Episode 0000271: Josee Loyer

In this week's episode, I'm sitting down for an "in the studio" conversation with Ms. JLO, as her students probably call her, also known as Josee Loyer. She likes to teach and she likes to ride, and she tells me all about her passion for both, and you can't handle it! This is Josee's story!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nobodies are somebodies.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, It's chad Vice and this is not Pair
of Ice City. This is not nobody's radio station, heavy
rock radio. This is nobody's are somebody's podcast with me, Chadvice,
and I have a great voice for radio and a
face also for radio. Welcome to the podcast this week.

(00:27):
I'm just gonna ramble for a bit, like I always
do at the start of every podcast, because why not.
People like to hear what's going on in my life,
I think. And if you don't, well, I believe there's
a fast forward button on this. If not, that's too bad.
I'm excited to bring my conversation with Jose Loyer. I

(00:47):
believe I didn't butcher her name there. I always have
trouble with the French names because I am missed a
vicey a vice, Chad Avice. I am not drunk and
I have. I almost had a chance to hang out
with Jose and her husband Dan in the last couple
of weeks when I was in New Brunswick. For those
who were for those who were listening to my last

(01:10):
week's podcast, last one with Valerie Saint Ange, I did
the intro when I was out in book Tush New Brunswick,
visiting visiting my son Alex, my soon to be seventeen
year old son. Wow, time is flying by. But yeah,
she was riding on her tricycle out that way. Yeah,

(01:34):
she passed through Nova Scotia and was heading through New
Brunswick and I almost almost had a chance to see her,
but I missed her text message in time when they
were passing by the highway I was near, so I
missed the chance to see them and get another photo
opportunity photo bomb with them on their bikes. But yeah,
I'm really excited to have this conversation with jose come

(01:57):
out now. She tells about all her trips around the
US and Canada on her motorcycle, what motorcycle life means
to her as well as a big part of her
life is her teaching job. Educator, educating children, young children,
just basically shaping their future, shaping their lives. Very cool,
sometimes very thankless job. The parents, from what she says,

(02:20):
did appreciate a lot of her unique teaching style and
skills that she would bring to the table, even if
others did not so much. But let her get into
all that here on the podcast. It's very cool I
do plan to do a podcast spoiler alert one detailing
my trip out to book Tosh, New Brunswick, because it

(02:42):
was the first time I ever drove my car, well,
first time I ever drove a car out there, drove
out there, if you will, because as you know, as
much as I love the Chevrolet Bruise, at her old
age at the time, there's no way I could take
her out there. There was no way she'd make it.
So with mystique, the new to me twenty seventeen, Hyendai

(03:03):
definitely made her first major, I assume major major road
trip out to New Brunswick, oh nine hundred actually over
eleven hundred kilometers or whatever that is in miles. Sorry
for the cough out there, and yeah, so it was
a unique adventure, just something I want to detail here
on the podcast, so I will at some point. But yeah,

(03:28):
that's gonna come up real soon, probably when I don't
have a guest and have nothing to post. I'm looking
for content, but it's gonna happen. But in the meantime,
I'm not alone. I have you listening to me on
the Nobody's or Somebody's podcast, and I have Jose here
talking to me on the Nobody's or Somebody's podcasts. Don't
forget to connect with me all over the social media.

(03:49):
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(04:10):
on the x SO the Twitter anymore. I still have
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me know if you want to be a guest on
the show, what you think about the show. If you
don't like it, I don't want to know. It's Nobody's there,
somebody's podcast and it's time for Jose. Here we go,

(04:39):
all right, Jose, it's nice to meet you.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thanks for agreeing to do this.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, the last time I saw you you got married.
If I remember correctly, the last time I saw you
was on your wedding day. So it's nice to see
you again. What six years later, it's been a while it's.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Been a while to get married.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hey, how long you been.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
About that? It was in two thousand and eighteen, twenty nineteenyeh,
I write before COVID.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's the first time I ever met you, and the
last time I.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Saw you, I stopped counting.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's been good. How's Mary life treating you?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
I up some down like I went through. You know,
COVID kind of did some damage in my relationship, me
being stuck in the house, working in a house because
I'm a teacher, so teaching online, switch teaching online. Don't
have contact with my students, I don't have contact with anybody.

(05:37):
Everything's closed. I need my freedom. So like I talked
in my book about feel like in cage all the time, Well,
COVID did that to me and I kind of it
affect my relationship. So we had to take some time
apart and came back together. And after there is a

(05:59):
lot of things I had to work on myself. And
now we've been back and you know, the communication is
the key in a relationship and working on my Yeah,
but we're still work on myself. I still do therapy,
I still I have my medication, but I still I

(06:21):
keep working on myself every day because it's facing your demon.
It's a battle Adhd. It's a battle about everything's a
challenge in life. When Adhd, it could be time to be, people,
could be work, could be time, could be season because

(06:42):
we can talk about that season. I know when I
know winter's coming for me, that means prison. It's prison.
So August, I'm starting to feeding it and I'm feeling it,
and I'm like, I mean, it's no more motorcycle. And
I'm getting anxious and anxiety. I mean not anxious, but
I get anxiety, and so I have to That's why

(07:07):
I got into dancing. I do ballroom dance and selsa
to like. I go to events in the winter. I
dance almost every night. I have to stay busy. I
try to forget about winter.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Do you take classes or do you teach them?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, I take classes. I teach dance at school on
my lunch break though. Yeah, I teach my students and
my lunch. I don't have lunch. I teach all dan lunch.
I dance. I eat when I teach, and so I'm
ready at lunchtime to teach dancing. So kids love it.
So I have to keep my mind busy all the time,
which can be a problem too. I don't I don't

(07:45):
have a rest moment. So that's what I'm working on
right now. I need to be present. That's what I
talk in my book too, about being present. And we
can talk about that.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, after book, for sure, that's gonna go back to
something you said mentioned the COVID everything damaged your relationship.
Can you describe that a little bit? What do you
mean by that?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know, my husband was able to go to work,
to his office, so his life didn't change. His life
didn't change, which my life completely changed, which I had
no First, I love traveling. I couldn't go anywhere. Second me,
I'm a teacher. What I do and how I'm successful,

(08:28):
it's the contact, it's the relation, not relationship, but the
chemistry I have on my students. I didn't have that,
and it was hard. It was really hard.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
And because you guys are always right there together like
all the time, like morning, day night exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
So I was working, I was cooking in my kitchen,
I was working in my kitchen. I was like I
was there morning and morning tonight. And the gym I
work out every day, and the gym close I had
to work out at home too, So I was just
I went, I don't know, I went. I went crazy.

