Oh my goodness, everyone. Today you are truly going to hear a heroic story about how, number one, your life can change in a second, but most importantly, how you can thrive through anything.

Today's guest is Francesco Clark, and he is the owner of Clark's Botanicals.

But his story of perseverance is so powerful, and I just want you to sit back, relax,

and get ready to be ultimately inspired.

Somebody says, oh yeah.

No, no, no. What's up he's better than Oprah come on you're up this is Sean T and it's time to trust and believe.

I want to jump right in because the listeners of trust and believe they love just success stories and more importantly they love just the internal success story of people having to dig deep because a lot of people,

as you know, they wake up every single day and they're unable to find that strength to move

forward with whatever's happening in their life. So while I want to cover so much, I kind of want to start with the day,

if it's okay, the day you dove into the pool, because I think that's just, you know, kind of a

defining moment for people to hear about. Yeah. And we all have, you know, days like that as we live our lives.

There are these days that as they're unfolding, we know that we're going to remember them for the rest of our lives.

And they start to define our path forward.

So I was working, I was 24 years old, working at Kondonast magazines, and then

went over to Hearst magazines, and I was working in the fashion department at Harper's Bazaar.

And I was an assistant in the editorial department, and I was living my perfect life.

I was assisting with shoots that Madonna Stylis is working on, that I'm going to all the

New York Fashion Week shows, understanding what it means to have a vision of something and

make it come true.

And I was there for a year and made a lot of

friends, was promoted. And the day that I was promoted, it was Memorial Day weekend. So that Friday,

I went out to Long Island, to the Hamptons, to celebrate, but also I had a Summershire

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