Finding Your Summit with Mark Pattison explores resilience, leadership, peak performance, and overcoming adversity. Mark is a former NFL player, Seven Summits mountaineer, Mount Everest summiter, Emmy Award winner, entrepreneur, author, and former Sports Illustrated executive. Through inspiring conversations with athletes, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, discover powerful lessons on mental toughness, personal growth, success, and achieving meaningful goals in business and life.
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EP: Jim Rome - From The Jungle to Reinvention: 30 Years of Sports Radio Dominance and What's Next
["Host Mark Pattison sits down with Jim Rome, the legendary sports broadcaster, radio icon, and host of The Reinvention Project podcast who has spent over three decades dominating the sports media landscape, revealing why his journey from market 174 in Santa Barbara to building The Jungle empire required visualizing success years before the opportunity arrived, how maintaining perspective and…
Mark Pattison - From NFL to Seven Summits: How to Achieve Greatness. EP 306
Host Mark Pattison delivers a powerful solo episode breaking down the exact blueprint for achieving greatness, revealing why reaching the top of your potential isn't about talent or luck but about making a fundamental choice between five dispositions that determine everything: bad, average, good, great, or phenomenal. In this deeply personal and actionable conversation, Mark shares the hard-earned…
EP: Michael Allison - From Gladiator to Civilian: Transforming Performance Beyond the Arena
["Host Mark Pattison sits down with Michael Allison, a renowned performance coach, leadership expert, and author of The Performance Code who has spent decades working with elite athletes, business leaders, and high achievers including speaking engagements at Harvard Business School, helping individuals understand how their physiology responds to pressure and how to shift from fight mode to…
EP: Amanda Gunville - From Lee Steinberg's Agency to Cancer Survivor: Finding Joy in the Fight
["Host Mark Pattison sits down with Amanda Gunville, a sports business executive, entrepreneur, and breast cancer survivor who spent over two decades working alongside legendary sports agent Lee Steinberg before facing a life-altering diagnosis that transformed her perspective on joy, resilience, and what truly matters when everything is on the line. In this deeply personal and inspiring…
EP: Kenton Cool - 20 Everest Summits: The Mountain Guide Who Turned Alpine Dreams into Reality
Host Mark Pattison sits down with Kenton Cool, one of the world's most accomplished high-altitude mountain guides who has successfully summited Mount Everest an astonishing 20 times, making him one of only a handful of Western guides who continuously return to the world's highest peak year after year. In this electrifying conversation between two mountaineers who first met at Everest Base Camp in…
EP: Jeff Chandler - From Husky Football to CEO: Building Culture and Crushing Burgers at 50+ places
Host Mark Pattison sits down with Jeff Chandler, former CEO of HopDoddy Burger Bar who spent over two decades building restaurant empires and just completed his final day leading a 50+ location better burger concept across nine states, revealing why the leadership lessons learned under legendary University of Washington football coach Don James became the blueprint for creating culture-driven…
EP: Fred Couples - From Jefferson Park to the Masters: A Seattle Golf Legend's Journey
Host Mark Pattison sits down with Fred Couples, a legendary PGA Tour champion, Masters winner, and one of golf's most beloved figures who has spent over four decades competing at the highest levels of professional golf while maintaining one of the smoothest swings the game has ever seen. In this deeply personal and entertaining conversation, Fred shares his extraordinary journey from a nine year…
EP: Tim O'Donnell - From Naval Academy Swimmer to Ironman Podium: Chasing the Kona Dream
Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Tim O'Donnell, a professional Ironman triathlete, over 50-time podium finisher, and endurance athlete who has competed at the highest levels of triathlon for nearly two decades, establishing himself as one of the most consistent performers at the Ironman World Championship in Kona. In this inspiring conversation, Tim shares his…
EP 296: Mike Hulbert - From PGA Tour Champion to CBS Rules Expert: Inside the Ropes
"Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Mike Hulbert, a three-time PGA Tour winner, 26-time major championship competitor, and CBS Sports rules analyst who has spent over four decades at the highest levels of professional golf. In this entertaining and insightful conversation, Mike shares his extraordinary journey from winning the FedEx St. Jude Classic in his…
EP 298: Frank Fumich: Surviving Mt EVERST and living to tell about it.
"Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison reconnects with Frank Fumich, an accomplished adventure athlete and mountaineer who just returned from successfully summiting Mount Everest using a revolutionary three-week rapid ascent approach after pre-acclimatizing for two months in a hypoxic tent in his Virginia guest room. In this raw and deeply emotional conversation recorded just…