Sept. 8, 2025
The Publisher Behind the Scenes with Dominick Domasky
Send us a text Dominick Domasky's story reads like a masterclass in resilience. From losing half a million dollars in a failed restaurant venture in his twenties to founding a publishing company that's helped hundreds of authors worldwide, his journey embodies the power of perseverance and reinvention. "I went bankrupt. I was broke. I was in my early 20s, couldn't even pay for a spaghetti dinner," Dominic recalls. During those darkest moments, he discovered writing as both therapy and purpos...
Dominick Domasky's story reads like a masterclass in resilience. From losing half a million dollars in a failed restaurant venture in his twenties to founding a publishing company that's helped hundreds of authors worldwide, his journey embodies the power of perseverance and reinvention.
"I went bankrupt. I was broke. I was in my early 20s, couldn't even pay for a spaghetti dinner," Dominic recalls. During those darkest moments, he discovered writing as both therapy and purpose. What began as simple stories in a notebook evolved into a mission to help others share their voices.
The path wasn't straightforward. Dominick spent years in pharmaceutical and insurance sales while slowly building his publishing knowledge. His first book taught him every painful lesson possible—selling away his rights, dealing with poor editing, and accepting subpar cover design. These mistakes became the foundation for Motivation Champs Publishing, created specifically to help others avoid similar pitfalls while yet enabling others to share their story.
Perhaps most moving is Dominick's deeply personal book "My Name is Sharon," chronicling his mother's decade-long battle with Alzheimer's. From this experience comes his heartfelt advice to caregivers: "Your loved one is still in there... When you were a baby, they loved you unconditionally. They didn't get mad when you couldn't respond. Now it's your time to reciprocate that."
Beyond publishing, Dominick hosts a regional cable show exploring Western Pennsylvania's trails called Bikes and Hikes. Dominick also helped co-found Cre8tive Con, a place for creative entrepreneurs to share ideas, collaborate, and learn from one another.
Throughout our conversation, one theme remains constant: the power of believing in yourself and helping others do the same. As Dominick puts it: "Be the best you, you can be. Nobody else can tell your story." One thing that stands out is his speech from Cre8tive Con at the 2024 inaugural conference "You've got to believe in yourself."
Connect with Dominick at Motivation Champs across all social platforms and discover why his mission of sharing "inspiration, positivity, and smiles" resonates with so many.
00:00 - Meeting Dominic Domasky
04:48 - From Restaurant Failure to Writing
07:59 - The Birth of Motivation Champs
14:06 - Speaking on Stages and Finding Purpose
22:01 - My Name is Sharon: A Personal Journey
28:37 - Lessons from Alzheimer's and Bullying
33:57 - Current Projects and Future Vision
37:23 - AI, Authenticity and the Future
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Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode.
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Today we have a very special guest, one who was behind the scenes of helping Putt dropped in a maze on the map.
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And even though Dominic Domasky has his own publishing company, motivation Champs, there is a long backstory as to how he became a publisher and has a story of his own that he has written about his mother, and he's here to share his own journey with us in his own maze of life.
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So please, without further ado, dominic, welcome to the show.
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Sonia, I'm pleased to be here, and you're almost making me cry already, so this isn't going to be easy.
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Go on.
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Well, we always encourage crying, we encourage all kinds of emotions.
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This is just the therapist and me talking, although disclaimer everybody, this is not a therapy session.
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Um, uh, this is the, but I just want to, first and foremost, have you, um, talk a bit about yourself Now.
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You started out in a different career completely.
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That was nowhere even close to the world world of literary arts or publishing or anything like that.
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So tell us a little bit about how you started off.
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Well, I've had multiple careers and a lot of lifetimes to get to where I am today, sonia.
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So I grew up in family business.
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My dad's a landscaper, so I learned about picking up cigarette butts and pulling weeds and getting yelled at by dad and I took that entrepreneurial spirit and I opened up a restaurant after I that was.
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My dream was to open a restaurant and I wasn't so great at it and I ended up losing half a million dollars in three years and I went bankrupt.
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I was broke.
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I was in my early 20s, couldn't even pay for a spaghetti dinner, had to go to my sister-in-law's house to eat spaghetti.
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I'm thankful to Kim for that.
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But during those rough times I started writing, sonia, and I was reading Dale Carnegie's and Jeffrey Gittimer's and Joel Osteen and the Bible and all these personal growth books and things like that, and I started to think Augmentino.
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I started to think that I had something to say and it was a little bit different.
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Like you, you have this story that's different and so many people can resonate with it and.
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I started writing and I had no idea how to or what I was doing.
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I was just writing little stories in a notebook and that was my start of writing.
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But it took years till I went into the space of publishing.
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And what was the final straw that pushed you into?
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publishing.
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I would say once I took all those years to write my first book.
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I didn't you know.
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I took years to write it because I didn't know what I was doing.
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I found a publisher, I sold all my rights.
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I made every mistake that I could make.
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And I didn't know I was making those mistakes back then.
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Under edited books, underdeveloped, weird looking covers, I paid too much for the book, sold my rights.
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I did not know, because I was just trying to share my story.
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So I told you I'm writing and now I'm in recovery from losing all that money.
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So I was in the sales world.
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I had sold insurance, I had sold pharmaceuticals and as I was growing in this world, I published the first book.
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Still growing in that world, start to speak on stages.
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I meet interesting people like you.
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I have grandmothers come to me after I'm done speaking and say listen to my grandson's story, listen to my story.
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And I start to realize, as I'm up on those stage trying to share an inspirational message hmm, that person has a story, that person has a story.
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What if, rather than me standing up here, what if I could help more people tell their stories?
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And that was like social media was exploding at the time.
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And I probably got in early on, understanding that there's a lot of great ways to share your story.
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And as people were gravitating towards social and I'm helping more people tell their stories, I realized, wait, what if I helped these people write books and work on their message and they could share it on all these different forms?
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And so that's really how it happened.
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And then the longer I was in the corporate world, I had this burning.
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I'm sure many people feel like I'm not where I'm supposed to be, but you got to pay the bills you have to there's benchmarks and metrics.
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I had already been broke and lost it all.
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Well, how could I go off on my own and start a publishing company?
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It was a matter of I had made all those mistakes.
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I didn't want other people to make the mistakes.
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I was meeting so many inspirational people with stories.
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I had to do it.
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I had to start helping them, and that's where the publishing of other people's books came from.
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You said that you had started speaking on stages.
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When did you start speaking on stages and what brought that about?
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When did you start speaking on stages and what brought that about?
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Okay, so when I wrote that first book, I instantly started to figure out well, I should go to the Rotary Clubs, I should go to the business groups and then, once I did that, I really am proud to say that I put in the reps where I spoke at the county fair when nobody was there.
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I've spoken in rooms at the chiropractic office where three people showed up.
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I've spoken to a thousand people.
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But I've been paid by big universities to speak, but it was all a building and growing done commencement speeches, and so it took going out that first time.
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It took the lumps, it took learning what the message was.
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Sometimes I would say something, I would think I had a great story and I'd look across and I'd see somebody's face that I shouldn't have told that story like that and I would.
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Next time I would articulate it a little differently.
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So it took lots and lots of hours to get on those stages and when I was on those stages I was meeting a lot of people but at the same point, those stages it wasn't necessarily for me.
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Some people love being on the stage.
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I prefer, like with your book, I think, I like to be behind the scenes and promote Sonia and see Sonia smiling and Sonia on stage, more than I really want to be on stage.
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I'm like maybe I who is Geppetto, has Geppetto had some strings and helped.
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That's, that's what I think.
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I prefer to be in the background.
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So what was it like for you then when you opened up Motivation Champs, and what inspired you then to first and foremost name Motivation Champs, and what was it like to just go through that process of taking that big leap?
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Because you were just were in a I don't even want to call it a safe job, rather, but you are doing pharmaceutical sales, right, and we all know that with sales, that also can be very tumultuous, right, depending on you know what kind of whether you're able to sell to clients, what kind of people you get.
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You know I know it's also very cutthroat in that world, right.
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So you know, just from being in sales to then jumping into a completely new territory in some ways, what was that like?
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It was a lot less glamorous even though that was a lot less glamorous than you would think, because probably the roots of Motivation Champs were about 2013, 2012, where we start saying, oh, if we're going to be out speaking or promoting other people, then we need a name for a business.
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We need a name because it wasn't about me and so, okay, I don't want it to be Dominic Damaschi's publishing.
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It wasn't about me.
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It was about the people sharing their stories, the champions that were sharing motivation, and so that was.
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These were the people that had the stories, that were going out and doing the work and, in theory, and the thought is they're the champions and so seeing those arms raised, and that was the roots of the Motivation Gym.
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So to say it was a leap.
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It was not just a leap in one day and it took seven years, eight years, to get to the point where I said to myself, okay, now I remember I was doing some work with Netflix, doing some filming, because I believe in studying story structures and how they're made.
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I had an author that was wanting to fly me to meet them to break down the story, and I was in pharmaceuticals at the time.
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I was starting to get more clients with Motivation Champs.
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And all of a sudden I had to turn down more work with Netflix to go do something in pharmaceuticals and like a ride day with my boss or something like that, and I knew that moment.
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Here's where I'm trying to go.
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I have customers.
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I have a few.
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They're growing.
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It's not to the point I wanted to be yet, but it was growing.
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And here I was about to turn down everything I was working for for a job that I didn't like.
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So I'm always reminded of that, jim Carrey saying about his dad His dad could have been a great musician or a great comedian, but he took the practical approach.
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He took the approach of being an accountant or something like that, and he was never, never happy.
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And so he says take that risk, chase the dream and then you'll get fulfillment.
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And so I really, after it took, now this courage took.
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After it took, now this courage took, I went broke in 2005, 2020 and 2000, I think late 2019, I went on my own.
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So it took 14 years to figure out how to launch a company and start a company, and it wasn't all gravy at that point, but 14 years.
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And so I sit here, yeah, okay, wasn't all gravy at that point, but 14 years.
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And so I sit here.
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Yeah, okay, yeah, but it was really a 14-year journey to get to that point.
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And that's an incredible journey that you took, because today you are thriving.
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And how many books to date have you published?
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Hundreds at this point and worked with hundreds more of authors.
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So sometimes it's just, it's some coaching and I'm all for people doing it on their own.
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Maybe we workshop story and they go off and do it on their own, or maybe we've are in the publishing process through the whole thing, taking them from start to finish.
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So hundreds from Dubai to the Netherlands, to Australia, to Canada, to California, to Texas, to different parts of Texas, to all parts of Chicago where you're at.
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So all over the globe, to a lot of people in New York, pennsylvania, where I'm from.
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Yeah, it's just, it's growing and, um, hopefully, and when it grows, they get more opportunities and meet new people that are supportive.
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And, uh, it seems like the I want to jump in with this.
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When I started in motivation and encouragement and inspiration and positivity 20 years ago now it's 20 years, you know it's probably prior to that, but it was considered corny Like when you said these words, people thought this guy, what's his problem?
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This is weird.
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This is.
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It's toxic positivity.
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No, it's just, it's not that, it's it's.
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I want to live in a world where people hold the door open for people.
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I believe that if we put out good stuff and talk about what it was like being bullied, that maybe the next generation won't, maybe the next person will think before, maybe they should have a little talk with their kid before they go to school or something and say, hey, why don't you back off or why don't you go sit by that kid at the playground, and maybe you'll learn something and you become friends because you both play chess or whatever it is.
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So that's what I got.
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And you've also written a book too, and you know, I know you said you came out with a prior book and that's where you learned a lot of lessons, because you had sold away all your royalties and are signed away rather all your royalties but you also have written a more personal book.
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So can you tell us a little bit about the book you wrote that was more personal to you and your family, sure and I have written multiple business type books and but the one you speak of is my Name is Sharon and I started.
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My mom had Alzheimer's for about a decade and her Alzheimer's collided with the global pandemic.
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So here we are, divided, struggling.
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I didn't necessarily write at first for it to come out, or it was more cathartically writing and then, as I write one, there was so much going on in the world and during that time, so much going on with the family and my mom's journey.
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But I wrote it probably for me at first, and then I realized maybe, maybe sharing something like this could help, and I and I had editors.
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So let's be clear about something.
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I had editors come to me after in the middle of it once.
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I was like this is ready for them.
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I I had editors say I don't get it.
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This timeline is, it's all off.
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And so here I am.
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That's helped people write books for 15 years.
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At that point I still needed the help.
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So I took their advice the editors gave me and they were right.
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The timeline was off.
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I was being too cute, jumping around too much.
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Then I went back, workshopped it more and rewrote it and now it's in.
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It's called my Name is Sharon.
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It's in traveling libraries.
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We wrote a screen.
