Leo Sandoval is the Owner of Integrity Dream Home and Sandoval Services, providing real estate services for home buyers and sellers in the Twin Cities area, along with a towing and service-based business. He helps buyers and sellers navigate residential real estate with professional, responsive, client-centered service through eXp Realty. Before his career in business, he experienced severe trauma, incarceration, and addiction, which he now openly shares as part of his testimony of transformation through faith. Today, Leo speaks publicly and mentors others on overcoming adversity, building discipline, and living a life rooted in integrity and purpose. In this episode… What happens when the places that are supposed to feel safe become the source of deep trauma instead? For some, those early wounds don't just fade; they shape identity, relationships, and even the ways people try to cope with pain. And when survival turns into cycles of addiction and broken choices, you have to wonder, can a life like that ever be rebuilt with real integrity? According to Leo Sandoval, a speaker and entrepreneur who has lived through trauma and addiction, healing begins with leaning into pain instead of escaping it. He explains that much of his early life was shaped by abuse, instability, and environments where addiction felt normal, which led him into destructive cycles at a young age. For him, that realization reframes recovery as a daily decision to pursue faith, accountability, and integrity even when it is uncomfortable. In this episode of the Align & Abide podcast, Dr. Kim Tran is joined by Leo Sandoval, Owner of Integrity Dream Home and Sandoval Services, to discuss overcoming trauma, addiction, and building a life of integrity. They explore how childhood abuse and brokenness shaped Leo's early path, how faith and Teen Challenge broke addiction cycles, and how forgiveness and accountability sustain recovery. Leo also shares advice on rebuilding marriage and resisting marijuana addiction.
