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Casting Call to Be Held in Pembroke Pines, Fla., For "The Apprentice"

Posted on: Thursday, 14 July 2005, 21:00 CDT

Jul. 13--Pembroke Lakes Mall is the place to be Friday if you think you can weather the rough game of musical chairs that celebrity real estate investor Donald Trump uses to choose his apprentice on the show of the same name.

There, producers are hosting a casting call for NBC's The Apprentice, Season Five, one of a number being conducted around the country.

And applicants who want to know what it's really like may be able to find out from Kendra Todd, last season's winner. The South Floridian and first woman to win the top spot will make an appearance at the event.

"The only real advice I can give these people is to be yourself," she said in a phone interview Tuesday. "Just be honest, have integrity, be a team player."

And, she added, no one should imagine the experience is a cakewalk.

"You have to be able to have a high tolerance for stress because every day is an unknown," she said. "Every day you have to come face-to-face with your own limitations."

Necessary qualities: patience, endurance and drive.

Todd, 27, runs Boynton Beach-based My House Real Estate Inc. with business partner Charles Andrews.

In May's final episode of The Apprentice, she beat out rival Tana Goertz, to the delight of dozens of her South Florida colleagues who watched her triumph on a big screen at Palm Beach County Convention Center.

Right now, Todd is spending most of her time in New York, with Trump's golf organization, evaluating several national and international properties.

Around October she expects to return to South Florida to begin her main assignment: the renovation of Trump's Palm Beach mansion.

She said her involvement will include making sure timelines are met. Still, she said, her main focus will center on sales and marketing of the project.

But come Friday, she can look at the crowd of eager faces at Pembroke Pines Mall and think about how far she has come -- and whether anyone she meets could one day also end up an apprentice.

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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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