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Finding Your Summit

Finding Your Summit

De: Mark Pattison
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Mark Pattison is a former NFL player, Sports Illustrated Exec, Philanthropist & Mountaineer who completed the Seven Summits on May 23rd, 2021 with his ascent of Mt Everest. NFL360 created a film called Searching for the Summit which followed Mark's journey up Mt EVEREST and won a EMMY for best picture in 2022. Through his life’s journey in business, sports & charity work, Mark has been fortunate to meet some of the world’s most incredible people who share their stories of how they overcame adversity and found their way.Mark Pattison Actividad Física, Dietas y Nutrición Economía Ejercicio y Actividad Física Fútbol (Americano) Higiene y Vida Saludable
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  • EP 286: Jason Kroger - From 7,200 Volts to World's First Bionic Man: Redefining Impossible

    EP 286: Jason Kroger - From 7,200 Volts to World's First Bionic Man: Redefining Impossible
    Mar 31 2026
    Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Jason Kroger, a remarkable survivor who transformed unimaginable tragedy into a mission of hope and inspiration. In this profoundly moving conversation, Jason shares his extraordinary journey from a devastating electrocution accident that claimed both his hands at age 29 to becoming the first person in the world with two bionic hands and a sought-after motivational speaker who proves that limitations are only as powerful as we allow them to be. This episode offers a masterclass in resilience, demonstrating how someone can lose everything they've ever known about their physical capabilities and not only survive but thrive, refusing to accept the role of victim and instead choosing to inspire millions with a message of faith, determination, and relentless pursuit of normalcy. Jason opens up about the moment 70,200 volts of electricity stopped his heart, the agonizing choice his wife faced in the hospital, and why his singular goal of holding his daughters again became the foundation for rebuilding an extraordinary life. Key Topics Discussed: March 1st, 2008: The Day Everything ChangedJason reveals the details of the accident that altered his life forever. At 29 years old, married with two young daughters (21 months and 3 months old), he was taking what he thought would be a quick ATV ride around his grandfather's farm in Kentucky when he struck a downed power line. Learn about the horrifying moment when 70,200 volts of electricity—more than the electric chair—coursed through his body for 30 seconds, stopping his heart completely. Discover how his cousin watched helplessly as sparks flew from Jason's body like Fourth of July fireworks, burning cigarette-sized holes through his clothing, and how hitting the ground hard enough after being thrown from the ATV miraculously restarted his heart. The Hospital Reality: From Thumb to Both Arms In a sobering revelation, Jason shares how he spent the entire helicopter ride to Vanderbilt Hospital convinced he was only going to lose his thumb. Discover the moment he saw his catheter bag filled with urine the color of Dr. Pepper—a sign his kidneys were shutting down from the poisonous toxins created when electricity burns you from the inside out. Learn about the harrowing experience in the hydro room where they pressure-washed his dead skin off without medication while waiting for his wife to arrive, and the devastating conversation where doctors told his 27-year-old wife she had 20 minutes to sign release forms allowing them to amputate whatever necessary or he would die. Waking Up to a New Reality: Both Hands Gone Jason describes the moment he woke from a three-day induced coma, strapped to a bed with no idea what had happened to his body. Hear about the powerful conversation with his father, a former Army drill sergeant who had instilled in Jason the belief that you set goals and work relentlessly to achieve them. Learn why Jason's first thought was to talk to his dad, and the emotional moment when his father delivered the news: "In order to save your life, they had to amputate both of your arms." Jason reflects on what it means to suddenly lose every sensation you've ever known—the feeling of reaching in your pocket, touching silk or cotton, holding your wife's hand—at just 29 years old. The One Goal That Mattered: Holding His Daughters AgainDiscover the transformative conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Guy, who told Jason he'd be hospitalized for months and asked him to think of one realistic goal to accomplish during that time. Without hesitation, Jason knew exactly what he needed: to hold his daughters again. Learn about the emotional negotiation where Jason convinced Dr. Guy to unhook him from every tube, catheter, and monitor so he could go to the waiting room—risking having to have his feeding tube reinserted if he didn't start eating. Jason shares the profound peace he felt after accomplishing this singular, most important goal, and how it gave him confidence that everything else would fall into place. The Bionic Breakthrough: First Person in the World with Two Bionic Hands Jason unveils his journey to obtaining the revolutionary prosthetics that changed everything. Despite being told he'd never receive the $150,000-per-hand electric bionic devices because insurance would deny coverage, Jason fought relentlessly and became the first person in the world with two multi-articulating bionic hands. Learn how the technology works through muscle sensors on his forearms that detect when he feels like raising or lowering his wrist, opening and closing the hands and rotating them through thought-controlled muscle movements. Discover why Jason has been the first person in the world five times with the newest bionic hand technology, and his current work with doctors on internal sensors that would provide actual sensation.
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    28 m
  • EP 285: Jon Gordon - From Mr. Negative to Positive Leadership Guru: Overcoming to Inspire Millions

