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Catholic Speaker Tarek Saab Speaks in Little Rock

Posted by T. Saab Media, Inc. in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX on Jan 22, 2008

Written by Frank D'Ambrosio

Catholic speaker Tarek Saab, former contestant on Season 5 of the Apprentice, and President of T. Saab Media, received two standing ovations from a packed house of 700+ high school students at the University of Arkansas this past Saturday, January 19th. The students were participating in a "Weekend Extravaganza" hosted by the Diocese of Little Rock in preparation for a march in opposition of legalized abortion.

After a brief six minute intro video, Saab was greeted to over a minute of extended applause before speaking for nearly one hour. The popular Catholic speaker, who is represented by CMG Booking, offset a serious talk with moments uproarious laughter, as he detailed his experiences in business and on The Apprentice. Afterwards, Saab signed autographs and posed for pictures long into the night.

On March 1st, 2008, Saab will release his first book, Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, and Manhood In Your Twenties.

Book Description

You’re fired!

Only a few years into a career marked by dazzling early success, Tarek Saab’s life took a dramatic turn with his selection for Donald Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice. Viewers soon noticed something unusual about Tarek. Throughout the chaos and pressure—including several boardroom showdowns with Trump—Tarek displayed a forgotten kind of manhood. In a new book, he shares his hard-won insights into love, work, and manhood and their source in a faith that is ever old, ever new.

The biggest problem by far facing men in their twenties is the crisis of manhood. Offering a completely new take on the so-called “quarter-life crisis,” Tarek describes his reluctant confrontation with career, relationships, and spiritual disillusionment and reveals the surprising truths he learned about what it means to be a man.

A distinctly modern-day Confessions, Gut Check is the wry and candid self-examination of a man whose life, despite its extraordinary twists, is full of lessons for ordinary young men. Tarek’s captivating tale reveals a young man with many talents and temptations whose saving grace is a relentless pursuit of truth and the daring to be counter-cultural. Gritty, comic, utterly believable—Gut Check is not the usual Christian fairy tale.

Gut Check is a manual for manhood lived the hard way. It is a book for men who never read and for men who think they have read it all. If you think you know what you really want, are you ready for a gut check?