Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Davide Minuzzo. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Davide, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?

There was a very difficult period in my life, orphaned since birth and left alone with my grandfather, who also died when I was still a teenager. My grandfather’s family not only did not support me, but created further problems, ordering me to leave my grandfather’s house and pay all past expenses. I was left without money, without family and without a home, with only my job, but that was not enough to make it to the end of the month. Despondent and without energy, I asked the management to demote me from the position of department head that I had earned by working hard. I still remember today how the director, a certain Fabrizio Pocchiesa, not only refused my demotion, but actually gave me a raise. And shortly thereafter he proposed me for a job abroad in Hong Kong, and it is thanks to that gesture and his humanity that my life changed, finally for the better, and today I have to thank that man and his humanity.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Davide Minuzzo, also known as The Dolomites Master, is an Italian natural bodybuilder, fitness professional, writer, and international manager. He was born in 1974, in a small Dolomites town named Pieve di Cadore – Sottocastello.
Davide spent his childhood as an orphan, abandoned by his parents and temporarily entrusted to his paternal grandparents. Among the various custody hearings in Court, Davide never found a family, thus remaining with his grandparents until their death, which occurred in tragic circumstances when Davide was 16 and 20 years old.
Due to the premature death of his grandmother and the health problems caused by his grandfather’s alcoholism, Davide had to leave his studies with only an Optician Diploma at a young age, starting to work on production lines as a worker and contributing to the family economy. Subsequently, after his grandfather death, he also obtained a High School diploma in Social Activities.
Through the last 30 years, Davide has managed to achieve with his sheer force of will and perseverance unimaginable goals for a person with a simple diploma. In these 20 years Davide has become a recognized international manager, working hand in hand with some of the most successful managers and COOs of fashion sector companies. Davide has worked and lived on 4 different continents, in metropolises such as Hong Kong and Guangzhou in China, Delhi, Singapore, Dubai, and New York where he currently lives with the multicultural family that he has formed in his wanderings between the continents. Davide Minuzzo is also considered the founder of APQP in the eyewear industry, in March 2020 he published an article about in the important Middle East magazine Eyezone. He, as a writer, has also authored several published books. He mostly writes fantasy-based and biography books.
In New York, where he started studying to become a professional nutritionist technician, health-life-mental coach, Personal Trainer and competitions Prep Coach. He won several bodybuilding competitions across aesthetic categories and became the first worldwide athlete over 45 years of age able to win seven gold medals in only one INBA/PNBA World Cup edition and the first Italian over 45 able to win 8 Natural Olympia gold medals through 4 different categories in just three INBA Natural Olympia editions.
Between 2021-22, following the limitations due to Covid and the related travel ban to the United States, Davide Minuzzo interacted with the White House regarding the rights of immigrants with work visas, receiving attention, response, and thanks from the President of the United States Joe Biden for contributing to the attention of the White House to the legal immigrant’s topic. Given the revenge in his life, both on a sporting and professional level, Davide becomes a source of inspiration for young people and people who are experiencing life’s difficulties. He participates in various motivational interventions in schools, sports, and institutional venues to support the management and resolution of social hardship. On December 27, 2023, he received official recognition from the Pieve di Cadore Municipality as testimony to his commitment. On May 1, 2024, in India, the “International Book of Records”, acknowledges his achievements and contribution in the Society and proudly assigns to Davide the “INSPIRING HUMAN” worldwide award.
Davide never forgets the place where it all began, returning periodically to his Dolomites, where he is always awaited with open arms by the entire community. Davide, in addition to having always maintained impeccable civil and social conduct, has always demonstrated the gift of entrepreneurship, through the ability to adapt, knowing how to reinvent himself and showing the correct stimulus as an example to friends, colleagues, Communities, and becoming over time a source of inspiration, mainly for youngest and who affected by life’s difficulties. Efforts always aimed at better social and economic elevation of communities in which he lived, therefore also contributing to the elimination of pre-existing gaps. Recently some friends said of him that “Davide, given his history, was born and raised with the role of being a source of inspiration”.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

I have always followed the 6 rules of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom I have to thank for always inspiring me by illuminating my path, both as a boy and now as an adult they are always very useful. I believe that Arnold also contributed, in my youth, to saving my life. Following Arnold’s 6 rules improved me as a human being and as a man:
1. Trust Yourself
2. Break Some Rules
3. Don’t Be Afraid to Fail
4. Avoid the Naysayers
5. Work Like Hell
6. Give Something back

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

No, if I went back I would not enter the world of optics, it was a necessity due to the country where I was born, there all the companies made glasses, it was the only job option for a worker like me. If I went back I would do everything to be able to enter the world of Fitness, my true love, I would enroll in university to study Sports Science, certainly!

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discipline.nature.fit/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-minuzzo-2167225
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChnrAgZ-nJ1MwI2quf1Dw-Q
• Other: WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide_Minuzzo