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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with
you of our special guest. Austin Wells is an author,
spiritual teacher who helps a lot of people with their
spiritualism and well being. She has lectured and taught for
such organizations as the Omega Institute at Your Casey's Are
in Virginia Beach in the Sun Valley Wellness Festival. Her
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book is called Soul Conversations Austin. First time on the program,
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Thank you George. You make people not want to sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We keep everybody awake. How are you do?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
How can you sleep when you know that your show exists?
Like you just want to listen and just learn. It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tell us more about you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I will, I will. I have been fortunate to do
my work for about twenty years now, and it's much
like you have a passion and a purpose. It's an
extraordinary thing when you know that you are able to
do something that can help people through moments when they're
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without answers. And I I just am always grateful because
I'm one of those curious minds like yours that wants
to learn all the time. So what I love about
my work is I can never figure it all out,
and so I just am always entertained and fascinated and learning.
So I feel pretty pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What was that moment, that big moment, Austin, when it
just started for you? When I was five five years old?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, yes, I know, super young. So my mom was
a model and I was in a fashion show. It
was a little bit of a dork as a kid,
and I had to be a bridesmaid with a whole
bunch of tool My mom wasn't the kind of mom
you woke up in the middle of the night to
ask for help. So I did the only thing I
knew at the time, which was to and all of
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a sudden, the walls in my room became kind of
gelatinous more or less, they seemed like they were wavy,
and all of these people came into my room. I
could see through them, and even though most of them,
I think all of them I didn't recognize at the time,
I had absolutely no fear. There was one woman that
came up to my bedside and she kind of gave
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me a soul communication. So not with words, but just
with feeling that all of them were there to help me.
Then all of a sudden, my bedroom became two dimensional
or another dimension, and when I looked to my right,
I could see the runway of the next day. And
so they allowed me to witness the fact I didn't
face plant, which was the big fear I had, but
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helped me watch me go up the steps, and then
as I started down the runway, they had me become
the audience and feel the love and the support in
the room. And then they further helped me become just
the ether in the press since itself, and in that moment,
I knew there was no way I could fail. So
the minute that realization happened, the scene to my right,
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that future moment dissipated. I was back in my room.
There were less people, There was just the gallon me,
and she just checked in with me, and then she
dissipated back into my walls and I fell asleep, and
the event of the runway the next day happened almost
exactly as I witnessed.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
When you were five years old.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I was five. I was five.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Did you tell your parents about this?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes? I did, and God loved them. This was. I
think they just thought I had a really active imagination.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They didn't try to put you down or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
They did not institutionalize me at that age. No, Yeah, yeah,
but it was. It was such a cool experience because
it gave me, you know, the awareness that were really
held that we're guided, that you can participate in your
future even if it hasn't happened. So it laid the
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foundation for so many other things that I've explored within
my career. But yeah, it was a pretty profound experience
to have at five Austin.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You've called yourself a soul gardener. What is that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I called myself a soul gardener because once I started
working in intuitive work and then that developed into mediumship,
I started realizing that the whole point of living was
the development of our soul. And then once I kind
of explored that, then I realized in order to claim
that title, I really had to understand what the soul was,
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and that took a bit of time to kind of
wrap my brain around. But I call myself a soul
gardener because mediumship is kind of the beginning of a
much bigger conversation.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And when did we take calls next? Hour, you'll do
some readings, both because psychic question or a medium thing
for deceased.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Right, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Do you have spirit guides that help you?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yes, I do. I know that woman from that initial
experience has been with me because mother figures are nurturing
is kind of one of the evolutionary paths of this
particular lifetime for me. So her presence has always been
very lovely. But as I've continued, and I really am
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grateful for the clients I have because the breadth and
depth of their questions will open different dimensions to me.
And of recent I've been working with a collective called
the Collective of One and what's been really neat about
how their interceding is they're giving like inner dimensional conversations
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or talking about how the Palladians work within our dimension.
And that's not something I sought on my own. It's
just something that's opened up. So guides are amazing, and
it's not just one guide. We have angels, our angels,
descended masters, guides or ancestors. We have a plethora of
guides that work with us.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You published your book Sole Conversation six years ago. Somewhere
during this period you had some kind of personal epiphany.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
What happened, Well, the it's it's You would know this
because you've written books yourself. The exercise of writing a
book is having a really deep conversation with yourself. And
because of some deadlines with my publisher, I had to
essentially just last this thing out in four months. So
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I think part of my own personal intelligence was present,
but I think there was a different intelligence working with me.
And all of a sudden, I read the book George
when I finished, and I thought, oh my god, I'm
not living authentic like what I was asking and what
I was presenting to the people that were going to
be reading this book. I realized I wasn't being authentic too.
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So it was such an eye opening experience. So it
allowed me to witness where I had kind of gone
off path, and I made a very brave decision at
that point, and I essentially left everything that I was
comfortable with. I had a parent pass and a marriage finish,
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and although it was a really deep, thick time, I
moved to a place where I didn't know anybody because
I figured the only way I was going to figure
out who I had become was by releasing everything I knew.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Wow, you went through a change.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I did. I did, but I'm so grateful I
did it because then when I talk with people and
work with clients that are going through extraordinary change, I
always feel that I have deep levels of compassion if
I really understand what their experience might be like. And
it feels a little bit more credible when either information's
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coming from me or their ancestors to be, you know,
helping them. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
At some point, Austin, you became a grief cunselor as well.
