What's up? Well, that's good. Welcome back to what that's good Wednesday. I'm so excited for today. I have a good friend on the podcast. One that you might know of yourself. I have Madison,

I'm so excited to have a great conversation. Maddie, welcome to the podcast. I am so excited. This is seriously like one of my favorite moments. You're one of my favorite humans. And I've been listening to this podcast for so long. So thank you for having me. Yes. And I'm so stoked for everyone who hasn't seen this book. Maddie has a new book out called Made for this moment. I actually got to write the forward to this book, which was such a privilege for me because this girl has a lot to say that will impact your life.

So congrats on your book. That's amazing. It's been crazy. It's been so wild. I feel like I should have asked you like a million questions before before the book came out. I'm like, I had no idea what to expect. But honestly, God has been so good and so faithful and just honestly like crossing my path with women like you and just having such amazing people just being able to speak into this book and spread this message. And it's a message that I feel like so many people need to be encouraged by. So it has been a whirlwind of emotion.

So awesome. Did you ever think that you would write a book one day? Honestly, no. And what's crazy is I actually started writing this book. I don't even know if I shared this with you. I started writing this book before I went on the bachelor.

Wow. So I started writing this book when I'd actually just come out of a four year relationship with the person I thought I was going to marry.

Wow. And it was like one of the lowest seasons of my life because I just came out of that relationship. And at that time, every single one of my friends got married.

So I was like going through a heartbreak and I was having to at my lowest of blows, like learn to celebrate everyone else at their highest of highs.

Wow. And so I just remember during that season, God just laid a message on my heart and just was like, I want you to start writing.

And I remember that time, it was like, what, like, who am I writing for? You know, one knows like what? I had no idea what it was even for.

Like what it was even going to be about, but I just felt like I was supposed to start writing. And when I came off the bachelor and I got reached out to by agencies and publishing companies, that was kind of when I picked the message back up.

And I was able to really incorporate like what I had learned in that past year. And like, you know, what other people had been asking me and, you know, the questions that I could see so many wrestling with and struggling with.

And I got to kind of incorporate that back into the message, but it's crazy, like, thinking back because it was such like, I don't know, I feel like a warm up and kind of like getting me ready before the book release.

And even before like anyone even knew who the heck Maddie was, just kind of in a season of my life, when I was going through a lot of pain.

And I just felt like God was putting just a lot of messages on my heart. And so I just started writing then, but I never in a million years as a young girl would have imagined that I was going to write a book.

I didn't feel like I really had anything to share. I was like, I don't know. I'm just kind of a ball energy. I was just like walk around and just put smiles on people's faces.

But I never imagined that I would be able to like have the discipline to sit down and actually write a book.

That's awesome. That is so cool. Well, you know, it's cool. I think God does often give you a warm up lap. I think normally you just don't realize that's what you're doing.

You know, and normally it is in some of the hardest seasons of your life that the greatest things come from. And so if you're in the hardest season of your life, you're listening, don't count this season out.

This could be God.

It could be God. Stewarding something in you that's going to eventually come out of you and touch many people. Well, I have to ask you the question. I ask every single person on this podcast. And that is what is the greatest piece of advice that you've ever been given.

I know it's an intimidating question, but first thing that pops to your mind.

Okay, so the first thing that pops into my mind, because I've been given a lot of great advice throughout my life, honestly, with having my dad as my coach, I feel like he's told me a million things that I could run with.

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