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Julie Ann is the founder of Influence Publishing and the author of Around the World in Seven Years—A Life Changing Journey. She specializes in collaborative book projects featuring 15-20 authors including 9 books in the Woman of Worth Series. Influence has published over 300 authors in the last 12 years and made most of them Amazon Best Sellers. She is the host of the podcast show “Life with Collective Purpose”. She has been the keynote at many conferences, and her 2017 TEDx titled “The Gift of Dyslexia” and has had more than 100,000 views. She is the owner of the retreat center and co-creation hub called Casa de Influencia in Puerto Vallarta. At the House of Influence the culturally rich high vibrational environment provides a creative space for content creation in the sound-proof studios, event space and boutique guest rooms. Perfect for podcast, speaking, writing and spiritual retreats up to 15 people.
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About the Host:
I am Saylor Cooper, Owner of Real Variety Radio and host of the Hope Without Sight Podcast. I am from the Houston, Texas area and am legally blind which is one of the main reasons why I am hosting this show surrounding this topic , to inspire others by letting them know that they can live their best life and reach their highest potential.
Website: https://realvarietyradio.com/
About the Co-host:
My name is Matthew Tyler Evans and I am from the Northeast Texas area. I am blind like Saylor is and we have the same retinal condition. I decided to join Saylor‘s podcast because I have a strong interest in teaming up with him and I think together, we can inspire the world with others with disabilities.
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Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of
Saylor Cooper:hope without sight with your how Saylor Cooper and
Tyler Evans:this is Tyler Evans and we're
Saylor Cooper:on episode 19 I believe on the flow of it too.
Saylor Cooper:It was so good now just get off of massage thanks to
Saylor Cooper:wonderfulness Zeus, who gave who's been giving us all
Saylor Cooper:massages. I feel great. But now to my right. I have the owner of
Saylor Cooper:a wonderful concert. influencia thank you so much for your
Saylor Cooper:hospitality this week. She's here to share her story of
Saylor Cooper:overcoming life's challenges. This is Julie Ann. Julie Ann how
Saylor Cooper:you doing?
Julie Ann Salisbury:I am doing fabulous. Oh my god, I have had
Julie Ann Salisbury:so much fun having all you guys here this week doing podcasts.
Julie Ann Salisbury:And yeah, I've been I've been really enjoying myself having so
Julie Ann Salisbury:much company here and getting to know everybody.
Saylor Cooper:That's awesome. So glad that you've had a lot of
Saylor Cooper:fun. We've had a lot of fun being a cheap place to to
Saylor Cooper:beautiful place your staff has been incredible. Let me tell
Saylor Cooper:you, I'll give you a good tip before I leave.
Julie Ann Salisbury:They're going to be very happy about
Julie Ann Salisbury:that.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. And and as you know, as a courtesy, you
Saylor Cooper:know what? I will want you to come down to Cancun. Stay at our
Saylor Cooper:family place down there. Wow, that would be amazing. Yeah.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Because you've done so well. So yeah. So here without
Saylor Cooper:further ado, let's get started. So this is help without sight.
Saylor Cooper:You. I've heard you've overcome a lot of challenges in life. So
Saylor Cooper:that's why I want to have you on here. So let's get going. So
Saylor Cooper:yeah, that's me from beginning.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, I've had an interesting life. And
Julie Ann Salisbury:I've had my share of obstacles that I've had to overcome. First
Julie Ann Salisbury:of all, I guess it started when I was 17 years old, and I was
Julie Ann Salisbury:diagnosed with scoliosis. And in England at the time, the way
Julie Ann Salisbury:that they dealt with that is that they would break your back.
Julie Ann Salisbury:So I was rushed into hospital. And they basically smashed every
Julie Ann Salisbury:vertebrae of my back to then straighten it, make it as
Julie Ann Salisbury:straight as possible. And then put a steel rod in my back, and
Julie Ann Salisbury:then kind of put me back together and put me into full
Julie Ann Salisbury:body cast for six months. Wow. So yeah, I went through kind of
Julie Ann Salisbury:my, after I'd learned how to walk again, I then had, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:know, two years College, either with a body cast or with various
Julie Ann Salisbury:different types of support, before I was able to just, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:know, function normally.
Saylor Cooper:So you have a body cast back on just your leg.
Saylor Cooper:Back. So oh my goodness,
Julie Ann Salisbury:I went from the whole body cast went from
Julie Ann Salisbury:like, up to my shoulders right down to my hips. Wow. So it kind
Julie Ann Salisbury:of looks a bit like a big test.
Saylor Cooper:Wow. So what is scoliosis? Exactly?
Julie Ann Salisbury:So it's a curvature of the spine. So as
Julie Ann Salisbury:you grow, instead of your spine growing straight, it starts to
Julie Ann Salisbury:grow to one side or the other side growing to the right side.
Julie Ann Salisbury:And so if they hadn't, you know, tried to correct it. I would be
Julie Ann Salisbury:a hunchback by now.
Saylor Cooper:You'd be in a wheelchair. Yes. Wow. And by the
Saylor Cooper:grace of God, you're you're walking and only you're walking
Saylor Cooper:you're running this amazing place, which is good.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, I mean, it's I still have chronic
Julie Ann Salisbury:pain every day, but I've just learned to live with that and
Julie Ann Salisbury:manage it. And I feel like the more that you believe anything's
Julie Ann Salisbury:possible than anything really is possible. And as you know, we're
Julie Ann Salisbury:in a building with five flights of stairs. I'm pretty fit now.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. I think we all we all have to be on this
Saylor Cooper:trip. And you know, people have had called me a champ because me
Saylor Cooper:being blind. I know that splice do well by now and then. Um,
Saylor Cooper:when I first got here, I was walking with a cane now I'm, I'm
Saylor Cooper:on my own.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I mean, some of
Julie Ann Salisbury:the things we've done together. I have been so amazed watching
Julie Ann Salisbury:you, you know, we went on a boat trip, and you were just happily
Julie Ann Salisbury:like climbing onto the bow climbing off the boat into a big
Julie Ann Salisbury:thingy to get to the beach and jumping off the boat to go
Julie Ann Salisbury:snorkeling and then jumping off the boat to go on the beach.
