Posi Podcast with Leo Clark

It is said there are two or three pivotal moments and pivotal people that define our direction in life. In this episode we meet the most important person in Leo's journey- his wife and soul mate. Key lessons here: You will meet your key moments and people when you are out participating in the world. That one person IS out there. Once you find them, do everything in your power to be worthy! To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

One of the most important aspects of living a life of positivity is choosing who you want to be around. In this special episode, Leo invites us into his inner circle of influencers, and chats with Kaaren Hall. Kaaren talks about the people and organizations that helped form her positive outlook, and discusses the path of positivity, which is not always smooth.  Leo and Kaaren agree that their circle of influence is one of their greatest assets, and discuss the sometimes difficult decisions necessary to keep on the path. Kaaren Hall is CEO/President of uDirect IRA Services, LLC. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo climbs out of the abyss after losing everything in his life, and wonders how to rebuild. With the help of his sister and people who believed in him, he begins the journey. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.  It REQUIRES a positive mindset to fight the feelings of failure. Get up. Brush off. GO AT IT with intention. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo has put alcohol, drugs, and other vices behind him. He is climbing the corporate ladder in Hawaii, and life is looking good for him and his fiancee. But he feels the pull of something more. They return to San Diego, get married, and build a life together as Leo buys his own business franchise.  To his surprise, he becomes consumed by the money, and becomes unbearable. His wife leaves, and he quickly loses everything he had worked for. This episode gets intense. Things get dark very quickly, and the story involves alcohol and a very long blade. But he still has one person in his corner. Find that one thing. Reconnect and nurture it. You are worth it. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Years have passed since Leo, his brother and his sister were abandoned by their father at a hotel in Los Angeles. Now he receives a phone call from his sister. Their father is dying and wants to see them. Even though he spent years raising himself without a father, and then worrying that he is BECOMING like his father, Leo leaves Hawaii to visit his dad in LA. Calling on the power of positivity, he begins to understand why things have gone the way they have. And he learns how to deal with the situation. Sever from the toxic. Move forward with positivity. Let go with forgiveness. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

After seeing that a diving career is no longer in his future, Leo goes through a period fueled by alcohol and womanizing, and marked by arrests for drunkenness and grand theft. At a dark point, he realizes he has become his father, the man he despised for having abandoned him. He commits to a new positive path- by sheer determination, he will not become his dad. You have a choice to call on the power of positivity. Make that choice and opportunities will appear. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo Clark and Rotty Garcilazo grew up in parallel universes. Leo created his approach to life at a young age, growing up in foster homes in Los Angeles. Rotty grew up in Chicago, and developed his method of street hustle. Both found the value of committing to a life of positivity. Rotty is a house rehab and flipping expert, sharing his methods with audiences across the country.  The takeaways- success starts with a foundation at a young age. Experience builds confidence. Confidence builds success. And take action. Follow Rotty at www.therehabdepot.com To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

In this episode, Leo shares some thoughts on life and achievement.  It's easy to look back and connect the dots to see how you got where you are now. Looking forward there are no dots. The best plan is to CREATE dots for the future by taking action.  Whatever you're passionate about, do it! Take action now. You don't know where that decision will land you in 20 years. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

The celebration for Leo's new career adventure is interrupted by a maniac doing donuts on the lawn and headed for the crowd. Leo intervenes, with some nasty consequences. The injuries are truly a test of his positivity.  In life, you must invent yourself, and often, reinvent yourself. Assess, adjust, and continue to move forward. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

To help provide for his family, Leo pursues his dream of becoming a salvage diver and welder by joining the Navy. To achieve this he must leave his wife and baby at home, and move to San Diego, and then go out to sea. Time spent in Africa broadened his world view. The discipline of working toward his diving chit made him stronger. Yet life on the ship was mixed with antics with his fellow shipmates.  It looked like Leo's goal was about to happen for him! To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.  

In this episode, Leo discusses another tool that helped him during his early life. The power of letting go releases you from all the people who have an opinion about you and how you should live your life. It serves no purpose to have derogatory opinions brought in to your being, so... let it go. If necessary, cut them loose.  To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.  

During any life journey, we see the events that are going on in the person's life. But at the same time, there is a wild current of internal activity. Leo shares some of the things going on during his journey that helped him. In this episode he talks about the power of believing in yourself. Self-belief is one of the most important tools you have. It is not arrogant. It keeps out self-pity, victimhood, and the voices of naysayers. There's no silver bullet or instant secret. This is a daily practice of choosing the positive. It is learnable, and regardless of your life circumstances, believing in yourself will help clear the path to success in life. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.  

Leo finds job opportunities in Salt Lake City. At the age of 21 he becomes the youngest store manager for Southland Corporation. He learns to manage a business, manage people, and how to build a customer base. On the personal side, alcohol takes hold, whether carried from his parents or because of his hard partying friends. Bring a new wife and baby into the mix, and it's time to make decisions and choose a path. Leo is intrigued by a welder friend who tells him that the best way to learn the craft is as a Navy salvage diver. So he heads to San Diego to enlist and learn his skills. He uses tools that have helped him in the past: -Look forward -Plan -Keep the end in mind -Be all in Let the power of your words make the neural connections to wire your brain to the goal. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.  

