7 Summits | 7 Rockstars
We have assembled a superstar team of speakers who will guide you through your 7 Summits Summit. You will not just hear them speak, but they will be beside you through every single activity. This is real interaction with some of the greatest minds and motivating personalities in the USA today.
FIND YOUR SUMMIT | REACH YOUR SUMMIT
You know the feeling after hearing an extraordinary speaker. For a moment, everything feels possible. You feel energized, focused, and ready for more. Then life resumes, and that sense of clarity slowly fades.
Seven Summits Summit is designed to break that cycle.
Our speakers do not arrive, deliver a talk, and disappear. They stay. You learn from them over an entire weekend, not just through their words, but through shared experience. You climb together, train together, and step into discomfort together. Lessons are reinforced through action, not applause.
By the end of the summit, you will have clearly identified your own summit and gained practical tools, mindset shifts, and skills to pursue it. Just as importantly, you leave connected to people who understand the journey and will continue to challenge and support you long after the weekend ends.
7 SUMMIT CONQUEROR, NFL VETERAN & SPORTS ILLUSTRATED EDITOR
Mark Pattison
Mark is a former NFL Player, philanthropist, podcaster and successful entrepreneur & currently an executive at Sports Illustrated and now has climbed all Seven Summits.
View more about Mark HERE.
HEAD NFL COACH
Jim Mora
Jim Mora is an American football coach who was most recently the head coach of the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to taking the job at UCLA, Mora served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL), coaching the Atlanta Falcons from 2004 to 2006 and Seattle Seahawks in 2009 and was an assistant coach in the NFL for over 20+ years. He has also served as a football analyst for the NFL Network, Fox Sports and ESPN.
Jim played college football with the Washington Huskies from 1980 to 1983, and began his coaching career there as a graduate assistant in 1984. He is the son of retired NFL head coach Jim Mora Senior who coached the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.
During his time in the NFL, Mora helped to start the Count on Me Foundation (https://www.countonmefoundation.org/) helping underprivileged kids in 5 different states raising millions of dollars and is also a brand ambassador for Higher Ground (https://highergroundusa.org/)
BLUE ANGELS PILOT
John Foley
John Foley is a former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels, a Sloan Fellow at Stanford School of Business, a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, gratitude guru and expert in the how of high performance teams. His exciting rare journey inspires awe, triggering keynote audiences to take action and rethink what they believe is possible. As the founder of the Glad To Be Here Foundation, he and his wife Carol have donated over 2 million dollars to over 400 charities worldwide and sponsor 37 children in 37 countries with a goal to sponsor a child in every country.
FORMER NFL LINEBACKER
David Vobora
David Michael Vobora is a former American football linebacker. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams with the final pick (252nd overall) in the 2008 NFL Draft, earning him the title of Mr. Irrelevant. David played 5 years in the NFL.
Upon retiring from the NFL in 2012, David opened Performance Vault Inc. in Dallas, TX, a sports performance training center for elite athletes and U.S. Special Forces.
In September 2014, Vobora founded the Adaptive Training Foundation. ATF is a 501(c)3 non-profit with a mission "to empower the human athlete, restore hope through movement, and redefine the limits of individuals with disabilities."[12] ATF provides free personalized physical training programs for injured veterans and people living with disabilities. Participants in this nine-week program receive a training regimen that is customized for their fitness goals and specific disabilities.[13]
ACTRESS AND PHILANTHROPIST
Mariel Hemmingway
As the granddaughter of illustrious author, Ernest Hemingway, Mariel was always destined to be well-known and publicly recognized. However, at the young age of 13, Mariel became famous in her own right when she made her silver screen debut in Lipstick. Four years later her work in Woody Allen's Manhattan earned her an Oscar® nomination. She has since made 30 films and numerous television appearances in series and as a host of several environmental and humanitarian documentaries.
Now at the age of 50, Mariel is the mother of two daughters, Dree (24) and Langley (23). For over 20 years, she has been pursuing her passion for yoga and health and is now seen as a voice of holistic and balanced health and well-being. As part of that role she has led wellness retreats all over America, sharing her insights about movement, silence, nutrition, and home. In 2003, she published her powerful bestselling memoir, Finding My Balance. A truly insightful and inspiring story, of her life's journey through the eyes of yoga and meditation. Mariel's second book called Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside out (Harper Collins San Francisco 2007), is a how-to guide to finding ones balance and health through self-empowering lifestyle techniques and is a huge success for Mariel and especially for those whom incorporate her inspiring advice. Her gluten-free, sugar-free cookbook is called Mariel's Kicthen and her latest book is called Running With Nature.
Mariel's passion is her love of the outdoors...connecting with nature and becoming younger through food, breath, exercise and nature. She has partnered with Robert Williams, an eco adventurer whose life has been dedicated to adventure, healing and nature in a new book and lifestyle company called The WillingWay. They are traveling all over the country sharing what they know about anti-aging, having fun and feeling great.
5 TIME OLYMPIC ATHLETE
Dara Torres
At the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, Olympic Speaker Dara Torres became the oldest swimmer to compete in the Olympic Games. She took three silver medals home, including the heartbreaking 50-meter freestyle race, where she missed the Gold by 1/100th of a second. America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results.
Today, Dara is a highly sought after Motivational Keynote Speaker for corporate conferences, leadership summits, fundraisers and especially women’s conferences.
As of 2019, this sports speaker was inducted into the United State Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame among other Olympic legends.
In total, the Olympic swimmer has competed in five Olympic Games and has won 12 medals in her entire Olympic career. Her impressive performance in Beijing and her attempt at the 2012 London Olympic Games has inspired many older athletes to consider re-entering competition. In addition, this hall of fame speaker won medals after giving birth to her daughter at age 41 years old. Olympians who are moms are far to none making Dara all the more special.
Aside from her amazing accomplishments in the pool, Dara has talents on dry land as well. She has appeared on such shows as Fox News, ESPN, CNN, Piers Morgan Tonight, Today Show, Good Morning America, Kelly and Regis, and many others.
Additionally, Dara was the first female athlete ever to be featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and in 2009, won the ESPY award for “Best Comeback.” To add to Dara’s accolades, she was also named one of the “Top Female Athletes of the Decade” by Sports Illustrated Magazine.
Now a top-selling author, her memoir, “Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life,” published in April 2009 and was listed as one of the top 25 best-selling business books by June. Her second book, “Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program” hit stands in May 2010 and is now a New York Times Best-Seller.
In addition to her success in the pool and being a New York Times Best Selling author, Dara is a female entrepreneur owning and teaching Barre Method in Boston and around the country. She is also currently the Chief Wellness Officer for Canibrands and the face of MACI.
NFL QUARTERBACK
Tom Flick
A former NFL Quarterback, Tom Flick has garnered a reputation around the world as an authority on leadership by helping organizations like Google, Amazon, NASA, Ritz-Carlton Hotels,Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz, and the Pentagon to develop leaders, lead change, recognize opportunities for growth, and increase teamwork and organizational performance in a faster-moving world.
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