Amy Giaquinto

 Screenwriter, Writer, Blogger, Filmmaker, Consultant,
Entrepreneur, Mom, and Mama Fix It™

Now for the Fun! Interesting Facts About Me...​

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• Every day, I find some way to give back to the community either through volunteering, mentoring, setting up meal trains for families in need at our dojo, making meals for those who are going through a difficult time, checking in on a senior or someone else who is having a difficult time, helping friends and family navigate the medical system, picking up random trash and dog poop bags in the neighborhood and on hiking trails, making charitable donations, and showing my kids, our family, friends and community, through action, the value of service and how important it is to make a mark by leaving everyone and everything around you in a better place. 

• I'm a health and fitness expert and spent a couple decades as an ACE, NFPT and YMCA Personal Fitness Trainer, Aerobics Instructor, Youth Strength Training Instructor and health and fitness journalist who has written for the following print magazines: Family Times, On Fitness, NFPT Personal Trainer Magazine and more. I've also written for several online health and fitness publications.

• I wrote a book, The Secrets of Successful Lifetime Weight Loss, which I may rerelease soon.  

• I spent several years as a motorsports journalist and was a contributing writer for RacerX Illustrated both in print and online. I also wrote for a variety of other motorcross-related websites.

• I started and ran the website, MXINTHEUS.com, which pioneered a motocross gear donation program and an online resume system used by racers to find sponsors and vice versa.

• I was an amateur dirt bike racer who earned the #2 plate in the State in my class. I gave up the #1 plate because I had a press pass to go to Vegas to cover The U.S. Open of Supercross. 

• I sat next to Bono and his guests at The U.S. Open of Supercross and didn't recognize him. I didn't grow up with cable TV. Fortunately, my husband did... 

• In Irvine, CA, my husband and I became volunteer members of the Community Emergency Response Team where we learned disaster response skills and how to provide support to First Responders in disaster situations.

• Once upon a time, I was a Search and Rescue Explorer and First Responder and often provided medical support to boy scout troops during klondikes.

• I was a Support Group Leader for the Denver Tourette Association of America Support Group for over 2 years. 

• I spent a lot of time working as a quality assurance tester/quality assurance engineer for several different software companies and am still to this day wondering how I earned an "engineer" title.

• I recently earned my red belt in American Freestyle Karate. This is my third attempt to earn a black belt in martial arts. 

• Despite being incredibly physically active, I live (often in secrecy) with chronic pain, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, fibromyalgia and a host of joint issues that often knock me flat for a few days or weeks or even months. My personal mantra is: To move, you have to keep moving and so that's what I do. I keep moving until I can't, then as soon as I can, I move again.  

• Being an expert user of the medical system, I'm 50,000 words into a book about my experiences and the incredibly helpful lessons I've learned in almost four decades of navigating our broken medical system. Be sure to stay tuned in to my website and/or social media channels for updates...