(09:07):
So I couldn't. I couldn't deal with life anymore. So
I became miserable and very impatient. So I wasn't a
nice person anymore. And I guess I was not an
happy person in a relationship and I didn't. I was
not nice to him, and he got fed up, and

(09:28):
so we had to.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Did he feel the same way? Was he getting impatient
and just felt like he was trapped and kind of No,
do you feel the same way as you?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, he's very mentally stables. I'm the mess. I'm the mess.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Because some people when COVID hit, right, some people were like,
oh my god, I can't stay home. I can't be
nobody wasn't home and him, No, his life didn't change. Yeah,
his for some people, they just accepted.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
They're like, okay, no, no, no, because his job was
kind of you know when they're when some you know,
like when if you work in the hospital, you had
to go to work. So when.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
When nothing changed, he still had to go.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah. So his business was still reading running, so he
was going to the office to work. It was so
he was a bully, so his life didn't change, his
lifestyle didn't change. Was ratin for him, same routine for him.
But me, it was like, oh yeah, and I took
it hard. I took it very hard.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
It was definitely a learning lesson. Right, you learned a
lot from that experience and brought you guys back together after,
so it has a happy ending at least, right.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, it was hard relationship. Yeah, it was hard. And
I know, I know I'm not the only one because
you hear stories like that. COVID did a lot of
damage in the society. Yeah, I don't want to get
to that.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
So you wrote here on your motorcycle, which, to be
honest with you, I thought you were a avid cyclist,
a bicycle rider, so I was impressed to see your
motorcycle pull up here.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
So now if my friend here that, if my friend
hear this, they're gonna be like, what, No, You're never
going to see me with a bicycle helmet, That's what
I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
So you never rode I'm not to say you never
rode a bicycle, but I didn't. Riding was never. You
just want to ride motorcycles.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Until you buy a car. Yeah, yeah, when you get it.
Do you have a car, Yeah, I have to because
my bike. You can ride a book, my motorcycle in
the winter.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
To me, motorcycle riding this is just me obviously the
idea of it's scary. Obviously not to you.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's scary.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's scary because it's just you're out there. Well, you
hear about all the stories, right, there's it's easy accident.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
People die in crossing the street. There's people die from
cancer every day, that's true. There's people die from eating
bad food every day. And people still eat bad food.
But it's okay. But don't ride a motorcycle, you know, So.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Do you get that a lot to people question you
whenever you say, oh, I ride motorcycle, and people say, oh,
it's not safe.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
You wouldn't believe there's a story. I as soon you
ride a motorcycle, as soon you stop somewhere, you put
your kicks down, you don't even have one foot on
the ground. There's someone come and talk to you. They
like your bike, they question, and because I have me
my dog on a bike, so they question and blah
blah blah, and all of a sudden you hear the

(12:19):
story of their life, or they know someone that knows
someone that died in a motorcycle accident, and oh no,
my wife won't let me get wine, or I would
get wine, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go so fast
I'm gonna kill myself on my blah blah blah blah blah.
I'm like, just you.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Could write a book on people who told you the
life stories about their motorcycles that have nothing to do
with really anything other than their life.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Sometimes I think, like, do you have a sign on me?
It's like, please tell me your life.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
We must be approachable, even on your bike with your helmet, yeah, yeah,
something to attract people to to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah. But people, yeah, they see you actually when you're
I was so when you're like, let's say I ride
a lot in the United States, and when you're just
across the border, it's not when I you've further, like
last year, I went all the way to Tennessee and
and it's wherever, especially because I ride by myself as

(13:20):
a woman. Often I write with my husband, but most
of the time I ride by myself. Yeah. So, so
let's say I go to I go a lot to
Vermont Ium Chair and in Maine, and every time I go,
I get women approaching me. Oh my god, sorry, oh
my god, you Wade Alonge was your husband? Well it's

(13:45):
not in my bag. It's like it's not in my
back bag. Well, because oh my god, do you have
a gun. Do you have a maze something? I said no,
because because woman on a motorcycle, you don't see that often.
But I just tell them, I said, have you met
a French teacher in vacation? Trust me, we don't need
a gun. Nobody nobody mess with a French teacher in vacation.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So you should wear that as a sign French teacher vacation.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But no, I get that ask a lot, and especially
with your Ontario plate. People like oh my god, you're right,
and like yeah, the worst, the worst question I get. Okay,
they see my dog, like, oh my god, it's the
dog right with you on the bike. Well, she didn't
run behind me. I get that every day, like.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
They're surprised that she can stay there and I jump out,
or that you might lose it.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, no, that the dog end up here one time.
The dogs in or carry on my bike. Is that
your dog? Well I hope. So I could write a
book about comments and question around a motorcycle that people tell.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
You should a whole diary and every little true stories
of the road or something like that.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
And you want to be nice because people are just
you know, they just try to find a way to
come and say.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
But sometimes people just like that's my question too, is
like how do you deal with these people? Do you
like try to keep the conversation short and sweet and
get away? Do you?

Speaker 1 (15:08):
It depends how I feel like a celebrity. It depends
how I feel. Seriously, I'm on a lot of pictures
and a lot of video, especially like I'm at an intersection.
I have people asking me, do you mind if I
take a picture of my Oh my god, let's go.
I'm used to it because of the dog, because of me,
not me, it's me ya. They don't care about me,

(15:31):
well some man. Maybe depends what I wear when I
ride when it's hard, I wear a little top. But
it's more media, so date.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's still cool.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
They're like, oh my god, it's so cool. Oh my god,
can I take a video? Oh my god, my wife's
gonna look. Oh I get all the stories. I'm like, okay, whatever,
I haven't seen a TikTok with me on it that
I haven't made. I'm like, oh my god, that's me,
you know, because people film, I'm like, I must see it.
I'm going to see myself.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Sometimes it's just saying people film a lot of stuff
and then they never use it like this, it's so cool,
and then they just stays on their phone forever.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, my husband does that.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Picture everything pictures stays the pictures of his food, pictures
of it.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
So you never rode in the winter time Canada winter time?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
You ever? You can't? You can't, you can't. There's no
winter tire for motorcycle and isn't true.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I've never seen a bike.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
But no, you're gonna slide.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I guess that's true.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Have you ride a bicycle and on on ice? I have?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, it's not fun.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
So how was you ride? Wonderful?

