April 7, 2025 • 43 mins
From Weeping to Warrior: Igniting Freedom welcomes Lisa Renee Hutchins
Lisa Renee Hutchins is a gifted poet and children’s book author whose heartfelt storytelling inspires connection and celebrates the beauty of diversity. Drawing from her journey as a single mother, wife, and divorcee, her poetry delves into themes of resilience, self-discovery, and the power of family.
Lisa Renee Hutchins is a gifted poet and children’s book author whose heartfelt storytelling inspires connection and celebrates the beauty of diversity. Drawing from her journey as a single mother, wife, and divorcee, her poetry delves into themes of resilience, self-discovery, and the power of family.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
No shame, no shames, not finding me.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
With my hands and good time.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Any honey stuffing.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the show From Weeping to
Warrior Igniting Freedom with Roshawan Nicole all Things mental health,
awareness and wellness, where we interview amazing people from all
over the world, sharing their incredible stories of how they
overcame obstacles and what they're currently doing to maintain their
mental health and their physical health. If you know my story,
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back in twenty twenty one, I was in treatment for
two months. I was suffering in silence and I was
suffering with PTSD due to medical trauma, depression, anxiety, and addiction.
And I want you to stay tuned because I am
going to have a testimony episode and I'll share everything
in detail, So stay tuned for future episodes. But during
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the time that I was in treatment, I always say
that it was, yes, the best decision of my life
for healing, but also it was the scariest decision. But
I'm so glad that I made that decision to get help.
And during the time, I was just writing about my
journey and not knowing that it was going to be
my songs and my singles and so when I left
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out of treatment, I was able to share my story
through song and sharing to the community that there is
hope on the other side. And I want you to
know that on today, and if you would like to
be a guest to share your Weeping to Warrior story,
hit up your girl. I would love to have you
on contact me at info at Roshannicole Wellness dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
To share your Weeping to Warrior story.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
All right, friends, so we have an amazing talented guest
on today, but before we read her bio and introduce
her on, I always want to give a display.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I am not a medical professional, so.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Anything that I talk about in this in future episode
in regards to healing is simply what I've done for myself.
I'm also in a certification program to be a functional
diagnostic nutrition practitioner. That's the journey I took myself on
for healing and then now I want to help others.
I'm almost done and I could help in clients to
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take their healing journey to the next level.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Also, I want to give a trigger warning as well.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
We talk about mental health and there could be some
things that could be possibly triggering on this episode.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
In future episodes as well.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
If you or someone you know is the need of support,
there is a twenty four to seven hotline. It's a
national hotline that you can call our text and that
is nine eight eight. You can call our text nine
to eight eight to get support. All righty, my friends,
So we're gonna talk today about let's talk about did
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you know?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And so did you know? For the week is did
you know?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Proper nutrients can play a key role in mental health.
So if you have nutrient deficiencies, it can impact your
mood and cognitive function. So, for example, when I was
going through my healing journey, I found out that I.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Was low in a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I was low in B twelve, I was low
in iron magnesium. I mean, my electro lights were off.
And so when I got my blood work done, everything
came back like low low, low, low low.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so when you are nutrient deficient, it can play
a key role in your mental health. So a lot
of times we.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Might be thinking, oh, it's a chemical imbalance, it's this,
it's that, but really it can be a collective of things.
And so one way that I helped to go through
my healing journey was to get my blood work done
and to see like all the things that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was lowing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And then as I was taking supplementation, I noticed that
I to physically feel better but also mentally.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So that was one way of how I went through
my healing journey.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So your homework for this week, yep, you have homework
again is I want to encourage you to go and
get your blood work done, go to your doctor, and
I want you to write this down. I want you
to ask for a chemical panel. It's also known as
a metabolic profile, and that's going to look at It's
going to measure your electrolytes a body elect your sodium
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and your potassium, magnesium, all those things that you need
and that really truly does help your mental health. It
also will look for organ functions and your overall health.
So write down and make that appointment it's called your
chemistry panel or metabolic profile, and get your blood work
done to see the things that you might need to supplement.
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All right, Okay, so we're going to introduce our guest
on today. I'm so excited for this one. Well, I'm
excited for all my guests.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But we have here Lisa, and she is an.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Amazing, amazing, talented woman, mother and author.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
She's going to talk about her I'll let her share,
let me read her bio.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Lisa Renee Hutchins is a gifted poet and children's book
author whose heartfelt storytelling inspires connections and celebrates the beauty
of diversity. Drawing from her journey as a single mother, wife,
and divorcee, her portrait delves into themes of resilience, self discovery,
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and the power of family. Her enchanting children book stories,
Baby Cakes, invites young readers to explore diverse family traditions
and discovers how baking a simple, delicious cake can bring
love to each other. With vibrant illustrations and engaging narratives,
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each story creates a warm, joyful space were love, diversity,
and sweetness beautifully intertwined. Let's welcome this beautiful, talented warrior,
Queen Lisa every Nay Hutchins to the show.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Hi, everybody, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I'm great, Thank you for having.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Me, absolutely, thanks for coming on the show today. Thank
you for your Yes. I'm super excited to talk about
your story, talk about your books, because I know it's
truly going to help so many people that's listening or
watching on today. So before we get started, just tell
the audience who you are, where you reside, and just
a little just a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Okay, Well, my name is Lisa Rene Hutchins. I live
in Washington State. I live in Keola. I went to
UWE Seattle and double majored in communications and sociology. At
the time, my son when I graduated, he was four
months so that was pretty challenging. And then I've continued
my career in project management and now I helped families
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plan ahead for their final arrangements. I work at a
funeral home, which I never thought I would, but it's
actually been a huge benefit. I preplan I've had my
kids pick out their plans, I've picked out mine, and
so yeah, that's kind of my journey. I've always loved
writing poetry, is the way I've It was my coping
mechanism actually, as I was going through a lot of
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hard things, and it was a way to heal.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And so that's what includes my.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Poetry and then the children's books I've wanted to do
my whole life. I just didn't have the right people
connected with and so I finally got connected with them
and there you are awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So that's Lisa right there at a nutshell there, and Lisa,
I'm so excited. You know, as an educator, I love
the children's books, so I can't wait to talk about that.
But before we talk about the childre books, I want
you to talk to the audience, you know, tell them
you'r weep into Warrior Story. At time you know in
your life that you were dealing with challenges.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Of course, anyone that's been a single parent understands that
that's a challenge in itself. So there was one time
when I left my first sex husband. My kids are
very young, and I had lost my job. I was
on unemployment and I was going to feed binks food
banks to get food for my kids, and I really
didn't have any support. So I was cleaning people's houses
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for money, like anything I could do. I was doing
it for my kids. And I had friends that would
donate clothes to me for my kids, so they had clothes,
which I appreciated. This lady at work always had a
lot of clothes, and so Summer had the best.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Time looking through the clothes.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And sometimes those are really humbling experiences, right, especially when
I was coming from a job that I was doing
very well and now I'm not right, and so I'm
going to the food bank. And at the time, I
had a nice car. I had a BMW, but the
heater didn't work. So when I went to the food bank,
you wore yelling at me because I was at the
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food bank.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
But I'm like, my heater doesn't even work in my car.
So you can't judge a book by its cover, because you.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Never know what families are going through, right, And I mean,
there was a time where I needed furniture for Jordan
and I didn't have any and this lady put her
furniture for her son by the garbage can, and I
was really embarrassed to go out there and get it.
