November 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Betsy Wurzel and guest Kristen Griffin share heartfelt ways to help children build confidence, calm, and self-worth through kindness, creativity, and connection.
In this powerful episode of Chatting with Betsy, host Betsy Wurzel asks a question every parent should consider: Is your child growing up confident—or just getting by? Betsy welcomes Kristen Griffin, founder of Happy Happy Everything, Inc., to discuss how parents and caregivers can help children build joy, self-worth, and calm through creative play and affirming messages. Kristen shares how her Happy Clouds book series and Calm Clouds comfort toys inspire kids to find peace and express positive emotions. Betsy talks about her own experience using these tools to ease stress and why she wishes resources like these existed when she was a child.
Together, they explore how simple daily moments—reading an affirmation, sharing a song, or offering a hug—can strengthen a child’s emotional foundation. Kristen’s mission extends beyond products; she donates her books to hospitals and nonprofits worldwide, helping children everywhere feel loved and seen.
🎁 As Betsy reminds listeners, confidence is one of the greatest gifts you can give a child. With the holidays approaching, small acts of kindness and encouragement can change a life. ✨ Learn more about Happy Happy Everything:
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In this powerful episode of Chatting with Betsy, host Betsy Wurzel asks a question every parent should consider: Is your child growing up confident—or just getting by? Betsy welcomes Kristen Griffin, founder of Happy Happy Everything, Inc., to discuss how parents and caregivers can help children build joy, self-worth, and calm through creative play and affirming messages. Kristen shares how her Happy Clouds book series and Calm Clouds comfort toys inspire kids to find peace and express positive emotions. Betsy talks about her own experience using these tools to ease stress and why she wishes resources like these existed when she was a child.
Together, they explore how simple daily moments—reading an affirmation, sharing a song, or offering a hug—can strengthen a child’s emotional foundation. Kristen’s mission extends beyond products; she donates her books to hospitals and nonprofits worldwide, helping children everywhere feel loved and seen.
🎁 As Betsy reminds listeners, confidence is one of the greatest gifts you can give a child. With the holidays approaching, small acts of kindness and encouragement can change a life. ✨ Learn more about Happy Happy Everything:
- Website: Happy Happy Everything, Inc.
- YouTube: Happy Happy Everything Channel
- Facebook: Happy Happy Everything Page
- Calm Clouds on Facebook: Calm Clouds Page
- Instagram: @happyhappyeverything
📌 Subscribe and follow so you never miss an inspiring new episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everyone, this is Betsy Worzel. You're a host of
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(00:21):
Fell little time tie there with me today, I'm so excited.
Excuse me if I have a quotic call, excuse me
with me today. I'm so happy to have back with me.
Kristin Griffin, she was on back in June, and I
just love Kristin Griffin, what she does, what she's about.
(00:45):
Kristen is founder of Happy, Happy Everything Corporation, which story
in twenty sixteen to inspire children and make them smile
and spread joy around the world. Christ And dreams of
being a Disney animator and writing a children's book. And
(01:06):
she did, she wrote, and so she sent it to me.
If I was gonna tell you right now, I'm not
your traditional hosts. Go on the website because Christin sent
me two books, and I'm gonna I'll tell you is
(01:26):
a picture on the website doesn't do a justice in person.
It's much more beautiful. It is really stunning. And she
has happy clouds and positive affirmations for kids, and she
has happy words seventy two words for kids to reach,
(01:49):
has coloring books, stickers, pens, pencils, and she just came
out with what you would she calls calm clouds. And
she sent me too. And let me tell you, I
have high anxiety, folks, I do. And I squeezed this
calming cloud. She said to me that you could put,
you know, lavender spray. I guess whatever, or you don't
(02:11):
have to spray, but and I squeezed it, and I
find it very comforting and it is just incredible. Kristen
gets back to her community too. She's involved with nonprofits
where she donates books. And she is just a wonderful
human being shining her light and love out into the world.
(02:35):
And she was also and we're going to talk about
this because I got to know she was also on
The Bachelor back in two thousand and five. I guess
she's on the hunt for a husband back then. But
she's halfily married with two children, but she didn't meet them.
She didn't marry the bachelor on The Bachelor. She met
(02:56):
her Prince Charming later on, and I want to walk
up back to Jednie with Betsy Kristy Griffin. Welcome back, Sessond.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thank you Betsy. That was the nicest exult ever. Thank
you very much. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You're welcome, and I'm happy that you are able to
be here. In folks, you know it is as i'm
recording this, it's October eighth. When you hear this, it'll
probably be November. And I don't know about where you
all live, but this Christmas tree is out already in
the stores and Christmas decorations, and I think not usually
(03:39):
do a show like this, but because I love Christen's
work and I want the audience to know. You know
you're looking for gift ideas for your teachers of your
childhoods in preschool, kindergarten, I would say what grades up
to third grade? Fourth grade? Kristen, for your.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a big kid, I can say, you know, I
would really say second grade is okay. But we're all
big kids at heart. You know you want to fire,
we can make it. I could. I could definitely do
with fifth graders. But yes, I think second grade would
be the like pre kay pre K three and the
second grade yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, I'm a big kid too. That's why I'm so
excited when I got to the book. I'm the big kid, folks.
It is such a wonderful gift to give to the
child that age from, you know, preschool, and I would
even read it when they're I read to myselone he
was a baby, so I would say reading from the
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time they're born, uh to second grade. Christien's books happy Words,
happy clouds or coloring books. Not only she had the books,
but he took being a big kid. I love the
music and thank you and she have you have a
(05:05):
YouTube channel. It's called Happy Happy Everything just on important. Okay,
I got it right. Yes, folks, I am a big kid.
But if I was still in the preschool working, I
would be playing that music because I just think it's
(05:27):
very very inspirational and motivational for children as well as adults.
I got a kick out of it, and I just
think that, you know, if we could introduce our children,
if you have children, nieces, nephews, grand nieces or nephews,
whoever in your life that you know could benefit from this.
(05:52):
How about your preschool teacher donating that to preschool or
just you know, if you have a preschool or YMCA
or some kind of children's club in your area, donating
these books hospitals pediatric wards. I think they could I know,
(06:13):
I'm my own thinking. I know they could benefit. What
a gift to get to a pediatric ward is your
your books, Kristin, I know that you do that where
you live. You have to donate it to your The
hospital is down there, and that's the kind of person
Kristen is, and you're welcome. I always tell the audience
(06:38):
go on the person's website because I could sit here
for an hour telling you everything about Kristin Griffin, but
I want you to go on and look. And I
have to because I didn't ask Kristin the last time.
So I had to ask Kristen, what was it like
(07:00):
being on the Bachelor back in two thousand and five?
How did you get on there? And what was that like?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Such a great question. Oh my gosh, how could I
sum this up? But see, I'll tell you what it
was like is it was in the best way possible,
life changing for me. It didn't mean I ended up
with the Bachelor though, because he did not think I
was funny. I was very well myself goofy fun being
(07:29):
really you know, just being I don't know funny anymore.
And he was an er doctor and he was pretty serious.
And when I did this silly thing where I cut
an orange, I was trying to tell him how to
get kids to eat. See, they edit, they edit quite
a bit. I guess I'll tell you that part. I
love The Bachelor for the sense that it did lead
me to love So I have this huge, you know,
(07:53):
gratefulness for it. But as a contestant on the show,
what you don't see, as like you know, someone at home,
is that they'll edit some of your conversation, just like
we do, you know, maybe on with any kind of
TV production. So let's say I was telling The Bachelor, Oh,
you should get kids to you know, put some oranges,
(08:14):
you know, to get them to eat in the hospital.
Since you have an er doctor, I'm like, oh, to
get the kids to eat, you could do an orange peel.
And he's like, what's that? And so that's what sparked
this whole I've been doing in my whole life. I
cut an orange rime in just slits and I put
it in my mouth. It looks like Bubba teeth and
(08:35):
the whole world. And I saw me on my day
cutting and putting teeth in my mouth, not you know
why this girl was doing it, you know. Ah And
he didn't laugh, Betsy, that was the worst part. I
put in my teeth and I'm like, hey, Travis, how
ya doing? And he was like, be careful. And I
(08:55):
knew it and put there in my heart. I'm like,
I'm going home. I knew it, and I'll was on
a one on one date with the bachelor, Betsy, which
is like a big deal to get like a just
you and him, you know date. Oh no, And we
were cruising down the Sene River in Paris. I mean
talk about now, but it was there was no you
(09:17):
know magic.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's part of.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The whole thing is like I know, I know, I
knew like if this part, if it's going to be
your destiny will happen, right, you know. I like I
was like, okay, well we're not a match. I was myself.
