LJ Tyson #16 Finding Your Voice: Music, Recovery & Purpose

What happens when music becomes more than entertainment—when it becomes a tool for healing, connection, and purpose?

In this inspiring episode, Cody Demerais sits down with musician, storyteller, and community advocate LJ Tyson for a heartfelt conversation about resilience, recovery, creativity, and the power of giving back.

LJ shares his personal journey through music, the influence of family on his life and career, and how his passion for teaching has led him to bring music education to communities that might not otherwise have access to it. Together, Cody and LJ explore how music can create hope, build confidence, and help people find their voice during some of life's most challenging moments.

Throughout the episode, listeners will hear powerful stories about perseverance, purpose, and the importance of staying true to who you are. Whether you're an artist, entrepreneur, someone navigating your own challenges, or simply looking for inspiration, this conversation is packed with valuable lessons and encouragement.

In this episode, you'll discover:
🎵 How music can become a powerful tool for healing and self-expression
🎵 The impact of mentorship, community, and giving back
🎵 Why your story matters—even when you think no one is listening
🎵 Lessons from recovery, resilience, and personal growth
🎵 Encouragement for aspiring artists and dreamers to pursue their passions

This is a conversation about finding purpose, overcoming obstacles, and using your gifts to make a difference in the lives of others.

Because sometimes the greatest impact we can make isn't through fame or success—it's through the lives we touch along the way.

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Music Intro and Outro:

Track Title: City Of Angels
Artist Name(s): LNDÖ

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Life is Limitless Podcast. I do believe this is episode 16, and we have LJ Tyson here with us today. A musician, a great human being, a friend of mine. I'm thankful and honored to be able to share a conversation with him and whoever may listen to this podcast episode today. Thank you, LJ, for being here with us today, brother.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

I'm excited to be here. Thanks for calling me a good human. That's new.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Oh, come on, man. You you and everyone I know around you are good people. So there's that shows a lot about, you know, just your your aura. Let's go with. I appreciate that. Of course, buddy, of course. So I got a little intro that I'm gonna read out here. Uh so for those who don't know you yet, they're gonna get to know you a little bit better. Raised on Saskatchewan highways, small town halls, and prairie sunsets, LJ Tyson brings heartfelt storytelling, northern humor, and country soul everywhere he goes. Blending raw honesty with good humor or good energy, and his music feels like late nights around a fire. Long drives around across the prairies and songs sung loud with friends. Proudly Saskatchewan made LJ Tyson is all about community, connection, and keeping live music alive. One hometown show at a time. Boom, mic drop, hey? I'd like to do that, but I don't want to wreck my mic here.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

So Mr. LJ, um, I've had the privilege and opportunity to hear a few of your lyrics, your music, um, you know, at multiple events that we've came across each other where you're doing your thing, I'm doing my thing. And if anybody hasn't heard you speak or sorry, sing or play your music, um, it's a 10 out of 10 recommend coming from me to to get people to listen to you. But please, besides, you know, that right now, tell us a little bit about yourself, LJ.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Well, I don't know, man. I am a consistent work in progress. I grew up in Prince Opera, Saskatchewan. I did a whole bunch of music. I um always working on new music. That the music is kind of the main running thing in my life, no matter what I do. Um and yeah, I've just done it for a really long time, and thank God um people keep inviting me to do things because it kind of at this point in my life has become my lifeblood. Like I whatever every time I think, oh, I don't have this, I don't have this, I'm not here where I want to be. You know, there's always consistently music. So I just always kind of leave it on that when people, you know, tell me about yourself. Well, other than the music thing, I'm kind of really boring. Really boring.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Well, honestly, man, you're you're a go-getter when it comes to the music life. I know that for sure. Can you tell us a little bit about the background, like what what got you into music and how long you've been playing music for?

SPEAKER_00 3:32

I had such a hard time talking about this until like maybe a year and some ago because I come from an extremely musical family. Um, my late grandfather, um, his name was Lawrence Joseph, and he just like was an icon of the indigenous music scene, of the of the music scene. And um he kind of led our family through through life, um, giving back to the community through music, through volunteering. And so he um everyone in my family kind of took on a bit of his um volunteerism or musical gifts, and uh and it just trickled down through through the bloodline. Um my mom is uh is an amazing um uh volunteer first and foremost, and then uh a musician, and uh my dad as well, so I kind of had no option but to do the whole music thing um growing up, and I'm just like I'm so proud to be from my family, but I think growing up I th I had this like I was too aware of of sometimes when people would um be like, hey, come do this because nepotistic value, you know what I mean. And so I I I and yeah, until like my grandpa passed away, I was kind of just like, no, my name is LJ Tyson. Let's not worry about last name, let's not worry, you know what I mean? Like, let's just let me do my own thing for a long time. But yeah, I uh I owe everything in my life when it comes to music to my family. They taught me everything and they gave me everything. I was really lucky.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Yeah, well, that's awesome, man. I know you guys often play as a a whole family crew a lot of times, too. So I always love getting a chance to see that. I'm like, every time I walk by you guys when you're doing your thing, I'm like, man, that entire family is just doing their thing. I love that. Yeah. So how many years would you say that you've been involved in music?

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Um, professionally, I just hit 15 years. Fifteen years? I know.

unknown 5:40

I know.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

That's incredible. Can I ask? How old are you right now again? 32. 32, you say? Why'd you whisper that? I'm 32. You don't have to be ashamed from that. 15 years and 32 years old.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Yeah, man. I uh I I uh started out like um doing little tours and recording music around the time I was well, honestly, yeah, around 17. And it was just it was kind of like a hobby and a fun thing to do before then, and it and it still is, but um that one is my buddy uh Steven Williams, who's in this band called Southwest, and then my buddy Zach Kerr, who's now in this band called Cupid's Heart, we just kind of like hit the ground running, and like we're we thought we were like punk rock stars, and we we acted like it. Yeah, and um and that was my first kind of dip in the waters of uh figuring out this whole thing, and and like in retrospect, we knew nothing, we were having fun. Um, but still to this day I I uh I think back on uh starting out, you know, trying to make some cash, doing music and writing songs, and uh and I just think about Zach and Steven all the time. They're kind of just like they permanently sit right here, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

That's beautiful. Well, you guys you know started a big journey together and that all three of you now fair fairly consistent are playing music, correct? Like we're just talking off the mic that you're just hitting a a crazy busy season right now for doing some traveling and some music. Whereabouts are you heading around?

