Finding Your Summit
279 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsMark 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.
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Dr. Charles Weaver - Cancer Connect
October 19, 2018 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBDr. Charles Weaver is an oncologist who founded Cancer Connect. Dr. Weaver views researching or working with cancer patients as the most positive for a doctor to do. For him, the work is an opportunity to engage with people who need information, hope and a guide. Charles life’s focus began to change. Though he was a successful oncologist, Dr. Weaver turned to, like anyone, the internet for answers. This process led to a realization that the patient’s experience, once diagnosed, was a maze of ...
Brett Archibald - Overboard in the Indian Ocean
October 12, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 47.4 MBBrett Archibald spent 28 hours alone, lost at sea with nothing but his faith, family and friends to guide him. A case of food poisoning puts Brett on the railing of the ship in a storm as he and friends crossed the Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. At some point, Brett blacked out and was thrown into the ocean. Once he came to, Brett watched as the ship continued on without him. 8 hours after falling, Brett's friends finally realized the horrible truth.
Bill Valenti - Linguist, Banker, Founder, Musician, Survivor
October 05, 2018 12:00 - 45 minutes - 26.1 MBBill Valenti is a banker, an entrepreneur, a cancer survivor, and a protest songwriter. Bill’s life is packed full of accomplishments. His tale starts by busking on the liberal revolutionary streets of Paris while attending school in the 60's. Linguist Next, is the Vietnam war. Bill decided to enlist. He was assigned to the Defense Language Institue in Monterey Ca. Bill became a Chinese linguist to counter the efforts of Chinese forces against US interests. Banker That experience directly led...
070: NFL QB Steve Beuerlein, Creating Opportunity to Grow, Through Change
September 28, 2018 12:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBNFL quarterback Steve Beuerlein played for six different teams, over 14 seasons. Steve played for the Dallas Cowboys in 1992/93 season, the year the team won Super Bown XXVII. Before stepping the NFL field, Beuerlein started at QB for Notre Dame. Steve established himself as a QB ready for the next level by breaking most of the passing records while starting 39 or 46 games at the school. Raiders It'd be easy to look at Steve's career and see the high moments while missing the challenges. Dra...
069: Raha Moharrak
September 21, 2018 12:00 - 48 minutes - 28.1 MBGrowing up in Saudi Arabia, females didn't pick internationally famous mountain climber as an occupation. However, Raha Moharrak was an odd one (her words) who didn't handle authority well. Always struggling to fit into the cookie cutter mold, hyper and opinionated Raha sought out spots as an outlet for her energy. Now Raha is an international brand ambassador, public speaker and has climbed the 7 Summits. Beyond expectations indeed.
067: Vern Tejas - 7 Summits 10X
September 14, 2018 12:00 - 43 minutes - 20.3 MBVern Tejas has spent his life in the mountains. In this episode we discuss his achievements, evolution as a climber and his ability to make correct choices in complex settings. First, his list of accomplishments is beyond extraordinary. Tejas is the first person to ever climb the 7 summits 10 times each; the 70 Summits. Vern summited Denali 55 times. Teejas' 39 summits of Vinson, in Antartica, remains the record for most ever. Second, Vern is a leader in solo winter ascents. This particular ...
067: Making a Difference with former NFL Player Tafa Jefferson
September 07, 2018 12:00 - 42 minutes - 17.1 MBTafa Jefferson has never taken an easy path. He started football late, not playing until his senior high school season. After choosing UOP, the school dropped its football program. Undaunted Tafa stayed at UOP and worked his way through the schools emerging entrepreneurial program. After graduation, Tafa was drafted in the 1st round of the NFL Europe draft by the Chicago Bears. Before he could get started, injuries to both his and his shoulder ended his football career before it truly began.
067: Making a Difference with Tafa Jefferson
September 07, 2018 12:00Tafa Jefferson has never taken an easy path. He started football late, not playing until his senior high school season. After choosing UOP, the school dropped its football program. Undaunted Tafa stayed at UOP and worked his way through the schools emerging entrepreneurial program. After graduation, Tafa was drafted in the 1st round of the NFL Europe draft by the Chicago Bears. Before he could get started, injuries to both his and his shoulder ended his football career before it truly began.