But it was free, and I'm like, Okay, I'm going
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to go get that, and I did, and I was
so embarrassed because I didn't wanted to see me.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And when I went out.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
There, she's like, I have a bed and all these
other things. And I actually write a poem about it
in one of my books, and it's called what is
it called? I wrote it down here. It's called Helping
the silent soldier. So basically I was, you know, you
operate in silence when you know you're struggling in because
it's just kind of what we were taught.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
But yeah, that's what that poem is about.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So a lot of my poetry actually are real life
stories of my own life. And I felt like it's
funny because many of my best friends that were very
close to me that have gone through all these experiences
with me reading it and listening to it because I
have some audio books, it was a whole home wall game,
and they were just like, Wow, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
You said that, because many of us feel like we're alone.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Right, We're going through these stuggles, we're going through anxiety, depression,
whatever we're going through.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We think we're the only ones, but we're not.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And so that really inspired my writing because I wanted
people to know that they weren't alone.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Absolutely amazingly.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So, wow, So you talked about you know, going through
you know, your divorce and going through to the food
bank and just like being at your lowest and having
your children and trying to figure out how to provide
for them. So tell us, like, how during that time,
how was your mental health? How are you, how was
your mental health? How are you going to hide?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well, the thing is is like when you're a parent,
you don't have a chance to be upset.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You don't have that chance.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And like I write a lot about that in my
single mom book and my marriage book. Because your kids
don't care their kids right right, They expect you to
be on point at it every time, and sometimes we
just can't be, and so sometimes we feel like we're
masking it. Right, there's just now my right in the
Married Woman book called My Reflection, and I noticed that
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I was trying to hide some of my just what
I was going through. And I noticed that my daughter
started doing the same thing, and I was like, oh no,
we got to quit that.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And then you have to be accountable for I'm not
okay right now and I need to heal. You need
to figure that out.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So if that means I have to leave my house,
leave my husband, and take my kids and figure it out.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
That's what I'm gonna do. So I've done that before.
I've been divorced twice. And you know, sometimes marriage isn't
a good fit. And sometimes when we go into that marriage,
we know that it's probably.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Not the best fit, but we do it anyway, right,
And I write a poem about that called not Enough.
So I was standing in the mirror before I got married,
and I knew that it wasn't going to last forever.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But I was hoping to be in that right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But I knew at the end it wasn't because I
wasn't the void to fill in his life, right, he
had his own journey.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
So yeah, I just write a lot about that kind.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Of stuff, and it's it's pretty raw, Like I tell
people when they read it, get tissue because you're going
to go through those bad times and then you're going
to see how like you build boundaries and you survive
and you overcome them and what it makes you beat.
Right when you have kids, they're such a reflection of
you that if you don't like what you see, you
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got to fix that, right, right, You're you're the one
making them who they are. So yeah, it's been in
a really interesting journey.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So while Lisa, so I'm curious because I want to know,
you know, when we have the weep into a warrior story,
you know we're at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We're just trying to figure out life.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're trying to overcome all these things, and so you know,
you being an author of like so many books, I would.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Know how did you get there? So, like you talked
about your weeping, how did you get to.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Your warrior moment? Was you're writing a way of you coping?
Was it a way of hearing your own story?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So tell us about that? Yeah, tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah. So actually, when I was going through these different
things like struggling being a single mom or having a
hard marriage and stuff like that, writing was a way
for me to let those feelings out because we keep
feelings inside and then it festers and then that's how
we become depressed. Or you know, we think nobody's watching,
but everyone sees it. We just think that they can't, right.
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So I just started writing home to kind of let
those feelings out and release it. Because once you say it,
you have to act on it, and it's true, right,
So we get things inside because then you know it's
not real, but as soon as you write it, it
becomes real and you have to deal with it. So
that was my way of learning how to deal through
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my struggles of you know, hard marriages and divorce and
surviving being a single parent and having no one to right.
So that writing was my go to if I was
upset or I was mad or anything I was feeling,
I just sit.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Down and start typing.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And some of the best poems that you write come
to you in the middle of the night, so you'll
wake up. And it's like music. If you don't write
it on, as soon as you hear it, it's gone on. Yeah,
we're going to be the thing. And it could have
been like the best song in the world, but or
the best poem. But if you don't write it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Down, you lose it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So there's plenty of times I would get up in
the mills and I and I feel like writing in
the dark and candlelight was my best times because it's quiet,
there's nobody around, and you're kind of in like your
quiet mood, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So yeah, and the mole I started writing the.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
More topics I started writing about, so like, me and
my daughter have a book. Well, we know each other
from church about twenty six years ago.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
He don't look that old, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't tell, don't tell our age list said no, no,
that's it.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
We keep that start.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, you don't look at it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So right.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
But but from going to the church.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I was like one of the only white people there
in the beginning, right, so you get to experience, uh,
interracial dating and what that's like. And I wasn't allowed
to date outside my race really for some believes that
some of my family. So I mean, that's all in
my interracial book and some Yeah, it's called The Thoughts
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of an Interracial Family, the Reflections of Our Realities and
me and wrote it together.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So me and are okay, yeah, and wat she wrote
a whole chapter.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And then we wrote some stuff together. And actually the
audio book for this comes out in April, Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So I have I recorded in the studio.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We put music to each poem, and I've been putting
it on my social media until I've created some videos
with the audio clips so people can hear it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Love it, yes, So Lisa, you are so consistent on
social media with just your your clips and your poems,
and I'm just like, yes, yes, I love it, and
you know, and I've just been watching and seeing just
you know, your success and one one of your books
that that I purchased, Thoughts of Healing Families The Reflections
of their Grief by Lisa Rene Hutchins, and I have
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this in my hand right now to those who are listening.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I was reading through this Lisa, just.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Beautiful, beautiful, and I want you to talk about you know,
this book, But can I read one? I was like
that maybe you can speak to and then you can
read any of the ones here or wherever, you know,
whatever you think would be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You know, inspiring to our audience.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But this one, okay, this is on page twenty nine
of thoughts of Healing Families, the reflections of their grief,
and so I was like, I want to know, you know,
what Lisa was thinking when she was or what she
was going through when she wrote this, And so.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Says here the title is called how are You? So
it says how are you?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A question asked out of care in the midst of uncertainty,
awaiting a response not reflecting one's true state, just the
band aid needed to hold us all together, creating an
environment fragile to the touch, breaking at the sound of
our tears.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So I want to can you share about that one?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, it's so crazy when you read these things. Sometimes
I like get emotional because I'm in the mood right.
