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 another episode of The Happy Hour.

I'm your host Jamie and today my friend Melissa Zaldavard joins us and we have a really great conversation about something that doesn't feel really great.

But it is something that is here in all of our lives and that is lost.

More specifically, we talk about death in this episode and Melissa wrote a book.

It comes out in about a month and I had the joy of reading it early and I read it over the weekend,

but before I chatted with her and in this book, Melissa is so brilliantly weaves in three stories,

her own journey of walking through the loss of her friend Jill, part of her Jill stories in here.

And then Louisa May Alcott, the writer of Little Women, the author,

she weaves that story in there as well and it is just a really great read.

But more importantly, today we have a really great conversation about what it means to actually walk through loss.

We talk today about how do we journey through friendships who have experienced loss.

How do we be the friend that shows up in a time of need?

We talk about what it means to look around in our lives and really cherish and devour the normal ordinary things.

So many times we want the big flashy, the cinematic life and we spent time today talking about how the most important things are sometimes the most mundane, normal things.

Although the subject is difficult in this conversation and although it can feel a little bit depressed and maybe anxiety-ridden,

I want you know that we spend also time talking about the hope that we have that as believers that death is not the end of our story.

And so we have a hope that can't be shaken, the hope that cannot be put to shame and we talk about that today as well.

So although the conversation can feel hard, it is actually really encouraging.

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