It’s not very often that the Food Network has me bawling like a baby.  However, I was watching one of my favorite shows called "The Food Network Challenge".  Each week the top chefs in the country have to recreate some impossible feat, like an Elvis sculpture made out of candy in eight hours, or build a sugar mountain & then carry it through an obstacle course, the winner gets $10,000. Usually something breaks, the audience ohh’s & ahh’s & a good time is had by all.

This challenge was to build a cake for the food network awards.  One of the teams worked eight hours on their cake & then realized that they couldn’t lift it.  The cakes can sometimes weigh several hundred pounds.  The team was informed that if they couldn’t lift the cake & carry it to the table a few feet away, they would be disqualified. They tried & couldn’t do it.  The audience was shouting & clapping & telling them to move it.  They tried again & couldn’t move it.  Then one of the competitors named Bronwen Weber came over & said that she’d help move it, then all the other chefs came & it took seven of them to lift it.  All the chefs were crying, as was the audience, & I know that I was.  Bronwen should totally get her own show for that.  It was just heartwarming in this dog eat dog world to see people helping each other, even though it would’ve been to their advantage had the other team been disqualified. There are all kinds of lessons about business & life to be learned from that.