So sometimes when we're going through hard times, this book
has to do about me working at a funeral home,
and we always respond when we're going through trauma or
we're going through stress. Somebody's like, how are you always
say okay? And that word okay is the closest word
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to I'm not okay, right, So it's easy to say
I'm okay, but if you hit me on some other level,
all of a sudden, I'm going to break.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So I feel like okay is just where we're holding
on to to sanity, right and working with people that
experience grief and loss.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It doesn't have to be a loved one.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It could be a marriage, it could be a child
going through a mental health disability, and they're not the
same person. You know. That hit my family pretty hard,
and I have written some poems in this book about
it about how hard to talk about sorry. But yeah,
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So this book is really good because it talks about
a lot of different things, Like there's five stages of grief,
but really we don't go through stages. It's more like cycles, right,
because there's things that progress, Like me, I just got
trigger because it's emotional, you feel it, it's raw, you
know what I mean, And it's something that affects us,
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and so this book has things to do about like
family members.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I've lost a couple of grave sides that I've been
at that were.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Just amazing approval from the family to put it in
the book, and just about our own personal loss, like
the first time you have to walk up to that
door at the funeral home and.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You have to open that door and accept the next step. Right,
So about all those things because it's so real.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yes, and that that poem resonated with me because you know,
someone who did struggle with depression and anxiety and ptist
and addiction, you know, and hearing people how are you
and oh, I'm okay, I'm fine, just putting on that
mask and that face. And so when I read that,
I was like, Yep, I wanted I want us to
talk about that, because I know so many people are
suffering in silence, and we're we're programmed to say I'm good,
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I'm okay, knowing deep down inside we are hurting, we
are struggling work, and so I really wanted to speak
to that, you know, because there's so many people and
so you know, just saying I'm okay, but you know,
Lisa is saying the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You know, if you're not okay, to go and tell
someone who you trust and who you love and let
them know you were not okay. So yes, well I
think that this is yeah, very very beautiful. And girl,
I'm just like, I commend you for working out a
funeral home. Like you're seeing, you know, grief and death
around you and so like I could not do that
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every day, So like, how do you, like, how do
you yes, how do you do that?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You know? I that was never my plan ever in life,
but I pre planned with my grandma about fifteen years ago,
and I had lost my job two years the government
absorbed our contracts, so I worked there nine years and
all of a sudden I lost my job and then
my grandma died at the same time, and I went
to the funeral home because we own property, so I
to sign and they were like, you should work here,
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and I was like, yeah, right, I would be crying
every day, Like yeah, But I am a huge advocate
for planning ahead. I plan everything, and so I thought,
let me just try it and let me help these
families because I know I can help them on many levels,
not just helping them planned, but I've done a trust,
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I've done a will, there's papers they can put in
place to make it easy for their family.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
So I do more education than just that. I've actually
talked to the church and then.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Seminars, so I do a lot of seminars.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I do a lot of education. And I also have
families that are grieving.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And I think because I've been through so much trauma
in my own life that it's easy for me to
relate to people. And I can relate to a lot
of different people because I have a lot of different family,
a lot of different experiences in college and church, and
like being the only person I've peach right, So I
can relate easily to many different people. So I think
that's one thing I love about it. And I never
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wear black to work.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I always I wore this suit to work today.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Love so I always wear bright colors and different things
because I don't want it to be a sad thing.
Sometimes it is sad, of course, but like I always
tell people at work, guess what, hugs are free?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And I give hugs to people.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
All the time, especially when they're crying, like, hey, do
you want to just hug it out? And they'll be
like yeah, and so many people appreciate that I get.
I cared enough to hug them, right, because it's important.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Absolutely you're there.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, yes, wow, sometimes it gets to you, you know,
sometimes it does.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I do go to I don't do the services.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I'm not a funeral director, so I don't do that side.
But I do like engrave sides, and yeah, I've learned
a lot about different cultures, different families. It's honestly has
been a blessing to have that job because I think
it's a good fit for me in terms of like
personality experience.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right, yes, yes, So how do you stay though? How
do you stay mentally healthy?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You know, being an author, a mom, working at a
funeral home, Like, how do you?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, what do you do to stay healthy?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
It's like I go from one job to the next.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Right, I go to work, I work a lot of hours,
and then I come home and just on the computer.
I'll try to make videos, do the audio books. Like
tomorrow I have an audiobook session recording some stuff for
my next audio book. So just like I'm always doing projects.
I am part of this group called authors in grocery stores.
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So I am starting in Fred Meyers and doing book
signings and stuff, and just finding other avenues to get
out there.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
With the children's books, reaching out schools. I don't know.
I don't think I sleep very much, but.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I feel like when I relax, I'm missing something, right,
I know I could do more, So it just.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Keeps me motivated. Yeah. People always ask me, like, how
the heck do you do all that stuff? But I'm like,
I don't really know.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
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Speaker 6 (25:20):
Pride Day.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah. So, like all I've poetry, I'm done with all
of that. I did all the five topics that I
wanted to talk about. But the children's books, there's twelve
books in the series, and this is the first one.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It looks like you and my kids. Baby, you can see.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So she's holding up so those who are listening, she's
holding up her book Babycakes, right, Is that what the
man say.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah. It can be found on Amazon, Walmart, different places
like that, and you would just search Lisa Renee Hutchins.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And so there's a book for each month year and it.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Celebrates a family's tradition, whatever their tradition is for that month,
and then they bake a cake. And so it teaches
kids about different types of cakes. No bake cakes, cupcakes,
cakes that are made in shapes, cakes that have fonded.
So they get to learn about different kitchen utensils, different cakes.
And at the end there's a recipe so they can
make it.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
With their pole. That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh sorry, no, I was saying, what a what a
cool idea? Lista that's me.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So each of your books have a different like recipe
of like you said, of cakes or cupcakes at the
end of the book.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, So the first book is about January.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's the month of January.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
And also when my kids are mixed and I'm white
and my kids are black and white, and so when
they were young, of course, there was no books that
look like our family. There were no single WM books
or even interracial or mainly there wasn't a lot of
black focused books at all really when were little, not
even Barbie dolls or nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So I wanted.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I really believed in supporting my kids and wanting things
that look like us, and so that's what motivated me.
There's different race families in every single book, and there's
interracial families, solid race families, families where kids are raised
by their grandparents, so it.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Touch a wide variety. I also talk about.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Families that maybe somebody has an amputee, or somebody has
a hearing aid, so has braces. So I try to
encourage and incorporate a lot of different things in all
the books. And so January has to do with New
Year's and I talk about every year, me and my kids,
we used to do a resolution, and so it talks
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about us writing our resolution and putting it on the fridge,
and then we clean up and we make a confetti cake.
I mean, my mom's birthday is in January, where my
favorite cake was a confetti cake. So we talk about that,
we use different kitchen utensils, and then afterwards we eat
the cake together and there's a recipe so kids can
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make it with their family. And my February book is
about Jordan because Jordan's birthday, my son, his birthday is
on Valentine's Day a couple days okay, Yeah, So we
just talk about how on Valentine's Day, I always left
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little gifts outside their door for Valentine's and then we
always baked cupcakes for Jordan's birthday. So we talk about
red velvet cupcakes and we make the cupcakes and use
a cupcake dispenser, and then we have the recipe.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
So it's fun. Each book is a different color on
the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They all have.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Different families, and so I'm really excited about it because
I feel like diversity is important and learning about other
people's traditions that's really important.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And April actually is going to have Greater Christ Temple
in it.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I'm going to have like the church and celebrating Easter
because that is a huge holiday, right, and so it's
going to be focused around African American family and Greater
Christ Temple is going to be kind of like in
the background as the church and talking about the commitment
to Easter because Easter was always like a huge holiday
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I remember at the church.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sometimes that's the only day people go to church.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I love very creative. You need a partner with schools
for sure too.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I'm trying to get into some schools and maybe do
some children's books readings, and so it's just kind of
like a long term game, right.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But I just stay at it.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And that's why I feel like I'm working all the time,
because you just you just got to keep moving, You
got to keep going.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, oh my goodness. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So you shared Lisa, you know, your weeping story of
just overcoming you know, being a single mother trying to
provide for yourself and your family to now this like
award winning author, award winning author, you know, and write
and trying books, poetry and just getting yourself out there
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and letting other people know you know that there's hope
and that there's healing and loving people at the funeral
home as well. And so this is just this is amazing.
I would love for you to share. Is there a
poem that you would love to share for everyone to
hear that you would resonate? Yeah, okay, yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
And I also just wanted to tell you why I
did the two things separately. So I feel like many
times moms or parents are left out right. We're just parents,
but we have no emotions, no feelings, We're just And
I wrote the poetry for the parents, and I wrote
the children's books for the kids, so they have something
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to do together, and there's something for moms. You know,
sometimes we need a hug. And I feel like that's
what my poetry was. So the poem I'm going to read,
it's called Scars of a Survivor And this is actually
from my Single Mother book. Okay, the scars are everywhere.
