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Catholic Speaker Tarek Saab huge hit at FOCUS

Posted by T. Saab Media, Inc. in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX on Jan 04, 2008

Written by Frank D'Ambrosio

Catholic speaker Tarek Saab, who became famous on NBC's The Apprentice, spoke to a packed audience of over 200 students Thursday, January 3rd, at the national FOCUS Conference in Grapevine, TX. So many students jammed the conference room in which the Catholic speaker delivered his message, that FOCUS directors and hotel management voiced concerns over a possible fire hazard. Students lined aisles, crowded the podium, and in many cases were turned away. An estimated 75-100 additional students were forced to seek out an alternative lecture due to Saab's popularity. Afterwards, Saab posed for pictures and signed autographs for nearly two hours.

Joe Condit, founder and CEO of CMG Booking, the Catholic speakers' bureau that represents Saab and thirty other Catholic speakers, flew in from Cincinnati for the event. He said, "Never before have I seen such an enthusiastic turnout for a speaker, with so many people jamming in to a venue. It's remarkable. This goes to show the popularity of this guy and the overwhelming anticipation for his new book, Gut Check."

Saab's new book, Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, and Manhood In Your Twenties is becoming a hotly anticipated book for college-aged twenty-somethings and business professionals. The book will release on March 1st, 2008, and will be available for pre-orders on www.BuyGutCheck.com in January.

Saab's message was a simple one: "Success in life and business begins by focusing on death." His humorous and honest story about growing up poor, becoming wealthy at an early age, and tasting fame on a grand scale, kept students captivated for a full hour. Soaking in a message that was more brotherly than parental, students walked away from the speech with new insights into a very difficult message; that is, that living out the Catholic faith in our modern world requires a heroic form of detachment, and that changing the world begins with changing ourselves. Saab asked the audience "Can you handle the truth?" In the process, Catholic speaker Tarek Saab walked away from FOCUS as a certifiable role model.

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FROM THE INSIDE FLAP OF GUT CHECK

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?