I get off the boats. He says something nice like
you know, you really wear your sleeve on your heart
and uh, you don't have a great day, you know
(09:43):
kind of thing. And it's the evening and Betsy, imagine
this the Eiffel Tower is in front of me, twinkling
like the most magical twinkle? Have you seen that the
Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Say, but no, no, no, I see pictures of it
during the day.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh okay, So I guess they started this twinkling. Oh
my gosh, all of it, the whole thing, twinkling lights
and the producers are really far away from you to
make it more. I guess, I don't know dramatic, and
they just have this shot of me and they're taping me,
asking me if I, you know, you know, would do
anything different or or you know, maybe I would take
(10:27):
it down in a hush or something like that, and
it starts raining. So there. Now I'm in the rain
in Paris and they're all their umbrellas and I am like, oh,
this is perfect television. They got this poor girl who
just got dumped in the raid. You know. But I'll
never forget what I said. And this is twenty years ago.
(10:50):
I said, I can't change who I am because the
person that I love will love those things about me
and he'll never want to let me go. And that's
why I walked off. I was like, you know, and
I really am that girl. I think The reason the
producers picked me is because I told them I had
this fairy tale dream of getting married at Disney World,
(11:12):
like I knew one day in my heart. I love
the whole magic of it. I thought, what a fun
place to get married, and by golly, I did it,
just not with the Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ah oh wow, that must be some well production to
have a wedding at Disney, Like, how do you go
about planning that, Kristen? Because I've heard and yeah, I've
seen pictures of weddings at Disney, but how do you
how does one go about doing that?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So it's so honest listening and they're like, oh, that's
my dream too. All you have to do is go
to the Disney's fairy Tale and Weddings website and there's
a place that says, like, you know, interested in getting
med and you click on it and you you submit
a form and then a wedding coordinator will call you
(12:06):
and then you go there in person and you have
a consultation and then it goes from there. You plan
and then if it all works out and you have
a budget and a you know, date, then you'll be
assigned a wedding planner and that person really has a
magic wand Betsy and they make your come through. Wow,
(12:28):
I really did it. I went into like a Cinderella's carriage.
That's how I came to the wedding chapel. And that
was magic. And then I had my whole Baily was
in there besides my now husband, he was already at
the church. And then and then to leave once we
got married, everyone like lines up because he and I
(12:52):
got to take the carriage over to the reception. So
it was really, really, really really a dream, a dream,
I'm true. Yeah, I'm a dreamer.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
That that is cool. You know what this show is
gonna be a mixture of everything Kristen's books and you know,
to dating, like being yourself, and that's what's missing now, Kristen.
I mean, I don't date, but from what I hear,
you know, like people go on these websites but everything
(13:29):
dating apps and they pretend to be someone that they're not.
And you know, I could never be that way. I mean, well,
back when I was dating, back in the sony, there
was no dating apps. You had any face to face,
you know, there was no business, no video calling, there
(13:50):
was no cell phones, no computers. They started oh yeah. Dated.
What they had back then was a dating service like
you would you could go. I never did it because
it was expensive. You can video like they had the
video that you can video yourself, but it was more
like a dating service or dating match. Way before these
(14:15):
dating matches came into being, they started having that, but
I didn't do that. It was too chicken. So I
just think, and you're right, and I want girls and
guys to hear this. That being your authentic self, that's
(14:35):
who you have to be. And if people can't accept
you for who you are, then you know what, you
move on say the next person. You know. I mean,
if there are things that about yourself you want to
change that you don't like or people will tell you
you know this, you might want to think about, you know, yeah,
(15:00):
you know, raining yourself in or something, and then you
may want to do that, but still be your authentic self.
And you know what, Chris and I I I still
understand what you're saying. Because when I met my husband Matt,
I knew right away he was the one because he
didn't try to change me. He didn't try to change me,
(15:24):
and he didn't like you know, I got a lot
of guys would tell you you need to wear makeup,
and that was like if I put on lipstick while
you're wearing that, you don't need to wear makeup. You're beautiful,
how you are?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I love that?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And I saw himss hearing him saying that's they're the best,
that's they're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, but that's that's that's a gift, Betsy, And you
probably felt so loved being loved and accepted for exactly
who you are. You know, you didn't have to explain
yourself or try to be a different way or dress
a different way, or you know, and all the pressures
(16:09):
you know, social media and filters people put on. I've
heard a lot of people say that show up and
the person doesn't even look like the person, and you know,
ultimately that really doesn't help your self esteem if you're
going to do that. It puts too much pressure. Like
I'd rather show the wrinkles than look like this perfect
(16:32):
person and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know, yeah, that is true. So now I have
to ask you, because now I am U, I have
to answer you this. How did you meet your husband? Then?
How did you story?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's such a great story. Okay, so because of the
Bachelor and That's why I said I am forever grateful
for the show because I came back to my hometown single.
But you know, it was it was I was okay,
I was like, all right, I always I forgot tell
you this fun part about me. I kept a frog,
(17:10):
like a not a real one, like a stuffed animal
in my car, and I had this like metaphor, like, hey,
you might have to kiss a lot of frogs before
you find your prince. Like it might just be that way, right,
I might have to, Like it was just a symbolic
that my prince will come one day, and when he comes,
that little frog is it was called a beanie baby
(17:31):
or a beanie bag or something like that. I was
gonna take that frog out of the car when I
knew I found the one. So here I have this
frog in my car and I'd go out at night
and her fund but just never found the right guy
and dated here and there and everywhere. Well then about
a month after the show, fans of the show came
(17:52):
up to me and recognized me, which is it happened
quite often they're like, oh, are you the girl from
the Bachelor. You know that kind of thing, And so
this particular night. It was not my husband but his
friend that said, oh, we were such fans of you,
and I'm like, I watched the show. Like you're a
guy like in your mid thirties, you watch a show,
you watch it. I was kind of like, take him back, right, I.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Was like, oh, thanks, I think but he was so
funny and I called him cousin Joe because he's just
he was that funny, almost like a cousin.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Right. So this is how I met my husband. Cousin
Joe and I started to hang out and he thought
he looked After we got to know each other, he goes,
you know what, I've got the perfect guy for you. Your
total opposites. But I think it's so funny. Bachelor fan
(18:47):
slash cousin Joe went on. The three of us went
on a date. He truly was my matchmaker, all thanks
to watching the show. So and then that was it.
I met my husband at like a sushi restaurant. He
was tall, handsome, smiled. I love that he smiled. That
(19:07):
made me happy, and uh that frog came out of
my car the same as you. He loved me for me,
didn't want to change me, and he supported my dreams
and that was something I never found before. So I
could be loud and he's quiet, so it's a perfect combo.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they say EPICID s a tract, so yeah, you
know that is club. I wanted to ask you that
the first time you came on, but I wanted to
concentrate on uh, you were happy, happy, everything, and I said,
oh yeah. At this time I had to ask about
(19:51):
you know, the Bachelor and how you met your Yeah,
how you met your your husband. I know that you
had a wedding and and Disney STI that's what's great
about having people come back because but if you want
to hear folks. The first time I did interview Kristen,
you can go back and look that up. It was
in June this year. And that's why shameless plug here.
(20:15):
But that's why you need to subscribe to training with
Betsy excuse me. And that is really cute. I went
to Bible College for two and a half years thinking
I was going to meet my husband there, but I didn't,
so I was too much for I guess a very
(20:38):
constrict quiet. I mean I am quiet in a way,
but you know, I feel like if I want to
talk to you either you're male or female. Just because
you're a male and I talked to you doesn't mean
I'm flirting with you. Doesn't mean I want to date you.
