Author and entrepreneur Shonda Scott is encouraging people to embrace change with her "12 New Things" lifestyle, which challenges participants to try something new each month. Her award-winning book, Give Me a Year, offers a fun and practical guide to stepping outside your comfort zone and creating lasting personal growth.

Shonda Scott Reveals Why You Should Ditch Your Traditional Resolutions for a New Challenge. The entrepreneur and CEO shares how her biggest step toward transformation started with a new monthly adventure.

Before the ball drops on 2025, Shonda Scott invites us to slow down, get honest, and start mapping out the “new you” with purpose. She’s breaking down her new book, Give Me A Year: 12 New Things To Embrace Change And Live Your Best Life.

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Celebrated Entrepreneur and Adventurer Shonda Scott Releases Groundbreaking #1 Amazon Bestselling and BookFest Award-Winning Debut Book Give Me A Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life

Trying something new is scary, but it doesn’t have to be. Author Shonda Scott walked host Jessica Wills through her new book “Give Me A Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life,” a guide to help people pivot and embrace change in fun exciting ways.

From #1 on Amazon to Inspiring Millions: Shonda Scott Invites the World to Give Me A Year

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12 New Things Creator, Shonda Scott, appears on Houston's hottest daytime talk show, Chattin' With Chelsea, to discuss the history of 12 New Things and how Chelsea's viewers can become a part of the 12 New Things movement in their own community.

January is traditionally a time for reflection and resolution. We greet the new year with promises to ourselves to drop pounds, perhaps, go dry or get fit…

Shonda Scott is many things; none of them idle. Over the course of her lengthy and prosperous career, Scott has worn many hats: CEO of the major consulting firm 360 Total Concept, one of President Biden’s appointees on the U.S. Advisory Trade Policy and Negotiation Committee, formerly President Obama’s…

Shonda Scott stands at the helm of innovation and leadership as the Founder and CEO of 360 Total Concept, a renowned management consulting firm that has spearheaded transformative mega projects with industry titans such as BET, Uber, Comcast, Kaiser Permanente, major transit agencies, and international airports…

What better way to start the day aroundLA than a bike ride of inspiration and wisdom?! In conversation with me for this ride along the Santa Monica beach bike path is a civic leader invested in her community, a CEO with seasoned business acumen, a super-mommy whose adult son...

When we asked Shonda about the 12 New Things® Challenge, she says, “As part of my birthday celebrations in 2019, I created the 12 New Things® campaign, to do something new and different...

World traveler Shonda Scott creates the infectious 12 New Things Journey Challenge that has resonated with many. What started as a goal of 5, spring-boarded into thousands deciding to join the challenge with her to make an on-going lifestyle change...

World traveler Shonda Scott is the creator of the "12 New Things Challenge." She joins Courtney to talk about her incredible journeys and how to challenge yourself outside of your comfort zone...