Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have

about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships as

self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute

full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. Our guest for today is one of my very favorite authors

and speakers and Instagrammers, Jess Connolly. Now lots of you guys might already follow along with

Jess but if you don't get ready because you are going to love her. Jess is a mom to four beautiful

kiddos, a wife to an awesome guy named Nick. She's leading a church plant in Charleston and that is

just the beginning. Jess is also the founder of the All Good Things Collective which sells gorgeous

art prints and apparel to encourage us in our relationships with God. She's also the co-author of

a wonderful book called Wild and Free and she just came out with an awesome new book called Dance

Stand Run. But none of those things are the reason I wanted to invite Jess to our girls night this week.

I wanted to invite Jess because her relationship with God inspires me like crazy. She has this deep

connected intimate relationship with him and even just getting a peek at the way she worships and

learns from God inspires me to walk even deeper in my relationship with him too. And that's what

today's episode is all about. You guys are going to love it. But before we jump in, there's something

I wanted to make sure and tell you all about. So lately I've been getting lots of emails from my

sweet readers and listeners and we're really looking to find and form deeper friendships.

So many of them are looking around and realizing that they're just honestly kind of lonely in

their lives right now. They don't have people that are really their people and they have no idea

how to go about changing that. And my gosh I can relate to that struggle. When Carl and I first

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