It just means I'm being a fellow human being and
saying hi. Yeah, but that wasn't their thinking. They think
(21:06):
they thought if you talked to a guy, you were
flirting with them, are interested him? That's not I thought
I was a case. So I just.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
A lot of friends or did you meet someone at all? There?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And that's why I'm a couple of guys but nothing,
you know, nothing. And then I came back up. Yeah,
I came back up and that mat So that was
meant to be, you know, it was just uh, you
know when. And it's so funny because when Matt took me,
(21:50):
I went, we went, he picked me up for our
first date. And then I came back. My mom said
to me, he's the one for you. You're gonna marry You're
gonna marry him. I only went on one date. Yeah,
I said, I only went on one date. What makes
you think that I should think that? She goes? I
(22:10):
just know because I just know.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's so beautiful. Actually, because your mom like like gave you,
like her blessing already you know. Yeah, yeah, so you
felt it pretty quick too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, take that a little longer, but uh,
not real. I meant, you know, yeah, And you know,
we got engaged sixty months after we were dating and
got married four months later. So I only we only
(22:51):
knew each other eleven months when we got married. Wow,
you know, but that's how it works back.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
How many see what I was married?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I was by thirty nine years when Matt died. Wow,
we just had celebrated thirty nine years when he died.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a beautiful paver. Wow. Wow. So uh that's that's
that's cool. I mean you you are the anyone who
needs advice, they come to you.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So that's give us all advice.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Don't go on a dating show, does it?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You know? And you know what, it's been six years,
Well it will be six years in January. I'm ready.
The met's gone and I'm not interested in dating, you know.
And don't get me wrong, folks, if you've lost the
pioneer's souse, you want to date, that's fine, good for you,
and I encourage that. It's just not for me. I
(23:55):
was feel too weird. I was just feel too uncomfortable.
That to me, that's whatever works for you, works for you.
And I just think that, you know what, as I
were to date again, no one would I know now,
I would be like, you know what, this this is
who I am. This is what I'm bringing to the table.
What do you bring in? Because I know my worth,
(24:17):
I would not That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah. Yeah, you have to know your worth, whether your
guy or girl or whatever you say you are. I
want to be politically correct. You have to be yourself
and know what I would see because I worked with
a lot of young people, I would see girl, young
girls dumbing down themselves to keep a guy. Oh I
(24:47):
can't be as smart as him. Why why can't you
be smarter, smarter than your boyfriend? Why are you doing
your boyfriend's homework right? Right?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Right? They want does me a box or something? You know?
They want to put them in a box?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, and not.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Some girls are meant to shine and and and I think,
why I do? It really stuggles back to everything I do,
and I start at a very very very young age.
Is building kids self esteem, self confidence, just like that
self worth. I love that you said that word self
worth you know, it's it's it's it's so important because
(25:27):
we all have those challenges growing up with it. But
if you keep feeding good tools, and you keep doing
the right things mentally and tell yourselves really good things
about yourself. I do believe, and surround yourself with the
right things too, you will attract exactly what you were
meant to have in your life. But it takes work,
(25:50):
it takes worse, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Self, Yes, And so that's tell parents at they're guardians.
Whoever takes care of children, please do not emotionally abuse them.
Do not mentally abuse and making them think they're not
(26:13):
worth anything. Because when someone feels they're not worth anything,
they'll accept anybody because they think they're not deserting of
being treated better. And this is what I just fought
your book Crison. I can go back to your book
there typical holds. I go back and forth, but you have,
you know, like your happy clouds, the one with the
(26:35):
positive affirmations. How do the child feel good about themselves?
I am smart, like you know one page. I am strong,
you know, I mean, it's just I am special. Now, folks,
I'm not talking about way you know, being narcissistic thinking
(26:57):
you're better than everybody. That's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about a child having that self esteem and
knowing that they should be treated with respect. Yes, that's
you know. I am calm, I mean, and then I
(27:19):
am beautiful as on one page. And yes, and the
music what's that one? I just love it? I am.
How's it though? I am special?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yes, yes, the song called I can Do Anything, but
I can do anything?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yes, yeah, yes, yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I you know, and I really really designed all my
things to reach kids, but also to reach I would say,
the kids at heart, which are us because you know,
ages three to one hundred and three, like I want
(28:03):
all of us to be touched because we can use
it at any age if you apply it, you know,
to your life.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I appreciate you listening, and I listen. I mean, you
know it's called practically you preach. I use all my
own tools, all my own things, like daily daily, so
it's a practice, and I choose. I choose happiness every
day even on the days like we talked about earlier.
You know, there's tough, tougher days than other days. So yeah,
(28:35):
I just have to choose. So yeah, that's what I'm
here to do.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Your books they're just a vibrant and I want to
give a shout out because the person the illustrator, pronounce
your name for me, Kristen illust She's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
She's from Italy. Her name is Georgia. It's Theiachi.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Beautiful Beauty full illustration. How talented is this woman? It
really is beautiful. It is a beautiful book. It is
actually Kristen sent me two books. And I don't have
(29:19):
young kids because my son's forty one. Although I do
like looking at the books myself because I'm a big kid.
I'm going to I think donated to a preschool. I'm
keeping the coloring book he gave me Kristen because I
will cover.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I am keeping that because I'm a big kids. But
and there's coloring books. I mean, this is it is
just you cald tell that your heart is in it.
And folks, what you hear with Kristen, this is how
she is. Go on her Instagram and now we'll see
this is who she is. Just like if you want
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on my Facebook, you'll see I am who I am
because I can't be anything else. Yes, that's right. I mean,
it's so funny, Christy, because if I started doing my
show and I never thought I would do a show,
you know, interviewing people, I would listen to other hosts
and I would be like, I don't sound like them.
(30:21):
I do not sound like them at all. And then
I said to myself, well, you know what, that's good.
Good as I'm unique, and the guests will remember me,
either for good or or not.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
They will remember exactly, thank you and how did you?
How did you? How did you get to that? You
know that one thought and then switch it to the
oh wait, no, this is me, like did it just happen?
I don't know, doesn't because we all get that way
where we compare, and then how yeah, stop caring and go.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know, it took me a long time. It's a
struggle for me even now, because folks, So when I
grew up an emotionally abusive environment and I was told
that I was ugly and I was ignored and I
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was a scapegoat child. So I turned my life around.
I started at age sixty, and it's never too late, folks.
I'll be sixty eight, Lord Willing in December. It's never
too late to change that script of that someone told
you about yourself. We believe the stories were told by
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other people. I attended the summit, and that was the beginning.
I said, you know what, I do have self worth?
I am, you know, like I struggle sometimes Christal with
some death thinking I can't talk to them. I'm not
good enough. They're a Harvard professor, or they're the CEO.
Oh they're a lawyer or something. And you know, I
(32:04):
sometimes I do worry like, oh, I hope I sound
intelligent when I talk. I mean, you know, thanks folks. Yeah,
I mean, I'm telling you the real deal here of
my struggle and so and I. But I enjoy talking
to people, and I learned so much from my guests.
(32:24):
And then when I I hear other people like interviewed
the same person, I'm thinking, you know, if I did
it different or I said it different. But everyone, like
people will go on different podcasts, everyone will interview them differently.
There's not a right or wrong way. I guess I
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have an informal conversation and I just do it my
own way. And a life coach said to me once,
I said, Betsy, you have to do it your way.
You know, just the being authentic and that that's just
how I do it, and I've been doing the first
six years, which I could find that hard to believes.
(33:08):
Is amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
And not only are you doing it, you're touching so
many lives and you're also yourself, which is what everyone
out there wants. We want Betsy, you know, not a
version of Betsy that's just putting on a face and
saying everything's great all the time. No, you're being open
and honest and real, and that's how you truly touch
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lives for the better. Thank you, Betsy for your aw
Thank you, and keep going. We need we need you
in this world. Keep keep talking and keep being real
because you know, life is wonderful but also can have
its challenges and we're here, all right, We're here for
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it all and we can make life just a little
bit better great, you know, like that's that's that's what
I'm here to do. If I can make you smile,
because you know, it's like having tools, having things that
get us through the tough things. That's right, and also
the great times too. So yeah, you are awesome. Keep
chatting away.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
You you too, Thank you, Christen, you too. This book
especially Happy clouds. I'd love us files of affirmations for kids. Folks.
I'm going to tell you this book would make such
a difference in a child fibe. You know, we don't
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know what goes on in people's homes. We really don't.
Sometimes will go to a pre school and say, what's
going on in their home? This book. I'm not even
I'm not exaggerating. You know, books can change someone's life.
A book like this for young child can be life
changing for them, especially if they are in an abusive
(34:59):
environment and they pick up this book and it says
I can do anything. I'll give you some examples of
this is the page that has different shapes I can
do anything, and it's all different shapes of like a star.
