Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome

you to the Joe Interview Show, which I trust and pray will be time well spent. Happy 2020. I'm so

excited to welcome you to Season 3 of Joe and our first show back after a month off.

Feels fresh around here today and I'm into it. I hope you had the best holiday with those

you love and most of all celebrated Jesus, the one truly worthy of celebrating year-round.

Today I welcome not only a dear friend of mine, but a friend of the show as well, author Wendy

Speak, who happens to

be the very first Joe guest interview ever last year. Yep. This is actually a one-year birthday

for Joe as well as we launched last year with Wendy, and we talked about a physical detox that

leads to spiritual transformation on that show that is now a book called The 40-day Sugar Fast that we talk all about

today. But please know this. This is about much more than giving up sugar for a while. We talk

about other things today, Netflix, alcohol, and yes, social media too. If you've been craving more

of God, that's the best reason to listen to this show. So let's go. Okay, my girl, Wendy,

first off, happy 2020. Thank you. Happy New Year to you and everybody else. Oh my word. What in this world,

do you have New Year rhythms, traditions? Do you,

are you the, I'm staying up to, you know, see that ball drop on the TV or are you like,

I'm in bed at nine o'clock and the world can have it? What are you? Well, y'all are going to be

jealous of me because I'm in California,

so I get to watch the ball drop at 9 o'clock. So absolutely, stay up and watch the ball drop

and then hit the sack. I am so jealous. Maybe once since having children, we've been up

till midnight. Oh, my word. I tell you what, I can rarely make it.

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