Join us for an inspiring episode in Season 3 of WyzeCast™ as we sit down with Gail Taylor, a Canadian songwriter, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and advocate for the transformative power of music. Gail has spent the last 35 years not only on financial stages, earning her CIMA designation from Wharton University and an MBA from Queens University, but also on life’s stages, sharing her personal stories and tools for overcoming curve balls. Discover the synergy between her financial expertise and her passion for personal betterment as she discusses her upcoming book, “Curve Balls,” offering insights and motivation to design your own life.

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Melanie McSally
Welcome to another episode of WyzeCast™, the show that elevates the voices, shines the light, showcases the gifts of our heart-centered guests, and amplifies the positive differences they are making in the world.

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Melanie McSally 0:17
Folks, I have an amazing guest for you today. She refers to her mission as “finding those folks that are always trying to get to the next level in their life, and then she helps them do just that – Whether you are struggling to get through one of life’s curve balls like losing your job or just want to find new ways to focus on your business growth – she has tools and personal stories to share.

Our guest today is a Canadian songwriter, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for the power of music to inspire change. With a catalog of 13 inspiring songs and topics spanning from addiction to leveling up in business, she is constantly motivating most people who cross her path.

For the past 35 years, she has stood on stage and spoken about finance and socially responsible investing. Her journey began in the business world, where she honed her skills and expertise.

Today guest attained her CIMA designation (Certified Investment Manager Analyst) from Wharton University, acquired her MBA at Queens University, and underwent executive training at Harvard Business School, all while building a successful Investment Advisory practice.

In the late ’70s, she embarked on a parallel journey, one dedicated to personal betterment and the art of setting and achieving goals.

She is currently planning her second book – Curve Balls – Personal Stories and Tools, to Inspire Folks to Take Action in Designing Their Own Lives.

My name is Melanie McSally, your host for today’s episode. Without further adieu, I would like to give a warm welcome to the sparkly, charming, and inspirational, Gail Taylor. Gail is joining us today from Alberta, Canada. Welcome Gail.

Gail Taylor
Oh, thank you, Melanie. Thank you so much. I’m honored to be here.

Melanie McSally
Oh, well, the pleasure is all mine. So you have quite the career and have been in everything from finance to music. Can you give us a little bit more about your journey?

Gail Taylor
Yeah, and actually, how I ended up getting into music. When I was 58 years old, I started taking piano lessons. I had no music background; I had been working as a financial advisor for 25 years in total. When I was 58, I started taking piano lessons with no music background; I’m learning how to do scales, and I’m starting from the beginning, and oh my god, I fell in love with it. Music started flooding back into my life. After about two years, I thought, you know what, I’m going to retire a little bit sooner than I had planned. I’m going to sell my practice, and I’m going to study music full-time. So I did that, and I retired at 61. I started studying at Berkeley and the University of Alberta. I was taking bass guitar lessons, keyboard, songwriting, and ear training. I was just getting my full of it, and then, after two years of that, I thought I had reinvented myself as a musician. Then, when I shared that story with folks, I kept getting, oh my god, that’s so inspiring, I’m gonna do, badeep badeep, you know, something they had put on the back burner. Then I thought, yeah, I’m going to start a business. I’m coming out of retirement. I’m going to start a business, Gail Taylor Music. I’m going to be a keynote speaker and use my music and help folks become their best selves. And so yeah, that’s how I ended up getting here.

Melanie McSally
I love that story, and what I love most about it is that there’s or I hear because I haven’t; well, I guess I technically have retired from the corporate world and started my own business. So, what I hear most about folks heading into retirement is this sense of loss. I had this career, and now I have this empty space. What I love about what you’re sharing is that this is a time to do the things you never got to do while you are working and really put focus on those passions in life, and that doesn’t mean you can’t make a little money doing what you’re passionate about doing.

