Speaker 1: And just like that, Christmas is a rap. I hope
Speaker 1: yours was magical and full of all of the things
Speaker 1: that make for happy memories to last the whole year
Speaker 1: through that New Year, By the way, is jazz days away.
Speaker 1: Are you busy making a list of resolutions? Or like me,
Speaker 1: did you give that up a couple of decades ago?
Speaker 1: Instead of specific goals, I seem more inclined to give
Speaker 1: myself little little pep talks when January rolls around. I
Speaker 1: resolved to be better about I don't know self care,
Speaker 1: vowing to strike a better balance when it comes to
Speaker 1: rest and exercise and nutrition. The dark winter months do
Speaker 1: provide time for me to work on indoor art projects,
Speaker 1: to read all the books I wanted to get to
Speaker 1: over the summer, and ample opportunity to think up fresh
Speaker 1: new ideas I might try out in this spring. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, I want you to embrace winter in
Speaker 1: all of its wonder My guest on our podcast today
Speaker 1: is someone known to embrace and celebrate life through every
Speaker 1: twist and turn. She's a New York Times best selling
Speaker 1: author of For the Love and Fierce, Free and Full
Speaker 1: of Fire, along with twelve other books you might listen
Speaker 1: to her award winning for the Love podcast. I'm talking,
Speaker 1: of course, about the fabulous Jin Hatmaker. If you were
Speaker 1: to visit Jen's web page, you would be greeted with
Speaker 1: this statement. I'm going to try to read it just
Speaker 1: as she wrote it. I believe women living in freedom
Speaker 1: are the answer to all that ails society. When we
Speaker 1: are actually who we are, how we are, where we are,
Speaker 1: as we are always meant to be, women are the
Speaker 1: greatest gifts to this world. My whole life's work is
Speaker 1: to serve women as they genuinely show up to their
Speaker 1: own lives. We need not fear the truth or hard questions,
Speaker 1: or spiritual curiosity, or challenging unjust systems. That is literally
Speaker 1: why we are here. Welcome to this community. You are
Speaker 1: beloved and necessary and good. Needless to say, I love her.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to have a heart to heart conversation
Speaker 1: with Jen hat Maker today. I know it's going to
Speaker 1: be inspiring. I'm going to share some love with one
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Speaker 1: three generations, and you'll taste the love they add in
Speaker 1: every cup. Our guest on Today's Love Someone is Jen
Speaker 1: hat Maker. I was so happy to see you and
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. When your name first popped up
Speaker 1: in social media a couple of years ago, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: she makes hats. I know. I thought it was like
Speaker 1: your moniker. And then I get a little research that
Speaker 1: she doesn't make hats. That's right, she makes she heals hearts,
Speaker 1: and she inspires people and uh, and so I kind
Speaker 1: of became a quiet fan. Um. I wouldn't say I
Speaker 1: stopped you, but I did. And because I have a
Speaker 1: very large, interracial, intercultural, intergenerational family, you were one of
Speaker 1: the closest people I had seen to representing a little
Speaker 1: bit of my life. Yep. How many of your five
Speaker 1: are girls? Two girls, two girls? Three voice? I have eight? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they don't pull punches. Oh godly, they do not
Speaker 1: even care, like no, absolutely, and they're not impressed. Nobody's
Speaker 1: impressed here. Nobody's like, um my, we we have a
Speaker 1: group chat is unsure you do too. So it's me
Speaker 1: and my five kids, and it's always popping off with
Speaker 1: like nonsense and sarcasm and dark humor. And my son
Speaker 1: Caleb his twenty, sent a meme around that said it
Speaker 1: just had a picture of like some weird looking woman
Speaker 1: and it was like when somebody you never even heard of,
Speaker 1: um is a New York Times bestseller and you're like,
Speaker 1: I never even heard of that book. This is clearly
Speaker 1: directed at their mom. And I'm like, first of all, rude, Um.
Speaker 1: Second of all, you're welcome. I'm sending you do going
Speaker 1: to college. Yeah, because mom's book. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: But they're like so unimpressed, like whatever, mom, Um, Jim
Speaker 1: Garner um endorsed my cookbook and we've become friends anyway.
Speaker 1: My kids are impressed about that, but still rude. They're like, Mom,
Speaker 1: it's so weird that Jin Garner like endorsed cook They're like,
Speaker 1: she must feel sorry for you. I'm like, okay, thanks, thanks,
Speaker 1: even more cold blooded than mine. I got to say.
