Bruce Hooley with our host, Dr. Brandon Shriner

Bruce Hooley's 63rd birthday began normally, by taking his two teenage daughters to their suburban-Columbus Christian High School. An hour after dropping them off, he had his first-ever medical episode -- a seizure that soon revealed a Stage 3 brain tumor, which was removed Sept. 15. Bruce describes the time since as, "the most exhilarating period of my life," because it has renewed his focus on helping men serve their God-directed roles as husbands and fathers and re-energized Bruce's efforts to sow the seed of The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Bruce became friends with Dr. Brandon Shriner and became the voice of the Warrior 3 podcast after joining Salem Media of Ohio in October 2020. That followed a three-decade career in newspaper, radio and television. At the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Bruce covered Ohio State University for 18 years, while also serving as the newspaper's national college football and basketball reporter. Bruce won numerous state and national writing and reporting awards before transitioning to radio in 2005. He has since hosted top-rated talk shows in Columbus and Cleveland, while also hosting his own state-wide commentary show on the Spectrum News Network for four years.

Bruce worships with his family at Northwest Chapel in Dublin and is a member of his high school's athletic hall of fame. He and his wife, Sheri, live with their three daughters 20 minutes outside Columbus.

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 What's up, Warriors? Brandon Schriner here, and this is another episode of the Warrior 3 podcast. I got a really special guest on the podcast today, the voice of Warrior 3 podcast, Bruce Hooley himself, as we're going to be walking through his battle with stage 3 brain cancer. This is just an amazing story, amazing podcast. Make sure you share it, subscribe. I know you're going to be blessed. Also go to warrior3project.com. That's warrior3, number 3, project.com and click on that join the warrior 40. Yeah, you heard me right. It is finished. We've got what I believe to be one of the top challenges for men on the market today. For just $99 you can get access, lifetime access, to fitness, to faith, to relationship coaching, everything that you would need to become a stronger man. Once again, go to warrior3project.com click on that Warrior 40 challenge. You're also going to get access to a private Facebook group so we can grow stronger together. Enjoy the podcast gentlemen. All right, welcome Warriors. It's finally here. Thank you so much for joining in for another episode of We're three podcast super excited. I got an awesome guest on today a familiar voice The voice of warrior three podcast Bruce Hooley Bruce. Thank you so much for being on buddy Brandon it's a measure of how much I wanted to be on your podcast that I now

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 Got the street cred to be on so I can't wait to like talk about what we're going to talk

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 about today. Awesome man. It's just a blessing. You're an awesome guy and I'm excited for God to work in this conversation. And men, hang on to your hats. This is gonna bless your life tremendously. Before we get into it, I just want to let you guys know it's finally here. I know we've been talking about it for a while, but warrior3project.com is finally here. So if you're listening, go to warrior3project.com. That's warrior number three project.com and I click on that join warrior 40. So we've created a warrior 40 challenge for men. Everything from your fitness to your faith to building a stronger relationship with your family, your wife, your kids, and just being a better leader in business. It's $99. You get lifetime access to the 40-day challenge. There's multiple different levels. So if you're somebody who's really, I have no idea. I've never picked up a Bible. I've never really had any kind of fitness coaching whatsoever. We've got beginner levels that we're calling strong. If you're kind of in the middle of the weeds, we've got stronger. And if you're just a stud that just wants to continue to be a stud in your faith, in your family, in your fitness, we've got a strongest option for you as well. The cool thing about the $99, you get lifetime access. So you get lifetime access to it. And the reason why we did 40 days is because as I was beginning to put this program together with some of the top coaches around the country, Jesus went 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. So he purposely put himself through physical, emotional, relational, spiritual torture to prepare himself for his ministry. And so, you know, t