Savio Clemente, a two-time cancer survivor, knows how to lead through disruption. Despite his own challenges, his list of achievements is impressive: keynote & TEDx speaker, journalist, best-selling author of I Survived Cancer and Here Is How I Did It, board-certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC, ACC). We met through an interview on Authority Magazine a few years back. He was a guest on my previous podcast, the Intuitive Revolution in Business, and I am delighted to have him again.

In this interview, Savio talks about how we can lead when things don't go according to plan. His first encounter with disruption was when he was admitted to the hospital within hours of getting a sonogram after his naturopath recommended getting one after seeing something strange in his blood work.

He finds out he has stage 3 blood cancer and is taken on a wild ride of chemotherapy. He finally achieves a complete response and is cancer-free for ten years. What Savio learned from that first experience is that he didn't live to his full potential.

In June 2024, the cancer is back. Savio finds out through a routine appointment due to feeling slightly congested nasally after a trip to India. This time around he tries everything from ecstatic dance to internal family systems. Stillness is what taught Savio the most. He dove into the medical experience of a stem cell transplant, remaining in the hospital for 29 days as a spiritual exile. "The central question was no longer, 'How can I be resilient?' It was, 'How can I be adaptive and ride the waves of the experience?'"

What Savio learned from these experiences is that performance doesn't fail first. Clarity does. And clarity can only come from within. Most people mistakenly believe that solving the crisis is the work at hand, whereas Savio believes what happens after the crisis is more important. He offers a framework that he calls the ALOHA Reboot.

Find out more about Savio on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and his website.