Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcasts. 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 the happy hour. I'm your host Jamie and if you're listening to this in real time, it's almost Christmas you guys.

We're like three days away and I hope that wherever you're listening to this right now, that you're finding some joy, that you're finding some peace in the midst of what can sometimes be a hectic month.

And yet it is a moment that we pause and think and look forward to remembering the birth of Jesus and looking forward to coming again another day.

You guys want a fun month? This has been because we've had some great shows and we've also brought to you every single show from the Jamie Ivy show.

I don't know if you were able to catch when the Jamie Ivy show came out earlier in 2021 and if you've seen it on YouTube, if you haven't, I highly recommend you go watch it.

It's like your regular old talk show. Remember how we used to race home to watch Oprah and Sally Jesse Raphael. Well, this is the Jamie Ivy shows.

You can race on over to YouTube and check it out. My guest Holly Hayes is on the show today and if you're a long time happy hour listener, you've heard Holly on the happy hour before.

So this is going to be a comeback episode for her, but this audio is from when she sat down with me for the Jamie Ivy show.

One thing you know about Holly, if you've heard the show before is that she celebrated 20 years of sobriety and 20 years out of being trafficked and 20 years as being a follower of Jesus.

Her story is incredible. I highly recommend you go back and find her original episode on here when you're done. It came out in 2018.

In fact, in its episode number 185. So today, you're listening to episode 453. Go back to episode 185 and that is a conversation with Holly that you might want to hear as well.

She talks a lot today about sanctuary project and what her goal was with creating that and how it's going and we're big fans of sanctuary project over here.

And in fact, if you've got any Christmas money left over any last minute gifts, I don't think it'll arrive to you by Christmas for sure, but it's worth going and checking out.

Follow them and see what they're doing. Great work at sanctuary project. She shares today in the episode about her survivor journey of addiction, abortion and trafficking and eventually finding Jesus and following him.

We also dive into a topic today that not many people talk about. In fact, I've only talked about this on the episode with her. I don't think I've ever had another conversation about this.

And that's embryo adoption. She shares what that journey has looked like with her and her family and her baby girl. And it was such a joy to hear her heart for embryo adoption and to hear more information about it.

You're really going to enjoy our conversation today. And like I said earlier, if you'd like to see Holly and I had this conversation, you can watch the conversation.

at jameyiv.com slash YouTube where you can see all of the episodes from the Jamie I V show. You guys don't forget that we are working really hard to see so many children in the Dominican Republic, received sponsorship through Compassion International.

One of the things I love about compassion is that they have this three-court approach to ministry. And what they mean by that is the three of those together make an amazing organization called Compassion International.

It's why they serve. It's how they serve and it's who they serve. Everything they do is a Christ centered. They really, really, really take the phrase from Jesus of love, thy neighbor seriously.

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