Colleen has interviewed some of the biggest names in Canadian sports including Wayne Gretzky, speedskater Catriona Le May Doan and NBA star Steve Nash. Colleen joined CBC-TV in 1986 and moved to CBC Newsworld in 1995. She has reported from the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988, Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000. She's covered the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France and the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand and Victoria.

Being something of a sports legend herself, Colleen knows what to ask our country's heroes. She has won the Nova Scotia curling title 16 times. In 2001, she won the World Curling Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2004, she took home the World Championship title again. Colleen became a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1990.

There is no other athlete in the world like a curler. For six months of the year our country's World Champions are regular people with regular lives - one day they are working the door at their kids' hockey games, and the next they are looking at their own picture on the front of the Globe and Mail. No one knows this kind of double life better than Colleen Jones. Colleen has won the Canadian Women's Championship a record number of five times and has long been one of Canada's favourite CBC-TV sports journalists.

Colleen knows what it takes to make a dream come true better than almost anyone and in this speech, she describes how she has managed to balance a family and not one but two successful careers without ever giving up on her passion for life and her sport. Her wit and humility about her incredible accomplishments make this presentation funny and inspiring. And besides, where else are you going to hear about the impact that Olympic random drug testing has on a suburban neighbourhood? Let Colleen Jones share her secrets for persistence and patience with you.

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