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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast.

Today, I am so privileged to be sitting here with Ashley.

Hello, Ash. Hello, friend. And our dear friend, a fellow coffee and crumbs writer, and in general, just a beautiful soul, Miss Adrian Garrison. Adrian, hi, friend. Hi, it's so good to be here. We are so excited to talk to you today. Let me tell you all a little bit

about Adrienne before we jump into this conversation on hospitality. But Adrian is a writer and

educator and a podcaster based in Bloomington, Indiana, where she lives with her husband and her three

adorable, I might add, children.

She earned her MFA in creative writing from Pacific University and has since shared her work at

Coffee and Crumbs, Literary Mama, and the Letters Journal. And when she's not writing,

Adrienne co-hosts the Exhale Creativity Podcast, and she loves mentoring young writers in her community. And

I am just so thrilled that she gets to share with us today. Y'all are going to love Adrian

and just the depth of her kindness is so evident in all she does. So Adrian, thank you for being

here today. Oh, thank you for having me.

We are so excited to talk to you, friend. And I mean, I could probably say this about every single

person that we are going to have on the podcast as part of this series and part of our

coffee and crumbs team. But Adrian, you just live out a life of hospitality so palpably. I feel like that's something I've

always seen in you and really admired in you, just the way that you make space for other people.

So I just can't wait to dive into this conversation because I know that this is something

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