Hey badass personal growth warrior!

Are you ready to empower yourself to break free from the fear cycle and step into your fullest potential?

This summer, Phenom Publishing invites you to commit to your SELF by:

🔌 Unplugging from external chaos

🙋🏻‍♀️ Taking radical responsibility for your life

💪🏻 Reclaiming your personal power

🌟 Rediscovering your spiritual nature

First Recommandment:
I shalt not claim victimhood.

Here’s how the Ten Recs Summer Challenge works:

Dana Sardano has created an amazing contemplation journal to help take your personal growth to the next level. Read about a recommandment in her book Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment and then answer the corresponding guided questions in the Ten Recommandments Contemplation Journal, and complete the exercises to gain a deeper sense of understanding into your own personal growth journey.

Complete the challenge by August 31, 2025 and get Dana all to yourself for a free, virtual, 30-minute intuitive guidance session to review what you learned, to ask Dana questions for even deeper insight, or, Dana’s favorite, to show off how much you’ve grown since starting the challenge!

Accept the challenge and commit (to yourself) by filling out this form. Dana will be sending motivational emails once a week until the challenge is complete, so be sure to opt into receiving marketing messages.

We’re with you every step of the way!

Tenth Recommandment:
I shalt not live in fear.

Fifth Recommandment:
I shalt not settle for anything less than my general contentment.

Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment

Book One in the Ten Recs Trilogy by Dana Sardano

DESCRIPTION

Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment (Second Edition) 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.

“Dana’s…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

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Published November 2022

  • Formats: Paperback, eBook, Audio Book

  • 5.5in x 8.5in (13.97cm x 21.59cm)

  • 250 Pages

  • Paperback Retail Price: $15.99 USD

  • eBook Retail Price: $2.99 USD (Free with Kindle Unlimited)

  • Audio Book Retail Price: Starting at $14.99 USD

Ten Recommandments Contemplation Journal

Created as an accompaniment to Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment, Book One in the Ten Recs Trilogy, written by Dana Sardano

DESCRIPTION

After writing Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment, Dana Sardano quickly realized that sometimes reading the information just isn’t enough. In order to truly effect positive change in your life, you must integrate and apply the information that you’ve learned, and one of the best ways to do that is through interactive writing.

With this newfound insight, Dana put on her teacher hat and created this Ten Recommandments Contemplation Journal to utilize in conjunction with the book. In this journal, Dana offers some guidance by adding open ended questions to assist with your contemplation. She includes some practice exercises to assist with your integration. She throws in some “hot tips” to keep it interesting, and she wraps it up with a beautiful bow of insightful quotes. Ready to effect some positive changes in your life? Grab yourself a pencil!

Specializing in personal empowerment and spiritual development, Dana Sardano helps people cut through the chaos and find purpose.

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Published June 2025

  • Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

  • 7in x 10in (17.78cm x 25.4cm)

  • 88 Guided Journal Pages

  • Paperback Retail Price: $18.99 USD

  • Hardcover Retail Price: $24.99 USD (perfect for on-the-go contemplating!)

What Readers Are Saying

  • “This book screams volumes for every walk of life. To the teenager that wants to feel empowered and learn early on, to the single parent who has dealt with life's bumpy journey, to the successful artist who just needs some clarification on life. It made me cry, to feel vulnerable, as if the book was meant exactly for me. Dana's book is a must read.”

    ~Miss Marie

  • “A book for anyone searching to understand why they are the way they are and how to heal and move forward in a healthy and empowering way. Dana's personal stories are beyond relatable, and she writes in a way that you feel you are having a 1:1 conversation with her. This book has ignited memories that I completely buried over the years and has given me a sense of understanding my behaviors, so that I can learn from them, let go and grow! Thank you Dana Sardano!”

    Tara G.

  • “This book is eye opening! Powerful! A must read if you want to transform your life!”

    ~ Kimberley C.

  • “After reading 'Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment', I had experienced healing, personal growth, and truths that I had not been able to see or experience before picking up this insightful read. Thank you Dana Sardano for sharing your story, the steps that you have chosen to better yourself, and for offering your gained knowledge and wisdom to assist others with their own personal journeys of healing and personal growth. Connecting with your stories and applying your “how-to” approach to self-awareness has been the catalyst to my own healing journey. I am forever changed.”

    ~ Laurie B.

