Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie

and I am so excited that you're here with us today. Every week on this show 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 guest today I want to think of sponsor

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Guys you're listening to episode number 137 and my guest is Lauren Scruggs Kennedy. I have

been told by numerous people that I needed to have Lauren on the show and she's friends

with the previous guest of mine, Cezanne Hendrix from episode number 126. If you haven't

heard Cezanne's episode please go listen it's so good. And so we got connected again from Cezanne.

We covered so much on today's show. She walked me through the accident that changed her life

forever in December of 2013 when she was sucked into the propeller of a plane. We talked

about how her parents divorced at a young age actually didn't taint her view of marriage

but it gave her a more realistic view of marriage. She's doing amazing things with her charity,

the Lauren Scruggs Kennedy Foundation and the girl just released a new beauty product that

I'm going to need to get in my world as soon as possible. I really love getting to know

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