Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivey 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 happy hour listeners, welcome to another episode of the happy hour Jamie Ivey. I'm your host Jamie and I'm happy you're here. Happy Friday. Before I do anything else, I need to give a huge shout out to my mom who listens to every episode.

She's probably listening to this as she's driving to my house right now because we are celebrating her 70th birthday this weekend. And yes, you know what, I just call that my mom's age because if you look at my mom, she looks like she's 55.

So happy birthday to my mom Karen aka Nana.

Okay, happy Friday to you guys no matter what you're doing today. I hope that today is a good day. I hope you can find something good in today.

One of the things that is most of the time really good for me is Instagram. I love Instagram. I think it's a great way to connect. I think it's a great way to share what's going on in your life. And I love meeting you on Instagram.

And so if you've never seen my Instagram, check it out today. It's at Jamie Ivey J.A.M.I.E. Ivey.E.Y. You guys today's guest is a friend of mine. Her name is Heather McFadian. And I have known Heather for a long time. And I'm so happy that she's here.

She was actually on the podcast for a series we did in 2018 when my book If You Only New Came Out and she came on and talked about anxiety. And so she's back and she has a book that just released called Don't Mom Alone.

She also has a podcast called Don't Mom Alone. What she really wants is for women to not do life alone. Obviously she talks to a lot of mothers. But I want to give you a heads up.

If you're listening to this podcast right now and you're like, oh, this is about parenting. Nope. It is not about parenting. It is about community. It is about listening to the Holy Spirit. And it is about healing. And so she happens to talk to moms a lot.

We happen to both be moms, but this podcast is way more than how to not mom alone. But if you are a mom, I would love for you to go grab Heather's book Don't Mom Alone.

Growing the relationships you need to be the mom you want to be. And this was a dear conversation to me and something special happened a couple weeks earlier when we recorded a show for her podcast.

I'm going to tell you about it at the end of the show. So stick around for that. But here is my friend Heather McFadden.

Heather, welcome to the happy hour.

Oh, thanks for having me. This is great. Okay. So you have been on the happy hour, but it was for like a series. Yeah. So when I released my first book, if you only knew I did, I don't even know how many a series of if you only news.

If you only news. And you were on that with me in January of 2018.

Man, like a blink of an eye, link of an eye. And here we are. Well, welcome back to the happy hour should say so introduce yourself to my listeners. Yeah. So I live in Dallas, Texas.

And I have four boys nine to 16 and a husband Bruce who works upstairs now.

So I share her non-aimed with them is I always dreamed of Aaron and I sharing an office.

Like I had this idealistic world where we had this office in our house and we had these deaths that face each other and we just worked away and then we'd look at each other and smile and wink wink and then you have lunch in the kitchen.

And listen, that is some of those realities with what we've had in the last 18 months. But for our entire marriage, I have said that little dream fantasy to Aaron and my husband, he loves me so much.

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