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We adapted it into screenplay and we're continuing to try to share that message of oh, when your loved one's going through Alzheimer's, any disease like that, you're not alone, because there's other people out there struggling just like you are, and there will be good days and you'll make it through.
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And hopefully that's a message we can share.
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Dominic, that's such a beautiful story and a beautiful way to honor your mom and you know, I could tell that this is also a very and understandably so, a very emotional piece for you.
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What part of that story, when you wrote, what part of that story really stood out and pulled at the strings of your heart.
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Thanks, sonia.
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Well, one thing I'm always reminded of to this day is I had a mom that loved me so much and when I was little and had this big gut and I had teeth that stuck out of my mouth and I was really skinny and my body was weird and things like that, and I talked like I still have a strange voice.
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Imagine having this voice when you were in first grade kindergarten.
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So my mom always loved me to death and supported me and told me I was handsome, told me my voice was like a rock star, whatever, and so that support is what really stood out to me and so directly and it's a story I start to book with and I start the screenplay with as well as although it's adapted, so it's a little bit different.
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There was a time I was sitting in the parking lot, my mom ran into a little convenience store.
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This was when they were like in the bottom of houses and things in the 80s.
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I'm about playing with uh, hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy wrestlers in the car and my mom goes in, leaves me in the car.
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It was a different time right Windows cracked.
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I'm in there, everything was good, and some kids come up and they start messing with me outside the car.
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They're probably teenagers and just saying mean things and cruel things like teenagers do, saying mean things and cruel things like teenagers do.
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And it turns out, you know, one of the kids ends up spitting on me as my mom comes out, you know, spits through, and my mom is in the car when this happens, like she has now come back and sees the kids kind of around the car and my mom, who was the sweetest woman ever, like her hair might have been on fire.
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So these kids ran off.
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Maybe they knew they had done wrong at that point, and the kids pedal their bikes and go the other direction and my mom weaved through the little streets of my town, down the little streets that houses on both sides, and all of a sudden got to a park where the playground was, and ran out, talked to the kid and, you know, ran through his teenage friends and went and got the kid and the kid came up.
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After speaking with my mom, the kid came up to the car and apologized to me and so my mom supported me like that.
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So I think in the fibers of my being, I have a duty to support other people like that, to fight, like my mom did, for the people that maybe can't always fight for themselves.
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And so my dad he taught me how to twist arms behind back and I mentioned I worked for him and he was top in all those things.
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So two different people that really laid a strong foundation.
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So what can you say to people right now?
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You know that may be going through, because there are, you know, much more cases of dementia, alzheimer's that are popping up and many more people are living with a parent right that's going through Alzheimer's, dementia, dementia what, what kind of encouragement or advice can you pass on to people who are right now in the thick of it, kind of like what you know, using what you went through with your mom?
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What kind of pieces of advice and what hope and inspiration can you pass on to people right now?
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hope and inspiration can you pass on to people right now.
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The first thing I would cover with that is your loved one is still in there.
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They're in there when they forget a little bit.
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They're in there.
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Later on if things progress and and they forget you completely, they are in there and you will get moments.
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And so for me over the 10 years it was all about those moments and at first I realized that my mom had basically like a plant room at her house, a glass plant room, and if I could go there about two o'clock on a normal afternoon for the first couple of years, I could get a glimpse of my mom.
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I could go there about 2 o'clock in a normal afternoon for the first couple years.
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I could get a glimpse of my mom, I could get some conversation where we could have a comfortable place where she feels safe, where the environment is controlled.
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People with Alzheimer's tend to do better for longer, so for years I was able to get more moments in that one spot.
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When I say they're in there, I mean don't get mad at them, they're there, they're there, they're deep.
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Every once in a while you'll get that moment.
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The next message I want to share, based on.
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That is when you were a little baby.
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Your parents I'm going with that, a parent has this dementia your parent loved you.
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They held you, they hugged you, they changed your diapers.
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They loved you unconditionally.
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And when you spilled a drink, they didn't get mad at you.
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When you didn't drink all of your bottle, they didn't get mad at you.
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When you didn't understand what they were saying, they didn't get mad at you.
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When they talked to you and they said I love you sonia, I love you john, I love you dom, I love you, and you couldn respond, they didn't get mad at you.
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And when you cooed and cawed, they were still there for you.
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So now, when the roles are reversed as your loved one changes, when they don't respond the way you want them to, well, the love's supposed to be unconditional.