Gail Taylor
Well, and that’s actually a good way to word it because in some of my speeches, that’s what I talked to folks about. I mean, for me, I was passionate about my job as a financial advisor. I loved it. I loved going to work; it was great. When I decided to sell my practice to study music, my husband was already retired. He used to tease. He’d say, in front of our friends, oh, my God, she’s gonna get underfoot, and I started to laugh. I said, Well, this might be the right time to tell you that I’m actually retiring to go back to school and study music full-time. He was fine with it. He said, as long as you don’t go away. Stay and do the study from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I said, No problem, I can figure that out, but you’re right, lots of people, when they get to the point where they want to retire, it’s, okay, now what? And my now what is, go find a passion and go for it.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, that’s awesome. So, what does working with you look like? What do you do with your clients, for your clients?

Gail Taylor
Mostly as a keynote speaker. So, I get hired by conferences. I have three different topics that I work with: one’s mental health, one’s empowering women, and one is leveling up. I’m in the process right now; I’m doing a Kickstarter, which, by the time folks you are listening to this, is probably going to be over because it ends on December 22nd. But my Kickstarter campaign is to fund my new book that I’m writing called Curveballs and a Year on the Speaking Circuit. So my clients can buy the book Curveballs, and it’s my personal stories and my journey and tools that help you get through some of the challenges that life throws at you. Heck, you might even learn some of the mistakes I made not to make them. As a keynote speaker, I speak for audiences both on Zoom and at large conferences. With mental health, it’s a lot about addiction. It’s a lot about dealing with loved ones that are addicts. I had a son who was an opioid addict. As you know, both your country and mine have an epidemic right now of people dying from the fentanyl that’s in this. I talk a lot about it, and I even have a song about it about the loved ones giving themselves permission to still enjoy life to live, even though they’ve got somebody in their life who is struggling with this disease. It’s how to get through some of these issues. They can expect that as a topic or empowering women. I worked in a male-dominated industry for 25 years; I got all the tips for y’all all the tips. Then, leveling up is it doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to level up if you’re in the corporate world, you’re a nurse, you’re a teacher, it doesn’t matter if you want to, how do I make my goals become realities more often. That’s my topic. That’s the interaction that I have. I use music to get that dopamine going in your brain, to help you give some, to allow yourself to allow these goals to manifest.

Melanie McSally
I love that: allow yourself to allow these goals to manifest. Yeah, I love it. I, too, am from a male-dominated industry. I’m in technology. I’m an engineer. The most common question I get is, do you work on trains? Apparently, that’s the only kind of engineer out there. Anyway, going up in my career, it was very much male-dominated; I remember having to navigate that world of not being seen, being seen, and what you want to be seen for, so I can only imagine what those tips are.

Gail Taylor
Yeah, especially in a cocktail party situation. In my industry as a financial advisor, I’d often get: whose assistant are you? Meanwhile, I had a team of seven people, five of whom were my assistants. I’m thinking, Yeah, I’m nobody’s assistant. But I used to get that.

Melanie McSally: Yeah. And I used to get: You’re young and pretty. There’s no possible way.

Gail Taylor: Yeah, yeah.

Melanie McSally: Yeah. Anyway, perception. You can look at it in a good way, and you can look at it in the, let’s let go of those limiting beliefs kind of way.

Gail Taylor
Absolutely. That’s why I refer to it all as curveballs. It’s not the curveballs that you get. You have to have curveballs. That’s life. It’s like you just said, that’s life. If you’re trying to do something, and you’re leaving your house, you’re gonna have curveballs. It’s not the curveballs that matter. It’s how you deal with them and how you react that determines whether or not you get to keep the sparkle in your eye and the bounce in your step.

Melanie McSally
You just reminded me of being in Ireland with that phrase. It had such a joy behind it; it just sounded like, yeah, you just brought me back to Ireland; you guys have similar accents. So I know that there’s not a whole lot of time on these short shows for personal stories, but do you have a story you’re dying to tell our listeners?