Speaker 2 (16:35):
I guess that's true. It's never I've never seen it. No,
I've never seen. I've never seen a motorcycle in the
winter time.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Have I Maybe? I know? I love challenge. I must have.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm pretty sure. Like with a salt on the roads,
I mean, I'm.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Sure you can't go to high way. You can't do
that and even you know what, I'm sure I rode
like in spring in and fall like I started in
March because I'm crazy because I missed it. But I
dress really warm and because I have a g yes
bem WGS twelve fifty, so it's full equipped, like you
have to eat it had all and I where they

(17:05):
eat it best, and this and that. But still you
wear so much layers, which is not fun. But yeah,
so when the temperatures below seven degrees, you don't have
as much traction traction on the ground, so when your
turn it's dangerous. And in a spring you have to
wait for a few rain day to wash off the

(17:26):
salt because the salt that's what damage you're enjoined.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
So so yeah, but where's the farthest you've ever traveled?
Furthest iout having to take a plane.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I went everywhere without taking a plane. I went to
was last year because I go to United States a
lot every year, all the way to Main. I love
the Main. And you can ride without your helmet. It's nice.
Oh really, Oh yeah, it's not every state that require
an helmet. You have to check, but some states you don't.
It's not mandatory to wear it isn't that dangerous. Well,

(18:00):
if I ride on highway, I will put it on
because the wind anyway in the dust and yeah yeah.
And but when you're just like in town or right
by the ocean and you know it's nice, You're just like,
it's it's so much freedom. People don't understand. But it's

(18:20):
the freedom. Yeah, it's dangerous, and I'm like, you know
what it is, what it is? Oh, yeah, it was
last year I did the East Coast. I went all
the way down to Virginia Beach, and after I turned
to North Carolina and I went to Tennessee and I
was supposed to keep going all the way to the

(18:43):
west in California and go up beasting stuff. And it
was too hot. Too hot, And good thing because they're
starting to get a lot of fires west and the
flood right after I left North Carolina. There is a
lot of flood and the road I took, so I
was like I was there. It was good timing. Where

(19:05):
when I went and where I went at that time
was good timing because if I would have waited a week,
I would have been too late. So yeah, so but yeah,
that's the further I went down and after I did
a PI, I did Nova Scotia. That's nice. Yeah, oh,

(19:27):
that's very nice. And at the end of June, I
was supposed to go west to Montana and after BC Alberta,
and everybody was discouraged me. The fires are starting, there's
the quality of air is bad, and things like that.
So I'm like, oh no, I said, okay, you know
what I'm going down. I'm going to see my friend

(19:49):
in Florida. And for four days I rode in fifty
plus degree I thought I was going to die one time,
and I said I was in Virginia and I said,
that's it. It's too dangerous. I was scared to lose
me of eat stroke and myself. I said, if I faint,

(20:09):
I dropped my bike. I faint, it's going to take
you on my dog and where I'm going to end
up and who's going to take you on my bike?
So I so I went back up to Pilston, Pennsylvania.
So I went back up and I was home and
I can't stay home. I need to ride. So a
couple of days I was home and I'm like, in
twenty four hours about a ticket to go.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
To Sweden, just like that, on a whim, I'm gonna, yeah,
take my bike. You didn't take the bike on the plane,
didn't ship it over.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I didn't ship because it's too expensive now used they
used to have a program with Air Canada, and now
it's too expensive. So I rented a bike therell.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Because you couldn't stay home. He's just like, I gotta go,
I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta go Sweden.
Why Sweden? What made you?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I have a friend that lives there in Lund, and
I'm like, I'm going to go visit her, and I'm
going to start from there and go do my trip.
That's why I decided to go to Sweden, because I
didn't know where to go because there's so many places,
and people like, don't try to do Europe all in once.
I'm like, you don't know me. And it looks everything
looks close when you look on the map, But once

(21:12):
you're there and you're right, it's another story. Foreign language.
Nobody understands you.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Do you speak any of you speak Swedish or anything?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, with my accent just right in English. But they
alsoeak English. Therewen Sweden and Denmark. They speak like they
learn English young at school so so.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I've heard you.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, so yeah, that's how it started. So that's the thing.
Last summer I did the same thing too. I come
home from a trip. I'm like, God, it's nice to
be home, nice to go to my gym. And I
wake up one morning, Oh, bed, I'm going to Maine tomorrow.
What yeah, I mean, or I'm going to Nova Scotia. Act.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
This is your husband. You're telling them I'm going here.
I'm going It's like I'm going into Russia.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
It's like Russia. But yeah, so this week took me
everything not to go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
So how does he feel about this? Yeh, has nothing,
but you're your husband. He doesn't like he's not with
you on all these trips. He but he has to
go to his office. He can't just pick up and
go to Maine, Virginia, Sweden. Okay, we're good, Okay, Okay.
So yeah, he's scared that you when you go on
your own, But nothing's too scared. Has has anything when
you've been on the road. Has there been ever been

(22:32):
an instant where he felt unsafe or scared?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh my god? Last year, Oh my god, you can't
see it on my Facebook. You must have seen it.
I'm talking the eighteen will. The eighteen will. I was
in bos and I was I went to spend a
couple of days in Quebec City and I was on
my way to go through Bows and Quebec and go

(22:55):
to Maine. And that was the beginning of my trip.
I just took off and I'm going to an intersection
and I see the big like truck to eighteen wheel
on Quebec and it's the small village. There's nothing going on. Okay,
there's that truck and me coming behind, and there's houses
like it's a village, very quiet. So anyway, and I

(23:17):
see him and I see him, and I'm like, okay,
he's going. So I'm coming. Because usually you stay far
and you wont you won't, you won't make sure the
truck sees you. But he's he's going. So I'm coming
and I'm going close because in my head, by the
time I stopped, there is already.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Gone, like beside him or behind him.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Behind him, And all of a sudden, I'm there to
do and I'm fully loaded, like with my luggage, my
bag's everything. So I'm over a thousand pounds okay, wow,
And I have my other Yorkie bebey. It was three
pounds and my tank bag in front. Okay, So all
of a sudden, I'm like, wait a minute, the truck

