One minute I was delivering a speech about Alabama football.

The next, I was on the floor — blue, pulseless, and unconscious.

In this episode, my voice fades and others take over: my wife, my friends, and the strangers who tried to bring me back.

Five shocks. Thirty minutes without an ambulance.

A church with no defibrillator.

And somehow, I’m still here to tell it.

It’s the night Toastmasters turned into a trauma ward — and survival became my most unexpected performance yet.