Warrior: My Path to Being Brave

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Still, I'm glad I read Warrior -- I won't soon forget about a couple of the anecdotes she shared, and I hadn't heard them before. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Social Media Reinhart, Mark S. (July 31, 2013). The Batman Filmography, 2d ed. McFarland. p.123. ISBN 9780786468911. 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.

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Guerrero was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Walter Coles, an American of English descent, and Lucy Guerrero, who was from Chile. Guerrero spent her childhood living in San Diego, California, and Huntington Beach, California. In 1972, when she was aged eight, her mother died of lymphoma cancer. Lisa is a graduate of Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California which is located in Orange County. [1] [2] Career [ edit ] Early career and acting roles [ edit ] But there are some who criticize me, saying a journalist shouldn’t show emotion or take sides in a story. They’ll tell me that I’m doing it wrong, that I’m not “objective.” I reject the idea of being blindly unbiased. There are bad guys and good guys. A monster is a monster. Why has it taken so long to find the person responsible for her murder? There were only three adults in the house that night.”

Guerrero, Lisa (November 28, 2016). Jewelry for Your Table: How to Make One-of-a-Kind Napkin Rings From Vintage Pieces (1sted.). Schiffer Craft. ISBN 978-0764352492. He told me what I already knew. “You have nothing to go on. There’s no one to interview. There’s no one to confront. The suspects have disappeared. There are no leads. This case is cold. What could we do that law enforcement couldn’t?” Inside Edition isn't really my thing, but I'm definitely interested in memoirs by women who've worked in sports journalism, so I wanted to give Warrior by Lisa Guerrero a try. My producer, my cameraman, and I were relentless. We marched into the district attorney’s office while he hid from us. I confronted Mel Griggs, the Gering police chief. He paused for a long time. He stuttered and stammered. “That’s true, and we have evidence that they were there, but none of them are talking.”

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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.

It had taken five days after the toddler’s murder for the cops to seal the home as a crime scene. It was a year before her clothes were sent to a crime lab. The police never separated the suspects before they interviewed them—so they had time to coordinate their stories. The cops never charged anyone, even though they called Juliette’s death a homicide. And when the principal witnesses and/or suspects left the state, law enforcement threw up its hands and just moved on. The more I read, the more furious I became. This was a little girl who had never had a chance, even in death. Juliette’s aunt had been leading a petition drive that would compel a grand jury to be convened and a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate the unsolved crime. But Juliette’s story needed national attention to help Monica garner the necessary signatures. There are light-hearted moments in the book, too. There was that time, for example, she walked down a hotel hallway with broadcaster John Madden after a production meeting in a conference room. He swiped a cookie off a leftover room service tray. “Finders, keepers,’’ Madden explained with a smile. I didn’t realize just how much Lisa did with her career! I loved the way she told her story from trying out as a cheerleader to becoming a coach and reporter all while acting too! I appreciate the way she opens up about the industry and she isn’t afraid to speak up about her experiences. The book owes its title to Lucy. It’s from all those times her mother reminded Lisa that her last name, Guerrero, was Spanish for warrior. When it comes to her latest career of being an "investigative journalist," the few examples she gives actually show her weaknesses in the job and using it for advocacy, failing to have an objective approach to her subjects on Inside Edition. So while Guerrero may be an interviewer and may do "reporting" in the most simplistic sense, she is not a trained objective journalist and (to be honest) isn't that great on the air. Her stilted talking style and emphasis on looks basically make her come across as the cheerleader-actress she started as.

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Most journalists would wrap it up there—she’d given me a “No comment.” It really was enough for a good story. But it wasn’t enough for the people who loved Juliette and were demanding justice for her. I continued to pepper Charyse with questions. This was astounding. I wasn’t some cop in an interrogation room wearing down a victim after hours of questioning—I was a reporter with a microphone. I had two witnesses throwing Dustin Chauncey under the bus. Townsend admitted on camera that Dustin had beaten the baby before. My bravery stems from pain. I feel the victims’ pain so acutely that I absorb their sorrow, rage, and frustration. Little Juliette was not another “dead baby.” I felt as though she were my niece too. Monica’s despair and anger were my despair and anger. I connect easily with survivors, no matter who they are and what they’ve gone through. Once that happens, I’m filled with empathy. In her debut memoir, Guerrero, chief investigative correspondent for Inside Edition, traces her journey to becoming a fierce “victim’s avenger” and role model. Raised by her father, a social worker, after her mother died when she was 8, Guerrero—who took her mother’s surname in homage to her heritage—missed having a woman’s guidance as she grew up. She never forgot, though, her mother’s admonition that her name, in Spanish, means warrior. To help her cope with her mother’s death, her father enrolled her in theater therapy classes, where the shy, gangly young girl discovered that she loved to perform. A model at the age of 16, she later enrolled in acting classes, but her career took an unexpected turn when she was selected to join the elite Los Angeles Rams cheerleading team. At first, she was exhilarated by the adoring fans and the camaraderie of her squad, but cheerleaders were treated as no more than “cheap labor and hot bodies,” and after four years of grueling, underpaid work, the “constant makeovers and body-shaming” made the gig unappealing. Guerrero parlayed that experience into trailblazing jobs in sports, including as entertainment director for the Atlanta Falcons and as a sportscaster in LA. She also landed a part as a glamorous bad girl on a popular soap opera. For a while, she worked at Fox Sports, where she experienced the sexism and misogyny that permeated the Fox organization. A low point of her career occurred when she was hired as a sideline reporter on Monday Night Football. Mercilessly criticized in the media as “eye candy” and harassed by her boss, she became depressed and nearly suicidal. When her marriage to a baseball star failed, she felt at an impasse—until she seized an offer from Inside Edition that catapulted her into media stardom.Guerrero revealed to The Post’s Andrew Marchand in 2021 that she dealt with suicidal thoughts after she faced a slew of ridicule in her one season on the “MNF” sidelines in 2003. Now, in a new memoir, entitled “Warrior,” the 58-year-old revealed that she had a miscarriage during one of the games near the end of that season. I wasn’t sure yet. But I told him I’d like to meet and interview Monica and see where the story would lead. When Charles Lachman, our executive producer, gave it the green light, I headed to Gering, the remote town in Nebraska where Juliette had lived and died. I met with Monica, and we toured the home where Juliette had been killed. Then Monica played me the tape recording of her conversation with Doug Warner, the district attorney handling the case. She didn't get married until she was 39 to a major league baseball player. They were extremely rich with two mansions and a New York City condo. At the same time she was doing the MNF job and does nothing but complain about how bad her life was, how depressed she was, how she considered suicide, etc. This is the most-seen female sports personality in America married to a multimillionaire athlete living in luxury and she wants us to feel sorry for her because her TV boss is screaming in her earbud about her somewhat amateurish network television performance?