(23:56):
is backing up, and I'm like, I'm on my tip
toes on my back, so I might try to back up,
but the truck caught up to me faster than I
could back up. So and they can't hear me, like
with the noise and the window and my two shirt
and no cars is there to tell the truck to
stop backing up intersection? Yeah, So all of a sudden,

(24:19):
the you know, the middle bar behind well on my
will and after I started crushing my bike. So I
was getting crushed under. So I'm like, or I'm gonna
die under this truck. So I had their reflex. I
just I just jumped off my bike like like Marville,
you know, and I jumped and I ended up in

(24:41):
the most street and I was like waving, I stop, stop, stop.
So she saw me. She stop, and I was looking
at my bike and I was in shock. I was
in shocked because in my head I thought I was
going to die. And second it rode my vacation. I
don't know. So anyway, so people stop the cup come
and then the two wings and whatever. They took care
of me. So we deflated the tire to move the bike,

(25:04):
and I went to a mechanic, and the mechanics like,
you know what, it was just cosmetic damage. I was lucky.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Why was she backing up?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Oh? She was a new driver and she didn't feel
like she had enough room to turn right, so she
decided to back up with no signal, no noise, nothing.
So by the time I realized she's backing up, but I'm like, whoa.
So even if I was honking or screaming, she couldn't hear.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Me there or anything. She didn't even think to like to
check behind me the vehicles, Like no, no.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Because imagine if there was like a car and another
car another car, they cannot They wouldn't have time, so
she would have just ran into all the cars. So
she was accused of dangerous driving. So she probably lost
her her licensres for trucks. For sure. She's dangerous, poor girl.
I was more mad at well, I was in shocked.

(25:57):
There is a woman stopped by, like can I help you?
And I'm like tick my phone, my cards, my entrance, everything.
I don't know what to do. I'm gonna go sit
there and I didn't know what to do. So the
lady just because I was in shock, and I had
like old women come in, like older women, send your
women coming out of their houses, because you know, I

(26:18):
was the action of the day. I'm pretty sure I
was in the news that night. So they took care
of the bay. My dog and I had babysitter, and
I was like it was fine. And and I called
Dan and he's jumping his car. He's like, I'm on
my way. I said no, no, no, just wait, and
it's few because I'm in Quebec. I'm close to I'm

(26:39):
I'm closed to Quebec city. So yeah, so I just wait,
just wait. So you drove like an hour in a call.
I said, no, no, no, the mechanics good. I'm keeping I'm writing,
I'm going on my trips like what I was like, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm nothing's going to stop you, nothing's gonna stop me.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
I had a lot of peace missing in front, but
I'm going well, so it was yeah, yeah, and yeah,
so I got it repaired this winter.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
So it wasn't that much damage on that day compared
to what you described it. The way you described it.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I was scared of the wheel would have been
crushed and nothing, and I was lucky in my bed
luck but but uh oh yeah, But the thing is
I had to I was going to Maine, I was
going to Camden, and I had another four hundred kill
a mite to ride. So I had the PTSD from

(27:33):
that moment and my head coming back. So I had
to snap out of it. So I went to that
hotel and I booked two nights in a row because
I needed to park my bike to clear head, clear
my head and just start fresh. Yeah. Oh yeah, it
was traumatizing, but.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
I didn't turn you from wanting to ride or keep
riding and keep going. You still go out there because,
like you said, things gonna happening.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Nothing scares me, but I stay away front trucks.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, a truck ahead of you or coming behind you
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
But I was scared for the first the rest of
that season, A few times I ended up being even
in Ottawa, I ended up behind a truck I had
to pull I was having anxiety, anxiety or panic attack whatever,
and I didn't feel good. I was like and I
had to pull over on my bike. And one time

(28:27):
I start crying. I start crying and my husband was
with me and he's like, okay, I said, I just
need to let go that truck. I need to come down.
So it took me a.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
While memories of what happened to make times PTSD.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
And when I came back from that trip, I stay home.
And after I left again and I was crossing downtown
Ottawa and I had those big trucks each side of me.
I said, okay, this is a test. This is like
and you know what, I made it. I handle it.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
And that was Its good. When you're over in Sweden,
how was the driving over there?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
It was so nice. It's an adjustment. Yeah, it's an
adjustment because traffic or yeah, it's just the signage. Everything's different.
Nothing in English, no, no, but it's so well, the
signers so well.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Like illustrated like they have.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
You can get lost. You can get lost, like let's
say you put on your GPS where you want to go,
and you know, because you know sometimes here they said okay,
next down it's this, but you don't have the sign again,
so you're like, okay, my turning here, I didn't see
the sign again there. It's like not once I was
lost and.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
The town names too, like they're in Swedish.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
So in Sweden you think you're at Ikea. Okay, yeah,
every name you see on boxes and items.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
The street names.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Towns, and the town's all the town's names. It's the
your items at Ikea. My hey, I built the dress.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
With the dresser of the town.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, that marks the same thing. Germany too, Yeah, and
nothing's in English.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Surprise though, I figured with the amount of tourism they have,
especially in Germany, in the population or even in Sweden,
there must be some English signage. But very surprised because
of Europe. I mean, there's so many different language speaking people, right,
so I'm kind of surprised.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
You think so too, But no. I even met on
a ferry uh sweet into Denmark. There's few because I went.
I took the ferry with my motorcycle and all the
motorcycle parked together and I'm like, oh, I can chat now.
There is five riders with GS because GS, GSAGS, BMW

(30:46):
are popular there compared to Ottawa. I didn't see another
woman riding that type of bike, like I'm sure there's
but big like my bike. It's not common. And even
on the Quebec side or maybe more wet in US.
In US too, it's more early divits in and sports
bikes stuff like that. Yeah, so I'm like, oh, yeah,

(31:08):
there's people, there are bikes on the boat. I'm I'm
gonna chit chat. It was five Italian men not once
speak English.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Like wow, kind of surprise.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Surprising for Italian.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
And you know when people drive those bikes, they're comfortable financially, right,
So you know those man's are have a good job
or business. You think they speak English too.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
They have like a job. Maybe it's international or.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Something something, and I know, especially the world travel all
the Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Maybe not. It's a business that has a lot of revenue.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Who knows. It's surprising they speak only Italian. It's like
it's rare today you see people that travels a lot
that only speaks one language.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
So we mentioned the book earlier.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Talk to me.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Uh, it's I guess it's a journal, right basically if
you're a diary of your travels. What's it called? Is
it out yet?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, it's published on Kindle and I want to I
want to put it audio to I just haven't done
it yet because I write all the time.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Are you going to void the I know you can
do what you're writing. Are you going to voice it yourself?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
No? Because my English? No, because it's in English in French. No, No,
book is in English. The book. I wrote the book
in French. I got it translated in English. What's the
what's it called in English? It's Scandinavian note Book, A journey,

(32:41):
A journey of.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You don't know you're asking me read?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
It's because I just changed them. I had the subtitle
because in French it was too different from the French book.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
So I think it's called always Running, always Escape.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
What was it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Always is. I don't believe this is hitting you.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's in French.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, yeah, Well for me? What let me see what?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Where's what you sent me? That's what I was asking?