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Some are visible, causing others to question seeing our traumas
consequences every day. Others are hidden under our clothes, callouson
hilled on the surface, but was sensitive to the world
around us. Then there are the wounds within, invisible to others,
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and sometimes ourselves still bleeding at the slightest triggers. Despite
all these scars, a survivor finds a way to heal
all these wounds, not to be defined by the damage,
but to be an advocate for helping others overcome.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yes, beautiful, Absolutely, it's invisible. Sometimes you can't see your pain,
right yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Because nobody see and so we're like, I'm okay. That's
a famous word, are you okay? And we're like I'm
okay because I haven't said I'm not and I haven't
found that I need to heal. But there's always going
to be something that catches us like, Okay, I need
to do better. I need to heal and bec and
stop being a victim. A lot of times we feel
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like we're a victim when we're scarred right and our
and our wounds are open, But when we start healing them,
we feel like we've overcome and we're survivors now and
we can help others. And so I feel like that's
just where I'm at and how I want to help people.
But you know, there's some scars that are never fully healed,
and so we do have ups and downs and that's
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just life.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's why we have each other.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'm making that connection with my single Wounded Scars. That
was the song I wrote when I was in Wounded Scars,
and I was talking about you know how you can't
see it, but Lord.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Heal my wounded scars, and yeah, so that's just what
your poem, So that that I was making that correlation.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
So yeah, yeah, yes, true.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, well Lisa, I would I have a couple more
questions for you and I just what advice would you
give to someone who might be out there, who are
who's struggling, who's struggling in silence?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah? What advice would you like to give them?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
So my advice is one The main thing is just
to forgive others, uh, for yourself. Right. Many times we
hold on to things that have hurt us and it
doesn't matter, it's not affecting them, it's just affecting us.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
So you have to forgive others.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
You don't have to like it, and you don't have
to accept it, but you need to forgive them so
you can heal, because that's the only way you can heal. Right.
Another thing is just to be honest with others and yourself.
Honesty doesn't always feel good and sometimes it hurts, but
that's how we heal, right, being honest with ourselves and
(34:23):
saying maybe I fell short here and I need to
fix that, or maybe I did a great job and
I need to give myself a high five. Right, Sometimes
we don't give ourselves credit for the wins, and so
even if it's little, even if it's like I got
out of bed today and I put I got ready
for work, and I made it to work. Right.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Sometimes it's like that, and that's okay.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And the last thing I would say is surround yourself
with knowledge and positivity. You know.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Watching.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I know many of us are on social media. We
watch stuff all the time, and when I'm down, I
like to watch things that make me laugh. And I
feel like laughter is my key to happiness. And so
I'm kind of a nerd, so I always do silly
things to make my kids laugh or myself laugh. But
laughing is huge and people don't really understand it. But
(35:16):
if you can get to the point where you can
be you can laugh by yourself, that's a huge thing
because then you're at peace with you. You don't need
other people to make you who you are, right, You're happy,
you know, skin me. So that's why I feel laughter
is super important. And my kids laugh at me because
sometimes I'll be in here laughing and they're like, mom,
(35:38):
you're by yourself.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
I'm like, I know, I'm funny.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I'm laughing at myself.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Or I'm watching a video that makes me laugh.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Right, So it's like, yeah, find things that make you
feel good, even if it's just like taking a walk
and it feels good. You know, do something good for
yourself every day because that's the only thing that's going
to keep you going, especially if you don't have support,
family support, or you know people around you that can
help you build you up right right, Yeah, lacks also
(36:10):
good when we laugh at things that aren't funny, right,
Like like if you get a child's sport check for
two dollars and fifty cents, that's not even a happy meal,
but you better laugh about it because at least you.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Got something right.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
So me and my moms have learned how to laugh
about things that are funny. Yeah, you know what it
feels character or laughing about how you know, I got
the furniture out the trash can, Like that's horrible, but
you know what, I washed it and it works and
I was able to give it to another family, you
(36:44):
know what I mean. And you pack from your things.
I think that's the biggest thing I learned too, is
you receive from others when you're struggling.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Give back, give back.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Don't ask for money either, just give it to them,
Like who needs clothes? Who needs a bed? I'm not funny,
and it makes you feel good to help other people
because when you're struggling and you get something as simple
ast and clothes for your kids, you can cry about
it because you're that grateful, like thank you for just
caring enough.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Right, So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I think as we become successful over time, don't forget
about people that were there, because they're they're always going
to be there, right, Don't forget about, you know, people
that have been there for you.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yes, yeah, beautiful, beautiful words and laughing releases, those endorphins,
those happy hormones.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So yeah, right right, find behind it, so yes, love it.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well, where can we find out more about you? To
purchase your books to know you know more about Lisa?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Well, I'm on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. I have a website,
so if you go Lisa Renee Hutchins, it's l A
S A R E N E E E and then
h ut cchi ns dot com. That's my website and
you can find all my poetry books on there, some
(38:09):
of my videos.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
And my children's books series.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So as I start publishing more children's books and my
audio books, I'm going to add all that stuff to
my website and I do have TikTok and stuff like that.
So my name's the same on every site, Lisa Renee
Hutcheins or author Lisa Renee.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So okay, and what's next for you? Any events coming up?
What's next?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
So what's next is I'm gonna be in there's a
program called Authors in Grocery Stores. So I'm going to
be in fred Meyers on March ninth and the twenty third.
They're Bolls Sundays and it's in pew Wall up on.
Let me double check the address here. Oops, I'm sorry,
(39:02):
I can I can put it in a chat or
give it you guys, but it's.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It's gonna be in few all up on like Meridian
and one hundred and seventy six, and I'll be probably
in the protoce section. Have some books out there, do
some signings. Adding people to my email lists so when
I have new products coming out. My audio book for
my interracial family book is coming out in April, and
then my children's books.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
I'm gonna have.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Three books coming out next year. So we're working on March,
April and May right now.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Awesome. Yeah, staying booked and busy all right, Lisa, love it.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Booked?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yes, yes, yes, love it well Lisa, Any last words
that you would like to say, I'm just super excited
for you and just your journey you have definitely you know,
you have shown you know your weep into warrior. You
are a warrior queen girl, and so you have over
so much and just pouring out your heart, your soul
(40:03):
into your writing and letting the world know that you
know it's okay not to be okay, but don't stay
there because there's hope. And so I'm just so grateful
for your journey And any last words you would.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Like to say, Well, I just wanted to say thank
you for having me on the show, thank you for
letting me share my story. And if there is anyone
that has any questions or want to reach out, feel free.
I'm very friendly and open to helping people. I'm a
huge resource for lots of different things. So just stay
positive and go after your.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Goals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I never thought I'd be able to do all these
things that I wanted to do, and I just did it.
And it's okay to fail. That's how you learn. If
you don't ever fail, you're never going to try new things.
So just keep positive, and you know, pray for yourself
and pray for your family because it's important.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yes, absolutely love it. Beautiful words, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I just want to say thank you for coming on,
thank you for your yes today, thank you for all
the amazing things.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
That you're doing, your vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
It's not easy to share your story, but I'm so
so happy and excited for you.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Keep on writing and I will.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I wrote down the dates, but I'll get more information
from you offline and go from there.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
So, but thank you for coming on today. All right, friends,
that was my friend Lisa Renee Hutchins.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
She shared her story, She shared her beautiful writing, so
go check her out, go to her website, hit her
up on social media.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
She's available to speak as well.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
And that's Lisa. So I thank you Lisa for coming
on today. There are three ways you can watch the show.
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will live on my YouTube channel at Roshan Nicole or
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you to our special guest today, Lisa Renee Hutchins, and
thank you for listening or watching. I want to send
you some encouragement today to stay lit, keep shining, and
ignite freedom.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
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No Chase changed find
No shame, no shames, not finding me.
