Business Innovators Radio - Interview with Leo Climaco Business Acceleration Specialist Discussing His Book, Align & Unleash The Way to Your Truth-The Path & Principl

Episode Date: September 7, 2024

Leo is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, podcaster, coach, and mentor with a profound commitment to empowering others. As the founder of Behaviors of NYC LLC and Alpha Force LLC, Leo’s journey began in Brazil, where his humble beginnings instilled in him a relentless drive to succeed. Growing up in New York City, Leo pursued his passion for IT networking, gaining invaluable experience working with prominent billionaire families. This exposure to elite business practices and leadership skills set the foundation for his entrepreneurial ventures.Behaviors of NYC LLC, co-owned with his wife, is a pioneering therapy agency specializing in in-home and in-school behavioral therapy for children with autism. Over the past six years, the agency has established itself as a cornerstone of the New York City community, collaborating with the Department of Education to provide essential support to children and families. Leo’s dedication to improving lives extends beyond his therapy agency; through Alpha Force LLC, he offers a transformative coaching program designed to help entrepreneur family men align their lives for personal and professional success. His Leo Climaco Podcast, available on YouTube and Spotify, serves as a platform to share insights on entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal growth.Learn More:https://behaviors.nyc/https://leoclimaco.com/https://Alignandunleash.comInfluential Entrepreneurs with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-leo-climaco-business-acceleration-specialist-discussing-his-book-align-unleash-the-way-to-your-truth-the-path-principles

Welcome to influential entrepreneurs, bringing you interviews with elite business leaders and experts, sharing tips and strategies for elevating your business to the next level. Here's your host, Mike Saunders. Hello and welcome to this episode of Influential Entrepreneurs. This is Mike Saunders, the authority positioning coach. Today we have with us, Leo Clomaca, who's the business acceleration specialist. We'll be talking about his book, Align and Unleash. The Way to Your Truth. Leo, welcome to the program.

Hi, Mike. How are you? Thank you so much for having me. I am so happy to be a part of your show. You know, I'm excited to talk to you because I am a book reader. I read voraciously, so I am looking forward to reading your book. And I love when you hear titles. And it just makes you go, what's this going to be about?

And you see or notice action words. You know, so a line is an action. word. Unleash is an action word. And what are we aligning and unleashing the way to your truth? So I'm really, really looking forward to talking to you in this interview series about your book. Get us started with what is the purpose behind the title. What is the overview of what you're communicating to your readers? That was a beautiful introduction. I really appreciate that. And yes, I feel like we live in a time where a lot of people don't take action, which is why the title is so action-based. And, you know, we live in this world of fake news and fake news and everyone having their own

truth. But what is the real truth? What is the reality? What is your truth? So I think everyone is struggling with figuring out exactly what their truth is and what their purpose is and why they're really here. So, and I was there myself at one point in my life, you know, where I was just lost, confused, going down the wrong path, not knowing exactly what my purpose was or what I was really about, not really understanding who I really was,

not really aligning with my truth. So that trickles down into other, um, parts and different aspects of your life. I call them the four pillars, which is your body, your being, which represents God, balance, which is your family, and your business. These are the four pillars that make up a man. It's his alignment with his body. What is he eating? How is he working out?

How is he taking care of his temple? Two, what is his alignment with God? What is his relationship with the higher self? What is his level of faith and commitment to the word? Three, family. How is his love life? How is his marriage? How is his sex life?

How is his relationship with his kids and his wife and his parents? and all that trickles down to your business. Because if there's one thing that I learned is that if you're not aligned with yourself, with God, with your family, you can only make so much money. Yeah. For you to expand and grow,

you must be in full alignment. And that was really the purpose because I had to discover all of this on my own and figure out how to align. myself within these four pillars. And obviously I've had great mentors and great coaches in my life that have really guided me and helped me. So I thought it was time for me to take all the knowledge I've learned and all the experience that I've had and package it into a book that can help other men align and unleash and come

into their truth. I love it. And I think that it's very curious that if you were to stop 10 men who are entrepreneurs, business owners, on the street and say, what is your biggest motivator in life? It is to increase my business, to do well in business.