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, so Amazon, and.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, So what is the name of your book?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Scanden in English? Scandinavian Notebook, A journey through adhd and
back to myself?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
So why Scandinavian? Why not? In the title? Did you
start it there?

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yes? I started in Denmark.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I start to write it there.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I started to write it there.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Now what made you decide to start writing and write
it there?

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well? I want to write a book for a long
time because I what diagnosed. I was diagnosed with ADHD
at forty and all my life I was different. All
my life, I knew there was something. I was always
different from everybody, and I was I was always the entertainment.
But I was always in trouble because of that because

(34:04):
I have no filter. But I didn't know why. But
it it's very People laugh, people think it's funny, but
I was in trouble. Then I allowed jobs and it
affects my relationship. It affects a lot of things and
any and when you go somewhere, you're a tornado because
I'm not hy. I have no filter and I have

(34:26):
a lot of confidence. So when you arrive somewhere and
it's it's disturbing. So as a teacher and as a teacher,
I was always even when I start teaching, I start
teaching late. I started teaching at thirty four, and I
was like the stuff I was doing, I was ten
years ahead of my time. And I was always in trouble.

(34:46):
Why you do this? Are you? Are you? Are you
respecting the curriculum? Are usually respecting this? I'm like, yeah,
I do it a different way. Teaching elementary school, like just.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Every subject like that, Yeah, every su its school French category.
But you went outside the curriculum or this, or you didn't.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
No, no, I used the curriculum. But I teach because
I teach with How can I say I teach with project?
I teach with When the kids become a leader is
in the center of his learning process, you know, and
I'm going to give him all the tools and subject

(35:27):
everything he needs. But I'm like, this is my expectation,
and I want the students to develop. Is like let's say,
is leadership, is creativity, is self confidence? Is confidence too?
Is the self sorry self esteem? Confidence? Self esteem? And
the collaboration because people need to learn how to work together,

(35:51):
you know, and it's okay to accept and work with
different ideas and things like that and communication. So I
use that a lot. And sometimes I don't know, I
have to teach certain things in French and I'm like, okay,
let's start with that book. What that book means? Okay,
can we create a book? Can we and mix that
with a painting that would be the cover of your

(36:13):
book that you know, like it's always ideal.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I outside there are complaints about you doing that, then
the parents, not the.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Parents, not the students. It was always my colleagues I
disturb in school because some schools, some people do the
same thing all the time. So what I was always
accused is you make dear people look bad. I'm like, okay,

(36:41):
but I love what I do. Kids love it. See
the progress. You know what when the parents tells me,
oh my god, it's the first time my kids wake
up in the morning and you can't wait to come
to school, that's my job is done. You know. I
know it's a big deal. But I was always called
in the principal office as a teacher, what are you

(37:04):
doing this and that and and so other teacher. That
means other teachers are like complaining about me because what
what is she doing and this and that? And now
the students wants to be with my name j Low
all the time, you know, but they don't.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Like that, and uh try to adapt, like the teachers
would adapt to not just your stole, but maybe bring
some of that ideas into their classroom.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
But it's it's not because they're it's not because it's
a bad it's not because it's a they're a bad teacher.
It's just because a lot of people are stuck in
that comfort zone exactly, and they're scared to try new things.
And I'm like, sometimes I try new things and it's
not working. I'm like, hey, guys, let's close this, let's
do something else. Is not my Name's gonna think of

(37:51):
something else, or hey, you guys have an idea, how
can we change this? You know what. Kids have way
more idea than we do, and sometimes they come up
with stuff. And sometimes when they come up idea, I'm like, oh, yeah,
let's develop from there and there and there, and that's
how it grows, you know. But some teachers are like, no, this, this, this, this,
so yeah, so that's why. But now I'm in a

(38:13):
school where I was welcome, but still I use a
lot of technology and social media. And I had a
principle was on my case every day. She's gone now.
But I had issues with every principle where I worked,
and they tried. I had a principle told me, you

(38:34):
know what, I'm tired to bring you down all the time,
and yeah, and this is how we do things here.
And I just got up and I look at him.
I said, oh yeah, watch me. And when I won
my first price of the teacher of Ontario. That's my speech.
I put my speech, it's on YouTube, and I talked

(38:56):
about him not saying his name, and I was talking
to a lot of people in the audience that they're
paidagog to their teachers, and I'm like, don't ever let
anybody tell you you too much. You know what. That's
amazing because that's what I've been told since I'm a teacher,
that you can't do that. You take care too much,

(39:18):
you care too much, you do too much, you make
us look bad and this, Oh my god, how you
do this? I'm like, I never stopped anyway. But I
didn't make friends. I don't make really friends in teaching.
I have colleagues that I talk to a long you have.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Their respect, and people you respect them, they respect you.
You don't need to be best buddies.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Exactly, but when you live at school, you kind of
become friends and you talk about personal stuff, you know.
So yeah, so no, I have, I really have. I'm
happy at the school who I am. And the new
principal she's like me, She's like, what's next, Let's develop
some idea. So I'm like, finally, you know, so I'm

(40:00):
this year just past. I had the best year ever.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I had green cards, I had fun, and my ideas
were like wow, compared to before. Every time everything I did,
it was like never recognized. There always something negative about it, right,
Jealousy is really bad in education. So anyway, I don't
want to go there.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
No, it's good. I appreciate you, uh elaborating on all that.
How long of how long you've been teaching for? Is
this something you always wanted to do?

