In today’s inspiring episode, Garth talks about breaking down barriers and shares insights into his own life experiences and passion for seeing that spark in young peoples eyes and helping them to succeed.

Your life is your own and the things that you dream about are possible if you push and keep going, you need to make mistakes on the way to success. Everyone has issues, hang-ups and fears. But you need to give yourself permission to be who you are and ignore all of the shackles and negative thoughts that try to hold you back. Don't live with anxiety, be yourself and make a change and you will leave a legacy and live the life that you want to live.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

A lot of people have the fear of doing something wrong, but you need to understand that not everything is going to go right and when that happens you retreat, regroup and learn to make the next attempt better.

Take your dream. Cultivate it and go where you want to go. Embrace the systems and start now, create a product or service and market it, drive your sales and grow your business, starting now.

Whatever you see you can be, but there’s a process in between and that starts with a decision, each and every day.

BEST MOMENTS

“Don’t live like a shrinking violet and talk a lot without doing a lot”

“Change your life into the life you want it to be and catch up with the real you”

“No success story is plain sailing all of the way”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

Welcome to the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast. In this episode, Garth challenges the view of labels on young people and the dichotomy between why they call our young people gangs when they get together and socialise in a way that other groups do too.

Bankers, MP’s and Sports Teams are all groups of people, who share the same code of conduct, share the same ethos and act and behaviour in a similar way. They even dress the same, so why is it when applied to young people we label them as ‘gangs’?

Garth asks you, what are you doing to help the youth and make it better?

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

When other groups gather together and have their own code of conduct we do not label them in a certain way. Other groups meet together, dress the same and act the same, but we do not judge them or view them with a particular stereotype. Groups such as MP’s sit, talk and discuss, it’s a closed community an isolated group that others aren’t allowed in. Bankers and MP’s have caused some of the biggest problems to our society, things that aren’t in the best interest of the public and that are damaging to us, but we don’t label them as gangs. Nobody is looking to put bankers behind bars, they have destructive behaviours too, in fact, their even better off after causing financial problems to our society.

People need to act and take action and if you give them nothing to do, that will lead to bad or illegal behaviour. There’s a different truth to what is being taught at school, they’re being set up to fail. It’s not the way the world is and we have a responsibility to educate our youth. So be better, learn more and teach our youth that they are a valuable asset to society and they’re not the worst part, they’re actually the best part and if you can be the best version of yourself you can be, that benefits everyone.

BEST MOMENTS

“We need to stop labelling our children and our young people because they're listening. If you label someone something for long enough they’ll start to believe it.”

“Inside these groups, they have their own interests and things that they want to do, it’s a closed group of friends, like any other.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

There’s a genius inside each of us ready to be unleashed. Do you believe that?

On this episode of Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, Garth promises to help you find that inner genius to finally make use of it, take on every obstacle and snatch every opportunity that comes in your life. Once you’ve made it surfaced, you’ll be amazed where the journey can take you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

There’s a ‘genius’ inside of you. We just don’t know how to accept it and cultivate it. It’s the same genius you recognize from the people you admire or idolize.

Have you felt that overwhelming glow and warmth of achievement? Of course, you have even in the littlest. If you try opening up the genius as often or as consistent as possible, you’d get that feeling every time. You’ll be happier, richer, and more successful in life.

Think of it like winning the Olympics. Success is waiting for you at the finish line. Your medal is waiting be awarded to you on the podium. You’ve done the training, all you have to do is get on the track and get to the finish line. If you finish 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on, what do you do? Run again.

Have the courage to open up your book of genius. Believe in yourself. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be motivated. You have the potential to come up.

BEST MOMENTS

“We're always gonna be looking around and feeling second best and second rate to those we see around us who has opened their books."

”If I push as hard as I can, I will get what I want to get.”

“You need to get in line with it – whatever that track is.”

“Do yourself a favour and be the best you can be.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

16 years… That’s the amount of time you’ve spent waking up early, attending classes, and doing schoolwork. Garth values schooling so much like all of you. But, have you looked at how other courses, trainings, resources, etc. – offered outside the institutions – could greatly help you in the path your taking?

On today’s episode of Truth 4 Youth Podcast, Garth lays out the pros and cons of the traditional education and self-education. You could choose one or choose both! Learn how to get the most out of them to be the best person you could ever be in your career and in your life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Education doesn’t stop when you’re done schooling. If you look around and look at statistics of the living conditions of people who have done schooling, you’d be surprised how low the happiness or satisfaction index is. You need to learn more about the real world – how to be practical, how to better communicate with your team, etc.

Don't count the cost of the shovel when you're digging for gold. You're investing. If you worry about what you're spending or giving up to reach that goal, you won't ever reach the goal.

