SEPTEMBER 16th 2017 – BOOK SIGNING – BARNES & NOBLE, Signing
Pockets of Joy
…those fleeting moments when you feel like everything is going to be okay.
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Pockets of Joy
Authenticity
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Positive Connections
Self Care
Self Forgiveness
Yielding
Service & Generosity
Roxane's Story
Arrived 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.
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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
Pockets of Joy… is simply the story about someone winning at life and how she got there.
—Dwight HobbesMinneapolis Spokesman-Recorder
Events
WINTER/SPRING APPEARANCES 2019
FEBRUARY 20th 2019 - MELVIN CARTER JR. “DIESEL HEART” BOOK LAUNCH, Interviewer
6:30PM - Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, St. Paul
FEBRUARY 23rd 2019 - THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ANNUAL Gala4Goals, Emcee
5:30PM - St. Paul River Centre, St. Paul - Get Tickets
MARCH (TBD) 2019 - UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, Presenter
APRIL 6th 2019 - MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS, Emcee
8:00PM - InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront Hotel, St. Paul
MAY 9th 2019 - GIRLS SCOUTS OF RIVER VALLEYS WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARDS, Emcee
5:30PM - Minneapolis Convention Center - Get Tickets
May 11th 2019 - U OF M MASONIC CANCER CENTER SURVIVORSHIP CONFERENCE, Closing Keynote
1:45PM - Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center, Bloomington
May 19th 2019 - MOMBOSS 5K, Award Presentation/Podcast
8:00AM - Medicine Lake, MN
May 21st 2019 - ANOKA COUNTY EMPLOYEE RETREAT, Keynote
11:00AM/1:00PM - Andover, MN
June 20th 2019 - AGVANTAGE CONFERENCE, Opening Keynote
8:30AM - Bloomington, MN
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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 a veteran television journalist, award-winning author and mom. Her memoir, Pockets of Joy, published nationally in 2017, became an Amazon best seller in three categories: Single Parenting, Divorce and Motherhood.
Following a successful 20-year television career, most notably as an anchor and reporter at the Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE-TV, Roxane then spent ten years working for a faith-based non-profit as a visionary leader, director of media and external affairs. In that role, she conceptualized and implemented several key programs specifically aimed at empowering women and children. Roxane has been a featured speaker at women’s conferences across the United States, London and South Africa.
Roxane now works as a creative consultant and frequently speaks on the topics of mindfulness and work-life merge. As a contributing writer, Roxane was named an Architect of Change on mariashriver.com, has been featured on the cover of Working Mother and profiled in Ebony national magazines, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2015 the Girl Scouts of River Valleys, serving both Minnesota and Wisconsin, named Roxane an Honorary Lifetime Girl Scout. She is a member of TeamWomenMN, an all female professional’s group dedicated to helping women achieve economic and career advancement. Roxane also serves on the board of The Sanneh Foundation, a St. Paul-based organization that aims to meet the holistic needs of an increasingly diverse Twin Cities community.
Roxane is a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and completed her master’s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She enjoys cycling and walks around the Minneapolis chain of lakes and has completed 4 consecutive Iron Girl duathalons. Roxane now runs 5Ks for fun, and enjoys feeding homemade mac and cheese to her family and friends. Her books are available at major booksellers nationwide.