Dirt Merchants Founder Henning Morales delivers a powerful inspirational speech from the feature film script, The Saintly, at the 2022 Omni Film Festival pre-event. The core principle of this speech is the inherent value of mastering your craft and reaping the lifelong rewards that result.
Henning's longstanding passion for providing motivation, guidance, coaching and mentorship to young people and empowering them to lead happy, productive lives has now become his life’s purpose. His inspiration stems from his personal experiences as a confused seventeen-year-old troublemaker who turned his life around after meeting some high-powered motivational masters who introduced him to age old principles of success and happiness.
Henning is the author of the best-selling novel The Dirt Merchants; a brave, inspirational and triumphant true adventure. Although he is now involved in multiple projects including books, public speaking, events and films, they all share the same central theme as that first novel - the direct coaching of ‘kids’, and the coaches, parents, aunts, uncles, teachers and "other kids" who influence them. He defines kids as young people (just getting out of school), or people of any age who are young at heart.
In 2016, Henning turned his attention to transforming the themes from his keynote speeches and characters from The Dirt Merchants novel into a film franchise. Twelve films in the series have been completed to date, and each of them delivers an unique action-adventure, musically charged and transformationa experience. The Dirt Merchants Film Series has been a smashing success, garnering more than than 20 awards and official selections in a limited film festival run. These films have been called a cross between The Breakfast Club, The Sopranos and a Tony Robbins seminar.
Henning is also co-founder of the Youth Mentorship Forum hosted by the Upward Bound Mentorship Program at the University of Southern California. The forum was founded to directly address the issues impacting young people today and to assist them in overcoming the specific challenges they face. It brings together experienced, successful leaders who are committed to support their communities by mentoring young people looking for guidance to grow in a healthy, safe and successful manner.