Julie Ann Salisbury:It's like everywhere that we've been you've just been like this
Julie Ann Salisbury:Nothing has stopped you all the other
Saylor Cooper:you don't you're not wondering snorkeling was
Saylor Cooper:murky? Yes, it was. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, the beach was much
Saylor Cooper:better. Because you see, I also live in Cancun too. And the
Saylor Cooper:beach you it's not the same. The sand is like more thick. It's
Saylor Cooper:more like a darker color. You know?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah. Well, what you've been on two
Julie Ann Salisbury:different beaches. So when you went on the first Beach, that
Julie Ann Salisbury:was more a sort of darker beach. But the beach were on yesterday,
Julie Ann Salisbury:after the boat ride was more of a fine, kind of white sand
Julie Ann Salisbury:beach. But you were really enjoying being in the surf?
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, it's because of course, I grew up on
Saylor Cooper:the ocean, you know.
Julie Ann Salisbury:And the other thing we did together with
Julie Ann Salisbury:South Sudan, so
Saylor Cooper:Oh, I got a little tipsy. Yeah, I was happy.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Yeah,
Julie Ann Salisbury:he was very happy. And we were actually
Julie Ann Salisbury:salsa dancing together. So it was doing a human doing an
Julie Ann Salisbury:amazing job.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, it's it's fun. But it's been a fun trip.
Saylor Cooper:And I look forward to many, many, many more. And then, you
Saylor Cooper:know, Ty, was we should host a trip of our own somewhere.
Saylor Cooper:Maybe? My place down in Mexico? Who knows? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And
Saylor Cooper:so yeah, let's go. Let's go back to storage. So after you have
Saylor Cooper:the operations, what challenges lie ahead?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, I think I've, I've kind of gone
Julie Ann Salisbury:through life, not letting it stop me. So I, I went sailing
Julie Ann Salisbury:around the world. So that was kind of interesting, because I
Julie Ann Salisbury:left England and got onto a boat. And then I spent four
Julie Ann Salisbury:years in Africa and Asia, living on a boat. Wow. But you know,
Julie Ann Salisbury:not letting my any of my pain or my back problems stop me from
Julie Ann Salisbury:doing anything. And then when, eventually I got to Canada,
Julie Ann Salisbury:after like four years in Africa, and Asia, and I started my I
Julie Ann Salisbury:wrote my book, my story. And then I started my publishing
Julie Ann Salisbury:company. And about four years into my publishing company,
Julie Ann Salisbury:where things were starting to get really successful and good.
Julie Ann Salisbury:I discovered that I was dyslexic. And this is I
Julie Ann Salisbury:discovered this through somebody who I was working with from
Julie Ann Salisbury:dyslexia, Canada. And she, she was watching me do some mind
Julie Ann Salisbury:mapping, how I help people to write books. And she looked at
Julie Ann Salisbury:me and said, Julie, do you realize you're dyslexic? And and
Julie Ann Salisbury:I said, Sue, I don't think that can be right. That can't be
Julie Ann Salisbury:true. And imagine how bad it would be for business. I told
Julie Ann Salisbury:everybody, I was a disliked Wow, publisher.
Saylor Cooper:So you were dyslexic when you didn't even
Saylor Cooper:know it? Because a lot of times, people can be dyslexic people
Saylor Cooper:can have something that they've had all their life. They've just
Saylor Cooper:never known it like I've heard and in certain instances of
Saylor Cooper:autism, yes. You know, I had I have one posted on the podcast,
Saylor Cooper:who was on the autism spectrum. He just didn't know it until he
Saylor Cooper:was like in his late 40s.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, yeah. Well, I think what happens is
Julie Ann Salisbury:you actually adapt. I mean, I think that's what happens with
Julie Ann Salisbury:anything that's, you know, we're, we're functioning in a
Julie Ann Salisbury:different way. So I think, you know, I've always had to adapt
Julie Ann Salisbury:the way I, you know, particularly read, write, and
Julie Ann Salisbury:for me, numbers and analytical things. And I never realized
Julie Ann Salisbury:when I was at school, and other kind of thought, well, I don't
Julie Ann Salisbury:know why I'm so much slower than everybody else, you know, all my
Julie Ann Salisbury:friends could get A's and B's. And I was struggling to get Ds
Julie Ann Salisbury:and E's. And I never knew why I was just that, oh, maybe I'm
Julie Ann Salisbury:stupid, or, you know, there's something different about me. So
Julie Ann Salisbury:I think as I went through life, I just found different ways to
Julie Ann Salisbury:adapt. And, you know, for reading, particularly, I read
Julie Ann Salisbury:very slow. Now, I think, as a book publisher, that's probably
Julie Ann Salisbury:a good thing to do. Because I take my time. I don't actually
Julie Ann Salisbury:you know, kind of skip over pages or split read, like a lot
Julie Ann Salisbury:of people do. I actually spend a lot of time on every word, every
Julie Ann Salisbury:sentence, every page the stories, so I look at that as an
Julie Ann Salisbury:advantage and disadvantage, and I certainly know when when I was
Julie Ann Salisbury:operating my publishing company in Vancouver, I would read some
Julie Ann Salisbury:of the emails that my staff was sending out. And I would say, oh
Julie Ann Salisbury:my god, there's like three spelling mistakes in this email.
Julie Ann Salisbury:You can't do that, representing a book publisher. And it's
Julie Ann Salisbury:because they work so fast. And so many people do work fast.