I am special, a pencil. I am smart, but in
the cloud looking shape. I am strong, I am happy,
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I am active, I am cool, I am kind that
I say, I am loved, that's important. I am grateful,
I am calm, I am beautiful. This book would have
meant so much to me as a young child. I
could have used this book. This book is so important
and I hope, I hope you folks in the audience
(35:44):
will get this book for a child in your life.
Donate it to a school hospital. Because this book, even
now with my age, I looked at it and thinking, wow,
I could have used this book as a child when
I was struggling. You don't know what kids are going through,
(36:05):
you know, do you know that children? And I'm being
very realistic here, children do have depression. There are children
who have tried to commit suicide. And I'm not saying
that this book could prevent it. I can't say that,
but what inspiration this book would have would have been
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to me? And as a nine or ten year old,
I did try to commit suicide, thankfully and in secede, and.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Oh my gosh, I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
And this book would make such a difference in the
child's life. What about foster children who get shuttled around
from home to home. What if you're a foster parent,
what a book this would be in your house for
your foster child? Guidance counselors? Definitely, definitely, You know, churches, churches,
(37:07):
race is a worship, not just churches, all places a worship, really,
I think. And then you know people might tell bets
your you're little off the wall. Well maybe I am
that I could say that a book for a young
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child can change your life.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
It can.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
If they're in an environment where they don't feel loved
and they don't feel special, and they pick up this book,
I think it would help them. I know. I don't
just think, I know it would help them a lot.
I think if I was given this book at the
age of even at nine, If I was given this
book at six years old and and would have kept it,
(37:54):
that would have I'm not gonna just look at it
when I was sad and felt that no one loved me,
and I would look at this book. What a difference
I think it would have made in my life. Kristen,
and I just had to put that out there. I
just kind of put that out there, folks. You know,
I don't do a scripted interview. I only do, like
(38:18):
my notes when I introduced the guest, because I can't
remember everything, and that's the only thing that's scripted. I
might have a guideline of questions from a publicist, but I,
you know, do my own. I go, you know, with
the flow. And I just felt the need to say
that in the show, Christen. That's how strong I feel
(38:41):
about your books, That's how wonderful they are, and.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
This is why I do what I do.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
And I'm I don't want anyone the struggle, and I
do think we all need each other, We need to
support and we need Yeah, if a book can be
that thing, that one thing that we don't say to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It's hard to just wake up and be like, I
am beautiful, you know, so you make yourself apart. But
then on top of it, if you have a layer
of like you said, home lives. We don't know what
is going on in the homes. We don't know. We
don't know, and and and the harder it is, the
harder it is for the child. And affirmations, positive affirmations,
(39:40):
and just that feeling that I am something. I am,
I am, I am great, you know, and like you
said in a in an in a great way, like
just to fill your cup, I am loved. Someone does
love me. And and so to look at the end
of the book because words are so powerful. What the
things we keep saying to ourselves. We go to school
(40:02):
all day saying I'm ugly, I'm fat, and I'm dumb. Oh,
that'd be so easy to stay or I'm gonna fail
this test. Nope, you catch yourself if you're little and
you've read the book and you go, oh, this pencil
reminds me. They're holding that little pencil in their hand.
Little Kristen or little Bessy is saying I am smart,
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you know, stuff like that. Like I use symbols and signs,
you know, to get the message across. And then kids
can always look up in the clouds. I say this
every time I talk in public or read. I say, hey, kids,
look for shape in the clouds, and always give it
a special It's always a happy message. Like I'm basically
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telling kids, whatever you see, it's a blessing already, like
like just know it always means something good. And and
you be amazed what you see when you look in
the clouds.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, the clouds, you know, right right, Yeah, the grass
looking up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah. So I I thank you. That's even the bottom
of my heart because like I've wanted to write a
book for the longest time, and when it came at
the perfect time, do you know what I mean, Like
like and it wasn't forced, it came naturally. I love
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everything about it because I live it and I've been
you know, you know, upbringing like you know, not having
the best self esteem. So yeah, I don't want kids
to have that. And that just comes from me being
hard on myself, you know. Just but but it's just
(41:55):
it could be a book really for any age. If
the parent's reading it, I feel like they'll get something
out of it as well as their child, or could
be a child, like you said, almost like their survival
guide that gets to get under their pillow at night
and pull it out, go to their happy place. It
can be their happy place, go in the clouds, be safe,
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be safe, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yes, And what a book like this should be in
every pediatric ward of a hospital, especially a pediatric oncology
for can you imagine what a child is going through
thing having no eyelashes, no hair, and they pick up
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this book and says, I am beautiful, I am special. Ah.
What a gift, Chris, And you are a gift? What
I mean? Just uh, sometimes I'm that's not good for
(43:04):
a tork shows to be speechless. But this is such
a book that can go anywhere. And Kristin, you have
given books to places that are overseas where children have
it very difficult, like in Pakistan and in other places
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around the world. I mean, and they they take this book,
they look at it, and I hope that they do
believe that they are special and they are loved, because
it's rough in some of those places, especially for girls.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Oh get, I get you know, pictures and feedback. And
one of the things you know they love is after
they read the books and and and they do an activity,
they get to like color which forces it like I
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am loved and it's a heart shaped, you know cloud,
and they're smiling and I'm like, oh, this is so great,
you know, and they're singing the songs, and I just
believe that it's really touching them, Like you know, they're
really feeling that love, and they're feeling it for themselves.
You know that they can like always have that or
carry that with them. So it's very rewarding to see
(44:25):
it in those countries like Pakistan just got a monsoon
and a lot of damage there and so it's like
so hard to imagine what they're going through. They need
the tools, they need the happiness more than ever. Yeah.
(44:46):
So yeah, I'm thankful to give where I can. I
love getting back Betsy. That's one of my favorite things
to do. Like, I really, really really love helping needy
children anywhere, So an adults, anyone really, I mean it
doesn't matter. Like I said, we're all big kids, so anyone, yes,
(45:08):
big kids. You might not realize this. I forgot to
tell you, but my third book is on the way.
It'll be in February. We'll be published. But it's all
for like between age that tween is like kind of
that ten, twelve, thirteen year old, and then it hits
middle school and on right like that age group. I
(45:30):
wrote eighty quotes and I'm putting them in a quote
book so they can have knowledge quotes to take them
through those middle school years. So and I guess it
goes up to adults because like I've tested it on
many I'd love to share with you if you could
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please pick a number between one and eighty.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I said, what, okay, let's see what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Okay, that'd be today. Your quote of the day is
every great thing started with an idea. Use your imagination
and create something wonderful. You have the power inside of you.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Oh cool. What's the name of that book, Kristen? What
it is?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
The work in progress? It's definitely gonna have to work Okay,
quotes in it. It's gonna either be you know, uh yeah,
it's a the name is coming to me.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Oh okay, oh wow, along.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
With yeah, but definitely quotes quotes for the teenage and above,
like I want to kind of make it for middle
school and above, so like.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Oh, well that's exciting. Oh that's a great quote. But
as we wrap up here, Christian, I could talk to
uh forever. How do people get in touch with you?
What's your website? And if you go on the website,
I'm sure, first of we'll keep you up to date
about her up and coming book.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yes, yes, everything will be thank you, Bessy. Everything is.
I'm a social media girl. I've got my website which
is www dot Happyhappy Everything dot com. And then I
also I'm on Amazon, so if you just search my
(47:31):
name Kristin Griffin and Happy Clouds, it will pop up.
Or I'm also on Facebook and Instagram as Happy Happy Everything,
So I'm.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
There, yes, yes, and the YouTube channel Happy Happy Everything.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Thank you, and the YouTube channel animated videos that brought
I brought all the characters to life. The clouds are
in there singing away really fun. Jing I call almost jingles.
They're only like forty five seconds long, so parents, you
can definitely listen to these as well. And yes, you
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can find me on YouTube and Happy Happy Everything.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
And folks really go to the website because there is
such great gift ideas. There's Christina set me. She has
q adorable stickers hens that you could decorate, get pencils.
The pens and pencils, yes.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Depends christ They were sold out and they're gonna be
probably by the holidays. They should be backing up and running.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
And the common clouds that you know, not for anyone
that would would put in their mouths, So it's not
for babies, it's for how old would you say, christ
and your cloud three?
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I say three enough. Yes, I do have a on
my tags, just out of caution for as a choking hazard.
I just say there's small parts because the com cloud
has a cute little googly eyes and a pom pom nose.
