Happy Hour #309: Morgan Harper Nichols

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

Ivey Media

Personal Journals, Religion, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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My guest for Happy Hour #309 is Morgan Harper Nichols. Morgan is a popular Instagram poet and artist who has created her life’s work around the stories of others. Each poem she shares is created in response to the personal stories submitted by her friends and followers. Her creativity and gifted artwork seems to express exactly what I am feeling, and I know so many of you have felt the same way. Friends, I have been a long time admirer of Morgan for so many reasons and I am so excited to share our conversation with you today. In this episode, we talk about her upbringing in a family of creatives, how she’s pursuing community in 2020, and how her love for music led her to poetry. We also dove into using art for a purpose, and how she has been learning to see her art as a gift to others rather than something she feels required to create. She says “What I love about gifts is that it’s not necessarily about the talent or perfection of it. It’s about the heart of the person that gave it to you wanting to share their heart with you.” As creatives, it’s easy for us to feel the pressure to constantly put out our best work. Morgan reminds us that sometimes we create art that resonates with people so much, even when we think it’s not our best. I hope you walk away feeling encouraged by her reminder that God can truly use what we think is unusable to meet people where they’re at. I’m so thankful for Morgan sharing her gift of words with us today! Connect with Jamie Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // YouTube GET ALL THE LINKS FROM THE SHOW HERE

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcasts. I'm your host Jamie and I'm
0:04.8	so glad you're here. Each week on this show I invite a girlfriend to join me and we chat about
0:09.2	the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.
0:23.1	Hey hey hey friends it is Friday and it's a happy hour day. That is right. Today is our first
0:29.3	Friday that we're bringing you two happy hour episodes every week. I'm so excited we loved
0:34.8	the series your last decade. That series lasted a lot longer than we thought and we loved it but we've
0:40.0	made a decision to do two happy hour episodes every single week. I've been a long time admire of
0:45.5	our guests today. Her creativity and gifted artwork seems to express exactly what I am feeling so
0:51.0	often. Probably you have felt the same way. Morgan Harper Nichols is a popular Instagram poet and
0:57.2	artist that has created her life's work around the stories of others. Each poem she shares is
1:02.4	created in response to the personal stories submitted by her friends and followers. Her work is an
1:07.6	organic expression of grace and hope in this world and so very beautiful. In addition to poetry she's
1:13.8	a gifted musical artist and we talk a lot about Morgan getting back into the world of music this year.
1:19.2	She's the sister of a friend of the happy hour Jamie Grace. You might have heard that show and
1:23.8	loved it. Morgan shares a sweet story of the two sisters growing up together with parents leading
1:28.4	a church and how actually a lot of what they did as kids has transferred to the work they each do
1:33.2	today. Our conversation is relaxing and thoughtful talking about the meaning of words and I especially
1:40.1	loved it when Morgan shared about her word of the year for 2020. I am going to guess that you're
1:45.2	going to get a little bit and sigh a little just like we did when talking about it. Y'all have
1:49.6	something exciting to tell you. Have you ever seen celebrity share about their secret babies being
1:55.2	born? We didn't know they were pregnant or they've been making music and they released an album one
1:59.1	day. We didn't even know they were doing it. Well, I have some fun news to share next week with you
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