Out of all that you ve gone through, how do you define your sole purpose?

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As a woman with the incredible ability to help people solve problems, Esther Austin teaches us that regardless of what life hands you, the decision to overcome it lie within you.

3 As a woman with the incredible ability to help people solve problems, Esther Austin teaches us that regardless of what life hands you, the decision to overcome it lie within you. It is ultimately our decision to find the strength, faith and courage to rise above what we may often think are insurmountable situations. As the entrepreneur behind the Esther Austin Global brand, she is transforming lives, helping them change negative behaviors and conflicting thought patterns to reveal new exciting futures and much happier lives. She uses the tough life experiences and the incredible challenges she faced and overcame as tools to empower individuals to eliminate pessimistic attitudes and develop a mindset of abundance. She is encouraging others to challenge themselves, to use their inner-strength to rebuild lives of confidence. Through genuine love and her positive outlook on life, Austin is able to relate to people from all backgrounds and has developed programs that allow her to help others eliminate pain and destructive behaviors and experience inner healing and visions of hope and prosperity. Based in the United Kingdom, Austin is a personal transformation powerhouse whose mission is to serve, inspire and empower the global community. She shared with Monica, the founder of Exceptional People Magazine her desire to continue to help people step out of their comfort zone and experience a place where they are supported, nurtured and empowered to really get to the root of the problem or problems that they have been walking around with for years. Monica: We did an interview two or three years ago and it s good to follow up with you and see that you re really blossoming in a lot of different areas. Things have been amazing for you. Esther: Yes, it has been. It s been an incredible journey, and it s all coming together now. Sometimes you think you re going down one pathway, and then you re directed and guided to another. I feel what s happening is the fine-tuning. I m mindful of where I place my energy. Monica: I want to focus more on you and your life experiences and why and how you ve used them to create opportunities to help other people change and improve their lives. Out of all that you ve gone through, how do you define your sole purpose? Esther: For me, Monica, it s a feeling. It s a vocation. This is the path that I need to go down. This is what I need to do; this is what I ve been put here to do; and there simply isn t anything else that I need to be doing. I do believe that we re all put here in some capacity to reach out and serve humanity. Who I am now and the vessel and the vehicle that I am for the healing that I do is very profound. It s touching lives at such an incredible level. I feel absolutely privileged to be given this opportunity and this resource within me to touch people s lives at a very deep level. So the sole purpose is just a sense of knowing that this is what I m supposed to be doing. Monica: There s a difference between your purpose in life, what you believe your purpose is, and your gift. There are many people who say, for example, they want to become an entrepreneur or business owner, but they really haven t been able to define their gift. What is your gift? Esther: Well, my gift is to be able to get to the heart and root of problems within a very short space of time. I feel that is my gift, having the insight to see where someone is in their life, what they ve experienced, and then being able to say, This is the root of your problem. I ve listened to what a lot of my clients say. It s always, You hit the nail on the head. You have this habit of just hitting the nail on the head time and time again. For me it s about getting to the heart and root of the problem, and then everything else, like a deck of cards, comes tumbling down around that. Monica: You often ask the question, Have you become divorced from you? You say you did at one point. There are so many people who are stuck in a rut. There are circumstances that they re dealing with, and they re overwhelmed. They don t know how to find their way out of situations, so the pressures of life take over. When a person is in that state, what can they do? How can they find a way to begin to experience some clarity? September-October 2014 Exceptional People Magazine 55

4 Esther: It s interesting you ask me that question, because it ties in very much with a book that I m writing at the moment called, Wounded Lives, Wounded Healers: How to Break Free from Emotional Pain and Finally Leave Your Baggage Behind. For me there are different pathways to trying to find your way through. One is to find a space to go to. Whether you go for a walk in the park or shut the door and put on some music, it s about finding a place to go even if you don t think there s a place to go. For me it s just going for a walk, sometimes just reaching out to somebody, because we often shut ourselves off. When we re under pressure, we close off from people and things around us. This is about reaching out to someone around you. It can be simply by going on the Internet and looking up your problem and finding an organization that may deal with it. There are so many different things that can help you open up to the place where you can actually see the woods through the trees. It could be prayer; it could be meditation. It could be any one of those things. Monica: I believe that a person must be able to change both inside and out before they can be of service and help someone else change their life. I d like to get your thoughts on that. Esther: Most definitely. Monica: A few months ago I was at a career and business convention assisting someone with something, and we got into a conversation about what she wanted to do. She started talking to me about the different things that were going on in her life and the chaos that was happening in her life. But she also said to me that she was a life coach and she helps people fix their lives. My thought was, If you ve got chaos going on in your life, how can you help someone else make their life better? Esther: I had to give someone my book recently, and we had the same conversation. I will deal with whatever I need to deal with, and then I will come back into the public arena, so to speak. I personally believe that we have to sort ourselves out before we can deal with others. Otherwise, you re transferring your stuff onto a client without even realizing it. There s something within the process of looking after self, dealing with self first, which really empowers you to stand on an 56 Exceptional People Magazine September-October 2014

