Revealing The Champion Within: Garrett Garrels at TEDx Whitefish

After teaming up with fellow football player, Nick Milodragovich, in just three short years, Pink Gloves Boxing was recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 100 Innovative Businesses. The success of the business uncovered a problem from his past. Schools were asking him to give presentations to help inspire the youth. Though a stutter is impossible to overcome completely, his lazy lips of yesterday have put a smile on his face, today.

Twice, Garret has finished in the semi-finals of the World Championship of Public Speaking and in 2011, he finished in the top 18 of 35,000. From stutterer to speaker -- from getting kicked out of high school English class to writing a book -- Garret is too funny to be called a motivational speaker and too inspiring to be called a comedian.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)