LINKS: WEBSITE LINK: https://livinggodslight.org/ BOOK A SESSION https://livinggodslight.org/guidance/#sessions PODCAST/ YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/@livinggodslight INSTAGRAM LINK: https://www.instagram.com/livinggodslight/ FACEBOOK LINK: https://www.facebook.com/LivingGodsLight BOOK, THE LIGHT AFTER DEATH: https://thelightafterdeath.com/ In this episode of Stories Across the Table, Bridget Cook-Burch and Steve Ramona welcome Vinney Tolman, spiritual guide, author, and a man who has spent the last twenty-three years doing something most of us will never have to do: explaining to the living what it felt like to be dead. In this episode of Stories Across the Table, Bridget Cook-Burch and Steve Ramona welcome Vinney Tolman, spiritual guide, author, and a man who has spent the last twenty-three years doing something most of us will never have to do: explaining to the living what it felt like to be dead. In 2003, Vinney was found unresponsive in a Dairy Queen bathroom. He was pronounced dead by three medics, placed in a body bag, and was on his way to the medical examiner's office when one member of the team broke protocol, opened the bag, and refused to stop until he got a heartbeat. Three days of induced coma followed, with less than five percent neurological activity, while his family faced decisions no family should have to make. And then, at 1:11 in the morning on January 21st, Vinney simply woke up, pulled out his sensors, wrapped himself in two hospital gowns, and tried to leave. What happened in those forty-seven minutes? In this episode, Vinney describes a guide named Drake, who walked him through ten principles before allowing him to travel further. He saw his life from both sides, every good thing and every bad thing, not as judgment but as accounting. He felt a love so complete and so unlike anything available on earth that he did not want to come back. Six months after he came back, he saw a face in a historical presentation in a small Wyoming town and recognized it immediately. Drake, it turned out, was his great-great-great-grandfather. Around the table, Bridget, Steve, and Vinney explore what authenticity actually costs us, why we trade our real selves for inauthentic security somewhere around the age of five, and what unconditional love looks like when it is not filtered through fear, performance, or the need to earn it. Vinney also leads the room through a quiet two-minute prayer that is one of the most unexpected and genuinely moving moments this podcast has ever produced. This episode is for anyone who has wondered what and who waits on the other side, anyone sitting with grief they cannot name, and anyone who simply needs a reminder that the love available to us is larger than anything this life has so far shown them. Pull up a chair. This is a story of a man who left and came back, a guide who turned out to be family, and the kind of love that does not have to be earned. BIO: Vincent (Vinney) Tolman was born in Arlington, Texas, and has since traveled around the world, living in both Cambodia and Thailand. He has worked as a home builder, computer technician, and producer for the television and film industry. He loves animals, meditating, and spending time in nature. His greatest priorities are his relationship to his Creator, his family, and the people he meets. He currently lives in Georgia with his wife, Andrea, and their two children. At the age of 25, Vinney was found dead in the bathroom of a small restaurant. He had been dead for over half an hour. When paramedics arrived, they put him in a body bag and took him away. A rookie paramedic had a feeling to risk his career, break all protocols, and try to resuscitate Vincent. Miraculously, he restarted Vinney's heart. However, Vinney was in a coma for three days and remembers what happened on the "other side" while he was dead. Vinney coaches individuals to find solutions to life problems, or when they are ready to grow and expand their life in powerful ways. YouTube: @StoriesAcrossTheTable https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPeekMqKYjBAwO28gLSvRABridget’s Free Community - Inspired Writers Clubhouse for Writers and Authors: https://www.inspiredwritersclubhouse.comBridget’s Free Newsletter: https://www.yourinspiredstory.com/newsletter Steve’s Free Community: https://www.skool.com/steve-ramona-community-9836Steve’s Free Newsletter: https://doing-business-with-a-servants-heart.kit.com/steveramonaSteve’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveramona/’Bridget’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbridgetcookburch/ Steve’s X/Twitter: https://x.com/oppbrokerBridget’s X/Twitter: @inspiritwriter Steve’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizopportunitynow/Bridget’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bridgetcookburch/ Substack: https://p...
