Terry Bradshaw On: Clinical Depression, Crying on the Field, and the Mother He Could Never Please
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Terry Bradshaw On: Clinical Depression, Crying on the Field, and the Mother He Could Never Please

B1IntermediateOctober 23, 202651 min
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Plus: surviving cancer twice, what three divorces taught him, and being a Baptist who owns a bourbon company. Terry Bradshaw is one of America's best-loved sports figures. As quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Hall of Famer led his team to four Super Bowl victories. Since retiring from football, Bradshaw has become a celebrated sportscaster, actor, and entrepreneur. "Pappy" Bradshaw and his wife Tammy live in Texas near daughters Rachel, Lacey, and Erin, and their families. His new book is Looking for Terry: A Memoir. In this episode we talk about: Why Terry spent...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. We are all, most of us I think, at least occasionally performing versions of ourselves. And my guest is already laughing about this because he sees himself in this.

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These personas, these masks that we sometimes have to wear can create a lot of stress because often there's this huge gap between how we act and how we actually feel, which is why I am so excited to speak to my guest whose laughter you're already hearing. His name is Terry Bradshaw.

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He is, I don't think he needs much of an introduction, but he has won many Super Bowls as a quarterback and has now created this legendary career as a sports broadcaster. And he's got a new memoir called Looking for Terry in which he talks about the fact that beneath his good old Terry persona has long lurked clinical depression.

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