065: Perfect Days With Cokie Berenyi
August 29, 2018 03:18 - 43 minutes - 30.4 MBCokie Berenyi is working for a #perfectday. Cokie and Mark climbed Denali together, sharing a tent and working on the same rope team. Their mutual appreciation for one another's spirit, determination and focus was realized on Denali as they pushed through to the summit. Whether summiting a mountain or moving her life to Colorado, Cokie is focuses on flexing her fear muscle; using it to get past comfortable and move up where growth begins. Like in climbing, Cokie advises using life's big mus...
064: Winning At Life After Football with Mark Brunell
August 24, 2018 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBLife has a habit of throwing us into difficult places. Yet, it also has the power to reveal our best qualities amidst those times. Mark Brunell is a perfect example of positivity. After going through a lot during his days on the NFL, he has remained undefeated, both on the field and in life after football. He shares with us almost everything about football, from playing in a small high school to choosing Washington and getting injured, and the values he got along the way. Bringing up the many...
063: A Life Of Thriving with Coach Elizabeth Miner
August 17, 2018 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBWe all get stuck, most especially when life throws us in situations we never expected. The key to all of that is to keep on moving forward. Thriving day-by-day, Elizabeth Miner shares her journey. As a single mother of two at such a young age, she has endured through the struggles and persevered to becoming the successful businesswoman and coach that she is now. She shares some great values in life that we could apply to ours and gives a range of advice, from handling limiting beliefs to taki...
Rewind 04: The Wellness Cancer Summit: The Latest Technology In Health, Fitness, And Beauty with Cynthia Besteman
August 16, 2018 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBCynthia Besteman of the successful skincare line, Violets Are Blue, returns to talk about a very exciting partnership. As audience would probably recall, Cynthia previously shared how she had overcome breast cancer and developed her natural skincare line through the whole process. Cynthia updates that the company's doing great and growing by leaps and bounds. Her biggest news is that they are partnering with Donna Karan's Urban Zen as well as with SaltyGirl Beauty to bring a first of its kind...
062: Having The Faith To Overcome Life's Adversities with Michael Ketterer
August 10, 2018 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBStanding up through life’s adversities says a lot about a person; more so when amidst all of these, you still continue to offer a helping hand to others. Michael Ketterer is a man who not only possesses a great voice that deserves a golden buzzer on America’s Got Talent; he also has a great heart and a strong moral compass that inspires many. He shares to us the value and gift of family as he recounts how, together with his wife, they have come to expand their family by adopting 5 children. A...
061: Jim Mora Sr. on His Football Career, Life, Achievements, And Disappointments
August 03, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBMoving forward to your dream path is not always about taking on the uphill climb. Sometimes, you meet some downward turns that test you. The same goes with former NFL head coach of the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts Jim Mora Sr. His NFL career took its own ups and downs, but with hard work, timing, and luck in between, he has taken the challenge and moved up to the Big League. He shares his path to success and reminisces about the events that took him to where he is now—from taking...
060: Setting Your Own Rules And Rising Above The Competition with Gabby Reece
July 27, 2018 10:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBThere are never new ideas, just new applications of old ideas. What started out as simple pool exercises and turned into a creative expression and a full pool training workout. American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model, and actress Gabby Reece says the pool offers a no gravity environment that lets you train hard in a way that you’re not impacting your joints and completely pounding yourself in every workout. It is also a great place to learn how to master some ...
059: Building Up The Courage To Carve Your Own Path with Nate Boyer
July 20, 2018 10:00 - 49 minutes - 56.8 MBTo live the way you want and do the things you love to do, sometimes you have to get off the treadmill and carve your own path. Nate Boyer knows this all too well. Nate wanted to choose his own path and rebelled against going the linear path of going to college and getting a good job. He wanted to embark on adventures and make a difference in the world. He ended up working with autistic kids and eventually found his way flying to Darfur, Africa to help with the refugee efforts where his life ...
