This is The Homemaking Foundations podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 122.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundations podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast. I have someone awesome that I am excited to introduce

you to today. I have Christine Hoover from Gracecoversme.com. She's with us today and we're

going to be chatting about friendship. You know, how do you cultivate friendships? What do you do when

friendships are hard and when they're messy and how do we cultivate deeper in-person, real

friendships and relationships? And this is definitely a topic that has been on my heart and my mind

a lot in the last couple of years. And this conversation with Christine

was awesome. She has a book called Messy Beautiful Friendship. And so I have been reading that book.

And I was like, oh my gosh, I have to have Christine on the podcast to chat. And she's written a couple other

books. So I think I'm definitely going to need to have her back in the future. But we just had a, just a great chat. And so we're going to jump into that

in just a second. But I did want to share that you're going to hear this at the end too. But Christine

is a speaker for our brand new, enjoy the word online Bible conference. So a lot of you guys know

that every single year, Jason and I host an online homemaking conference in the fall.

And we have our fifth annual conference coming up in September.

It's going to be incredible.

But we actually introduced a brand new conference this year called the Enjoy the Word

Online Bible Conference.

Whereas our homemaking one is more geared towards the practical aspects of running and managing

a home.

This is a Bible conference. And I have

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