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Soul-Led Love At First Sight (Part 3)

• Autumn Grimes & Lindsay Stanton • Season 2 • Episode 3

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What if a single song, a silver coin, and the number 11:11 kept showing up until you finally leaned into love? We sit down with Lindsay and Kim for a candid, joy-filled journey through grief, intuition, and the undeniable pull that began with neighboring coves at a music festival. A simple text, a beer neither really wanted, and a nervous bathroom prayer set the scene. Then came Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me, a late-night three-hour call, and a shared car ride that made the world feel smaller and safer.

From there, the universe doubled down. Kim mailed an angel coin that matched the exact token Roger carried for years, a detail too precise to ignore. A recording of Danny Boy sent only to Lindsay echoed a hospice promise that this song would signal truth and blessing from beyond. Toss in mirrored roots in Ohio and Chicago, ironed jeans, and a month-long stay that was supposed to be a week, and the pattern becomes unmistakable: when you live guided, signs arrive at the pace of your trust.

We talk about choosing courage over comfort, honoring grief while staying open, and letting intuition lead even when it means acting out of character. You’ll hear about a trembling proposal by a waterfall, a well-timed 11:11, and the dogs who serve as wise gatekeepers and daily teachers. This is a grounded, spirit-led love story that shows how small yeses can tilt a life in a new direction. If you’ve been waiting for a nudge to follow your own inner knowing, consider this your sign.

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to the Soul Revival Podcast, where we have deep and meaningful conversations exploring modalities, tools, and healing guiding you back to your most expansive soul self.

SPEAKER_01:

Welcome back to the Soul Revival Podcast. In today's episode, we're joined by Lindsay and her wife, Kim. Kim is here to share her side of their divinely guided love story. If you haven't listened to part one and part two, I highly recommend starting there before diving into this episode as they lay the foundation of their journey there in episode one and two. All right, Kim, let's kick it off with our starter question. Are you ready? What aligns you most to your soul self?

SPEAKER_00:

I I think my spirit, my spirit, my energy. Um, yeah, I would I would just say my spirit. I have an uh abundance of energy, and my spirit is deeply connected to um to God, and uh that is my foundation.

SPEAKER_01:

I love that. Okay, so what did it feel like to listen to your intuition? What what was it like when you first met Lindsay? How how did it work in your eyes? We got Lindsay's story here, and I cannot wait because I haven't heard your side. So let's dive right in.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, so I don't I don't okay. So we met at a um music festival, right? It was a three-day festival, and um I went there with my friends from Vermont. And um so anyway, each evening around five o'clock, we would go to our little cove, as they call it, and Lindsay was right next to our cove. And so pretty much every day, um our our coves were right next to each other. So pretty much every single day when we both were at our cove, we made eye contact and we would exchange a smile and a hello. And um the third day, which was Mother's Day, the last day, um Lindsay had shared with me that she was sad that day and that she almost left um that morning or was thinking about leaving. Um, but she stayed. And good thing she did, otherwise we would have never met. Um but anyway, that that last day, um she began talking to my co mates, my friends, and um I did not interfere with their discussions, and I'm thinking, why isn't she talking to me? So I'm minding my own business. She starts exchanging phone numbers with everybody. So she got my phone number, and so in the midst of um a song, I received this text message, and I I had my volume off, and I just felt the vibration of a text message. So I looked at my phone and it was Lindsay, and she said, Would you like a drink? And I said, I responded, I said, No, thank you. I said, but would you like company? And she said yes. So anyway, so we both get up and um she kind of grabs my hand and we go like flying to the back to the um you know, to the drinks, the bar. And so she stands there to get a drink, and I meanwhile am very nervous and I'm thinking to myself, what is going on? And there is a remote bathroom set up. So I go to the bathroom and I'm in the bathroom and I'm saying like this like prayer to God saying, What is going on? And um this is quite incredible. So anyway, from the bathroom, I text Lindsay. I didn't even have to go to the bathroom. I text Lindsay and I said, Um, I've changed my mind, I will have a beer. So she had ordered two Corona lights. So we get the beers and we we head back to the cove, but we stopped along a fence and Bonnie Raite was singing the song I Can't Make You Love Me. That song, when I look back and remember how we met, that song was a sign in and of itself. I Can't Make You Love Me. And um so anyway, so we are standing there for I I I don't even know, um 20 minutes or so, and she's letting me know about you know Roger, and um we talked about my dad who passed and is on the other side, and we just chatted a lot, and then we went back to the cove and um to our respective coves. And at the end of the concert, um Lindsay was staying at some resort that was pretty not far away, but it was difficult for her to get an Uber. So she had told me that. So I had asked my friends at the end of the concert, could we give her a ride back to her hotel? So we did, and Lindsay and I are in the back seat, and it was, as I recall, um it was pretty incredible because um I am not an assertive person. Well, I am in some ways, but not in other ways, not in romantic ways. But anyway, um I had put my hand on her knee and we were chatting, and we were all four of us in the car were laughing, and um anyway, we we dropped her off, and um I got out of the car and I gave her a hug and I gave her a kiss on her cheek. I think it was her cheek. It wasn't. Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, I don't want to, I don't want to belabor the whole story, but we get back to I get back to my um hotel, and uh I had called Lindsay when I was in the elevator going up to my floor, and I left her a voicemail message because she didn't answer her phone, she had it on silence. So anyway, when she realized that I had left her a voicemail, and this is around midnight, and I normally am in bed at you know 10 o'clock. Anyway, um, she called me back, and we were on the phone for three hours until about three in the morning when I was like, oh my god, um, I have to leave, check out at 5 a.m. So, anyway, throughout that conversation, of course, we got to know one another quite well or better. And um, one one of the one of the questions that Lindsay had asked me was my birth sign. She had to know my birth sign, and I'm a Scorpio.

