Tarek Saab Addresses Tabor Academy Student Body

Posted by T. Saab Media, Inc. in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX on May 05, 2008

 

Written by Kevin Sullivan

4/18/08

Catholic speaker Tarek Saab, former contestant on Season 5 of the Apprentice, and President of T. Saab Media, spoke Thursday morning to the student body at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts.

Saab, perhaps the most famous Tabor Academy alumnus in the last two decades, delivered a lighthearted speech, mixing anecdotes and tales from his life in business on and national televsion with a few key pieces of advice for the student. "Success in life and business begins by focusing on death . . . Nothing forms a person's identity more than his answer to the question: What happens when I die," said Saab to the crowd of nearly 600. Tarek Saab is the author of the new book Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, and Manhood In Your Twenties, which released on March 1st, 2008.

When asked about Tarek Saab's speech, one students said: "That was the best chapel speech I've heard in my four years here."

Saab graduated in 1996 from "The School by the Sea," where he lettered in football, wrestling, and rowing.

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?


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