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.

Hey friends. I'm Nicki Ogden, team member of the Happy Hour Podcast. Due to an

unexpected crisis Jamie is going to be delaying her book publicity and tour. She's also going to take a

break from social media, public appearances, and recording new shows at this time. We want to give her space to

process, discern, and recover.

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Hey friends, welcome back to the happy hour.

Today on the show, Michael Panther joins me and shares his story.

He had a book come out last September where he wrote about it and I knew that I wanted to have a conversation with him because he talks about hope in the midst of hard times and if there is something that we all need it is hope in the midst of hard times. You may not share the same story as Michaels, but I know that we all share the story of being in need of God, being in need of him to show up, being in need of him to help us.

Michael grew up in Sudan and a war-torn country at the time. His family moved around a whole lot and at the age of 10 he found himself having difficulty walking and so he tells the story of how him and his father ended up in Kenya, how he ended up with a family that was a medical doctor,

how he ended up in the US and he ends up going to LSU, go Tigers.

You're going to love his story of just resilience and just hope. He talks about how his hope became real in the hospital and you just you're got it you got a tune in to listen to that.

If you want to hear more from Michael or read more of his story,

go check out his book. It's called Living with Hope, A True Story of

Faith, Purpose, and Mobility, and He now has a whole organization to help mobility

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