Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. 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.

Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour. Happy Friday. I'm so excited that it's Friday. Every Friday means football around here and football over the weekend and I just love it so much.

You guys, my guest for today is a Texas guy as well. He's from San Antonio, which is right down the road for me. It is Max Lucado. He's been a pastor there for many, many years, a best selling author with more than 145 million products in print. I'm not even kidding. You heard me right? 145 million products. His latest book is You were made for this moment.

I'm so excited to be back to you today. I did not know much about Max. I knew who Max was and I was very well aware of his notoriety and the things he's done with the book writing and his church he's been pasturing for decades.

I never met Max and I didn't have this expectation for what I was going to get. I'm here to tell you that Max is one of the kindest men I've ever met.

He's practically interviewing me.

I'm like, is this my show or your show Max?

Because he just cared about me as a person.

I am now a huge fan of Max Lucato

and I think you're gonna see why in this conversation.

Guys, before we jump into this conversation,

I want to remind you that my book, God made you to be you,

is still available for pre-order wherever you get booked.

In fact, we're less than a month out from release.

And pre-orders, I've told you this a thousand times before,

but it does help for me to explain it.

Is pre-orders just help the author out so much?

They help retailers know if they should stock this book or not.

So when you guys pre-order it says,

hey, you should carry this book.

And then it's really great for me as an author.

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