    EP 285: Jon Gordon - From Mr. Negative to Positive Leadership Guru: Overcoming to Inspire Millions
    Mar 24 2026
    Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Jon Gordon, the internationally renowned leadership expert and bestselling author of 32 books including the iconic The Energy Bus, for an inspiring conversation about positive leadership, the power of process over results, and why the greatest leaders learn to love the battle rather than fear it. In this energizing episode, Jon reveals the counterintuitive truth that he's not naturally positive but rather has spent his life mastering the art of overcoming negativity, and shares the profound insights he's gained from working with championship coaches and Fortune 500 companies around the world. This episode offers a masterclass in sustainable excellence, demonstrating why commitment always trumps goals, how forgiveness unlocks creativity, and why the teams that connect deeply become the ones that commit fully. Jon opens up about his journey from restaurant owner to thought leader, the writers block that changed his philosophy forever, and the revolutionary culture-building framework he uses with NFL coaches like Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell, and Mike Macdonald to create winning organizations.\n\nKey Topics Discussed:\n\nFrom 32 Books to the Next Challenge: The Power of Loving What's Next\nJon reveals how he discovered his calling to write and speak at age 30 after losing his job during the dot-com crash and selling his struggling restaurants. Discover why he believes everyone has a unique skill set and his was specifically to write books, speak about them, and share transformative messages. Learn about his upcoming book The Power of Positive Habits launching in May, which focuses not on habit strategies like Atomic Habits but on the specific habits that elevate you personally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. Jon explains why he's already thinking about his next few books and how each new idea emerges and crystallizes into frameworks worth sharing.\n\nWhy Leadership Needs the Word "Positive": We've Polluted the Concept\nIn one of the episode's most powerful insights, Jon explains why we shouldn't need the term "positive leadership" at all—it should just be leadership. Just like we use the term "organic food" because we've polluted our food supply, we use "positive leadership" because we've polluted leadership itself. Discover why human nature leads to bad leadership through ego, self-preservation, survival instincts, and focusing on "me" instead of "we." Jon reveals that most leaders are either leading from their wounds or healing from them, and until you heal your wounds, you'll hurt people in your leadership.\n\nThe Forgiveness Breakthrough: How Letting Go Unlocked Creativity\nJon shares the deeply personal story of how his biological father left when he was one year old, and years later when he decided to pursue writing and speaking as his calling, he couldn't write. He visited his father with his daughter, forgave him, and when he returned home, the words finally flowed. Learn why if he hadn't let go of the old, he couldn't have created the new, and why leaders carrying emotional weight find it affects their health, wellbeing, mindset, and leadership ability. Jon introduces the principle from his new book: forgive fast—the sooner you forgive, the faster you grow.\n\nLove Casts Out Fear: The Game-Changing Mindset Shift\nDiscover the profound revelation Jon received during writers block while working on The Carpenter: love casts out fear. He explains how focusing on loving the reader, loving the writing, and loving the process eliminated his anxiety and unlocked the story. This principle has become central to his coaching work with NFL quarterbacks, players, and coaches who allow the joy to be sucked from them. Learn why when you focus on love—loving the battle, loving the competition, loving what you get to do—fear dissipates and you rise to a higher level in wellbeing, mindset, and performance.\n\nCommitments Over Goals: Why Every Team Wants a Super Bowl But Only One Wins\nJon unveils the core philosophy from his book The Seven Commitments of a Great Team, which he wrote in just 16 days. He explains why everyone talks about goals but your goals won't take you where you want to go—every team wants to win a Super Bowl but only one does. Commitments lead you to your goals. Commitments are greater than goals. Goals are great, but commitments lead to greatness. Learn about the commitment to vision and mission, the commitment to giving your best, getting better, staying positive through challenges, and most importantly, the commitment to each other.\n\nThe Secret Formula: Devotion Over Discipline\nJon breaks down his formula for giving your best, revealing that while discipline and consistency are important, it's devotion that drives discipline.
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    29 m
  • [DELETED ON YOUTUBE] EP 284: Kristin Ulmer - From US Ski Team Extreme Athlete to Fear Expert:

