Hey friends, Ginny here. If you have felt a little heavy lately, this brand new episode is

Pure Sunshine. Today I'm joined by cookbook author and TV chef Danielle Cardiz, and it is the most

peppy, joy-soaked conversation we've ever had in close to 600 episodes. We talk perseverance,

Costco miracles, kids in the kitchen,

and how to make dinnertime feel like a warm hug, even on busy nights. My hope is that this

episode lifts you up today, and if it does, would you text it to one friend who could use a

smile? It takes just a few seconds and helps more families hear it. Are you ready to feel

encouraged and inspired? Press Play on Life is Good Today.

Hello, hello. So nice to meet you. How are you? Oh my gosh. I'm such a huge fan of yours.

So this is like a little fan-girly moment for me. Oh, so fun! I just put it out there. Girl, she and girling. I love it. I'm so excited to chat with you. How fun, Danielle. I love it. Okay, this is fantastic. So huge congrats. I'm like, yeah, we both have our books.

I love it.

I know, and it is delightful. I took a whole bunch of notes on it. And a little bit off of your website, too, off of rustic joyful food.com. Thank you. Tell me, Danielle, what you want to make sure that we let the audience know about besides the cookbook. besides the cookbook. Basically what I do, like rustic, joyful food.

We really teach people that life is good today not if or when i think a lot of times as people and

women especially we live like gosh if i just lose five pounds i'm gonna be happy if my kids are just

listening if i just work through my marriage like if I could just learn to cook if my fridge is full

these are the things that make us happy but we got to live right now for right now with the Lord

period I we're just going to go we're in it I can't I'm not going to be able to cut that out so

welcome to the podcast everyone we're already in it with a lovely Danielle Cortez

Cortez I didn't even I didnez. I didn't even, I didn't even have a chance to ask, Curtis. I mean, I didn't have a chance to ask because you just like dove in to like, I'm about crying. It's been 90 seconds. Oh, you're going to get my whole heart. There's so much heart behind everything that we do. It's not just about selling books and being kitchy and all the things.

I'm really after people's hearts and just introducing them to Jesus. That's it. That's the end of my job. And if I can teach you how to make a cool pot roast or get your kids involved in the kitchen or to move through heartbreak, we're going to do it. Oh, I'm so glad that, you know, occasionally I get the cookbooks in the mail.

And I'm like,

how am I supposed to do a podcast about a cookbook? But, you know, some of them have, there's always extra themes. And, you know, so I go back and forth about saying yes or no, and I was looking at all the things that you offer. In this particular cookbook, that's, you're going to have to tell me, I would have asked you all the questions, but you started to say so many amazing things.

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