Maclean's also reported that in 2010, Margolis charged US$600 for a 45-minute phone reading, and US$825 for an in-person consultation.

[8] After initiating her session with ambiguous references to names starting with an "M or a J," a statement widely associated with cold reading, Baumgarten hesitantly identified her daughter, Mary.

These suggestions were subsequently met with ridicule and incredulous laughter by Baumgarten's co-anchors, Dean Richards and Larry Potash, when it was revealed that Baumgarten wasn't aware of any projects that her daughter was working on and that she was only six years old.

When Potash subsequently asked her to account for "failing miserably here today," Margolis first sought to defend her reading and then offered to conduct a private reading for Potash, to which he agreed before facetiously adding, "I hope you hit it out of the park as well as you did here today".

[13][14] In 2021, Margolis was a guest adviser in the 10th episode of season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race.