Pockets of Joy
…those fleeting moments when you feel like everything is going to be okay.
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Coming September 5th 2017
"No matter your situation, you have a choice. I chose joy."
Roxane Battle was on television for much of her adult life. As a news reporter and anchor, she traveled the world and met notable people from Jay Leno to Mariah Carey to Prince. But shortly after landing her dream job in her hometown of Minneapolis, Roxane’s marriage fell apart. Every day was a battle to keep it together on camera while piecing her life back together at home as the single mom of eleven-month-old Jarod. At one point, broke and alone, dinner was a single chicken McNugget.
With wit, dignity, and gripping detail, Roxane shares her story of intentionally looking for joy during this challenging chapter of her life. Her faith was the guiding force as she searched for moments of gratitude and found a lifetime of grace. She also includes secrets to spiritual, professional, and personal wholeness for today’s woman, with chapters on authenticity, service, generosity, gratitude, self-care, yielding, forgiveness, and more.
Also by Roxane Battle: Pockets of Joy Journal
This hard-cover journal features royal blue leatherette, gold embossing and lined pages where you can write down your happy memories. Write a little bit or a lot, whenever you want. There’s even a place to #hash tag the day and a pocket in the back for mementoes. And when you’re done, all your pockets of joy will be in one place to look back on and smile!
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Articles
6 Ways to Add Balance to Your Life
So how’s it coming? The diet? The work out routine? The new project? If you’re like a lot of us, by now those well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions have started to wane a bit. According to recent research, by the time February rolls around, more than a third of us have broken those promises we made […]
Winning a Billion and a Half Dollars Won’t Make You Happy– But Here Are 3 Tips That Will
You didn’t win the Powerball either huh? Sorry about that. I spent ten bucks on five tickets, just because. I guess I’m one of those people who subscribe to the ‘entertainment value’ theory, you know, being a part of something BIG, part of a national dialogue. If anything, a two dollar ticket holds FOMO –fear […]
Finding Joy by Discovering Who You Want to Be
What’s it like to be a nobody? After I left my job as a television news anchor I found out. I had no place to go and nothing to do. I had traded in business suits for sweat pants and morning editorial meetings for lattes at Starbucks. There I would sit, morning after morning broken […]
Keep the Memories: 6 Tips for Starting a Successful Journaling Habit
Not so long ago, I discovered buried in the bottom of a desk drawer, an essay I’d written while taking Lamaze classes. I wrote about my fears, my anxieties and ultimately my joy about becoming a new mom. My son is now 22, and that journal entry became a chapter in my first book. Pockets […]
Reviews
Transforming pain into power is possible. In ‘Pockets of Joy,’ Roxane shows us how to tap into our unlimited potential and how to keep our spirit rising!
—Tavis SmileyTalk Show Host
Pockets of Joy briefly recounts her divorce, her departure from KARE11, focusing largely on the next chapter in her life as a single mom. Rather than belaboring her heartache, Battle emphasizes the lessons she learned in unexpected venues such as the bleachers on which she watched her son play basketball. A deeply spiritual person, Battle counts her belief that things would and could get better among the reasons she was able to move on.
—Caryn SullivanAward-winning columnist, author of Bitter or Better
Pockets of Joy is candid, beautifully written and easy to read. It is Roxane’s story of finding those pockets of joy during an extremely difficult season in her life. Whether you’re a single mom or not, you will find yourself quickly drawn into it, and learning invaluable life lessons along the way.
—Janet ConleyPastor, Cottonwood Church
In this delightfully honest book, we cheer for Roxane as she makes difficult and wise choices–and willingly pays the price professionally—in an effort to forge work-life balance and maintain the God-honoring priorities of being a great parent. Her refreshing example in our success-crazed culture is an inspiration to women and men everywhere!
—Deborah Smith PeguesInternational Speaker/Bestselling author, 30 Days To Taming Your Tongue
Pockets of Joy is for anyone who has experienced that deep – and often dark – realization that your life hasn’t gone the way you planned. It’s for anyone who never expected to end up where you are. It’s for anyone who’s thinking about giving up. If that’s you, then this book is what you need right now.
—Kathleen CookeCo-Founder, Cooke Pictures and Influence Lab
What a joy to read! Roxane's charisma shines through every page. Pockets of Joy is a precious gift that has the power to inspire, nourish and bless each reader. Read this book and be transformed!
—Gregory A. PlotnikoffMD, MTS, FACP, co–author of Trust Your Gut
It takes people years to understand and find their passion. Many never find their own Pockets Of Joy. Roxane Battle shares her inspiring journey and the path she choose to take as a single mother pursuing a successful career. We all have choices in our lives, Pockets Of Joy will inspire and motivate you in making decisions to be happy and free. Her story is a remarkable one…it will not only enrich you, it will inspire you.
—Pam BortonPresident & CEO, Borton Partners, Author of ON Point
Winningest College Basketball Coach, University of Minnesota
Pockets of Joy by Roxane Battle will remind you that you were born to be joy-full. Your joy-tank came full. Life, then has a way of burning the joy-fuel and it also provides opportunities to fill the joy-tank and keep it full. May you have many pockets and may they all be bulging with joy.
—Sam ChandLeadership Consultant, author of Leadership Pain
Events
SUMMER/FALL APPEARANCES 2017
Purchase Pockets of Joy: Deciding to Be Happy, Choosing to Be Free and the Pockets of Joy Journal at these events.
SEPTEMBER 5th 2017 - OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH
PAST APPEARANCES
What's Your Story?
Now it’s your turn. What are your pockets of joy? Tell me about those gleeful, spontaneous moments in your life, or the things you learned during tough times that made your life better. For example, how did letting go or forgiving get you through? When and how did the love, kindness or generosity of others make a difference in your life? Did you ever find that you helped yourself by helping others? What happened when you chose to be true to who you really are? What are you grateful for? You get the idea. I’d really love to know what makes you happy and how you got there.
Send your stories on the left.
Who knows, you could be in my next book!
Joyfully,
Roxane Battle, Author
Pockets of Joy
† “By submitting my “pocket of joy” story, I hereby grant and assign to Roxane Battle the right to publish my story in her upcoming book, as well as the right to quote, paraphrase, and edit all or any portion of my story. I also grant the right to use my name, image, and biographical data.”
Book Roxane
Roxane Battle is long-time Twin Cities journalist and author best known for her work as former co-host of the KARE-11(NBC) Today show. Her self-published memoir, Pockets of Joy: Deciding to Be Happy: Choosing to Be Free, and the Pockets of Joy Journal became best sellers, hitting #1 and #2 back to back in their category on Amazon. Endorsed by New York Times best selling author Tavis Smiley, Pockets of Joy is also the winner of the Midwest Independent Publishing Association’s (MIPA) 2015 Midwest Book Award. Pockets of Joy has since been picked up by Whitaker House Publishing and the expanded edition is due out for national release this fall.
Roxane is a gifted writer, video producer and speaker, and frequently talks to corporate and faith-based audiences on the topics of mindfulness and finding joy.
Roxane has been a contributor writer on mariashriver.com, and featured in Working Mother and Ebony magazines, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press. Roxane and her book have also been featured on every television station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market as well as a host of radio shows and podcasts.
A native of St. Paul, Roxane graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and completed her graduate degree in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She currently lives in Minneapolis, where she enjoys cycling and walks around the lake. She has completed 4 consecutive Iron Girl duathalons, and now runs 5Ks for fun, and enjoys feeding homemade mac and cheese to her family and friends. You can reach Roxane at roxanebattle.com.