Zion Clark: Breaking the Limits of Human Potential

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Management, Business

4.6 • 215 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Zion Clark is no stranger to overcoming adversity and taking on challenges. The extreme athlete, entrepreneur, and author joins us to share his journey of becoming a renowned wrestler and elite athlete, despite being born without lower limbs. Zion emphasizes the importance of perseverance and working hard even when no one is watching. He shares his perspective on gratitude and encourages listeners to be grateful for every breath and opportunity in life. Building Exceptional Leaders in Uncertain Times: During uncertain times, people look to their leaders to reassure and realign them toward their most important goals. These four critical behaviors help leaders motivate and focus their people on what really matters, even amid uncertainty, stress, and burnout.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on Leadership with Scott Miller
0:17.5	where each week I am privileged to sit in this studio and interview some of the world's
0:21.8	most renowned thought leaders, business authors, business titans, people that had done amazing
0:27.4	things they have persevered through remarkable life challenges to bring to you their insights,
0:33.3	their lessons, their motivation to continue to have you be a great leader. Perhaps it's as a
0:38.5	formal leader inside of your organization or perhaps informally inside your family as well.
0:44.5	Franklin Covey is the world's most trusted leadership firm. We're now in our fifth year of what
0:49.2	is the world's largest weekly leadership podcast, both audio and video. And today our guest is Zion
0:56.0	Clark. You know him as an extreme athlete, as an entrepreneur. He is the author of the book Work
1:02.0	with What You Got. You probably recognize him from his countless television interviews,
1:06.9	including the Ellen DeGeneres show, NBC Nightly News. You probably have seen him on America's Got
1:12.8	Talent. He's joining us today from a boat off the coast of San Diego, Zion Clark. Welcome to On
1:18.8	Leadership. What's up, man? How you doing? Well, we're honored to have you here. Zion, we like to
1:25.6	interview people from all walks of life from people that have like I said in my opening, you know,
1:30.5	I've had remarkable educational journeys and have written scientific discoveries and we learn
1:35.6	about what those mean in our lives. People that have survived airline crashes. People that have
1:39.9	survived being kidnapped and raped and tortured. People that have had celebrity and talk about
1:46.0	that, you know, success was not as easy as it looked. And today I'm honored to be interviewing
1:51.1	you to talk about your own journey. You are the author of the book Work with What You Got. I'm
1:55.9	going to guess most people recognize you either by the video or by your name as someone that was
2:01.5	born without your lower limbs and you have through enormous triumph and perseverance overcome for
2:11.0	a lot of people, unrelatable odds and have gone on to become a renowned wrestler, elite athlete,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FranklinCovey, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FranklinCovey and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.