Elizabeth Hayes was born in San Diego, California. When she left San Diego to attend the University of Chicago, she didn’t look back. Twice she lived in France as an undergraduate, in the Vendée region of France and in Paris. After graduating U of C with a degree in European History, she pursued a Masters at the Institute of French Studies at NYU. It was in New York that she met her husband, and after completing her M.A., she relocated with him to Madrid. Thus began their seventeen-year adventure of moving across four continents with stints in London, Hong Kong, Madrid (twice), Los Angeles (which was more foreign than the other cities she’s called home), São Paulo, and then New York in 2011, followed by London in 2017. Coming full circle, they found themselves returning to New York in 2023.

It was in Hong Kong that she began her spiritual practice known as Soul Memory. Born with certain intuitive gifts, Elizabeth conducted mediumship readings in addition to her Soul Memory work, which explores past life trauma in order to understand and heal current life obstacles. Over her extensive travels and numerous relocations, she has honed this practice to help people connect to their Spiritual Guides as well as discovering their soul’s purpose.

Since 2014, under the pen name Vivian Winslow, she has published nine novellas in her Gilded Flower Trilogies and five standalone novels for her Wildflowers Series. This fourteen-book family saga follows three generations of the Baron women, and other women within their world, navigate the pitfalls of love, legacy and career over four decades. It explores how one choice can impact an entire family, and how they have to find a way to forgive the past to end the destructive patterns set out for them. Believing that stories have the power to influence attitudes and shift perspectives, Elizabeth aims to challenge old relationship paradigms by including diverse characters and creating holistic relationship dynamics to bring balance to love and sex.

Elizabeth partnered with her friend, Rhea, in 2019 to create Karma’s My Bitch, a podcast about spirituality, and relationships and how a shift in perspective can bring meaning to even the most difficult life experiences. Over time, Karma’s My Bitch, expanded into Karma Magic Bliss, a collection of teachings to bring people to greater wisdom and personal power that enables them to reach bliss.

Together, Elizabeth and Rhea co-authored The Karmic Book Series, to offer a more in-depth exploration of the topics they cover in the podcast. Click here to listen, and here to learn more about the books.