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 episode number 468 of the happy hour with Jamie Ivy.

I'm your host Jamie and as always, I'm really glad you're here.

Welcome to Friday. Today on the show is Bonnie Gray.

She released a book in the last year called Sweet Like Jasmine and you guys, it's a memoir.

And if you want to know something about me, it is that I love a good memoir.

I really do. It's like one of my favorite genres of books to read.

In this book, Bonnie recounts the journey to make peace with her past, which who has not had to do that.

And if you haven't, you're going to be encouraged today to kind of go through that.

Bonnie's the American daughter of a male order bride and a bus boy working in San Francisco's China town.

She never felt like she actually belonged.

She's been her childhood, never feeling truly seen, loved or beautiful.

Then at 39, she found a birth certificate in an old file cabinet and we talked about that today.

And it took her on a journey of rediscovering her past.

You guys are going to find something in this show just for you.

I know it because even though that's not my story in particular, I was moved by listening to Bonnie talk about her story.

And I was encouraged.

In fact, a lot of what Bonnie's doing is what I talk about in a previous book that I released.

And in fact, if you go to my Instagram today, we're doing a giveaway for both of our books

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