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 friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life,

the little things in life, and everything in between.

Happy Wednesday you guys and happy Independence Day to all of our friends from and living in Mexico

right south of me in Texas actually went to Mexico City in January, which feels like a lifetime ago.

I went with Compassion International and I was able to meet my sponsored child there, Mia,

who actually will turn three years old in December and I love everything Compassion's doing.

So happy Independence Day to our friends in Mexico and specifically Mia and your mom that I met in January.

You guys, we are two weeks away from my newest book, You Be You, Releasing Into the World.

I am so excited about the message of wanting women to be the woman that God has created them to be,

to own their gifts and their talents and quit trying to be somebody else and to live the life that God has given them.

Because I truly believe that we will be the most satisfied and the most successful when we bloom right where we're planted,

where we do the things that God has asked us to do right where we are.

So I'm excited. It's two weeks away. I wouldn't love it if you would pre-order this book.

You can get it anywhere books are sold and don't forget we have some great good news to give you.

One of them is a live book party release that is two weeks from today on September 30th.

You only get to come if you pre-order. It's going to be great.

We're going to have giveaways and special guests book reading all kinds of stuff.

You also get a chance to win lunch with me and my bestie Amy. Yes, that's true.

We're going to fly to wherever you and your bestie are and we're going to take you out to lunch.

But most important with pre-order is it helps the retailers know, hey, we should stock this book.

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