Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour J-Mario podcast. I'm your host J-Me and I'm really

excited that you're here with us today. Every week on this show the Happy Hour, I invite

a girlfriend to join me and we chat about the big things in life, the little things in life,

and everything in between. Before we get to our show today, I want to think one of the sponsors

of this show that makes it possible to put these out every week and that is author Stephanie

May Wilson. Stephanie has a friendship and small group guide and it's called The Real Girls Guide

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episode number 125 and my guest today is Renee Swope. Renee is Mama to three and she spent many

years working with women at Proverbs 31. She's written a bestselling book and she has her newest

adventure was a new book. It's called Craving Connection. This book is written by 30 different women

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