What enabled you to get over your fear of communicating with the dead?
I was afraid to be alone.
Being so young, I had no idea what they wanted.
I never realized that I was psychic or I was a medium.
I literally thought that I was being haunted by the dead.
I had no idea what it meant.
Then as I got older, I wasn’t sure what it was that I was supposed to do.
I always felt a deep connection to people and I wanted to do something with helping others.
I just wasn’t sure what that was or what that meant.
I started my career as an EMT.
From there, I worked up the courage to go and see a medium myself.
They were feeling like going to see a medium helped them so much in their life.
I decided to go and see a medium myself and revisit what I had been pushing away.
If so, what did you do about that?
But I don’t consider this to be a bad message or something that’s negative.
I’ll have to convey that message.
How does that gift impact your daily life?
If you’re out running errands or trying to work out, are there souls trying to contact you?
How do you interact with them?
There is no customer service hours when you’re talking to the dead.
Let me tell you something it’s a 24-hour job.
The souls are always there.
There’s always something that they have to say.
What’s so amazing is they know that I’m a phone line to them.
That’s what they think of me as.
Our loved ones are already trying to get in touch with us in our daily lives.
You’re never really off then you’ve got the option to’t turn it off.
There is no turning off whatsoever.
At the same time, it’s just a part of who I am.
It’s almost like when you’re a fitness trainer.
It’s still a part of you.
Matt Fraser welcomes skeptics and opportunities to prove them wrong
How do you deal with skeptics?
Have you ever convinced a skeptic that you’re the real deal?
Oh, my God.
I love the skeptical ones.
It’s happened time and time again.
I got to tell you that I don’t pride myself on convincing skeptics.
The other side does all the work I just say what they’re telling me.
If I was in their shoes, I would question it too: “Is psychic ability real?
Can somebody talks to the dead?
Is there another side?”
It was funny because they asked me to be on the show.
In the beginning, he was very nervous.
He did not want a psychic medium on it.
He didn’t believe in the other side; he was very much a skeptic.
He allowed me on the show and he actually allowed me to do a reading for him.
Thick-headed, I guess you could say.
We all know a skeptic.
We all know somebody who doesn’t believe or isn’t sure.
They share with me all the time different messages through my intuition.
You don’t have a following in Agawam.
The population is low.
You have no following in Agawam.
The show is not going to be well attended.
It’s not going to sell out.
You should look at other places."
That’s an area where I need to go."
They’re like, “Absolutely not.
You’re taking your own chances.
No one’s going to buy tickets.”
Next thing you know, I trusted my intuition.
I went there, and the whole event sold out.
People drove from all over, and I actually went several times after that.
Everybody was like, “How did you know?
How is this even possible?
That’s one of the reasons why I even wrote my book, “We Never Die.”
They’re not sure if their loved ones are at peace and therefore they can’t be at peace.
Has it been in the works for a while?
I started the concept of the book several years ago, but I started writing it during the pandemic.
Therefore, it caused us all to start thinking about heaven and the afterlife.
“What are we doing in heaven?”
“What if we didn’t get to say goodbye to our loved one?”
“What if our loved one couldn’t remember here in this world?”
“What if there was a child that had passed, do they get older in heaven?”
How did that come about, and what did you hope that viewers would take away from it?
Before the TV show, I had already had a two-year waiting list for private readings.
I was already traveling the country doing live events and shows and had a big following, luckily.
One day I got a call from E!
Entertainment, and they were like, “Matt, we see you give readings all the time.
We want to do a show behind the scenes of you, your life, and your family.”
But the only thing that’s spooky about me is my family, because they drive me insane.
That’s how the TV show came to be.
It’s an everyday reality-style of what life is like on the back end of the readings.
That’s what the whole show was about.
Speaking of your live shows, who are your attendees?
Everybody who attends an event attends for a different reason.
There are some skeptics that don’t know what to believe.
They’re like, “Is this real?
Is this guy legit?
I want to believe, but I don’t.”
That’s another person who attends.
Another person who attends is somebody who wants to connect with their own psychic ability.
Maybe they felt something, maybe they felt strong intuition.
[They] come to validate that.
What’s cool is that during this event, it’s more than just a show.
You couldn’t talk about speaking or hearing the departed, you couldn’t talk about having psychic ability.
Luckily, something came about that changed things, and that was the internet.
What was really a big pioneer in this is that the internet started taking over.
People have screen names, and you could come in as anonymous.
Then it started to open up.
All of a sudden, we have networks that are picking up psychic programming.
We all have a way to connect with our loved ones.
It’s about embracing that connection and knowing that you are not alone …
Right now I have 1.2 million followers on my Facebook page.
These are people who have become a family.
The more that we share with one another, the more that we learn.
Matt Fraser’s newest book, “We Never Die,” is now available wherever books are sold.
This interview was edited for clarity.