Julie Ann Salisbury:They kind of like make mistakes and don't check their work. But
Julie Ann Salisbury:for me, I, I've always done that it's a matter of course that I
Julie Ann Salisbury:write an email and then I check my email, then I check it again,
Julie Ann Salisbury:before I press send. So I think you know, it means I've adapted
Julie Ann Salisbury:without even realizing that's how, you know, that's how I live
Julie Ann Salisbury:my life. I just always checked everything. I always was slow at
Julie Ann Salisbury:things, but I never line up. let that stop me. I just decided
Julie Ann Salisbury:that was me being accurate, more accurate than maybe other people
Julie Ann Salisbury:were?
Saylor Cooper:Well, now will you officially diagnosed with
Saylor Cooper:dyslexia? Did you diagnose yourself?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, um, sue this. She ran. Dyslexia,
Julie Ann Salisbury:Canada. So it was her that she gave me a little mind's eye test
Julie Ann Salisbury:that she uses on people. The telltale sign was that she told
Julie Ann Salisbury:me dyslexia runs in families. So she asked me if my mom and dad
Julie Ann Salisbury:or anybody my family was dyslexic. And I said no. And she
Julie Ann Salisbury:said, Well, I think you should maybe check. You know, what can
Julie Ann Salisbury:you bring your parents and ask them? So I called my mom and,
Julie Ann Salisbury:and she said, Oh, my God, your dad has secrets, his whole life.
Julie Ann Salisbury:When I married him, he couldn't read or write. And he didn't
Julie Ann Salisbury:want us children to know that. Wow. And so we kept it as a
Julie Ann Salisbury:secret. And yeah, then I then I spoke to my dad, and he told me
Julie Ann Salisbury:our hidden struggling through life. Because he was really
Julie Ann Salisbury:badly bullied in school, because they didn't know then what
Julie Ann Salisbury:dyslexia was. And so he was, he was had to wear a dunce hat and
Julie Ann Salisbury:stand in the corner. The teachers would call him lazy,
Julie Ann Salisbury:and you know, and so, you know, he had a, he had a really tough
Julie Ann Salisbury:life, and he didn't want us children to have that same
Julie Ann Salisbury:experience. And so he'd bought it was just to keep us, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:know, in the blind, and never tell us that dyslexia was in the
Julie Ann Salisbury:family. And so
Saylor Cooper:it's genetic, then now, does dyslexia? Is it
Saylor Cooper:just this just have to deal with leading writing? Was it spatial
Saylor Cooper:concepts overall?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, I actually it's not a disability,
Julie Ann Salisbury:and it is a disability, I call it a teaching disability as
Julie Ann Salisbury:opposed to a learning disability. I actually did a TED
Julie Ann Salisbury:talk on the topic, called the gift of dyslexia. And, you know,
Julie Ann Salisbury:just like any, any of anything that's out of the ordinary or
Julie Ann Salisbury:not quite, you know, normal, if you like, there's, there's
Julie Ann Salisbury:always a different way to look at that. And dyslexia is your
Julie Ann Salisbury:mind works a different way. So yeah, our we have got big, right
Julie Ann Salisbury:and creative brains, but our left brains, it's kind of a bit
Julie Ann Salisbury:like the autistic spectrum, actually, the left brain is
Julie Ann Salisbury:smaller than the right brain. And so we tend to struggle with
Julie Ann Salisbury:the kind of analytical type of things. And but the right brain
Julie Ann Salisbury:is so big and creative. What actually happens is we look, we
Julie Ann Salisbury:think in pictures, and we actually think a lot faster than
Julie Ann Salisbury:we can process. Oh, right. So in other words, what you're writing
Julie Ann Salisbury:or you're typing, you fall over your words, because you're
Julie Ann Salisbury:actually thinking faster, and your fingers can type.
Saylor Cooper:No logical condition.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, I would, I would say so. But I
Julie Ann Salisbury:think, you know, some of the most brilliant minds like Albert
Julie Ann Salisbury:Einstein was dyslexic. He couldn't read or write until he
Julie Ann Salisbury:was nine years old. And Steve Jobs was dyslexic. Wow. Um, most
Julie Ann Salisbury:of the Richard Branson is dyslexic.
Saylor Cooper:So there's gifts with dyslexia. There's a lot
Julie Ann Salisbury:of gifts with dyslexia, because it's
Julie Ann Salisbury:mostly to do with problem solving. So basically, you look
Julie Ann Salisbury:at any situation and you're able to find different solutions are
Julie Ann Salisbury:outside of the box. So that's why when you think about some of
Julie Ann Salisbury:those entrepreneurs, they're very creative and innovative. So
Julie Ann Salisbury:people like Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, we don't, don't
Julie Ann Salisbury:look at things the same way as anybody else looks.
Saylor Cooper:So they're not dyslexic people are not like, so
Saylor Cooper:analytical, they just get down to it.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yes. And we don't let anything stop us. So I
Julie Ann Salisbury:mean, this place is a good example. You know, this is not
Julie Ann Salisbury:what you would consider to be a rich, traditional retreat
Julie Ann Salisbury:center, right? A traditional retreat center is, you know, a
Julie Ann Salisbury:villa on the beach or a villa in the jungle, you know, it's got a
Julie Ann Salisbury:bunch of bedrooms, and some kind of space where you can meet.