SPEAKER_02:

So um my two Scorpios right here.

SPEAKER_00:

Your two Scorpios, and so um little did I know uh a little later on, she had um, you know, looked up the Scorpio sign and then and her cancer sign to see if we were compatible. And I didn't even need for her to look that up or read about it because I could feel that we were compatible. We're both born in Ohio, then she you know grew up in Chicago, and my dad worked in Chicago, downtown Chicago. And so I spent a lot of time in Chicago, and there were all of these um synchronicities uh between us. And um anyway, um two hours later when I was at the airport, or three hours later when I was at the airport, she was out on her uh walk and we talked again. Um, and she had invited me out to Nashville to visit her for 4th of July. And I'm thinking to myself, oh my god, I just met this person. Like, this is crazy. And I told her I'd have to think about it. And um, so we ended the phone call, and probably, I don't know, five, 10 minutes later, I called her back and I said, Yeah, I'll come to uh I'll come out to Nashville to visit you for the Fourth of July. So anyway, um when I returned home from Vermont, we then correspond by mail. I would send her, I would, I would write to her pretty much three or four times a week, sending her letters, sending her cards. And one of the first cards I sent her, I put in a um silver angel. Lindsay, you can show it to them. And you know, angels are significant to me, right? And uh I didn't realize how significant that was to Lindsay until she had told me the story and and uh she had re received that angel in her card. And Lindsay, why don't you just tell everybody the significance behind that angel, and then I'll finish my story.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, so Roger always had trinkets in his pocket that he carried in his pocket for, I mean, over the over 20 years that I knew him. And um, he had a little frog trinket, he had an angel coin, and um, there's one other one I'm trying to blink on it right now, but um the kids and I split which ones we took. I took the little frog because he would give me the frog for good luck for like the dog shows and things like that. Um, and uh Megan, his daughter, took the little angel coin, and it is literally the identical coin to the one that he carried the entire time I knew him.

SPEAKER_01:

That is amazing. That is absolutely amazing.

SPEAKER_00:

It was pretty incredible, and so one other um sign, right, that I um shared with Lindsay was uh and unbeknownst to me, I was at a concert. I'm very close to uh some nuns that I visit one weekend every month, and um so I went back to visit them and they were in a concert. And so I recorded some of the songs that they were doing, and one in particular that I really like was Danny Boy. So I recorded Danny Boy amongst other songs, and I sent it to Lindsay again, not knowing the significance behind Danny Boy, but um, and Lindsay can tell you that in a minute, but um I sent her that recording of Danny Boy, and I was not able to send that recording to anyone else but Lindsay. Like I tried to send it to other people later, even the nuns, so that they would have it. It wouldn't even send to the nuns, it just went to Lindsay. So, Lindsay, you can you can explain the significance behind Danny Boy.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, so when Roger was in hospice, we didn't talk about he knew that I'm sure he knew that I would be resistant to have any conversation about like him sending somebody or you know, like uh me being with somebody else. But um, he did tell me that if like ever anybody ever came and like his energy was with that person or was coming through that person, or he was somehow representing that person, that they would that that song would be part of it, and that's how I would know. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Kind of kind of kind of amazing, amazing. Speaking of speaking of Roger, um, you know, I'm I'm older than uh Lindsay. And so um I think Roger and I shared a lot of similarities um that come through. Uh one being that um I would uh always iron my jeans. And um when Lindsay found out about that, she was like, oh my god, Roger used to iron his jeans as well. I mean, there have been very many, many actually similarities um between myself and Roger. And um that has been pretty amazing as well. Um a little footnote to this story, I wanna I want to just say that, you know, when Lindsay asked me if I wanted a drink, um, little did I know that um she doesn't even drink. So she had gotten that corona light and ended up having a few sips and pouring it out. And I'm like, what are you doing pouring out that beer? And she she kind of chuckled and she said, Well, I don't even drink. She said it was a way of meeting you. So um, so anyway, um that that trip to Nashville to visit her for 4th of July, it was meant to be a week visit, and it turned out to be a month. I kept um I kept delaying my trip. I I extended it to two weeks, then I extended it to three weeks, and then after a month, I I had to fly back to Vermont. Um but anyway, we communicated every single day, we FaceTimed, and I felt that uh my my heart was with her. And um one one one day on the phone I told her that I loved her, and um I think that that pretty much um solidified our relationship.

