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.

My friends, it is officially summer.

Welcome to June.

Today is June 7th and I'm really happy that you're joining us.

I want to tell you that these next couple of weeks are going to be some of my favorite weeks on the happy hour.

You should know that starting right now on the month of June, we will just be releasing one show a week.

So every Wednesday you will get a podcast from us.

We will not have shows on Friday and we're starting our encounter series.

Now we did this last year and it's just my favorite thing and I'll tell you the reason I wanted to do this is because,

gosh, I say it all the time, stories change the world.

That is what this podcast is about is sharing stories and I really do know that so many people's lives are changed from hearing other people's stories.

And so I thought to myself, what better story than the story that people have of their encounters with Jesus?

And what made them want to follow Him?

What made them want to give their lives to Christ?

So the summer we're focusing all on that, every story that you're going to hear this summer is someone's testimony.

It's their story.

How did they start to follow Jesus?

What did their life look like before and what does their life look like now?

Before I get to our first guest today, which I'm so excited about, I want to tell you, I have a really big announcement coming out in my newsletter on Sunday.

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