058: Transforming Under The Three Strikes Law with Kenyatta Leal
July 13, 2018 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBSociety thinks that everybody is just sitting inside prison plotting out their next crime when they get out. Kenyatta Leal says that's definitely not the case. There are men and women inside, who are trying to change their lives and trying to do better. Kenyatta fell under the three-strikes law and ended up in prison 25 years to life and ultimately ended up co-founding The Last Mile prison rehabilitation program. It took a long time for Kenyatta to take accountability for being incarcerated, ...
Rewind 03: Life Without Limits with College Football Analyst, Filmmaker & Scholar Yogi Roth
July 12, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBThe biggest issue we see our country angry at times is because maybe we're not having conversations, especially uncomfortable ones. Pac-12 Network’s college football analyst and New York Times bestselling author Yogi Roth finds it really interesting what you find out when you talk to people from different backgrounds, races, religions, political leans, especially in this era right now. In his podcast, Light Without Limits, he explores the many ways how people’s minds are artistic to understan...
057: Wellness Elevated Through Loving Oneself with Todd Dean
July 06, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 42.2 MBWhen you believe that whatever you're doing is tied to a purpose much bigger than yourself, great things start to happen. Todd Dean, CEO of Sanjara Wellness Elevated, is tied to such a purpose. Sanjara is a treatment facility and spa that unites Western medicine with Eastern practices to facilitate healing of the mind, body, and spirit from such ailments as depression, trauma, addiction, loneliness, obesity, and other disorders. Todd reveals that with his past issues with women and alcohol, a...
Rewind 02: Break It Down: Insights From New Perspectives with American War Hero Pete Turner
July 05, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MBLife is a mixture of different perspectives and views. American war hero Pete Turner served on numerous tours of duty including Croatia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, but this time around, he’s busy doing his own podcast called Break It Down. Pete describes it as a blend of different perspectives and stories from people from all walks of life and all types of profession, talking about the reality of their lives and what they’re doing for the world. From being in the war zone with all the action, som...
056: Hope After a Spinal Cord Injury With Chris Norton
June 29, 2018 10:00 - 37 minutes - 35 MBYour life can change in an instant. Chris Norton’s changed forever in a football accident, resulting in severe spinal cord injury. Imagine being told by doctors that you would never be able to move again. Are you going to spend the rest of your life feeling sorry for yourself? Or are you going to make a stand? When they tell you that you have a 3% chance of moving anything below your neck again, forget the 97. Focus on the 3. After his injury, Chris beat the odds and began to gain movement be...
Rewind 01: The Never Ending Quest For A Culture of Success with Jim Mora
June 28, 2018 10:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBThey say as a coach in football or in professional sports in general, you're hired to get fired. Jim Mora has been through it before. He says it has taken him a little bit of time to rebound, get his bearings back and progress forward, but he’s always found a way to come out on the other side in a better place. He shares that one of the ways that he was able to focus when he was going through adversity in the past was to push boundaries physically through exercise or physical activity and jus...
Rewind 01: The Never Ending Quest For A Culture of Success with Jim Mora
June 28, 2018 05:26They say as a coach in football or in professional sports in general, you're hired to get fired. Jim Mora has been through it before. He says it has taken him a little bit of time to rebound, get his bearings back and progress forward, but he’s always found a way to come out on the other side in a better place. He shares that one of the ways that he was able to focus when he was going through adversity in the past was to push boundaries physically through exercise or physical activity and ju...
055: Deep Undercover: Life After Espionage With Former Spy Jack Barsky
June 22, 2018 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBThe infamous war between the CIA and Russia’s KGB is well-documented, but which of these events are fact, and which ones are simply embellished? Following over ten years of clandestine operations for the KGB, Jack Barsky is finally ready to tell all in his hotly-anticipated book, “Deep Undercover”. Born in East Germany, Jack was later recruited by Stasi, the East German police, to be brought up into the whole KGB program. His mission was to come to New York City, to do whatever it takes to in...
054: Jon Gordon: Roadmap To True Accomplishment On The Energy Bus
June 15, 2018 10:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThe journey to true accomplishment is a bumpy ride. How does one acquire a powerful roadmap to overcome adversity and bring out the best in yourself and your team? The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with keen insights that will penet...
