Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement. And I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hi everyone, I am so excited to be with you today and I think every one of us is getting spring fever.

We just want the cold to go away. Clay had 13 inches of snow in our at our house last week. He

still hasn't been out of the house for three days. And so I'm looking so forward to kind of bringing

you a surprise today, something that will be fun for imagining the spring will eventually come.

And I have a special guest, someone that I have admired for a long time and I want to welcome

Francesca to my podcast today. Hi Francesca, tell everybody your name, your family, everything about

you because I'm so thrilled that you are here. Well, hi, thank you for having me. I'm so truly,

truly honored to be here and just so excited. My name is Francesca, but I'm still late and I live in

Nashville with my husband Matt and our four kiddos. They are one and a half up to eight and a half,

three boys and a girl. And, oh well, I had all brothers too. So I can imagine what she's like. My

dad always said I was the rose amongst the thorns. So, you know, anyway, I keep going. Exactly.

No, exactly. She's a tough cookie too. So that's good. So we live in Nashville and we

we make music. My husband is my manager and I just released my fourth studio album,

been at this about 11 years and we'd worship about my church sometimes when we're home and

tour and write songs and try to leave a normal life in the midst of all that.

Oh my goodness. Is there a normal life? Well, you know, I mean, we'll talk about that today a

little bit, but I want everyone to know what an amazing fun time this is for me because

probably around the time you were starting, Francesca, I was with Joy at a competition. It was

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