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 second to last episode of 2021, which is crazy. I'm your host Jamie and you're listening to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy. I'm glad you're here whenever you're listening yet maybe January by the time you're listening to us, but we are glad that you are here today.

Okay guys, we have a really fun show. We do this at the end of every year where I invite the whole team to sit down and we talk about the year we talked about our favorite episodes. We talked about what we learned.

Who knows what we'll talk about because I might just ask them random questions that they don't even know about, but they're all here. We're ready to chat and we're ready to talk before I invite them on to join me though. I want to remind you of something and that is we are still sponsoring kids in the DR.

In fact, we have a couple more days in this year that you can sponsor who are a unique link, which is compassion.com slash ivy. Now the reason we want to use that link is because we want to give you a gift. It's a little thank you for saying, hey, thank you for sponsoring a child. We're trying to bring the number down in the Dominican Republic of kids have been waiting over a year to be sponsored. And so they've had over 800 right now. They're awaiting. We're trying to just take that down one by one. We have a ginormous goal of 400 and I cannot wait to tell you in January how we did with that goal. I'm fully confident that we're going to get it. Thanks to you guys.

And against $38 a month when you do that, your child that you sponsor gets educational support. They get medical support. They get the gospel given to them, which is a huge thing. And it's all done through the local church.

I sound like a broken record because I say it every week. I love the local church. I love my local church. I hope you love your local church. I think that change happens in people's lives through their local church. And we get to be a part of that in the DR. So go to compassion.com slash ivy. This is a fun project. You can sit down with your kids. You can sit down with your roommate and pick out a child that you want to step into their life.

Kind of linking arms with compassion international to help them. We've done that in our family. You guys, I cannot wait to hear from you what your favorite shows of the year have been. In fact, if you go to my Instagram, I'm at Jamie ivy.

We've got some things that you can use that you can share with your Instagram followers, but your favorite shows of the year. I'm going to ask the girls that work here what their favorite shows are. And I cannot wait to hear what they are.

So without further ado, let's get to our episode that we're calling looking back. You know what? We're looking back on 2021 and I'm inviting all of the ladies who spend so much time working on the happy hour to join me. So applause.

All right, welcome to the podcast today. I've got Lindsey and Abby and Amaya and myself and we're all here. And I'm going to let each of them introduce themselves to you and tell you what they do. Let's start with you, Lindsey.

Lindsey, sweetie. Hey, all glad to be back on the show and have this conversation and looking back on 2021 longtime listeners know that I've been around since forever. Well, like the fall of 2017 actually is when I started doing anything with you.

It's been a while, but my official role is executive operations and project management. And that means that I just basically have my hands in all the things that we do. And it's so fun.

I always say this. If anything comes out of the happy hour or Jamie, I be Lindsey has had her hands on it. So there's that.

Yes. Okay, Lindsey, welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Okay, Abby, you're next.

Hi, I'm Abby. You guys have probably also heard my name at the end of the brief. So it's shown on threatened by Abigail Castell. That is me. I rate the show notes. I'm the content and advertising managers. So if you ever want to advertise on the podcast or something like that, email Abigail to me Abby.com

and I'm not a big fan of that. So I don't necessarily have any help with the show notes, but I usually have my hands over any kind of written content, whether that's over the blog or some social media copy, the show notes. And then I try to get advertisers to work with us.

Yeah, Abby. And you were on the show last year when we did this, right? I was. Yeah, that was when I was in Texas for the person.

remember that so much. And Abby, you came on full time in January. Am I correct? Of 2021? Yep.

So that's Abby. She's been such a great asset to the team. And before we get to Amaya, we also

have Shannon, who's a contract worker for us who does our bookkeeping. We have Rachel, who does

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