When Richard and I were little, we were encouraged to take art classes, make crafts, and be artistic. LISA GUERRERO: My dad and mother were both artists, as were my grandparents, so I come from a long line of people who were painters, musicians, and performers. Many may not know you create mosaics when you aren’t busy chasing the bad guys or telling stories! How did that happen? That tells me the story-not because I want to chase bad guys, although it is fun-I’m doing it in service to the story.ĬHIC COMPASS: There is a lot to learn about you in your book. That’s how I connect with them, and because they trust me to tell me their stories, I then go forward and chase the bad guy or hold somebody accountable on behalf of the story or behalf of the survivor. LISA GUERRERO: I have gone through trauma, and other people I interview in my stories have gone through trauma. Those things that happened to me are an essential part of my story because I was able to turn pain into power, which you must do to overcome obstacles.ĬHIC COMPASS: Does that help you in your storytelling? All these things I recount in my book Warrior to great, painful detail. I have empathy because I have gone through trauma and challenges: sexual harassment, verbal abuse, and misogyny. LISA GUERRERO: My bravery comes from empathy.
As a former Inside Edition reporter, I was very excited to grab our lip gloss, reunite and talk about being brave, finding balance through art, and living up to the name “warrior.”ĬHIC COMPASS: Where does your bravery come from? Lisa Guerrero and I have known each other for almost 20 years. In the process, she uncovered what bravery truly is and how we can all become a superhero! She went from LA Rams cheerleader-turned-sportscaster-turned-national television host-turned-Monday Night Football sideline reporter, with the joy of victories and agony of defeats throughout.
In her book, Guerrero chronicles her incomparable decades-long career to warrior status. Her multiple award-winning stories uncover “crime, scams, child abuse, and cold case murders.” Whether it’s diving in a dumpster, disguising herself as a grandmother, ambushing wealthy preacher Kenneth Copeland (that video amassed one billion views!), or solving the murder of 2-year-old Juliette Geurts, there is very little she wouldn’t do on camera to right a wrong. Since Guerrero joined the long-running newsmagazine 17 years ago, chasing “bad guys with a microphone and lip gloss” has become her mantra. “It was so worth it,” says Guerrero of this consumer safety story. It was a brutal assignment, but it was just a typical day in the life of this fearless road warrior. Yet the photos that made the cut, including on a T imes Square billboard, weren't from that official ABC photo shoot," Guerrero elaborated.On just one of a dozen recent investigations, Inside Edition Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero flew to Boston, interviewed the grieving parents of a 13-year-old killed in a tubing accident in Aruba, hopped on a plane to Aruba, then confronted the company that failed to use safety measures that would have saved the young teen’s life. "Then, for the show's promotional photos, I posed in a powder-blue blazer next to (co-hosts Al Michaels and John Madden). Guerrero said that when Disney executives learned about the photo shoot, they were "irate" and questioned Guerrero's status on their "family-friendly broadcast." The company's publicity staff apparently ended up negotiating with FHM to place her on the cover, so she attributed the response to "feigned shock." The photo shoot got her in trouble with the execs But when the media got wind of the photos of me clad in black-and-white lingerie, it reinforced their notion that I'd been hired on Monday Night Football for all the wrong reasons," she continued. "This had been a strategic decision to promote my brand and raise my profile while I was at Best Damn. "I'd done a photo shoot for 'FHM,' a men's lifestyle magazine, which was scheduled to run at the beginning of the football season," said Guerrero. However, what ultimately caused conflict between herself and her company was outside judgments of her beauty, her knowledge, and her worth as a sports writer.
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