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Um, we just got back from a little run in BC. We ended things off at um the Tiny Lights Music Festival. It's just like gorgeous music festival that happens in um a little bit south of uh oh god, Nelson, BC.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

And it's like this whole town turns into this music festival site. And I just think that's the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. So it was a nice little uh nice little thing to go to. Um I've got a few local things coming up. Um I play in this band called Former Lovers, and we're at Art in the Garden. The next day, my solo project, LJ Tyson, the locals, are at R NPA at uh a mountain bike festival. I think that's pretty snazzy.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

That's cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

And and then uh and then family band stuff throughout the summer and more former lovers stuff, and it's just I don't know why I bit off of this much, but I like it. It's good. Well, it's good. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Well, we're just you know talking off camera too, that we both, I think, are very heavily involved into what we do, and I think there's a a pull to from both of us as we're just chatting off camera that this is who we are, and you know, we've witnessed and experienced other things that maybe pulled us and roll in different directions, but you know, when it comes to a a healthy alternative to where things could be when you have a a drive and uh addiction to something in life, I think you know, doing what we love to do for people and inspiring them and giving them good vibes, good energy, I think that's that's a gift to be able to do that, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:55

That's what I say, dude. Like I really genuinely mean it. Like, thank you when you were like, oh, the a good human being, because I I've spent so many I still I genuinely don't feel like that. But I every day try and do something that not that I'm seeking redemption for all the F ups of my past, but like I I got in a way I guess I kind of am because I just like did not feel like a great human. I feel like I was like this like weird, awkward kid trying to like navigate and like really figure out who I was throughout my life, and along the way I just made some horrific choices and started diving into some really toxic patterns, and then like at my late mid-20s, I was just like, no more, like none none of that. And that that's when I started what I call like digging myself out of this like hole because that's what it felt like for you know 10 12 years of like active addiction. I was just digging and digging and digging and digging, and every time I thought I found that rock bottom, like it just didn't happen, and I would sink another level lower, you know. So nowadays I'm just like nowadays I'm just trying my best. I'm just trying my best to like be good with myself. I really I I honestly don't care what people think about me at this point, or um or if someone has you know seen me in my addictions and seen how like crazy I used to be. Um however I do care about how they view me right now in this moment. Like I don't I I've kind of started to let go of the past and I have a lot of like sorrow and remorse about it, but I can't do anything about it. All I can do is all I can do is make today better, you know, and that's that's really really really what I've spent just the past few years doing is trying to make today better. You know, take things as they as they are and and don't really worry about um the things I can't change because there's so many excuse my language, but like shitty things that I I I can't change, to be honest with you. Yeah, you know, and that's been a a big part of my um recovery is just like accepting that. And like there are I'm sure opportunities that I've messed up, and there are um you know, things I can't say, things I can't do because I actively worked against that part of myself for so long, and now I'm just kind of well, I'm just grateful for what I have, and I really am grateful for what I have. Like, I hope it never comes across like I'm trying to be like um oh, look how hard I worked to get here and all this stuff, because that's just not the case. Like, really, really it is just like I stumbled here, and now like at this point in my life when I'm 32, am I now, you know, starting to put the building blocks to actually build some something where I could um have a stable life and give back because you know that's the other part of my um recovery of it all and acceptance is like so many people gave me grace, so many people um welcomed me with open open arms and um really helped me start to begin the process of forgiving myself, and I it did come from an outside source, like I'll be honest that validation of it all, and uh now I just want to give back. Like I really just like no matter what, in any kind of way, like whether it's someone really resonates with the performance or with music or I can donate or volunteer time, like it's just it's that's where I'm at right now. Like, I you know, I think there's this misper misconception um about local musicians or about regional musicians or whatever that we're like trying to level up and get to like the big time, but like honestly, a lot of the ones that I've run into and a lot of the ones that I work with, they're it's a community thing at this point. You know, like I I don't know that there is um that you can have like a career in music if you're if you are actively trying to hit the big time because people can sniff that out really quickly, especially if you're doing it for the wrong reasons, you know.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Um so it has to be about giving back, or else why are why else are you doing it? You're kind of just spinning your tires.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

You know?

SPEAKER_01 13:28

No, I can resonate with that, man, and I I truly do appreciate that for sure. Um it's a fine line of walking that path for sure, of trying to make sure you operate and run a you know a successful business where like you get paid for this, you cover your costs for this, this is how I can live, and doing what you love and making sure you're doing it for the right reasons and stuff like that. Right. But I've always came to find, you know, if you do something with love and compassion and heart, everything else kind of falls into place. Right. And I've I've found that a true, you know, believer since I've done what I've done for a few years as well. Too. Anytime I start squirreling away, just whatever reason, you know, pressures, external forces, whatever it is in life, you know, to ground yourself and get back to why you do things, the reason why you do things is always truly the ground and experience that a person needs to keep moving forward. And I I love that you said, you know, you're a work in progress, I I'll admit, so am I. And you know what, man? I think the rest of our lives we will be a work in progress, and I think that's a beautiful place to be in too, because once a human being stops believing that they can take in any new information and new resources and that new experiences and new knowledge, I think that's when we just kind of hit a wall in our own lives, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yeah, dude. And like I have to say, like speaking about giving back, like that's what you're all about. Like you you know, every time I've seen you out in the community, you're always doing something to give back. You're always sharing your story, you're always helping someone in some some way, shape, or form. And and that's the kind of stuff I think should be appreciated more. You know what I mean? Like people really gotta start highlighting those people that are are giving up their time away from their family or um, you know, sometimes losing out on losing out on doing something else where they could make a little bit more because they choose to go do the thing that their heart's calling them to. And and you're all about that, dude. So that's why I'm really honored to sit here and talk with you today. Because I just um honestly, I feel like it's been a long time coming. You know, we've been in each other's orbits for a minute, but like we haven't, we haven't, other than uh yeah, running into each other here and there, like we haven't really gotten to um sit and chat. So yeah, no, I'm honored. I'm a big fan. You know, I wear your merch all the time. I think I wear your merch more than any other brand.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Well, I appreciate that, brother. And don't get me wrong, man. Anytime I hear you or your entire family play music too, I I'd like to stop even if I'm trying to speed walk somewhere and get wherever I'm going. Like, yeah, I gotta take this in for a minute. So it's uh the feelings mutualed, man. I appreciate that, brother. And like yeah, like we were saying, um, you know, we're working progress. Like I I fall off track, you know, a few times here and there and stuff like that. I think we all can. But you know, it's uh it's an interesting world to navigate when we are not doing always the nine to fives, you know, you're doing something that your heart desires and that your, you know, your mind just w works around it. Like you were just saying off camera that your life is music, right? And then you said on camera, life is music as well, too. Sometimes, you know, that obsessive just want and need and desire to chase those dreams is it can be a tough obstacle. But man, when you come across people like yourselves, your family and stuff, and um, you know, it can be kind of um a tough world to navigate a lot of times when you're trying to do your thing. But coming across people who are on the same path, maybe in just different circles and different lives or whatever, it's always nice to connect because you know we might be doing two different things in our lives, but we can understand where we intersect and where we connect where another person's going through. So I've always had that appreciation together for sure, my man.

