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Mensa on Reality TV

Posted by T. Saab Media, Inc. in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX on Oct 20, 2007

Mensa member Tarek Saab, who became famous as Donald Trump's favorite adversary on NBC's The Apprentice 5, discusses fame, business, and life in his much anticipated book Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work & Manhood in Your Twenties. Gut Check will release on March 1st, 2008, according to publisher Spence Publishing. Saab, 29, gave a memorable speech at the Mensa World Gathering in 2006, and his appearance on network television raised interest in the exclusive organization. After leaving the reality series, Saab abandoned a career in international marketing to start T. Saab Media. He was recently named Kipling's "Who Who Among Executives and Business Professionals." He is also a Catholic speaker and his agency is CMG Booking. His book will be available at all major book stores as well as www.BuyGutCheck.com.

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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?