Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.

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 the little things in life, and everything in between.

Well, hello friends. It's Tony Collier, and I'm so excited to be a guest host on the

Happy Hour podcast. I just want to prep everybody for this

conversation. Okay? First of all I want to say that for about 15 minutes there

before we even got on to the conversation we were trying to get

connected okay typically when these type of like mechanical issues that have no

explanation happens it's because on the other side of that adversity is going to be a real good conversation.

And so I hope you got your big girl and boy pants on today, because I believe that this is going to be a great conversation, not only because there were technical difficulties, but because I get to talk to my good friend.

My good friend, who, my good friend, an advisor and big brother and all things healing and grief and all the things that I have been walking through?

Dr. Kurt Thompson is in the building. How are you doing a day kirt that's what you usually asked me yeah yeah right right yeah right yeah

well I'm doing better now that I'm talking to you how's that that? Is that better? That's so good. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. Yeah. I feel great about my life. Now, I feel great about my life today, Kurt, but as you know, over the last six months, I have not felt so great about my life.

For those of you that don't know me, I get to do some really fun stuff from speaking to

podcasting and writing books and such but over the

last six months I've gone through a really public divorce and full of

betrayal and lies and all the things I remember I got to the point where I knew that I had to leave because our

marriage just it wasn't God honoring anymore and thankfully over the past three years I've been

walking with some of in in my opinion, the most mature, beautiful, wholly people that I have ever walked with.

And that's our confessional community, including Kurt.

And I feel like the work that we have done over these past three years

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