Riding bulls in a rodeo, you hope to stay on for 7 seconds. Leo starts his new life in Salt Lake City, and it is a white-knuckle thrill ride. He becomes a rodeo cowboy. Learning the ropes from a fellow construction worker, Leo spends a summer on the circuit. And he shares the secrets of learning a new skill: -Find something you want to do. -Find someone who is doing it. -Ask them to teach you the basics. -Jump in and start doing it. Exercise your connections. You never know what's going to happen until you get involved. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

As Leo Clark leaves Los Angeles, he looks back on the past 20 years and the lessons learned. -Being a victor, not a victim. -Making conscious decisions and deciding on a path. -Deciding what you want, and what you don't want. -Assessing, adjusting, and moving forward. Join 20 year old Leo as he steps into his wide-open future. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

A New Years Eve car crash with a group of friends is a wake up call. Leo decides to make a fresh start in Utah. Using the same "assess and adjust" strategy that has guided him since childhood, Leo builds a new life and reconnects with friends from the past. "When you hold back, the path is never presented to you. Take that step." To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo's final foster home in the rich neighborhood of Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, creates a new way of looking at things. He realizes that he will be aging out of the system, and while his friends are preparing for a college career funded by their parents, he needs to develop his own life skills. He decides on his goals, and prepares himself to be self-sufficient, reliable, and works two jobs to get money to start his new life after high school.  "You are what you decide to be within yourself." To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Alcoholic dad takes Leo and his brother and sister out of the foster homes to live with him, drives them to a seedy motel in Los Angeles, and disappears. A new and surprising chapter starts. New choices must be made. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

We have a lot of self-talk going on when dealing with loss, challenges, drama, and the actions of others. In this episode, Leo talks about how your words can literally form neural connections in your brain, and these connections impact your self-confidence and outlook on life. Through techniques like NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and by actively choosing your words, you can wire your mind for success. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

"You are greater than the sum of what you have experienced so far." Leo took time out from a 3 day seminar he was conducting in San Diego to come to the studio for a chat with Paul Finck, the Maverick Millionaire, a man committed to having a positive impact on family, friends, and everyone he meets. Everyone has a different background story, but Leo and Paul have come to similar conclusions about how they want to live their lives. This episode is definitely a good time! To join the members-only Facebook group, "Posi Podcast Listeners", visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo's two half brothers are killed at a young age, as a result of choosing a negative life path. He decides he needs to make a different decision for his life. Sometimes the neighborhoods and influences are so strong it's hard to not join the negative. After moving from Palm Springs to gang-run neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Leo tries to choose what's going to be best road, asking "what do I want for me?" He relied on his technique of "assess and adjust", hoping to survive until he ages out of the foster care system, when he will be "kicked to the curb." With each move to live with his alcoholic dad, foster families, neighbors, and strangers, he has to create a new life for himself. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

By sixth grade, Leo was joining his friends in breaking into laundromat coin boxes. Since a young age, he had felt the desire to make money, but now was faced with answering the question, how do your desires fit with who you want to be? With a total lack of nurturing or guidance on the part of his alcoholic father and his father's various girlfriends, Leo had to make a life choice and also commit to the welfare of himself and his young brother and sister. And he had to learn to take action on these commitments. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

10 year old Leo and his siblings move to Lakewood in Los Angeles with their alcoholic father. They soon find themselves without electricity, and depending on stealing food from grocery stores.  Leo learns to discern what he can and can't control, and how to assess, adjust, and adapt to what life brings his way. He learns what you CAN have an impact on, and decides to rise above circumstances. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

When you choose a life of positivity and self-confidence, you will encounter resistance. The world is all about quantity. YouTube, TV, social media, they're all about big numbers and viral content. Usually that involves DRAMA! Positive self-talk will rewire the neural networks in your brain, as you assess and adjust to each day's situations.  Choose. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo moves to Palm Springs, where his only friend is his bad-news half-brother, who is a thief. He goes down this path for a while, and makes a decision about his direction in life. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo learns from his dad that if you want anything, you have to get it yourself. He and a friend have success at a young age with a creative venture at a local golf course. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Leo and his young siblings are in a foster home in a rough neighborhood, and he is taught to stand up for himself by a loving black family. The dad also happens to be a Golden Gloves boxer, who was a devotee of Cassius Clay (later Mohammed Ali).  To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.

Host Leo Clark had a difficult childhood. He and his younger siblings were born into a troubled family, abandoned by their mother, and raised for a time by their alcoholic father. At age 5, Leo and his brother and sister began their journey through the foster care system. This brought them to 17 different neighborhoods into the foster homes of white, black, Mexican, rich, and poor families. Leo realized at an early age that the best way to ride out the years until he could age out, was to develop confidence and a positive outlook. In this episode, Leo talks about this podcast journey into his life. To join the members-only Facebook group, Posi Podcast Listeners, visit Leo's page https://www.facebook.com/leo.clark.11 and request to be added to the group. He will let you right in! This podcast was produced by Studio C Creative Sound in San Diego CA.