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Episode Date: April 6, 2026

A Journey Through Life and History: An Autobiographical Sketch by Radomysl Twardowski

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Today's featured author comes to us from Books to Lifemarketing.com.com. With expert publishing to strategic marketing, they help authors reach their audience and maximize their book success. Continue, amazing young man on the show. We're going to talk about his book called A Journey Through Life, an autobiographical sketch. Let me recut that so we have that right. A Journey Through Life and History, an autobiographical sketch out November 19th, 2024. Rademazil Twardeski joins us on the show.

He's asked me to refer to him as Rando, Rado, no end, Rado during the show. So we'll get into that and all this good stuff. But he is a gentleman who is born in Krakow, Poland, in 1959. He came to the United States in 1983. After graduating from medical school and completing medical residency and cardiology fellowship, he practiced cardiology in 2010, after which he performed wellness evaluations for MEPCOM and Humana until 2015. Subsequently, he focused on the practice of wellness after a successful knee arthroplasty,

participating in long since running events. More recently, he presents on various topics, history, culture, religion, and sports locally and remotely. Welcome the show. How are you, sir? Doing well. How are you, sir? I am doing great. It's wonderful to have you, sir. Give us your dot-coms, LinkedIn, or wherever you want people to find you on the interwebs.

It's radamus Twardowski.com, LinkedIn. Hmm. Yeah. And so through LinkedIn. And then with the book, give us a 30,000 overview of what's inside the new book? Yes, 30,000 mile overview. It started, the idea started in 2021, 22. I felt ready to write a book. And in late 22, through LinkedIn, the publisher, Indigo River Publishing, approached and said,

hey, we think that you may have a little story to tell us. So we would support your project. And that's how it started. And I started writing in January of 2023, pretty much finished with my first draft in June of 2023. So that's a brief version. Should we go a little more or that's enough for now? That's enough for now.

Let's get an idea on how this works. And what prompted you to want to write the book? great question i think i reached that age where one wants to take a stock of his life and and see what's going on i was always a bit of a historian compiler if you will human compiler and the bookkeeper and another another reason was that i lost contact with my family my my wife and children and there was a lot of distance between me and my children. So I felt that maybe I should address that book to them, to try to reconnect, to bring up our past, to tell them that dad was an important part of their lives that he counted in their lives.

So that was one of the main reasons. And I also had a lot of good memories of all the trips that we took in our younger years, all the trips to mostly to Europe, and so wanted to put it in one little volume. All in one little volume. So far. So far. So you've got this a book, you put it out, and you're hoping that it reaches out to your family. How'd that work with your family and reaching out to them through the book?

So far, a bit of moderate success, I would say. Send author copies to them, but had fair. very, very little feedback, but feel that long-term approach is needed here. There's a Latin expression. I'm not sure if I can come up with Latin real quick, but the drop chisels the rock not by force, but by steady gripping. I can almost say in Latin, but I don't know if it's necessary here. But that's how I would approach it and see if they, yeah, they read it. When did you start and finish?

the work and how did you do the writing? Was there a pattern you use? Some people write an hour a day, some people, you know, bulk write. How did you, when did it start? When did you finish and when did the, how was the writing done? Yes, I started in January of 2023 and finished the first draft draft in June or July of 2023. So it took six months and I just used my Lenovo computer down in the basement and was able to commit myself to an hour, solid one or two hours a day. There was a minimum number of words that I wanted to put in to complete, maybe at least 300 or close to 500 words because there was a lot of editing. I'm forgetting how many words we ended up with 65,000 words. I think that was the editor's suggestion and demand, and we didn't want to go over 200 pages to achieve that.

Yeah. Not other people read long books anymore. It's all about the short books. Good, good point. Absolutely. It's unfortunate, but I don't know. It makes for more books. You know, a lot of people write books now.

