how. And I got the yes for Pillars of Power.

That film has just been released globally. We’re doing screenings at theatres, companies, and media centres around the world. If you’d like me and the film and our remarkable cast to come to your area, please reach out via my website.

Because I said yes and moved into divine action with Pillars of Power, a few days later I received the yes for Frequency of Miracles. So the universe decided to stretch and grow me some more. And I said yes there too.

In the two years since saying yes to both, I’ve done hundreds of healings on myself and worked with other coaches and healers to feel safe being this visible. There is a whole new level of feeling safe to be seen when you’re part of a major film going into theatres globally. The cast includes people like Lisa Nichols, Jack Canfield, Marie Diamond, John Assaraf, Dr Joe Vitale, Dory Cordova, and Reverend Michael Beckwith. Many of them were in the original Secret film released twenty years ago. It’s an extraordinary group.

I was watching clairvoyantly during the screenings and could see people’s auras becoming brighter, shinier, and more healed. The film, the music, the editing, the stories, all of it is genuinely transformational. People walk away a different version of themselves. I am so honoured to be part of it. Rise of the Lioness and Frequency of Miracles will be released later this year and in early 2026.

When you live a life of service and genuinely empty yourself and say: God, use me, I am thy vessel, God will absolutely take you out of your comfortable little corner and give you a shove. To work out karma, learn lessons, and help others. It’s a three-for-one.

[34:08] Megan North:
If you don’t want any of this, don’t ask!

[34:20] Tiffany Cano:
But if I didn’t ask to be of service, I think I’d be pretty miserable and unfulfilled. The wrong kind of empty. The lonely, apathetic kind, as opposed to the stillness and peace of simply allowing God to flow through.

[34:45] Megan North:
With so much happening at any one time, how do you look after your mental health and wellbeing? What practices genuinely support you?

[35:13] Tiffany Cano:
Meditation is definitely at the forefront. I want to get back into doing a full day of meditation and fasting once a week. I used to do that and I’d love to return to it, or at minimum once or twice a month. I also value therapy, EMDR, journaling, and deep inner reflection. I use a lot of neuroscience to work on my own beliefs and get those internal upgrades. I sing. I work in my organic garden. There’s real variety in what I do, and it doesn’t feel precious or rigid. Just whatever is needed.

I’m also building more physicality into my life and practising what I call my do-it-anyway muscles. The things I don’t really want to do but I do them anyway. That’s what people who build something meaningful tend to do.

[37:27] Megan North:
And what about grounding? With so much connection to the higher dimensions, how do you bring yourself back to earth?

[37:27] Tiffany Cano:
When I ground, I look toward the floor, eyes open or closed, and I send energetic roots from my feet down into the earth, deeper, thicker, wider. I ground and connect, allowing my core to feel more solid and supported. It’s not just about connecting upward. It’s also about connecting below. When you’re genuinely grounded, that’s when manifestation becomes easier.

[38:06] Megan North:
Yes. Being grounded is being present. And I feel like that’s when we manifest most powerfully, because we are completely in the moment, we can feel it, we can embody it.

I could actually feel that happening as you described it. Everything went very quiet on my street too. Thank you for that. It was really beautiful.

So why do you think some people are not living to their highest potential?

[39:11] Tiffany Cano:
Fear. Almost always fear, masquerading as a wound, a self-limiting belief, a negative family legacy, or a past life bleed-through experience. That fear is usually causing one of the four trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. The fawn response, people pleasing, is the one that doesn’t get talked about very often. Fight, flight, and freeze are well known, but the people pleaser is the one that has many people unable to access a clear yes or a clear no, because they’ve been so focused on doing what they think will make others happy that they’ve lost themselves in the process. I also notice a lot of codependency and enmeshment bonding patterns connected to the fawn response.

My own biggest pattern is freeze. Looking like a deer in headlights and going completely still.

[40:39] Megan North:
Our bodies are simply trying to keep us safe. Even being seen globally in a film, the nervous system registers that as unknown territory. It doesn’t know how to process something that’s never happened before. So the fear response is entirely natural.

[41:17] Tiffany Cano:
Exactly. The brain and the nervous system short circuit. And it’s important to observe that rather than judge it. It’s part of the human experience. The more healed those patterns become, the more you build the right muscles to move through them. I do a significant amount of somatic and trauma release work with my clients to help get the nervous system, the brain, and the hormonal system more balanced. Because when you’re in chronic fear, the body floods with cortisol and adrenaline, and over time that causes real health problems: insomnia, exhaustion, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, kidney stress.