Julie Ann Salisbury:This is a 10 apartment building on five floors. So you wouldn't
Julie Ann Salisbury:immediately come into this building and go, Oh, look,
Julie Ann Salisbury:there's my retreat center. Because I look at things with a
Julie Ann Salisbury:lot of creativity and imagination. I walk into the
Julie Ann Salisbury:building, and immediately I'm like, Oh, wow, look at that
Julie Ann Salisbury:apartment, it could become podcast studios. Yeah. And that
Julie Ann Salisbury:space can be a co workspace, etc, and the event space on the
Julie Ann Salisbury:rooftop, that's going to be great for conferences. And this
Julie Ann Salisbury:room, if it takes down this window, I can put a four metre
Julie Ann Salisbury:boardroom table there. So it's like, we look outside of the
Julie Ann Salisbury:box, and we look outside the normal. And so therefore, we're
Julie Ann Salisbury:able to creatively look at ways to do things. And there's no
Julie Ann Salisbury:such thing as I can't,
Saylor Cooper:right. So I see what it is, you think outside
Saylor Cooper:the box, you just don't analyze in detail. And also when it
Saylor Cooper:comes to reading and writing. That's where you have had
Saylor Cooper:difficulties where you get you have what's called these
Saylor Cooper:reversal regulars, I guess?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, yeah, I mean, it doesn't always
Julie Ann Salisbury:process. That way. It's just that you're really falling over
Julie Ann Salisbury:letters. And you sometimes fall over numbers as well, because
Julie Ann Salisbury:you're, you're basically you're processing your minds processing
Julie Ann Salisbury:is going to the end result really fast. So if you're, if
Julie Ann Salisbury:you're like brainstorming, for example, with a dyslexic person
Julie Ann Salisbury:or somebody on the autistic spectrum, you can move through
Julie Ann Salisbury:ideas really, really fast and get to the end goal really,
Julie Ann Salisbury:really fast. Whereas if you're if I'm masterminding with
Julie Ann Salisbury:somebody who's not dyslexic or not on the spectrum, they'll be
Julie Ann Salisbury:like, I don't understand you. What are you saying? Well, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:can't do that. Yeah, you know, because they're a can't process
Julie Ann Salisbury:as fast as you can. So it's like you can, you can move through
Julie Ann Salisbury:ideas really, really fast. Because you're both processing
Julie Ann Salisbury:at a high speed of creativity, as opposed to analytical people
Julie Ann Salisbury:hold back, they're like, Well, hang on a minute, let me just do
Julie Ann Salisbury:the figures of that, or hang on a minute, let me just figure out
Julie Ann Salisbury:why, you know, you can't do this, this reason or that
Julie Ann Salisbury:reason, so they actually slow things down. Because they have
Julie Ann Salisbury:to slow it down to make everything logical. And in, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:know, they have to analyze everything. Whereas with your
Julie Ann Salisbury:you have all this creativity, you just just like, run ahead at
Julie Ann Salisbury:full speed. Right? Because it's like, you can create anything
Julie Ann Salisbury:like we all courageous. Yes, we all which creators, so you know,
Julie Ann Salisbury:people that are have this kind of gift. I say that people are
Julie Ann Salisbury:going to change the world, because, you know, we're able to
Julie Ann Salisbury:think outside the box and bring innovation. People who are
Julie Ann Salisbury:analytical, they can't even they can't think like that they
Julie Ann Salisbury:can't. Many people I showed this building before I started to
Julie Ann Salisbury:turn it into a retreat center. Just don't even understand my
Julie Ann Salisbury:concept. Like it's an apartment building. How can you turn an
Julie Ann Salisbury:apartment building into a retreat center?
Saylor Cooper:Wow. You're very smart, Julie Ann Yeah, yeah.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. You're very smart. Yeah. And so. Wow. So how long ago was
Saylor Cooper:it when you found that you were dyslexic? Like 10 years ago?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah. Yeah, it would have been about 10
Julie Ann Salisbury:years. Wow, probably not even. That's actually I did my TED
Julie Ann Salisbury:Talk in 2014. So my did my TED Talk, not long after I was
Julie Ann Salisbury:diagnosed, so maybe six months, so probably around 2013. And I
Julie Ann Salisbury:did my TED Talk in 2014. And that's now had over 100,000
Julie Ann Salisbury:hits.
Saylor Cooper:Wow. And of course, when you were diagnosed,
Saylor Cooper:you didn't feel ashamed when you've been because that's what
Saylor Cooper:we That's the message we need to get out to people. Right title,
Saylor Cooper:a diagnosis. Exactly. It's the end. You know, it's, it's about
Saylor Cooper:understanding yourself and your framework, right.
Tyler Evans:Absolutely. You know, I actually feel that
Tyler Evans:disabilities aren't really like, they may be inconvenient in some
Tyler Evans:way, but they're really special. You know what I mean? Like
Tyler Evans:autism. There are people who are autistic, you wouldn't even know
Tyler Evans:it. We were talking to someone. What was yesterday or the day
Tyler Evans:before or whatever was happening? This weekend? Yeah.
Tyler Evans:The Saturday. Yeah. And he was he was autistic. And you
Tyler Evans:wouldn't know it by talking to him.
Saylor Cooper:I don't know you would know it. Some people you
Saylor Cooper:can tell
Tyler Evans:it Yes, I am you can others you can't. I honestly
Tyler Evans:think that, you know, I think autism, like, for those who are,
Tyler Evans:like, like that are really, really high spectrum. Why should
Tyler Evans:they even be diagnosed as autistic? I mean, that's high
Tyler Evans:functioning, it's like high, like everything where you would
Tyler Evans:know it, but actually interacting with them or
Tyler Evans:anything. Yeah, that's just what I think. But everyone else, I
Tyler Evans:think the artists on the autism should remain that lifestyle.
Tyler Evans:I'm not the doctors, psychiatrists, whatever, they do
Tyler Evans:their job. But yeah, you know, maybe it's time to re reassess
Tyler Evans:in the future, you know, to rethink what is really autism,
Tyler Evans:because of a tough functioning, and everyone is normal, and they
Tyler Evans:live a normal life, even without medicine, then maybe it's just
Tyler Evans:not out to his autism, maybe it's more or less kind of like
Tyler Evans:ADHD, where we sometimes just need some feedback. Once we get
Tyler Evans:it, boom, we're able to just thrive. Yeah. I think
Julie Ann Salisbury:that just functioning in the world in a
Julie Ann Salisbury:different way. And actually understanding what your gifts
Julie Ann Salisbury:are,
Saylor Cooper:I can Yes, agreeable? Totally. Right. You
Saylor Cooper:got to know yourself. Well understand what your gifts are.
