Skip to content

greetings

Twitter Instagram
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Average is the New Awesome
  • My Work
  • Contact
Buy my book

Greetings

Samantha Matt
About the Book

Average is the New Awesome

A celebration of ordinary awesomeness, for all of us who were told “You can do anything!” and then found out we actually can’t.

Crappy homes, lame love lives, getting passed over for a great job (again)–not what we expected for our adulthoods. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But let’s face it–most of us can’t.

Sure, some of our peers go on to become astronauts or billionaires. But most of us don’t. In Average Is the New Awesome, Samantha Matt offers encouragement to us regular humans. Full of hilarious stories and insightful advice, this is a manifesto for ordinary awesomeness–for the beauty that can be found when we acknowledge that good enough really is good enough, and that greatness is ours to define.

buy the book!
order today! ↦
Rave Reviews
Matt’s witty book cuts through the misleading ‘perfection’ promoted in the arts, the media, and in our social media feeds with this empowering, actionable manifesto.
Book Riot
Instead of writing a ‘just practice 10,000 hours a day’ type self-help book, Matt offers encouragement to us ‘average’ folks and assures us that being good really is good enough.
Betches
Funny and strikingly honest, this book is one you’ll hold close and relate to in every way you need to right now.
Jen Glantz
in the news

Average Press

  • Named a best self-help book for 2020 by Parade Magazine
  • Selected as a best personal growth book that matches this moment by BookRiot
  • Listed as a book to read in 2020 by Betches
  • Selected as the first book for Greatist’s book club, Greatist Reads
  • Featured as one of the Toronto Star‘s self-help books to get you motivated in 2020
  • Listed as one of the best self-development listens for women by Audible
  • Named a book to watch by Porchlight Book Company
  • Why Average is the New Awesome, According to Samantha Matt – HerCampus
  • Uniquely Boston: Average is the New Awesome – NBC Boston
  • Just Your Average Girl, with Samantha Matt – “It’s Complicated” Podcast
AS SEEN IN:

Did you know you can listen to me read the entire book?

get the audiobook! ↦

More About Average

Coming Soon

Coming soon: Join my newsletter!

Get a little encouragement in your inbox!

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Book
  • Contact

© 2023 Samantha Matt - WordPress Theme by Kadence WP

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Average is the New Awesome
  • My Work
  • Contact