We're all type A plus plus. It seemed like, you know, many men are. But I find it's interesting and really refreshing that you're putting business at the very bottom of that list. Because when everything else is really firing on all cylinders, then the business is going to, it's going to trickle down into that. So talk a little bit about

why business, you know, while you do want to increase your business, why all the other pillars need to be addressed before business? Because when you are in the pit, when you're in the place of despair, overthinking, when you are not aligned with what you should be. Meaning, if you're going to McDonald's three to four times a week and you know that that's not good for your health, but you keep doing it, you are not aligned. I think I heard someone tell me one day. It was a priest. He told me that people misinterpret what it is to sin.

A sin is to miss the point. It's to miss the mark. It means that you are not understanding what is being asked of you and you are taking advantage of that and you are doing what you're not supposed to be doing, which means that you're missing the point of the assignment. You're missing the point of what your purpose here is. So when you're in this place where you're depressed, anxious,

when you're overeating, when you're not working out, when you're fighting with your wife, when you don't have a harmonious relationship within certain aspects of your life, your business cannot flourish because you don't have, the bandwidth to think. You don't have the bandwidth to create. You don't have the energy to go and produce because you're too worried about other aspects of your life that are unaligned. You may not realize that you're carrying all this energy with you, but you are. And if you are not in a harmonious place with your wife, for example, a couple of days. A couple of days

ago, me and my wife, we were having a disagreement. And it was really bothering me. And I couldn't think. I couldn't work. Like I had to go resolve this problem. I had to go get a resolution because I was unable to move forward because I was too stuck on that problem. And that happens to all of us, which is why understanding how to resolve these issues and how to get through them because we're always going to have these issues, right? We're not immune from them. It's all about how you handle it and how you deal with it. And how you handle it and deal with it and resolve it has application to body,

being, balance, and business. Exactly. You know, in chapter one, you talk about the pit of poverty. What defined the pit of poverty? Because I know that if you were to say, you know, here's what the pit of poverty is. You might get 10 or 12 different perspectives of that. But from your perspective, what are you teaching in chapter one?

What actually is the pit of poverty? So a big misconception about the pit of poverty is that it's only money related. Oh. And poverty can be many things. Poverty can be your mindset. Poverty can be your habits. You can have, poverty is a state of mind that you put yourself in that traps you, that keeps you in a box, keeps you in a frame that won't allow you to unleash. So when you are at this pit of poverty, everything else is to blame.

Everything else is wrong. You want to disconnect from everybody. you want to go sedate yourself. That's when you start doing drugs, gambling, women, whatever your vice may be. It's a trickle-down effect because you want to marinate in your sorrow when you're in your pit.

Therefore, you are vibrating at a complicated frequency. I'm not going to call it negative. I'm going to call it complicated. And when that, yeah, and when that habit continues to become something that you do very often, and you start spinning and you start losing yourself and you start losing your soul, because the further you get into the cycle, the further you go down the pit, the more you lose yourself. So here's a question for you. I think that's a aha, the misconception that the,

pit of poverty is only money, but in reality, you can be in poverty in many different areas of your life, like you mentioned. For sure. How can people become aware of those areas that they may be in poverty? Because I would venture to say that if someone was given a survey and said, are you in any poverty in these areas of your life, it would be like, no, no, no, no, no. Well, how can you guide someone to become more aware of areas in their life that they may be in poverty. Great question.

The best way to analyze if you are in poverty in any aspect of your life is to see if there's anything that scares you, that you are preventing from doing, that you know you must do, that it's going to lead to a better outcome on the other end. So we are masters at doing this as humans, right? There are so many things that we know that we have to do. There are so many things that we know are going to better our lives if we do it, but we don't do it. We prolong, we procrastinate, we have anxiety over it.

We create stories in our head over it. And we just don't do the work. we are scared to do what's hard, we are scared to be uncomfortable. The moment that you, the moment that you realize that doing this makes me uncomfortable, that's exactly what you must be doing. And clearly, I say this if it's a positive thing for you to do, right? I'm not talking about doing something negative or stupid or dangerous. What I mean is if there's something in your life that you know that is going to better

your life and better your progress and it gives you anxiety and it makes you uncomfortable and it gives you fear. That's exactly what you should be doing. That's pretty amazing. So can you think of any specific strategies? Now that we have become aware, what are some specific strategies that would be good to implement this? And maybe think of an example as well. The first thing that you must do is step two feet into your truth.