unknown 17:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Um so music for 17 years. You've got to experience you say 32 like it's a bad thing. I'm gonna have to look at my age if it's a bad thing after this with that face expression that you gave after. No, but uh 17 years, man, you must have experienced a lot of different ups and downs and ebbs and flows with 17 years, eh? In the music world.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

Dude, like drama, flat tires, getting trying to track down money at the end of a gig, you know what I mean? Um begging and borrowing for money to get to gigs when you know times are tough. Yeah um cancelled records, um records that got zero streams, everything, dude. Like, right to the point where it's like, oh, I'm this is a good thing right now. Like, I'm you know what I mean. Like there's been so many times when something um good has been happening in in my career or something, and I just like did not still don't take the time to appreciate it because I'm like, no, the next I know what I know how this goes, like the next thing's gonna pop up here really quick.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Yeah, you know, I can understand that, man. I I can understand that. It can be all smooth sailing, smooth sailing, and then a little hiccup for sure. Speaking of flat tires, I literally hit a flat tire yesterday. So I'm right on board with you, brother. The ups and the downs.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Well, when you use your vehicle for work so much, like it just you don't realize how much something like that can kind of just like mess up your scene, mess up your game, even if it's just for a couple hours.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Um, I remember one time, oh, back when we were like first starting, me and the boys like when we started branching onto big communities, and we kind of felt like you know we were killing it. Yeah, but really we just like got invited to play it as in Duck Lake. But I don't know, we we were like uh almost there, and then we're just like, Yeah, we're rock stars now, we're playing outside of PA. Yeah, um, and I had just gotten my license and uh the tire went flat in I think I was boring my grandma's car at the time too, so that was even more cool. Yeah, and uh and my dad had to come bail us out and like change the tire and everything for us because we were like three little emo boys that didn't have any idea how to do that. And little did I know that would be like a recurring theme, like right till the last uh um little random shows I did out in BC, like I had flown out to BC a week before my bandmates because uh my sister was getting married um out there. Yeah, and uh so the guys were gonna come meet me, and so I get dropped off in Kelowna, and the guys are maybe like an hour out of Kelowna, and a mudslide stopped them from being able to. So I'm like stranded in Kelowna, and uh the guys are if they drive all the way around to come get me, like it adds it's a nine-hour drive. And they had already been driving from Saskatchewan to come meet me there.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

So uh I had to jump in with like, and I mean this in the most like humble way ever, like three hippies in like in their touring van because they were heading to the same festival, and I'm just sitting there and I'm like, Again, I'll say the number. I'm 32, and like here I am with people I've never met before, driving through the mountains, like I don't they could kidnap me, I don't care. Uh and like and then I'm still doing this, and I it was just like I I thought back to that moment with Zach and Steven and Doug Lake, and then I thought you know, to the moment a few weeks ago, and I'm just like, really, nothing was gonna nothing can keep me from this. I don't know. Every once in a while I'll be like, well, I'm done. I'm gonna go use some of my schooling that I've spent time doing and go do a nine to five, but I can't, dude. Like I uh you know, I'm 32, I'll be 62, and probably still telling you the same stories about being broken down and surrounded somewhere. You know, like I I can't stop. I can't. That's my addiction now. It's this music thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Well, that's beautiful, man. And you know, like we were sharing with each other that you know the the alternative to where we used to be with addiction is now something that's productive, it's positive, it's good for not only ourselves, but everyone we come across and everyone that we get to connect in this life. You know, and what an experience. I mean, you could look at it as like, oh, this is like a tough day. Don't get me wrong, getting, you know, getting stranded for a minute, not a not a highlight of a day all the time, but you got to meet three new people that you've never met in your life before. You got to have a little road trip that isn't uh you know, on a regular schedule for yourself. And I'm with you, man. Until we're both the same age right now. And I've told my wife this over and over again. You know, a lot of people really look forward to that day where they're, you know, 55, 65 and they hit that retirement mark with their pensions and stuff like that. And I love that for those people who search that out. But I told my wife if I can be 80 years old standing on a stage one day or doing some workshops, whatever it is, and if I can, and my brain functions at that time still, my body allows me to do it, that's what I'm going to do. You might be sitting somewhere retiring, but I I think that's what I'm going to want to do when I'm that age. And you know what? Those tough experiences about flat tires, broken down vehicles and all these things that come in between those events. I think there's a a fine a fine line of experience between you know doing what you love but also knowing that you might have some tough obstacles to get to the other side. It's almost like a constant test to see how much faith, how much willingness you are to put in your your creativity and what you're drawn to and what you're pulled to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

