Unbreakable: How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety Into Motivation and You Can Too

by Jay Glazer

Overview

Jay Glazer—a top NFL insider on Fox NFL Sunday, an MMA coach, actor, and a veteran advocate and founder of MVP (Merging Vets and Players)—offers honest, in your face advice and insights gleaned from his fight through depression and anxiety, his successful careers in NFL journalism and business, as well as his work with military vets struggling with PTSD; the result is a relentless, unapologetic, and no-nonsense approach to overcoming your self-doubts, fears, and excuses… with the goal of becoming Unbreakable.

In Unbreakable, Jay Glazer talks directly to you, his teammates, and shares his truth. All the success from his screeching-and-swerving joy ride through professional football, the media, the MMA fighting world, Hollywood, the military-warrior community, comes with a side of relentless depression and anxiety. Living in the gray, as Jay calls it, is just a constant for him. And, in order to work through and work better, Jay knows he has to keep going, to be of service, to believe in himself when no one else will, and be stronger, tougher, and more dedicated than anyone. Unbreakable is his story of how he has done this in all of his many endeavors—a relentless insider who won’t quit talking or take his foot off the gas, whether detailing how he got his big break inside the NFL (it involves a friendship with Michael Strahan that seems too unlikely even for Hollywood) or helping veterans fight for their lives in gyms around the country or playing himself on the hit show Ballers, Jay’s ability to laugh at himself and take on his mental struggles has given him a clarity, toughness, and openness that few people can rival.

Throughout Unbreakable, Jay will use his stories—featuring some of the biggest, baddest, and most fascinating characters in the public eye today—to tackle the toughest subjects by making you laugh. He will also use them as motivation to outline a prescriptive plan for you to get to the top of your game, whatever your game is, and to stop making excuses. He will show you how to use your insecurities, your own battles with mental health, to get where you need to go, scars and all.

Especially scars and all.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798200852215
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 5.59(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Manalapan, New Jersey, Jay Glazer got his start covering the New York Giants for the New York Post and the local cable channel, NY1. Prior to joining the Fox Sports family in 2004, he covered the NFL for CBS SportsLine and was an insider on CBS Sports’ The NFL Today. In Glazer’s first year in studio at Fox NFL Sunday, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Media Person of the Year. In August 2018, he signed on with The Athletic, the award-winning subscription-based website for die-hard sports fans. Among his many scoops over the years are the New England Patriots’ Spygate video, Oakland Raider Barret Robbins’s Super Bowl Mexican bender, the NFL subpoenas in the BALCO drug-lab scandal, the league’s new concussions rule, and on and on. 

Outside football, Glazer has developed a widely recognized expertise as a trainer and broadcaster in the world of mixed martial arts. With business partner Randy Couture, he has trained more than 100 NFL players, including Jared Allen, Odell Beckham Jr., and Callais Campbell, improving their on-field performance with MMA techniques. He has also served as a special guest trainer for the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, and other teams. With insights gained from his own cage-fighting career (4-3 in professional MMA and submission fights), Glazer hosted the first MMA show ever broadcast in the U.S., as well as the Pride Fighting Championships on FoxSportsNet. In 2014, he co-founded the Unbreakable Performance Center, a private training facility in West Hollywood regularly frequented by Chuck Liddell, Mark Wahlberg, Sylvester Stallone, Wiz Khalifa, Demi Lovato, and Chris Pratt, as well as numerous NFL, NHL and MMA athletes. 

Despite his full plate of media and sports assignments, it’s Glazer’s commitment to military veterans that has truly captured his heart. Alarmed at the tough road—depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide—that veterans and former professional athletes often share, in 2015, he and former U.S. Army Green Beret Nate Boyer founded the charitable organization MVP (Merging Vets and Players) to assist these two groups as they adjust to civilian life. As Jay says, “In a nation where twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day, we haven’t lost a single MVP member yet.” 

Glazer’s strong connection with sports fans and his unique persona have sparked his growing demand as an actor in major TV and film comedy-dramas. He has a prominent, recurring role as himself in all five seasons of the popular HBO series, Ballers, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. His other acting credits include Bones, The League, The Game Plan and The Longest Yard.