Larry Winget posted this on his blog yesterday:
"It’s official. The taping for the PBS special will happen on July 19th in Phoenix, Arizona. I will be doing a speech entitled, Success Is Your Own Fault."
Mr. Winget is a best-selling author, self-proclaimed "Pitbull of personal development®" (yes, he has apparently officially registered this self proclamation) and host of A&E's weekly series, Big Spender. Think Wayne Dyer injected with a combination of DNA from Suze Orman (similar subject material) and the closest available professional wrestler (from which he derives his super powers).
PBS has made no official announcement about any of the pledge titles coming to stations for August/September (although I heard an unconfirmed rumor that there will be at least four new shows offered), so it's hard to say whether this will be a late summer or December offering. With the show being shot July 19th, turning around post editing in time for a summer release seems unlikely.
The main purpose of Mr. Winget's post is to get in-studio audience butts in seats for the shooting of show at The Living Word facility in Phoenix. Concerned that this sounds like there might be some inappropriate connection to a specific denomination or faith? Fear not. The shoot will take place within a day-long event hosted by Business Mentorship International and, as Mr. Winget writes in his post:
"Business Mentorship International holds their events at a church. Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean that it is going to be all churchy! It is a great venue that holds a lot of people and has full television capabilities. It won’t inhibit me or my message, though the PBS part does reign me in slightly!"
The audio on Business Mentorship International's trailer for the event on their site (also a call to action for folks to sign up to be a part of the studio audience for free) mentions that Mr. Winget will be giving a lecture entitled, Your Broke Because You Want to Be. Although in Winget's post and in the text on BMI's site, the lecture is billed as Success is Your Own Fault. So it would seem that the project is in somewhat of a working title zone . . . but if history is any indicator (as well as being a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken), it seems that the slightly reigned in but not at all churchy Larry Winget will likely be a pledge success.
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