Speaker 1 (40:32):
I always wanted to do. I always wanted to do
an ye, always want to be an edicator. I was
six years old and I was even my.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Ele this class. I could run this class.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
No, but I was. I was always up until I
was a nature I was. I was that model student.
I was bringing all my stuff from school and play
teacher in my room and nice. Yeah, so that's what I.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Was doing, taking the barbie and a candle and make
it having it.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
No, No, I had imaginary students. And apparently I don't remember.
I don't remember, but apparently my sister. No, No, my sister.
I have a two and a half younger sister, and
she talks about stuff sometimes and I'm like, really, I
don't remember apparently I was sitting her down and giving
her own work and she had to do the homework.

(41:21):
It was like summertime, and I was like the house
I do remember.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
What's that Marie? Okay, that's amazing. So you're basically living
in your dream your dream.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Job i'd love to teach.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Is the specific subject do you like to teach or
is it just you like the whole curriculum?

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, because I integrate them together. Yeah, like social studies.
You can mix them with friends. She can mix science
with everything. And yeah, so I like, I like to
teach everything. I'd love to teach a board. Been looking,
but it's broad, like a broad Yeah, but it's really hard.
It's it's hard and the pay is bad. And where

(42:10):
would you go? Do you have that in mind?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
If you wanted to go, like in the US or
across like in Europe or Russia.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
No, you and your Russia. You don't have to. I
would fix somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
English as a second language, you could teach those courses,
or even French as another language.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, but there's less French in the world than in English.
So because I was trying to escape winter, I was
looking at teaching let's say Caribbean or Florida when it's
when it's really hard to find a job down there.
So so yeah, but I'd love to teach teacher like

(42:49):
go to university and prepare them because I found new
teacher and not prepare for.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
New teachers for kids coming to university.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
No, no, yeah, the teachers are going to like when
you do your first bachelor and now you're going to
do your Bachelor of education. I found when they start
teaching in school, they're not prepare of what's waiting for
them because it's not like it used to be. Kids
used to sit there and listen.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
It's not this anymore.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Too much. You have you have to exactly. You have
to be an entertainer. You have to be more interesting
than YouTube and TikTok because they know them all. They
know all the songs. So if you know the songs
and the challenge of TikTok, you're a cool teacher.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Oh they love my bike, the scratch from the trailer.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Oh no, I show them all. They they have my
YouTube channels, so my students can follow me on my
YouTube because they're young, so they don't have a TikTok account,
not TikTok Facebook account, but their parents do so parents, but.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Kid has a TikTok account. Most kids don't have Facebook anymore.
That's kind of.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Yeah, but they're young. This is element to.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
School, an old man's.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
But they love you. Kids love you too, so no,
and I just show them. I just share them my
pictures and they love to. And sometime we go outside
when I go to work with my bike, so they
come and see my bike. So it's pretty cool, pretty cool. Yeah, yeah,
they want to, but I want to go ride with you, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Find room with my dogs and all my stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
I don't think your mom's gonna be happy with that.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Cool mom or dad, or maybe they ride too.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
You can.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
They can come and tell you what they think about
your bike. And their whole life story is about writing
their parents.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
The book that you're writing or have written, it's just
about your travels. It's nothing about your job as an educator.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
It is nothing.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
It's just strictly about your road, the travel.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
That would be another book. So my book it's not.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
An autobiography by autobiography biography, yeah, autobiography.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
No, it's really it's really what I went through a
realization and went through my mind as ADHD and my
always want to escape. I always want to go. I
always want there's always something else better, there's always a
better job somewhere, there's always new challenge, the dopamine, the
chase of dopamine all the time. So when I was

(45:19):
in Denmark and I was like, you know what, and
I cried. I cried. Few nights during my trip, I
was alone. No, I couldn't I couldn't look at my shows.
I because the network, you know, you don't have access
to the same network. My Netflix plan wasn't working. I

(45:39):
had nothing. I was alone with my own thoughts, which
I never do because ADHD, your brain always works, and
there's always music going on, there's always I don't do
meditation because of that. I don't want to hear my thoughts.
I don't want to. I don't want to really, I
don't want to realize the moment. I don't want to
be in the moment. That's what I'm trying to work

(46:02):
right now because I cannot just enjoy the moment. It's
always like what's next. I'm doing something, but I'm always
ahead of my time. It's always like that. So it's
very intense and it's hard. And if I'm bored, I
cry and I become really aggressive. So that's hard on
the relationship. I'm impatience and I get mad, I get myself.

(46:27):
I have to do things that I like. So the
motorcycle helps me a lot. But in the winter, I
don't have a motorcycle. So so yeah, So when I
went there and I was alone, nothing to do, and
I was crying, that's all the shotto. I stop at
one shotto and I mentioned it in the book. It
was beautiful and I'm crying, and I start writing it.

(46:49):
And I started writing it and I was like, and YEAHS.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Come out right there.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Because it was the moment. Yeah, it was the raw.
It was right there. And I had to explain what
I was going through because you know, sometimes you see
TikTok because there's so many doctors on TikTok and scientiststok.
I know, I know, I know, And and people are

(47:18):
even doctors or people write they write books about ADHD.
They don't have it, you know. And people I help
a lot of parents because they come they come to
me with, oh my child just got diagnosed, and and
and sometimes I approached your parents about it, and I'm like,
you're wondering, what's going on with your child. This is

(47:40):
how your child feels right now. And people think of
DHG is just about forgetting your keys or forgetting what
to do this right proactivity, It's it's so beyond that.
It's inside. It's so much going on. It's like ten

(48:01):
eighways crossing each other all the time, mix with searching
for dopamine, searching for happiness, searching for the moment you know,
and in all the sound estimuli around you, in the

(48:23):
expectation of the society that comes in like, yeah, but
I want to go there and do this and do this. No,
but in society you have to be at work at
nine and finish at four. Yeah, but my brain's there,
Like I'm building a business in my brain right now.
I'm a CEOs. When I take my medicine in the morning,
I could run. I could be a CEO of a

(48:43):
company I don't even know. Like that's how our brain works.
We can multitask, we can do so much, but it
comes so overwhelming that sometimes you just want to escape this.
You try to escape because it's too much, and now
you end up like that's what I'm writing in my book.

