Welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast. I'm Sissy Gough.

I'm David Thomas. And I'm Melissa Trevathan.

And we are so glad you've set us out a few minutes to spend with us today.

In each episode of this podcast, we'll share some of what we're learning in the work we do with kids and families on a daily basis at Days Are Counseling in Nashville, Tennessee.

Our goal is to help you care for the kids in your life with a little more understanding, a little more practical help, and a whole lot of hope.

So pull up a chair and join us on this journey from our little yellow house to yours.

David, I can't believe we're so close to Christmas. I love that season.

I can't believe it either. Have you started your shopping?

Not yet, but I may need to start thinking ahead.

My only complaint is that once the Hallmark Christmas movie start up, I lose half my extended family to the television.

David, you could sound more informed if you checked out our neighbors at the TSF Network, deck the Hallmark podcast.

Yes, I could. Join Brand Dan and Friends as they attempt to watch and review made for TV movies, just a bunch of pals watching made for TV movies.

Brand and Gray and Daniel Thompson are two dads from South Carolina and the hosts of deck the Hallmark.

A podcast that has been ranked in Apple podcast top 15 overall and top five comedy.

Within the first year, the program received one million downloads and was featured on Good Morning America and Nightland and in the pages of O Southern Living Cosmopolitan and Esquire.

Episodes are released daily. More information can be found at deck the Hallmark dot com.

Jamie Ivy is the creator and host of the popular podcast The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy, a central gathering place for talking about life and Jesus.

Author of if you only knew you be you and her children's book God made you to be you Jamie and her husband Aaron make their home for six in Austin, Texas.

Jamie, we are so excited to have you on the Raising Boys and Girls podcast. Thank you for being with us.

Well, thank you for having me. I'm raising a bunch of boys and a girl. So I guess I can join in.

Yes, and I was thinking the way my brain works is I remember locations and I remember where I was sitting. I think I was sitting and you came off of an elevator in the convention center in Nashville.

We were all at the same event and you and I started talking and I remember going to David later and saying I just met the most delightful person her name is Jamie.

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