I think there is quite a lot of wisdom in this book. It's also always good to read about successful female sportspeople as until relatively recently female sport was vastly underrepresented.

I enjoyed watching Aimee’s presenting pieces at the 2022 Winter Olympics so was keen to read her book, Fear Less Live More. A former two time Olympic snowboarder, this book is a memoir with a difference. She takes us on her journey from starting out on a motor cross bike to her Olympic experiences and the fear and pressure she felt along with way. She includes her coping mechanisms: breaking tasks down into manageable pieces; looking for the positives; and setting smaller goals. I particularly enjoyed one of the lines from the final paragraph “Fear will always be a part of your life, but your perspective, your skills and your routine should be too”. I feel with this book you really get a sense of what a great person Aimee is and these skills can be adopted by all as we face day to day life. Thank you to NetGalley, Octopus Publishing and Aimee for the chance to review.

Aimee Fuller is an Olympic snowboarder but this is a memoir with a difference. In this book, she shares all of the lessons she has learned throughout her professional career in the hope they can help us to push through our own fears and achieve our goals. This is a self help book by someone who has been there, who has lived what she is teaching, who knows success, failure and most of all, fear. Which is what makes it all the more valuable.

I often look at people who do extreme sports and think ‘how could they do that?’ This book answers that question for me. Aimee lets us into everything - we see a real human being behind her success, suffering from fear, sometimes naivety and often using her amazing mental strength to overcome self-doubt. She has a fantastic mindset and I would love to be able to enter the flow state as she describes it.

I enjoyed the part when she discusses her decision about going to university. As someone who took the Higher Education path for reasons that did not justify the high price tag, it was great reading about someone who broke out of the mould and did her own thing. I think this book should be compulsory reading for teenagers because it teaches what they don’t teach in school - grit, determination, the right mindset for following your heart and achieving your goals and, most importantly, dealing with failure. Read this book and you will feel, ‘yes, if she can smash her goals, so can I!’ A truly inspiring book, full of wisdom and well worth reading.

With thanks to Netgalley and Octopus Publishing for providing an advance review copy of the book. All opinions in this review are my own.