by jamieivey | Mar 11, 2016 | Adoption, Around the Web, Books, Domestic, Family, Parenting, Podcast
My guest for Happy Hour #79 is Rachel Garlinghouse, author and champion for all things adoption. God used a near-death experience and an unexpected diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes to lead Rachel and her husband to adoption. At the beginning of their journey, she...
by jamieivey | Feb 15, 2016 | Adoption, Around the Web, Domestic, Faith, Foster Care, Haiti, My Story, Parenting, Podcast
As much as I love creating a show for you each week, I also really enjoy being guests on other shows. It's fun to be on the other side of the questions and honestly I think it helps me as an interviewer to understand what it feels like to be the guests! I have been a...
by jamieivey | Jan 20, 2016 | Adoption, Around the Web, Books, Domestic, Family, Food, Podcast, Recipe
Oh man, y'all. This is one of my favorite shows to date. If you don't already know about Rachel Hollis, you are going to love getting to know her so much. If you've been following Rachel for a while, this show is more of everything you love about her – honest...
by jamieivey | Dec 10, 2015 | Adoption, Domestic, Faith, Family, Podcast
Happy Hour #66 is with Amanda Jones. Amanda is a Jesus-loving Texas girl married to a preacher boy from Missouri. They have 2 elementary-age kids, a new baby girl, and a four-year-old church they planted with their friends. Amanda loves laughing with her family,...
by jamieivey | May 4, 2015 | Adoption, Around the Web, Domestic, Faith, The Austin Stone
I have said it a million times and I'll say it again, adoption is beautiful, but it is always built on loss. There's no way around that. For a child to enter a family via adoption, they always have to first leave a family. One of our sons was adopted at birth here in...
by jamieivey | Nov 19, 2014 | Adoption, Books, Domestic, Faith, Parenting, Podcast
Today’s guests on the Happy Hour Podcast are Becca Harris and Maris Bush. Both of these ladies are heroes to me and they exhibit Jesus in their lives so much. I have known Maris for over ten years, and Becca and I met shortly after I moved to Austin six years ago. All...