No, I just like thinking I'm like you say like oh doing this when I'm 82 I'm like same probably honestly but that's honestly like sounds horrible at that time. Wow but I don't know dude honestly like my my late grandpa he literally worked and he was like I don't know I guess I can like share this now I don't think he's he would mind. But he got really really sick at the end of his life and he really tried to hide that from people because uh you know he just wanted to be himself and he wanted you know and uh like literally up until like uh a couple days before he passed away until he got like very very very sick like he was working. Yeah and I don't know why but he did it didn't seem like work watching him. It seemed like he was just like doing what he loved and he was getting and he spent his life meeting new people and trying his best to help and do all this stuff and like man that's how I want to be you know like is and I know you probably feel the same way like we called it work and yes sometimes it's like dang and I gotta be here this morning and that sucks or I gotta drive five hours to get to this place today but it's like it doesn't feel like work when you kind of take a step back and look at it you know like every day we kind of we get let's be honest we kind of get to choose our own schedules we get to choose what we do and like that's a blessing dude like so many people don't get to do that and I I just always want to be so aware of like man as annoying as this can get as unpredictable as it can get like it's I I love it.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

I'm grateful for it you know you know what I mean no I'm with you man and I you know I think we're very mutual on the kind of mindsets and the feelings behind a lot of the stuff we've both been through the ringer with addictions and everything like that. And I think we both have a little bit of a wiring that we kind of like the chaos a little bit to be honest if if I'm being real here. I know for myself like there's times where I thought about doing maybe the old kind of line of work that I used to do. And once again not putting down that kind of line of work because a lot of people live their best lives with that. I just know myself I feel like it just wasn't meant for me. And I feel like I would do these actions in these situations in order to almost self-destruct my life into that world because I just didn't want to be a part of that anymore you know and I just as soon as I found this kind of traveling and speaking and stuff like that I've loved it so much that I have nightmares not being able to do it anymore to be honest. But when it comes to talking to some of my oldest friends you know friends that I've had since grade four grade five grade six who work you know they're great government jobs they have benefits they have you know um pensions and all this great great stuff for a human being especially with a family and all that you know I tell them my schedule they tell me their schedule and they tell me that you know no like I'm good I don't want that life like I don't want the ups and downs because I've shared with some of my closest friends you know I can be at a week where I'm going community to community to community and everything is cloud nine and then the next two or three weeks I hit a slow period where I'm just like okay idle hands as we were talking about off camera before it idle hands can be tough on a human spirit basically human spirit and that's kind of where I'm at right now but I know next month I have have event after event after event. So I think as somebody who is venturing so many different paths and so many different journeys I think we have to just appreciate and respect the different seasons that come when we're on this path for sure. We're gonna have the slow seasons, we're gonna have the busy seasons, we're gonna have the flat out seasons that we can't even catch our breath with and I think it's it's a roller coaster most definitely but it's a roller coaster I think that our DNA and our wire works really well with I think yeah and like like I said like it's like we really do get to pick and choose like even if it is a busy like we said yes to everything we're gonna do you know what I mean and that that's great that's fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

I know um I don't know there especially like within the past like since COVID I've just been like scared to say no to things almost I can you know what I mean I can understand that yeah to the point where it's like I had to get pretty I had to get better at scheduling like I just because I'd start double booking myself and I had never ever ever done that in my whole time doing this. Yeah um but it happened and then just like hey now I gotta learn how to like use the iPhone plug in dates things and stuff like that. You know what I mean? Because I usually I just write it down in a note somewhere and be like oh right I'm supposed to be there that day.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

But yeah no it's uh that whole COVID thing man that kind of messed up the everyone's entrepreneurial spirit a little bit like that. Um and it kind of it that changed the game for me a lot and I and that's when I started uh um thinking okay now I can do music this way or I could do music like this way like you know what I mean and I just like completely um joined every avenue that I could in order to keep doing this in some way shape or form and through that like I found my new passion which is um teaching music to places that don't have that don't have access to music education. That's super cool man like that's been my um I don't know that like I said that it it's just op awakened a new part of my brain of my psyche that I just didn't even know existed. Because like I said I've spent the past the better part of 10 years whatever um just thinking I'm a trash human being and so to get to um go into community or get to go into a school in my hometown and share music with um the next generation and they kind of just light up um that yeah that's a beautiful thing. I don't want to say it fixes something in me. Yeah uh it just uh it makes me appreciate a new part of myself that I didn't know it was there. You know what I mean? I didn't know I was uh um I didn't want to be interested in something like that. And so I always encourage people like um when you get to a certain point when you are in a position to start you know um giving back or interacting in a in a way where someone could in a mentor type role like think about it. And anyone can be a teacher anyone can be a mentor yeah um at any point of the day at any point of their life like you someone always has something to share and it's awesome when you can kind of focus that in and uh and start you know running a community program or you know going back to your old high school or going back to your elementary school and being like hey I'd like to you know contribute in some way shape or form because those are the those are the houses that built you you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Oh yeah. Man I I'll be the first one to admit I I did not get to where my place in life is by myself. Hands down I know that and I've always tried to remember that even if I fell off tracks here and there once in a while you know I've had mentors good wholesome people come into my life that have taught me more than I ever could have imagined into what I get to do. And I know it's changed my life and my family's life and I've been able to speak in front of tens of thousands of people because of those mentorships and you know those friendships and stuff. And you know doing something for 15 years like yourself man you know you might only be 32 for sure but you're at that season of life now where you have done something um you know longer than some people are alive to this day that might be interested in it. You know, which 15 years that's incredible that's a crazy amount of time and at only 32 I'm gonna keep drilling that into so you feel good about that age. It's a good age buddy but uh yeah 15 years of doing anything man you're no longer that rookie you're no longer that person you know that is kind of trying to figure out how you're doing things maybe with some other things in life but when it comes to playing music in front of people I mean you're a seasoned expert you're a professional and now to be able to get to share that experience with other people that's a absolutely beautiful thing man. I know I've said on this podcast uh multiple times and probably multiple episodes but one of my favorite quotes is from uh Denzel Washington he talks about how when you get to a place in life where you define it as success basically turn around and look at somebody who wants to get to where you're going and pick them up basically and his kind of analogy his quote that he ended that with is each one but each one and when you do that everybody kind of moves as a collective in a good way good shape good form. And that's a pretty cool way to be man because I know once again I wouldn't be where I am with speaking and stuff like that if I didn't have those people ahead of me. You know I I had people that I reached out to in that world who you know didn't help and that's okay. They have busy lives and that's okay. But then I had people that gave me every minute of the day that they could uh to help me and those are the ones who made a big difference in my life and it's cool. Now I'm you know this past week I think I've had three people myself personally that have reached out from all around Saskatchewan one person from you know close to Regina has been chatting with me for the last few weeks. One person randomly called my number but he was in a coma for a few weeks and he called me he was asking for somebody else I said no this is such and such he said well how'd I get your number I said I don't know and then I told him what I did because he's like what do you do for a job? I told him why I public speak I do and I go share my story and my experiences with people and he's like well that's probably why I had to call you and then he told me that he was in a bad wreck and that he was in a coma for weeks and months and stuff and he almost lost his life multiple times. And he's like I think I would like to do that. I was like okay well let's stay in contact now and he randomly called me and I think he was thinking he was calling somebody else but now we're staying in touch and see if he wants to pursue that in his life. So when you reach a certain point and threshold in your own life journey of doing what you love to be able to share that knowledge and that you know encouragement to somebody else that's an incredible thing.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

