PERSONAL TRIVIA
Career walkabout: What a long, short, fast & slow trip it’s been…
Fur trapper → Busboy → McDonald’s clerk → Carpenter’s helper → Landscape laborer → Meat cutter → Newspaper reporter, circulation manager, ad salesman → Copier salesman → Joke writer and nightclub comedian → Senior corporate training executive → Sales Management executive → National outsourcing negotiator → Corporate sales consultant → National (multiple) award-winning author → Movie screenwriter → Movie producer → Motivational and life skills advisor and inspirational speaker → Global sales, strategy, and executive leadership coach (5 continents, 60+ countries) → Professional services partner coach, troubleshooter, and mediator → College lecturer and faculty advisor → Frequent national and international media guest → Professional golf caddy → TV series program contributor → Guest lecturer, M.I.T. Media Lab graduate school (Cambridge, MA) → Guest lecturer The National University for Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan → Guest lecturer, Notre Dame University (South Bend, IN) → Instructor, 25 African country managers (Nairobi, Kenya) → Author, 16 books.
FUN TRIVIA
- Lost to Dave Chappelle in a comedy contest when Chappelle was 15.
- A current events humorist, Ted also opened for some of the nation’s top touring comedians during his time as a (clean) nightclub comedian.
- Was zoomed in nationally syndicated cartoon by Steve Moore, who pens the famed daily “In the Bleachers” sports panel for newspapers around the country.
- Played baseball in 11 countries around the world, including two trips to Russia and China, and one State Department authorized goodwill trip to Cuba.
- Homered in four countries.
- Struck out in all eleven.
- Caught an 11-foot hammerhead shark off a pier; and got gaffed in the leg by a grappling hook and hauled on the beach trying to land it.
- Designed the logo for rock star Joe Cocker’s charity foundation for underprivileged youth.
- Was turned down for a date by Maria Shriver while she was in college. Big mistake by Maria.
- Was invited VIP guest by Sheikh Mohammed, Ruling Leader of the United Arab Emirates, to attend the 2006 Dubai World Cup (the world’s richest horse race).
- Four of Ted’s stories have been optioned for motion picture development.
- Three books (The Rise and Fall of Piggy Church, 12 Miles to Paradise and Tuki Banjo, Superstar).
- One original screenplay, a London-based romantic comedy (The Raven of St. James’s Park) is currently in pre-production in the U.K.
PROUD TRIVIA
- My words are chiseled into the headstones of two departed friends. One is in Apopka, Florida. The other stands in Moscow, Russia.
- Three books have been recorded by the Rocky Mountain Blind & Dyslexic to support their regional and national constituency.
- Founder and Chairman: No Bats Baseball Club (www.NoBats.com), Global Ambassadors for the Good of the Game.
- Since the club’s founding in 1991, No Bats has raised and donated $2.3+ million to worthwhile service organizations and baseball-related charities. A complete list is found on the club’s website.
- Canine Companions for Independence, founded by Peanuts cartoonist Charles Shulz and his wife in Santa Rosa, Californai, honored my charity efforts by naming a newborn service pup “Theo” as a tribute of appreciation.