And like for me, I basically wrote two books because that was 100,000 plus. And they're like, yeah, I just need 50,000 in it. So you just do that. And off your run. So it works pretty. well. The other question I had for you is what were the challenges and consolations that you had to do in the process of writing? The challenges, oh, just to compose the developmental editing part, how to organize everything. And then maybe more than the developmental editing, there was a line.

editing or copy editing that is style to get my style to be satisfactory for a mostly an American reader and then the grammar and syntax so these these things took a lot of editing but so immediately I would say that the consolation was to have three great editors I remember my developmental editor and line editor and copy editor very much and they helped me all three ladies help me with it very much. So that was a challenge and and solution but very close to each other coming one after another. Yeah, it sounds like you. Now with this you taken right about yourself, do you recognize yourself now in a younger version of 50 years ago?

Very much, I mean the basic characteristics are the same. I try to be very exact, and reasoning and find a reason for everything. And I'll try to pursue the better sides of life, of course, not being immune from weaknesses, foible falls and sins. And the human race has. But of course, I have different interests now. When I was younger, I was very much into sports, being a sports fan. And now I set that aside a little bit and focus a little bit more on, you know, religion, history, politics, relations, things like that.

You know, in the book I write a lot of how a big fan of the Poland national football team I was. And lo and behold, Poland lost to Sweden two days ago in a big playoff. And I kind of shrugged it off. You know, I shugged it off. In the past, they would have pained me a lot. But I said, okay, I have to shrug it up. I have more important things to do. It's early Thursday.

It's Easter. It's only Thursday. Interview with Mr. Chris Ross. Yeah. Focus on that. It's only Thursday, people. It's only Thursday. Yes.

That's good. We're a priority. Yeah, we want people to do that and make us a priority when they show up. Now, as things changed as you've written the book, have you second-guessed yourself in some of your life choices? you made over time? Not much. I hate to sound a little, maybe odd,

but I felt that my life is probably everyone's life, your life too, and I would like to learn more about your life one day. Honestly, need to do more research. It's the most boring book you're ever going to read. No, I need to read it. I need to read it. So what is it? Is it about your work or about your life?

It's kind of both. It's just a collection of stories. I think there's more book, though. will come out of my work in my life, but as the first book. But yeah, enough about my book. We're here to sell your book. And, you know, my audience is they already heard all my bullshit anyway.

So now you mentioned, I just want to clarify this, who's the book primarily addressed to? And you mentioned that, you know, someone was to reach out to family, but who does your target on this book? I think people interested in

history, mostly recent history, through the focus of central European history, because I think those years were very important, 1970s, 1980s, and the solidarity movement, martial law and Poland, solidarity movements. People interested in history and how everything changes, how life changes,

how there was a mighty Soviet Union once, and now it's no more, and then all the countries went through many transitions, and so, yeah, I want people to appreciate that everything changes, and we don't need to be set in our previous, former ways, but discover the meaning of the change and maybe a purpose of where it's all going to. You know, it makes the difference in the world. What do you hope readers come away with when they read the book?

I hope that they look at someone like me and they are looking at you a lot too, but they will look at someone and say, it's possible to redefine ourselves, to change, to stay true to yourself in your core. I am, you know, I am just still very attached to religious understanding of life, but but but we can redefine ourselves re-fashion ourselves and and and that we we will not be defeated if even if we go through horrible challenges abandonments betrayals disappointments we will not be defeated unless we we accept accept defeat and and give up but otherwise we can always

re-model ourselves and find a new purpose in life, just like I did. I mean, I want to say a little bit about my transition from medicine to those other things that I'm doing now. I'm not sure if we have time now or you will get back to that, but in my mind that in my childhood I started maybe went into medicine quite a bit by the example. and a little bit of a pressure from my dad, my beloved dad, who was a very scientific-minded person. But my grandfather was a more religious-religiously-minded person, maternal grandfather. So there was a little bit of a tension in my life.