053: Evan Phillips: Merging Music And Mountain Climbing
June 08, 2018 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBEvan Phillips climbed mountains until an injury took him out of the game. Now he pours his energy into making music after his last critically-acclaimed hit, Silhouettes, which represented a new energy for Evan Phillips, one of Alaska’s most enduring rockers. Music became the tonic for Evan Phillips’ soul after the injury. He changed his mindset, learned to play the guitar, and successfully revived his creative impulse. Now, Evan runs 'The Firn Line,' a podcast about the lives of climbers, art...
052: The Last Mile: Breaking The Cycle Of Incarceration with Aly Tamboura
June 01, 2018 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAlmost 60% percent of all inmates that are released with no training end up back in jail. If it wasn’t for The Last Mile, an entrepreneurial training program preparing incarcerated individuals for successful re-entry into society, Aly Tamboura would have been part of that statistic. Aly was sentenced to seventeen years in prison, the majority of that stint being in San Quentin located north of San Francisco, one of the most notorious hardcore prisons. In a fascinating conversation, Aly talks ...
051: Mike Hattrup: The World Of Extreme Skiing
May 25, 2018 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe whole game has changed in terms of the way people train today, especially in extreme sports. Legendary skier and erstwhile actor in Blizzard of Aahhh’s, Mike Hattrup can attest to that fact that everything seems to be much more organized at a much younger age. From weight training to all these other things that help lead towards being better at your particular craft. But despite all these modern men of steel, Mike remains unfazed. He understands that Sun Valley is not an easy place to wor...
050: Christine Schwan: Improving Professional Sports Performance With Yoga
May 18, 2018 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBChristine Schwan holds state and national championships in fitness. Christine began practicing yoga as a way to find more balance after life changes brought her to the sacred space of single motherhood with two small boys. She fell in love with the practice of yoga then went on to receive her yoga teaching certification in 2008. Christine is currently an adjunct professor of Anatomy and Physiology, certified life mastery coach, breath and meditation instructor and yoga coach and instructor. H...
049: Joshua Mantz: Overcoming Trauma And Cheating Death
May 11, 2018 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBHaving a career in the military means you’re always going to be overcoming trauma and cheating death in order to survive. Joshua Mantz’s career in the military started when his step-father planted the seed in his mind when he was twelve years old. He was already in the academy as a freshman when 9/11 happened, and it took everything he had not to drop out so he could enlist and fight the fight down range with the larger team. After graduating from the academy, he was sent to Iraq where the f...
048: Alex Deibold: Overcoming Adversity, Before And After Becoming An Olympic Medalist
May 04, 2018 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWe’re a product of our own environment. Olympic skier and snowboarder, Alex Deibold, grew up in the Vermont. At age four, the slopes and the mountains became his playground. Eventually, he got recruited to go to a ski academy, and that started his journey for the Winter Olympics. Alex shares his experiences and his path to becoming an olympic medalist in 2014, the lessons he’s learned along the way, and why he’s paying it forward.
047: Cynthia Besteman: Overcoming Breast Cancer And Creating Violets Are Blue
April 27, 2018 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBGoing through seven years of breast cancer led Cynthia Besteman to create Violets Are Blue, a skincare collection of products that is natural and safe for the body as well as the environment. Cynthia talks about the changes in her skin, her hair, her fingers, and everything as she was undergoing radiation and all kinds of treatments that wreaked havoc on her body. This is the very reason she designed products that are 100% natural and aligned with the body so you’re not putting chemicals into...
046: Scott Huesing: The Power of Connection in Leadership
April 20, 2018 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBIn the military, they all have different mission sets. Scott Huesing believes this is true for life outside of military as well. He learned all about the power of connection while he was a commanding officer at the Marine Corps. He was involved in one of the most harrowing warfare ever in Iraq and he relives his experiences during his 24-year military career. He shares that being a leader is not just about barking orders but understanding what his troops were going through, how valuable their...
045: Maura Sweeney: “Living Happy Inside Out”, The Mantra for an Authentic Life
April 13, 2018 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBTo live an authentic life, you need to choose happiness that comes from within. When you are free from the outside circumstances that defines who you are, you then start living happy inside out. But this choice in itself takes a lot of courage, which Maura Sweeney didn’t have a lot of because her path to becoming a lawyer was laid out for her. She knew it wasn’t what she wanted to do, but at the same time she didn’t know what she really wanted. Maura shares how she conquered her fear of willi...