Gail Taylor
Yeah, I know, one, and it’s sort of tied into something that I speak about: passion and purpose. You spend 50% of your waking life at your job. So, to me, your job should be a passion; it should be something that you really like to do. If you do that, whether it’s the… I’m gonna make it a short story. Like you said, we don’t have a lot of time. The thing about the passion is when you get home from work, sometimes you’re bagged. Right? You just ran for eight hours or ten hours on the job, and now you’re going home to your spouse and your family. I really believed that I was not going to give them the leftovers. I wasn’t going to walk in and say, Oh, what a day. Before I walked in the door. Every time I arrived home before I walked in the door, I reset, walked in the door, looked at my husband, and said, Honey, I’m home and had a good day. Pour me a cold one, and oh, by the way. He’d start singing with me, and we would laugh, and that would set the stage for our evening. To me, that’s important. It’s really important that you have a job that you like and you don’t give your family leftovers.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, yes, I agree, and I love the way you framed that. I heard this from another musician: She likes to be surrounded by love and positive energy. So, before she enters a room, she does a little tiny personal meditation; she sends love into the room and asks it to give her a hug as she enters. I feel like that’s quite similar. You’re in charge. You’re in charge of your attitude. You’re in charge of your response, but then you can also be in charge of mutating what is about to happen.

Gail Taylor: Yeah, absolutely. Totally.

Melanie McSally
Awesome. So okay, so you embark on this new career as a musician and also keynoting and sort of marrying the two together. You are retired. Your husband’s retired. We were talking earlier about traveling to France. How do you fit it all in? How’s your work/life balance?

Gail Taylor
I actually unretired. I unretired in 2020 when I… Yeah, so in January 2020, I decided I was going to be a keynote speaker, and we know what happened for the next two years. But in my case, it was all good because it gave me time to write my songs and my speeches. I record my songs in Nashville, so I go down there to do my recordings. Basically, I just came out of retirement and started this business. I built a music studio in my basement. Welcome to my music studio. I am a morning person, so I’m usually up at four or five o’clock. I come down here around six in the morning, and I stay until four. I’ll go upstairs to have lunch or go to meetings, or whatever, but mostly, I spend Monday to Friday from six in the morning to four in my music studio creating my stuff and having Zoom calls with wonderful people like you. Then, at four o’clock, I go up and sit, and it’s cocktail hour; I have my nonalcoholic beer with my husband. We sit and talk for a bit, and then we have dinner and spend our evenings and our weekends together. I have grandchildren, kids, and family that I see on the weekends. So yeah, I just figured out a design for the time, and it works perfectly.

Melanie McSally
Nice. I love this. This is, this is what I want to be when I grow up.

Gail Taylor
I actually wrote a song called Time Is on Your Side. And it’s all about time management and how to make sure that you’re not chasing your tail all the time.

Melanie McSally
Oh, nice, so your songs are not just entertainment, but they’re also educational.

Gail Taylor
And they’re all inspirational. Yep. They’re all written around personal things that I did to get myself to the level that I got to, which is pretty much what you’re seeing now. This is me. I’m happy all the time. I’m enjoying life. I love life. And I thought, Man, if I could help some other folks get to that place that I got to many, many years ago. Oh my god, that would be the ultimate for me.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, yeah. There is a stereotype about engineers that I don’t fit into, which is why nobody ever believes I am one, and there’s a stereotype about finance people as well, which you don’t fit into, which, I can imagine, is why people thought you were an assistant versus a financial analyst. You’re just so filled with joy, you’re bubbly, you have such personality, and your face isn’t in a book. I love it. The thing is, music, people think of it as as creative, but it’s actually quite mathematical. So, there is a marriage there between your first career and your second.

Gail Taylor
Absolutely, absolutely. It’s so funny because that’s what music is. Music is just math and stories. It turned out that songwriting turned out to be my superpower. I think the reason it happened that way is because I talk so much. Songs are just stories turned into lyrics, so it turned out to be what I excel at.

Melanie McSally
That’s awesome. So what’s your favorite part? What’s your favorite part about this new phase of your life?