The cost of what you pay for formal education to be a professional is ludicrous. If you pay £9000 a year for 3 years, it’s hard not to question it – especially, if you see courses, trainings, etc. offered by non-university institutions at a lower, more reasonable price. You get the same information and learn the same skill

Make money vs. Earn money. Garth firmly believes that the universities in general is preparing their students just to earn better money and empower them instead to make money on their own. You set up a system and make sure its up and running. Then, all you have to do is wait it generate money on its own (e.g. real estate property).

BEST MOMENTS

“Education is the most vital thing you're going to get in your life. The most vital thing after food and water."

“Don't count the cost of the shovel when you're digging for gold.”

“To EARN means you have to guide it, put your back on it and you have to do that. To MAKE means you have to set it up."

"Don't forget the other side, the self-education."

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

In this inspiring episode, Garth discusses the schooling system and how it is not preparing our children adequately. In life, you have to learn how to work with people, how to collaborate with people and how to delegate to people so that you can do what you love. The schooling system and in particular exams promote the opposite.

Delegation and teamwork are extremely vital in every area of life and the way exams are dictated do not support this, understand the value in working together and why by collaborating and helping each other we can all be successful and we can all achieve what we want to achieve.

“Be the change that you want to see.”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Don’t allow the grading on a piece of paper to control your whole entire life.

Imagine the buzz and excitement if you were able to work together and collaborate to reach the common goal. Teachers should leave the exam room and allow students to work together, to help each other out because that is how we succeed as human beings, by working together.

Exams don’t tell you what you do wrong, it just comes up with a grading for you as a human being. This can be damaging and degrading and follow you round your whole entire life.

BEST MOMENTS

“I didn’t understand it until I left school, it really isn’t the best breeding ground”

“It’s necessary to build networks and teams to be successful”

“If we take our differences and out them together we can make the whole thing go round”

“If you don’t know how to work together and interact with humans, you’ll struggle in life”

“We have to start telling our kids the truth, to help them”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

Every home has a television. Every boy and girl out there have spent a huge part of their time on watching it. On today’s episode Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, Garth discusses how watching television can be very bad for the youth. It’s really bothering to know that every tick of the clock was spent on sitting down and watching rubbish. They could’ve spent it on more productive stuff. Start listening to know more on how to avoid this habit and how to start doing tasks towards life goals.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Television Can Damage Your Life

It takes away too much time from your life to do other things.

It damages the information that gets stored in your brain subliminally and otherwise.

Do you really need to watch the television?

Garth attended a course once and learned from a speaker there how big the effect is in your life if you stay away from TV.

Story: This speaker was asked why he has made a remarkable progress in his career in just two years. People were surprised when he told them that he didn’t have a TV to distract him. He keeps a diary detailing what he’s done every hour for the last two years. That helped him stay on track and reach his goals.

‘A thousand hours – over 40 days – could’ve been used in working your own plan.’ Garth thought of the time he spent every time he watches Super Sundays. He could’ve used it on something more important!

Imagine what you could’ve done if you didn’t turn the TV… Where would you be? You could’ve talked to people you need talking to. You could’ve started building the things you have to build. Use your time wisely. There are many options you could do that are more beneficial than turning on that television.

BEST MOMENTS

“Even successful people still learn more and educate themselves more to grow."

“When I looked at my frustration why I haven't done the things I need to do, why am I not getting the results that I want... It was quite simple – I’m not doing what he's doing. I'm not doing the things that are necessary to get the results.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

Welcome to the first ever episode of Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, a podcast which aims to guide the youth to lead their lives with purpose and fulfilment.

Today, your host Garth Clarke exposes the repulsive side of the formal education system. For the longest time, this has been the rite of passage for every single person before being accepted by the society. Some of you, like Garth, have seen how flawed the system is. Listen as Garth discusses why he thinks it’s a one-size-fits-all kind of system, how it affects an individual’s career path, and what areas should be improved in the system.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

School Systems does not prepare the youth for the world. It’s a one size fits all. There’s a fixed curriculum, fixed schedule, and fixed lessons even though, every individual is different.

Some people have difficulty adjusting when they leave the system. They’ve consumed the best part of their youth in school. After this, they’re forced to go on their own.

English’s and Math’s. Why not concentrate on those two things? There’s too much on the kids’ plates that is why they’re struggling. There should be a choice. If you want to study a certain field (Science, History, etc.), then kids could arrange a schedule that they get more time to learn what they want and less for what they don’t.

People who feel that they are not fitted in their career right now might have felt different if they got more time to hone their speciality. They could’ve been more confident and properly trained if they’ve spent the bulk of the schooling years on building their career track.

BEST MOMENTS

“The only place where everybody has to do the same thing – follow a set curriculum – is the school system… The very start of our lives.”