Did you see that person that's from Regina?

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Well I had one person from Regina who I've been telephone with uh for the past few weeks but then this person I think is around the Saskatoon area that unfortunately got in a bad car crash and uh yeah but I mean and we're you know in the Prince Albert and area so that just goes to show you around Saskatchewan to be able to have those connections and contacts with different people um that want to be on that journey as well too and just like yourself going to different communities to teach music that's that's a beautiful thing too you know it's not you're not only doing the work in Prince Albert anymore which is it's a pretty cool experience in itself.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

Or Duck Lake and beyond you know whatever half an hour drive or so yeah no man I uh weirdly enough I just met a dude in Regina after a gig and uh he was in a coma for like a really long time too I can't remember a few weeks etc or something and uh I thought I was like wouldn't that be weird if we just met the same person at the same time that'd be so strange.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Well maybe we'll share some names hereafter and see if that would be pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Yeah anyways sorry I'm the also people do not invite me to do this kind of stuff because this is how I talk.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Like I just LJ that's how I think brother so like okay we're we're mutual on that and I think that's why we do what we do man yeah which is cool. And you know what man so many people said when I first started this podcast oh what's it gonna be about and you know don't get me wrong we've had some common themes along many of the episodes but why does half why does anything have to be in one little box? You know I think if your mind if your joys if your appreciation doesn't come in one little set box why be forced into that little box you know I think when we're allowed to expand allowed to experiment with what you know drives us what ignites us I think that's when a lot of magic and a lot of good can come you know I think personally but you know some of your experiences in 15 years of you being on the road playing music with different friends family and all sorts of different venues I'm really curious what are s maybe a couple of your stories of your favorite experiences about being on the road I'd really like to get some feel good sound bites out of you for this one.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Oh man I um even before I was doing it and I was just kind of traveling around with my parents um we spent like a summer on a school bus we were touring on a school bus at that time super cool and so it was like me my mom my dad the band and then like um they do like this for people that don't know it's like a variety show sort of like voices of the north thing. So it's a bunch of Malta it's called Voices of the North it's like a variety show thing see what I mean I talk weird. And um and so it was like I don't know a backup band um that my parents were in uh and then like 10 10 different singers and then like me for some reason because like uh probably couldn't be left with a babysitter with my grandparents or anything um for that summer and uh yeah we would just we traveled around Saskatchewan in a school bus and I'm just like this is there's something to this like this is fun like I get to hang out with like my friends and we like went to a bunch of like summer fairs for some reason um because that's where they were performing at the time and uh yeah I just remember like falling asleep on a bus waking up in your home or falling asleep when you're somewhere else or like playing cards or um at the time there was like Game Boys at the at the back of the bus and uh me and Dakota Fable that's where we would we hung out that's where we became besties as kids as kids and um man that that's like my one of my first core memories of like I I kind of gotta do this. I kind of just gotta chase this and like I wasn't even singing at the time like I was very very shy awkward person. Um that hasn't changed um whereas like recently like dude and like yeah I'm coming around to like the 32 thing but uh just touring with this um like I've only been in former lovers for the past like two years um but getting to travel with them getting to record new music uh that's one of my that's something that I'll never get again I feel like is recording the first former lovers record um at like two in the morning in an old abandoned church in r random prairie on some random prairie middle of Saskatchewan um and just thinking like number one this is kind of spooky and there's gonna be a ghost in here number two being like man like that's one of those special moments I I remember just like hearing the natural reverb in the in the church as I'm recording by myself in the room and kind of just like coming back to life because I hadn't recorded music in a minute and like every time the reverb would bounce off the wall because there was a few times I'd just take off my headphones and sing. I'd be like man like I'm am I like real right now like what's going on mind you I had been awake for like 17 hours at that point because we had to hammer out a whole record in like five days. Yeah but it just became a thing and then like later on that night um me and my old uh bandmate she's uh moved away and left the band at this point but uh we still we still love her um Kayana Wirtz she's uh she was the other member of the band that was from PA we like wrote a song really quickly in the basement of the church and then came back up and like just me a guitar and her and uh a microphone and we recorded this like track that like no one's ever gonna hear it but it's just like magic dude like you kind of really can't recreate those moments sometimes and like that's that's why I say like sometimes I I can understand why people and I have been like that in the past where you want to like level up your career level up your career do this so you can do this and um I don't know something something along the way I couldn't tell you when it just changed when I don't you know I appreciate an audience I love an audience but I really appreciate moments like that way more like even even if it's just uh me and my friends on the weekend sitting in our living room and and just jamming and playing like the tunes that we played the same tunes we played for 10 years and just like singing at the top of our lungs like that's it and I um have just been trying to make in my head like my solo shows I'm like how do I make my solo shows feel like it's just one big campfire one big jam like how do I convey the what I feel when I'm sitting with my friends or when me and Keanu were singing at 4 a.m in a church or when like I'm alone by myself just shouting at the top of my life how do I convey that feeling on stage because when you hit that wall when you pass that curtain all of a sudden I'm not like just like boring me anymore. Like I can feel myself putting on a character and I and so like now I'm in the position of like I don't I don't really want to do that anymore. I really just want my joy of music to come across times a hundred you know what I mean because I want people to feel that I want people to know like you don't have to not everyone has to be doing the same thing but I feel like everyone to the best of their ability no matter what the circumstances should try and contribute joy into I don't again sorry spend a few hours in a van with some hippies recently no but in the un in the universe you know like that's that's that's what we can do. Not everyone has not everyone can can donate to every fundraiser not everyone has the cash to like sponsor this or do this or do this but everyone can contribute a little bit of joy to someone's life every day and have that and have that energy exchange whether you just be like hey I really like your hat I um really enjoy um the way you work or the way you know something something nice I don't know just like something nice for everyone every day I think that would do people a lot of good like because I well you are too I was just gonna say I'm from this place I forget where I am right now right now. But I like I think growing up in a place that has a really bad self-esteem problem and that makes my brain all the time go like what can we do? What can we do? You know what I mean? Because there's so many answers that can be attributed to like politics there's so many answers that can be attributed to like the social dynamics of a place. But I really think like we grow up our whole lives in this town Um hearing how bad it is and how ugly it is, and this and this and this and this. Like we are programmed as of you know from a very young age to think like this place is lesser than. And then I don't know, just like growing up and living other places and being other places. I'm just like, man, I love my hometown so much. Like there's there's something really magic that lives here, and I don't know what it is. Maybe it's like a smaller city vibe, but I I don't know. So that's see what I mean, Cody. I went in a circle again.

