The full title of Chad's talk is "False Idols and Manufactured Identity: How Drive, Hope and Success Almost Cost Me Everything". With remarkable vulnerability, Chad reveals that his life mantra for many years was "suck it up". It led to an achievement-driven and "successful" life and career-- until he faced the prospect of a failure so devastating that he could no longer "suck it up". Dreas explains what brought him back from the precipice of losing literally everything and how he came to find his identity in Jesus Christ rather than in achievements.

With equally remarkable humility and transparency, Chad shares how he began to look back on his life and recognize the extraordinary grace of God that was present at each stage and at each "achievement". It is a story that takes great courage to tell; it is a story for every man and one that takes great courage for a listener to reflect upon honestly.