“I value a lot of lessons in school. The only two that of absolute paramount interest you need are English’s and Math’s.”

“Just think about it. Why is it only school? Why is the system designed the way?”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

“Why am I learning all these stuffs?” This is what young Garth (the host) kept asking himself when he was still in school.

Today’s episode of Truth 4 The Youth Podcast is all about the bad side of the school system that no one dares to talk about. If you’ve been listening to the previous episodes, Garth has been very vocal about his deep aversion of the school system. You shouldn’t miss this one also, for he enumerates what  disgusts him of this system and how the young ones have been greatly affected, if not scarred, by it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The school system doesn't teach you how to deal with real day-to-day problems you encounter once you exit. How do you handle your finances - the budgeting, paying debts, etc.? How do you juggle different jobs? How to be an entrepreneur?

The idea of teamwork isn't properly taught in the school system. It's very skewed. The system invites competitiveness. It turns it head away from the concept of collaboration and selflessness.

The school system creates division. You get harsh punishments for cheating. You get ridiculed because of a low grade. You get judged by people around you. It affects the mentality of the student.

Don't let the grading system dictate what your future is. This is absurd. To put into perspective, many successful entrepreneurs weren't good in school. We’re talking about billionaires and millionaires. They helped themselves, it wasn’t the school system.

BEST MOMENTS

“Some of this stuff doesn’t fit. Some of this stuff doesn’t matter. Why am I learning all these stuffs?”

“They’re not teaching the core skills. They’re diverting our young people.”

“The basic education you need – you need to learn to read, write, and arithmetic.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

Welcome to another episode of the Truth 4 The Youth podcast. In today’s episode, your host Garth Clarke dives into the need for planning what it is you want to achieve, and whilst you’re still young. Hear why setting goals and repeatedly working towards them will bring you success and how you too, can plan for the future, simply by writing down your goals and constantly referring to them.

Have you really sat down and planned it out, what you really want? If not, this episode is for you. Tune in and discover how to quickly and easily identify your goals and begin working towards them.

Plus listen to the end to be in with a chance of winning an exclusive prize.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

One of the most powerful things you can do is write things down and constantly refer to them. If you've done it, you'll believe it and it could be the thing that gets you to where you want to be. Know what you want to do and work towards it, aim to achieve your goals.

You need to have a plan and identify your goals by writing them down and underneath that the things you need to do in order to achieve them. By doing this you'll discover what really matters to who, who you really are and what you're made of, but beware you need to do this whilst you're younger before you form the habit not too.

Be aware, determined and ready, because if you train yourself properly to look at your goals every day and you don't work towards them, you're putting your goals in jeopardy.

BEST MOMENTS

"No matter the situation with our youth, it would be far worse without you"

"This is you, telling you, what to do"

"I didn't write things down and that's why most of my life I wasn't achieving the things I wanted to achieve”

“Anything that you repeat regularly, becomes you”

“Write down what you want, write down how you're going to get there and go for it. Do this relentlessly in every area of your life”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

You’ve been tuning in to Truth 4 The Youth Podcast for quite some time now but today, we get to learn how Garth helps the young people change their lives through his company, Version 1.1, and this podcast. His drive and passion have helped many young people and he wants you to be part of the cause also. So, first things first! Educate yourself and understand how different the youth is today from the youth from the last generation. And, know also that every young person has different experiences. Those and more are what we’re going to find out in this episode, so make sure to tune in!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Times have changed and it's changing even swifter. Whatever we adults have gone through when we were kids is very different with what kids are going through right now. There's a lot happening right now - technologies, politics, etc.

Remember: Cause and Effect. You have to look at the main cause why the young people are what they are. Don’t just focus your eyes on the effect. They are greatly influenced of what’s around them.

Be on the youth’s side. As an adult, who has experienced the complicatedness of being young, give our time and attention to guide and cultivate them to the best they can be.

Hardships that you go through might be different from someone else’s. Garth’s advise is to go behind the scenes. Their options weren’t plentiful in the environment their in.

Version 1.1 is all about making options for each individual. Garth wants everyone to have the opportunity to experience every little good thing. He wants the youth to have habits that will be beneficial to them.

The more you do something, the more it will become you and the more you’ll believe it even if you don’t like it. Do it consistently and believe in yourself.

BEST MOMENTS

"I'm all about helping young people - giving them some vision, direction, developments, ideas and strategies that they can help use and put into their lives that may help get them through the struggles that they're going through and the ones that or on the way."

“Times are changing in the fast world we’re living in.”

“I want every single one of them to be the best they can be. There’s nothing worse than being in this planet not going to be the best you can be or having that frustration that there’s more you wanna do, say, achieve… and just leave it under the radar.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn