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<\/p>\nValerian Spicer: \u201cWith boxing, I found a purpose and a sense of achievement. It was something I really needed. It pretty much changed every area of my life in a very positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the time of year where everyone in the public eye has seemingly got a book out. The endless plugs and promotional obligations that fill up virtually every single TV show, with the contractual podcasts thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n
Valerian Spicer is no different. A fighter who is thriving in retirement, has recently released her written offering with Life Lessons From a Boxing Champion: Round By Round. <\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was four years in the making,\u201d Spicer told me over Zoom. \u201cAfter I retired in 2018, I have been doing a lot of coaching and things in and around boxing. I started coaching straight away, and an ex-client of mine, we started to get to know each other, and he was getting to know my story. He invited me to do some talks with him at a charity where he works. To fast forward, we developed a methodology that we called The Spicer Method. It is six states of mind that I competed in. Through his network, we got someone whom he knows, who is a journalist, to see if he would be interested in writing a book for us. So that\u2019s kind of how it came about. But this was four years ago when we started to get it going. He did a series of interviews with all of us. But then it just froze for four years. Funnily enough, how the universe works, one of the centres where I work and is very supportive of me, and they brought us back together. So we said, let\u2019s get it out; the book was written. There were just a few small bits to finalise it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe book is my story of starting boxing when I was thirty,\u201d Spicer added. \u201cI changed course in life from working in an office. I had gone through a period of not really knowing what I wanted to do. You get pushed in a certain direction when you are a child. The direction I got pushed into was great, and I went to university. But I didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do. Sport was my life when I was at school, so it would have been a natural progression for me to go into sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mum, being an immigrant from Dominica, was all around education, and sport wasn\u2019t something you did as a job. When I was at school, sports for women weren\u2019t big. There were not many role models as well. I went to university and drifted out of jobs, and I was quite miserable at some stages of my life. I joined a boxing gym, and there was a coach there who asked me if I had thought about competing. That led me to go to an England boxing gym. Things basically set off from there, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe book has got some history of changing course. But every chapter represents the methodology I share with Andy Cole, who is a psychologist. Every chapter in the book brings out a story in my boxing career where the methodology either worked or didn\u2019t work. At the end of every chapter, Andy offers a bit of insight for the reader to take away.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Valerian Spicer was a late entry into boxing. Spicer had already hit thirty before the boxing bug hit her. \u201cMy partner tried to take me to a boxing gym when I was twenty-seven, but I wasn\u2019t interested. I just joined a gym to get fit. I hadn\u2019t done any sport or exercise for ten years. My love for sport came back. With boxing, I found a purpose and a sense of achievement. It was something I really needed. It pretty much changed every area of my life in a very positive way. That sense of achievement when you win, and having your hand raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent my 20s in a series of jobs that were not right for me,\u201d Spicer added. She had belatedly found her calling. <\/p>\n
Despite starting relatively late, Spicer still carved out an impressive resume. In her sixty-four fights, she competed in two Commonwealth Games and two World Championships representing Dominica.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really proud that I changed my life through boxing,\u201d Spicer relayed to me. \u201cI feel proud of what I achieved after starting so late. But the thing that resonates the most is that when I started boxing, my love for sport came back, and I managed to make a career out of boxing and my love for it. I think that comes before everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is no telling what Valerian Spicer could have achieved if she had started her boxing journey earlier. But she is more than satisfied with what she achieved in a sport that changed everything for her. \u201cI don\u2019t have regrets. I did the best I could in the amount of time that I had.\u201d<\/p>\n
Life Lessons From a Boxing Champion: Round by Round is out now.<\/p>\n
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