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, because George the you know, I didn't start off
with this profession at all, and I have too much
respect for people to deal with the vulnerability and the
perilous level that people come to me. And unless I
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have all the knowledge, and as well, not all the knowledge,
I'm still learning, but as much as I can. So
I realized I knew nothing about how to comfort people
with death. And although it seems that mediumship is the
ability for a discarnent soul to communicate with a loved
one or someone there connected with, there also I feel
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is a responsibility within the process of working with people
to hold a sacred space for them. But one where
you understand grief enough that you can guide them into
this unknown territory that they're about to experience.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What causes grief uston just missing someone? What is.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I think it's change. I think it's I think we
want to align grief with a person. But I think
anytime we go through I mean, so many of us
experience grief in COVID during that time period because the
things that we were accustomed to, or we had become
unconscious to, our patterns are all became completely disrupted, So
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we would fall into a missing, a sadness, an awareness
that things were different.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Just sitting at your favorite restaurant was taken away.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Absolutely absolutely, And I think that. But it's been an
education that grief isn't just at the death of someone.
It's when our children leave and they're going off to college,
or a role that we've played within a certain amount
of time in our life has finished, we go through
And that that speaks to why I really wanted to
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make that step out into the unknown is because it's
it's a practice that is so practical to deal with
fear on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Can you turn grief into something positive and upbeat?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, But I think that's what we want to do.
I think sometimes what we want to do is when
something difficult presents itself, we want to circumvent it. I
believe grief is like a pool, it's like an ocean.
It's like a body of water, and we can walk
around it, but it's going to take a really long time.
If we just dive in and go toward wherever the
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shore is, it's a shorter journey, but we're definitely in
a different element. But I think to connect with the
power of love and then to notice within that grieving process,
maybe you haven't honored the way that you should, or
you haven't loved the way that you should. Then that awareness,
that soul growth occurs. So then when you encounter your
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next experience, perhaps you're a little bit wiser and you
can show up a little bit differently.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I had a friend who passed away seven years ago
in Saint Louis, and it was very difficult for a
lot of us. He was a nice guy, he was
a dear friend, and this day started with a couple
of text messages that never got returned back to us.
So I told one of his friends who he was
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a trainer with. I said, Jamie, there's something wrong here.
I mean, I've sent like six texts today and our
friend always replied, always replies, he's either lost his phone
or there's something bizarre going on here. And I'm about
ready to go on the air. Can you at least
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go check out his house or something? And he said sure,
So he did and he text me back and he
said the lights are on in his house, his car's
in the driveway. And I said, now it gets even stranger.
And so I said, go up to the house. See
what you can do. And he said, okay, and he did.
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He said he's in the house. I said, well does
he Well, why isn't he coming to the door. Why
isn't he answering his text messages? He said, I don't know,
He's just sitting there. Well, he was dead. He was
as stiff as a doornail, sitting on his couch. He
called the cops, and the cops did a wellness check
and broke in and there he was dead on the couch.
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And every once in a while, Austin, I'll hear a
song that reminds me of you. And it's what I've
tried to do, is convert the grief into something friendly
and positive and it's finally starting to work. What am
I doing right?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You're doing everything right. You're doing everything right because you're one.
You're talking about it too. You're using this forum, which
is you create such beautiful space towards for other people
that it's lovely for you to do a personal share
because what it does is it makes you more accessible
to everybody, which you do already. But I think being
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courageous enough to be human with each other, to allow
our sadness to be witnessed, is so imperative. And you're
also allowing because am I correct that he had kind
of a divine sense of humor?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, he was weird, but he was al.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, but I think and he also do you
mind if I say a couple of things about him?
Is that all right?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Okay? What I like about him is is it he's
very like if there was ever any place that he
would passed away, it was where he passed away. Like
he's not a guy. He goes out of the house,
but he's really kind of a homebody. And so what
I find is how people die is very akin to
what they're comfortable with. And I also feel that you know,
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he's not someone that would want a big scene. He
wouldn't want to, like be sick for a really long time.
He doesn't like that kind of attention. You understand that, right,
He liked but not that kind, but not that kind, right.
So what I find is there is a mutability, I think,
with how people pass. So in his own way, he
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wouldn't have wanted to be an inconvenience to anybody, and
it it kind of was on his terms and being
being the fact that he kind of has an outside personality,
but there's also really kind of a reserve to him
and a private side him. I think he passed in
his own way. But what you're doing right about it
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is you're acknowledging the fact that his soul can give
you messages. You're feeling him, but you're also allowing yourself
to miss him too. And I just gets so hard.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And the grief is it's so unexpected. This was unplanned, unexpected.
He was there on a Monday, dead on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, And that's but it also brings home our own mortality.
I had some friends today who reached out to me
because a mutual friend of all of ours did it
had exactly that experience. He was in a foreign country
and just died, and it shocked everybody. And so after
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we got some initial you know, I brought through some
initial information about him, I just said to them, I said,
but let's look at what possibly could be something that
he's trying to help us with. And we all kind
of talked about it, and we said, like, how prepared
are we if everything stopped today? Or do we have
a health director? Not a health director, but I mean,
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do we have our affairs in order? Do we have
a living will? Or we do we know where things
are allocated? Do we have a place where our passwords are?
I mean, what it is is that you think of
a life and as a continuum, and we're never finished
with the story. We will all leave in the middle
of something. But to allow your loved ones the opportunity
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to be able to grieve instead of kind of do
your unfinished business is a very mindful and a very
different way of approaching death. Plus it gives you a
great sense of comfort. So then if something were to transpire,
everything is ready for whomever you know is going to
assist you with that.
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