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.

Hi friends and welcome to the happy hour Jamie Ivy podcast. I'm your host Jamie and again for a lot of the month of December. We have some fun shows for you that were originally aired on the Jamie Ivy show, which is exclusive to YouTube. It is a visual talk show.

I kind of like the happy hour, a lot like the happy hour except I sat down with some amazing people and had interviews with them and you can see all of that over at jmeiv.com slash YouTube.

Today's guest is my friend Kat Armstrong who's actually been on the happy hour before but this was her first appearance on the Jamie Ivy show, which side note it was everyone's first appearance because it was our first time to do it.

Kat Armstrong sat down with me and we had such a great conversation about how Jesus is for women and this is good news for us all. Kat is so passionate about seeing women come to know the scriptures.

Kat, I've said it before. I'll say it again. You're one of my favorite Bible teachers and it was such a joy to sit down with her. Kat got super vulnerable about losing her father to suicide in his long battle with mental illness.

So I want to let you know about that as well at front in case there's a little triggering that might happen for you. We do talk about suicide.

So great. So great. So we go back a ways and I always say I'll say it to you publicly in your one of my favorite Bible teachers and down.

But one of the things I love about you so much is you are a cheerleader for women. You believe in women. Has that always been a part of your story? Yeah, absolutely. I came to faith in Christ through a working woman. It wasn't a Sunday school teacher or a pastor. It was one of my teachers at a private Christian school in high school.

In high school. I was 16. She shared the gospel with me. She pulled me aside and she said, you know, I see a new a lot of ambition. And I think that'll serve you well, but I also want you to know Christ because once you come to the end of yourself, which will inevitably happen.

You're going to need someone who loves you in spite of circumstance or any accomplishments. So she shared the gospel and my life was really impacted through this working woman who was willing to share her faith with me in her workplace.

And so yeah, I think that knowing that women can pull each other aside and say, I see something in you. I want to see you flourish. I also want you to know Christ and know his love. That's kind of the beginning of my faith journey.

That's awesome. And so you have started something that I love, which you said you brought to Christ. Someone told you about Jesus for the first time through a working woman.

You have a whole organization and your whole mission is for working women to be able to share the story of Jesus changing their life. Tell me about polished.

I'm so passionate about the polished network. We can talk about it the whole show. Is that what I met you for the first time at a polished event?

I think so. I think you came to a polish. I did. You're in Austin. Yeah.

I think it's all over the nation now. And we're just reaching tens of thousands of women every month through our digital resources and in-person events.

But the polished network. It exists to help working women connect their faith and their work. I think a lot of us live in some intersections in life.

We're trying to integrate our faith into every aspect of who we are. I think it's particularly challenging for working women. We've got unique needs.

I think it's like any other support group, Jamie. You know, when you find people who are like-minded, who've had some similar experiences, or a really diverse group, but day to day, we're living very similar lives.

And so we get to have this support group in a way through the polished network. And this has been 13 years I've been building this organization.

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