Happy Hour #18 is with my friend Jessi Connolly. Jessi and I are online friends and so it's always super fun when I get to talk in person with friends that I only know from the internet. I will actually meet Jessi next week when I fly to Indiana for The Influence Conference. I'm super excited about this conference because I get to meet tons of great people that I know online and I'll be speaking to the ladies there, so that's even more exciting!
Jessi and her husband have four kids and have just recently planted a church in Charleston, SC. They also run Naptime Diaries Printshop which if you haven't checked out their prints you should right now. Also she's graciously giving away FIVE prints, so five of you guys will get a new print to make your house beautiful and put scripture on your walls. How can you beat that!
Jessi and I talk about how it all gets done in her world (surprise – it doesn't!), her work out plan , how she handles social media, what the Influence Network is, and how the prints go from idea to finished product.
This podcast is shorter than the normal ones, but I will for sure be asking Jessi to join me again because I literally have 100 things I can chat with her about! Hope you enjoy it!
{You can listen to the show HERE, and make sure you never miss a Happy Hour by subscribing through your favorite podcast app (ie. iTunes, Stitcher). And of course, I would love if you would share with your friends!}
Links:
What we're reading: Jessi – 168 hours & Jamie: Eight Twenty Eight
My sister-in-law's shop IVEY EXPRESSIONS – you will want to check her stuff out!
Youtube Page about the Naptime Diaries prints
How to keep up with Jessi:
Blog – Pinterest – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram
Jessi and her team at Naptime Diaries are graciously giving away a print to five of you readers. I love that so much and I can't wait to see someones wall decorated with scripture. To enter as usual, it's super easy! Leave a comment about whatever. Maybe tell me your favorite scripture, or who you shared the podcast with (because I love when you guys tell your friends), or just whatever you want! Contest will end Thursday the 25th at midnight (CST).
**UPDATE – winners: Jessica, Sarah, Jessica, Jordan & Abby – I emailed you all!**
I love the nap time diaries scripture! Especially with kids at home I think it is so important to cover your home in scripture, prayer and love! One of my favorite vs. is Joshua 1:9 – Be Strong and Courageous… Check out naptimediaries shops she has plenty on there with this verse!!
I love your happy hour pod casts — they always brighten my day. I shared your site with my mom and she does stitch fix now! 🙂
Oh I love her prints and have enjoyed following along with her church planting experience especially since I helped start a church plant!
Jessi is one of the first bloggers I started following years ago and have always admired the way she lived her life online and offline. I’m excited to head to the Influence Conference once again to learn from her wisdom and the wisdom of others.
Love this! I’m a mama to one wild little boy soon to turn one year old. My prayer that I’ve been praying a lot recently is from 1 Corinthians 2:2 “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” As my son is getting older and Lord willing my husband and I are given more children, I want us to preach the one true Gospel to them. I never want to preach a false gospel, like moralism, to my children. I want to preach Jesus and Him crucified to them only.
I want to put more scripture up on our walls…I would love to add some naptime diaires prints! They are all awesome!
Hi, Jamie! I binged listened to your podcast (Netflix style) over the last few weeks. I’ve really enjoyed them. Nothing like sitting down with a jar of Nutella and a good podcast during the kids’ nap time. Meghan McCamant and I graduated from Concordia Austin together and she shared your podcast via facebook. I have since shared it with several other ladies in my life who I think would enjoy and appreciate your blog/podcast. Most recently I shared your podcast with Jennie Allen to a friend because we walked through Jennie’s Bible study, Stuck, together. Thanks for the uplifting, entertaining and inspirational podcast. Looking forward to listening to today’s.
Hi Jamie! I was so excited when I saw your podcast posted and it was with Jessi Connolly! I love both of you ladies so much, so it was fun to hear you together. I have let my sister, my friend Becci, and the director of women’s ministries for our church, Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK, about your wonderful podcast. Thank you, again, for doing these each week! I love God’s word, and artwork, so would love to win a piece of artwork by Jessi!
~Tanya
I absolutely love Naptime Diaries and would love to win a print. I follow Jessi’s blog too and I have really been encouraged by her!
i loved the podcast! i’m a new listener (after being recommended by jacey from “around the table”) and i’ve gone back and listened to four or five of your older pocasts and enjoyed them all! i have a 4 month old daughter and we go on a long walk everyday, and your podcast is the perfect companion. i’m also a huge admirer of jess connolly and couldn’t believe when i saw that she was in this week’s podcast! i would love to win a print, but i also wanted to comment and just let you know how much i am enjoying the happy hour.
Love Jessi’s prints! She makes the most beautiful work. So encouraged by her heart!
loved that this one was shorter because i am struggling to get through couch to 5k for a run next weekend and i’m only on week 7, day 3 – but today i had to run for 25 minutes and with the help of you two ladies, i survived! thanks.