044: Laird Hamilton: Big Wave Surfing’s Biggest, Boldest and Bravest
April 06, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBIf you’re big on surfing, there’s no way you haven’t heard of Laird Hamilton. He has been labeled as the sport’s most complete surfer and the biggest, boldest, and bravest big wave surfer there is. Growing up with a surfing background, Laird shares how he got into the sport himself after his adoptive father’s footsteps, and the intensive training he had to go through to master each discipline of surfing. In his life, he has always taken every wave, of which a movie of the same title has been ...
043: Sparsh Shah: Combining Indian Classical Music with Hip Hop
March 30, 2018 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThey say that the eyes are the window to the soul. That has never been more true than when Sparsh Shah looked into his parents’ eyes and told them not to worry or give up on him. He was told he was going to die, but knew he was meant to do something amazing in this world. Sparsh was born with 30 to 40 fractures. He has a medical condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, an incurable genetic-borne disorder which causes a person’s bones to be extremely fragile. He’s had over 130 plus fractures ...
042: Glenn Derby: Finding Success Through Finding Purpose
March 23, 2018 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBGlenn Derby was an NFL football player who had all the money and popularity before everything around him crashed down. Glenn was battling with alcohol and medication, and struggled with finding purpose and happiness. His alcohol addiction started at the young age of thirteen, influenced by his parents being party coordinators at the time. He got dependent on pain medication when he was taking them to relieve pain from football injuries. When he finally admitted his dependency problem, he star...
041: Lee Tomlinson: Throat Cancer Survivor Who Conquered His Fear And Learned The Lesson Of Kindness
March 16, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBMost men think they are the toughest person in the world, until a life threatening sickness takes over their life and body. After getting kicked out of his own Hollywood Studio and winning the legal battle that lasted for four years, Lee Tomlinson was diagnosed with stage three throat cancer. He was never a quitter, but the trials of battling cancer had him contemplating taking his own life to ease the burden of his suffering family. But perseverance paid off. Now Lee is able to share his sto...
040: Pirie Jones Grossman: From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs Through Using Soul Centered Life Coaching
March 09, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBPirie Jones Grossman looks like she has it all together. She’s a successful personal coach and works on helping people make their lives better. Unbeknownst to many, she had to overcome a fair amount of trials and soul searching. At 39, she couldn’t have kids, she got divorced from a well-known Hollywood director, and suffered an emotional breakdown. Being in the movie and film business, her identity revolved around projecting herself on camera and obsessing about the perfect body, the perfect...
039: Pete Turner: American War Hero on Overcoming Obstacles Behind Enemy Lines
March 02, 2018 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBPete Turner, American War Hero, talks about his experiences during his tour of duty in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He specialized in going into conflict zones out into the towns and finding people that will provide valuable and classified information. Pete had had to reinvent himself a couple of times to stay focused and continue to function as he throws himself in the middle of war-torn areas, as well as with his re-immersion back home and coming to terms with life issues. Surviving that ...
038: Betsy Pake: The Happiness Coach Finding Greatness Through Struggles
February 23, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBOvercoming a lot of struggles in life will lead to finding greatness and great happiness. But a lot of us still ask, “How do I get there?” Happiness Coach, Betsy Pake’s answer to moving forward is to stop getting caught in the parts of our lives that have no light or joy. Betsy lived a great life because she had an awesome mom. When she lost her light and joy to a car accident, she went through the motions of living almost mechanically. She shares her stories of going from “What am I doing he...
037: Ed Viesturs: American Climber Of 14 8000 Meter Peaks On Reaching Impossible Goals
February 16, 2018 11:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBClimbing mountains is an incredible feat that takes incredible people with incredible goals. Ed Viesturs is one of these people who has climbed fourteen 8,000 meter peaks. It took him 18 years to get to all those summits and 21 attempts. From all these climbs he learned a lot of things from guys who were above him, and these guys learned from guys above them. One of these life lesson essential to reaching impossible goals is tempering ambition. It’s an 8,000 meter climb, but when you get to t...
