About | Libba Phillips, The Intuitive Navigator
I was a corporate professional. Logical. Skeptical. Not someone who talked to angels. When my sister Ashley disappeared in 1998, the world I thought I understood shifted underneath my feet. Law enforcement wouldn't file a report — it took four years before one was ever taken. We made our own flyers and stapled them to telephone poles like you would for a lost dog. The media wasn't interested — nobody wanted the story of a missing homeless drug addict with mental illness. She wasn't considered worthy of a police investigation, let alone a news segment. Door after door closed in our faces. It was in that desperate, impossible season that something unexpected began.
A Journey of Divine Guidance
A Wake-Up Call from the Divine
At Christmas in 1997 I said goodbye to my sister Ashley. As I hugged her something hit me — a feeling so strong it stopped me cold. I wasn't going to see her again. I tried to change my flight home. I couldn't. A few months later, in 1998, Ashley disappeared.
And shortly after, my grandfather — a beloved Episcopal minister — was dying of cancer. During his final moments he prayed over me, saying: "God answers prayers. Everyone has a purpose, including you." The next day he passed away.
What followed is simply what happened. Vivid dreams. My grandfather's voice. A growing sense of presence — angels, guidance, something I had no framework for at the time and wasn't sure I believed in. I was a corporate professional. Life was supposed to be logical. And yet — something was trying to get through.
In those early days the signs came in ways I couldn't ignore — a truck at a stoplight, a song playing at exactly the right moment in a drugstore. I was writing everything down, wondering if I was losing my mind. But the breadcrumbs were always there.
I had been hearing a name. Jennifer Smith — a well known and respected journalist in my community. I desperately wanted to reach her. I believed if she heard Ashley's story she would care. But I'd been turned down by everyone and it felt impossible. Then one day at a routine doctor's appointment my doctor asked what I needed. Something made me finally say it out loud. "I need to get to Jennifer Smith." "She's my best friend," my doctor said. "I can't promise anything — but I'll pass along your number."
I walked out of her office stunned. Pulling onto the freeway, a giant city bus passed me with Jennifer's face on it. By the time I got home she had left me a voicemail. I was on her news program that weekend.
The point was never the news story. The point was learning that the universe responds — specifically, practically, and often in ways you could never have planned. And that was just the beginning.
From Crisis to Purpose
Nothing during this time was easy. There were health scares, financial strain, and the countless challenges that come with searching for someone the system has decided doesn't matter. And yet alongside the fear and uncertainty the guidance remained — clear, directive, and steady.
Over time I began to recognize a pattern in how that guidance worked. Not something handed to me — something I tested and refined through years of impossible circumstances. A step by step framework for bringing a need forward, staying open to what came back, and having the courage to act even when it made no logical sense. This lived experience became the foundation for what I would later call the Divine Messenger Method™.
What began with no police report, no media interest, and no institutional support slowly evolved into something I could never have built alone — a nonprofit that helped families of overlooked missing persons, trained law enforcement and crisis responders, and eventually national visibility that reached far beyond our family's story.
As those years unfolded something became undeniable — the story was bigger than Ashley. Bigger than our family. There was an entire invisible population no one was talking about. People lost on the streets, never reported, never searched for. Those who prey on the vulnerable count on the rest of us not to notice. I had spent years trying to shine a light on them. But I needed a way to reach people at a scale I couldn't reach alone. So I did what I had learned to do — I brought it to God. If these people matter, I'm going to need a way forward I can't see from here. Three days later I got a call from a producer.
The result was Bringing Ashley Home — starring A.J. Cook as me and Jennifer Morrison as my sister. It received a Prism Award for its accurate portrayal of mental health and substance use recovery. It aired for more than a decade in over 20 countries — helping shift the perception of the vulnerable and often invisible people lost on our streets. It told only the first four years of a much longer journey. But it reached further than anything I could have orchestrated alone.
Through it all something became increasingly clear — the guidance I was following was not only supporting me. It was working through me.
A Deeper Calling
In 2008 my daughter was born — and the guidance I had been following all along showed up in an entirely new way. Almost from the beginning she began sharing vivid memories of God and angels. She spoke of visits from loved ones who had passed. She described things she had no earthly way of knowing.
As someone who had spent years quietly navigating my own unexplained experiences — this was both astonishing and clarifying. Our story was later featured in Babies Are Cosmic by Elizabeth and Neal Carman, PhD — a book exploring the spiritual insights of young children. In it I share our experience and practical tools for helping intuitive and spiritually aware children navigate their gifts with confidence.
Throughout those advocacy years I had been quietly sharing what I was learning with others navigating their own impossible seasons. But after my daughter was born — and her own experiences began unfolding — that quiet sharing deepened in ways I hadn't anticipated. In 2021 I followed the guidance to step back from advocacy work and begin teaching others what I had spent a lifetime learning. After decades of quietly living this and privately sharing it — it was time.
Transform Your Life, Transform the World
I didn't set out to change anything. I was just desperate enough to listen. A nonprofit that served families no one else would help. A Lifetime movie that shifted perception in over 20 countries. A daughter who came in already knowing things I spent decades learning. None of it was mine to engineer. All of it was guided.
The guidance that moved through my life is the same guidance that's available to yours. Not just in the impossible seasons. In the ordinary ones too. When everything is falling apart — or when you simply want to sell a house, change careers, or finally step into something more. You are being helped. Even now.
When you learn to recognize that guidance, discern it, and act on it — things begin to shift. In your life. And sometimes — in ways that reach far beyond it. That's what I help people do. And yes — sometimes miracles happen.
Speaking & Media
If you want your audience to walk away thinking 'that actually happened' and 'maybe this is possible for me too' — and feeling genuinely inspired rather than just motivated — that's what I do.
I've appeared as a panelist at an IANDS conference, been featured on podcasts, and led workshops and live events — sharing the intersection of lived experience and divine guidance with audiences who are ready for something real.
What I bring to a room isn't just inspiration — it's testimony. Two decades of real world outcomes that began in impossible circumstances and eventually reached a global audience.
Topics include divine guidance in uncertain times, after-death communication, spiritually transformative experiences, intuitive children, and turning impossible circumstances into purposeful action.
If you're looking for a speaker who is credible, grounded, and genuinely has lived what she teaches — I'd love to connect. Send me a message through the contact page.