Speaker 1: You know, they come by it. Honestly, I can't even
Speaker 1: be mad at my kids. Um. They are so cayenne spicy,
Speaker 1: but they got it for me. I mean, there is
Speaker 1: no way we actually thought. I actually thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to end up with at least one nice,
Speaker 1: like sweet kid, like at least one of them will
Speaker 1: be precious because we're gonna adopt, right, so we've got
Speaker 1: to adopted kids. I'm like, they don't they're not spoiled
Speaker 1: by our d n A. That's right, they're gonna come
Speaker 1: in sweet. Oh no, no, no, they're calliane hot. So
Speaker 1: I couldn't even adopt precious like we just are. We
Speaker 1: are just what we are. And I'm telling you so
Speaker 1: yours are almost grown though? How old your youngest sixteen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? You need two or three more?
Speaker 1: Go Delilah. Now I can call you up. I can
Speaker 1: hook you up. Do not manifest that into this universe.
Speaker 1: I've been parenting since I was twenty three. I Um,
Speaker 1: what's so weird for me right now? I mean absolutely
Speaker 1: bizarre world? Is that my fourth kid, Ben as a
Speaker 1: freshman of college, so he moved out in August. And
Speaker 1: my fifth kid, Remy, who's a junior, is doing her
Speaker 1: junior year in Spain as a foreign exchange student. My point,
Speaker 1: nobody lives here right now, nobody. I'm child. I gotta
Speaker 1: hook you up. I gotta hook you I don't know
Speaker 1: how to be, like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We don't even know how to cook,
Speaker 1: Like how do you cook for one person? I don't
Speaker 1: you know what I do as I eat yogurt or
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't want to make a I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with myself, so I go
Speaker 1: to hummus on on flower tortillas. I'm as right. I
Speaker 1: had hammas and cucumbers for lunch hummus on flower tortillas
Speaker 1: when I'm alone. But I'm never alone, so I don't
Speaker 1: get that very often. Well, frankly, all my kids live
Speaker 1: in Austin, all and my brother and his wife and
Speaker 1: their little sons who were preschoolers, they are five minutes away.
Speaker 1: So that's what I do. They call them and say,
Speaker 1: I've made an entire dinner. Would you like him? I
Speaker 1: made a butterboard with Tricia year, would come and share
Speaker 1: it with me? That's just come and share it, like,
Speaker 1: I'm exactly right, that's not untrue. And so I'm actually
Speaker 1: gonna do a butterboard this year for the for the family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for the years, I think we'll pay attention
Speaker 1: to that. Because people got like real wild about that trend.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, who wouldn't want this? I want to
Speaker 1: dread their bread with butter and olive oil and garlic.
Speaker 1: Peopoth don't love well, they either love it or hate it.
Speaker 1: But the haters are like, that is so gross. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is gross about butter? It's delicious. It's like, look
Speaker 1: at all this stuff we put on it. It's now
Speaker 1: it's even better. It's fancy butter um. But no, they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I'm like, well, yeah, well you're
Speaker 1: a portion more butter for me. People they probably wouldn't like.
Speaker 1: I saw a recipe for you put caramels like were
Speaker 1: there's candy in a pan with butter, lots of butter
Speaker 1: that you throw a popcorn in it and you pop
Speaker 1: the popcorn with the were there's caramels melted with the butter.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, oh yeah, try it. Not yet,
Speaker 1: I just saw it. I'm like, oh yeah, mama's doing that.
Speaker 1: But we can't do that. I can get behind. We
Speaker 1: can't do that for a movie night because that will
Speaker 1: make a huge mess all over everything. So true. And
Speaker 1: I have a real history of burning caramel. I just
Speaker 1: can't quite get it right. And so the smell of
Speaker 1: scorched caramel is so like, I have such muscle memory
Speaker 1: for it because I just I can't do it. Like
Speaker 1: I want to make toffee eat what I have is burned,
Speaker 1: but I just cannot. This is outside of my skill set,
Speaker 1: and so I am willing to try your trend and
Speaker 1: I will like send my notes okay, but we'll try it.
Speaker 1: Try it. Yeah. So that's about the only candy I
Speaker 1: make is Christmas crack. Have you made that with the
Speaker 1: crackers and the toffee? And I could eat gallons of it?
Speaker 1: I do eat gallons. I do. Yeah. Have you had
Speaker 1: it where you smash the peppermint candy on top? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And it's so good there's no bad iteration of it,
Speaker 1: Like every version of the Christmas crack? I want to
Speaker 1: have it. And I'm not even really a distorted person.