Gail Taylor
I think following down a new challenge and enjoying learning all the different things. I’m a Life learner. I just love learning how to do things. Once I create the end of a song, and then I put it up on Spotify or YouTube, and it starts getting all the positive reactions, I think, Oh, this is so; I just love it. I just love being able to do that. I love practicing on the piano. I love the songwriting. I love all the people that I’m meeting with and, of course, my trips to Nashville. Okay, if I have to pick one, I’m gonna go with the trips to Nashville. I co-write with somebody who has a studio on Music Row, and I just, oh, the energy there is so amazing.

Melanie McSally
and, folks, if you have never been to a studio in Nashville, it is quite spectacular. I mean, the soundboard alone takes up an entire room. It’s just incredible. Then, they separate the musicians into different spaces to both isolate and merge the sounds together. I’ve been a couple of times with Berklee College of Music, bringing students there. It’s a sight to see. It’s an experience.

Gail Taylor
It is. Yeah. It’s a real experience. One of the studios that I work with is Beard Studios, and they are just, oh my god, like my keyboardist goes on tour with Tim McGraw, and my bass player plays with Miranda Lambert. These people are A-One musicians, and so I’m just so honored that I get to work with them.

Melanie McSally
And just walking the streets. This is what I loved about growing up in Boston: you could just walk down the streets and hear so many talented music sessions just playing on the streets or on the sides of the streets, playing outside of cafes, playing in parks, whatever. When you go to Nashville, it’s that on steroids. You walk up and down these rows, and it’s bar after bar, obviously, of musicians playing live, but then also they’re on the sidewalks, they’re in the parks, they’re everywhere. It’s great.

Gail Taylor
That’s exactly why I have access to such amazing musicians. The whole city, it’s all such talented people. Everyone’s in the music industry. Yeah, it’s just great.

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Melanie McSally
Oh, this has been such an inspirational interview so far. So I was just thinking, I actually am part of this personal growth organization. We use sound in our seminars, and a lot of times, we use John Denver’s songs because he had a knack for writing songs geared toward personal growth. But you know, John Denver songs are, I don’t want to say old, but you know, they’ve been around for a bit, and so, I wanted to know, do your songs fall into this category? Do people use them for personal growth?

Gail Taylor
They do. In fact, that’s exactly why I wrote them. That’s how they fit in as accompaniment when I do the keynote speeches, and I talk to people about becoming their best selves. You can actually pick a topic. One of my songs is called Dreaming About the Good Life. Dreaming About the Good Life is a song that, when I was in my 20s, I was quite dysfunctional. I had dropped out of high school, I was partying all the time, I didn’t have an education, and I didn’t have a job. I decided, Yeah, no, I can’t continue; there’s got to be more to life than this. I started studying personal growth. That’s when I first started, in the seventies. In fact, my first book was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I’m gonna guess some of your listeners have read it; you’ve probably read it. I mean, it’s still out there. Being a dysfunctional twenty-something-year-old, my goal was to be financially independent. Right off the bat, I wanted a sports car. I wanted a nice coat. So, I studied personal growth and peak performance and learned how to attain those things. So one of the songs is called Dream About the Good Life, and it was my shift, but I’m a do-gooder, so it was a song about how do we create our own wealth and make the world a better place at the same time. How do I do the philanthropic work? How do I give back and do both?

Another song is called Staying Young. Staying Young is a song about how it doesn’t matter whether you’re twenty or thirty, fifty, or eighty. You’re at the right point in your life. Enjoy it. I have thirty-year-olds that tell me that, especially in the music industry, if they hit the age of thirty, then they think, Oh, yeah, I better leave this industry; I haven’t made it yet. So I have to do something else. I’m like, Nah, thirty is not over the hill. Keep going even if you have to pivot within your industry. That’s okay. Stay doing what it is that you’re passionate about.

