The Recipe: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Ingredients of Greatness with Chef Charles Carroll & John David Mann

Chef Charles Carroll is an eight-time Culinary Olympian who travels the world speaking on championship thinking and personal greatness. Charles won his first Culinary Olympics gold medal at the 1988 games at the age of 24, and has since participated in the quadrennial Olympics as team member, coach, and judge. He was named one of the year’s Great Country Inn Chefs by the James Beard Foundation and is past president of the World Association of Chefs Societies, with over 10 million members in 105 countries. For his work with U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013, Chef Carroll was personally commended by U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. In 2013 he was awarded the Honorable Order of Saint Martin by the U.S. Army. Chef Carroll currently serves as Executive Chef of Houston’s River Oaks Country Club, the third busiest country club in the United States. http://chefcharlescarroll.com

John David Mann is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), Taiwan's Golden Book Award for Innovation, and the 2017 Living Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal” for “contribution to positive global change.” His books are published in more than two dozen languages and have sold more than 2 million copies. He is coauthor of the international bestseller "The Go-Giver" with Bob Burg, the New York Times bestsellers "The Red Circle" with Brandon Webb and "Flash Foresight" with Daniel Burrus and the national bestsellers "The Slight Edge" (with Jeff Olson), "Among Heroes" (with Brandon Webb), and "Real Leadership" (with John Addison). His "Take the Lead" (with Betsy Myers) was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post. http://johndavidmann.com