Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy Podcasts.

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.

Hey hey hey hey, hi Happy Hour friends! Well, you guys, we've made it to another school year.

It might be the weirdest and oddest school year that we've ever had, but we're officially in

school at our house. Three of my boys are in high school and I don't even understand how that has

happened and my daughter is smack dab in the middle of middle school. Things still look way different

than we thought they would. But it's okay, right? We are going to make it. We're going to be faithful

right where we are. We're going to trust God with our future. We're going to put our hope only in

him because listen, we can't put our hope in school starting. We can't put our hope in going

back to our job. We can't put our hope in finances. We will be people who put our hope in Jesus.

Oh, I'm preaching to myself right now. You guys, I hope you're encouraged to do the same.

Speaking of preaching to myself, maybe you could let me preach to you. I did not actually preach

in the book, but I do encourage you a lot in this book to be the woman and the man that God has

created you to be. If you have pre-ordered my new book, you be you. Why satisfaction and success

are closer than you think? I am over the moon thankful for you. I really, really am. It feels really

weird to talk often about, here's my new book. Will you go buy it? But I believe in this message

so very much. I believe in it deep to my bones. I believe in it for myself. I believe in it for you,

for your daughters, for your friends. I believe that we can be women who feel satisfied and feel

successful right where we are. We don't need to try to be someone else or use someone else's gifts.

That God has given us exactly what we need to do what he wants us to do in the spaces where he has

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