SPEAKER_01:

I love that. Kim, do you feel like it was like a soul remembrance? Like those first few days when you guys kept making eye contact, like, hmm, I want to know more, I want to know more. Lindsay, I love how you went to everyone else to get to get Kim's number by Kim. Um, but do you feel like it was like a soul remembrance, like at that electrifying like threshold of oh my gosh, I remember this energy?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, I I mean I do. And right now talking about it, um, I'm getting choked up. But um, you know the um you know the adage love at first sight. I mean, I I was married, I I my ex-husband, um it my first marriage was not love at first sight, but with Lindsay, you know, every every day when I saw her, um you know, we we our eyes met. And so I I feel like it was love at first sight, you know, and um it was just kind of incredible how that unfolded.

SPEAKER_04:

Um undeniable helpful energy between us.

SPEAKER_01:

I feel it when you guys both tell your sides of the story. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so amazing. Um, because it's it's rare to come by. And this is just a statement on why it's so important to be open and vulnerable in moments, even if you don't know the why. There's always a why. And Lindsay, if you had left that morning, if you didn't stay, you know, there there is a reason why you stayed. And and look at how magnificent that is. Kim is she is such a light, she's full of energy and spunk. She's funny, she brings life to you. You could be having a bad day. You see Kim, you're like, oh, my worries are gone. My worries are gone. Um, she's just such a lighthouse. And and I knew Lindsay before meeting Kim, and and she definitely was not open to um love. You know, she was just I think you were completely fine being independent and just doing your own thing. And and then um Roger was actually showing me um to reach out to Lindsay because he kept showing me the blinds. Like she wanted to tell me something, or Roger wanted me to say something to her, but he didn't want to open it up. Like it was like peeking behind the blinds, kind of. And I'm like, go for it, go for it. When I heard this story back in, I think it was May when I found out, like the end of May. Um, I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. It's a miracle. It's it's a miracle. And um I just love this three-part series because a lot of people um they just don't know what's next when the other one transitions over to the other side. And and I think that this story is so important because um love comes in so many different forms and so many different ways. And every being here on earth is meant to experience love and and find the love that you know excites them, like you guys. You guys light each other up. I mean, every single time I see you guys, you guys are just lighthouses, and it's it's so important to just um to just show up, to just show up.

SPEAKER_04:

I think also it's a reminder to live guided because again, you know, going back to the story that Kim just shared, like I don't normally drink so many things that I did, and I know so many things that she did that day were out of character, and it's because we were being guided to do them. So when you feel that tug to do something that's like outside your character, don't fight it and um just trust in it. And you know, it's uh it's crazy the places that it can lead you because I mean, for me, like I've never like I've never re I've never been the initiator. I've never I don't drink as Kim mentioned. So like there's so many things that were definitely out of my wheelhouse, but um I actually didn't even think about it. I just like let I just trusted in it and um and did what I was being guided to do. And so I think it's just a good reminder too to anchor into into when you feel those intuitive hits. There was like an instant energetic connection between the two of us, and I just leaned into the trust of that, and obviously Kim did too. So uh here we are today.

SPEAKER_01:

Here we are, married, yes, happily married and everything. Oh my goodness, such a such a miracle of a story. So, Lindsay, I think it's hilarious that you um messaged Kim for a drink because I know that you don't drink very often or at all.

SPEAKER_00:

And then Kim responds, no, and I do drink, I do drink, but I said, No, thank you. But do you want company? And she said yes. And then just the way she like grabbed my hand, it's like, and she's not like that, right? She's not like that. Um, but she grabbed my hand and we just like ran to the back where the beer truck was, and I ran into the bathroom and thought, oh my god, what is happening here?

SPEAKER_01:

And you felt the electric charge from Lindsay grabbing you. You're like, oh my goodness, this is something. This is something I love that.