  • “Read this book! It takes you on a journey to being your best self. The guidance, insights and wisdom shared in Ten Recs are second to none. I found myself highlighting text at every turn.. Thank you Dana for writing this book. You are brilliant.”

    ~Lisa

  • “Firstly, I adore Dana’s writing style, and I found her life story fascinating! So impressive how she can connect all those dots, patterns, life lessons, limiting beliefs for herself and then articulate so well for others to understand. Having insight of her story really makes the concepts feel relevant and relatable. I couldn't put it down! I read it in two sittings.”

    ~Cristen G.

  • “I absolutely loved the book. I couldn’t put it down. This is the kind of book that you want to go back and re-read and do some journaling. This book definitely spoke to me and made me rethink and reevaluate my life. It motivated me to pursue what I want out of my life and to let go of those past relationships that broke my heart to pieces. Thank you for writing this book.”

    ~Sulay N.

  • “This book is a DEFINITE read for those who are on a honest path of self-discovery and self-empowerment. Dana's raw and grounded story telling provokes deep contemplation of the unhealed experiences we've all had. Ten Recommandments goes even further, layer by layer, to help us grow from this new space of self-awareness into self-empowerment. Thank you for this Life-Changing book, Dana!”

    ~Wendy Bee

  • “I received this book in a time of complete angst with the thoughts of ‘there has to be more than this.’ Since I've read and applied this knowledge, I have been equipped to face challenges with new techniques and perspectives. Allow this book to help you recognize what’s holding you back from your best way of being, and approach your fears in ways that promote growth and empowerment.”

    ~Mattie D.

  • “The insights that I have uncovered from not only reading this book but following the expertly laid out guidance and suggestions is beyond compare to any 'self-help' book that I've ever read. Ten Recs taught me how to be the best advocate for my personal empowerment and wellbeing and also that the answers lie within each of us. I don't need to seek external rituals and practices and therapies to achieve contentment! This is a total game-changer, but it’s definitely not for wimps!”

    ~Angela DiMarco

  • “Dana Sardano’s 'Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment' is a must read for anyone looking to move forward with their life in a healthy and whole way. Her recommendments allow the reader to look at their past experiences with fresh eyes so they are better able to discern the necessary lessons while leaving the emotional attachment behind…where it belongs. Even if you believe you have already “done the work” and put most of your “traumas” to rest, there is something here to be gleaned. As Dana points out, and as many of us have experienced, there is almost always another layer of the onion to be unraveled. Ten Recommandments assist the reader in healing those inner-most layers once and for all.”

    ~Michelle G.

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Here’s why the Ten Recs trilogy is so very important for humanity:

Book One, Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment, delineates the ten tenets of how to become more empowered in your life. It is the perfect book for those of you ready to effect change in your lives.

Book Two, Beyond the Ten, Decoding the Woo Woo, discusses the magic that happens after the necessary changes have been made, while also demystifying the heady and esoteric ways of the woo. It is a great resource for those of you who have found yourselves on a spiritual journey and just want to better understand it all.

Book Three, You’ve Cracked the Code. The Woo Is You!, takes you on a deep dive into the self so you can bring yourself back into balance and create the life that you desire. This book is perfect for those of you who are no longer f-ing around!

“You want to change the world? Stop fighting against what you don’t want and just start being what you do want, and the world will change around you.That’s how you make an impact!”

~ Dana Sardano

ARTIST, AUTHOR, PHENOM—In January 2015, Dana picked up a paintbrush for the first time since her childhood which was the catalyst for a major shift in her career, and in June 2017, she decided to retire from her 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 has since opened Ubuntu Fish Gallery in Stuart, Florida, co-founded Phenom Publishing, and has authored several books for both adults and children, never for a second regretting her decision to take that leap of faith. 

PHENOM WORKS BY DANA SARDANO

The Ten Recs Trilogy:

Book 1: Ten Recommandments for Personal Empowerment

Book 2: Beyond the Ten, Decoding the Woo Woo

Book 3: You’ve Cracked the Code. The Woo Is You!

Ten Recommandments Contemplation Journal

A Woman’s Journey

Veda Finds Her Crown

Me, You, Ubuntu!

My New Brain

I Am the Captain (in collaboration with Angela DiMarco)

Soul Traveler Cards of Empowerment (in collaboration with Ann Marie Skordy)