Real people. Real stories. Real Angels.
You know how sometimes you don't realize someone is exactly who you needed until you've already known them for a while?
That's how I'd describe Pamela Lynch.
Pamela is my publisher. She helped me bring Amy and the Angels into the world, and then she invited me into Beyond the Shift... and if she hadn't found me when she did, there's a very good chance that book would never have existed. I'll explain that in a moment.
But first, I want to tell you how we actually met. Because of course, there's an Angel story in there too.
The Ultimate Social Club and a Very Timely Text
When I moved from Arizona, I didn't go back to Kelowna where I had lived before. I moved to Vernon, because that's where my boys are, and when you have grandbabies, you move to their location. That's just what you do.
I needed to build a social life out there, and a dear friend of mine, Guy Bailey, and I created this little group called the Ultimate Social Club. Pamela was one of our participants. We crossed paths at those events, and then over a couple of years I moved back to the island.
One day, I posted something on social media about the book I'd been writing. And I got a text from Pamela.
"How is it that I don't know you're writing a book? I'm a publisher."
And I texted back: "How do I not know you're a publisher?"
I had already hired someone. It had not gone well. She had redlined almost my entire book, and I was ready to scrap the whole thing. When Pamela found me, I'll put it that way, I hadn't yet gotten to publishing. And I'll be honest with you... that was an Angel intervention. I really believe that.
Thirty-One Years and a Woman Who Leapt Across a Couch
Pamela spent thirty-one years in traditional book publishing. And in 2011... there's that number... she was part of a big downsizing in the publishing world.
She found herself in a resort town without a traditional job, and as she put it, the going rate was what she called the sunshine tax. Not quite right for her.
So she became a certified Law of Attraction life coach. Studied universal laws. Tried to figure out how to go from employee to entrepreneur. She said she struggled for quite a long time.
And then in 2018, she was at a women's event in Kelowna and won a prize... four weeks with a woman named Donna Brown, who does branding and strategy. They got into sessions. Donna asked about her background.
"I was in book publishing for thirty-one years."
Pamela said Donna literally leapt across the couch at her. "How does nobody know that?"
The next month, Pamela was in Arizona dog sitting of all things, with three weeks alone to sit with everything Donna had shared. She came back in January, got on a group call, the leader announced she'd started her publishing company, and she immediately got a private message from someone who needed her.
"January, I had five writing clients and a publishing client."
She said: it's been so much fun ever since.
That's how SourceCode Publishing was born. And the Angels had a hand in every single step of it.
She Came to Say Goodbye
Now. I want to share Pamela's Angel story with you, because I think it's one of the most beautiful ones I've heard on the show.
Pamela had a close and wonderful relationship with her Grandmother on her Dad's side. One night she was in that space, as she described it, of just falling asleep but not in a sleep. And all of a sudden, her Grandmother was at the foot of her bed.
"I looked up and I said, Grandma, what are you doing here? And she said, I just came to say goodbye and tell you how much I love you."
And then Pamela instantly fell asleep.
The next morning, her Dad phoned. He said: "I have some news."
And she said: "I know. Grandma died last night."
He goes, "Who phoned you?"
She did.
Pamela said her Dad was a non-believer, and he didn't know what to do with that. But years later, when Pamela's Mother passed, her Dad started speaking to her Mom as an Angel. He had come full circle. He realized, quietly, that what Pamela had said was true. That it had been true all along.
And then there was a reading. Someone said to Pamela, "Your Grandmother is definitely one of your Guardian Angels." And the reader said, "Oh no... she's telling me that you're hers."
I could have listened to that story for another hour.
The Shift Is Already Here
Pamela and I talked for a while about what she calls the shift in consciousness. I asked her what she meant by it.
"People are literally becoming more self-aware than we have ever been," she said. "The sages and wise people of the past, they were connected to divine source, to their Angels. We've been sort of cut off from that. And now we're in a place in our collective consciousness where people are having deeper conversations... conversations that never would have happened fifty years ago."
That landed for me, because I've believed in Angels for thirty-three years now. They were part of my life even as a child. But I remember a time when just mentioning Angels in a business meeting made people look at me sideways. Here I was, running this company, saying, let me ask my Angels. And people would go... how is she doing this, and she believes in Angels?