We don't want anyone, you know, choking on those things.
But yes, they're they're ages three enough.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
And I would highly recommend it. And if even someone
who has any type of dementia, as long as they
won't put it in their mouths, I would have given
Matt one of these the squeeze to hold, and I
think it's very comforting. And Kristin, you were just so
(49:43):
wonderful and I love talking to you. You were just
a beautiful human being. Folks, you have got to go
on the website and read about Kristen all that she
does or that she gets to her community and all
that's available. Great gift ideas and if you wanted to,
(50:03):
you know, donate, you know, buy books and donate. And
I'm sure you know Kristin could even you can get
in touch with her about nonprofits that she knows. Or
you could donate books too for children that are overceipts
if your like or you know, if you live in
her neck of the woods in Florida. I just think,
(50:27):
even if you wanted to do a good deed and
feel good about yourself, how about buying books and giving
it to pediatric words in your area and children's hospitals.
I know they would love it. I know they would
benefit from it. And that's a great idea, especially you
know it's coming up to excuse me, holiday season season,
(50:50):
the giving season, the thinking of others. So I would
highly recommend that, and you can read all about Kristen
Griffin in the block. The Genie White of the station
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(51:31):
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(00:21):
Fell little time tie there with me today, I'm so excited.
Excuse me if I have a quotic call, excuse me
with me today. I'm so happy to have back with me.
Kristin Griffin, she was on back in June, and I
just love Kristin Griffin, what she does, what she's about.
(00:45):
Kristen is founder of Happy, Happy Everything Corporation, which story
in twenty sixteen to inspire children and make them smile
and spread joy around the world. Christ And dreams of
being a Disney animator and writing a children's book. And
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she did, she wrote, and so she sent it to me.
If I was gonna tell you right now, I'm not
your traditional hosts. Go on the website because Christin sent
me two books, and I'm gonna I'll tell you is
(01:26):
a picture on the website doesn't do a justice in person.
It's much more beautiful. It is really stunning. And she
has happy clouds and positive affirmations for kids, and she
has happy words seventy two words for kids to reach,
(01:49):
has coloring books, stickers, pens, pencils, and she just came
out with what you would she calls calm clouds. And
she sent me too. And let me tell you, I
have high anxiety, folks, I do. And I squeezed this
calming cloud. She said to me that you could put,
you know, lavender spray. I guess whatever, or you don't
(02:11):
have to spray, but and I squeezed it, and I
find it very comforting and it is just incredible. Kristen
gets back to her community too. She's involved with nonprofits
where she donates books. And she is just a wonderful
human being shining her light and love out into the world.
(02:35):
And she was also and we're going to talk about
this because I got to know she was also on
The Bachelor back in two thousand and five. I guess
she's on the hunt for a husband back then. But
she's halfily married with two children, but she didn't meet them.
She didn't marry the bachelor on The Bachelor. She met
(02:56):
her Prince Charming later on, and I want to walk
up back to Jednie with Betsy Kristy Griffin. Welcome back, Sessond.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thank you Betsy. That was the nicest exult ever. Thank
you very much. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You're welcome, and I'm happy that you are able to
be here. In folks, you know it is as i'm
recording this, it's October eighth. When you hear this, it'll
probably be November. And I don't know about where you
all live, but this Christmas tree is out already in
the stores and Christmas decorations, and I think not usually
(03:39):
do a show like this, but because I love Christen's
work and I want the audience to know. You know
you're looking for gift ideas for your teachers of your
childhoods in preschool, kindergarten, I would say what grades up
to third grade? Fourth grade? Kristen, for your.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm a big kid, I can say, you know, I
would really say second grade is okay. But we're all
big kids at heart. You know you want to fire,
we can make it. I could. I could definitely do
with fifth graders. But yes, I think second grade would
be the like pre kay pre K three and the
second grade yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, I'm a big kid too. That's why I'm so
excited when I got to the book. I'm the big kid, folks.
It is such a wonderful gift to give to the
child that age from, you know, preschool, and I would
even read it when they're I read to myselone he
was a baby, so I would say reading from the
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time they're born, uh to second grade. Christien's books happy Words,
happy clouds or coloring books. Not only she had the books,
but he took being a big kid. I love the
music and thank you and she have you have a
(05:05):
YouTube channel. It's called Happy Happy Everything just on important. Okay,
I got it right. Yes, folks, I am a big kid.
But if I was still in the preschool working, I
would be playing that music because I just think it's
(05:27):
very very inspirational and motivational for children as well as adults.
I got a kick out of it, and I just
think that, you know, if we could introduce our children,
if you have children, nieces, nephews, grand nieces or nephews,
whoever in your life that you know could benefit from this.
(05:52):
How about your preschool teacher donating that to preschool or
just you know, if you have a preschool or YMCA
or some kind of children's club in your area, donating
these books hospitals pediatric wards. I think they could I know,
(06:13):
I'm my own thinking. I know they could benefit. What
a gift to get to a pediatric ward is your
your books, Kristin, I know that you do that where
you live. You have to donate it to your The
hospital is down there, and that's the kind of person
Kristen is, and you're welcome. I always tell the audience
(06:38):
go on the person's website because I could sit here
for an hour telling you everything about Kristin Griffin, but
I want you to go on and look. And I
have to because I didn't ask Kristin the last time.
So I had to ask Kristen, what was it like
(07:00):
being on the Bachelor back in two thousand and five?
How did you get on there? And what was that like?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Such a great question. Oh my gosh, how could I
sum this up? But see, I'll tell you what it
was like is it was in the best way possible,
life changing for me. It didn't mean I ended up
with the Bachelor though, because he did not think I
was funny. I was very well myself goofy fun being
(07:29):
really you know, just being I don't know funny anymore.
And he was an er doctor and he was pretty serious.
And when I did this silly thing where I cut
an orange, I was trying to tell him how to
get kids to eat. See, they edit, they edit quite
a bit. I guess I'll tell you that part. I
love The Bachelor for the sense that it did lead
me to love So I have this huge, you know,
(07:53):
gratefulness for it. But as a contestant on the show,
what you don't see, as like you know, someone at home,
is that they'll edit some of your conversation, just like
we do, you know, maybe on with any kind of
TV production. So let's say I was telling The Bachelor, Oh,
you should get kids to you know, put some oranges,
(08:14):
you know, to get them to eat in the hospital.
Since you have an er doctor, I'm like, oh, to
get the kids to eat, you could do an orange peel.
And he's like, what's that? And so that's what sparked
this whole I've been doing in my whole life. I
cut an orange rime in just slits and I put
it in my mouth. It looks like Bubba teeth and
(08:35):
the whole world. And I saw me on my day
cutting and putting teeth in my mouth, not you know
why this girl was doing it, you know. Ah And
he didn't laugh, Betsy, that was the worst part. I
put in my teeth and I'm like, hey, Travis, how
ya doing? And he was like, be careful. And I
(08:55):
knew it and put there in my heart. I'm like,
I'm going home. I knew it, and I'll was on
a one on one date with the bachelor, Betsy, which
is like a big deal to get like a just
you and him, you know date. Oh no, And we
were cruising down the Sene River in Paris. I mean
talk about now, but it was there was no you
(09:17):
know magic.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's part of.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The whole thing is like I know, I know, I
knew like if this part, if it's going to be
your destiny will happen, right, you know. I like I
was like, okay, well we're not a match. I was myself.
I get off the boats. He says something nice like
you know, you really wear your sleeve on your heart
and uh, you don't have a great day, you know
(09:43):
kind of thing. And it's the evening and Betsy, imagine
this the Eiffel Tower is in front of me, twinkling
like the most magical twinkle? Have you seen that the
Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Say, but no, no, no, I see pictures of it
during the day.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh okay, So I guess they started this twinkling. Oh
my gosh, all of it, the whole thing, twinkling lights
and the producers are really far away from you to
make it more. I guess, I don't know dramatic, and
they just have this shot of me and they're taping me,
asking me if I, you know, you know, would do
anything different or or you know, maybe I would take
(10:27):
it down in a hush or something like that, and
it starts raining. So there. Now I'm in the rain
in Paris and they're all their umbrellas and I am like, oh,
this is perfect television. They got this poor girl who
just got dumped in the raid. You know. But I'll
never forget what I said. And this is twenty years ago.
