Welcome! I’m Anthony Damaschino
Seven-time award-winning author of The Empty Nest Blueprint books and a recognized Empty Nest expert. This site is your hub for navigating the Empty Nest transition with clarity, confidence, and purpose — and creating your best “second act.”
I’m also a speaker, frequent media guest, and future author of a psychological suspense fiction series.
The Empty Nest
Blueprint
An award-winning book by Anthony Damaschino that helps couples thrive after the kids leave home. This guide offers clarity, compassion, and practical strategies for navigating the Empty Nest transition together, strengthening your relationship, and building a fulfilling next chapter side by side.
Feeling the Empty? You’re not alone — and your relationship can grow stronger than ever. This award-winning guide helps couples rediscover who they are after the kids leave home, with practical tools, relatable stories, and a clear plan to navigate the Empty Nest years together.
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The Empty Nest
Blueprint for Single Parents
An award-winning book by Anthony Damaschino designed for single parents facing the Empty Nest transition. Packed with research, personal stories, and practical tools, it offers clarity, encouragement, and proven strategies to embrace midlife reinvention and strengthen connections with your adult children.
Parenting solo comes with its own challenges and opportunities — when the kids leave home. This award-winning guide offers single parents practical tools, honest stories, and proven strategies to navigate the Empty Nest transition with clarity, confidence, and renewed purpose.
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My Debut Novel
My debut novel is a speculative psychological suspense story currently being prepared for agent submission.
I’m keeping the details quiet for now, partly because that is the smart thing to do and partly because I enjoy being mysterious more than I probably should.
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Why I Wrote These Books
Hi, My wife and I are Bay Area natives who raised and launched three kids. When the house got quieter, I realized something I had spent years helping people and organizations work through: big transitions are easier when you have a plan.
The empty nest can feel awkward, exciting, emotional, freeing, and weirdly disorienting all at the same time. One minute you’re proud of your kids. The next, you’re staring at a quiet kitchen wondering why nobody warned you this part would feel so strange.
That’s why I wrote The Empty Nest Blueprint books. They are practical guides for parents who want more than vague encouragement. They are for couples, co-parents, and single parents who are ready to figure out what comes next without pretending the change is simple, tragic, or magically fixed by a hobby and a scented candle.
This stage is not just about missing your kids. It is about rebuilding rhythm, purpose, relationships, identity, and connection with your adult children. It is also a chance to create a life that still feels like yours.
If you’re wondering what comes after carpools, permission slips, sports schedules, college applications, and years of being needed in very specific ways, you’re in the right place.
The kids grow up. The house changes. So do you. That is not an ending. It is the start of your next blueprint.
Why People Trust This Work
Both of my books — The Empty Nest Blueprint and The Empty Nest Blueprint for Single Parents — are grounded in research, real-life experience, and conversations with parents who’ve lived it. I blend practical tools, relatable insights, and just enough humor to make the journey approachable, while giving you the clarity and strategies to thrive in your Empty Nest years.
Book Awards for The Empty Nest Blueprint
Recognized for Excellence in Self-Help & Family
- The Empty Nest Blueprint – American BookFest Best Book Award (Self-Help / Relationships)
- The Empty Nest Blueprint – International Book Awards Winner (Self-Help)
- The Empty Nest Blueprint – National Indie Excellence® Awards Winner (Family Category)
The Empty Nest Blueprint for Single Parents – Award-Winning Self-Help Book
- The Empty Nest Blueprint for Single Parents – Literary Titan Gold Book Award (Nonfiction)
- The Empty Nest Blueprint for Single Parents – 2025 International Book Award Winner (Self-Help: Relationships)
And When I’m Not Writing?
I’ve been a guest on more than ten podcasts, sharing insights on Empty Nest transitions, midlife reinvention, and building a meaningful “second act.” I also love jumping into conversations about nostalgia, pop culture, and quirky relationship topics — because life isn’t just about empty nesting, it’s about staying curious and finding joy in the weird middle of life.
When I’m not speaking, guest podcasting, or writing about reinvention, you’ll find me out in nature pretending to be an accomplished hiker, or working on my first novel, which might surprise people who know me only for parenting advice.
Thanks for stopping by. If you’re feeling a little uncertain about this next chapter, you’re not alone. You’re just getting started, and I’m glad we’re on this ride together.