Now I can actually have that conversation. Even with men, who will sometimes quietly share, "well, I had this experience, or that experience." We are in a shift. People are more open to believing there's something bigger than us.
Whether you call it God, the universe, your Angels, or something else entirely... whatever you call it is perfect for you. That's really, really important. We're not changing the narrative. What you believe is what you believe, and that's lovely. Just believe in something.
Nanny Said Take the Job
This conversation brought up a dream I've never forgotten.
My Grandmother on my Mum's side... I always called her Nanny. And Nanny was my rock as a little girl. I hid behind her skirt when Dad was mad. She was always my protector. When she passed, it was many years later that I had the dream.
I was sitting on a white picket fence, and there was this gorgeous big house at the end of a huge field. And I'm crying. Really crying. And I look over, and Nanny is sitting in a rocking chair beside me. Her little feet would come off the floor and push off again, just like I always remembered. And she always called me Lamb.
"Lamb, what's the matter?"
And I just said, "Nanny, I'm such a failure. Nothing's ever going right."
And the next thing I knew, I was in her lap. I was a grown woman, but somehow my body fit. She had the biggest, softest... I always laughed and called them the Pillsbury Doughboys. She just cuddled me in and said, "There there, Lamb."
And then she told me: you're going to get a call soon, from a man offering you a job. This job is going to take you away from your boys. But you have to take it, because it's going to be really scary for you, but this is what you have to do for your future.
I woke up crying. It was so real that she was there.
Three days later, I got a call out of the blue... asking me to move to Arizona and head up the investor relations department of a company that completely changed the trajectory of my life. And I didn't want to take it. But Nanny told me to.
Your Angel could be your nanny. It could be anyone in your life, or maybe it's someone you've never met. But we do have them. They guide us. They nudge us toward the calls we're afraid to take.
Angels on Video
Pamela caught an Angel on a Zoom call. That's the headline.
She was rewinding through a recording after a session with a client, looking for the end of the official coaching portion. And something caught her eye.
An Angel passed behind her.
"I zoomed in... looked at it about ten times. Actually, I've probably looked at it a hundred times. Because it's just so fascinating that there's actually... I actually caught an Angel on my video screen."
I had seen that video. She brought it up on one of our calls. It absolutely defies all normal thinking, but it's an indication that something truly is out there. It went right behind her... very floaty, just came in and went out. And you couldn't deny what you were looking at.
She also shared another moment from a conference she attended in Calgary. She walked into the host's home, and a woman at the door looked at her and said, "I don't know if you know this... but you just came in with like a hundred spirits. They're all Angels around you."
They Find a Way
They're around us all the time. And sometimes, when it matters most, they find a way to show us.
My friend saw her Brother, who had passed away, in a photo burst. Wearing his red shirt. And it happened more than once. Some things just can't be explained away... but this is a message. A sign that our Angels are there. While it's hard to say goodbye, and so hard for them to be gone from our lives, this is sometimes exactly how they communicate. How they let us know they haven't really gone.
That's what I want you to take away from this episode. They turn the lights off when we're driving home. They appear in a burst of photos, wearing a red shirt, so your friend knows her Brother stopped by. They show up in a rocking chair in a dream to tell you to take the scary job.
And sometimes, if you have a camera running in just the right direction... they even let you catch them on video.
Share Your Story
Pamela is currently putting out the call for her new anthology... Wisdom from Our Grandmothers. Short stories, five hundred to a thousand words, about the grandmothers who shaped us. If you have a nanny story, a grandma story, a moment that stayed with you because an older woman in your life saw something in you... this is your invitation.
And if you've ever wanted to write a book but you don't know how to start, or you're afraid the words aren't coming the way you thought they would... I really encourage you to connect with Pamela. It was no accident that she found me when she did. And it might be no accident that you're reading this right now.
All of Pamela's information is in the links below.
Go to wendysburton.com to send your story, subscribe to the show, and find all the links below. Amy and the Angels is out now in audiobook, narrated by me... so if you'd rather listen than read, you can take Amy wherever you go.
And when you subscribe, you'll receive a little gift from me... a guide to help you meet your Angels, learn their names, and ask for those beautiful gifts that are already waiting for you.
Thank you, as always, for being here.
Stay curious. Follow the nudge.
And remember... we might not be winging it alone.
Real people. Real stories. Real Angels.
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