(10:50):
I said, I can't change who I am because the
person that I love will love those things about me
and he'll never want to let me go. And that's
why I walked off. I was like, you know, and
I really am that girl. I think The reason the
producers picked me is because I told them I had
this fairy tale dream of getting married at Disney World,
(11:12):
like I knew one day in my heart. I love
the whole magic of it. I thought, what a fun
place to get married, and by golly, I did it,
just not with the Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ah oh wow, that must be some well production to
have a wedding at Disney, Like, how do you go
about planning that, Kristen? Because I've heard and yeah, I've
seen pictures of weddings at Disney, but how do you
how does one go about doing that?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
So it's so honest listening and they're like, oh, that's
my dream too. All you have to do is go
to the Disney's fairy Tale and Weddings website and there's
a place that says, like, you know, interested in getting
med and you click on it and you you submit
a form and then a wedding coordinator will call you
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and then you go there in person and you have
a consultation and then it goes from there. You plan
and then if it all works out and you have
a budget and a you know, date, then you'll be
assigned a wedding planner and that person really has a
magic wand Betsy and they make your come through. Wow,
(12:28):
I really did it. I went into like a Cinderella's carriage.
That's how I came to the wedding chapel. And that
was magic. And then I had my whole Baily was
in there besides my now husband, he was already at
the church. And then and then to leave once we
got married, everyone like lines up because he and I
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got to take the carriage over to the reception. So
it was really, really, really really a dream, a dream,
I'm true. Yeah, I'm a dreamer.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
That that is cool. You know what this show is
gonna be a mixture of everything Kristen's books and you know,
to dating, like being yourself, and that's what's missing now, Kristen.
I mean, I don't date, but from what I hear,
you know, like people go on these websites but everything
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dating apps and they pretend to be someone that they're not.
And you know, I could never be that way. I mean, well,
back when I was dating, back in the sony, there
was no dating apps. You had any face to face,
you know, there was no business, no video calling, there
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was no cell phones, no computers. They started oh yeah. Dated.
What they had back then was a dating service like
you would you could go. I never did it because
it was expensive. You can video like they had the
video that you can video yourself, but it was more
like a dating service or dating match. Way before these
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dating matches came into being, they started having that, but
I didn't do that. It was too chicken. So I
just think, and you're right, and I want girls and
guys to hear this. That being your authentic self, that's
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who you have to be. And if people can't accept
you for who you are, then you know what, you
move on say the next person. You know. I mean,
if there are things that about yourself you want to
change that you don't like or people will tell you
you know this, you might want to think about, you know, yeah,
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you know, raining yourself in or something, and then you
may want to do that, but still be your authentic self.
And you know what, Chris and I I I still
understand what you're saying. Because when I met my husband Matt,
I knew right away he was the one because he
didn't try to change me. He didn't try to change me,
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and he didn't like you know, I got a lot
of guys would tell you you need to wear makeup,
and that was like if I put on lipstick while
you're wearing that, you don't need to wear makeup. You're beautiful,
how you are?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I love that?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And I saw himss hearing him saying that's they're the best,
that's they're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, but that's that's that's a gift, Betsy, And you
probably felt so loved being loved and accepted for exactly
who you are. You know, you didn't have to explain
yourself or try to be a different way or dress
a different way, or you know, and all the pressures
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you know, social media and filters people put on. I've
heard a lot of people say that show up and
the person doesn't even look like the person, and you know,
ultimately that really doesn't help your self esteem if you're
going to do that. It puts too much pressure. Like
I'd rather show the wrinkles than look like this perfect
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person and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You know, yeah, that is true. So now I have
to ask you, because now I am U, I have
to answer you this. How did you meet your husband? Then?
How did you story?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's such a great story. Okay, so because of the
Bachelor and That's why I said I am forever grateful
for the show because I came back to my hometown single.
But you know, it was it was I was okay,
I was like, all right, I always I forgot tell
you this fun part about me. I kept a frog,
(17:10):
like a not a real one, like a stuffed animal
in my car, and I had this like metaphor, like, hey,
you might have to kiss a lot of frogs before
you find your prince. Like it might just be that way, right,
I might have to, Like it was just a symbolic
that my prince will come one day, and when he comes,
that little frog is it was called a beanie baby
(17:31):
or a beanie bag or something like that. I was
gonna take that frog out of the car when I
knew I found the one. So here I have this
frog in my car and I'd go out at night
and her fund but just never found the right guy
and dated here and there and everywhere. Well then about
a month after the show, fans of the show came
(17:52):
up to me and recognized me, which is it happened
quite often they're like, oh, are you the girl from
the Bachelor. You know that kind of thing, And so
this particular night. It was not my husband but his
friend that said, oh, we were such fans of you,
and I'm like, I watched the show. Like you're a
guy like in your mid thirties, you watch a show,
you watch it. I was kind of like, take him back, right, I.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Was like, oh, thanks, I think but he was so
funny and I called him cousin Joe because he's just
he was that funny, almost like a cousin.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Right. So this is how I met my husband. Cousin
Joe and I started to hang out and he thought
he looked After we got to know each other, he goes,
you know what, I've got the perfect guy for you. Your
total opposites. But I think it's so funny. Bachelor fan
(18:47):
slash cousin Joe went on. The three of us went
on a date. He truly was my matchmaker, all thanks
to watching the show. So and then that was it.
I met my husband at like a sushi restaurant. He
was tall, handsome, smiled. I love that he smiled. That
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made me happy, and uh that frog came out of
my car the same as you. He loved me for me,
didn't want to change me, and he supported my dreams
and that was something I never found before. So I
could be loud and he's quiet, so it's a perfect combo.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they say EPICID s a tract, so yeah, you
know that is club. I wanted to ask you that
the first time you came on, but I wanted to
concentrate on uh, you were happy, happy, everything, and I said,
oh yeah. At this time I had to ask about
(19:51):
you know, the Bachelor and how you met your Yeah,
how you met your your husband. I know that you
had a wedding and and Disney STI that's what's great
about having people come back because but if you want
to hear folks. The first time I did interview Kristen,
you can go back and look that up. It was
in June this year. And that's why shameless plug here.
(20:15):
But that's why you need to subscribe to training with
Betsy excuse me. And that is really cute. I went
to Bible College for two and a half years thinking
I was going to meet my husband there, but I didn't,
so I was too much for I guess a very
(20:38):
constrict quiet. I mean I am quiet in a way,
but you know, I feel like if I want to
talk to you either you're male or female. Just because
you're a male and I talked to you doesn't mean
I'm flirting with you. Doesn't mean I want to date you.
It just means I'm being a fellow human being and
saying hi. Yeah, but that wasn't their thinking. They think
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they thought if you talked to a guy, you were
flirting with them, are interested him? That's not I thought
I was a case. So I just.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
A lot of friends or did you meet someone at all? There?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And that's why I'm a couple of guys but nothing,
you know, nothing. And then I came back up. Yeah,
I came back up and that mat So that was
meant to be, you know, it was just uh, you
know when. And it's so funny because when Matt took me,
(21:50):
I went, we went, he picked me up for our
first date. And then I came back. My mom said
to me, he's the one for you. You're gonna marry You're
gonna marry him. I only went on one date. Yeah,
I said, I only went on one date. What makes
you think that I should think that? She goes? I
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just know because I just know.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's so beautiful. Actually, because your mom like like gave you,
like her blessing already you know. Yeah, yeah, so you
felt it pretty quick too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, take that a little longer, but uh,
not real. I meant, you know, yeah, And you know,
we got engaged sixty months after we were dating and
got married four months later. So I only we only
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knew each other eleven months when we got married. Wow,
you know, but that's how it works back.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
How many see what I was married?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I was by thirty nine years when Matt died. Wow,
we just had celebrated thirty nine years when he died.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a beautiful paver. Wow. Wow. So uh that's that's
that's cool. I mean you you are the anyone who
needs advice, they come to you.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So that's give us all advice.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Don't go on a dating show, does it?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You know? And you know what, it's been six years,
Well it will be six years in January. I'm ready.
The met's gone and I'm not interested in dating, you know.
And don't get me wrong, folks, if you've lost the
pioneer's souse, you want to date, that's fine, good for you,
and I encourage that. It's just not for me. I
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was feel too weird. I was just feel too uncomfortable.
That to me, that's whatever works for you, works for you.
And I just think that, you know what, as I
were to date again, no one would I know now,
I would be like, you know what, this this is
who I am. This is what I'm bringing to the table.
