This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are joined by special guest Annie F. Downs, bestselling author, speaker, prolific podcaster, and queen of fun.

I'll take it.

Annie, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me, guys.

I'm so honored to be here. I love the show. So what a joy to get to join y'all. Well, I have spent the last month combing through your podcasts and your books and, like, trying to wrap my brain around all of the things that you do. And I don't, I feel like I have no grasp because you're just all over the, You do so many things. Like I don't understand. I don't understand how you pull it off. So I would love to get a little bit more color from you on what your life is like, what your interests are. Just tell us about who Annie is and what we need to know. So I currently live in Nashville, Tennessee. That's where I live.

I've been living part-time in New York for the last couple of years, but I'm pretty full-time back in Nashville right now this fall. I am out on tour with Kane, the Christian group, and we are doing 40 cities in 10 weeks. And so that was the time to be based in Nashville is when the bus is rolling from Nashville. Yeah. So I guess to kind of explain my life a little bit, we have two companies here.

One is that that Nashville. Yeah. So I guess to kind of explain my

life a little bit, we have two companies here. One is that That Sounds Fun Network, where we are

supporting 50 plus different podcasts with advertising and community and education. So we have that

that sounds fun network. And then over here in this office at AFD, Inc. is my writing, my speaking, and my

podcasting. And so for podcast-wise, we have, that sounds fun. We have a podcast for kids called

the mini BFF podcast. And then we have Let's Read the Gospels, where I read Matthew,

Mark, Luke, and John, three chapters a day, every day, every month. We read three chapters

a day. You get through all 88 chapters and 30 days. And we do that every month for the last

couple of years. So that's the podcasting wing that we can talk about, writing books. I've been doing

since 2012. That's when my first book came out. And then I travel and speak probably when I'm not on tour, I'm probably traveling two weekends a month, Max.

Annie, I always usually start these interviews and talk about like how I met this person.

Yes. And oftentimes I got to meet them in person. I haven't gotten to meet you in person yet.

I know. Not yet. But I've gotten to meet you with like so many circles of friends that we have that overlap, people that either know you or know of your work. And numerous times I had people that are like, you got to have Annie F. Downs on the show because, like, she loves the same things that you love and you love, like, you're in the same world and you haven't chatted and you need to chat. And I loved it because I knew, I was like,

Annie F. Dads, isn't she the, like, I love what Brent just said. Isn't she the one that's in the

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