Another song that I have that really along those lines is You and You Alone. You and You Alone is a song about you getting to design your own life; you get to decide whether you’re happy or whether you’re miserable. You have to decide everything, right? Yes, life is gonna throw curveballs at you. But I mean, you’re here right now. You decide where you want to be. Then, figure out what the gap is and what it is that you have to do to get there. That’s up to you. Now, even though it’s called You and You Alone, it takes a village. You have to build a community, but you build a community of like-minded people, of loving people, of people that are going to help you with your journey, that are proud of you; not the ones that are going to say, No, you can’t give back. No, no, no, that’s not the village. So yeah, I just gave you three examples. But I would say that pretty much out of the thirteen songs in my catalog, and I’ve got three I’m working on now, eleven of them are inspirational songs.

Melanie McSally
Nice. I love this concept that you can have financial freedom and financial stability, and you can also be philanthropic and do good out in the world, helping make the world better. That’s what we’re all about here. My company is WyzeTribe®, and this podcast is WyzeCast™. We’re here to help heart-centered business owners and people even; you don’t have to own a business to make a difference in the world; we’re here to help them make a big impact on the world, to help make the world a better place. That’s how we are making the world a better place: we help others, and they are, in turn, helping us. So, let’s build upon this a little bit. Do you have a favorite story from your financial career that you would like to share with us?

Gail Taylor
Yeah, yeah, I do. Before I share this story, I’ll just say one other thing about what you just said. I’ve had somebody say to me with that one song that I mentioned, Dreaming About the Good Life, say to me after one of my speeches, I’m gonna listen to the song every day when I get up. First thing, I’m going to start my day with this song because you just gave me permission to go after achievements. You made it so that it’s not a bad thing to want to achieve. It’s not a bad thing to want to create abundance. So to me, that was like, Oh, yeah, go for it, for sure, go for your dreams and make them as grandiose as you want. There’s no, you should not have to be pulled back, you should go for what you want.

So what happened in my career; your question about whether I have a story from my career. I had been working for about geese, I’m gonna say, fifteen years into my role as a financial advisor, and something was missing. I didn’t know what it was at the time. I thought, what what am I good at? What do I need? I hired a business coach, and this guy said to me, Okay, tell me what Gail Taylor’s all about, and then tell me what Gail Taylor’s financial practice is all about. I said, Oh, simple. No problem. Here’s where I’m at now: I want to make my clients financially independent so that they can retire and have the same lifestyle pre-retirement; I want to make myself financially independent so that at some point, I can stop working, and I can do my philanthropic work, volunteer, and make the world a better place because that’s kind of how I’m wired. This guy said to me, Yeah, that’s not how it works. You don’t work all your life to then go do your passion. You have to find a way to incorporate your passion into your job. We’ll try to find that, and if we can’t, then you might as well sell your practice right now and go do something else.

So I worked with this guy; he’s actually a hockey, NFL, NHL hockey agent right now; he’s pivoted a bit. We worked on these exercises, and I discovered socially responsible investing. I’d never heard of it. I mean, this was quite a while ago; this was at the forefront of it. I didn’t know what it was, but I discovered it, and it’s really ESG. I had a traditional practice, and I was able to shift it to a responsible practice. So what happens is you screen out companies. So, on the E-side, it was environment, right? So, you screen out companies that are harming the environment. We all know climate change is happening. So, I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which is an oil province. I didn’t even screen out the oil industry. I just screened out the company. I kept the companies that were spending R&D dollars on alternative energy. They were spending money on alternatives to tailing ponds and other things that were harming the environment. On the social side, we screened out any companies that were using sweatshops or that were hiring local regimes that were abusing the employees. On the governance side, we screened out companies that wouldn’t let women on their boards. So, all of a sudden. Okay, so now I have this new, socially responsible practice, and I expect it to take a haircut. I was managing eighty million, and I thought, okay, my clients didn’t hire me to be a do-gooder. So, I’m going to shift my practice. I’ll probably lose about 20%. I figured I’d go down from eighty million to sixty-eight million. Anyone in my industry knows that’s a good chunk of income for me, but I thought, I don’t care; this is where I’m going. The opposite happened. My clients loved it. They said, Oh, my God, why didn’t you introduce this to a sooner? And because they were conservative portfolios, the return didn’t even change. They ended up with the same return. So now my tagline was: Creating My Client’s Wealth While Strengthening the World. Oh, my God, it was a really nice pivot. Then, when I ended up retiring to study music full time, my practice was up to 130 million that I was managing. It just continued to grow from there. So yeah, that was that was one of the highlights for me in my career.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, and it’s such a beautiful example of what we were talking about earlier: you can make a positive impact on the world, you can help create a better tomorrow while you’re also creating your own financial stability, and it also shows that there are other ways than just donating money to create positive change. So I love these examples.

