Prelude: persistence -- Mentors in persistence -- Deadly paradigm -- True grit -- "Get your affairs in order" -- Buried alive -- Walk on -- Burn the ships! -- Is this flying or dying? -- Dream and become -- Be found ready -- Fight or flight -- Homeless once more -- Guerrilla television -- My worst nightmare -- ET phones home -- "Roundball rock" -- Helen of Troy riding a bicycle -- Pity party -- Match points -- The whirlwind -- Newtonian physics -- "How dumb can you be and still breathe?" -- The multiple miracles of Red Rocks -- John Tesh: live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony -- Obstacles -- And then this happened -- Intelligence for your life -- Mark 11:23 -- Get uncomfortable -- Instang dad -- The crack den -- To live and to fight under the word.
Summary:
Tesh describes how the obstacles that shaped him--including being suspended from college, living homeless for months, and facing a deadly disease--shaped his remarkable life. You'll hear how Tesh became the youngest correspondent at WCBS News less than thirty-six months after he was working at a gas station and sleeping in a public park. You'll go inside the unconventional way he composed the now-iconic theme song for NBC Sports basketball and how he and his wife, Connie Sellecca, created the popular, nationally-syndicated Intelligence for Your Life radio program. From live commentary for two Olympic Games to his decade-long role as co-host of Entertainment Tonight and the outrageous gamble that resulted in one of the most successful Public Television concert specials in history, you'll learn how Tesh applied his unique process of focused practice, grit, and perseverance while maintaining a single-minded pursuit of his goals. In 2015, he fought and received treatment for a stage-three cancer diagnosis, but when the cancer returned, he and his wife turned to relentless faith and divine healing scriptures to manifest a victory over the disease.
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