It can be tough to find a good psychic in America, and now, no one knows it better than Heidi Montag. On March 18, 2010, Heidi came out saying that she would fire her manager, who was also psychic, after only a week of keeping him around. She had originally hired Aiden Chase, a Malibu psychic, to replace Spencer Pratt as her business manager. Spencer Pratt, of course, is Heidi Montag’s husband of about 18 months. Not long after hiring Chase a week, to be exact Montag fired him, somewhat unsurprisingly.
Montag and Chase had worked together with Chase using his psychic expertise as Montag’s “intuitive healer” after she had 10 plastic surgeries in one day. Apparently, it took only a month of such work for Montag to decide that she’d rather have the psychic in the managerial position than her Pratt, who’d been in the position for 5 years. Of course, when People magazine attempted to reach Chase for a comment, he claimed that he had no knowledge of a change in his business relationship with Montag. So much for that psychic thing.
Montag’s relationship with a psychic is by no means rare for celebrities; people with that much money have often been known to seek out aid and advice from what are generally considered less than reputable sources, such as psychics. After all, if they have the money to burn and there is a chance that the psychic will be correct in his or her predictions, it would seem to be worth it to spend the money. Psychic consultations, then, are not altogether unheard of for celebrities. But putting a psychic into a business role seems like a rather different issue entirely.
If a psychic genuinely doe shave psychic skills, and he is able to put those skills to use as a business person, then yes, it would seem like a particularly good deal to put a psychic into such a position. But the faultiness of psychics, in general, seems to make putting them into such a position problematic, to say the least. Psychics seem to have fairly fluctuating success rates, and as a result, using a psychic as a business consultant doesn’t seem to be the brightest move. Psychics are probably best thought of as personal consultants; if nothing else, a psychic is someone whom you can talk to, even for a little bit, someone with whom you can express yourself a bit. Heidi Montag’s decision to turn her psychic, who doesn’t seem to have even filled the traditional predictive role of the psychic, but instead played the part of a psychic healer, seems more than a little bit hasty, as does her decision to become her own manager. After all, if she first chose to replace her husband, who clearly had done an alright job with her career for five years, with a psychic whom she fired a week later, then it would seem that she should be putting the important decisions of her career from the business perspective into the hands of someone with a better understanding of those decisions. But then again, Heidi Montag had ten plastic surgeries in a single day, another decision that seems somewhat poor. Perhaps she should have had a psychic then, to tell her how much it was going to hurt her. Maybe then, she could have avoided this entire mess.
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