What do you bring in? Because I know my worth,
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I would not That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah. Yeah, you have to know your worth, whether your
guy or girl or whatever you say you are. I
want to be politically correct. You have to be yourself
and know what I would see because I worked with
a lot of young people, I would see girl, young
girls dumbing down themselves to keep a guy. Oh I
(24:47):
can't be as smart as him. Why why can't you
be smarter, smarter than your boyfriend? Why are you doing
your boyfriend's homework right? Right?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Right? They want does me a box or something? You know?
They want to put them in a box?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, and not.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Some girls are meant to shine and and and I think,
why I do? It really stuggles back to everything I do,
and I start at a very very very young age.
Is building kids self esteem, self confidence, just like that
self worth. I love that you said that word self
worth you know, it's it's it's it's so important because
(25:27):
we all have those challenges growing up with it. But
if you keep feeding good tools, and you keep doing
the right things mentally and tell yourselves really good things
about yourself. I do believe, and surround yourself with the
right things too, you will attract exactly what you were
meant to have in your life. But it takes work,
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it takes worse, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Self, Yes, And so that's tell parents at they're guardians.
Whoever takes care of children, please do not emotionally abuse them.
Do not mentally abuse and making them think they're not
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worth anything. Because when someone feels they're not worth anything,
they'll accept anybody because they think they're not deserting of
being treated better. And this is what I just fought
your book Crison. I can go back to your book
there typical holds. I go back and forth, but you have,
you know, like your happy clouds, the one with the
(26:35):
positive affirmations. How do the child feel good about themselves?
I am smart, like you know one page. I am strong,
you know, I mean, it's just I am special. Now, folks,
I'm not talking about way you know, being narcissistic thinking
(26:57):
you're better than everybody. That's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about a child having that self esteem and
knowing that they should be treated with respect. Yes, that's
you know. I am calm, I mean, and then I
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am beautiful as on one page. And yes, and the
music what's that one? I just love it? I am.
How's it though? I am special?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yes, yes, the song called I can Do Anything, but
I can do anything?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yes, yeah, yes, yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I you know, and I really really designed all my
things to reach kids, but also to reach I would say,
the kids at heart, which are us because you know,
ages three to one hundred and three, like I want
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all of us to be touched because we can use
it at any age if you apply it, you know,
to your life.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I appreciate you listening, and I listen. I mean, you
know it's called practically you preach. I use all my
own tools, all my own things, like daily daily, so
it's a practice, and I choose. I choose happiness every
day even on the days like we talked about earlier.
You know, there's tough, tougher days than other days. So yeah,
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I just have to choose. So yeah, that's what I'm
here to do.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Your books they're just a vibrant and I want to
give a shout out because the person the illustrator, pronounce
your name for me, Kristen illust She's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
She's from Italy. Her name is Georgia. It's Theiachi.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Beautiful Beauty full illustration. How talented is this woman? It
really is beautiful. It is a beautiful book. It is
actually Kristen sent me two books. And I don't have
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young kids because my son's forty one. Although I do
like looking at the books myself because I'm a big kid.
I'm going to I think donated to a preschool. I'm
keeping the coloring book he gave me Kristen because I
will cover.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I am keeping that because I'm a big kids. But
and there's coloring books. I mean, this is it is
just you cald tell that your heart is in it.
And folks, what you hear with Kristen, this is how
she is. Go on her Instagram and now we'll see
this is who she is. Just like if you want
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on my Facebook, you'll see I am who I am
because I can't be anything else. Yes, that's right. I mean,
it's so funny, Christy, because if I started doing my
show and I never thought I would do a show,
you know, interviewing people, I would listen to other hosts
and I would be like, I don't sound like them.
(30:21):
I do not sound like them at all. And then
I said to myself, well, you know what, that's good.
Good as I'm unique, and the guests will remember me,
either for good or or not.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
They will remember exactly, thank you and how did you?
How did you? How did you get to that? You
know that one thought and then switch it to the
oh wait, no, this is me, like did it just happen?
I don't know, doesn't because we all get that way
where we compare, and then how yeah, stop caring and go.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You know, it took me a long time. It's a
struggle for me even now, because folks, So when I
grew up an emotionally abusive environment and I was told
that I was ugly and I was ignored and I
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was a scapegoat child. So I turned my life around.
I started at age sixty, and it's never too late, folks.
I'll be sixty eight, Lord Willing in December. It's never
too late to change that script of that someone told
you about yourself. We believe the stories were told by
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other people. I attended the summit, and that was the beginning.
I said, you know what, I do have self worth?
I am, you know, like I struggle sometimes Christal with
some death thinking I can't talk to them. I'm not
good enough. They're a Harvard professor, or they're the CEO.
Oh they're a lawyer or something. And you know, I
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sometimes I do worry like, oh, I hope I sound
intelligent when I talk. I mean, you know, thanks folks. Yeah,
I mean, I'm telling you the real deal here of
my struggle and so and I. But I enjoy talking
to people, and I learned so much from my guests.
(32:24):
And then when I I hear other people like interviewed
the same person, I'm thinking, you know, if I did
it different or I said it different. But everyone, like
people will go on different podcasts, everyone will interview them differently.
There's not a right or wrong way. I guess I
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have an informal conversation and I just do it my
own way. And a life coach said to me once,
I said, Betsy, you have to do it your way.
You know, just the being authentic and that that's just
how I do it, and I've been doing the first
six years, which I could find that hard to believes.
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Is amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
And not only are you doing it, you're touching so
many lives and you're also yourself, which is what everyone
out there wants. We want Betsy, you know, not a
version of Betsy that's just putting on a face and
saying everything's great all the time. No, you're being open
and honest and real, and that's how you truly touch
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lives for the better. Thank you, Betsy for your aw
Thank you, and keep going. We need we need you
in this world. Keep keep talking and keep being real
because you know, life is wonderful but also can have
its challenges and we're here, all right, We're here for
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it all and we can make life just a little
bit better great, you know, like that's that's that's what
I'm here to do. If I can make you smile,
because you know, it's like having tools, having things that
get us through the tough things. That's right, and also
the great times too. So yeah, you are awesome. Keep
chatting away.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
You you too, Thank you, Christen, you too. This book
especially Happy clouds. I'd love us files of affirmations for kids. Folks.
I'm going to tell you this book would make such
a difference in a child fibe. You know, we don't
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know what goes on in people's homes. We really don't.
Sometimes will go to a pre school and say, what's
going on in their home? This book. I'm not even
I'm not exaggerating. You know, books can change someone's life.
A book like this for young child can be life
changing for them, especially if they are in an abusive
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environment and they pick up this book and it says
I can do anything. I'll give you some examples of
this is the page that has different shapes I can
do anything, and it's all different shapes of like a star.
I am special, a pencil. I am smart, but in
the cloud looking shape. I am strong, I am happy,
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I am active, I am cool, I am kind that
I say, I am loved, that's important. I am grateful,
I am calm, I am beautiful. This book would have
meant so much to me as a young child. I
could have used this book. This book is so important
and I hope, I hope you folks in the audience
(35:44):
will get this book for a child in your life.
Donate it to a school hospital. Because this book, even
now with my age, I looked at it and thinking, wow,
I could have used this book as a child when
I was struggling. You don't know what kids are going through,
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you know, do you know that children? And I'm being
very realistic here, children do have depression. There are children
who have tried to commit suicide. And I'm not saying
that this book could prevent it. I can't say that,
but what inspiration this book would have would have been
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to me? And as a nine or ten year old,
I did try to commit suicide, thankfully and in secede, and.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Oh my gosh, I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
And this book would make such a difference in the
child's life. What about foster children who get shuttled around
from home to home. What if you're a foster parent,
what a book this would be in your house for
your foster child? Guidance counselors? Definitely, definitely, You know, churches, churches,
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race is a worship, not just churches, all places a worship, really,
I think. And then you know people might tell bets
your you're little off the wall. Well maybe I am
that I could say that a book for a young
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child can change your life.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
It can.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
If they're in an environment where they don't feel loved
and they don't feel special, and they pick up this book,
I think it would help them. I know. I don't
just think, I know it would help them a lot.
