Welcome to the Happy Hour podcast. I'm Jamie Ivy and I'm your host and I'm so glad you're here.

Each week I ask a girlfriend to join me and we just chat about whatever may be going on in their lives

in the world or anything we want to because it's like a happy hour. It's just a fun time with friends

so I'm so happy that you're here to join us. Today my friend Amanda Brown is my guest and we talk

all about her running the Boston Marathon. We talk about the TV show Friday night lights. We

talk about the Vagilarette and we talk about her Etsy store where she has a coupon code just for

your listeners. So thank you so much for joining. I hope that you will stay connected with the

Happy Hour podcast. You can find all the show notes on my blog jmeivy.com. So sit back for

let's enjoy us as we chat. I'm so glad you're here. Okay so when I introduced you earlier I said

that you were a mom and a runner and a wife and what house would you describe yourself?

Good question. I do work. You work from home? I do some work. What do you do? Is it interesting?

I mean I kind of know but sometimes it's interesting depending on his listening. Okay.

I have a friend that's an author. Should I say his name? Yeah for sure. Pemp has a watch out.

Yeah Josh Rebott is his name and he wrote he's written two books and his latest is called

Heroes and Monsters. And I recommend. Yes very good. Really good. And so I do his bookying and

travel stuff like that. This is totally random and who cares but they don't live in Austin anymore

do they? No Charleston. Okay cool. I was going to ask you something about his book. Is he working on

another one? He is. We don't have a release date yet but it's going to be next year likely.

Based on the second he's about halfway through his second draft of it. Okay whatever that means.

Yeah. Yeah. You know he's a creative type so whenever it's done it's done. Okay those creative types.

So good. Okay and you have two boys. I do have two boys four and a half and two and a half.

They're handful. They're handful. I remember my boys are about that when I just had two kids they

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