Last fall there were billboards in Providence with smiling faces of celebrities like Colin Powell and Bill Cosby, stars of the ‘Get Motivated’ seminar at the Civic Center — excuse me, The Dunk.
A gargantuan photo of Rudy Giuliani didn’t motivate me to anything, because I don’t own a paintball shooter, but I still wonder how anyone made money off that event. I didn’t know that the shadowy presence of evil gnome televangelist Pat Robertson, hovered in the background. Pat can fly to the poverty-wracked Congo and come back with pockets full of diamonds. The man is a money-making genius. He has his own interpretation of the 8th Commandment, ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’.
The 11th Commandment is, ‘Don’t Get Caught’.
Tamara Lowe, a frequent guest on “The 700 Club” and author of the book Get Motivated, and her husband Peter are in the midst of an acrimonious divorce that just got uglier: in court documents, Peter accused Tamara and her new boyfriend of stealing his porn.
According to south Florida website Gossip Extra, the Christian motivation speaker and her spouse are on the verge of closing their marriage of 24 years.
Lowe and her associates rented the Dunk, put up billboards and all but gave away tickets to this event. How did they pay the bills?
The ‘faith-based’ may be more susceptible to cons than the ‘reality-based’. Probably not by much, because we all have our weak points.
It’s not nice to mock someone’s divorce, but it’s the good folks at the 700 Club who claim to be saving marriage from people who want to get married. A more interesting question is– really–where did the money come from, where did it go?
Video added by Kiersten — in case you want to see Tamara Lowe motivating the masses in all her glory.
Kmareka.com 
These ‘seminars’ are a bait & switch. I went to one last year at K.C. Mo.
There’s a lot of talk of Jesus Christ, but the bottom line is this: they are trying to get people signed up for an online investment/trading business that is either promoted by or sponsored by Fortune Magazine.
What a right wing combo. Save your soul and make you rich. Just invest in Wall Street and say AMEN!
And another damned thing….I don’t know how any serious preacher could participate in this without feeling guilty. These people would have been thrown out of the temple as “money changers”.
I’m ashamed to admit that I believed that Bill Cosby and Laura Bush were going to motivate me to just be a better person. And NO, I didn’t get to see them in person. All the ‘big names’ were ‘there’ by ‘live feed’.
It was a waste of time. I still feel used.
thanks for the firsthand reporting. I wondered how hard up for money Bill Cosby could be at this point. I figured that Laura just wanted an excuse to get away from the ranch and sample the restaurants of Providence, which get me motivated on a regular basis.
I would wonder how you could get rich off poor people, but I shouldn’t. It happens all the time.
Kiersten, what a frightening video. Sekanblogger is right. If you read the New Testament, you will see that Jesus was a friend of the poor and a nuisance to the rich and the politically connected. He was kind of an Occupy type.