Well, hello there and welcome with this episode of the Terry Cole show. And it's had the most

fascinating conversation with someone who I've known for a couple of years. I've always been so

interested in what inspired her to do the things that she's done. She's an entrepreneur.

She's a celebrant. She's an end-of-life dula. Her name is Amber Salsbury.

And her whole life basically has been marked with this deep fascination with people and their

stories and the rituals that shape their lives, which very similar, honestly, to the things

that I'm interested in my life, people and their stories.

So she grew up with parents

who exposed her to all of these diverse cultures. She lived in India, Sri Lanka, and the

hills of Tennessee, all culturally so diverse. But this fostered her curiosity about human history

and the intricacies of different societies, like which she further explored

through her studies in psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

Driven by this desire to make a meaningful impact, she became a celebrant, performing weddings

and funerals and baby blessings and other rites of passage. And then her role as an end-of-life dula allowed her to combine

her coaching skills with her passion for celebrating significant life events from the beginning to the

end of life. So when we were talking about it, she was talking about how, you know, she would help

couples and then they would say, will you marry us? And then they would say, will you do a,

you know, a birth blessing? So it was almost like she started working, coaching people, and then it

turned into all of these other things. And so much of what I was so interested in in this conversation

that I had with her is how different, you know, her perspective and how different cultures

honor wellness, honor life,

and honor death. And we all know that in North America, definitely the U.S., we're not the best

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