What is my truth? What is my reality currently and be honest with yourself? Where do I stand? What is my current situation? What are my current resources? What is available to me? Where am I now? And then you must analyze how do you feel about this reality that was just presented to you?

How do you feel about your truth? Let it marinate. And then it's time for you to figure out what's working in your life and what's not working. out of all the things that you are currently doing, the current state that you are in, your reality, what is working, what is not working, make a list, write all this down. Step two, make, create a vision of where you want to be. Design your perfect scenario. of where you want to be. How do you want to live? What do you want to drive?

What type of schools are your kids going to go to? What's your address? What neighborhood? What are you wearing? Visualized that life. That much detail. Down to that much detail. Yeah.

Wow. And then we reverse engineer and we figure out exactly how to get, how to make that dream a reality. You can never achieve any goal without first understanding where you are. What is your truth? Yeah, where are you now? Where do you want to be? And how do you get there?

And once you, I would venture to say that once you get that plan put into place, that leads right into your chapter two, the peak of prosperity because now you're, you see where you're headed. So talk a little bit about the peak of prosperity. What does that mean? What's the definition? And how should we be viewing our own peak of prosperity? I think the biggest misconception about the peak of prosperity is that there's one peak. No, there are many peaks. There are multiple peaks.

Life is a roller coaster of pits and peaks, pits and peaks. I think another misconception about the peak is that you'll be on top forever. you'll never be on top forever. Yeah. You must understand that it's a valley of peaks and you're not meant to stay on top forever. You are meant to eventually go to the bottom of the next level and start your growth process again.

And maybe that word picture of the peak is when you get to that first peak, you can see so much further, you see the landscape and then maybe that reveals the next step of the journey to get to the next peak, which might be a little bit higher. But in order to get there, you might have to go down a little bit into the valley to get on the right path to get back up there. So it takes work. But like you said, it's not just one peak and I'm done.

It is a series of peaks. You took the words right out of my mouth. The point of the pit is to allow you to learn and realize the mistakes that you, you made to fall off the peak. That's the point because you will fall off eventually. No one stays on top forever. So once you fall off your peak, you're going to go back into your pit and make sure you learn your lessons for the next peak. And then once you fall off the next peak, make sure you learn the lessons about why you fell off that peak. Go back into your pit, restructure, and keep going. The issue is most people don't like to live this way.

They don't see life. They don't enjoy seeing life as a never-ending roller coaster of pit and peak, which is why most people are the same people they were 10 years ago and they haven't really evolved. They are not allowing themselves to grow because they're not going into their pit or they're not coming out of their pit into their peak. You know, that's really interesting because I've heard the old saying, you know, do you have 10 years experience or do you have one year of experience 10 years over? Very well said.

That person with one year of experience 10 years over is not working on personal development, professional development, learning from mistakes they've made better in themselves. And so I think that that is such a powerful concept of, seeing where you are now where you want to be getting to that initial peak of prosperity. And the definition of prosperity might not even be monetary or revenue based. It might be that feeling that, you know, again, getting back to those pillars, that prosperity is going to be a definition of your body, prosperity. You're being, you balance your business. So I love that peak of prosperity mindset.

Yes. It's one that especially you being in a. entrepreneur. If you give yourself that title, if you call yourself an entrepreneur, you better be ready because it's a roller coaster ride in itself being an entrepreneur. And if you don't understand the concept of pit to peak, you will not be a successful entrepreneur. Can you think of an example of someone you've worked with or even in your own life where you recognized a peak of prosperity that led to the next peak of prosperity and what you did with it? Of course. I've always tried to learn from every situation.

That was still in me at a young age. So I've always been able to take failure and make it a learning lesson for myself. Like many entrepreneurs, right? I have had many failed businesses, many. but the experience of these failures allowed me to create a flourishing business today. I think without the lessons from the pit, we are unable to keep moving forward to continue to create at a higher level. I almost lost my company three different times during COVID. And because COVID happened so fast and I own a therapy agency for kids with autism and we do a in-person service.

