Vegas De Laroja is a publisher, international motivational author, actor, director and video producer for The Cowboy Whisperer on Your Home TV (Kathy Ireland Worldwide).
“I invented myself when I was 24, when I lost the girlfriend I loved in a car accident. Like everything, the dynamics were tragic. Luckily I wasn't there. Even if for a while I would have said “unluckily.”
Her last words were, “Hey honey, see you later.”
That ”later” turned into a "never again" and led to years of personal, psychological and social tribulation.
For a decade I was a taciturn, solitary, attentive, serious man for those who wanted to define me in one way. I hardly let myself smile, have fun or anything else.
Perhaps the first two years I was still looking for her in my days, at every moment. The house that we wanted to have so much did not even exist in my thoughts anymore. Everything slowly and inexorably vanished.
Even the memory was gradually buried by commitments that I created for myself, studies that I undertook, trips that I took.
From America to England, from France to Italy, passing through Spain and then ending up in Slovenia where I decided, after many years, to open my own advertising company.
I never felt truly reborn - even though I lived extraordinary experiences far and wide throughout the world.
Today, I remember my and her common passions - Harley Davidsons, travel, nature.
I have created a lifestyle out of all this for 25 years now, extrapolating from my experience and my tears of despair all the positive things I could have in every corner of my feelings for her, for me and for my own life.
I have only recently gotten closer to God, when five years ago I decided to hang up my helmet and wear the American Cowboy hat, an object that has accompanied me since I discovered Wyoming State.
I began to study America not as a tourist but as a person enraptured by his own passion.
I rediscovered certain values such as family, friendship and community in a remote place in Texas.
I have worked in publishing for a long time, selecting everything that for me represented inspiration. Ranches, stories, anecdotes, western culture, environment, fauna, flora, horse and livestock breeding in general.
I have been fascinated by American vintage, by Anglo-Saxon culture, by the Nordic influences that from Canada or Northern Europe still flow into the farms and barns of North America.
From Ireland to Scotland, from Norway to Denmark, from Germany to Italy.
In America you find everything amalgamated and all this has been for me “distraction and personal growth” as well as professional and spiritual growth.
Between Texas, Maryland, New York, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico I can say that I have been able to meditate deeply with the help of the Native American culture that puts spirituality first. And meditation is helped by the most remote and magnificent places that there can be or that you can imagine.
Today I look at my past in a more mature way.
I was reborn with Ally, a wonderful woman who gives me love in a completely different way.
I am currently a television writer for Your Home TV, thanks to two special people who wanted to discover me: Sean Stockell and Domenic Melillo.
I ride a Harley Davidson to special places, I have two old American cars from the Golden era, a Chevrolet and a Cadillac with which I discover characters, stories, anecdotes that I tell through a television format called: The Cowboy Whisperer.
Cowboy because a real cowboy falls and gets up again, dusts his pants a little, puts his hat back on and proudly stands on his horse moving forward as if nothing had happened. And metaphorically speaking, he represents resilience, perseverance, the positive stubbornness that every human being who never wants to give up should have.
Whisperer because my life, my emotions, my motivation are whispered through stories of other times, inside extraordinary places wrapped in nostalgia and the power of the past.
All this projected for a future where I want to assert myself again by bringing around the American culture of other times - expressing the charm of a timeless lifestyle, creating literature, arguing and discovering ever more passionate stories and highlighting experience as a life teacher, as a source of inspiration and motivation.
There is no desire without a dream and you cannot dream anything without a desire. If one of these factors is missing you are not balanced and you become standard.
Dreaming, desiring, aspiring, progressing, growing are not part of optimism but of that healthy desire to live a wonderful life.
I chose to honour life under an American Cowboy hat.
Yippee Ki‐Yay.
