# Sam Demma on Kindness, Journaling, and Turning Setbacks into Purpose

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Podcast: [Click and Tell Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/click-and-tell-show-7141699)
Published: 2026-03-26T18:53:49+00:00
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## Resource

Sam Demma joins Click & Tell to discuss living with purpose through service, leadership, and storytelling, sharing how a soccer career-ending series of knee injuries led him to a teacher’s “small consistent actions” lesson and the creation of a trash-picking initiative that evolved into school speaking. He explains his heart-centered approach to moving people emotionally across writing, speaking, comedy, and acting, and details his journaling system of writing during strong emotional moments as a therapeutic release. Sam reflects on defining happiness through joy, meditation, and relationships, recounts lessons from skydiving about setting deadlines, and highlights key projects including his books Empty Your Backpack and Be Someone’s Taco, a theater launch honoring his grandparents, a self-funded speaking tour in Kenya that raised $13,000 for a school soccer team, and an upcoming Vietnam conference booked via TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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