Betsy Chasse is a filmmaker, bookmaker and changemaker. She creates media that inspires you to have thoughtful conversation and transformation.
Her current projects include:
Empty Womb: A documentary on life without children. It’s a raw look at the feelings surrounding the inability to have children of your own and the disappointment of failed IVF.
Radical Dating: A documentary following 5 singles on their journey to find love after 40.
Find out more about Betsy’s other awesome projects and books at her website here: http://betsychasse.net
To get to her Meaningful Mom’s website, head here: http://meaningfulmommag.com/
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My guest today is a author and a filmmaker. She’s written many books. She’s a mom. She is a thinker, a deep thinker, a joy seeker. I mean, I cannot say enough fun and awesome stuff about her. So I’m excited for you to hear this interview and y’all are gonna love her name. All right. Without further ado, here we go. Welcome to the art of living big. My name is Betsy Pake entrepreneur, author and personal success coach. This is the show that brings you stories and small ideas to help you live a big life. I hope this once a week podcast will inspire you, motivate you and encourage you to think differently about what could be possible for your life. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let’s go live big. All right, Today we have with us Betsy chassis, Betsy, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks so much for having me. I’m excited you’re here. And, you know, I found you, I think I found you originally because you popped up on Facebook as like something else I might want to know like, you must be similar to some of my other interests. And so, you know, I was drawn to you because of your fabulous first name. But then when I learned more, I was really excited. So tell everybody a little bit about yourself. Well, first and foremost, I am a mom, I have two amazing kids. I’m a single mom. Um, and that is like my passion and why I do everything that I do. I’m a writer, I’m a filmmaker, I’m a mouthy broad, who wants to impact change in the world, you know, my mission in life really is that we have the ability within us to be happy. And I don’t mean like happy isn’t UI, but just like truly at peace and happy in our lives. And we need help on how to do that. And so my mission is to share wisdom and pieces of information that can help people live the life that they truly desire. Ah, so I i love that that’s very similar to how I feel about my mission, which is why I do this podcast. So I’m grateful that you’re here today. Tell me how when did you realize that about yourself that that was your mission? Like Did you know that your whole life that you’ve sort of had something? Or was that something you came to later on? It’s kind of funny. So my favorite quote in the world is by jack Kerouac and it says Be in love with your life every minute of it. And I think for the most part, even though I’ve had you know, we we all go through struggles and trauma and horrible things and wonderful things. And I’ve had all of that in my life. And yet, I always had this sense of optimism. My birth was formed, filmed for a documentary on natural childbirth. Um, yeah, I, I got the kids. And it’s ironic because they had followed another woman through her pregnancy. And then she had to have a C section. And so they kind of asked, Would anybody mind if we film them their birth? And I was the youngest of six, and my mom was like, whatever. Yeah, five minutes. Let’s go. And so I just sort of came out with Lights, Camera action shining. And I’ve always been optimistic, and and always had this nature of, even when everything around me is just falling ap...