Saylor Cooper:I mean, you may have weaknesses, but you have strengths, you
Saylor Cooper:know?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, exactly. And that you can then
Julie Ann Salisbury:just, you can adapt the way you need to. So like, I've got my
Julie Ann Salisbury:operations manager in my business, I just call on my left
Julie Ann Salisbury:brain, because she does all the left brain stuff that I struggle
Julie Ann Salisbury:with, that allows me to really be as creative as I have a
Julie Ann Salisbury:capacity to be creative, and I have a huge capacity to be
Julie Ann Salisbury:creative.
Saylor Cooper:Remind me, I learned this in psychology, your
Saylor Cooper:left brain is decision making, or your right brain is
Julie Ann Salisbury:it's not so much about decision making. It's
Julie Ann Salisbury:I guess, the decision making process. Yeah. So the left brain
Julie Ann Salisbury:is more analytical analytical. Yeah. So you tend to like just
Julie Ann Salisbury:really want to analyze everything and to, you know,
Julie Ann Salisbury:like, make it logical. Whereas the right brain is more about
Julie Ann Salisbury:creativity. And if you don't have the logical brain getting
Julie Ann Salisbury:in the way, is nothing for stop you. Yeah, well, why can't I
Saylor Cooper:do that? Exactly.
Tyler Evans:Right, I actually learned in psychology is the
Tyler Evans:left hemisphere and right hemisphere. Actually, the left
Tyler Evans:hemisphere controls the right side of the body. And the right
Tyler Evans:hemisphere controls the left side. That yeah, it's very
Tyler Evans:interesting. That's why a lot of people who suffer say strokes on
Tyler Evans:the left side, it affects the right side as pretty crazy. And
Tyler Evans:also there's the frontal lobe, the exhibit a low but the
Tyler Evans:parallel lobe and all these, you know, these different lobes that
Tyler Evans:I learned in psychology, particularly on the central
Tyler Evans:nervous system chapter and the neurons chapter. Yeah, it was
Tyler Evans:pretty complex. But But yeah, so. So yeah, I was gonna ask,
Tyler Evans:Julie Ann were you born and raised in Canada? No. In
Tyler Evans:England, and England? Yeah. You sound like you have an English
Tyler Evans:accent? Yeah, I do. Cool. Awesome.
Saylor Cooper:So how long? How long has it been since you have
Saylor Cooper:lived in England for time? Oh, my
Julie Ann Salisbury:goodness. It's been. Well, I was 2000. So
Julie Ann Salisbury:I was 2022 years. 22 years. 24 years? Yeah,
Saylor Cooper:like 22 years. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler Evans:Yeah. 22. But yeah. So you currently live in Puerto
Tyler Evans:Vallarta?
Julie Ann Salisbury:I live in Puerto Vallarta? Yes, in Mexico.
Julie Ann Salisbury:I've been here for four years. And I was actually the fiancee
Julie Ann Salisbury:of a Mexican salsa teacher. And that's while I started to learn
Julie Ann Salisbury:to Salsa dance. I never thought I could do Salsa dance, or
Julie Ann Salisbury:because of my back. And he taught me that yes, I need I can
Julie Ann Salisbury:Salsa dance. And I think I got stronger and stronger as I
Julie Ann Salisbury:learned to dance. And you know, when I first started dancing, I
Julie Ann Salisbury:could probably only dance the AB one song two songs. Then I just
Julie Ann Salisbury:started to increase that slightly. And then I discovered
Julie Ann Salisbury:that you know, like, after, like two years like it like dance for
Julie Ann Salisbury:three hours solid. So I just, you know, got stronger and
Julie Ann Salisbury:stronger. And, and just really enjoyed dancing for the sake of
Julie Ann Salisbury:dancing. And but unfortunately he died of COVID last August. Oh
Julie Ann Salisbury:no. And that was one of my biggest obstacles I've ever
Julie Ann Salisbury:overcome. because he was a love of my life, and this dream of
Julie Ann Salisbury:the retreat center was our dream. Because we were going to,
Julie Ann Salisbury:I was going to be doing writing and publishing retreats, and he
Julie Ann Salisbury:was going to be doing salsa dancing was retreats. So this
Julie Ann Salisbury:was our dream to create this and CO create it together. And so
Julie Ann Salisbury:when he passed away last August, I spent, you know, quite a few
Julie Ann Salisbury:months in very heavy grief. And, and then I found a way that we
Julie Ann Salisbury:could continue working together with him on the other side. And
Julie Ann Salisbury:now I feel like we have co created this retreats and wow,
Julie Ann Salisbury:yeah.
Saylor Cooper:I mean, there's, there's some good that comes out
Saylor Cooper:of it, but I'm angry at COVID It's destructive and damaging
Saylor Cooper:how many people it's damage to the world?
Tyler Evans:Yeah, I mean, I'm angry. I'm not. I mean, I am
Tyler Evans:angry at what COVID is doing. But I'm mostly angry at what
Tyler Evans:China did. You know, to cover up the, you know, the lab, like,
Tyler Evans:you know, there was a lab like, boom, that didn't notify the
Tyler Evans:world in time. Boom, that happened. The pandemic happened.
Tyler Evans:So yeah,
Saylor Cooper:yeah. I'm glad it's finally ending. And we'll
Saylor Cooper:hear Yep.
Tyler Evans:Yep. Well, it seems as though the variants now are
Tyler Evans:getting less and less destructive. I mean, yes, people
Tyler Evans:are still getting sick to the point. But it's getting less and
Tyler Evans:less disruptive compared to delta. Delta was the worst last
Tyler Evans:year. And then it was original. But then Omicron, the first one,
Tyler Evans:and then the second Omicron. Slowly and slowly, it's getting
Tyler Evans:less and less destructive, which is a good thing. There are still
Tyler Evans:people done, of course, but yeah, yeah, but we're getting
Tyler Evans:through it. Yeah, Liana. And it's really remarkable that
Tyler Evans:you've overcome all these obstacles, Julie Ann that you,
Tyler Evans:despite your scoliosis, you managed to rise to the top like,
Tyler Evans:kind of like me and Sailor are hoping to do in the future.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, and that's why we hear that quite a lot.