Most adults, unless they do this inner work to discover the emotional and mental root causes, just go on treating symptoms without ever addressing the deeper source. I’m not against pharmaceutical support, there is absolutely a time and a place for both Eastern and Western medicine. But if you’re only ever treating the symptom and never going to the cause, lasting change is hard to create.

[43:57] Megan North:
Yes. I’ve been on my healing journey for maybe twenty-five to thirty years. When you first start, it’s hard. You’re often dealing with the deepest and darkest things first. But the more you work on yourself, the quicker things move. Things that once took months can now be processed in days, because you’ve already cleared so much of what was underneath.

[44:43] Tiffany Cano:
Some things I can let go of faster now. But what’s consistently true is that I have more trust in myself, more trust in the process, and more trust that I will get to the other side. I don’t need it to be fast. I need it to be thorough and deep. Sometimes I hand everything to God and don’t even look at it. Other times it feels right to ask: where am I feeling this in my body? What is the earliest time I felt this? What memory is this connected to? And then I do some clearing on that. That usually gives me the biggest breakthrough.

I had a lot of layers of numbness early on, so I couldn’t even access what the deeper things were. It’s like unpeeling layers. And I prefer not to use the onion metaphor, because when you peel an onion you end up with nothing. I like to say the layers of the artichoke, because then you can get to the heart.

[46:12] Megan North:
I love that. That’s beautiful.

[46:18] Tiffany Cano:
I think I started wherever I started, but I reached the deeper layers probably in years fifteen to thirty of doing inner work. And there is still work for all of us until we reach enlightenment. Until then, stop pushing, stop forcing, stop beating yourself up for still having things to clear. Let go and be the best version of yourself in the process. Anyone can do this.

[47:03] Megan North:
Yes. And be really kind. To yourself first, and then to others.

[47:07] Tiffany Cano:
Yes. To yourself especially.

[47:09] Megan North:
Kindness goes such a long way. We are nearly at the end of our time, but before we finish, can you share a quick example of someone you’ve worked with recently who had a blind spot that was cleared?

[47:50] Tiffany Cano:
The first that comes to mind is a female client who was experiencing insomnia. When I looked at her energetically, her body was flooded with adrenaline and cortisol. Her nervous system looked completely fried, with some of the circuits not completing. There were stuck and suppressed emotions, particularly in the solar plexus, front and back, the heart chakra, the mengmen chakra at the small of the back, and in the throat. When someone’s energy and spine are free and clear, energy moves naturally up and down. When there are blocks, it gets stuck in patterns, and in her case that pattern was directly causing the insomnia.

Another client wanted to be a coach and healer but was completely tech phobic. She would become overwhelmed and frozen by anything related to the tech side of running an online business. I did healing work with her and also gave her access to my Brain Boosters program. These are audio tracks that use binaural sound, with positive affirmations going right ear, left ear, alternately, combined with healing frequencies. It’s a blend of neuroscience and belief reprogramming.

I gave her specific ones: Start and Finish Projects, and Empowering Entrepreneur. I have around twenty-five different topics available, covering things like forgiveness, money, grief, surrender, spirituality and intuition, releasing codependency, opening to love, opening to miracles. You can find a free sample on my website under Brain Boosters. Use over-ear headphones or earbuds for optimal effect.

I’ll share personally that since I started listening to these every day myself, picking a different topic each time, I’ve noticed my emotions are calmer, I’m more mentally present, the brain fog is minimal, I feel safer, I have more energy, and my emotional and mental bandwidth and resilience have increased in ways I didn’t even know I needed.

[52:06] Megan North:
Thank you for sharing that. We only have a couple of minutes left, so the question I love to ask all of my guests before we close: what is one lesson or truth that you’ve learned on your journey that you wish you had known earlier?

[52:39] Tiffany Cano:
I live by the question: what would love say? Or: what would love do?

That has been my guiding compass for the last five to ten years. It could have saved me a great deal of difficulty had I been asking it earlier in my life rather than being driven by ego. When I face a decision or a conflict, I tap into the heart and ask: what would love say in this situation? What would love do?

[53:09] Megan North:
What a beautiful way to close this conversation. Thank you so much for everything you’ve shared today. I’ve truly loved diving deep into the spiritual world with you. It’s been a real joy.

[53:33] Tiffany Cano:
My pleasure. Thank you for having me and for letting me share today.

[53:38] Megan North:
Not at all. And I’d also like to thank all of my amazing and dedicated guests, my audience, my supporters, and my sponsors, everyone who supports this show every week. I hope you all have an amazing week and I’ll see you all again next time. Thank you so much, Tiffany.

[53:56] Tiffany Cano:
My pleasure. Thank you.

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