Ed Eisen presenting his talk "A Reporter's
Front Row Seat to History."
coach, career consultant and motivational speaker.” Later, he
added another one: “memory-loss consultant.” That last one is
a job he started in his 70s.

As a child, little Eddie didn’t dream of changing hats so often.

Instead, he was utterly sure of his path: He wanted to be a broad-
caster — just like the radio announcers he heard when he listened
to Superman and The Lone Ranger. He even created his own card-
board radio station out of milk boxes.

“It wasn’t until much later, when I went into broadcasting, that
I found out it wasn’t the business for me,” Eisen said. “I was
canned more frequently than I worked.”
Despite a voice that even today has a broadcaster’s rich timbre,
Eisen — an undeniably voluble fellow — thinks maybe he talked
too much for broadcasting.

“Diarrhea of the mouth, I guess it was. You could say it almost
ended my career.”
But Eisen has a kind of superhuman resilience, turning each
unexpected fork in the road into a personal red-carpet runway.

In this case, the demise of one career led to his finding his bliss
as a journalist.

”That’s the one career that has always defined me and that I
miss to this day,” he said. “Journalism — that was for me.”
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