Saylor Cooper:Exactly. And I'm meeting with Michelle, and Blaydon. Kevin
Saylor Cooper:Scott. Oh, when the more zoom, we're gonna catch up on this
Saylor Cooper:business plan. It's gonna be
Tyler Evans:Well, I think, Kevin, I think it was a Kevin
Tyler Evans:that said he couldn't make it. No, like, Blake. That's right.
Tyler Evans:Yeah.
Saylor Cooper:But yeah, but isn't Kimberly quo, fabulous.
Julie Ann Salisbury:People here that are fabulous. I mean,
Julie Ann Salisbury:that's why I call this the house of influence. So. So the
Julie Ann Salisbury:influence here is Spanish for a house of influence. And the
Julie Ann Salisbury:whole idea is that we're gathering people that are
Julie Ann Salisbury:influencers, and help other people to see the world in a
Julie Ann Salisbury:different place, and a different
Saylor Cooper:way. Yeah. And I'm wonderful.
Julie Ann Salisbury:And you're one of them. That's what we
Julie Ann Salisbury:need. We need people to share their stories. And to say, look,
Julie Ann Salisbury:you know, like, just because you've got some label at some
Julie Ann Salisbury:description, you know, whether it's dyslexia or autism, or it's
Julie Ann Salisbury:a physical disability, or you've overcome obstacles of death or
Julie Ann Salisbury:disease, you know, we can overcome anything. Yes, we just
Julie Ann Salisbury:makes us stronger.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Yes,
Tyler Evans:that's right. You got it.
Saylor Cooper:You got it. And so well, what's your, what's
Saylor Cooper:your book called, again, is out yet.
Julie Ann Salisbury:My first book that I published was called
Julie Ann Salisbury:Around the World in seven years, a life changing journey. That
Julie Ann Salisbury:was my story of leaving England and traveling around the world.
Julie Ann Salisbury:And since then, I've done a lot of collaborative books. So now
Julie Ann Salisbury:I'm focusing on helping people to share their stories with
Julie Ann Salisbury:multiple authors in one book. So for example, I'm doing a
Julie Ann Salisbury:collaborative book with Michelle, we're going to be
Julie Ann Salisbury:talking about that tomorrow. You don't know about that yet. But
Julie Ann Salisbury:we're gonna be talking about that tomorrow about doing a book
Julie Ann Salisbury:about how podcasting has changed your life. And so
Saylor Cooper:you like me out because Tyler states natives to
Saylor Cooper:Julian what we're doing.
Tyler Evans:So we're basically the purpose of this podcast is
Tyler Evans:to inspire other people who've overcome challenges in life,
Tyler Evans:whether it be big, whether it be large or small. It will guide
Tyler Evans:that's how we do it. That's ultimately what
Saylor Cooper:we do. Are we Are we doing? Well, we've gotten the
Saylor Cooper:foot, say it.
Tyler Evans:We're also writing a memoir, too. It's been a long
Tyler Evans:time since we've, since we've worked on it. It certainly is
Tyler Evans:for me. But he and I are running it together now. I kind of write
Tyler Evans:my stuff. But he also writes to us as well.
Saylor Cooper:And we're gonna combine it all. Yeah.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, we don't even have features some of
Julie Ann Salisbury:the people that have overcome challenges that you've had on
Julie Ann Salisbury:your podcast.
Saylor Cooper:Maybe you can be in there too. Yeah,
Tyler Evans:absolutely. Julie Ann. Absolutely. It's just
Tyler Evans:amazing how you come from just this diverse background like,
Tyler Evans:you know, you're from London. And then now look at you or
Tyler Evans:England. Might have been London. I don't know. But now you're in
Tyler Evans:Mexico. Yeah. Which is not far from America. And who knows?
Tyler Evans:Maybe, maybe one day you might just send him into America. I
Tyler Evans:don't know. You? Well, technically, in many
Julie Ann Salisbury:countries in the world. But Mexico is my
Julie Ann Salisbury:favorite. The people here are amazing. puts my otter is very
Julie Ann Salisbury:warm and friendly. Climate is beautiful. We have the mountains
Julie Ann Salisbury:and the ocean. And I just yeah, I'm in love with sports by arts
Julie Ann Salisbury:or I feel like this is my home.
Tyler Evans:Wow. And well, you know, my favorite food of all is
Tyler Evans:Mexican. Yeah, and I'm not even Mexican. And my favorite of all
Tyler Evans:our burritos. burritos are my favorite.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Well, we did. We've had Okay, for
Julie Ann Salisbury:everybody. I know Mexican family. Yeah. My my Mexican
Julie Ann Salisbury:sisters. And Suzy and Rachel. Great. Yeah, Mata, three
Julie Ann Salisbury:sisters. They've been cooking our meals every day. Yes. We've
Julie Ann Salisbury:been getting to taste the real authentic Mexican food. Oh,
Julie Ann Salisbury:yeah. It's pretty special.
Saylor Cooper:Right? Yeah. Is it Thai with a good trip?
Unknown:Oh my god. Tyler. Yes.
Saylor Cooper:I I tried to talk him into coming with me. Like
Saylor Cooper:you said, now.
Julie Ann Salisbury:You don't know what you've missed.
Tyler Evans:Yeah, sorry. I had other plans. So. So.
Saylor Cooper:So do you have anything else to share about
Saylor Cooper:your life journey? If not otherwise, your title, of
Saylor Cooper:course, you can ask her questions. And of course, we'll
Saylor Cooper:do our customary wrap up. So you've got the floor.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Okay. Okay. No, I think I just want to let
Julie Ann Salisbury:people know that. You know, you can do anything in your life.
