AIRED: June 21, 2021
SPECIAL GUEST: Regina Louise
Beloved memoirist Regina Louise took herself from a foster care childhood and time in a residential treatment center to a college scholarship and the creation of several successful small businesses. She now works to show others how to keep moving in the directions of their dreams no matter what.
Regina’s new book Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love offers readers a proven path for defying expectations and loving oneself into a high-performing life.
“Who says that being born a woman of African descent, poor, supposedly unwanted, neglected, marginalized, stigmatized, and labeled bat-shit-cray means that’s all life will ever be?” writes Regina. “No matter our walk of life, in my experience, we always have the opportunity to expand our consciousness, come into awareness of our full potential, and grow ourselves up to fill our own shoes.”
Permission Granted puts a unique spin on tried-and-true techniques of personal growth as it helps readers deeply understand who they are and what they have been through. From this place of self-awareness, Regina helps readers transform past devastations and disappointments into motivations and momentum. With her own life experience being an ultimate example, she guides them toward self-compassion so they can learn to give themselves the care and support their lives may be lacking.
“As a result of going the distance and staying the course of my highest good, I became inspired by my challenges to spend the past three decades advocating for what’s possible when we honor the sacred within us: our own love, our own acceptance, our own dignity, our own bodies as a place of refuge,” writes Regina. “Unconditional love permits me to know what is true about me: I am right to be here! I am right to love myself! By grace alone, I am worthy.”
ABOUT REGINA LOUISE
Regina Louise is the author of Permission Granted. Her bestselling memoirs Somebody’s Someone and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe were made into the award-winning Lifetime movie I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, which was nominated for a 2020 NAACP Award for Best Director. A summa cum laude graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a master’s of fine arts degree, Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, workshop facilitator, and motivational speaker who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her story has been featured in media outlets like NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and many more.
