Hey guys and welcome to the happy hour. My name is Jamie Ivy and I'm your host and I'm so glad that you're here. The happy hour is basically an hour of happiness.

This is what I like to call it. No really it's just me and a girlfriend chatting about our life what's going on in the world. But each time you're going to find something in there that you can relate to and that you can love.

And so a lot of people say they feel like they are sitting down with girlfriends to chat and that's exactly how I want you to feel. So thank you for joining me today.

Today's guest on the happy hour is my friend Sarah. Sarah and I met this past fall to influence conference and she is the author of a new book just out called Just Rise Up.

On this podcast we talk about a lot of lighthearted stuff but we also get serious. We talk about how it's hard to talk with our kids about things that are important.

Things like sex and all kinds of stuff in the world. It's hard for us to talk to them about but how we need to.

We talk about our love languages with our husbands. You'll also notice that we talk about Santa Claus and Christmas and we recorded this podcast a while ago.

So forgive the talk of Elf on the shelf if you will even though it's springtime when you're listening to this.

I want to say thank you guys for listening. I love to see your comments on the blog or on iTunes and I just want to say thank you so much for spreading the word about the Happy Hour podcast.

Thank you Liz for leaving a comment on iTunes. She said this podcast is so awesome. I love being introduced to all your amazing guests as well as the book recommendations.

I subscribe to a lot of podcasts but the happy hour is one of my favorites. Thanks for an awesome podcast Jamie. Liz, thank you so much for listening and thank you for your comment. It means a lot.

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Thanks guys. Here is my friend Sarah.

Hi Sarah. Welcome to the happy hour. Hey Jamie. Thanks for having me. I'm so glad that we are finally making this work because we have emailed and canceled and re-can't re-done a lot. So I'm so glad you're here.

Oh, I'm really excited. I've been listening to your other podcasts and you have some really cool friends.

I always say that this is by far the best thing I've ever been able to do and I really until I started doing this I was like, yeah, I do have a lot of great friends. This is great.

You do. You do. I love the one that you just did with Jamie. Is it Jamie right? No, what's your last name?

Yes, Jamie right. Yes, oh my word. I was like, I was just sitting there with you guys and I wanted to be your best friends forever.

That is, you know, a lot of people when they say that what they love about the happy hours that they do feel like they're just hanging out with friends.

And that's exactly what I wanted it to be. So I love it when I hear that.

Cool. Well, I just need you to know I washed my hair just for you in this audio podcast. That's so fun.

Yeah. How's it going to be when I record these via Skype? I enjoy doing them via video because it keeps me. My mind doesn't, you know, you know, if you're just doing audio, your mind can wonder or you'll see some of the house that you need to work on or whatever.

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