Julie Ann Salisbury:You can overcome any obstacles, you can overcome any
Julie Ann Salisbury:disabilities or any labels. I think all you have to do is just
Julie Ann Salisbury:believe in yourself and believe that anything is possible. And
Julie Ann Salisbury:just believe in the magic and believe in your dreams. And you
Julie Ann Salisbury:can do it.
Saylor Cooper:That's right. Well, Julian, I agree. And don't
Saylor Cooper:let the labels to find you. Which is don't let the labels
Saylor Cooper:define. Yeah. Yeah, cuz me and Tyler. Joy. We
Tyler Evans:Yes, we are. And yeah.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Eight years ago in college, like gravity
Saylor Cooper:school never matter. We, we say the same things.
Tyler Evans:Almost almost the same things. It's amazing. Yeah.
Tyler Evans:But yeah. So with that. We wanted to ask our customers.
Tyler Evans:Yeah, if there's anything that you can share with those who may
Tyler Evans:feel down tonight, or today, rather, what do you think it'd
Tyler Evans:be like if they feel like discouraged?
Julie Ann Salisbury:I think just know that you are a very
Julie Ann Salisbury:special person, that you have gifts, and you know what your
Julie Ann Salisbury:gifts are. Some people are in denial of their gifts, because
Julie Ann Salisbury:maybe they're a little bit outside of the box. If you just
Julie Ann Salisbury:think about the thing that you love to do, the thing that
Julie Ann Salisbury:lights you are thing that gives you a big smile on your face.
Julie Ann Salisbury:That's your gift. And you just need to embrace your gift and
Julie Ann Salisbury:follow your dreams. And you will do what you're supposed to be
Julie Ann Salisbury:doing in this world. And it might not be the normal course
Julie Ann Salisbury:of action or the normal path might be that you're an artist
Julie Ann Salisbury:or a poet or writer, or a musician or a dancer, or a
Julie Ann Salisbury:podcast. Pose post. Yeah, it's probably outside the box. So all
Julie Ann Salisbury:you have to do is embrace that and embrace your gift and just
Julie Ann Salisbury:fall Are your dreams? Well, I can tell you.
Saylor Cooper:Exactly. Yeah, it's you that as well said, and,
Saylor Cooper:you know, I want to add to that you have to try to when people
Saylor Cooper:have when people are different, and they have certain traits or
Saylor Cooper:like quirky, others may not understand others have to be
Saylor Cooper:more compassionate and understanding. Don't you agree?
Julie Ann Salisbury:Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, you need to be more
Julie Ann Salisbury:compassionate, and to look at people for who they are not what
Julie Ann Salisbury:they look like, how much money they have, or what they're
Julie Ann Salisbury:wearing. You know, it's like, one of the reasons I love water
Julie Ann Salisbury:by IATA is because it's a very accepting place, you can walk
Julie Ann Salisbury:down the street, and you can see, you know, six foot diva
Julie Ann Salisbury:wearing a pink miniskirt with a beard and mustache, and nobody's
Julie Ann Salisbury:going to even turn their head and think that that's weird or
Julie Ann Salisbury:unusual. It's like, you know, every everybody accepts
Julie Ann Salisbury:everybody here. And it's a very free place from that
Julie Ann Salisbury:perspective, because there's not any judgment. There's, there's
Julie Ann Salisbury:no judgment of disabilities, there's no judgment of any
Julie Ann Salisbury:anyway, color, sex preferences. It's just no judgment.
Saylor Cooper:You've indicated before, right. And, yeah, would
Saylor Cooper:you say Cancun the same as you in that, in that in that way? Or
Saylor Cooper:not? Quite?
Julie Ann Salisbury:I don't think so. Because I think what
Julie Ann Salisbury:about just pretty special? It it's, it's kind of known as the
Julie Ann Salisbury:gay capital of the world. And I think that as a sort of
Julie Ann Salisbury:foundation has made people more accepting and with less judgment
Julie Ann Salisbury:and more compassion. And so I think that is a pieces means
Julie Ann Salisbury:that anybody else that's here, that's outside the box is also
Julie Ann Salisbury:completely accepted without any judgment. And I don't honestly
Julie Ann Salisbury:know any other place in the world like that. I don't.
Saylor Cooper:Wow, okay. Cancun is it's I guess it's less except
Saylor Cooper:accepting light. Or
Julie Ann Salisbury:I just think Pashtoon is probably a
Julie Ann Salisbury:little bit more westernized.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. You know, more blogging, you know? Yeah.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, this is more family orientated. So
Julie Ann Salisbury:there's a lot more love here and a lot more compassion, because
Julie Ann Salisbury:family is number one. And, you know, that's not those, those
Julie Ann Salisbury:kind of standards go through to everything. So I mean, I
Julie Ann Salisbury:remember with my fiancee, I got ill. And I woke up in the
Julie Ann Salisbury:morning, and I was feeling very sick. And I said, Oh, no, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:got to go to work. And he's like, he just looked at me and
Julie Ann Salisbury:said, That's ridiculous. I, of course, I'm not going to work.
Julie Ann Salisbury:You're ill. I'm going to stay here and look after you. And he
Julie Ann Salisbury:didn't end up going to work for a week. And it was completely
Julie Ann Salisbury:acceptable that his priority would be with his family. Yeah,
Julie Ann Salisbury:not his work. Whereas in Western culture, you know, that's not
Julie Ann Salisbury:the case. If you said, Oh, I can't come to work because my
Julie Ann Salisbury:wife sick or my mom's sick or, or my child said, you know, your
Julie Ann Salisbury:workplace or just says, Well, you know, get here, your work is
Julie Ann Salisbury:more important,
Saylor Cooper:or else you're fine. Exactly. Because in
Saylor Cooper:America, that happens quite a bit. Yeah. I mean, oh, yeah.