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You still love them, they're still that person, they're still there, and prior they had given you that unconditional love, with no judgment, with no expectations, and now it's your time to reciprocate that.
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So those would be how I would start, sonia.
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And thank you so much for sharing that, and I'm sure that many people could benefit from hearing this.
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In what ways?
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You know going through the experiences you went through with your mom, and you know developing this passion to also want to defend other people from being bullied, because I know that that's a very strong passion for you.
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In what ways do you think that affected you and your role as a father, as a husband?
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Seeing people that are marginalized, seeing people that are bullied, seeing people that are left behind.
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I would hope, as a father, that I'm led by example, or a husband or a son that I've led by my best example, that maybe someday my children, when given the opportunity to lend a hand to somebody at the grocery store the person in the cart that can't reach the top shelf, or the person at the local store when the curb's too close, when the sidewalk and curb are too close and they can't open the door the whole way because they're in a wheelchair I would hope that my children will step up and do what's right.
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My answer to this is and this is something I believe deeply is don't look away.
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It's easy to wait for the next person to lend a hand when the turtles cross in the road or whatever.
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You see a straw that's going to end up in the lake, it's easy to say somebody else will pick it up.
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But, to the best of your ability, give what you have and don't look away.
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If you can make a difference, even if it's a smile holding that door, whatever, do it One person at a time.
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Yes, yes, and that's you know, I full heartedly agree with it, and I full heartedly agree.
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You know our world would be a lot better if we could just be kinder to one another.
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You know, I believe in that wholeheartedly.
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And you know, and it seems like you did a really good job in imparting all of this, you know passing a lot to your children, and it seems like you know you've done a lot of work behind.
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You know, trying to set an example for others.
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I mean case in point right, even when we look at your publishing company, motivation Champs, right, you know, you're always posting something positive, you know, and even on your social medias, so what, um?
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So what exciting things are you up to now, though, dominic?
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Like, what, um?
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What can people look forward to um from you in, let's say, the next year or two?
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you know, Well, always exciting things at at Motivation Champs, just trying to figure out how to share stories in new ways.
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Bigger, grow them like Sonia's doing an audio book coming out soon.
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I just signed a producer in Hollywood that's a director producer that's putting out a new graphic novel.
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There's new authors always coming in teachers sharing their story, business people sharing tips, and then, of course, I'm always out filming something or writing something.
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So I just pitched a pilot to somebody the other day and we continue to.
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I believe in all this inspirational content.
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Let's get it all, and so I hope someday that I can control or have.
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I want more of it, I want all of it.
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And somebody says I got this idea and I think it could inspire people, I think it could make a difference, I think it could elevate humanity.
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I want people to say, well, motivation Champs does such a good job with that type of content.
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You should take your content to there, because I believe if you guys work together, wow, you could probably take it to the next level.
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And so that's where I'm the space, I'm in the headspace, I'm in.
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That is so amazing and I'm really so happy and excited for all that you have going on.
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And apart from that, you know I think you forgot to mention that you also do bikes and hikes correct.
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You're still filming, yeah bikes and hikes.
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We still, we still film.
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So I have I have a show that's on regional cable.
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It airs in about 10 states for Armstrong.
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They pick me up in a van a lot of times and we go out and explore on and off the trails of Western Pennsylvania and part of that, sonya, it's a similar message that right outside of your house, on where you've been before this road you passed a hundred times, there's probably something pretty special right there, so get out and enjoy it.
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And that's the message there.
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So it's very, very similar to the message of motivation champs.
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It's just another way to share.
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So me and a buddy who's kooky, my buddy Dave Fedor, we go out and do wild things and have a lot of fun and try to highlight special places.
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And also you're doing Creative Con.
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Man, you are doing good at this.
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Yes, creative Con.
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I'm a big believer that in today's world, all these things that we've talked about today we talked about video, we've talked about media.
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We're on a podcast that's on YouTube, a show right now.
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So, all these things in today's world, if you believe that a podcast, a book being on radio, that doing better video could help your business, could help your brand, that's what CreativeCon is all about.
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Creativecon is a community where, if you believe now you could do things like they've been done, like they were done 60 years ago.
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But if you believe that your business, your brand, could benefit from understanding technology a little better, understanding this microphone a little better, understanding how to message in 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, a little better, then maybe our community, the CreativeCon community with Julie Loken, where Sonia was on that stage last year, then it's the place for you.
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