Austin James Haines

Austin James Haines I quit my 19-year corporate sales job with the same Fortune 500 company in the middle of my best year to become a poet. I dropped out of college.
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✨ 1 Whisper. 1 Yes. 1 Movement. 1 📕Writer, 🎸Musician, 🌱 Soul-Gardener-Seeds of Infinitude — you cannot stream what happens in the room. 🎵 Notes echo into your soul and stay with your heart. 💚 👣 The Season of Becoming is now: Lo-Fi Emergence Underway It seems crazy to read these words, but poetry was inside me as a seed all along. While there is more to the story, I have been drawn to write my firs

t poetry book, Seeds of Infinitude ®. The unfolding of this process has been subtle, profound, and impactful beyond comprehension. The rest of the story:

I struggled with self-worth early on in life, which took me years to unpack. Lack of worth caused me to fail in relationships, sports, and jobs. I did not read my first book cover to cover until I was 21 years old. I was on the verge of being an alcoholic but got saved from that addiction. I did have success in sales after almost getting fired. But I realized sales was not my true calling. My true calling was a whisper in my soul that I ignored as a child. Finally after 19 years of a successful sales career with the same Fortune 500 company, "One Day" became "Day One." I submitted my resignation. I knew my calling was to use my gifts and all the adversity I had overcome to help others. I quickly became a Life Coach and a hired Speaker—but a Poet? Becoming a Poet was not even on my radar. My poetry has become the most sought-after part of my journey. A few more details:

My self-doubt stemmed from a broken home. My dad was a truck driver and my mom was a housewife. Upon their divorce, I lived with my mom. My mom was granted food stamps to ensure we had enough food. As I got older things got better, but I still struggled with my identity. My ego was good at propping me up in the short term, but my lack of worth was at the core. Both my parents loved me, but it wasn't easy. My dad, a former Marine Sgt. from the Vietnam War, put much pressure on me not realizing I struggled. My mom was depressed much of the time. While these factors caused me to take a very long road to recovery, they serve as my greatest asset today. Overcoming these factors has enabled me to love my parents more and better serve others. Now, as I get ready to pen my fourth book, I once again think of the Henry David Thoreau quote that has a radical impact on my journey. "I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Poetry has been my "success unexpected in common hours." I believe my upcoming book Seeds of Infinitude ® will enable you to hear the whisper in your soul and help you become all that you were meant to be in this life and beyond. I am glad you are here. I appreciate your journey as I appreciate mine.

06/04/2026

“What if you give up—
give up trying to control every chapter of life?

What if you pause—
pause long enough
so something in you springs clear?

What if you embrace—
embrace the uncertainty of the path less traveled?

What if your life—
is the the one you chose all along?”

ChooseYourOwnPath








Have you ever considered the people you've loved, the locations you've been, and the versions of yourself you've left be...
06/03/2026

Have you ever considered the people you've loved, the locations you've been, and the versions of yourself you've left behind?

Certain memories fade. Certain lessons never go away. But one thing never changes: every chapter, even the difficult ones, may be transformed into something memorable with a thankful heart.

Cheers to the adventure, development, and tales that shaped who we are now.

When your pen moves across the page with no smart phone in sight, what the ink reveals may pinch sting, or bring you to ...
06/03/2026

When your pen moves across the page with no smart phone in sight, what the ink reveals may pinch sting, or bring you to tears.

On the other side something will rise in you that couldn’t happen unless that pen moved.

freedom comes later

06/02/2026

You are tired. Not tired in a way that sleep can fix, but tired from moving too fast, from the digital demand, from continual consumption of content on a screen.

Ironically, we escape our exhaustion by going back to the screen—watching other people live their lives, while the life we actually want sits waiting in the corner for us to notice.

Uncovering What Speed Forgot.

Loafing, Feeling the Mud, and Pulling Trees.

I worked for a company for 19 years. I ignored my soul. I ignored the whisper that told me something was fundamentally off. Until July 3rd, 2019, when I finally walked out of the corporate door for the last time and chose to act on it.

Out of that quiet step, a movement was born. But not until I slowed down.

While the world accelerates into digital noise, we are whispering.

This is a counter-culture for those choosing authenticity over the algorithm.

The first step of the rebellion is exactly nine minutes and forty-four seconds long.

Audio only.

Recorded on location at Crystal Springs, New Jersey—the exact grounds where Walt Whitman recovered after his stroke in 1873.

Screen down. Head up. Live now.

The Analog Rebellion: Season 1, Episode 1 is live.

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06/02/2026

When was the last time you walked slower, breathed deeper, and listened longer?

06/02/2026

Changing Life: It seems all great change is preceded by chaos.

06/01/2026

Even when the river becomes poisoned, it will purify again in due time.

The Analog Rebellion Podcast - Episode 1 is live — released on Walt Whitman's Birthday.Recorded at Crystal Springs, Laur...
05/31/2026

The Analog Rebellion Podcast - Episode 1 is live — released on Walt Whitman's Birthday.

Recorded at Crystal Springs, Laurel Springs, NJ — the site of Whitman's recovery. Nature sounds, breath, guitar, and the story of uncovering what speed forgot.

Featuring The Jump poem recited with guitar for the first time and verses from Whitman's Song of Myself and Song of the Open Road.

"This moment is real."

Listen here: https://austinjhaines.com/podcast



Whitman Stafford Farmhouse-Laurel Springs, NJ

05/31/2026

Avoid resenting people who left an early version of you. Maybe they had to do it to protect themselves. Forgive them and yourself. Life is for us to flow forward in peace.

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