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Unbreakable

How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety into Motivation and You Can Too

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Hey Teammate,

We all face obstacles-physical, emotional, between the ears. The good news is that everything we have fought back against can empower us, IF WE KNOW HOW TO USE IT. My obstacles happen to be anxiety and depression. I call it living in the gray, and I've been mired in it my whole life. To be honest, it sucks. But I have also recently recognized that this same gray that has held me down has also empowered me to make my wildest dreams come true. You have probably overcome many of your own obstacles, but you;ve been too close to the conflict to clearly see what you've accomplished. We are all UNBREAKABLE, no matter what we do, who we are, or what traumas we may have experienced. We just need to admit that we can't walk this walk alone.

—Jay Glazer

After years of rejection but with constant hustle, Jay Glazer has built a career has one of the most iconic sports insiders, earning himself a spot on the Emmy award-winning Fox NFL Sunday, a role as the confidant of coaches and players across the league, and a role as himself alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on HBO series Ballers. His gym, Unbreakable Performance Center, attracts some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and is the headquarters to the powerful charity MVP (Merging Vets and Players) that Jay founded in 2015. MVP began as a weekly physical and mental health huddle with combat veterans and retired athletes has expanded to seven locations, helping soldiers and players transition to a new team.

In Unbreakable, Jay Glazer talks directly to you, his teammates, and shares his truth. All of his success from his screeching-and-swerving joy ride through professional football, the media, the fighting world, Hollywood, the military-warrior community, comes with a side of relentless depression and anxiety. Living in the gray, as Jay calls it, is just a constant for him. And, in order to work through the gray and succeed, Jay has to maintain an Unbreakable Mindset. With this book, you can too.

· Be of Service—help others and help yourself in the process

· Build Your Team—give support, get support

· Never Underestimate the Power of Laughter—never take yourself too seriously

· Be Proud of Your Scars—our trauma makes us who we are

Throughout Unbreakable, Jay will use his stories—featuring some of the biggest, baddest, and most fascinating characters in the public eye today—to show how he walks this walk, has learned that while the gray is very real, it doesn't have to define him. And it doesn't have to define you either.

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    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2022
      A blustering, often tedious self-help book by the Fox Sports NFL insider. "Stand the fuck out!" shouts Glazer, who seeks to address issues of self-doubt and existential angst. What he offers is mostly a locker-room harangue--perhaps useful if you're an NFL pro, less so if you're an ordinary mortal. Much of the material is unobjectionable enough--e.g., "Be the last one standing," meaning that one shouldn't ever give up in the arena of trying to impress someone such as a prospective client or boss with one's dedication and brilliance. That's all well and good, if a bit off point. More in keeping with the subtitle are Glazer's recollections of starting off in the sports business, which found him often so poor that he had to beg a ride to the stadium. "Sometimes I needed a free meal," he allows. "Always, I needed to know people had my back." The quid pro quo there is that one needs to have others' backs as well, which leads Glazer to insist on the importance of both loyalty and cultivating relationships. In that regard, aspiring journalists may gain insight from his welcome self-evaluation as someone who can't outplay his subjects but who can certainly befriend them and, through those friendships, learn about what happens in the huddle. Sometimes Glazer can be cloying: As a motivational speaker and coach, it seems he likes nothing better than to induce tears. He also enjoys profanity-laced exhortation, as when he told a badly wounded, depressed combat veteran, "Here is what I want you to do: from now on, when you are walking down the street, I want you to hold your head high and look at every fucking person you see out there and say to yourself, 'I ain't like the rest of you motherfuckers'....You saved American POWs. You ain't like everybody else." For readers seeking a pep talk in the place of more thoughtful psychological analysis.

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