So during COVID, everything stopped in person. So we had to quickly shift to a virtual model where we're now doing Zoom calls with a club, with a child and having to involve their parents and having to find a way to continue the same type of learning and teaching that you can do in person virtually while not being paid by the state because the state stopped working during COVID. And all these lessons that I learned of having to go out and find lenders and find money and ask my mother-in-law to borrow money and having to go through all my savings and having to fight and scratch and claw to keep my company alive, all these lessons that I was learning that I was being challenged allowed me to understand how to be, malleable, how to shift quickly, how to adapt, and I know that I have what it takes to handle the fire when the heat gets turned up. So these are all valuable lessons that you learn while you're battling through your pit. So persevering through those lessons gives you resilience, which I would venture to say lead right into your chapter three power.

Because when you can look back at these lessons and see you got resilience and you persevered, that gives you a nice feeling of power. So talk a little bit about chapter three's topic, the principle of power. There's a great book called Power versus Force by Dr. David Hawkins. And he talks about how there's two. different types of forces that you can apply to get what you want. You can apply force. Force is what dictators apply, right? Force is what it's basically leading with fear and leading with commands and leading with aggression. You're basically using your power, I'm sorry, using your force, using your innate nature to make somebody else do what you want.

That's you being forceful. When you use power, power demands respect. When someone respects you, when someone finds you honorable, when someone finds you honorable, when someone is a good judge of your character, that gives you a level of power, also known as influence, that allows you to persuade with ease or talk into or teach or guide or guide or mentor. And that gives you more of an authority. It gives you more of footing to stay because you are leading with your power. You're leading with your energy, with your influence, with your knowledge. You're not being forceful. So the principle of power is something extremely, extremely important because once you come into your truth, there is no more hiding.

There is no more faking. You are by coming into your truth, by understanding where you can be, by wanting to build a bridge to connect that pit to your peak, you must shed everything. It requires a transformation from you. You will not be the same person at the peak that you are in your pit. It requires a transformation. It requires you being reborn. it requires a death and a rebirth of who you are at every single cycle of pit to peak. And if you're not able to come into your truth, you will never have the power to grow and lead.

You will never have the power to align with source. you will never have the ability to unleash into who you should be. You know, I feel like power can be either push or pull. And you're saying that it's more of the pull. You want to be that leader that draws people. And people might feel like having powers that forceful push, which is a misconception. Can you think of a specific strategy that you would recommend to become

aware of developing your power in the right way? A forceful leader does have power, but his power comes from force. His power does not come from the nature of his aura. His power does not come from his connection with source and his alignment with the truth. It's completely different. You can completely feel the difference. It's basically comparing the devil and God. That's how drastic I would put it.

Because the devil is trying to tempt you. He's using forceful tactics to try to tempt you every single day. And when you come into God, there is no you don't feel like you're trying to be manipulated or forced it's natural it's beautiful it's aligning it's comforting so to me that is really the biggest difference and that really um is what helps you wake up realign and help yourself grow and build a bridge between your pit to your peak. I love it.

And then that leads to chapter four, the path of production. So once you have identified your pit and where you want to go to your peak and develop your power, talk a little bit about what the path of production is. The path of production is the next step of your evolution. So you've come into your truth. You have realized where you are and who you are. You have felt that truth. You've understood the power that that truth brings you.

Now, what are you going to do with it? How are you going to take this new knowledge, this new lens, this new frame that you have? How are you going to take that and turn it into actionable steps? How are you going to take that and turn it into something that can be beneficial to you, that you can allow to catapult you into that next level? So this is where you get to work. This is where you start making a plan. This is where we start to reverse engineer and connect the next.

dots of every single step that you must do for you to achieve that peak, right? This is where the tactics come in to implement the strategy. Exactly. Exactly. 100%. And as we, as we go further into this, we built out several peaks, right? We built out your main peak could be five to 10 years from now. we'll build your peak three to five years from now, a year from now, six months from now,

whatever it may be, right? And then we will create steps for you to achieve things for you to do that are going to account for steps for each single peak because they're all connected in some way or some sort, right? So what needs to be done by you on a daily, weekly, monthly basis for you to achieve your three months, six month, 12 month, 18 months, 24 months, five year, 10 year goals. So it makes me think of something. Now that you get excited going, I'm ready to implement these tactics to achieve my strategy, right?

