Hey friends, welcome to the Ruth Joe Simon's podcast. I hope you grabbed a cup of coffee.

I hope this feels like a virtual coffee date that we can have together.

Mine's in my little Yeti. Do you guys know about Yeties? I mean, I'm kind of a Yeti girl over a Stanley

girl, but I mean, I live in Colorado. We carry our Yeties. But I'm drinking my Americana this morning.

I hope you've grabbed your cup of coffee and we can chat a little bit this morning.

I just got back from a couple of weeks of being away.

And if you follow me on social media, you probably got to see a little bit of how I got

to go from coast to coast.

I was in Atlanta for three different book signings.

It was so sweet to hug your necks. Really incredible. I got to

visit Mend Coffee Shop, which is the coffee shop that Catherine and Jay Wolf of Hope Heels began. And it's got

such a great vision and ministry and heartbeat behind all that they do as a business. And so I was super

excited to have a meet and greet and book signing at that coffee shop as well. And at the Armory

bookstore in Monroe, Georgia. That was so fun, all of that to see you all, to hug your

necks, to hear your stories.

And from there, I went all the way to San Diego where all the Simon's men, all seven of my guys, husband and six boys, all flew out to San Diego for a super cross race.

Listen, I'm not going to go into all of it, but I can't believe. I'm a woman who

watches dirt bike racing and loves it. I mean, to the point where I was like,

teary because our guy, Eli Tomac, who lives up the way from us here in Colorado, one, and we screamed so loudly.

We lost our voices.

We screamed.

We cried.

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