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With my hands and good time.
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Any honey stuffing.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the show From Weeping to
Warrior Igniting Freedom with Roshawan Nicole all Things mental health,
awareness and wellness, where we interview amazing people from all
over the world, sharing their incredible stories of how they
overcame obstacles and what they're currently doing to maintain their
mental health and their physical health. If you know my story,
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back in twenty twenty one, I was in treatment for
two months. I was suffering in silence and I was
suffering with PTSD due to medical trauma, depression, anxiety, and addiction.
And I want you to stay tuned because I am
going to have a testimony episode and I'll share everything
in detail, So stay tuned for future episodes. But during
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the time that I was in treatment, I always say
that it was, yes, the best decision of my life
for healing, but also it was the scariest decision. But
I'm so glad that I made that decision to get help.
And during the time, I was just writing about my
journey and not knowing that it was going to be
my songs and my singles and so when I left
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out of treatment, I was able to share my story
through song and sharing to the community that there is
hope on the other side. And I want you to
know that on today, and if you would like to
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To share your Weeping to Warrior story.
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All right, friends, so we have an amazing talented guest
on today, but before we read her bio and introduce
her on, I always want to give a display.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I am not a medical professional, so.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Anything that I talk about in this in future episode
in regards to healing is simply what I've done for myself.
I'm also in a certification program to be a functional
diagnostic nutrition practitioner. That's the journey I took myself on
for healing and then now I want to help others.
I'm almost done and I could help in clients to
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take their healing journey to the next level.
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Also, I want to give a trigger warning as well.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
We talk about mental health and there could be some
things that could be possibly triggering on this episode.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
In future episodes as well.
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If you or someone you know is the need of support,
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So we're gonna talk today about let's talk about did
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you know?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And so did you know? For the week is did
you know?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Proper nutrients can play a key role in mental health.
So if you have nutrient deficiencies, it can impact your
mood and cognitive function. So, for example, when I was
going through my healing journey, I found out that I.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Was low in a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I was low in B twelve, I was low
in iron magnesium. I mean, my electro lights were off.
And so when I got my blood work done, everything
came back like low low, low, low low.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so when you are nutrient deficient, it can play
a key role in your mental health. So a lot
of times we.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Might be thinking, oh, it's a chemical imbalance, it's this,
it's that, but really it can be a collective of things.
And so one way that I helped to go through
my healing journey was to get my blood work done
and to see like all the things that.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was lowing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And then as I was taking supplementation, I noticed that
I to physically feel better but also mentally.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So that was one way of how I went through
my healing journey.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So your homework for this week, yep, you have homework
again is I want to encourage you to go and
get your blood work done, go to your doctor, and
I want you to write this down. I want you
to ask for a chemical panel. It's also known as
a metabolic profile, and that's going to look at It's
going to measure your electrolytes a body elect your sodium
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and your potassium, magnesium, all those things that you need
and that really truly does help your mental health. It
also will look for organ functions and your overall health.
So write down and make that appointment it's called your
chemistry panel or metabolic profile, and get your blood work
done to see the things that you might need to supplement.
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All right, Okay, so we're going to introduce our guest
on today. I'm so excited for this one. Well, I'm
excited for all my guests.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But we have here Lisa, and she is an.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Amazing, amazing, talented woman, mother and author.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
She's going to talk about her I'll let her share,
let me read her bio.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Lisa Renee Hutchins is a gifted poet and children's book
author whose heartfelt storytelling inspires connections and celebrates the beauty
of diversity. Drawing from her journey as a single mother, wife,
and divorcee, her portrait delves into themes of resilience, self discovery,
(05:35):
and the power of family. Her enchanting children book stories,
Baby Cakes, invites young readers to explore diverse family traditions
and discovers how baking a simple, delicious cake can bring
love to each other. With vibrant illustrations and engaging narratives,
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each story creates a warm, joyful space were love, diversity,
and sweetness beautifully intertwined. Let's welcome this beautiful, talented warrior,
Queen Lisa every Nay Hutchins to the show.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Hi, everybody, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I'm great, Thank you for having.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Me, absolutely, thanks for coming on the show today. Thank
you for your Yes. I'm super excited to talk about
your story, talk about your books, because I know it's
truly going to help so many people that's listening or
watching on today. So before we get started, just tell
the audience who you are, where you reside, and just
a little just a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Okay, Well, my name is Lisa Rene Hutchins. I live
in Washington State. I live in Keola. I went to
UWE Seattle and double majored in communications and sociology. At
the time, my son when I graduated, he was four
months so that was pretty challenging. And then I've continued
my career in project management and now I helped families
(07:09):
plan ahead for their final arrangements. I work at a
funeral home, which I never thought I would, but it's
actually been a huge benefit. I preplan I've had my
kids pick out their plans, I've picked out mine, and
so yeah, that's kind of my journey. I've always loved
writing poetry, is the way I've It was my coping
mechanism actually, as I was going through a lot of
(07:31):
hard things, and it was a way to heal.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And so that's what includes my.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Poetry and then the children's books I've wanted to do
my whole life. I just didn't have the right people
connected with and so I finally got connected with them
and there you are awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So that's Lisa right there at a nutshell there, and Lisa,
I'm so excited. You know, as an educator, I love
the children's books, so I can't wait to talk about that.
But before we talk about the childre books, I want
you to talk to the audience, you know, tell them
you'r weep into Warrior Story. At time you know in
your life that you were dealing with challenges.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Of course, anyone that's been a single parent understands that
that's a challenge in itself. So there was one time
when I left my first sex husband. My kids are
very young, and I had lost my job. I was
on unemployment and I was going to feed binks food
banks to get food for my kids, and I really
didn't have any support. So I was cleaning people's houses
(08:35):
for money, like anything I could do. I was doing
it for my kids. And I had friends that would
donate clothes to me for my kids, so they had clothes,
which I appreciated. This lady at work always had a
lot of clothes, and so Summer had the best.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Time looking through the clothes.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And sometimes those are really humbling experiences, right, especially when
I was coming from a job that I was doing
very well and now I'm not right, and so I'm
going to the food bank. And at the time, I
had a nice car. I had a BMW, but the
heater didn't work. So when I went to the food bank,
you wore yelling at me because I was at the
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food bank.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
But I'm like, my heater doesn't even work in my car.
So you can't judge a book by its cover, because you.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Never know what families are going through, right, And I mean,
there was a time where I needed furniture for Jordan
and I didn't have any and this lady put her
furniture for her son by the garbage can, and I
was really embarrassed to go out there and get it.
But it was free, and I'm like, Okay, I'm going
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to go get that, and I did, and I was
so embarrassed because I didn't wanted to see me.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
And when I went out.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
There, she's like, I have a bed and all these
other things. And I actually write a poem about it
in one of my books, and it's called what is
it called? I wrote it down here. It's called Helping
the silent soldier. So basically I was, you know, you
operate in silence when you know you're struggling in because
it's just kind of what we were taught.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
But yeah, that's what that poem is about.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So a lot of my poetry actually are real life
stories of my own life. And I felt like it's
funny because many of my best friends that were very
close to me that have gone through all these experiences
with me reading it and listening to it because I
have some audio books, it was a whole home wall game,
and they were just like, Wow, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
You said that, because many of us feel like we're alone.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Right, We're going through these stuggles, we're going through anxiety, depression,
whatever we're going through.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We think we're the only ones, but we're not.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And so that really inspired my writing because I wanted
people to know that they weren't alone.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Absolutely amazingly.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So, wow, So you talked about you know, going through
you know, your divorce and going through to the food
bank and just like being at your lowest and having
your children and trying to figure out how to provide
for them. So tell us, like, how during that time,
how was your mental health? How are you, how was
your mental health? How are you going to hide?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Well, the thing is is like when you're a parent,
you don't have a chance to be upset.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You don't have that chance.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And like I write a lot about that in my
single mom book and my marriage book. Because your kids
don't care their kids right right, They expect you to
be on point at it every time, and sometimes we
just can't be, and so sometimes we feel like we're
masking it. Right, there's just now my right in the
Married Woman book called My Reflection, and I noticed that
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I was trying to hide some of my just what
I was going through. And I noticed that my daughter
started doing the same thing, and I was like, oh no,
we got to quit that.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And then you have to be accountable for I'm not
okay right now and I need to heal. You need
to figure that out.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So if that means I have to leave my house,
leave my husband, and take my kids and figure it out.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
That's what I'm gonna do. So I've done that before.
