Highly highly highly recommended for uplifting inspiration and encouragement to follow your bliss! I listened to the audiobook and it has delightful bonus content of podcast clips and author “asides!”

This book is inspired, brought me to tears, clarified so many of the messages I've been absorbing through other authors and influencers, and was a pleasure to listen to on Audible with all of the bonus info (yes, Jen Hatmaker! I got every Hamilton reference!!!). This will be one I listen to again and buy the physical copy so I can underline.

I had heard of Jen Hatmaker for years and finally listened to this on audiobook. I likely will buy a copy in print because I want to revisit several sections. I enjoyed hearing of her journey in faith and was encouraged to notice and work on areas of my life where fierceness, freedom, fire are needed. Her grace-filled message that doesn't shirk from hard truths is a gift.

Absolutely perfect book for this moment in time!! It was exactly what I needed to hear during this unstable time. I am exactly who I should be and that is just fine. Thank you so much, Jen, for helping me give myself permission to be who I am and not who I think I should/could/need to be. I already can’t wait to read it again!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for this reader's copy. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.

Some people don't care for Jen Hatmaker's wit. I am not one of those people. She makes me laugh on a consistent basis. She is also the real deal. What you see, and hear, is what you get. Hatmaker has gone through quite a transformation in the past few years. I think one reason I relate to her musings is that our transformations started roughly around the same time and continue to the present day. We were also born approximately 20 days apart in the same year and her oldest two are the same age as my children. We also had harrowing experiences in the 6th grades with our teachers, not our peers as most do. Despite all these similarities, we have some really big differences too. The biggest one is we live in vastly different worlds - she is exposed, I have hidden away like some hermit. See, she wants to be out there, I don't.

In Hatmaker's newest offering to readers, she offers her personal insights on becoming the best, most glorious versions of ourselves. It's a book geared toward women. #sorrynotsorry men. She takes five main themes: Who I Am, What I Need, What I Want, What I Believe, and How I Connect and dissects them. I'll be honest, a lot of it was a variation of stuff I have read and heard the past 46 years of my life. There truly is nothing new under the sun. But just because I have read or heard some of it doesn't mean I have embraced it and leaned into it. I think that is probably true for all of us which is why there are so many self-help and guide books. Eventually, we will read or listen to one that carries themes we have heard before but this time we hear in just the way we need to. Another moment of honesty, nothing I read in this title was just the way I needed to read it. I'm not saying I've arrived at total self-awareness and all that, I just wasn't shook up enough by anything Hatmaker shared. This is not a criticism of Hatmaker, just a personal observation.

There were some validating and affirming parts of the book for me, specifically in relation to my aforementioned transformation I've been undergoing the past decade+. I definitely don't regret the time spent reading the title but, as of right now, it's also not one I feel I would ever return to for a re-read.

This book is going to change lives. Arguably the most honest, unapologetic, empowering book that Jen Hatmaker has written to date, "Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire" uses her humor, wit, and relatable life stories to shine a light on some hardcore truths that are sometimes a little hard to swallow. Jen explores the categories of "Who I Am", "What I Need", "What I Want", "What I Believe", and "How I Connect", and provides invaluable tools and insight to become the woman you were meant to be. She takes all excuses, preconceived notions, and outside expectations and sets them on fire; clearing the path to examine yourself, your goals, and your beliefs with strength and honesty; emboldening you to chase them with the passion and ferocity that they deserve.

Jen a Hatmaker is the realest of the real, and her encouragement and advice for getting real with myself was a gut punch, in the best way possible. She makes me want to love both myself, and others, so much better. Many, many pages dog-eared with truth I will be coming back to.

“Integration means your inside voice, your outside actions, your thoughts and beliefs, your dreams and hopes - all being in alliance. You are telling the truth. This is who you are at all times with all people. You aren’t pretending or hiding. You decide to be your whole real self, and I can tell you right now, you will not regret this. This is freedom.” p. 213

I have to admit a little strange listening to her reference her then husband Brandon as now they are divorced. Some good points in the book. Easy to listen to.

I heart Jen Hatmaker. Several sections in this book really resonated with me (hello, body image and big family). Jen’s honesty and humor are always welcome and refreshing. She isn’t afraid to put herself out there or to go against the status quo. That being said, some of this book felt like expanded versions of some of her Facebook/Instagram posts. Her writing is authentic, relatable, and humorous so I didn’t mind too much, other than it just wasn’t new to me. Overall, I recommend.

Amazing!