More Than 85 Broads

Life-threatening situations and illnesses are the extremist forms of adversity, but the cycle is the same: How can you transform adversity into a challenge that you are ready to face? How do you create success out of that challenge? How can you convert your success into real happiness? And how do you do it again and again and again? Nowhere in our network community has the "power of the story" had a greater or more profound impact than through the voices of women like those we'll hear in this chapter.

Meg Berte

Meg is a former All-American Soccer player and graduate of Harvard University. After teaching high school biology for a year and then working on Wall Street in the analyst programs at NatWest and Credit Suisse First Boston, Meg returned to Harvard to pursue an MBA degree. Following her graduation, she returned to Wall Street and now works in the investor relations group for a prominent hedge fund in New York City. Meg has survived two battles with Hodgkin's disease. I added (She was chosen to join Lance Armstrong's 2005 Bristal Myers Squibb Tour of Hope Team and rode 800 miles from San Diego to Washington DC).

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious!
- Vince Lombardi