2 corinthians 4:16 is the verse God gave my husband to pray over me this year during my mid-life-40-year-old-birthday crisis: Therefore we do not lose heart. though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. praise God that with Him things are going uphill!
i love the ntd prints but have never pulled the trigger on getting one yet- thanks for the reminder!!
I’ve really enjoyed listening to your podcast! Love what they’re doing at Naptime Diaries. Always a great thing to see folks using the talents the Lord has given to impact cultural spheres like art! Would love to see them do one with Exodus 14:14- “The Lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent”!
Loved this chat! Only wished it was longer! Can’t wait till she comes back for round two!
What beautiful prints! I love them.
Jamie, what an inspiring, informative, and still FUN podcast. I love it. One of my favorite scriptures is John 16:33. In this world you will have trouble but take heart, I have overcome the world!…Amen.
Love your podcasts, Jamie! So fun to listen in and get inspired. I am so interested in the book you spoke about. Today my sister is getting married – her fiancé had a stroke earlier this year and I am eager to get her to read that book.
I love your podcast so much. One of my favorite scriptures is Ephesians 2:4-6
I just started listening to your podcast and I think I am addicted. My kids are starting to think you are one of my “real” friends. 🙂 Thank you for all the topics you all cover – there is so much wisdom from each of your guests! I recently has an If table at my house and told each of the ladies “they had to subscribe” to Happy Hour! Thank you for letting me hang with you!
Elessa – Meridian, Idaho
Oh, her prints are lovely! I am slowly collecting Scripture prints to put on the walls of our home. Would love to win one of these. One of my favorite verses is Galatians 5:1-“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free…”
I just downloaded the book you mentioned! Can’t wait to read it!
I purposefully got behind on your podcast so I could listen to several in a row. Love them!
Love the podcasts and love her prints! Definitely planning on getting one for a friend’s nursery that I just saw on her site.
Wow, her prints are beautiful! Thank you for sharing your conversation with us. It’s so encouraging to hear about the real lives of women trying to live out the gospel. I look forward to your podcast each week!
I was recently looking at the Naptime Diaries prints on her website… we just moved into a new home and I’d love to beautify my walls with some fabulous truth from Scripture! What better thing to look at and have constant reminders of!
Loved this chat and really love these prints 🙂
Thanks for hosting, Jamie!
Love your podcasts all the time, but especially when I’m on a walk or run. This weekend we were in Louisiana and while Thomas and his dad played tennis one morning, I walked four miles while catching up on the happy hours! Would love to win one of Jessi’s prints!
This is the first podcast that I listened to. I loved it! Jamie, it will be such a blessing for you and Jess to meet in person!
The 168 hours book sounds good to me. Thanks for sharing, Jessi Connolly. I just heard Lysa TerKeurst share on everyone’s 168 hours in a recent “The Best Yes” webcast. When she did the math, she knew that she had 3 1/2 hours left over in her week. That’s when she scheduled time to start writing.
I’m going to check out Naptime Diaries now! I love the encouragement of Scripture and I need constant reminders. Thanks to God for other women to encourage all of the other fellow sojourners in life.
I made my friend Amanda start listening to the HH. I love the people you’re interviewing…all different walks of life and ways of following Jesus. Thank you! I looooove Exodus 14:14, it’s our banner as we’re getting ready to be missionaries in Thailand.
loved the podcast and how honest you two were about social media. I would love to win a fun print!
LOVE your podcasts, (I listen on stitcher and it’s awesome) LOVE Jessi Connolly, LOVE that I get to know YOU and have you in my barre class 😉 LOVING this verse right now :: ‘PEACE I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
John 14:27 nasb Praying it for a dear friend going through a super tough adoption process. I can’t wait to share these book titles with her!
xx -Abby
Look forward to your podcast every week! I wish I had one to listen to every day! I went over to check out Jessi’s prints and I LOVE them! I am in the process of creating an accent wall which one would go perfectly on!
Love these prints!!
I love listening to your podcast – hearing more from some of my favorite authors/influencers and finding new people of influence to follow and learn from! Thanks for taking your time to do this… after a long day teaching kindergarteners, it is a breath of fresh air!
I love the Psalm 130 print!
Oh my goodness I absolutley love Jessi’s prints (or should I call her Jess :)?) I was trying to pick one favirote one but I just cant. For my daughters room I want “She is clothed with strength and dignity. She laughs without fear of the future.” For kids bathroom: “Walk as children of the light.” For my living room/ entry way: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” For the kitchen: Let us not drink from brocken cisterns because we have access to living water.” I could pick so many more… Thanks for the great podcast.