I've been divorced twice. And you know, sometimes marriage isn't
a good fit. And sometimes when we go into that marriage,
we know that it's probably.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Not the best fit, but we do it anyway, right,
And I write a poem about that called not Enough.
So I was standing in the mirror before I got married,
and I knew that it wasn't going to last forever.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But I was hoping to be in that right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But I knew at the end it wasn't because I
wasn't the void to fill in his life, right, he
had his own journey.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
So yeah, I just write a lot about that kind.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Of stuff, and it's it's pretty raw, Like I tell
people when they read it, get tissue because you're going
to go through those bad times and then you're going
to see how like you build boundaries and you survive
and you overcome them and what it makes you beat.
Right when you have kids, they're such a reflection of
you that if you don't like what you see, you
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got to fix that, right, right, You're you're the one
making them who they are. So yeah, it's been in
a really interesting journey.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So while Lisa, so I'm curious because I want to know,
you know, when we have the weep into a warrior story,
you know we're at the bottom.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
We're just trying to figure out life.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're trying to overcome all these things, and so you know,
you being an author of like so many books, I would.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Know how did you get there? So, like you talked
about your weeping, how did you get to.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Your warrior moment? Was you're writing a way of you coping?
Was it a way of hearing your own story?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So tell us about that? Yeah, tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah. So actually, when I was going through these different
things like struggling being a single mom or having a
hard marriage and stuff like that, writing was a way
for me to let those feelings out because we keep
feelings inside and then it festers and then that's how
we become depressed. Or you know, we think nobody's watching,
but everyone sees it. We just think that they can't, right.
(13:58):
So I just started writing home to kind of let
those feelings out and release it. Because once you say it,
you have to act on it, and it's true, right,
So we get things inside because then you know it's
not real, but as soon as you write it, it
becomes real and you have to deal with it. So
that was my way of learning how to deal through
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my struggles of you know, hard marriages and divorce and
surviving being a single parent and having no one to right.
So that writing was my go to if I was
upset or I was mad or anything I was feeling,
I just sit.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Down and start typing.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And some of the best poems that you write come
to you in the middle of the night, so you'll
wake up. And it's like music. If you don't write
it on, as soon as you hear it, it's gone on. Yeah,
we're going to be the thing. And it could have
been like the best song in the world, but or
the best poem. But if you don't write it.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Down, you lose it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So there's plenty of times I would get up in
the mills and I and I feel like writing in
the dark and candlelight was my best times because it's quiet,
there's nobody around, and you're kind of in like your
quiet mood, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
So yeah, and the mole I started writing the.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
More topics I started writing about, so like, me and
my daughter have a book. Well, we know each other
from church about twenty six years ago.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
He don't look that old, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't tell, don't tell our age list said no, no,
that's it.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
We keep that start.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, you don't look at it.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
So right.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
But but from going to the church.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I was like one of the only white people there
in the beginning, right, so you get to experience, uh,
interracial dating and what that's like. And I wasn't allowed
to date outside my race really for some believes that
some of my family. So I mean, that's all in
my interracial book and some Yeah, it's called The Thoughts
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of an Interracial Family, the Reflections of Our Realities and
me and wrote it together.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So me and are okay, yeah, and wat she wrote
a whole chapter.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And then we wrote some stuff together. And actually the
audio book for this comes out in April, Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So I have I recorded in the studio.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We put music to each poem, and I've been putting
it on my social media until I've created some videos
with the audio clips so people can hear it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Love it, yes, So Lisa, you are so consistent on
social media with just your your clips and your poems,
and I'm just like, yes, yes, I love it, and
you know, and I've just been watching and seeing just
you know, your success and one one of your books
that that I purchased, Thoughts of Healing Families The Reflections
of their Grief by Lisa Rene Hutchins, and I have
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this in my hand right now to those who are listening.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I was reading through this Lisa, just.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Beautiful, beautiful, and I want you to talk about you know,
this book, But can I read one? I was like
that maybe you can speak to and then you can
read any of the ones here or wherever, you know,
whatever you think would be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You know, inspiring to our audience.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But this one, okay, this is on page twenty nine
of thoughts of Healing Families, the reflections of their grief,
and so I was like, I want to know, you know,
what Lisa was thinking when she was or what she
was going through when she wrote this, And so.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Says here the title is called how are You? So
it says how are you?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A question asked out of care in the midst of uncertainty,
awaiting a response not reflecting one's true state, just the
band aid needed to hold us all together, creating an
environment fragile to the touch, breaking at the sound of
our tears.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
So I want to can you share about that one?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, it's so crazy when you read these things. Sometimes
I like get emotional because I'm in the mood right.
So sometimes when we're going through hard times, this book
has to do about me working at a funeral home,
and we always respond when we're going through trauma or
we're going through stress. Somebody's like, how are you always
say okay? And that word okay is the closest word
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to I'm not okay, right, So it's easy to say
I'm okay, but if you hit me on some other level,
all of a sudden, I'm going to break.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So I feel like okay is just where we're holding
on to to sanity, right and working with people that
experience grief and loss.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It doesn't have to be a loved one.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It could be a marriage, it could be a child
going through a mental health disability, and they're not the
same person. You know. That hit my family pretty hard,
and I have written some poems in this book about
it about how hard to talk about sorry. But yeah,
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So this book is really good because it talks about
a lot of different things, Like there's five stages of grief,
but really we don't go through stages. It's more like cycles, right,
because there's things that progress, Like me, I just got
trigger because it's emotional, you feel it, it's raw, you
know what I mean, And it's something that affects us,
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and so this book has things to do about like
family members.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I've lost a couple of grave sides that I've been
at that were.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Just amazing approval from the family to put it in
the book, and just about our own personal loss, like
the first time you have to walk up to that
door at the funeral home and.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You have to open that door and accept the next step. Right,
So about all those things because it's so real.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yes, and that that poem resonated with me because you know,
someone who did struggle with depression and anxiety and ptist
and addiction, you know, and hearing people how are you
and oh, I'm okay, I'm fine, just putting on that
mask and that face. And so when I read that,
I was like, Yep, I wanted I want us to
talk about that, because I know so many people are
suffering in silence, and we're we're programmed to say I'm good,
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I'm okay, knowing deep down inside we are hurting, we
are struggling work, and so I really wanted to speak
to that, you know, because there's so many people and
so you know, just saying I'm okay, but you know,
Lisa is saying the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You know, if you're not okay, to go and tell
someone who you trust and who you love and let
them know you were not okay. So yes, well I
think that this is yeah, very very beautiful. And girl,
I'm just like, I commend you for working out a
funeral home. Like you're seeing, you know, grief and death
around you and so like I could not do that
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every day, So like, how do you, like, how do
you yes, how do you do that?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You know? I that was never my plan ever in life,
but I pre planned with my grandma about fifteen years ago,
and I had lost my job two years the government
absorbed our contracts, so I worked there nine years and
all of a sudden I lost my job and then
my grandma died at the same time, and I went
to the funeral home because we own property, so I
to sign and they were like, you should work here,
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and I was like, yeah, right, I would be crying
every day, Like yeah, But I am a huge advocate
for planning ahead. I plan everything, and so I thought,
let me just try it and let me help these
families because I know I can help them on many levels,
not just helping them planned, but I've done a trust,
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I've done a will, there's papers they can put in
place to make it easy for their family.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
So I do more education than just that. I've actually
talked to the church and then.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Seminars, so I do a lot of seminars.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
I do a lot of education. And I also have
families that are grieving.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And I think because I've been through so much trauma
in my own life that it's easy for me to
relate to people. And I can relate to a lot
of different people because I have a lot of different family,
a lot of different experiences in college and church, and
like being the only person I've peach right, So I
can relate easily to many different people. So I think
that's one thing I love about it. And I never
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wear black to work.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I always I wore this suit to work today.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Love so I always wear bright colors and different things
because I don't want it to be a sad thing.
