Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour Jamie Ivey Podcast. I'm your host Jamie and

I am just thrilled that you're here with us today. If you've just joined us for the first

time I want to say welcome I think you're going to like this place. Every week I invite

a girlfriend to join me on the show and we chat about big things in life, little things

in life and everything in between. Also a few weeks ago, Jen Hatmaker and I did a Christmas

special that was so much fun and holds so much goodness and I encourage you to check it

out if you haven't. Small business shopping Saturday was this past weekend, Cyber Monday

was a couple days ago but it doesn't mean that you still can't take advantage of the loads

of great places that we talked about in that show. You're listening to episode 65 and

today's guest is Debbie Eaton. Debbie is a Southern California girl who's passionate

about the impact of influential God moments with one another. She deeply values being a

follower of Christ, a wife of 28 years, mom to a teenage son, the beauty of friendship,

champion for the next generation leaders, writing, speaking, leadership, football and a good

cup of coffee with chocolate. She was formerly the director of Women's Ministry at Saddleback

Church and now writes for She Reached Truth and is an advisor for the if gathering and

consult with church leaders. Today Debbie and I talked about so much wonderful stuff, stuff

like the value of mentors and the reality of the different seasons and stages of our

lives. How Debbie writes using the stream of thought method and the importance of observing

the Sabbath and giving grace to ourselves. We even talked about how important it is to

laugh and why YouTube Tuesday should be a part of your schedule. Today's show is sponsored

by Mad Marketplace. The vision of Mad Marketplace is so simple, to create global consumer

movement that matters. They're not just words, they want the difference we all make to be

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