Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour Jamie Ivey podcast. I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

Each 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.

Friends, are you feeling stuck in the rut of routine?

Artisan author Ruth Josimonds knows there is more for you even in the mundane moments.

Her new book Be Holding and Becoming is a masterpiece of incredible artwork and encouraging teaching to direct your gaze to God's splendor and your heart to his worship.

Oh, that's so perfectly describes my friend Ruth. Turn even the most ordinary moments into holy spaces of wonder order, be holding and becoming wherever books are sold.

Happy Wednesday you guys. Oh, this is a great day. Let me tell you why a couple of reasons.

Number one, yesterday my kids started school. Now I love summer and come next April. I'm going to be counting down the days until summer.

I also very much love routine and so I love school. I love all that comes to school. I love football games. I love Thanksgiving vacation.

I love routine and so my kids are to school yesterday. We have one in high school three in middle school. I cannot even believe it when this is coming out on Wednesday.

I will actually be coming home from LA. I went out to LA. I'm so excited. I will be joining the show better together in a couple of months.

And so it was so fun to film with them. The other thing that is exciting is just this past weekend. We had our 14th and 15th night of Happy Hour Live.

Oh, in the most beautiful venue we've been in yet today out here in Austin, almost a dripping spring, which is where I live.

And it was just phenomenal. It was beautiful. It was gorgeous. It was funny. I got to meet so many of you listeners. So if you get to come, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

If you didn't get to come, I hope you get to come to another one. But today I want to tell you about our guests. We have a super great show for you.

Our guest is Bianca Oltoff. Bianca is a friend of mine. We met a handful of years ago. She's been on the show before. In fact, it was almost exactly three years ago.

She was in August of 2016 episode number 103. Can't believe we have this many episodes under a belt. But go back and listen to other conversation with Bianca.

Bianca is a pastor. She's a wife. She's a stepmom. She's a friend of so many. She's a powerhouse speaker. I love sitting under her teaching.

She is funny and engaging and full of truth from the word. She has a new book coming out at the end of the month. It's called How to Have Your Life Not Suck.

Becoming today who you want to be tomorrow. You can actually pre-order it right now. And when you pre-order it, there's some great goodies that you get.

I know I mentioned pre-ordering sometimes, but let me just tell you why I think it's important. It really helps the author.

It helps the distributors of books know the demand. And so when you do that, it says, hey, people want this book.

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