"Strength doesn't show itself in a comfortable space," Gladys Peters told the room.
The General Manager of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare was telling the audience about her battle with breast cancer, while sitting on a panel celebrating female strength. A panel I was hosting for Ostelin's new brand campaign, Project Strong.
She had the watching audience gripped. We were sitting in the downstairs function room of a busy restaurant, and despite the clangings of a commercial kitchen in the background – in that room, you could have heard a pin drop.
"Life throws you curveballs. That's when you have to dig deep and you have to pull out something that will meet a challenge head on," she told us.