Surviving the Lights: A Professional Athlete's Playbook to Avoiding the Curse

By: Tywanna Smith

Narrated by: Ashley Nero

It's more than a game; it's more than money; it's your life!

This audiobook will help aspiring professional athletes and their families avoid the curse that oftentimes comes with the professional sports culture.

Why do so many NFL and NBA athletes struggle to lead productive, successful lives when they retire? Why do they invest in their talent but not their life? Don’t they know their playing days have an expiration date?

The bigger question is: Why don’t college athletes prepare to be professionals like they prepare to be professional athletes? Why do they repeat their predecessors’ mistakes? Isn’t that insanity?

By studying this playbook, aspiring and rookie NBA and NFL athletes will be able to create a blueprint to prepare them to navigate the world of professional sports and successfully transition into the final stage of their lives. This playbook takes a proactive approach in addressing the common issues that plague athletes, enabling them to move forward strategically and with purpose.

This is your opportunity to change your thinking so you can change the game! By listening to this audiobook, you will give yourself a better shot at surviving the lights!

©2017 Tywanna Smith (P)2018 I'm Hearing Stories

Good quick read

Surviving the Lights: A Professional Athlete's Playbook to Avoiding the Curse by Tywanna Smith was a good read by the author. This was a great read to help all new professional athletes. This was a great book to give people a better shot at surviving the lights.

An interesting listen

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

So, I'm no professional athlete, so I won't pretend to be able to speak to whether or not this book would really be helpful to them. What I will say is that it gave me some interesting insight into what professional athletes deal with. A lot of the concepts the author talks about seemed very straightforward to me, but I could see how someone "blinded" by their sudden fame and fortune may not think about. The narration is well done and the information is presented in a logical wawy. The piece I found most interesting is the lack of planning many professional athletes have for their lives after they aren't playing anymore.

Great Read!

Very informative. This book is a great guide for anyone considering a career as a professional athlete.
Excellent content and narration.