A year ago, I gave a speech in Toastmasters.

I opened up about a dark, uncertain time in my life - a time when everything that I'd been working on for years could have been jeopardized. In a matter of seconds.

I wanted to make it fun and entertaining. So I used the TV cooking show, "Chopped" to illustrate how sometimes we have to take the most unlikely "ingredients" of our lives to make something worthwhile... to win in the end.