From Circus Laughter to Healing Hearts: A Journey with Scott Ertl

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of

Hope Without Sight with your host Saylor Cooper,

and this is Tyler Evans.

And this is episode 45. Now at podaPalooza,

we're doing episodes back to back. So we have I never posted

on here his name was Scott. And here's his bio

that his top title is helping positive messages always live to

the top. That's what we do here. Our audience is entrepreneurs,

Coach college students and military families and people in

recovery. So well, bio. Well, I perform comedy magic and

juggling the circus for nine years, I eventually ran away

from the circus to join a school to work as a school counsellor

for 22 years. And both jobs. I saw the power of human teen work

along with the consequences of addictions and depression, I

created a buoy app to help everybody keep positive

messages, easy to access for quicker inspiration. When you

feel like you're drowning and sadness and need of a pick me

up. Yeah, we need that. So please welcome, Scott. And

what's your last name?

Is Ertl light turtle. Thank you, saylor.

You're welcome. Welcome to help you outside. So

tell me, let's go back. How did you get started in this realm in

this space?

Great. So as a school counsellor, I saw how so

many people really just need some encouragement, and some

reminders, that life is endurable, that they can get

through it no matter how impossible it might seem at the

time. And something as simple as an encouraging word, or a nice

card, or positive voicemail can be enjoyed over and over and

over. You don't have to get a new message or new email or new

card every day. It's great to be able to reuse. It's like the

ultimate recycling by being able to enjoy those words of

inspiration from family or friends over and over when you

didn't most.

Yes, guys, I would send a lot of love, love

notes to family and friends as well. And we can use the same

love note again, because it's always there. It's always in

your back pocket, you can access it easy time.

You're so right Saylor. Yeah.

So um, tell us about your successes, like how

have you impacted the world.

So like you had said in the introduction of military

folks are really in need of extra encouragement. Many times

they are away from their family or friends, whether they are

deployed in service, or they're just in training or bootcamp,

they're really missing their family and friends. So the fact

that we've had over 4000 suicides in the United States,

from actually over 12,000 suicides in the military, from

suicide, since 911, shows that their PTSD when it's treated or

untreated, it's really hard for a lot of folks to function. So

my goal is through the Billy app, to be able to help help

military folks especially be able to get those words of hope

and encouragement, when they're feeling kind of down or sad,

whether it's two o'clock in the morning, and their their

extended network, or asleep or away, or it's during the day,

and they're just embarrassed or ashamed to be able to reach out

for some help. But if they had a positive voicemail, positive

email or video that they're able to enjoy in their time of need

instantly could help them get out of that spiral or that funk

that might be in the military folks. Good.

Yeah, cuz military. Yeah, has a lot of

people come home from military, they come home just wounded not

just physically, but emotionally too, because they experienced a

lot of trauma in the military. Yeah.

And other populations that have seen that

need some help, or folks that are dying in hospice, and

they're wanting their family and friends to be able to have

something that they can hold on to, because those voicemails and

text messages can get lost. So the Billy app is a quick way on

their phone, to be able to store all those positive messages

before a loved one dies. They're always be able to hear that

their parents or grandparents say that they love them, that

they're they can do whatever things might be hard for them to

do, and to hear those positive comments from that person after

the person passes. But they'll be able to always have that

message for them. Because, like voicemails for folks that like

voicemails, they're able to even overlay an image have that

person to be able to see that picture of that loved one while

they're here in the voicemail at the same time if they don't have

a video?

Yeah, that's so cool. So Billy, how do you spell

it?

It's bu Oh, why? The Billy up?

How what made you name that buoy?

Because I feel like sometimes we're all drowning in

life. And we need something to hold on to, to kind of give us

our breath, and our sense of hope and encouragement to

remember that. Okay, now it's time to let go and get back

swimming through our life instead of feeling like we're

going to drown.

Yeah, everybody, please, please show it download

his app, because you're doing phenomenal work. Because Tyler,

do you want to share with Scott what we're doing?

Yeah. We're doing what's called the blissful life

community, where we basically tell people, Hey, you can go

from hope without sight, meaning hope without hope. Pretty much.

It's a metaphor, because you know, we're both blind. And we

use hope outside as a metaphor, because, you know, we're blind.

And of course, it's not always metaphoric. Sometimes there are

blind people who feel they have no hope, because they can't

drive and stuff. But we you can go from that blissful life. And

it's not only the boastful life community we're doing, which is

paid. We're doing the lift your spirit party. Yes, it's unpaid,

which is free,

it's free. And it's gonna be my free gifts as

well. With all I'll be able to free gifts. So I do want to put

some information in the chat right now. If you text I

haven't, I have a number you could text to. If you text my

contact information will also be here. If you text bliss, to

832-481-6806 You can start living a blissful life.

That's beautiful.

Yeah. Okay. Here it goes right now. So yeah, text

bliss too, 832 481 6806. Every too 832 481 6806 To live a

blissful life. So what got you into this headspace? Like? Were

you struggling with all this stuff yourself? Or what?

Yeah, I think so many of us are, I think

everybody truthfully, you know, has times that are down. And

when I was in the circus, I saw lots of performers who are

battling with different addictions, or alcoholism or

depression. You know, in when I was a school counsellor, I saw

lots of teachers and parents also struggle with depression

and addictions, and just self doubt. And I thought, how would

it be if we didn't have a free app, a free way for everybody to

be able to store those positive messages when they need it most,

you know, so they can get that encouragement that they need,

without having to interrupt other people. Because, you know,

might be at two o'clock in the morning, like we said earlier,

or it might be the 10th time that that person, your support

system isn't always gonna be available to give you that

encouragement 10 times every day. But you can listen to their

message 10 times every day to get you through those spots that

you might be struggling with yourself.

Wow. So does it have audio a text messages as

well, that app?

It has both you're able to have audio, video or

text messages or voicemails.

And you you export them from your phone and

you save them in the app? Right? Right. Right. Wow, I can't wait

to download it. Is it just on iOS or Android as well?

You can do both. So our website is called the

buoyapp.com The B UOY app.com. And you can there's links to

both of those platforms, we can download it directly instead of

having a search for

Wow, the buoy app.com I'll definitely look at

it while I'm Wow. Scott, you and I could be a great team because

if you join the blissful life community, you will have so much

fun. It's still in development. We're still undeveloped, we're

still developing it. But you will have so much fun together

for you join because you and I were doing very similar

work. Oh yeah. Well, I'm so blessed to be a part of

your community sailor and thank you for the opportunity to get

to meet both of you guys. And just wrap up the great work of

what you're doing to make the world a better place.

First show before we go before we go

Go ahead. A customer customer requests we

ask every on all my guests is how do you how do you respond to

people who feel they have no hope?

What should wait what would you say? A people who

are struggling in life now.

How can you be of service? How can you help today?

And what can you do to lift somebody else up? How can you be

a human booty for somebody else, whether it's kind message, a

kind word, a smile, or just opening the door for somebody

else, whether it's a physical door that you hold for them, or

introduction that you do to help somebody else get the help that

they need.

Wow, beautiful. What's the what's the buoyapp.com.

That's right. Saylor.

Question. I'm sure you didn't develop it

yourself. You didn't. You had help. Right? That's right. Yeah,

none of us can do it on our own. Well, thanks so much, everybody.

Give it up for Scott. Enjoy the rest of your day at podaPalooza

and stay blessed everyone be blissful.