Certified Life, Success and Motivation Coach
Published Poet
Using mindset techniques and the artistry of words to empower women in every aspect of their Beautiful lives.
I am the artist of my own beauty. I can paint me on any canvas with a rainbow of color, for me, by me, artist of me. My palette - my BEAUTIFUL words. ~Lisa M. Newell~
Hello, I am Lisa M. Newell, a Mindset and Success Coach, and a published poet. I guide women on how to enrich their lives through mindset and the use of BEAUTIFUL, EMPOWERING words. I believe we all can use our thoughts and words to gain confidence, empower ourselves, and enhance our life with the beauty which thoughts and words can create.
Today is your CANVAS
As YOU ARE
Create your world BEAUTIFUL™
Certified-Life, Success and Motivation Coach-Completed over 400 hours of study, lectures and fieldwork
Student of I Heart Coaching by Emily Williams
Bachelor of Science in Finance - Belhaven University
Membership in the Clinton, MS Chamber of Commerce
Membership in NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Health
Lisa is an advocate for Mental Health Awareness and Women's Cardio Health
Lisa Newell’s writing resume includes:
My World Within Words, a collection of poems, published in 2013 by Inner Child Press.
http://www.innerchildpress.com/lisa-d-mccraw.php
Lisa is currently working on her second and third collection of poems: In the Midst of Polar, a collection of poems written about depression and bi-polar disorder, and the effects on families and friends. Emmett Till HIStory UNTIL, a collection of poems written about Emmett Till.
Membership in the Mississippi Poetry Society. As of May 21, 2016, Lisa was appointed as the secretary for the central branch, which includes Hinds County.
Membership in the Mississippi Writer’s Guild
Lisa’s work has appeared in several poetry anthologies and as collaborations with other poets, within their published works.
Lisa participated in the 2012 Poetry Care Bears in Motion Spoken Word event, held in New Orleans, LA. Lisa performed Little Boy Lost and I Am My Brother’s Keeper. The theme of the presentation was the effects of racism in a historical and present day voice.
In 2016, Lisa presented the poem Symphony’s Compassion to world renowned violinist, Stefan Milenkovich. “I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the poem you’ve written inspired by our performance in Mississippi few weeks ago. It is truly gorgeous, inspiring, and it’s a sort of thing that makes me go forward.” Stefan Milenkovich
Lisa’s two tribute poems, If Only You Could Come Back and One Week Gone, written about the artist Prince, were accepted into the Prince Tribute Anthology published by Yellow Chair Review in May 2016.
Lisa’s enjoys writing about Mississippi history, as well as world history and historical figures of our modern times.
Lisa also specializes in writing custom poems for life events: engagements, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, birth announcements and many other special occasions.
To date, Lisa has written over 3,000 poems.
Poetry review: I have read many poets on the internet on a multitude of sites and I have never read better ones. Your work is powerful, unique, extremely well-written, and majestic. I love reading classical poetry, modern day poetry, from the heart poetry~~you belong in all those categories and more. ~Susan~
Excerpt from the foreword
My World Within Words
I first met Lisa D McCraw Newell through the online poetry community, which, in recent years, has grown into a thriving and multi-cultural universe, powered by social media, mobile applications, and cloud storage. The new culture of sharing and connecting has created a niche for up-and-coming poets who learn with one another and push one another up in their craft, both creative-wise and business-wise, and build a name for themselves, slowly but surely, in the process.
Lisa’s poems have that spark, that heart. She is able to connect to her readers because she writes sincerely—she writes for herself, in her own voice, about people and things that matter to her. And in that sincerity are snapshots of her, her character, her past, her dreams.
I am fortunate enough to witness her evolution as a poet, in selecting more and more complicated and multi-faceted subjects and stories as well as in being more and more daring with her structure and lyricism. You can practically see Lisa’s heart growing braver and more beautiful, by following her work.
And just like a career with a solid foundation, Lisa’s artistry took rime. Along the way, she read the works of her contemporaries, appreciated, shared, commented, and learned from them. (I am proud to say I am one of those contemporaries.) Through this, she helped many poets and allowed herself to be helped as well. Lisa’s opening herself to the “heart-works” of others became a way for the same people to be open to what she has to offer.
In a world that has become quick to criticize and dismiss, where so many upcoming artists are crying for attention using the same tools of technology, I find it refreshing to make more organic connections such as the one I have with Lisa. It is friendship, cemented through the years by our mutual devotion to reading and writing poetry. I genuinely want Lisa to succeed and honestly can’t wait to watch for the next chapters of her heart—and her poetry. That’s why when I heard that she recently got the chance to have her pieces printed in a book, I felt so happy and proud of her. Of all people, she is one of the most deserving to have her artistry available to a larger audience, because her heart is in it. And with an attitude to poetry like hers, the relevance and the mastery of execution of each poem just naturally follow.
Iris Orpi
Poet, Fiction Writer
