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 another episode of the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and happy Friday, happy October 1st, first Friday and October. We have made it and we have a great show in store for you today.

My friend Kurt Thompson is here. I love and adore Kurt Thompson and this interview is going to be one that I promise you you're going to need a notepad and a pencil and you're going to listen to it twice.

Maybe even three times just mark my word before we get to that conversation. I would like to say that today is my book UBU it's its first birthday.

Happy birthday UBU this book came out last year on October 1st and I'm so excited about even just some of you guys have never read it before picking it up because I'm telling you about it today.

Okay, here's something from the introduction from UBU. It kind of tells you what the book is about. It says this. You probably heard and seen these sayings pop up in your Pinterest feed.

The things people put out there to motivate and inspire us. Things like girl, you got this. You're enough. How so more. Get things done.

Pick yourself up by your bootstraps. You can do anything you put your mind to you control your destiny. You are your own boss. You see all these ideas are good. They're super motivating, but I'd like to suggest they're lacking.

They are shallow and unsustainable. Not one of them is capable of bringing lasting hope and peace to your life. Not one of them is powerful enough to help you overcome whatever real life struggle you're facing.

I'll even go far enough out on the ledge to proclaim that these truths alone can be damning notice. I said these truths alone. Most of them are not entirely bad in themselves. In fact, I've probably said them all to different people at various points in my life.

But what I'm seeing today is a world where women if they are taking these cute little sayings and standing on them as if they are the way the truth and the life and they are not.

You see, that is the danger in these things. They can't hold up under the pressures of the world because no, you're not enough girl. You ain't got this and you can't hassle enough and can't get enough things done.

You can't do everything you set your mind on no matter how badly you want to do it.

You don't control your own destiny because the one who made you has the days of your life already numbered, planned and written for you.

And sometimes life can be so hard that there aren't enough bootstraps in all the world to pull yourself up with. We're only enough because Jesus is enough.

The only good things coming from you and me are coming from the Father. So when I say you be you, understand. I'm not just spouting a cheap shout out. I'm saying you have a strength of calling that originates in the mind of God.

I'm saying that you have a voice and a platform that matters immensely today simply because it's the voice that he has given you.

I'm saying that you, my friend, that's listening to my voice today. You have talents and giftings that he's invested in you designed for a purpose way bigger than yourself.

I'm saying that you can be biblically assured that no trial, no tragedy is oppressive enough to suffocate what he's put you on this earth for.

And this means that you can experience satisfaction today. You can experience success today. Real satisfaction and real success comes from doing what you do doing it where you are and doing it in faithfulness to the God who is lovingly strategically put you there.

So that is from the introduction of you be you and it kind of sums up what the book is about. So happy birthday to you be you. Why satisfaction and success are closer than you think you guys if you haven't read it, you can get it wherever books are sold.

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