How to really organize it? Should I pursue more of a religious, but oriented career? But that's a lay person. as a church historian or someone, but or I should look at life more from a scientific standpoint. So I think I went ahead initially with my father's nudging, but I think after I turned 55, it all came back to the roots. I started to discovering the deepest, my deepest identity, and that's why it just kind of went a little bit into this direction of more, you know, humanity's history and all that.

So that's how it was. And does that link to your question? Yeah. Most definitely. Yeah. I can see how that played through for you and all that good stuff. Yeah. So can you think of something that you wrote about in the book that you would want to go back

and revisit, add, edit, maybe something you wish you'd done done or maybe you wish you'd have done more of? Great question. I wish I was a little more open with my weaknesses, you know, with pursuing things that I should not have. It's always tough to write about it to make a public contention like that. But, you know, yes, there were weaknesses and one had to come back to sobriety. I wish I was a little more open.

I have to admit that I acted under a little sort of self-imposed pressure to get this book done, to finish it, to publish it. Who knows? So that was one thing. And the other thing is that that element of pressure caused that I missed one or two camps, those childhood or, you know, high school or early medical school era trips with friends that I could have added. And also little things like mixing up a little bit sequence of, let's say, of the cities we visited. But this is probably minor but in that sequel of the book i will try intelligently to weave the those those missed trips or something like that and make it sound look like it looked like it was all planned so things like that things like that let's see what else that i have up here on the on the deck i wanted to ask you

about so what are you working on now is there future projects or books coming out or anything like that. So I am privileged to be on your show and I really mean it. This means a lot to me. Thank you. We're glad to have you. Yes, my pleasure. Without you, I'd just be talking to Mike and my audience to be like, do you have anybody interesting who can come show up, Chris, and talk? Who is that answer yet? Okay. Without you, I would just be babbling into the mic and my audience would be like, hey, Chris, do you have anybody really interesting? Maybe that can show up and

talk this gentleman no you have they're all sick of me at this point every day they're like oh god it's another cruise was story it's all it depends how we approach it and yeah right but we need we need some changes in yeah but so anyway so that that is one thing and there is that disrupt HR 26 in Sioux Falls coming up in a couple of weeks. So there will be a condensed talk on conformity versus nonconformity. How to kind of swim with the tide. Should we swim with the tide or should we swim against the tide? So that's what I'm excited to think of presenting in a couple of weeks with my good, dear friends in

Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Ah, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Anything more we want to plug on the show before we go out? I think that that's pretty much it. I thank you for having me on Holy Thursday, which means a lot to me. Yeah, it's a memory of Jesus washing the feet of the apostles and instituting the Holy Eucharist. And that leads us to Easter really soon through tomorrow's passion and death and then resurrection.

So it means a lot to me. It's a perfect coincidence. I'm just grateful, and I hope to stay in touch with you and your team and your show. Thank you. Thank you. Give us your LinkedIn as we go out so people can find that on the interwhips. Yes, find it now. We'll put a link for it on the Chris Vos show.

So it's just your name on LinkedIn, basically? I would think that if people, okay, if people type in radomisle hyphen tordowski hyphen m d hyphen m d hyphen mba i guess these are my two titles m d hyphen m b a slash lincoln i think they will find me on lincoln right away there are some numbers after this and i just forgetting these numbers now and I don't have them in front of me. No problem at all. What we're going to do is we're just going to, I just added you on LinkedIn. And what we'll do is we, I've got the link right here. So what we'll do is put that link in on the Chris Foss show.

People will have found it. I was easily able to find you because you got a great unique name. And you came right up on the LinkedIn search. So there'll be a link for that on the Chris Foss show, folks. Appreciate that very much. Appreciate it. I appreciate it too. Folks, order up the book where fine books are sold.

you can find it there. A journey through life and history. An autobiographical sketch. It's out November 19th, 2020, and interesting times that this gentleman lived in, and you can hear some of his insights and experience and things he learned, so maybe you won't make the same mistakes as well.

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