Gail Taylor
Oh, yeah, and pivot within your own industry. I know there are probably folks listening right now who are saying, Yeah, I’m having a hard time with my career. Whether you’re a small business owner or you’re working in the medical, I mean, the nurses and the teachers, Oh, my God, COVID just really threw severe curveballs. I bow down to you, folks because I just can’t imagine. But you can take whatever career or business you have right now, and you don’t have to leave it. You could do what I did. You could figure out what is inside of this industry, what I do like, why I came here in the first place, and what I’m passionate about. Then, pivot over to it.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, yeah, and your income from your teaching career, or whatever the career is, is only one form of income. You can do other things other than your quote-on-quote job. You can make money outside of your job, right? You can do a whole number of things, and we could have a whole separate podcast on the ways to make yourself financially secure in any profession. But I want to talk more about your book before we close this out. So why don’t we dive in a little bit more? You give us a little bit more details or stories, if you will, about what the book Curveballs is going to be all about and when we can expect it.

Gail Taylor
Okay, so, so yeah, so the good news is that my Kickstarter is 100% funded. And so that’s great. I hit my targets, and everything’s going well. It’s keeping going. So, who knows, by the time you’re seeing this, it might be at 1,000%. So the book itself, when I came into this industry, and I started putting my team in place in my business and getting everything structured, I hired an entertainment lawyer to help get some of the things up and running. His comment to me was: Because you are a keynote speaker, a good idea would be to write a book to accompany you with the speeches. Now, this will be my second book. I wrote a book. I self-published a book in 2000; I used to teach a course for the University of Alberta for the faculty of extension on introduction to the financial markets, and I couldn’t find a textbook that I liked, so I wrote one. I had this book in print for quite a few years, so this is going to be my second go at it. Basically, with the book, I want it to look like something that Tina Turner and Dolly Parton did. It’s a book where each chapter tells you a story, a personal story that I experienced, but also shares a couple of peak performance or personal growth tools that I learned to get through some of the curveballs and things that really made a difference in my life. An example would be. So, this pendant that I have on is actually from my own line of jewelry that I have on my website. The reason that I came up with the pendants is that most artists will do, like T-shirts, but I came up with the pendant as a trigger. I talk about this in my book, about the story of if you’re in your head, and you’re having negative thoughts or limiting thoughts, the easiest way to get out of your head when you have limiting thoughts is to grab onto something and just use it as a trigger. Just to rub it. I use a word, too. This one says staying young. It’s all lyrics from my songs. So one says I Got This or The Good Life, but to me, it’s grab the pendant and rub it, and if you want to use the word: Staying Young, but get out of your head. For years, I didn’t have the pendants, and I used to use the trigger: Garbage In, Garbage Out. I stole that from an Olympic athlete. If I’m in my head, thinking, Oh, I can’t do this: Garbage In, Garbage Out. It’s better if you’re alone if you’re yelling it; people might think you’re a little wonky. Then, I would start thinking about what I wanted the day to be like and what I wanted to manifest. So that’s what the book is about. The book, so each chapter has a little story instigated by a song, and at the end of each chapter, there’ll be a QR code so you can go listen to the song and watch the video that was inspired by the story within the song. Some of the chapters are really positive and really inspiring. Some of them are some real hard curveballs that life threw at me: addiction, which I already mentioned at once, was in my family. And so yeah, I go down some challenging journeys and some easy ones. The whole design of that book is to show: Here’s what I’m all about, and hopefully, there are some things that will resonate with you and help you with your journey.

