Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywielsen 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 and 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.

In today's episode, we're talking to my new friend Jamie Ivy. Jamie is an author, a wife, a mometa for amazing kids and she's a podcaster.

Now you guys, if you don't know about Jamie's podcast, trust me, you need to.

I get so many emails from me all saying stuff. I have listened to every episode of Girls Night.

What do I listen to next and in response, I always write back with three words.

The Happy Hour. Seriously, it's the best.

Guys, Jamie is encouraging and warm and loves God like crazy and within two seconds of meeting her, you already feel like she's your new best friend.

You guys are going to love her.

So in today's episode, Jamie and I are going to be getting a little bit vulnerable. We're going to be talking all about our pasts.

And what to do with the shame and the guilt and the isolation we sometimes feel because of them.

Both Jamie and I have made some pretty big mistakes in our lives. We've made some decisions we are definitely not proud of.

But as you'll hear in this episode, God has forgiveness and redemption and newness for all of us.

He's had those things for us and we're going to tell you all about what that's looked like and he has those things for you too.

One thing we talk about specifically in this episode is our sexual pasts.

We're really honest about what it was like to share our past mistakes with our husbands and we have some encouragement for you that I know you're going to want to hear.

So friend, if you're sitting in some shame today, in some guilt or, you know, if you're feeling like, man, if people only knew this about me, if they only knew what I've done, then this episode is for you.

God is going to speak to your heart in such an enormous way through Jamie. I cannot wait.

But before we jump in, there's something I wanted to make sure to tell you about.

In this episode, Jamie and I talk a lot about my book, The Lipstick Gospel.

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