036: Mike Vowels, Acrobat Skier And Author OF Return To Paradise. A Skier’s Journey
February 09, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThere is no expiration date to do the great things we can do in our lives. The first step is to have a goal and work hard to achieve that goal. Mike Vowels has been hitting all his goals since he was nineteen, driving a Porsche 914 after winning one ski tournament after another. But it was clear to him that he would not be an acrobat skier forever, so when it was his time to step away he graciously did so. But skiing was part of his life, even when he hit a tree in 1985 that got him paralyzed...
035: Steve Largent, The NFL Hall of Famer With No Fear
February 02, 2018 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBFootball will always have bigger, stronger and faster guys. But this didn’t bother Steve Largent who is 5’ 11.5”, he had a job to do for his team and he did it. The only thing that was on his mind when he went out to a game was that he could catch everything that was thrown at him. But like most players of the sport, Steve experienced the bitterness of being cut from a team. But this wasn’t a setback to him, rather another opportunity to be better. Now Steve is an NFL Hall of Famer with a pro...
034: Mandy Harvey: Deaf Singer With An Angelic Voice And Incredible Talent
January 26, 2018 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBThe judges of America’s Got Talent could have never known that a beautiful voice could come from a young lady who couldn’t hear. Born with connective tissue disorder that affected joints and ligaments, Mandy Harvey got sick a lot of times and then finally lost her ability to hear. She describes the experience as falling down to a dark well and staying at the bottom for a long time, until she made the decision to start climbing up the walls. She wanted to do more in her life other than just gi...
033: Dara Kurtz: Crush Cancer Head On And Live A Crazy Perfect Life
January 19, 2018 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBIn this technological age of social media and the internet, it is common to see people living a crazy perfect life. These three words has more meaningful for Dara Kurtz after surviving breast cancer. Her diagnosis of the lethal disease came at 2014 when she had two young daughters who had to process what the entire family was about to go through. Dara was able to defeat and crush cancer head on, but not without losing herself and not knowing where to go and what to do next. Dara shares her st...
032: Jake Olson, Blind Football Player On Rising Up To An Amazing Career
January 12, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBIn life, there are different things that hit you at different times, but what’s important is how you get back up when this happens. One of the hardest thing that can hit you in life is being diagnosed with retinoblastoma as early as 8 months old. Because of this rare eye cancer, Jake Olson lost his eyes. This setback however, did not keep him from living a life with amazing opportunities that led him to become a blind football player. But other than playing as the long snapper for the USC Tro...
031: Hugh Millen: A Lookback On The Challenging Life And Career Of An NFL Quarterback
January 05, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBBouncing around the league for 10 years wasn’t an experience NFL quarterback Hugh Millen planned, but he was still grateful for it. His football career lead him to play with 93 pro ball players and he learned from coaches that went to the Super Bowl. But his beginnings as an athlete and a person weren’t as smooth as other star players in the league. His mother had seven broken marriages, with his first step-dad being a heavy-weight boxer who physically abused his family. Although these stings...
30: Rich Barton On Global Entrepreneurship; From Waiting On Tables To Pitching Expedia To Bill Gates
December 29, 2017 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBBecause his parents set an important example about work ethics, Rich Barton became focused on work and businesses and grew up doing odds and ends jobs like being an ice cream truck driver and a waiter. Even in college, he started an exterior house painting company. After graduating in college, Rich started working for Microsoft at a time the internet was just about to make a boom. He knew the connectivity to information that the internet offered was going to change the world; not just enterta...
029: Kacey McCallister: On Conquering The Spartan Race Challenge And How To Rise Up From Adversity
December 22, 2017 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBKacey McCallister never wasted time and tears when he lost his legs from an accident when he was just six years old. His parents didn’t treat him any different from other kids who had to do their chores and go to school. What’s amazing is that Kacey found out that even after losing his two legs, he continually pushes himself to his limits to rise up to life and personal achievements like a Spartan Race Challenge and in the process, inspire others to do the same. Learn why the things that suck...