Melanie McSally
I love this. I love this concept of the book being a collection of stories, a collection of music, a collection of videos, and you have the pendant. I just love the whole package. I know you mentioned some celebrities who have done it, but it’s new to me, and I love the concept.

Gail Taylor: I say that I’ve got Tony Robbins’s hustle and Dolly Parton’s grit. That would be me.

Melanie McSally: And Tina Turner’s enthusiasm.

Gail Taylor: There you go.

Melanie McSally
Yes. Cool. The other thing I love about this book is that you’ve modeled for entrepreneurs; I struggle with this with entrepreneurs, is that you need money to run; the focus doesn’t have to be on money, but you need money to run your business, and so you’ve modeled beautifully, how you can get the funds you need to perform the action you want to perform. So, you do pre-orders, you run a Kickstarter campaign, all the things. You get the interest before you’ve actually invested your resources in the project. I’m sure some of it’s happening in parallel, but it’s just a good role model for entrepreneurs on how to get funding for projects that they want to embark upon.

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Melanie McSally
So, is there any last thing you’d like to leave our listeners with?

Gail Taylor 44:30
Yeah, yeah. Hopefully, if you enjoy this podcast and I inspired you at all, I’d love for you to go to my website and order a copy of the book or buy a pendant. I have a store online. You could get the pendants. You can order a copy of the book. The book is coming out in the spring. I’m still in the writing process so it’s coming out in the spring. My website is just Gail Taylor Music dot com. And so yeah, I would love it so much if you went and checked me out some more. If you need a speaker, it doesn’t matter as long as you’re in Canada or the United States; I could go to that location.

I’ll share one other thing before we close off, and this is in closing comments. One of the things that I do that keeps me grounded and helps me with my happiness is I try to do an act of kindness every day. I suggest that everybody try it out. Even if you try it out for 30 days. An act of kindness, for me, I think, an act of kindness every day, you think, Oh, yeah, what am I going to do today? It could be like buying, if you’re going through a drive-thru at McDonald’s or Starbucks, buying the coffee for the people in the car behind you. Do you know how much that changes their day? They’re just like, they’re honored, and it cost you a couple of bucks. Another thing is to smile at a homeless person because you walk by these people, and you make like they’re invisible; just make eye contact and smile at them. You’d be surprised what you just did to that person and what it does to you. Right? So that’s it. That’s what my closing remark is. Give some thought to trying an act of kindness on a daily basis, and help you enjoy your life. Hey, I believe everything goes around comes around. Karma, the universe, whatever you want to call. And yeah, that’s it. That’s my closing remark.

Melanie McSally
Absolutely.

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Melanie McSally
Alright, folks, so you heard Gail talk about her book, her tour, her keynotes. If you’re interested, if you see this on the 21st, you could contribute to her Kickstarter and help her with this book. However, if it’s after the 21st of December, go ahead and order your copy of the book. This is a unique opportunity of stories, music, and videos. You can add in a charm, and you can just get all of the Gail in one simple little package, which I love. So we’re gonna put the link below as well as in the description. I highly suggest that you reach out if you’re looking for a speaker for your school, your organization your workplace. Gail seems to have all the stories to help you get to where you want to go. Thank you so much, Gail. It’s been such a pleasure. I don’t really want to end this conversation, but I must. I’m sorry.

Gail Taylor
Oh, me too. I just love talking to you. Thank you again so much for having me and for being such a beautiful light yourself.

Melanie McSally
Yeah, you as well. It takes one to know one.

Gail Taylor
There you go. All the listeners out there. Thanks for Hearing my stories.

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