Sometimes it is sad, of course, but like I always
tell people at work, guess what, hugs are free?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And I give hugs to people.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
All the time, especially when they're crying, like, hey, do
you want to just hug it out? And they'll be
like yeah, and so many people appreciate that I get.
I cared enough to hug them, right, because it's important.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Absolutely you're there.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, yes, wow, sometimes it gets to you, you know,
sometimes it does.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I do go to I don't do the services.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I'm not a funeral director, so I don't do that side.
But I do like engrave sides, and yeah, I've learned
a lot about different cultures, different families. It's honestly has
been a blessing to have that job because I think
it's a good fit for me in terms of like
personality experience.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right, yes, yes, So how do you stay though? How
do you stay mentally healthy?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You know, being an author, a mom, working at a
funeral home, Like, how do you?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, what do you do to stay healthy?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
It's like I go from one job to the next.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Right, I go to work, I work a lot of hours,
and then I come home and just on the computer.
I'll try to make videos, do the audio books. Like
tomorrow I have an audiobook session recording some stuff for
my next audio book. So just like I'm always doing projects.
I am part of this group called authors in grocery stores.
(24:16):
So I am starting in Fred Meyers and doing book
signings and stuff, and just finding other avenues to get
out there.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
With the children's books, reaching out schools. I don't know.
I don't think I sleep very much, but.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I feel like when I relax, I'm missing something, right,
I know I could do more, So it just.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Keeps me motivated. Yeah. People always ask me, like, how
the heck do you do all that stuff? But I'm like,
I don't really know.
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Speaker 6 (25:20):
Pride Day.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah. So, like all I've poetry, I'm done with all
of that. I did all the five topics that I
wanted to talk about. But the children's books, there's twelve
books in the series, and this is the first one.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It looks like you and my kids. Baby, you can see.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So she's holding up so those who are listening, she's
holding up her book Babycakes, right, Is that what the
man say.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah. It can be found on Amazon, Walmart, different places
like that, and you would just search Lisa Renee Hutchins.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And so there's a book for each month year and it.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Celebrates a family's tradition, whatever their tradition is for that month,
and then they bake a cake. And so it teaches
kids about different types of cakes. No bake cakes, cupcakes,
cakes that are made in shapes, cakes that have fonded.
So they get to learn about different kitchen utensils, different cakes.
And at the end there's a recipe so they can
make it.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
With their pole. That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh sorry, no, I was saying, what a what a
cool idea? Lista that's me.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So each of your books have a different like recipe
of like you said, of cakes or cupcakes at the
end of the book.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, So the first book is about January.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's the month of January.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
And also when my kids are mixed and I'm white
and my kids are black and white, and so when
they were young, of course, there was no books that
look like our family. There were no single WM books
or even interracial or mainly there wasn't a lot of
black focused books at all really when were little, not
even Barbie dolls or nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So I wanted.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I really believed in supporting my kids and wanting things
that look like us, and so that's what motivated me.
There's different race families in every single book, and there's
interracial families, solid race families, families where kids are raised
by their grandparents, so it.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Touch a wide variety. I also talk about.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Families that maybe somebody has an amputee, or somebody has
a hearing aid, so has braces. So I try to
encourage and incorporate a lot of different things in all
the books. And so January has to do with New
Year's and I talk about every year, me and my kids,
we used to do a resolution, and so it talks
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about us writing our resolution and putting it on the fridge,
and then we clean up and we make a confetti cake.
I mean, my mom's birthday is in January, where my
favorite cake was a confetti cake. So we talk about that,
we use different kitchen utensils, and then afterwards we eat
the cake together and there's a recipe so kids can
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make it with their family. And my February book is
about Jordan because Jordan's birthday, my son, his birthday is
on Valentine's Day a couple days okay, Yeah, So we
just talk about how on Valentine's Day, I always left
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little gifts outside their door for Valentine's and then we
always baked cupcakes for Jordan's birthday. So we talk about
red velvet cupcakes and we make the cupcakes and use
a cupcake dispenser, and then we have the recipe.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
So it's fun. Each book is a different color on
the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They all have.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Different families, and so I'm really excited about it because
I feel like diversity is important and learning about other
people's traditions that's really important.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
And April actually is going to have Greater Christ Temple
in it.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I'm going to have like the church and celebrating Easter
because that is a huge holiday, right, and so it's
going to be focused around African American family and Greater
Christ Temple is going to be kind of like in
the background as the church and talking about the commitment
to Easter because Easter was always like a huge holiday
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I remember at the church.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sometimes that's the only day people go to church.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I love very creative. You need a partner with schools
for sure too.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I'm trying to get into some schools and maybe do
some children's books readings, and so it's just kind of
like a long term game, right.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But I just stay at it.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And that's why I feel like I'm working all the time,
because you just you just got to keep moving, You
got to keep going.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, oh my goodness. Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So you shared Lisa, you know, your weeping story of
just overcoming you know, being a single mother trying to
provide for yourself and your family to now this like
award winning author, award winning author, you know, and write
and trying books, poetry and just getting yourself out there
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and letting other people know you know that there's hope
and that there's healing and loving people at the funeral
home as well. And so this is just this is amazing.
I would love for you to share. Is there a
poem that you would love to share for everyone to
hear that you would resonate? Yeah, okay, yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
And I also just wanted to tell you why I
did the two things separately. So I feel like many
times moms or parents are left out right. We're just parents,
but we have no emotions, no feelings, We're just And
I wrote the poetry for the parents, and I wrote
the children's books for the kids, so they have something
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to do together, and there's something for moms. You know,
sometimes we need a hug. And I feel like that's
what my poetry was. So the poem I'm going to read,
it's called Scars of a Survivor And this is actually
from my Single Mother book. Okay, the scars are everywhere.
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Some are visible, causing others to question seeing our traumas
consequences every day. Others are hidden under our clothes, callouson
hilled on the surface, but was sensitive to the world
around us. Then there are the wounds within, invisible to others,
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and sometimes ourselves still bleeding at the slightest triggers. Despite
all these scars, a survivor finds a way to heal
all these wounds, not to be defined by the damage,
but to be an advocate for helping others overcome.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yes, beautiful, Absolutely, it's invisible. Sometimes you can't see your pain,
right yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Because nobody see and so we're like, I'm okay. That's
a famous word, are you okay? And we're like I'm
okay because I haven't said I'm not and I haven't
found that I need to heal. But there's always going
to be something that catches us like, Okay, I need
to do better. I need to heal and bec and
stop being a victim. A lot of times we feel
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like we're a victim when we're scarred right and our
and our wounds are open, But when we start healing them,
we feel like we've overcome and we're survivors now and
we can help others. And so I feel like that's
just where I'm at and how I want to help people.
