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, welcome to the happy hour. I'm your host Jamie and I am really excited that you're here. The month of December is fun over here because well lots of reasons. I'll tell you a couple.

Number one, I hope you're still shopping for our holiday gift guide. It came out back in November. You can find it all at jmeiv.com slash hh444.

The second reason that it's awesome is because we are talking about compassion international all month long. I have told you on the episode that we did with Jonathan back in November that compassion's been a huge part of my life and my family's life for the past 15 years.

We've sponsored several kids through compassion and I've had the unique amazing. I can't even believe it opportunity to meet most of the kids that our family has sponsored. I have met Wandsley and Haiti. I have met Brian and Kenya. I met Mia in Mexico City. My husband met Kiara and Peru. It has just been such a joy to meet these children and their families.

Anderson them letters and to really just be a small part of their life really financially helping the churches in their local area that are coming alongside their families. In fact, I just sponsored a new child this year through our campaign that we're doing because we want to see a lot of kids sponsored in the DR.

We picked the DR because it's close to us because we have a big dream of taking happy hour listeners who have sponsored children in the DR on a trip to visit their kids. It's a big dream.

We had this dream pre-COVID. We hope it still happens. Think it will. That's why we picked the DR and I told you at the end of November that they've been 5,000 children in the DR right now waiting for a sponsor and over 750 of them have been waiting for 12 or more months and we just really want to start to eliminate that number.

We want children to have sponsors and our big goal at the happy hour staff 400 kids sponsored.

And then another fun thing in December is like I told you the last two episodes we are bringing you audio from the Jamie Ivey show which was released in February exclusively on YouTube.

It is a talk show. We had so much fun putting together. It is very professional looking you guys go over to YouTube and check it out.

Go to jmeiv.com slash YouTube. So all the conversations that you're going to hear on the podcast in December.

You can actually watch them in video format as well, which I don't know about you. Sometimes I just love to see who's talking today on the show.

We have isabel Garza isabel is a registered dietitian who is on a mission to help women nourish their bodies with confidence.

You guys a conversation that we had with isabel the air back in February was so enlightening, informative.

I just wanted more information. We talk about how to learn more about our own bodies and get rid of all the rules that we have about eating.

We talk about emotional hunger versus physical hunger. How to work through our relationship with food and how we think about it.

Isabel is wise and compassionate in this conversation. And I think it's one that you're really, really going to enjoy.

Also fun fact her mother-in-law Catherine tomorrow is her birthday. So happy birthday, Catherine. One of my longest friends here in Austin, Texas. So happy birthday, Catherine Garza.

Alright friends, here's my conversation with isabel Garza.

Welcome to the Jamie Ivy Show. I'm your host Jamie and on today's show I sit down with isabel Garza who's on a mission to help women nourish their bodies with confidence.

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