Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

My name is Ginny Yerz.

I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I'm so excited that Heather Thompson Day is back. Welcome, Heather. We are back, baby. I'm so happy to be with my Michigan girl. Yes. Okay. So last time, this is the story. So we had recorded. And then I'm pretty sure, I don't know if these are the exact specifics, but I'm pretty sure that that night we found lice.

Yeah.

So it was like lice night. recorded and then I'm pretty sure I don't know if these are the exact specifics but I'm pretty sure

that that night we found lice yeah so it was like lice night you know this happens and they're like

oh like someone's got lice so I was I edit currently I'm editing the podcast and so anyways I was

dealing with lice for hours which I actually have determined that I really like like it's kind of fun to do that comb and, you know, I was like, I could, I could go into

business. Actually, my oldest daughter, it was only one kid had it and my oldest daughter,

we dealt with it together. So we were like, we could have a business. We could call herself

the nitwits. We're into this. But anyway, this is so random. But I had very little time that night to edit a podcast. And, you know, I have this somewhat of a schedule. And you and I had just recorded earlier that day. Yeah. And I thought, oh, my goodness, I'm going to, I need one that's easy to edit someone that's really good at communicating. So I'm just going to like straight while I fly through it. I was like, who could it be? And it was you. Yes. And I was so grateful. I was so grateful because you have such a good community. I had so many people reach out to me after that episode. So I am endeared to this show in this community that you felt. Yeah, I'm endeared to you. You like saved me. You saved me in this

life moment. So and and the article, the, I said the article. The podcast was so deep. And actually,

there was something that we didn't talk about from your book that I wanted because I will, oh goodness and Heather I was so bummed about it I would

I had it like bolded in my notes and it ended and I was like oh I didn't get a chance to bring this up

but then we have another one we circle back so I was like great great okay so in your book

you talked about building and we're going to be talking about your daughter's book. So your daughter has a book that's out. It's called Can I Sit Here? It's phenomenal. It is a phenomenal children's book. So that's what we're going to be talking about mainly. But I wanted to kick it off. This is from from what if I'm wrong, navigating the waves of fear and failure. You talked about keeping track. You talked about a basket of

rocks. Oh. And I wanted to talk about that because you're talking about God's faithfulness.

And even this is such a cool story. Your daughter has this book. You wanted to be a child author.

It didn't happen for you, but this would be in the basket of rocks that here comes the next

generation.

And at the same age, she gets the opportunity, you know, you wanted it, but she gets the opportunity to do it.

So can you just talk before we dive into the book?

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