Dan Cohen Author of "Awakenings in Real Life"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Dan Cohen as guest to the show.
About Dan Cohen:
Dan Cohen is a dynamic entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience and a deep passion for brand building. Dan is recognized for his strategic approach and ability to foster strong, lasting relationships. With release of his book, Awakenings In Real Life, he tells the story of his dad's awakening from his dementia. When his father awoke, it woke Dan up too. Dan also hosts a podcast with the same name.
About Awakenings In Real Life:
The "Awakenings In Real Life" podcast tells inspiring stories of transformation, meaning and hope. While we typically think of an Awakening as a "Getting Up" or "Spiritual" or "Religious" in nature, an "Awakening" is also an awareness, recognition, or realization of something. Dan Cohen shares stories of people awakening and then triumphing over bullying, addiction, disability, illness, trauma, loss, near death experiences and more.
The "Awakenings In Real Life" memoir was inspired from his father's awakening from his dementia, and the message dad sent that he still appreciated and wanted to live life, an experience that reshaped his perceptions of family, memory, and resilience. In these pages, Dan draws on a lifetime of lessons from his father's humor, toughness, and compassion, sharing family stories of love, inspiration, and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:30.5 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.2 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.5 | here at All home care matters, |
| 0:38.2 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome Dan Cohen. Dan is the |
| 0:44.1 | author of the book, Awakening's in Real Life, as well as a podcast host. Welcome, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:51.2 | Good, Lance. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's our pleasure, Dan. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:56.1 | So I want to start off a little bit and have you kind of give a background to how you got involved in this and what's led you to writing this tremendous book and all the, really, the tremendous work you've now taken on. |
| 1:10.5 | Well, I appreciate that. So my second career, |
| 1:16.1 | as I say, of being an author and a podcast is very different from what I did. Most of my life was I was |
| 1:22.7 | an entrepreneur. I had various businesses. But we had an experience with my father who had dementia that was really remarkable and was |
| 1:33.5 | the inspiration for both the book and the podcast. |
| 1:38.7 | So I grew up. |
| 1:40.5 | My father was literally my hero. |
| 1:43.0 | He was a very loving man. He put his children and his wife first. |
| 1:49.2 | You know, growing up, he told us two messages. One was, as long as you do your best, that's okay. |
| 1:56.9 | And second, whatever you put your mind to succeed. |
| 2:01.7 | So you think those twos are opposite because as long as you do the best, you may not do it, you succeed. |
| 2:07.0 | But he was always encouraging and loving. |
| 2:10.8 | And he was a very big presence in my life. |
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