Regent University’s Executive Leadership Series Presents: A Conversation with Brian Kilmeade
“If you don’t learn from failure along the way, you’re never going to grow,” said Kilmeade.
To the outside world, Kilmeade has it made. He’s the co-host of Fox & Friends, as well as the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, The Brian Kilmeade Show.
Of his five published books, three have landed a spot on the New York Times best-seller list.
But Kilmeade’s story isn’t a Promised Land of overnight success. It’s a story of grit, of losing, and of try, trying again.
“I’m lucky now, but I want to tell you the journey I’ve been through,” Kilmeade told the Regent University’s Executive Leadership Series audience on Friday, January 26. “I feel lucky every single day. I don’t even consider what I do work.”
From getting benched on the soccer field while simultaneously holding dreams of going pro, to losing all of his possessions in a house-fire – barring his least-favorite outfit he was wearing on his back – every step of Kilmeade’s journey is riddled with remembering his humble beginnings.
Much like the humble beginnings of a new nation hoping to expand westward beyond the Mississippi River during the War of 1812.
Kilmeade’s latest book, co-written with Don Yaeger, “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle that Shaped America’s Destiny,” released in October 2017. It explores the fateful battle commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, which drew a decisive victory line in the sand for American soldiers, and drew British troops out of Louisiana.
Kilmeade explained that American soldiers had a nearly impossible task ahead of them. But Jackson’s leadership was “loved, feared and revered.” And a man who was born into poverty, with failures to his name, became the most famous man in America and completed a two-term presidency.
“Don’t judge your failures,” said Kilmeade. “Judge your results.”
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