5 authentic platform when you re with your clients. Monica: You ve been known as the 60-second soul liberator. Esther: I had to come up with a USP. My partner came up with that. I brainstormed with some of my clients and with other people who knew of me. In 60 seconds I can get to the heart and root of what s causing a person a problem. You should see the look on people s faces because oftentimes they ve carried stuff around for years and years. They ve been in therapy. Then I come along and I just see it for what it is. Often it s so liberating for my clients. I do a lot of work with women who have been sexually abused and experienced domestic violence. For clients like that, it s so liberating, Monica, when I can actually identify what they experienced, how they felt it, how they felt at that moment in time, how they felt after the experience, just going deep into the emotions. It really empowers them to just exhale. I m just really blessed. I feel privileged that I can use what I do in that capacity. Monica: I guess from an average person s perspective, when they come to you and you re able to help them break through the issues that they re having, they may ask, What am I supposed to do after that? Esther: What happens after that is I facilitate a process of continual transformation and healing and resolving of whatever issues come up. I offer something called the Fourpoint Plan. You might have a healing session or a reading. And then after that, if you choose to, we compile a program and look at whatever it is that the client needs or would like to work on. Then I offer a range of different modalities from intuitive healing, hypnotics for our session therapy, verbal dialogue and reasoning, and even massage because it s all part of healing. It s all part of working on the mind, the body, and the spirit. So I facilitate that process until they are happy with their own resolution or come into terms with the issue. Monica: Do you find yourself learning from the people you help and does learning from them help you to grow as a person? Esther: Oh, most definitely. It helps me to grow because it helps with my understanding of the human psyche. It also gives me a greater insight into how I operate. For me the learning is always about self-mastery. What can I learn from this? What can I take away from this? What can I add to what I m already doing in the process of the healing or facilitating with a client? Monica: Who would you say are some individuals who have influenced you to become who you are today and to provide service to others in this way? Esther: I would say my late sister, but for me it was more about my own experiences. It was more from my experiences than influences from anyone per se. There have been people on my journey that have dipped into my life who I ve been able to dialogue with about self, about the journey of self and journey of self-mastery and reason with in terms of any other influences that I ve looked at. Monica: I can certainly understand that a lot of what you do really comes from your own life lessons. Esther: Yes, most definitely. And just how I ve adapted to the relationship, even with my children and with the amazing man in my life now -- but I had to go through my own process of learning. Monica: You ve mentioned that you are a gifted, intuitive healer. Can you talk a little bit about what intuitive healer means? Esther: From my perspective intuitive means -- it s like when you walk into a room sometimes and you can feel whether it s got a good vibe or a negative vibe. That s when your intuition kicks in. Your intuition is something that guides you. You know what to do; you re guided to know what to do. Oftentimes in that space you have to just let go of self -- it s just like when they say, Let go and let God. Within that space you re allowing a higher source that is around you but that s also within you, I believe, to really come through and give you the messages and the guidance that you need. The healing works through me because I m able to feel, see, and sense what s going on inside a person s body, on an emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological level. I m often able to go back in time to see what s happened, even the influences of people around them. Monica: How do you see yourself growing over the next few years? September-October 2014 Exceptional People Magazine 57

6 Esther: Well, I will be running weekend retreats in Europe and also weeklong retreats throughout the Caribbean. That s the end goal, to get people to come to these amazing retreats and some of the most amazing places in the Caribbean. I mean can you imagine doing healing and meditation on the beach or in front of springs or in front of a waterfall? That is my aim. It s not just about the healing but about giving them an experience. It s all about having this experience where individuals can come out of their comfort zone and to be in a place where they are supported, where they are nurtured and empowered to really get down to the nitty-gritty of the problem or problems that they have been walking around with for years. My goal is to support them in releasing those problems within a beautiful space that supports the process. That is one of the things that s a definite. Also, in terms of my radio show I plan to do more interviews where I can have audience participation and interaction, because I believe it s important that we make ourselves available for those questions to be formed and for people to get answers. I also have a new book coming out soon. Monica: What advice would you give someone going through something where they don t see any way out and it s truly holding them back? Esther: The late Susan Jeffries wrote the book, Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Just take a chance, and just know that you are deserving of something better. I feel on some level, if you can just realize that you are deserving of only the best even though it may look very dark and dismal where you are -- I ve been there in my life on a couple of occasions. It s been very dark and very dismal, believe me. What kept me going was saying and believing that I know somehow, some way that I deserve better; I deserve a better experience. When you make that decision someplace within yourself, it s amazing how God or the universe opens up doors to allow you to access that. What s really funny is that sometimes you may be walking or you may be reading a newspaper, and someone shares a story or something in that paper that relates to you. You ll turn on the radio, and there s something on the radio that relates to what you re going through. On some level, because you ve acknowledged it, doors start to open to show you that there is a possibility; there is a way out. It s got to start with you. Monica: There is nothing that you can t overcome if you truly believe that you can do it. Esther: That s right. Monica: This has been a pleasure and I m glad to know that you are steadily growing your business and continuing to help others to grow and enhance their lives. Esther: Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. Wounded Lives, Wounded Healers: How to Break Free from Emotional Pain and Finally Leave Your Baggage Behind Esther Austin s new book soon to be released in December Exceptional People Magazine September-October 2014

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