Speaker 1: I'm not a sweet person. I don't make a lot
Speaker 1: of sweets. I don't bake, but that stuff with the
Speaker 1: salty crack. Yeah, and if you put a little sea
Speaker 1: salt on top of it as the chocolate melting, yeah
Speaker 1: the best. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I did many many batches
Speaker 1: of Christmas crack for Christmas gifts. We go down to
Speaker 1: the thrift stores and I buy like plates, Christmas plates,
Speaker 1: you know, for a quarter apiece, and then wash them
Speaker 1: and load them up with a Christmas crack and wrap
Speaker 1: them up to the plastic and give them. That is
Speaker 1: such a cute idea. Look how cute you are as
Speaker 1: you were being darling when you do that. I am
Speaker 1: the thrift store queen, Like, what do you what are
Speaker 1: you on the prowl for when you're thrift ng Because
Speaker 1: generally good thrifts have a few categories that they specialize in.
Speaker 1: Art supplies, always art supplies. Never enough art supplies in
Speaker 1: the world. There's never enough paint or paint brushes or
Speaker 1: because unlike you who stopped after five, I kept going
Speaker 1: and yeah, so I've you know, I've got a house
Speaker 1: full of littles, and so pipe cleaners and beads. Pipe
Speaker 1: cleaners and beads will keep a six year old entertained
Speaker 1: for an hour. My nephews are two four, and I
Speaker 1: have six drawers of art supplies. And it's just it's
Speaker 1: endless fun. It doesn't matter what it is. Table cloth,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is. Yeah, just put it out, plastic,
Speaker 1: tablecloth down, put it out. No glitter though I stopped
Speaker 1: at the gloves. Oh so anti glitter. If you come
Speaker 1: to my house, I don't have nice furniture. I don't
Speaker 1: have pitching dishes or plates. Um literally, they'll just break
Speaker 1: them they're gonna get broken. And they take the nice
Speaker 1: utensils when I have them, they take them in their
Speaker 1: lunch box, like to basketball practice, and if they don't
Speaker 1: come home with them. So why, okay, isn't that the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing? I like, really want I want to analytics
Speaker 1: on this. And in my house when all the kids
Speaker 1: lived here, You're so right about the utensils, And for me,
Speaker 1: it was almost exclusively forks. So I would have three
Speaker 1: d knives literally anywhere, like we just these are the
Speaker 1: two we have. Who gets them? The rest of you,
Speaker 1: I don't know, eat with your hands like a bear. Like.
Speaker 1: It was just so weird. And now that they're all gone,
Speaker 1: I have no I have forks and you don't. Else,
Speaker 1: I'll have cups and they live in the kitchen where
Speaker 1: they belong. It's the weirdest phenomenon. I'm like, look at
Speaker 1: all these cups I have. They're not under beds, they're
Speaker 1: not just propped up next to the upstairs bathroom sink.
Speaker 1: They just live on the shelf where they belong. It's
Speaker 1: a miracle. Look at this. Yeah, I'm not there yet.
Speaker 1: I will be a thousand years old when I'm there,
Speaker 1: I will be Enthuselah. Yeah, so you said you were
Speaker 1: twenty three when you started parenting. That's right. I had
Speaker 1: my first time when else twenty three. I was twenty one.
Speaker 1: I married a man that had two children, and um,
Speaker 1: then we had a baby together and so it was
Speaker 1: just me and my son for several years, and I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, god, I really want more children. I
Speaker 1: really want more children. And the doctor said, that's not
Speaker 1: probably going to happen. So, um, you know, we've got options,
Speaker 1: there's medical intervention or whatever. That's right. I mean, not
Speaker 1: to that extent, but I came from a big family
Speaker 1: and then I created a big family, and so big
Speaker 1: family energy is just all I know. I don't any
Speaker 1: time that we were ever out in the world and
Speaker 1: I would see a sweet little family with like their
Speaker 1: one or two little kids and they're at the restaurant
Speaker 1: and everybody's quietly, I would just be like, what is
Speaker 1: that even happening? What is that even? Like? What is
Speaker 1: their world? Like? Why aren't they all yelling and like
Speaker 1: hollering it or like like I do with my sisters
Speaker 1: and brother talking over each other, and somehow we hear
Speaker 1: it all like no one's missing a word, but we
Speaker 1: can all talk at once and still can be communicating
Speaker 1: like on the nose, and everybody else observing is just
Speaker 1: like this is overwhelming. I'm like, I it's it is,
Speaker 1: it is. You are right, it is, um, But Christmas
Speaker 1: your house, Holidays at your house, birthdays at your house
Speaker 1: look like yeah, wild, So what are you working on?