SPEAKER_00:

And then when I when I proposed to her, she was shocked. And I was so nervous. And um she came out to Vermont and um we went to this beautiful restaurant in the afternoon. And um anyway, we had this uh beautiful table overlooking a waterfall, and um she had gone to the bathroom, I had gotten the waiter and um gave my phone to the waiter, said I was gonna propose. Could he take pictures? And I was a nervous wreck. I had the the ring in between my legs, and um, and we had this cheese board delivered, and she came back from the bathroom, and um I I went to like make her cheese and crackers, and my hands were trembling, and she was like, What's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_03:

And also, she couldn't name a single cheese that was on the charcuterie board. And I'm like, Why did you not know what these cheeses are?

SPEAKER_00:

And so I I you know reached in between my legs and grabbed the ring and proposed anyway. It was very sweet.

SPEAKER_01:

I absolutely love this love story. I am here for this love story. So we I have to go back to the Danny Boy video because you took this video of the song Danny Boy and it only sent to Lindsay. And I think that this is this is a example of exactly. It's it's absolutely divine guidance and clarity. And when you ask for a sign, you will receive the signs. And and it's just fascinating that the video didn't work for anyone else but Lindsay.

SPEAKER_04:

Like it's not played for anybody else, it's not been able to go to anybody else.

SPEAKER_01:

That is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_04:

And I think I might have mentioned this in the previous episode, but it ended at 1111 as well, which I think is very significant because that's always been that's a consistent, reliable sign that I've always gotten from Roger. And so, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think you gave us that. I don't know. And that's when she proposed to me on 1111.

SPEAKER_04:

That's what I was just gonna say. Um, so I proposed to her on 1111 at Bonnie Rate in Nashville.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness. Oh, I love that. Uh, I'm so grateful. Spirit led you guys together and you guys listened and all the breadcrumbs aligned. I think this story is just uh it just fills my heart with so much love. It's a good, it's a good love story. It is, it needs to be like a Hallmark movie, but be it's real, it's true. You know, most people are like, Oh, I want the Hallmark love. You can have it. You you can have that.

SPEAKER_04:

So it was so you're done.

SPEAKER_01:

So unexpected.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, even if you think you're done, even if you think that chapter's closed.

SPEAKER_01:

I love that. Absolutely. I'm obsessed with this story.

SPEAKER_00:

I think that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. I'm sticking to it. And the the other thing too is just one more thing. Um, you know, Lindsay has four dogs, and I had, you know, I'm a dog lover, and um, you know, I lost Woody, my black lab. And um I never got another dog because he was my he was my heart and soul. And um uh when I met Lindsay and came out to Nashville, um that was the true test whether or not she was really going to further this relationship and love me because it was based on how I got along with her dogs, right? And thank God they all love me and I love them.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness, I love that. That's totally Lindsay. You have to get along with my dogs first. Oh, I love that. Uh Lindsay's dogs are magnificent. They are just I can't wait. I hope I get to meet them in person one day because they are just so full of joy in life. And uh Lindsay Awam, there there are dogs now. Oh, yes, you yes, they are Kim. Yes, they are.

SPEAKER_04:

I I'm actually gonna say they're they're they're nobody's they're nobody owns them. They are uh their own spirits that we're blessed to share a house with. But there you go.

SPEAKER_01:

There you go. I love that.

SPEAKER_04:

Parenting, parenting though, guiding them and teachers, they're teachers.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, dogs are definitely teachers. Beautiful, beautiful love story, Kim. I love this side, I love the synchronicities, I love the angel coin, the Danny Boy song really just in 11-11 for it to end. Lindsay, I don't know if you've ever dropped that nugget. I don't think I've ever heard that. The 11-11. So I'm glad you said that because that's just divine alignment right there. New beginnings. So open your heart, open your heart to all that that is unfolding in front of you, even if you don't know the why. Just show up. Don't let your emotions kind of keep you hindered. Just be brave and vulnerable and allow yourself to to guide with the universe, to flow with the universe.

SPEAKER_04:

That was one of the first. It's funny you just use that word because um that was one of the first things that Kim said to me when she found out that I'd gone to the concert myself. That she said that was so brave of you. And so that was like that was very much a sign too. And I was gonna say that we just in these three episodes, we gave you the highlights, but I mean, there's there's so much more. I mean, I just I feel like we live guided every single day, and there are so many signs and synchronicities that have happened throughout our relationship, and I'm so thankful for it.

SPEAKER_00:

So am I, sweetheart.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, Kim, thank you so much for coming on the Soul Revival podcast and sharing your side. It is felt. It is felt. I'm so glad you are here, and I hope that all of our listeners get a little nugget from here and open their hearts to feel the love that you guys emanate into the world. Thank you. Thank you both. If you love today's episode, don't forget to leave us a five star review. Follow our podcast. We release a new episode each and every week, and join us on Facebook inside the Sol Revival community. Come be a part of the magic. We'll see you there.