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.

Mike, I welcome to the happy hour. So excited to be here. Mike, I'm a this is your second time on the happy hour.

Yeah, which is good. I'm so excited to be back. You actually, everyone knows that's listening that I have a tiny house.

Recording my podcast in there, which spoiler alert, I might maybe fingers crossed yours for long be moving. I'm so excited.

It's gonna be awesome. So you are one of the first people to record my tiny house. It was so cute. You look so cozy in there. It was great.

So now we're in my house house and I don't record podcasts ever in my house house for a couple of reasons.

When we give them to you, one, I have an office to those dogs that live here and children and children exactly. But we just filmed our holiday gift guide for the happy hour for 2020.

You can find on YouTube so much fun. It was so blessed. It's so cozy in here. It's so cozy. And so now we're going to talk about these companies.

Now, Mike, when I pick companies for the gift guide, let me tell you what I'm thinking through is I'm thinking through are they small businesses?

And they don't all have to be small businesses, but I love small businesses. I love supporting small small.

Same, same, same. Are they run by women? I love supporting companies run by women.

Are they, do they have a give back model? Are they ethically sourced? That's kind of what we're looking for.

And so we have 12 companies today that I believe in and I'm so excited to talk about. Before we get to them, it is the Friday before Black Friday.

So I have a couple questions for you. Okay. Well, you have all of your kids gift spot before December 1st.

No, it sounds like you wanted to say yes. I want to say yes, but no, no.

You know what I found is I will buy some things ahead of time. Okay. Then I hide them. Right. So the kids and I forget.

Forget about them. And then I have this like weird thing that happens. The two weeks leading up to it and I get this frenzy of excitement.

And I buy more things even though I fire myself from doing that. And it's like robs myself with some of the joy.

So if I see something that I know that they love or don't sail at the bigger gift, I will intentionally do that ahead of time.

But I also feel like some of my fun is a little bit of that, you know, kind of fun excitement flurry.

But I do think this year is different because of ship times and a lot of stuff like that.

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