(49:04):
I escape there because I thought that's what I need.
And I was there and I realized, oh my god,
I have it good at home. I want my roots.
Want you know, you want to go back to your roots?
You want Okay, I'm good. I want to this then,
and this is all like crying and you know, like
it's it's a lot. It's a lot, and it's hard

(49:26):
to explain. So imagine for a child they're going through this,
who can explain, Like you can explain, they can explain.
So that's why some people with ADHD works well without medication.
There's so many level different level and sometimes it's just
add like attention, you know, but it depends your level.
Sometimes you manage, sometimes you have you manage it, and

(49:50):
sometimes you need help like I do. So for me,
the medication ground me. So when I take it takes
forty five minutes and I feel it in my brain.
I feel like it's like it's like the neurons are
connecting and I filled it tickling and all of a sudden, okay,

(50:14):
let's do this. But when I don't take it, I'm like, okay,
I'm going on my bike. Oh no, I have to eat. Okay, yeah,
but at the gym. Oh my god, I don't feel
like this, but I have to do this. Okay, but
my bike, Oh my god, where I'm going today? Okay, Okay,
I'm gonna go there on my bike, but I don't
feel like going there right now. Okay, I'm gonna go there,
but I'm going to turn around because I want to
go there. But yeah, but I want to go. Oh

(50:35):
my god, Oh my god, summer's almost over. I want
to go. That's what's going on my head. And that's
just a minute of it. So it's very tiring. It's
very hard, and that's why it's hard when you're a relationship.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, so you got this diagnosis when you were forty.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
When I was forty, that because my job, my principle
which did back then, tried everything for me to quit
my job. So she called the HR and I had
to go meet the HR and the school board. I'm
like whatever. My therapists like, just say yes to everything

(51:15):
they tell you. Past your eout because you get evaluation.
You get evaluate like every every whatever year. Yeah, so
they said, just passed because we go to rape. It's
when you want to change school. So said just say
yes to everything, pass your evaluation, and get out because
it was affecting me a lot because I was never

(51:37):
I was never doing anything right. So yeah, so I
was like, so they send me to HR so I
always remember that woman changed my life. And she's like, yeah,
I talked to your principal and uh she was younger
than me too, And I'm like yeah, she's like here
because when you get higher the school board, your past testing,

(52:02):
you know to know your personality to you know the
character personality, your force and weakness and stuff like that.
So she put it down. She's like, and that is
a long time ago. And she's like, see, you're very
dominant in and I said, and I talked to your
principal and why I asked to talk to you because

(52:23):
I see you. I see me in you. And I
was like, whoa. We talked for two hours and she
gave me a card of a psychologist. She's like, that's
who I think. I think you have ADHD, but she
can't say that because we're not a doctor. Nobody can
say that. So she's like, you have symptoms like I do,

(52:43):
and if you get an evaluation, go from there. But
I suggest just call this psychologist. And I did, and
I went, I got my evaluation. During my evaluation, almost
broke the computer. That's how bad it is. Because the
folk because like my attention, it's seven minutes so and anyway,

(53:05):
I can go on and on. So anyway, so when
you after that, he reads the report evaluation, the evaluation
report after is figured out everything. So I said, so
do you have the tourettes because it's like no, because
I because me, there's some I think about something and

(53:29):
I'm like, don't say it. Don't say no, it comes
out because i'n't filter the part in my brain, the
part in my brain, the filter doesn't exist, right. So
that's why I always wonder why people think it's funny.
But when you're professional, because you can't tell the truth anymore. Me,
I don't lie. Don't ask me when I think about something,

(53:50):
because you're gonna know what I think. So be careful
what you ask, what kind.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Of listen to my questions? So you said you got
diagnosed when you're forty. Now I'm going to ask you
how old you are, but basically in the forty eight okay,
so in those eight years you've probably learned what works
for you, what doesn't work for you, what your triggers are.
Do you feel like you're good at managing that better?

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Now? Yeah, let's say I go somewhere. Sorry, I'm in public,
because it's public. I have to be careful right exactly
when I see something I see. I'm going to give
you an example. I was, I'm somewhere in a lineup,
you know. Ye Sometimes you hear stuff and I see
that woman that mother, she's like, doesn't I'm going to

(54:31):
be polite.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Okay, say what you want?

Speaker 1 (54:34):
So am I? So when I see a situation, And
that helped me with the medication too best because I'm
going to remind me to explain you if you had.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
To try different medications. I assume too, that was also
part of the questions. You had to try what work
but doesn't work? They weren't always successful, but.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
The medication helped me to think and to the clarity
and find okay, don't do this. So now I know
when I see a trigger, I go somewhere else because
if I go there, it's going to turn into a fight.
That's what's gonna happen. And what stopped me too is
like I don't want to lose my teacher's license. If

(55:12):
I fight that person, I want to lose my teacher's license.
But I get to I go from zero to one
hundred and one second when I get mad.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Now, are these based on situations that are directly affecting
you or just things you see around.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
You, around bother you, around me that don't.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Really don't really personally attain to you. Do they still
affect you?

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Yeah? But now I can cut it. I see something,
I don't get involved. I'm like, what's the point. What's
the point? And I don't let things get to me anymore.
I don't want to get mad. So I'm like, I
see things and I saw people tell me to f off's.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Direct If someone's directly telling you something, yeah, But if
you're overhearing someone else fighting or someone's being annoying around you, I.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Go somewhere else to go that. I go somewhere else
because I said I'm not getting involved.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
So there was a time a mother you want to
finish that.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Though, Yeah, So I just I'm like, I was in
a lineup and I just told Dan, my husband, and
I'm like, and he knows, he knows, is like I said, No,
I'm gonna wait for you over there, because I know
if I was staying there, I would have gone in
argument with that woman because that's what she was looking for.

(56:19):
What was she doing, No, she was just trying to
provoke people around her because her child was acting up
and people were looking at her, and she was like,
what what you know? Like you know that kind of people?

Speaker 2 (56:30):
What are you looking at?

Speaker 1 (56:31):
What?