I think if I was given this book at the
age of even at nine, If I was given this
book at six years old and and would have kept it,
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that would have I'm not gonna just look at it
when I was sad and felt that no one loved me,
and I would look at this book. What a difference
I think it would have made in my life. Kristen,
and I just had to put that out there. I
just kind of put that out there, folks. You know,
I don't do a scripted interview. I only do, like
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my notes when I introduced the guest, because I can't
remember everything, and that's the only thing that's scripted. I
might have a guideline of questions from a publicist, but I,
you know, do my own. I go, you know, with
the flow. And I just felt the need to say
that in the show, Christen. That's how strong I feel
(38:41):
about your books, That's how wonderful they are, and.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
This is why I do what I do.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
And I'm I don't want anyone the struggle, and I
do think we all need each other, We need to
support and we need Yeah, if a book can be
that thing, that one thing that we don't say to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It's hard to just wake up and be like, I
am beautiful, you know, so you make yourself apart. But
then on top of it, if you have a layer
of like you said, home lives. We don't know what
is going on in the homes. We don't know. We
don't know, and and and the harder it is, the
harder it is for the child. And affirmations, positive affirmations,
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and just that feeling that I am something. I am,
I am, I am great, you know, and like you
said in a in an in a great way, like
just to fill your cup, I am loved. Someone does
love me. And and so to look at the end
of the book because words are so powerful. What the
things we keep saying to ourselves. We go to school
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all day saying I'm ugly, I'm fat, and I'm dumb. Oh,
that'd be so easy to stay or I'm gonna fail
this test. Nope, you catch yourself if you're little and
you've read the book and you go, oh, this pencil
reminds me. They're holding that little pencil in their hand.
Little Kristen or little Bessy is saying I am smart,
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you know, stuff like that. Like I use symbols and signs,
you know, to get the message across. And then kids
can always look up in the clouds. I say this
every time I talk in public or read. I say, hey, kids,
look for shape in the clouds, and always give it
a special It's always a happy message. Like I'm basically
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telling kids, whatever you see, it's a blessing already, like
like just know it always means something good. And and
you be amazed what you see when you look in
the clouds.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, the clouds, you know, right right, Yeah, the grass
looking up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah. So I I thank you. That's even the bottom
of my heart because like I've wanted to write a
book for the longest time, and when it came at
the perfect time, do you know what I mean, Like
like and it wasn't forced, it came naturally. I love
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everything about it because I live it and I've been
you know, you know, upbringing like you know, not having
the best self esteem. So yeah, I don't want kids
to have that. And that just comes from me being
hard on myself, you know. Just but but it's just
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it could be a book really for any age. If
the parent's reading it, I feel like they'll get something
out of it as well as their child, or could
be a child, like you said, almost like their survival
guide that gets to get under their pillow at night
and pull it out, go to their happy place. It
can be their happy place, go in the clouds, be safe,
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be safe, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yes, And what a book like this should be in
every pediatric ward of a hospital, especially a pediatric oncology
for can you imagine what a child is going through
thing having no eyelashes, no hair, and they pick up
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this book and says, I am beautiful, I am special. Ah.
What a gift, Chris, And you are a gift? What
I mean? Just uh, sometimes I'm that's not good for
(43:04):
a tork shows to be speechless. But this is such
a book that can go anywhere. And Kristin, you have
given books to places that are overseas where children have
it very difficult, like in Pakistan and in other places
(43:25):
around the world. I mean, and they they take this book,
they look at it, and I hope that they do
believe that they are special and they are loved, because
it's rough in some of those places, especially for girls.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Oh get, I get you know, pictures and feedback. And
one of the things you know they love is after
they read the books and and and they do an activity,
they get to like color which forces it like I
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am loved and it's a heart shaped, you know cloud,
and they're smiling and I'm like, oh, this is so great,
you know, and they're singing the songs, and I just
believe that it's really touching them, Like you know, they're
really feeling that love, and they're feeling it for themselves.
You know that they can like always have that or
carry that with them. So it's very rewarding to see
(44:25):
it in those countries like Pakistan just got a monsoon
and a lot of damage there and so it's like
so hard to imagine what they're going through. They need
the tools, they need the happiness more than ever. Yeah.
(44:46):
So yeah, I'm thankful to give where I can. I
love getting back Betsy. That's one of my favorite things
to do. Like, I really, really really love helping needy
children anywhere, So an adults, anyone really, I mean it
doesn't matter. Like I said, we're all big kids, so anyone, yes,
(45:08):
big kids. You might not realize this. I forgot to
tell you, but my third book is on the way.
It'll be in February. We'll be published. But it's all
for like between age that tween is like kind of
that ten, twelve, thirteen year old, and then it hits
middle school and on right like that age group. I
(45:30):
wrote eighty quotes and I'm putting them in a quote
book so they can have knowledge quotes to take them
through those middle school years. So and I guess it
goes up to adults because like I've tested it on
many I'd love to share with you if you could
(45:50):
please pick a number between one and eighty.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I said, what, okay, let's see what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Okay, that'd be today. Your quote of the day is
every great thing started with an idea. Use your imagination
and create something wonderful. You have the power inside of you.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Oh cool. What's the name of that book, Kristen? What
it is?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
The work in progress? It's definitely gonna have to work Okay,
quotes in it. It's gonna either be you know, uh yeah,
it's a the name is coming to me.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Oh okay, oh wow, along.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
With yeah, but definitely quotes quotes for the teenage and above,
like I want to kind of make it for middle
school and above, so like.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Oh, well that's exciting. Oh that's a great quote. But
as we wrap up here, Christian, I could talk to
uh forever. How do people get in touch with you?
What's your website? And if you go on the website,
I'm sure, first of we'll keep you up to date
about her up and coming book.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yes, yes, everything will be thank you, Bessy. Everything is.
I'm a social media girl. I've got my website which
is www dot Happyhappy Everything dot com. And then I
also I'm on Amazon, so if you just search my
(47:31):
name Kristin Griffin and Happy Clouds, it will pop up.
Or I'm also on Facebook and Instagram as Happy Happy Everything,
So I'm.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
There, yes, yes, and the YouTube channel Happy Happy Everything.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Thank you, and the YouTube channel animated videos that brought
I brought all the characters to life. The clouds are
in there singing away really fun. Jing I call almost jingles.
They're only like forty five seconds long, so parents, you
can definitely listen to these as well. And yes, you
(48:15):
can find me on YouTube and Happy Happy Everything.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
And folks really go to the website because there is
such great gift ideas. There's Christina set me. She has
q adorable stickers hens that you could decorate, get pencils.
The pens and pencils, yes.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Depends christ They were sold out and they're gonna be
probably by the holidays. They should be backing up and running.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
And the common clouds that you know, not for anyone
that would would put in their mouths, So it's not
for babies, it's for how old would you say, christ
and your cloud three?
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I say three enough. Yes, I do have a on
my tags, just out of caution for as a choking hazard.
I just say there's small parts because the com cloud
has a cute little googly eyes and a pom pom nose.
We don't want anyone, you know, choking on those things.
But yes, they're they're ages three enough.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
And I would highly recommend it. And if even someone
who has any type of dementia, as long as they
won't put it in their mouths, I would have given
Matt one of these the squeeze to hold, and I
think it's very comforting. And Kristin, you were just so
(49:43):
wonderful and I love talking to you. You were just
a beautiful human being. Folks, you have got to go
on the website and read about Kristen all that she
does or that she gets to her community and all
that's available. Great gift ideas and if you wanted to,
(50:03):
you know, donate, you know, buy books and donate. And
I'm sure you know Kristin could even you can get
in touch with her about nonprofits that she knows. Or
you could donate books too for children that are overceipts
if your like or you know, if you live in
her neck of the woods in Florida. I just think,
(50:27):
even if you wanted to do a good deed and
feel good about yourself, how about buying books and giving
it to pediatric words in your area and children's hospitals.
I know they would love it. I know they would
benefit from it. And that's a great idea, especially you
know it's coming up to excuse me, holiday season season,
(50:50):
the giving season, the thinking of others. So I would
highly recommend that, and you can read all about Kristen
Griffin in the block. The Genie White of the station
manager rates and produces the show. And you want to
thank a little and Coldwell, who's CEO A passion world
(51:10):
talk radio makes us all possible. Thank you for listening,
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Worzel w r ze L. And as I always say
at the end of my show, in a world that
(51:31):
it could be anything, please be kind and shine. You're
light bright because we need it now more than ever before.
This is Betsy Worzel. You're a host of Chatty with Betsy.
I'm pastior Role Talk Radio Network, a subsidiary of Global
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