But you know, there's some scars that are never fully healed,
and so we do have ups and downs and that's
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just life.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's why we have each other.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'm making that connection with my single Wounded Scars. That
was the song I wrote when I was in Wounded Scars,
and I was talking about you know how you can't
see it, but Lord.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Heal my wounded scars, and yeah, so that's just what
your poem, So that that I was making that correlation.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
So yeah, yeah, yes, true.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, well Lisa, I would I have a couple more
questions for you and I just what advice would you
give to someone who might be out there, who are
who's struggling, who's struggling in silence?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah? What advice would you like to give them?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
So my advice is one The main thing is just
to forgive others, uh, for yourself. Right. Many times we
hold on to things that have hurt us and it
doesn't matter, it's not affecting them, it's just affecting us.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
So you have to forgive others.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
You don't have to like it, and you don't have
to accept it, but you need to forgive them so
you can heal, because that's the only way you can heal. Right.
Another thing is just to be honest with others and yourself.
Honesty doesn't always feel good and sometimes it hurts, but
that's how we heal, right, being honest with ourselves and
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saying maybe I fell short here and I need to
fix that, or maybe I did a great job and
I need to give myself a high five. Right, Sometimes
we don't give ourselves credit for the wins, and so
even if it's little, even if it's like I got
out of bed today and I put I got ready
for work, and I made it to work. Right.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Sometimes it's like that, and that's okay.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
And the last thing I would say is surround yourself
with knowledge and positivity. You know.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Watching.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I know many of us are on social media. We
watch stuff all the time, and when I'm down, I
like to watch things that make me laugh. And I
feel like laughter is my key to happiness. And so
I'm kind of a nerd, so I always do silly
things to make my kids laugh or myself laugh. But
laughing is huge and people don't really understand it. But
(35:16):
if you can get to the point where you can
be you can laugh by yourself, that's a huge thing
because then you're at peace with you. You don't need
other people to make you who you are, right, You're happy,
you know, skin me. So that's why I feel laughter
is super important. And my kids laugh at me because
sometimes I'll be in here laughing and they're like, mom,
(35:38):
you're by yourself.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
I'm like, I know, I'm funny.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I'm laughing at myself.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Or I'm watching a video that makes me laugh.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Right, So it's like, yeah, find things that make you
feel good, even if it's just like taking a walk
and it feels good. You know, do something good for
yourself every day because that's the only thing that's going
to keep you going, especially if you don't have support,
family support, or you know people around you that can
help you build you up right right, Yeah, lacks also
(36:10):
good when we laugh at things that aren't funny, right,
Like like if you get a child's sport check for
two dollars and fifty cents, that's not even a happy meal,
but you better laugh about it because at least you.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Got something right.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
So me and my moms have learned how to laugh
about things that are funny. Yeah, you know what it
feels character or laughing about how you know, I got
the furniture out the trash can, Like that's horrible, but
you know what, I washed it and it works and
I was able to give it to another family, you
(36:44):
know what I mean. And you pack from your things.
I think that's the biggest thing I learned too, is
you receive from others when you're struggling.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Give back, give back.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Don't ask for money either, just give it to them,
Like who needs clothes? Who needs a bed? I'm not funny,
and it makes you feel good to help other people
because when you're struggling and you get something as simple
ast and clothes for your kids, you can cry about
it because you're that grateful, like thank you for just
caring enough.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Right, So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I think as we become successful over time, don't forget
about people that were there, because they're they're always going
to be there, right, Don't forget about, you know, people
that have been there for you.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yes, yeah, beautiful, beautiful words and laughing releases, those endorphins,
those happy hormones.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
So yeah, right right, find behind it, so yes, love it.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well, where can we find out more about you? To
purchase your books to know you know more about Lisa?
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Well, I'm on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. I have a website,
so if you go Lisa Renee Hutchins, it's l A
S A R E N E E E and then
h ut cchi ns dot com. That's my website and
you can find all my poetry books on there, some
(38:09):
of my videos.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
And my children's books series.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So as I start publishing more children's books and my
audio books, I'm going to add all that stuff to
my website and I do have TikTok and stuff like that.
So my name's the same on every site, Lisa Renee
Hutcheins or author Lisa Renee.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So okay, and what's next for you? Any events coming up?
What's next?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
So what's next is I'm gonna be in there's a
program called Authors in Grocery Stores. So I'm going to
be in fred Meyers on March ninth and the twenty third.
They're Bolls Sundays and it's in pew Wall up on.
Let me double check the address here. Oops, I'm sorry,
(39:02):
I can I can put it in a chat or
give it you guys, but it's.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It's gonna be in few all up on like Meridian
and one hundred and seventy six, and I'll be probably
in the protoce section. Have some books out there, do
some signings. Adding people to my email lists so when
I have new products coming out. My audio book for
my interracial family book is coming out in April, and
then my children's books.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
I'm gonna have.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Three books coming out next year. So we're working on March,
April and May right now.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Awesome. Yeah, staying booked and busy all right, Lisa, love it.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Booked?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yes, yes, yes, love it well Lisa, Any last words
that you would like to say, I'm just super excited
for you and just your journey you have definitely you know,
you have shown you know your weep into warrior. You
are a warrior queen girl, and so you have over
so much and just pouring out your heart, your soul
(40:03):
into your writing and letting the world know that you
know it's okay not to be okay, but don't stay
there because there's hope. And so I'm just so grateful
for your journey And any last words you would.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Like to say, Well, I just wanted to say thank
you for having me on the show, thank you for
letting me share my story. And if there is anyone
that has any questions or want to reach out, feel free.
I'm very friendly and open to helping people. I'm a
huge resource for lots of different things. So just stay
positive and go after your.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Goals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I never thought I'd be able to do all these
things that I wanted to do, and I just did it.
And it's okay to fail. That's how you learn. If
you don't ever fail, you're never going to try new things.
So just keep positive, and you know, pray for yourself
and pray for your family because it's important.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yes, absolutely love it. Beautiful words, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I just want to say thank you for coming on,
thank you for your yes today, thank you for all
the amazing things.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
That you're doing, your vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
It's not easy to share your story, but I'm so
so happy and excited for you.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Keep on writing and I will.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I wrote down the dates, but I'll get more information
from you offline and go from there.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
So, but thank you for coming on today. All right, friends,
that was my friend Lisa Renee Hutchins.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
She shared her story, She shared her beautiful writing, so
go check her out, go to her website, hit her
up on social media.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
She's available to speak as well.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
And that's Lisa. So I thank you Lisa for coming
on today. There are three ways you can watch the show.
The first way is on Fridays at six o'clock pm
Pacific Standard time on Oklahoma Victorious Workshop Radio. The second
way is on Mondays at six o'clock PM on PGNTV.
In the third way, all of my videos our episodes
(42:01):
will live on my YouTube channel at Roshan Nicole or
Roshan Nicole Wellness and you can check out this episode
and all future episodes. If you would like to be
a guest, hit me up at info at Roshannicole Wellness
dot com. We would love to have you on to
share your story. Thank you so much for the producer
of the show, doctor Teresa Jordan. I appreciate you. Thank
(42:22):
you to our special guest today, Lisa Renee Hutchins, and
thank you for listening or watching. I want to send
you some encouragement today to stay lit, keep shining, and
ignite freedom.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
I'll see you next time.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Thank you for tuning in to from Weeping to Warrior
Igniting Freedom with Roshan Nicole. To be a guest on
the show, please contact us at info at Roshan Nicole
Wellness dot com. We would love to connect with you,
so please take a moment to subscribe and follow us
on all social media platforms. We look forward to having
you join us next time. For Weeping to Warrior Igniting
(43:08):
Freedom with Roshan Nicoles.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
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