SPEAKER_01 44:37

I'm talking in circles again, man. I'm with you, man. I'm I'm getting along with that whole circle, man. I'm loving it. I'm loving everything you're sharing with us too. So it's all good, man. It's all good. And I you said so many things, man, that I'm gonna try and ravel my brain around too, because my brain was wanting to follow the circle and I was going to different places, but it's all good, man. A lot of the things I can honestly I can I can relate with, you know. You want to talk about how a place, a community can have a group think where we talk down about a certain place where we come from and all it has this and that, and it's not always a good thing. And you want to talk about self-esteem things, man. When you talk about the place that you come from, the place that you live, the place that you spend all your time with, and you talk downly about it, you know, you're only setting another person or yourself up, unfortunately, for having some not such great self-esteem issues themselves, right? Because you're you are what you become, like your environment, I mean. And so, of course, a lot of people unfortunately have a lot of self-esteem issues, myself included, for a lot of time in my life, unfortunately, I did. And you know, I still have my battles. Like we both said, we're works in progress, right? But, you know, it's about I think truly energy is contagious. I think the energy a person puts out into the world, the universe, wherever you are in this world, is energy that comes back to you. And I've said in you know, hundreds of my speeches, and I truly believe that. And I say that with knowing that sometimes I can speak not so nice energy about my environment or about certain things in my life as well, too. And I always try to catch myself uh to stop that. And it's not easy because our brains are almost wired to want to see for the negative because it's almost a protection thing, right? It's it's to protect us up um, you know, ourselves from the saber-toothed tigers in the world, right? Like that's old human DNA from cavemen days, still trying to protect ourselves from negative things. Well, we don't no longer have to fight off saber-toothed tigers anymore, but our brains still want to look through a lot of the negatives and things in life. And when somebody, like say there's a group of five of us, one person starts talking negatively about a certain situation, well, then the next person right beside them will do that, and then the next person, then the next person, it becomes a really group think. And when I think a person puts out good positive energy out in the world, that can also be, you know, um contagious, right? I think a human being just appreciating appreciating where they come from, appreciating their surroundings, can make other people feel that too, and make other people do that. And I think it comes to a lot of the things in our lives too. So, like you playing music, you know, um, maybe the sh you know, you just having a private moment, a good moment with a good friend in that church at four o'clock in the morning. You had good energy, good vibes, because it's just you hanging out with your friend. And that was probably one of the reasons why it resonated with you so hard, is because you're like, this is joy for me. And you want to share that with other people. But it would be a also a very different train of thought and a different experience for anybody who would be listening if you're like, you know, in your head, not liking the experience, not happy with the situation in life right now. So I think a lot of that comes to how we feel on the inside for what we project out into the world.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

Well, you just like anyone can trigger a sense of joy to someone, anyone can like put a positive spin on someone's day. Like it and you don't have to be uh a musician, you don't have to be a public speaker, you don't you know you don't have to do any of that. Like, and people and sometimes people don't even realize how badly they're craving that sense of the human connection. Like I went through a McDonald's drive-thru the other day to get a coffee. Nice um, and I forgot my wallet, and I did not have any change in my car. I'm looking around, and the person was just like, Hey, like, I got you. Like, don't worry, dude. And I'm just like, no, like no, and they're like, no, stop, it's all good. And dude, I like started crying.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

I and like, mind you, I'm a big baby, but like I I just like I didn't realize how badly I needed to be shown kindness that day. You know what I mean? And that person probably didn't even know they're like, dude, it's like a dollar fifty, like, don't you know what I mean? Oh my gosh, but like that small little gesture, I'm like, man, there's still good out here. Like, people want us to believe that there isn't, but there's so much random goodness still.

