Creating Your Own Space and Mindset with Michelle Campbell Mason
Independent film producer and jewelry designer Michelle Campbell Mason delves into various topics throughout the podcast, from her career as a jeweler and starting her own business to her love for meditation to beginning to microdose rather than take SSRIs. This is a jam-packed episode that will leave you grounded and inspired.
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Quotes:
“Everything I do is always inspired by something. Whether it’s someone you connect with, an energy, or a conversation you have. Anything can spark an idea.” -Michelle Campbell Mason
“It takes an army to tell the stories that matter.” -Michelle Campbell Mason
“Once you realize that you know nothing, life is extremely freeing. We're just here as students, and we can keep learning, listening, and entering situations without judgment.” -Michelle Campbell Mason
Show Notes:
Michelle Campbell Mason: The Lady Bird movie was my upbringing.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I started a jewelry company because at the time I had inherited some really beautiful pieces from my grandmother and wanted to create some more modern driven designs.
Michelle Campbell Mason: When it became more self-sustaining, I was able to go back to my passion and roots, which are filmmaking and history and women's stories.
Michelle Campbell Mason: We are drawn to certain people that we meet and you instantly have a bond and a friendship.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I'm related to one of the eldest women killed in Salem as a witch, Margaret Scott.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I try to just meditate and connect to women in my lineage.
Michelle Campbell Mason: But working with Phyllis Nagy, who was our director, she's just extremely brilliant woman and it was a really, really gratifying experience on every level.
Michelle Campbell Mason: So many people don't know how dangerous and hard things were for women before Roe.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I've been trying to cultivate more contemporary stories so I can keep telling stories and maybe referencing how the past informed them.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I have this great project I've been working on for a long time around female bootleggers.
Michelle Campbell Mason: My new direction has been in the lab cultivated diamond space.
Michelle Campbell Mason: Everything I do is always kind of inspired by, you know, someone you connect with or your energy or a conversation you have, and it sparks an idea.
Michelle Campbell Mason: It takes an army to tell the stories that matter.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I meditate at least once a day and it's gotten me through the hardest, craziest moments in my life.
Michelle Campbell Mason: Some of these projects take, you know, so many years to get done. So it's really about trying to keep those conversations going or find the right alignments. I mean, you really have to believe so deeply in these things to really, you know, maintain that that energy flow because otherwise, how are you going to stay on something for so many years?
Michelle Campbell Mason: I'm a big walker. I love my dog, and we just, we blaze on.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I have a great group of friends, so, you know, it's just really about, you know, connecting with everyone and, you know, just trying to find peace.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I recently lost one of my closest friends to cancer and she's in her 30s. And, it's just changed how I look at everything.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I have hard days and I've had some great wins. But, you know, you still wonder like, am I ever going to be able to get anything made again?
Michelle Campbell Mason: My mother was a, she's an MD and she was always very into the spiritual side of psychology as well. She brought me to some great meditation conferences when I was really young, like Sylvia Boorstein and Tara Bracht and even Brian Weiss with past life regression therapy. So I got really into the space at a young age and it just kind of like always stuck with me.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I got into Microdosing and got off of the SSRI, and it was night and day, and it's been profoundly helpful. And I would never go back.
Michelle Campbell Mason: It doesn't sound like some kind of bizarre drug thing because it, you know, it's a plant. And they you know, they all call it a medicine because it really it's profoundly healing if done the right way.
Michelle Campbell Mason: I think the one thing I've learned that hopefully can help others is. Once you realize that you know nothing, life is extremely freeing and that we're just here as students and we can keep learning and let's keep listening and being open and just, you know, really entering situations without judgment and projection.