Elisabeth Hasselbeck Speaker Biography
Television Personality, Best-Selling Author, Former Co-host of The View and Fox & Friends
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a New York Times bestselling author and Emmy award-winning television co-host who recognizes how pivotal her early jobs were to forming her work ethic. Taking pride in her days as a cashier at a local pharmacy, waiting tables as often as she could, managing the register at a sporting goods store, and working as a summer camp counselor and babysitter early on, she credits those as her first assignments where she learned to work.
Education
A Boston College graduate in 1999, Elisabeth played on the Big East Division I Championship Softball team while majoring in Studio Art and holding an apprenticeship at Reebok in its design department. After graduating, Elisabeth designed footwear for PUMA.
Television
In 2002, she competed in the second season of Survivor, The Australian Outback, outlasting her way to the final four. For the next decade, she co-hosted the daytime talk show The View on ABC. In 2013, Elisabeth joined the morning news broadcast of Fox News channel’s FOX & Friends , where she served as a co-host for two years.
Books
As a gluten-free celiac, Elisabeth has written The G-Free Diet and Deliciously G-Free, both about her journey cooking and living joyfully with Celiac disease. Her latest book Point of View is not about gluten, but about God’s lens, perspective, and the lessons she has learned the hard way.
Affiliations
Elisabeth has been a member of TeamRWB , a veterans nonprofit since it’s founding year, and currently sits on the advisory board of The Positivity Project. Elisabeth is wholeheartedly involved with Danita’s Children- a non profit providing food, hospital care and schooling for orphaned and impoverished children in Haiti. She loves working with her local Childrens’ Hospital.
Elisabeth is married to former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst, Tim Hasselbeck, and they are raising three children in Nashville, TN.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Speaking Topics
Debate Not Hate
Discourse without divide. Holding onto your beliefs with one hand while holding the hand of someone that does not hold your same beliefs. It’s possible, it’s joyful, and it’s what we are called to do.
Contenting
Camping Out In the Good. Elisabeth explores the time-tested virtual of contentment.
The G- Free Diet
For years, Elisabeth Hasselbeck couldnt pinpoint what was making her sick. She consulted doctors and nutritionists, but no one seemed to have any answers. It wasnt until she was close to starving in the Australian Outback, living off the land as a contestant on Survivor, that, ironically, her symptoms vanished. Returning home, she identified the food ingredient that made her illgluten, the binding element in barley, oats, wheat, and rye. By simply eliminating it from her diet, she was able to enjoy a completely normal, healthy life. Hasselbeck also discovered the myriad benefits that anyone can enjoy from a gluten-free diet, from weight loss and increased energy to improved attention span and quicker digestion. Hasselbeck arms you with the tools you need to start living a gluten-free life from defining gluten and targeting gluten-free food and beauty products, creating G-Free shopping lists, sharing recipes, dining out, maintaining a G-free diet at home or away, and managing G-Free living with family and friends.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Books
Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom
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