My peaks. I'm going to get there. How do you keep from grinding versus blowing in your production? Because we can all work 27 hours a day. And then you get imbalanced and all your other things, all your other pillars get out. of whack. So talk a little bit about how you keep from grinding versus getting things done in a nice blow. So most people can really only be productive between three to four hours a day. This whole notion, this whole idea of working 10, 12, 15 hours a day is really only for a very,

very, very small percent of people who have this innate ability, it is not for everyone. Studies have been done. Most, the average person is only productive between three to four hours a day. So the best way to be productive is to understand that and to create a detailed calendar that allows you to live by your calendar. and you then take that timeline that was created, we broke it down, we reverse engineered it into smaller steps, into yearly, monthly, weekly, daily steps, and we add those steps to your calendar.

And we schedule them in. And we figure out a slot that you're going to be the most productive during the day. and we carve out one to two hours during the day for you to work on what needs to be worked on for that day, for that task, for you to accomplish that peak, that next peak. You know, I feel that many times when I hear concepts like this from an author like yourself, they come out of you making the wrong decisions in the past. Mistakes even. Talk a little bit about what you used to do in working, you know, not working efficiently.

And once you implemented these prime times and locks of time to work, what that did to your schedule and your mindset and actually your whole self. because I feel like once you started implementing that, it could be the switch between night and day. To be successful, I think most people's path to success is trying every wrong way until they figure out the right way. Right. I think that's really probably most people's ways. Mike, I'm sorry. Can you repeat the question? Sure. What did you do? in the past that was the mistake. And once you did put these things into place,

what did you notice that the benefit was? Perfect. So I've made many, many, many of these mistakes. And I used to get extremely frustrated because I felt like I was always losing time. I've always felt like, man, there's never enough time in a day. Never enough time in a day.

Until I realized that, no, everyone has the same amount of time. I am just not using my time properly. I needed to find a way to get into flow, which is how I came across this research that showed me that it's actually from the flow research company. And they showed me that most people are only productive three to four hours a day. and they taught me this system that allowed me to be extremely productive because I'm I used to be someone that I used to always double book. I used to always have multiple things planned because I was so unorganized and I wasn't aligned and I wasn't flowing through things.

I was just throwing things in the wall and seeing what sticks and not really understanding how I was navigating or where I was going. Didn't have a plan, didn't have a purpose. I didn't have a ultimate goal. I was in reverse engineering things. I was literally just trying things out. When you start, like most people, I come from very humble beginnings. And I didn't have anybody in my family who was an entrepreneur or who had any, success at any level.

So I'm really the first in my family to really achieve a lot of these things. And it took my perseverance. It took my drive and determination to want to succeed to really go out and grind and really try and error, try and error and really fail until you fail so many times, you figure out the right way and then you eventually write that down and you keep going. I love it. Well, I tell you, Leo, it's been really. eye opening to see your vision of this book, the four pillars, body being, balance, and business,

and the four sections we just talked about here, poverty, prosperity, power, and production, and how all of those fit together to start working on all of these pillars and to take that life that you envision and bring it to reality. I think this is just so powerful, and I'm looking forward to people engaging and implementing the principles that you are putting together here. If anyone is interested in learning more and picking up a copy of the book, what's the best way that they can do that? You can go to my website at leoclamaco.com. You can also go to align and unleash.com. You can also follow me on Instagram at leoclamako.com. Both of those links will be on my

Instagram. And I thank you for your support. Excellent. Leo, thank you so much for coming on today. It's been a real pleasure talking with you. Thank you so much, Mike. I really appreciate you giving me this platform to be able to share my book and to be able to share my knowledge with others. I really appreciate you. You've been listening to Influential Entrepreneurs with Mike Saunders. To learn more about the resources mentioned on today's show or listen to past episodes, visit www.com.com.com. EntrepreneursRadio.com.