Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference.

I'm Anika Jackson back with another episode of your brand Amplified

and I'm so thrilled to be here with Tyler Foley today.

Tyler, how are you doing?

Oh, I'm doing really well, other than what you and I had discussed offline about doing the most typically Canadian thing that I could do as a hockey goaltender take a puck to the throat a couple of days ago. The good news is I made the safe.

But it has definitely altered my voice in a very unique and interesting way for the last three or four days.

Yeah, well say that you are dedicated to your craft

no matter what you're doing.

True story, true story.

So you are a film and stage performer.

I mean, you've been acting since you were a child.

You've been in a lot of movies, TV series,

and you've taken a pivot.

So I want to hear more about the background

and what you still love about being an entertainer and then the pivot that you took for anybody who's listening who might not be familiar with that side of you.

Yeah, so as you'd mentioned, a child, for almost 20 years, I started on stage when I was six and then got into film and television in my later teens and did what most people do when they've been in a vocation for 20 years and I retired.

And I went back to school, got an engineering discipline, and started my own business in

photogrammetry.

So for anybody who doesn't know that's Earth

pictures and picture maps, so if anybody's ever turned on satellite view on Google,

that's what I did. I stitched those pictures together in what are called orthophodes and that business was going to be my retirement plan.

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