SPEAKER_01 49:14

Yeah. I think, man, I love that, honestly. And uh never take a dollar fifty coffee for granted. 110%. 110%. I've been there, man. I've been there, and what a feeling it is, man. What a feeling it is that a complete stranger in a person's life could intersect for a matter of two minutes and change the whole aspect of somebody's day moving forward. Oh man, that's a beautiful story. And to you know what, I love doing that too, like being able to just hold a door open for somebody or just any kind of nice gesture. See, a lot of times when I try and do a nice gesture in my own head, I think of it as because you know, the first thing I try to think of is maybe this person just really needs this at this moment. And I think there's a part of me that thinks like that because there's times in my life that I needed those moments. Right. And I think I just want to relay that to somebody else because somebody also has been able to do that for myself. Now, you know, to go back into the thick of things, I think so many people are battling stories and battles in their own world that, you know, a good chunk of people don't really know anything about. And you know, it might be a dollar fifty coffee, but that can change a whole person's out outlook of life, you know. Not only for the day, but maybe for the week or the month, you know. Um and just doing a little bit more of that, I think, would be a very cool challenge for every anyone and everyone who's going to be listening to this podcast, um, you know, tomorrow or the next week or whenever, you know, somebody might get a chance to listen to this. Yeah. Well, that's super those are some cool poor. Those are some super cool conversations that we just shared, brother. Truly. Yeah, man. I appreciate that, man. Yeah. So real quick to clarify, you play in uh how many bands, including yourself as an individual artist as well.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Yeah, so I play in uh um LJ Tyson and the Locals, which is like my uh solo music that I've done for way too long. And uh then I play with uh the Kimbleys, which is my parents' band that me and my brothers uh play in with some of our uh relatives. Um and then I play in this band called Former Lovers, which is kind of just uh taking up way too much of my life right now. No, um I uh that that's my main focus and project right now. I'm so blessed to be able to work with uh those guys, uh uh Nigel uh Bell and Colin Clausen and Gail Retzina. Um we are making new music and taking gigs and doing the thing, man. I feel uh that bad makes me feel 15 again because it feels like starting from scratch. And nothing I hate starting from scratch so much, but there's also like this like there's also like this like wanted to go out and like prove yourself sort of mentality about it, you know. That kind of like that's what I'm just like I'm not 32, I'm 16 again.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

That's cool, man. I love that. Everybody needs to get a little fire ignited in them from time to time for sure, and just let it roll. Yeah. No, I love that, man. From places that you were sharing with, you know, BC to local communities. Sounds like you definitely have a lot of cool opportunities coming down the pipeline and many different avenues. And um, you know, Dakota Fable, we were chatting about earlier, he was on the podcast a few episodes ago, and really appreciate hearing his uh, you know, a little bit of his story as well, too. Now I get a chance to hear a little bit more of yours and share a little bit more with other people who are gonna be listening. And I'm gonna do something that I said with Dakota, um, that it goes to you and your entire family. For anyone who is listening to this podcast, from now or the future, if you get a chance to listen to LJ, play some good tunes, good music, drop what you're doing, and go listen to my man LJ and whoever he's going to be playing music with because you will not be disappointed. You will not be disappointed. And I fully recommend you on that because it's true, man. You know, a lot of times I've been at different events selling my gear, you know, as like a vendor and stuff like that, like um the Senator's cup that we're where we chatted last, you know, and I had the best seat in the house. I got to sit with my tables doing whatever I was doing, and I just got to sit down on a chair, just listen to you guys jam out. And I was like, man, I'm I'm working personally right now, but I get to listen to some great live music. What better way to send uh uh spend a Saturday afternoon or evening, I think it was at that time. But yeah, so I just want to share with everyone, if you had a chance, go give LJ and his his crews uh some some of your time and your energy. You won't regret it. Now, LJ, if people want to book you to come to your communities or to their communities, if people want you to come play at their live events in the near future or whatever it is that they're interested in, having you come play some music. Where could one they get a hold of you to book you more? And number two, if they want to listen to some music right now, is there any place that they can grab your music um in the time being until they hear you live as well?

SPEAKER_00 54:46

Yeah, um I would say go check out Former Lovers on Spotify or whatever you stream music on. Uh formerloversmusic.com. I think it's formerloversmusic.com. Um or if you want to kick it old school, um you can go ljtysonmusic.com and listen to all those guys, all that guy's old tunes, and that's pretty fun too, I guess. Um and then all my uh emails and everything are there too. And and uh and I just yeah, I'll I'll go wherever. Right some gas and a hot meal. I love that, man. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 55:25

Well that's super cool, brother. I I definitely appreciate that. And I'll make sure to toss the links on um, you know, the description of this episode and stuff like that on Spotify, YouTube, wherever we're gonna put it as well. So if people need to search it out, um, should be in those descriptions for anyone who listens to this podcast. Well, I greatly appreciate our time together, brother. I'm glad uh we finally got a chance to do this. We chat chatted about it for a few weeks, but I really enjoyed this conversation together, man.

SPEAKER_00 55:55

Dude, I like I I appreciate this so much. Like I I promise you I haven't done this in like a few years. I haven't had like um well on my own. Maybe it's good I don't do it on my own. But I know I haven't had an album out, I haven't had anything to promote. So just to kind of get to come up on here and and chat with you just about like life in general, like that um that's such a kind thing for you to invite me here. So I I appreciate it so much. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 56:23

Well, it goes both ways, man. And you know, there is a part of me so I I want to share with one of the reasons why I wanted to start this, okay? Um so one of the reasons why I started this is because a young lady at a school that I spoke for in southern Saskatchewan, she came up to me, and this was like six months ago, and she came up to me and she said, My parents follow you on social media, and they love reading all your inspirational posts and stuff, and we read it as a family all the all the time together. And this is like, yeah, man, it just like literally melted my heart too. Like a little 16-year-old girl just came and told me that. And she said, We like love reading everything that you post, you know, and a lot of times I try to post uplifting messages, good vibes, good energy, as much as I possibly can because you never know who somebody could need it at that moment, right? And you know what? There's even times where I'm trying to post positive stuff and I'm not feeling great. It's not because I'm trying to be fake and trying to be not who I am at that time, it's because maybe at this time I'm not feeling great, but maybe somebody else somewhere else is not feeling even, you know, they're feeling worse off than I am at this moment, right? And so that's why I love to share these uplifting stories and whatnot. And I just kept on thinking to myself, what is another way that we could add that into somebody's world? And so, of course, a podcast is something I've thought about for a few years now. And just with being home, having my own workspace in my own shop now that we built last summer and stuff like that, I had this opportunity where, you know, I had the space to do it, I had the time to do it, and I wanted to have these good, wholesome conversations with people that could inspire, you know, somebody like that little little 15, 16-year-old girl and her family. So let's say maybe she's been interested in thinking trying to play music in her life, and she hears LJ, you know, talk about some of these tours that he's been going on and stuff like that, and some of the experiences that he's got to witness of being a part of it, and that how much you love it. And say she gets inspired by this episode, and she takes off and she starts playing music, and this is something that helps her live a better life just because of that.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

