Warrior
My Path to Being Brave
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Descripción editorial
Lisa Guerrero chronicles her iconic career—from dealing with harassment as a sports broadcaster to chasing “bad guys” for Inside Edition—and proves that through small, daily acts, bravery is a muscle we can strengthen over time.
I’ve been a cheerleader. A corporate executive. A Barbie Doll. A sportscaster. A soap opera vixen. A sideline reporter. A Playboy cover model. A Diamond Diva. A red-carpet correspondent. An investigative journalist. A disrupter.
I made Dennis Rodman cry. I’ve interviewed three presidents and hundreds of athletes. I costarred in a viral video that has one billion views. I sued the New England Patriots--and won. I tracked down a murderer. I was hit by a car. I butted heads with Barbara Walters. I even played myself in a movie starring Brad Pitt.
During her career in sports broadcasting, Guerrero covered Super Bowls, Worlds Series, NBA Finals, and interviewed sports superstars. From the outside it seemed glamourous, but often she was miserable, told to smile more, argue less, and show a lot of leg and cleavage. Colleagues would joke—sometimes on national TV—that she clinched big interviews because of sexual acts rather than talent. She made a mistake on air during the opening game on Monday Night Football that cost her her sportscasting career... and almost her life.
Fast forward a few years, and Guerrero has achieved phenomenal success as Inside Edition's Chief Investigative Correspondent. Her stories have led to arrests, changed federal legislation and policies at Fortune 500 companies, and helped shine a light on crime, scams, child abuse, and even cold case murders. And in the last decade alone, she has won over thirty-five national journalism honors and awards.
Today, Guerrero is bombarded with emails and direct messages from people of every generation who all want to know the same thing: “How are you so brave? How can I be brave too?” Women dealing with husbands, friends, in-laws, co-workers, and bosses ask for the courage to request raises, be taken seriously at meetings, and stand up to abusive spouses. Teens and pre-teens ask for advice on dealing with bullies, teachers, and parents. Warrior—filled with the incisive stories of failure, struggles, challenges, perseverance, and finally, success—is her answer.
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"My bravery stems from pain," writes Guerrero, an Inside Edition correspondent, in her affecting debut. As a child, Guerrero was devastated by her mother's death from cancer; while attending community college in 1980s California, she was a Los Angeles Rams cheerleader but became disillusioned ("I saw myself—and my fellow performers—for what we really were: cheap labor with hot bodies designed to play into male fantasies"). After Guerrero quit, she became the entertainment director for the New England Patriots but was fired after refusing to remove music by Black artists from a performance playlist. In her 30s she worked as a sports reporter and faced relentless misogyny (as a cohost for Fox's The Best Damn Sports Show Period, she was told to "wear clothes that showed lots of skin"), and was later fired from her spot on Monday Night Football after one season (executives said she was a "bad fit"), which led her to contemplate suicide and eventually seek therapy. Guerrero writes with a frank candidness ("I drank to forget how much I hated myself"), and her deep convictions are evident on every page. The author's fans are in for a treat.