Speaker 1: You have a cookbook that's out Tell me about that,
Speaker 1: and that is comprising all my hours of all my
Speaker 1: days right now. It just came out. It just came
Speaker 1: out like three weeks ago, a feeding that and it's
Speaker 1: called Feed These People. And it was just so fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I do. That's my life as
Speaker 1: I feed these people. And so it's funny and it's obnoxious.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of swear words in it. Um.
Speaker 1: It was so fun to write. It's outside my normal genre,
Speaker 1: you know, I normally right, nonfiction books for women, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of in empowerment space and like emotional and spiritual
Speaker 1: development space and all that, um and this so this
Speaker 1: was a real departure from my normal thing. I've been
Speaker 1: writing about food online for years and years and years,
Speaker 1: just but in an obnoxious way. And my community was like, gen,
Speaker 1: we want you to write us a cookbook, but don't
Speaker 1: get good do it just like this the way that
Speaker 1: you write about it, like on on social media, that's
Speaker 1: how we want you to write your cookbook. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: first of all, I think that's a little rude, but
Speaker 1: I know what you mean, m because they're long, rambly, hilarious, nonsense,
Speaker 1: very sketchy quantities um And it's just so you measure
Speaker 1: like I do, where it's like like some yeah, some
Speaker 1: some taste or and then add some more yeah you
Speaker 1: like some more? Um so yeah, my editor everybody's like, Delilah,
Speaker 1: you cook all the time, like I cook for at
Speaker 1: least eight to ten people every day of my life.
Speaker 1: They're like, why don't you why don't you have a
Speaker 1: cookbook at I'm like, no, no, because how would I
Speaker 1: like people have to be able to follow a recipe
Speaker 1: that's right through all my recipes that I just make.
Speaker 1: I'm like an intuitive cook and um, did you have
Speaker 1: somebody measure what it was for you? I had to
Speaker 1: keep a notebook right and I can't do that. I
Speaker 1: can do right down, Like I would just grab how
Speaker 1: much would you use jen just like if you were
Speaker 1: just doing it, I would grab it, and then I
Speaker 1: would be like, how much is this? Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: reverse engineer. I can't do a recipe. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do it. So I'll just tell
Speaker 1: people to go get Jen hat Makers book. And I'm sure, like,
Speaker 1: is there a recipe for your lasagna? Is there? There's
Speaker 1: a pasta bake. I call it a lazy lasagna. That's
Speaker 1: in the chapter. I have a chapter called food when
Speaker 1: You Have No More Damns to Give, and that one's
Speaker 1: in there. It's like a lazy lasagna. Um, this is
Speaker 1: like a it's a cookbook for normals. You know. It's
Speaker 1: not a chef's cookbook. This is just for people like
Speaker 1: me and you who just stand in our kitchen and
Speaker 1: cook for the people that live here. Um so, and
Speaker 1: and nothing's hard, nothing's fancy. This is not I'm not credential,
Speaker 1: I'm unqualified. Like this is just really yummy food for
Speaker 1: normal families. And so it was really a blast. I
Speaker 1: loved it. So I'm I just I just came off tour.
Speaker 1: I just got home like two days ago, um from
Speaker 1: the book tour, and it was wild. We slept on
Speaker 1: a bus. I have decided I'm too old for that,
Speaker 1: and so um that was a new bit of data
Speaker 1: that I procured. Yeah. I I have those realizations all
Speaker 1: the time where I'm like, when I go to Africa,
Speaker 1: stay in a refugee camp, you know, we we sleep
Speaker 1: on the floor on mats or whatever, and and and
Speaker 1: I am too old for that, Like my body is like,
Speaker 1: oh jin oh, come on, like you're forty eight. Let's
Speaker 1: think us went through let's think. Let's think clearly. So
Speaker 1: bus on a couch on a bus? Yeah, no, because
Speaker 1: you have to look good on TV. Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: doing live events, like we were in a different city
Speaker 1: every night, so it was like packed theaters, like you know,
Speaker 1: thousand plus women in every location, plus the handful of
Speaker 1: rogueman who come to everything. And um, yeah because you're
Speaker 1: because you have it's because of their wives. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Their wives are like, look, these poor husbands are like, look,
Speaker 1: my wife has been reading me against my will. You're
Speaker 1: writing for so many years, like while I'm drug drug
Speaker 1: me to this. Yeah, they're like, I'm coming. I deserve
Speaker 1: to get to see you because I have been like
Speaker 1: a reluctant reader all these years via my wife. And
Speaker 1: so I'm like coming in everybody'sing, isn't gin incredible? Will
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Speaker 1: funny fact about my sappy love song show. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get more calls from men than I do from women.
