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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

Renowned entrepreneur, world traveler, and fearless adventurer Shonda Scott is inspiring readers worldwide with her debut book, Give Me A Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life, officially released on September 16, 2025, and already making a powerful global impact. The inspiring title debuted as the #1 Top New Release on Amazon and was recently honored with The BookFest First Place Award, a recognition from The BookFest Awards, which celebrates authors who create outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction that educate, inspire, and transform.

In Give Me A Year, Scott introduces her groundbreaking 12 New Things® Challenge — a simple yet powerful framework that empowers individuals to step out of their comfort zones, embrace change, and rediscover what it means to truly live. Through captivating stories that take readers from swimming across the San Francisco Bay to skiing in the Dubai desert, Scott weaves together personal adventures, life lessons, and actionable tools designed to help readers build courage, conquer fear, and live their best lives.

Give Me A Year — the #1 Amazon Top New Release and BookFest First Place Award Winner — is available now wherever books are sold.