Introducing Dana Sardano

Dana Sardano, a former high school teacher/administrator, left a 25-year career in education to become an artist and has since opened Ubuntu Fish Gallery, in Stuart, FL, authored several books, and co-founded FinduniquelyU.com.

After picking up a paintbrush for the first time in 2015 since her childhood, in June 2017, she decided to retire from a 25-year career in education in order to fully embrace an artist's life and to model for her daughters the importance of listening to your soul's purpose by following your bliss. She spent two years honing her craft as well as developing her intuition and opened Ubuntu Fish Gallery in September 2019, two years after she took her leap of faith from traditional education.  

Experiencing for herself and offering for others a more creative and spiritual form of personal growth and development at Ubuntu Fish Gallery, Dana has never felt more alive and has made it her mission to help others do the same.

During Dana’s time as owner/resident artist and intuitive at Ubuntu Fish Gallery, she figured out how to merge her greatest strengths—her intuition, leadership skills, educational experience, and artistic ability—and currently guides people to lead more empowered lives through her intuitive guidance sessions, private groups, and written works on that very subject matter.

Her most recent written work, Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment is a loose autobiography written in a “how-to” format that is structured around the life lessons that have led her to her own personal empowerment. Her follow up to Ten Recommandments, Beyond the Ten, Decoding the Woo Woo, chronicles Dana's spiritual journey and leads us to the right here, right now.

Dana has published other written works and inspirational cards, all with the intent to educate both adults and children so that they can empower themselves and work together to create a new self-empowered, unity conscious generation.

Genre: Non-Fiction, Personal Memoir

Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment

Second Edition

Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment is a loose autobiography based on Dana's dysfunctional up-bringing and how she empowered herself and came out the other side. Showcasing this how-to meets autobiographical approach to her writing style, Dana uses anecdotes from her personal experiences, shares what she's gleaned from these experiences, and offers insights on how to work through personal trauma in a step-by-step manner. It's actually pretty amazing! Just ask her.

“Dana’s words flow like a conversation between trusted friends in this engaging and interactive psychological masterpiece. Her raw and painfully honest relatability provides a clear and methodical explanation of what makes each and every one of us tick and provides us with the tools we need to shed the ties that bind.” ~Ann Marie Skordy

What Dana has learned through the process of self-exploration is that our personal empowerment is directly linked to our ability to look within and ultimately recognize that we are all interconnected, and we are all essentially in this together. She’s learned that she didn’t just suffer; we’ve all suffered. Our humanness is based in suffering and this suffering binds us and hopefully teaches us compassion for ourselves and others along the way. What she’s also learned is, at the end of the day, you and you alone are responsible for your own suffering, and when you begin taking the steps toward releasing that suffering, then you will truly feel empowered.

Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment is intended to reveal how Dana has learned to navigate life’s opportunities to learn, grow, and to overcome the more challenging obstacles with more grace and less discomfort than before and eventually even embrace these opportunities and to offer some insight into how you could do the same.

Dana’s hope is to educate both adults and children through all of her writing so that they can empower themselves and work together to create a new self-empowered, unity conscious generation.

Upon completion of Ten Recommandments in 2021, Dana painted cover girl “Chloe”—a masterpiece that beautifully expresses a girl who has become fully empowered. The original painting resides in Ubuntu Fish Gallery.

Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Personal Development, Spirituality

Beyond the Ten, Decoding the Woo Woo

“Dana captivates the reader once again with her deep insight and practical approach to spirituality and healing. This book breaks down concepts in a real-life tangible manner, and her gift of storytelling leaves you eager to learn ‘what happens next?!’ I highly recommend this book for those navigating through their own personal journey.” ~Cristen R. Grajeda

Beyond the Ten, Decoding the Woo Woo, is a part two (of sorts) to Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment for two reasons—one, Dana’s “awakening” primarily came in two parts and two, she wanted to demystify the whole concept of spirituality through her own personal experience of “awakening”.

What Dana has learned up until now is that true personal empowerment, self-healing, and self-actualization come in layers. Also, each layer comes with its own trials and tribulations, its own flavor of how it appears before you, requires its own new and improved skill set taken from the previous layer, and its own brand of rewards once those trials and tribulations are overcome.

This process appears mystical and magical to those who have not yet uncovered the formulas and patterns, but when we begin to peel back the layers of self-protection and reverse our irrational belief systems and toxic behavioral patterns, we begin to see with more clarity and understand the steps that led us to our present circumstances and the path of our desired outcome(s) becomes illuminated by our awareness.

If you find yourself beginning to question all that you’ve been conditioned to believe about yourself and the world around you, then you are ready to unlock your patterns and uncover your formula. As Dana has mentioned repeatedly in Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment, she is always happy to help shine the light and offer perspective through the lens of HER story, but at the end of the day, only you know what’s best for you, and if you are aware and willing and most importantly honest with yourself, listen to your inner wisdom because after all, this is YOUR life—this is YOUR story.

Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Personal Development, Spirituality

Veda Finds Her Crown

Second Edition

Veda Finds Her Crown is a fun and interactive experience for children and adults of all ages. It combines a relatable children’s story with an interactive workbook, giving you, the reader, an opportunity to read, process, reflect, and apply the story to your own life experience.

Whether you are 8, 18, or 88, Veda Finds Her Crown offers you and your inner child the opportunity to playfully look within so you can ultimately find yours.  

The magic of Veda Finds Her Crown is that it speaks to all of us—children, adolescents, and adults of all ages. It especially calls to our inner children, making them feel safe and loved and empowered, finally giving them the space to come out of hiding, rediscover their childlike spirit, and play!

A powerful personal development tool for adults, Veda Finds Her Crown allows us to reconnect with our long-lost inner children that might have gone dormant after many years of arduous adulting. Reconnecting with our true essence empowers and inspires us to rethink how we experience our lives, our relationships, and our children.

Veda Finds Our Crown is not only a powerful resource for our own personal growth and development, but it is also an extremely powerful teaching tool for parents and educators alike. Used in conjunction with Veda Finds Her Crown, Cards for Chakra Empowerment and Personal Development, children are offered a foundation of personal empowerment that sets them up for success and happiness in ALL aspects of their lives.

For information about how to acquire the Veda Finds Her Crown cards for personal use, classroom teaching, and for application in other group settings, go to UbuntuFishGallery.com or FindUniquelyU.com/Workshops/It-Takes-a-Village-School/

Genre: Personal Development, Spirituality

Soul Traveler Cards of Empowerment

In collaboration with Ann Marie Skordy

Soul Traveler Cards of Empowerment includes fifty-six cards designed with beautiful artwork created by Dana Sardano and universal guidance channeled by Ann Marie Skordy, intended to enlighten and assist the traveling soul.

When Dana and Ann Marie met, they became fast friends, intuitively knowing they had a deeper connection beyond the here and now. By combining their creative strengths, they realized on a profound level that this collaboration had something quite special and inspiring to share with the world and each other.

The beauty of these cards is that they speak directly to your soul. There is no “right way” to use them. Pick one or pick ten…let them communicate with you in YOUR way, and most importantly, trust in the messages you are receiving.