Speaker 1: I cannot air them. I I don't put them on
Speaker 1: the air most of the time because people who listen
Speaker 1: listen for stories. So when a man calls me and
Speaker 1: he's ready to pour out his heart, he says, I
Speaker 1: want to play a song for Jen. She's my rock.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's their story. It's the beginning, middle, and
Speaker 1: in the whole thing. In thirty seconds, she's my rock.
Speaker 1: And so I'll lead them down the path. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll say, well, what is it? What qualities does jin
Speaker 1: embody that makes her your your solid place, your touchstone.
Speaker 1: She's not my touchstone, She's a rock. She's my rock. Okay, Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, and then you know, like riveting listening
Speaker 1: exactly their hearts are in it. Their hearts are in it.
Speaker 1: But so then I'll have to do a double up.
Speaker 1: I call them where you know. Then then Susan, I'll
Speaker 1: collin before I even say hi, welcome to the Delily Show.
Speaker 1: She's just told me her entire life story and why
Speaker 1: she wants a song for her boyfriend, and you know,
Speaker 1: and so then I'll weave in. I just talked to
Speaker 1: Billy who wanted a song for Jin because Jesus rock,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'll double it up. I love it. Listen, men,
Speaker 1: and I know this and so to you because we've
Speaker 1: raised to them. And so I have those young adult
Speaker 1: boys and I think we're talking about my current husband
Speaker 1: nice one. Boys. Boys have all the same feelings as girls.
Speaker 1: They're goopy, they're squishy, they're soft, they cry when they
Speaker 1: get broken up with their wildly sentimental Now they may
Speaker 1: not wrap it with as much language and as many
Speaker 1: words as women do, but it is all in there.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you those boys right pages of like love notes,
Speaker 1: and they make they need to call me because I'm
Speaker 1: getting is she's my rock. They need to be the
Speaker 1: ones to call me. They need to call me and
Speaker 1: read that love letter to me telling you. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I've watched him like stay in their for four
Speaker 1: days after a particular hard break up. Their boys are boys,
Speaker 1: could be pretty tender to they They're very in fact,
Speaker 1: I think they are sometimes more tender, but because there's
Speaker 1: so much pressure on them to be tough that that
Speaker 1: causes quite a conflict. You know, in the world's demanding
Speaker 1: that you be this when in reality you've got a
Speaker 1: sweet sweetheart. At that's hard. It is hard. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: Um So keeping them soft and able to be vulnerable
Speaker 1: at least in their own home and be able to
Speaker 1: talk about their feelings without getting shamed for it or
Speaker 1: told to buck up or to stop crying. I think
Speaker 1: it's important hopefully that transfers to their relationships as they
Speaker 1: kind of launch or like, so that they'll call my
Speaker 1: show and give me more than cheese, my rock Y.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, right, Let's let's give him some home training.
Speaker 1: Thank you around, Thank you, Jen, has been delightful to
Speaker 1: talk to you. I I get to go muck stalls
Speaker 1: now and very glamorous. Yeah, and take care of a
Speaker 1: a four year old almost four year old that that
Speaker 1: has recently become a part of our family, not a
Speaker 1: permanent part. She's she's here for a medical services UM,
Speaker 1: but she is hearing impaired. So we're learning sign and
Speaker 1: then teaching her sign, which is very exciting. And my
Speaker 1: my thirteen year old daughter has led the charge. She's
Speaker 1: like taking it on. She's like, Mom, we're gonna learn this,
Speaker 1: We're going to do this, and she's really been the
Speaker 1: teacher of all of us, which is kind of amazing
Speaker 1: to see her take a leadership role like that. I
Speaker 1: absolutely love this. My first three kids, when they were
Speaker 1: in high school, all shows a s L as their
Speaker 1: foreign language. That was an option for them, and so
Speaker 1: they're all fluent in sign language. And so when when
Speaker 1: my youngers were younger and I needed a nanny in
Speaker 1: the summer because I still work full time, I hired
Speaker 1: a nanny who was hearing impaired and so they only
Speaker 1: spoken sign language and it was just so amazing, and
Speaker 1: even her introducing my kids to the deaf community, we
Speaker 1: have a pretty large one here in Austin because we've
Speaker 1: got a huge school here. UM was so great. They're
Speaker 1: still talking about it years and years and years and
Speaker 1: years later. So it's a wonderful way to enricher family
Speaker 1: and also love her. Is that nanny still available? Could
Speaker 1: use your number of friends? Yeah? Well, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: God bless. I'm so glad we Matt I loved you
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