    [DELETED ON YOUTUBE] EP 284: Kristin Ulmer - From US Ski Team Extreme Athlete to Fear Expert:
    Mar 17 2026
    Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Kristen Ulmer, former US Ski Team mogul skier turned extreme skiing legend who held the title of best female big mountain extreme skier in the world for 12 consecutive years. In this paradigm-shifting conversation, Kristen reveals why everything we've been taught about conquering and overcoming fear is fundamentally wrong, and shares the revolutionary approach that transformed her from adrenaline junkie to thought leader on fear and anxiety. This episode offers a complete reframe on one of humanity's most misunderstood emotions, demonstrating why fear isn't something to be eliminated or overcome, but rather something to embrace intimately as a performance enhancer and pathway to flow states. Kristen shares powerful insights from her death-defying career jumping off 70-foot cliffs on skis, her interviews with legends like Alex Honnold and Laird Hamilton, and why the goal of being fearless is not only impossible but actually causing the anxiety epidemic plaguing modern society. Key Topics Discussed: From US Ski Team to Extreme Skiing Legend: Choosing Danger Over Amateur Status Kristen reveals how she went from mogul skiing on the US Ski Team to becoming the most celebrated female extreme skier in the world. Faced with a choice between remaining an amateur athlete or getting paid to jump off cliffs into powder from helicopters in Canada, she chose the latter because she couldn't afford to stay on the team. Discover how her natural talent in the air immediately caught filmmakers' attention and launched a 12-year reign at the top of one of the world's most dangerous sports. The Deadly Reality of Extreme Sports: Over 100 Friends Lost In a sobering moment, Kristen shares that she's lost over 100 friends to extreme sports, including four ex-boyfriends, and experienced more than 60 near-death experiences during her career. Learn what "extreme" truly means: the consequences of failure are death or injury. Despite media portrayals of athletes like Kristen, Alex Honnold, and Laird Hamilton as "fearless," she reveals the truth: none of them are fearless. They're all willing to feel fear to an extreme degree because it makes them feel alive. The Revolutionary Insight: Fear Times Intimacy Equals Flow Kristen unveils her groundbreaking framework that's transforming how elite performers and corporations understand fear. Fear times resistance equals anxiety, depression, insomnia, anger, and underperformance. But fear times intimacy equals flow states. She challenges flow expert Steven Kotler's assertion that "when there's fear involved, flow comes for free," clarifying that flow only comes when there's fear AND intimacy with that fear. This distinction separates the best in the world from everyone else. The Fearless Myth: Why No Expert Claims to Be One Discover why Kristen has virtually no competition as a thought leader on fear and anxiety. She reveals that she Googled "fear experts" and found nobody willing to claim that title, because we falsely believe that to be a fear expert, you must be fearless and teach others to be fearless—neither of which is possible or desirable. Learn why the subtitle of her book The Art of Fear is "Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead." Interviews with 26 Elite Athletes: Only 3 Understood Their Relationship with Fear For the documentary Voices of Fear, Kristen interviewed 26 professional danger sports athletes at the top of their game, spending two hours with each asking one question: What is your relationship with fear? Only three athletes—all in their 40s and the absolute best in the world at their sports—said they had an intimate relationship with fear. Twenty had no idea what their relationship was, citing clichés like "I don't let it get the better of me." Three became so upset at the suggestion they had fear that one nearly punched her in the face. Fear as Noun vs. Scared as Adjective: Redefining the Language Kristen makes a critical distinction that changes everything: fear is a noun, a feeling of discomfort in the body that's always present like food or oxygen. Scared or afraid are adjectives—only two ways fear shows up, and they're very rare. Fear also shows up as aliveness, presence, focus, intuition, and what we now call anxiety. We've stopped calling it fear because of stigma, but understanding this linguistic shift unlocks a completely different relationship with the emotion. The 4% Rule: Alex Honnold's Path to Free Soloing El Capitan Learn the exact process by which Alex Honnold went from regular climber to free soloing El Capitan. Kristen reveals the 4% rule:
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    36 m
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