Speaking
Life After Autopilot
Conversations exploring trauma, conditioning, identity, and what becomes possible when we interrupt the patterns shaping our lives.
Most of us didn’t consciously choose the lives we’re living
Trauma, conditioning, and survival patterns quietly shape how we live, work, relate, lead, create, and move through the world.
And it often takes a rupture before we stop and ask:
Whose life am I living?
Austen’s talks explore what happens when we become aware of the patterns beneath our behaviors, and what becomes possible on the other side.
Conversations That Interrupt Autopilot
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Life After Autopilot
Understanding trauma, conditioning, and unconscious patterns.
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The Power of Curiosity
How awareness and experimentation reshape identity.
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Anatomy of Change
Why transformation often begins with rupture.
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The Everything Experiment
What becomes possible when life shifts from survival to exploration.
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Custom Conversations
Conversations curated to your specific audience, blending Austen’s perspective into your environment.
Audiences Leave With
A greater awareness of the patterns shaping their decisions.
Language for experiences they couldn’t previously name.
Permission to question inherited assumptions and identities.
A renewed sense of possibility for the life they can build.
Why This Work?
Austen’s perspective comes from lived experience navigating trauma, identity, adaptation, and the long process of understanding what happens when survival stops running the show.
His work lives at the intersection of human behavior, curiosity, and the search for a more honest life.
Formats
Conversations take many forms, including:
Keynotes
Podcast appearances and recorded conversations
Retreats & fireside chats
Workshops or facilitated discussions
Each format is shaped collaboratively to fit the context, audience, and intention of the gathering, whether live or recorded.
Bring Austen to Your Audience
For organizations, conferences, podcasts, and conversations exploring identity, change, resilience, and the beauty of life after autopilot.