Hi friends, welcome to another episode of that sounds fun. I'm your host Annie F. Down. So happy to be here with you today.

The music in the background is from our good friend Mr. Drew Holcomb. Make sure you grab a copy of his new album, Dragons.

Today on the show, it's a happy one year friend of her. For me and Emily late today because we met about a year ago at Christie Wright's Business boutique event in Nashville and immediately fell in friend love.

I mean, immediately we were like, well, we're best friends. We're done. This is it. I've looked for you a whole life. I just think the world of her. She is just amazing. All of her products, all of her organization, her planners, they are all about making your life more simple.

And her latest book, when less becomes more comes out next week on November 12th. And I think you're going to love it. So go ahead and pre-order it today as you listen to this conversation with my favorite BFF one of our favorite women here at that sounds fun at her first ever episode that I'm sure will not be her last. Here's our friend Emily lay.

The blue angels are flying outside in my backyard. So I'm hoping you cannot hear them. Oh, I kind of hope we can. That is literally one of what I was thinking this morning about all the things we would get to talk about that cannot can we just lead with what is it like to live at the beach.

Oh my gosh. It's full. First of all, we don't live at the beach. We live on the bay. But it's excuse me. Sorry.

I'm just a bit of a tackler. Tell me the difference. Forgive me. I mean, Bay leads to closed off water beach leaves to ocean. Yes. And beach means sand lots of sand.

And y'all don't have sand in your house. You just have a beautiful view without sand in your house. Yes. It's kind of spectacular. Yeah. I was about to say that seems magical magical. No sand. No mess. It's great. Why do you all live there?

I lived in Tampa for 10 years and we always intended to move home and where's Ryan always Pensacola. Okay. Brian always wanted to live on the water. And I told him he was crazy because I went through Hurricane Ivan here back in like early 2000s.

And he found this lot and he brought me here and I said, no way. And then he brought me back when the blues were flying and I said, okay. Really? You loved it that much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome.

So you grew up in Florida. So this is so the only life you know is this life of being by water all the time. Yeah, all the time. Yeah. Do you have being landlocked to me? It's like scary. Really? Yeah. Can't do it. Are you afraid of natural disasters?

I'm hurricane Ivan. We had a tornado take a roof off. Oh, well, we were in my parent's health. And how you would say, how are you? I was college age. So I was on one side of the house with my family. And it took the roof off the other side. Oh, wow. So yeah. So after that, I was like, not really into the whole like places where hurricanes can get you. Right. So they didn't make you move. Yeah. No. I mean, we've my parents, you know, rebuilt, refinished the whole thing. And now here we are. And we kind of.

We built this house like a forever home fortress. Yeah. Yeah. I just said, I. What does that mean? I don't have never built a house like that. What do you mean? But they'll do to it. Very fancy like concrete walls. So we had to build up. So the like you enter the house on the second floor. And the bottom floor is basically like a wash through. So it's on pilings concrete pilings. Oh, wow.

A wash. So water could go like water could go under the house. And the house will be fine for a while. Right.

Mm hmm. Okay. Yep. Man.

What do you know? This is going to get real deep real quick. I love it. What do you know about God that I don't know from living by water?

Oh, my goodness. I feel like every time I wake up, it's the first thing I see is the water. And I'm just like, I'm constantly reminded of like

what I'm going to do. Look at all I can do. Right. Look at what God can do. Look at this thing that he made. And I always think of that verse. I'm going to get the verse wrong. But about like God cares. God cares for the birds. And the, you know, all the things. So why do you think he doesn't care about you? And I walk outside my backyard. And I'm like, okay, God, like look at the amazing things are doing you didn't forget. Yeah. You know, that's very profound to me that you brought that scripture because I listen to that this more. I listen to the chronological Bible in the morning. And I listen to that versus morning.

And I literally stopped and was like, you know what, Lord, that is who you are. You do just take care of it. Okay. Like if the lilies get the verse where he says where Jesus says if, if God cares for the flowers that get thrown away tomorrow.

How much more does he care for you? And I was like, right. Oh my gosh. That's right. I am a much longer being than a flower.

And sometimes I feel like God, did you forget? Like I'm here. You know, do you feel that? I do. I struggle with anxiety a lot. Yeah.

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