HH #470: Trusting God through heartbreak with Mattie Selecman

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

Ivey Media

Personal Journals, Religion, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mattie Jackson Selecman is a podcaster and best-selling author of the book Lemons on Friday. Her father is Alan Jackson, so good storytelling has always been in her blood. Tragically, she lost her husband of less than a year, Ben, in September 2018 after he suffered a traumatic brain injury. Despite her grief, Mattie is pushing forward and has dedicated herself to helping others

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.
0:03.6	I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.
0:06.3	Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life,
0:10.5	the little things in life, and everything in between.
0:23.8	Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy.
0:26.0	I'm your host Jamie, I'm so excited you're here.
0:28.0	Welcome to episode number 470.
0:30.9	Today on the show, I have Maddie Jackson Selectman and Maddie came across my radar because
0:36.2	Aisha's just got the cutest little book cover out ever to be in the world.
0:39.9	But she walked through some incredible grief as a very much newlywed and so I read her book,
0:45.0	I devoured it and loved it.
0:46.8	And today she's coming on the show and we're talking about the grief that she walked through.
0:50.7	Maddie lost her husband really close to their one year anniversary and then penned this
0:55.3	phenomenal memoir of talking about her story and walking through grief and the truth of the matter
1:00.7	is I've never lost a spouse and some of you have that are listening but probably most of you haven't.
1:06.0	But we all have grief in our life and we all are going to grieve things and Maddie talks about
1:11.2	it's not if we grieve it's when we grieve.
1:14.0	It was going to be a part of all of our journey and she talks about finding God in the midst of that
1:19.2	and really trusting him when we sometimes don't get what we want.
1:22.8	It's just a really great episode and she's amazing and I want to go to Nashville and have her
1:27.1	pick out wine for me. You'll understand why in the interview.
1:29.4	Guys, if this is your first time or if you've been here forever, if you enjoy the show,
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