Saylor Cooper:Especially in the US, like they do have, they do have sick
Saylor Cooper:leave, they have what's called FMLA Family Medical Leave Act
Saylor Cooper:and stuff. But if it was a sudden emergency, not so much,
Saylor Cooper:you know?
Tyler Evans:Well, you know,
Julie Ann Salisbury:I think and, you know, that's what I
Julie Ann Salisbury:that's how it comes through to no judgment and more freedom is
Julie Ann Salisbury:because there's more love than this more compassion. Yeah.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Right. So
Tyler Evans:you know, you're going you're saying earlier
Tyler Evans:about, embrace some embrace what makes you smile. Why and tell
Tyler Evans:you what really made me smile. Oh, was my mom. Whenever she was
Tyler Evans:around when she was alive? She just, I can't stop bragging
Tyler Evans:about her. I can't.
Saylor Cooper:Because yeah, yesterday, actually two years
Saylor Cooper:ago, she passed away.
Tyler Evans:Yeah, she did. She had a long battle with breast
Tyler Evans:cancer. And a long you know, long battle with pneumonia. But
Tyler Evans:you know what? She's with Christ now, because she believed in
Tyler Evans:what he did on the cross. Dad knows again, that was You'd
Tyler Evans:think for her, and she, she literally just changed my life
Tyler Evans:forever. Yeah, the fact that she fought for me as a baby. She
Tyler Evans:fought for me as an as a kid. And then ultimately, whenever I
Tyler Evans:became an adult, she fought for herself to fight cancer, to
Tyler Evans:fight breast cancer. And she was still there for me. It was just
Tyler Evans:amazing. She's She's so that's what makes me smile from heaven
Julie Ann Salisbury:on you. Right?
Tyler Evans:Yes. Well, me and my friends say that we're about
Tyler Evans:to do show on her soon.
Saylor Cooper:Yes, we'll get back. Honestly. I know a couple
Saylor Cooper:of other people. Not everybody's leaving tomorrow. No candy. And
Saylor Cooper:Kimberly de and Alicia, they're staying. I thought about I've
Saylor Cooper:been doing my massage. And then thinking about maybe changing my
Saylor Cooper:slight and never date and staying at least Wednesday. Yay.
Saylor Cooper:I mean, how much what? Because he's staying here longer. And I
Saylor Cooper:you know, Here's all
Julie Ann Salisbury:I think Alicia is still here. I think
Julie Ann Salisbury:I'm just gonna stay somewhere else. Yeah. But I think, you
Julie Ann Salisbury:know, I think it'd be lovely to stay.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. I mean, I kind of thought about it,
Saylor Cooper:because this is this is wonderful. I mean, I mean, I
Saylor Cooper:will have to be back home Wednesday, for sure. For
Saylor Cooper:Thanksgiving if I do. So. It's just a farm.
Tyler Evans:I mean, I wouldn't worry about it.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Once you come here. You can never leave.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Like the Hotel California.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Hotel. Kela. Yeah.
Tyler Evans:Yeah, I mean, I personally would just go ahead
Tyler Evans:and leave tomorrow, just because you've already planned you've
Tyler Evans:already made the reservation and then next time, make sure just
Tyler Evans:do it. Yeah, I would think so. It's like me my Ryan came and
Tyler Evans:saw you. When I came and saw you in October, I didn't want to
Tyler Evans:leave. Yeah. I literally did not want to leave after like
Tyler Evans:stepping back there and I've already I think PATA Palooza is
Tyler Evans:coming up. Speaking of which, maybe you should join us on PATA
Tyler Evans:Palooza and Jen Yeah.
Saylor Cooper:You should join us Julie Ann
Julie Ann Salisbury:Palooza Evan every time I've done for
Julie Ann Salisbury:Todd.
Saylor Cooper:Maybe you were there in October maybe I just
Saylor Cooper:didn't. I just didn't know you weren't. I was that it was so
Saylor Cooper:good to meet you. And again, Julian, thank you so much for
Saylor Cooper:for for the hospitality here the suite. It's been incredible. I
Saylor Cooper:mean, my only suggestion I have is to hopefully on the rooftop.
Saylor Cooper:I know you're you're talking about it. Maybe y'all can put a
Saylor Cooper:hot tub up. There.
Julie Ann Salisbury:I am. You are. Oh, good. It's the next
Julie Ann Salisbury:thing on the list. Actually. Yeah, the only reason I've not
Julie Ann Salisbury:done it yet is because we have to have an architect come and
Julie Ann Salisbury:check out the structural beams. The weights of a hotdog. So like
Saylor Cooper:we buy it or just have it
Julie Ann Salisbury:built? Well, I think I'm gonna get one
Julie Ann Salisbury:built because I was speaking to somebody I was gonna go buy
Julie Ann Salisbury:plastic one from Costco. Yeah. And I showed it to this guy. And
Julie Ann Salisbury:he said, Oh, no, I can I can build you a wooden one.
Saylor Cooper:Okay, um, I mean, I'm sure they're gonna have it
Saylor Cooper:here again next year. I never haven't one February, which, I
Saylor Cooper:mean, I probably won't come back to that. Because that's, that's
Saylor Cooper:too soon. It's the same thing. But it's if anything, I'll come
Saylor Cooper:back like next year when they have it again. And who knows?
Saylor Cooper:Maybe you'll have it built.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Oh, yeah. Maybe you come back and bring
Julie Ann Salisbury:your own people. Like don't retreat to them. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Yeah, I
Saylor Cooper:should. Yeah. Bring my own people. Yes. Yes.
Saylor Cooper:Without food you Yeah. Julie Ann thank you so much for being on
Saylor Cooper:the hook without sight. Thank you.
Tyler Evans:Yeah, absolutely.
Saylor Cooper:Well, stay blessed everybody.
Julie Ann Salisbury:Thank you. Thanks.
