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🎥Seen: Oprah Podcast CBS Good Day, Essence
✨Divine Diva 🙌🏽
✨Best Selling Author 📖
✨Award-winning CEO⭐️
✨Momager @pbscottie
✨Women’s Hall of Fame

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She said “give me a year” and changed her whole life. ✨

As heard on The Oprah Podcast 🎙️ author, entrepreneur and TV host Shonda Scott sat down with me on Meet the Makers to talk about 12 New Things®, the challenge she started for her birthday: try one new thing every month for a year.
She swam across the San Francisco Bay and skied in the desert in Dubai.

Every month she stepped further outside her comfort zone, and it turned into her new book, Give Me A Year, which debuted as a #1 Top New Release on Amazon. 📖🔥

So what’s YOUR new thing this year? Drop it in the comments 👇

🎥 Tap the link in my bio to watch the full interview

📚 Get the book at 12newthings.com

Special Thanks to our team:
@moonlight_rentals
@_jlreid
@_zen_cho_

Filmed Exclusively @moonlight_rentals

#MeetTheMakers #ShondaScott #12NewThings GiveMeAYear

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This week I joined the OUSD bus tour at Madison Park Academy.

Measure Y is putting voter-approved bond funding into our school buildings, and this stop shows where that money is going. The City and OUSD are partners in this work.

Thank you to Congresswoman Lateefah Simon for giving opening remarks. Thank you to Shonda Scott and her team for organizing the tour, and to the OUSD Board and the Alameda County Board of Education for their leadership. Our students deserve schools that reflect how much this community values them.

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💗💜 THANK YOU FOR WALKING WITH US! 💗💜

A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who came out and supported the Pink Access and Lavender Too Annual Walk-A-Thon at Oakland’s Lake Merritt! 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏾‍♂️

To our walkers, volunteers, donors, family, and friends—your love and support made this day special! 💕

Together, we raised awareness, honored survivors, remembered loved ones, and strengthened our community.

💗 The walk is over, but our mission continues!

🌐 Continue supporting us at pinkandlav2.org

💗💜 Every Step Makes a Difference!

#PinkAccessAndLavenderToo #CancerAwareness #WalkForACause #Oakland #LakeMerritt CommunityStrong

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🚀📚 The Give Me A Year | 12 New Things® Book Clubs have officially LAUNCHED!

What started as a book is becoming a community—and I’m so excited to see readers coming together to embrace change, try something new, and support one another on their 12 New Things® journey. 🌸✨

A huge THANK YOU to our inaugural Book Club hosts who are helping us kick off this next chapter:

📍 San Francisco, CA — Denise
📍 Oakland, CA — Ella
📍 Madison, WI — Vera

You are officially part of the beginning! 🙏🏽💛

And we’re just getting started. My vision is to see Give Me A Year | 12 New Things® Book Clubs in cities across the country—and around the world. 🌎📖

✨ Who’s next?
Want to start a book club in your city with your friends, organization, church, alumni group, or community? Drop your CITY below or DM me!

Let’s read. Let’s gather. Let’s try something new. 🚀

#GiveMeAYear #12NewThings #BookClub #TrySomethingNew #LiveYourBestLife

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Oakland, join us at Lake Merritt this Saturday morning, Oct. 10th, to walk for a great cause, cancer awareness in underserved communities! This is a fundraiser so use the QR code to register and donate then come stroll with us! @pinkandlav2 #kentegiouskomedy #effcancer #oakland #walkathon

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✨ Your 12 New Things journey starts with one “yes.”
Take that class. Explore somewhere new. Try something you’ve always talked yourself out of. You don’t need to have all 12 figured out—just choose your first! 🌱
Let Shonda Scott’s book, Give Me a Year, inspire you to step outside your routine and make room for discovery, growth, and joy.
Start small. Stay curious. See where one new experience takes you. 💛
Thank you @oprahdaily for this 12 new things experience!
📖 Find inspiration at 12newthings.com
👇 What’s the first new thing you’ll try?
#12NewThings #GiveMeAYear #TrySomethingNew #motivationalmonday

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Jason McBride did everything he thought he was supposed to do—including becoming a lawyer—until he realized the life he’d worked so hard to build was making him miserable. Here’s how he found the courage to walk away.

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In her book, “Give Me a Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life,” Shonda Scott chronicles how she stepped outside her comfort zone, embraced change and challenged herself to try something new every month for a full year. @oprah recently sat down with @shondascott360 to talk about how those experiences helped her find joy, overcome fear and keep moving forward even when life took some unexpected turns. Oprah also talks to Jason McBride, writer of the viral article “How to Create a Life You Love: No Magical Thinking Required,” about why building a fulfilling life isn’t about having the perfect job, relationship or circumstances but about taking responsibility for the life you’re creating. Tap the link in our bio to watch the latest episode of the @oprahpodcast!

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Seeing it helps other people be it. Watch @oprah’s conversation with @shondascott360, presented by our friends at @GEICO, on Prime Video, YouTube, or wherever you podcast.

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Putting yourself first places you in a better position to serve others. @shondascott360

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A vision board won’t change your life unless you do this. Watch @oprah’s conversation with @shondascott360, presented by our friends at @GEICO, on Prime Video, YouTube, or wherever you podcast.

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