Book: Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out
Q1. Hello Ma’am, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
Hello, my name is Kisha Prince and I’m a person who loves life and is grateful for every moment I get to live and let live. I try to find the lessons and the goodness in the journey I have been allotted. I like to say that I am an empowerment enthusiast. I like to empower the people around me to be the best version of themselves. I am a child of God, mother, personal shopper and stylist, divorce coach, and a new author. I enjoy writing, listening to music, vacationing, relaxing next to a large body of water, good food and wine, decorating my house and spending time with family and friends.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing ‘Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out’ book?
One of the key challenges I faced while writing ‘Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide on How to Slay from The Inside Out’ was having to channel and go back into the emotions and feelings I had while going through such a painful divorce to put it inside the book. It was exhausting and brought me to tears at times while writing it, but I wanted readers to feel what I felt in those moments. The process of writing this book was therapeutic for sure.
Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
Dr. Myles Monroe and Sarah Jakes Roberts influenced my writing. They are both phenomenal, thought-provoking teachers and writers that leaves you empowered and energized. The late great Dr. Myles Monroe has inspired his listeners/readers to find their purpose and operate in it unapologetically and relentlessly. His book ‘Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women’ is one of my favorites. In it, he encouraged women to know who they are (with or without a man), what their purpose is and find innovative ways to exist in a culture and society that presents women with many challenges and obstacles.
I am also encouraged to be great and fearless after reading about and listening to Sarah Jakes Roberts. Her book ‘Lost and Found’ is a book full of hope and life lessons. Her testimony about having a child at a young age, her relationship with her father and growing up in the church is so relatable to me. Her testimony of overcoming and thriving after such difficult times in her journey, makes me want to never give up on myself. She also has a passion for fashion which is something we both have in common. It would be an absolute pleasure to style her one day.
Q4. What’s your favorite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
My favorite spot to visit in the United States is California. It has the perfect weather, wonderful sceneries, lots of activities, great shopping, beautiful beaches and was a dream vacation of mine as a kid. Its special to me because growing up in such humble beginnings, California was just a place to go to in my dreams. I would watch the ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ as a kid, but never thought in my wildest dreams I could ever afford to go somewhere so fabulous and prestigious.
In 2018, I was able to take my family on a trip there and to top it all off, we were able to sit on the front row in the audience of my favorite game show Family Feud. I can certainly say that dreams do come true.
Q5. Is there lots to do before you drive in and start writing a book?
For me it was finding the courage to be vulnerable and tell my story. It took time, help from God and my therapist to find my voice and the strength to write about something so personal. I had to think about the women I wanted to encourage and empower through my testimony of healing and deliverance while going through the most painful time of my life.
Q6. How long did it take you to write ‘Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out’ book?
It took me about a year to write this book after journaling off and on for years. The chapters about my self-esteem and my unhealthy relationship with shopping, were things I had realized and wrote about years ago, but never thought to put it in a book. It was only after going through my divorce I decided to write about my experiences, not only as a divorcee but as a multifaceted woman with many dimensions.
Q7. On what all platforms’ readers can find ‘Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out’ book to buy?
Readers can go to keeppressinpretty.com or Amazon.com for now.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out’?
Keep Pressin’ Pretty was an affirmation I came up with years ago to declare over myself when I was feeling less than and not good enough. While writing this book I thought Keep Pressin’ Pretty would be appropriate and indicative of the self-encouraging journey I was on. I wanted something to empower women to press pass what they are going through and remind them that they look better than what they been through.
‘A Guide on How to Slay from the Inside Out’ is the lesson I learned being a person who is a lover of styling and all things fashion. I was tired of slaying on the outside through clothing and accessories but feeling lonely and empty on the inside. As a woman trying to reinvent herself and be better (mind, body and spirit) while transitioning into this new chapter, God worked on me from the inside out. Now I not only dress the part, but more importantly I take pride in being the part.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself?
I think a writer keep things fresh for the reader and for themselves by just being authentic and as transparent as possible. I believe readers want something that they can relate to and see themselves in, and writers want to write about something they can be proud of that resonates with the reader in some way.
Q10. Are there any secrets from the book (that aren’t in the blurb), you can share with your readers?
I pretty much put everything in the description (blurb) to synopsize the book. But I will say that although this book is about me overcoming divorce, it is not about me bashing my ex-husband. My healing and the process of my recovery had little to do with him, but everything to do with how I saw and see myself.
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Keep Pressin’ Pretty: A Guide On How To Slay From The Inside Out
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