Speaker 2 (56:31):
It's not my problem, your business exactly.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
And as a teacher, it's hard, it's hard to see this.
And another example this week, I'm at a beach somewhere.
It's Calm Family Beach and Westport Family Beach. Calm. There's
a van coming with two person with no common sense. Okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you detail. So anyway, the

(56:56):
music full blast day, smoking drugs whatever, right beside where
all the families are sitting. So I'm like, don't go,
don't go, don't go. That's gonna be bad. It's gonna
be bad. So I see other women, I'm like, ladies,
can you told them? I don't want to go. So
my friend went. So she went, and I heard them

(57:19):
saying telling your calling your names and stuff like that.
She just asked to put the music down. I said, oh,
you don't treat my friend like that. So I'm going,
but I'm going knowing be careful. And the guy it was,
there's no way you could sense him. They just took
off anyway. But they called us every name you can imagine, okay,

(57:43):
and I just stay there and I just smile because
I know I'm not like that. What's the point of
fighting with a person who doesn't make sense? So see
that's what before I would have been like, I would
have probably opened this door and jump in the you know,
but I just I don't let people. I don't let

(58:08):
no sense affecting me anymore. It's not worth it. It's
not worth it. I'm just like whatever, whatever. Anyway, it's gone.
That was the purpose. It is gone. So what's the point.
Let's it's over. It's over. So that's that's my goal. Now,
don't get involved with things you can do nothing about it,
and don't let things get to you. We let everything

(58:31):
get to us.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
We get it's hard.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Is hard.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Like I said, stimulation, there's so much comings, so much
reason to.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
And and the world is crazy. People are crazy people,
I know, people are overstressed. People are crazy and I'm.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Like thinking for themselves, selfish, making their own decisions, lacking
common sentence, and go on forever. But that's the whole
book there too.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Yeah, and I'm happy with my life. I have everything
I need. I'm like, you know what, you're miserable, your
miserable life, that's on you. See. Yeah, that's how I
think right now, there you go.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
That's good. So so before we wrap this all up,
let me ask you one thing here, So what is
coming up for you as far as you're writing your
book or teaching? Do you have anything else that you
want to accomplish coming up like that?

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yes? I always want to accomplish something.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I know, a goal that's you're working on now, or
is any of those things or something else?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Yes, So I want to keep writing because now it
was hard for me to start writing because it's a DHD.
You always want to start a task because too big,
you don't start it. So now I wrote it was
just a small it's under twenty page. It was just
about what I was going through for an ADHD, not
to write a book of fifty page and whatever. It

(59:46):
is just something to even when it's going to be
audio to listen, you know, and my next it's I
want to write something about ADHD as a teacher and
things like that, and I want to talk about motivation
and how to to work with a DHD and motivation
and all this stimuli and the world is society of

(01:00:07):
how we work and stuff like that in my goal
right now, and I want to do conferences.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
That's my next people all over the world and kind
of basically everybody or is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Just I would probably start in Ontario, but I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Saying, well, in Russia. Yeah, you can do in Russia.
Why don't you start there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
But no, what I was saying like, maybe if you
go online and you're doing this, or you can connect
people throw over the world if you want to, but
on a smaller scale. If you want to do an
eastern Ontario that's like I want to see how big you're.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Oh no, oh my god, th big?

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
You know what Russia?

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
I don't want to go there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
I don't have to go there. Zoom we have a
zoom then we have a thing called zoom now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
But I know, but I want to be on stage.
I want to connect in person. I want to do
like feel like that's better.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
You need to be live in front of somebody to
really get your to get your point across or or
or can you Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Because I want to talk with people. I want to
you know, like and situation.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Is online through a zoom. It doesn't really you don't
feel the same connection. Now, I can't put yourself forward
like that now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
And two and because me, I was like, oh my god, people,
I know that, like when you're going to do your
woman show, like a stand up woman show, because I
always has something stupid to say about everything. But it's
just I could do a conference tomorrow. Give me a microphone,
give me a subject. I'm going to talk to you
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
You know, we just did it for an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
I know it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
It's just you lead the conversation, but it's context.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Yeah, but apparently I need to put it together, which
that's what it's hard. So I'm like, okay, if I
start writing and I have my idea, I already did
a course one on one about conference, so I have
all the base. Now I need to put it together.
And what's next. It's because I've been looking online. I
need a mentor. I'm like, okay, now it's next, let's
do this, you know, like guide me and what do

(01:02:04):
I need? Okay, Okay, So if I want to say,
let's say I'm doing a conference that date, I want
to start advertised. What do I do? How do you
I do? I need a mentor? And I contact couple
of plays. They didn't go back to me. So I'm like,
maybe if I start writing few things.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Show them what you're doing, what you got going on exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
So but that's my next I want to talk to people.
I want to people to understand what we're going through
because it's more and more out there and kids, there's
more and more kids diagnosed in school, and so many
people don't understand. It's not just about sit down and

(01:02:47):
focusing and finishing your own work. It's not just about that.
It's about your well being inside. It's all start there.
How well you are inside so you can function, you know.
And sometimes it's borderline. Sometimes you think you going through
a depression. No, it's just because you have nothing exciting, excited, exciting,

(01:03:11):
exciting plan today. No, no, no, it's my life is over.
It's boring. Okay, I go online and I'm going to
start looking for a job something somewhere. Oh yeah, in Africa,
let's go. Yeah, it's crazy like this because you need this. Yeah,
I get you, and it's very hard. It's staring.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
One last thing, you mentioned YouTube channel that you have.
Can you say where it is so people can find
you and check it out you want to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
It's about my motorcycle. I have one on my about
my teaching. My teaching is with so you can find me. Yes,
in my my YouTube channel for my motorcycle, it's a
teacher Underscore Moto Underscore ride.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Teacher Underscore Moto Underscore Ride.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Yes, got it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
People go check out your YouTube and see what you're
up to. Do You post quite often on these Yeah
when I yes, people can check out. There's a lot
of content there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Yes, Yeah, there is some fun and a few places
I went sometime I talked explain sometimes it's just a video.
I do motage and I started again my TikTok I was.
I had a TikTok teacher and I had like over
one hundred thousand views every all my things, and that
principle that's gone made me take everything down.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
And I had author I was in that school right
and they didn't want to know I was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Doing because I have a tutoring business too, so I
do tutoring too, So I have a lot of things,
and I do a lot of things. So I had parents,
I had teachers, and I had author contacting me because
I was using their book for certain activities, so you know,
and she she made a complaint at HR. So I

(01:04:58):
was in trouble all the time. Every time I was
I was posting. So I just took everything down. It
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
If you're on the road somewhere and you see jose
make sure you say hi and.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Te pay miss j Lo and with me on the back, Yeah,
stop and tell your life story because as we know,
she loves that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
But be quick, Yeah, but be quick a bad she's
got to go. Thanks for doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
He You're welcome. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
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