That's all we can hope for, dude, is like and I again I'm hopefully I'm not sounding like an trying trying to make myself like sound like an old man or like a wisdom sage or something. But really, like all I can hope for at this point is that someone takes it even further, dude. I remember I put out this song called Locals years and years ago, and it was about like showing PA in a positive light and you know really doing it for the community. And people sh can I say that you don't like swearing on here. You say whatever you want to say about people like how do I say that if I don't people put it down so much and like really really dragged me through the dirt um and like had some like what they thought were funny things to say about that music video and song that I did um for with the city of PA. Yeah, um and it really ruined my spirit. Um anyways, push forward, still do music, love it, love it, love it. Years later, I noticed this uh musician just like making his way up the scene, Aiden Edwards, and he's and he's all about like PA is great, put PA in a positive light and do this, and man, I'm just like, yeah, yeah, that's great. And like people are actually like kind of being like, Yeah, PA is good. And I'm like seeing that directly from like things that Aiden posts and like how he conducts himself and how he talks about his love for his city, you know what I mean? And so I'm just like, man, even though we just moved a little bit further, and now someone like Aiden Edwards can go and like speak positively about PA, and people won't um drag him down in the same way, just like 10 years later, you know what I mean? Like that's progress. Like, all we all all I can hope for, all we can hope for, is that the next person has it just a little bit easier. You know what I mean? And whatever we can do to like uplift that next generation. So you doing a podcast so that you know, like family, that family, that 16-year-old girl you're talking about, any of these other young kids that you know follow you and and hear your journey, um you know your what you're doing here, the messages that you're sharing when you go and visit communities, like that's giving them a road to go down, a clearer path. Like that's making their lives just a little bit easier, you know what I mean? And that's great, man. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:03

Well, I appreciate that, brother. And like I said, it's it's all mutual, man. We talked about recovery, sobriety, you know, talking about following your passions. And I think a lot of times, man, when some people don't always know where to look, maybe we can be at that that moment where somebody can look and be like, yeah, I want to follow that path. And not saying we're gonna always make the right decisions. I know myself personally, I don't. I try, I try, but I I make mistakes, unfortunately. Nothing as bad as I once used to when I was on drugs and alcohol, but um obviously, but you know, um there's times when we're just having rough days, but if we can try and be role models for whoever's gonna be hearing us, listening to us, uh watching us, whatever that might be, that's a pretty, pretty cool path and legacy to leave behind us. All right, brother. Well, it's been a pleasure. Uh nothing but love and appreciation for not only you, but your entire family, man. I've told a good chunk of your family that uh, you know, a lot of you guys, uh all of you guys are like another family to me. So it's been uh it's been a joy to have this conversation. And whether it's ten people, a thousand people, or whatever it's gonna be, ten thousand people one day, maybe uh whatever. I think a lot of people are gonna find value from our conversation that we shared together today. If um, you know, before we wrap up, I think I need to ask you this question. If somebody desired to play music for a career, you know, if it's that 16-year-old little girl and her family, or maybe a cousin of hers, whatever it is, and she hears this podcast, what is a recommendation or a piece of advice that you could give an aspiring artist to follow those dreams?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:55

Oh I am I always say this to people when I am asked anything similar towards this? Write. Just like write music. It's like some people need to like go get art supplies from the store from like Michael's, and some people need to go pick up like construction materials and all this stuff. All a musician needs is like their brain, and we can just start like pumping out material real quick, and it like not only helps with your craft, but it helps every element of your medicine wheel, mental, physical, spiritual, um, why am I forgetting emotional? Like it like it's so good for you, like not only as a musician, as an artist, whatever, but it like I don't know, it it's kind of just it's something nice to center your whole being around. Um and sharing your stories, that's what I feel really connects with people. And that's not I man, I grew up in I still play in cover bands sometimes. I'll still go do the odd wedding gig here and there, you know what I mean? That's not to knock the people that go and do the cover music. I really appreciate and love that too. Um but I always encourage young musicians, young artists to like r write and just see see what happens. The world the world needs to hear your voice in the same way that um people need to be sharing their stories and experiences. Like, we still need that original music to be coming out of these young artists. And like, I don't know. That's that's what got me through. That's what got me through everything, is uh is uh just singing into my phone on the recorder recording app thingy. Yeah um or writing in like a notebook. It's just uh that's what that's what young musicians should be doing, is it's creating original work. That's it's the most precious thing you can give to the world, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:54

Oh, I love it, man. It's like it is a form of art. It is, truly. Alright. And so don't be scared to share your art. I know uh Wayne Dyer, um, you know, who that person is, a spiritual mentor coach, he said, don't die with your music inside of you. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, and perfectly fitting. Perfectly fitting. Alright, brother. Well, I think that's a great way to wrap things up. Okay. Mr. LJ Tyson, of course, we're gonna put some links in the show notes and all those kind of fun things. It's gonna take me a minute to navigate around those, find those, but we'll make sure if people are looking for you, people will find you. That's a that's a promise. I really appreciate our time together. Thanks so much for spending the hour and a few minutes here together. Um, like I said, I think a lot of people are gonna grab a lot of good stuff from this time together that we shared. So appreciate it, brother.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:49

Awesome. Thanks, Cody. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:51

Yeah, no worries. And for those who are listening to the Life is Limitless Podcast, I want to thank each and every single one of you for giving two of the most precious resources another human being can give to another human being. That is your time and that is your energy. This has been the Life is Limitless Podcast, and I'm Cody Demeron, your host. And once you believe you have the ability and capacity to do great things, that is when I truly believe, truly believe life can become limitless. Thanks, everybody.