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MARK PATTISON

Speaker, NFL Veteran, Mountaineer, Emmy Winner, Former Sports Illustrated Executive

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Finding Your Summit

How to Build Resilience and Faith to Rise Above Life’s Challenges

Finding Your Summit takes readers inside Mark Pattison's journey from the NFL to the Seven Summits, revealing what extreme environments teach us about leadership, decision-making, resilience, and moving forward when life gets hard.

Through raw, unfiltered stories from Mount Everest, Denali, Aconcagua, and the challenges long before the mountains, Mark shows how clarity, discipline, and endurance are built one deliberate step at a time. The book makes one truth unmistakably clear: the most demanding climbs are often the ones happening inside us.

At the heart of the book is Mark's SUMMITS Model—a practical framework forged through years of adversity, high performance, and moments when quitting would have been justified. This model offers readers a repeatable way to navigate uncertainty, reset identity, and lead with purpose under pressure.

Finding Your Summit is more than a story about mountains. It is a guide for leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs, and anyone in transition who is ready to rise above their circumstances, rebuild with intention, and climb toward a life that demands more—and rewards the effort it takes to earn it.

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Finding Your Summit is your guide to rising when life gets steep

Real strength does not come from perfection. It comes from clarity, discipline, and the courage to take the next step when the air gets thin.
 After years of leading teams, rebuilding after setbacks, and climbing some of the hardest mountains in the world, Mark created the SUMMITS Model, a practical framework to help people move from overwhelm to momentum.

This book gives you a new way to think about challenge, leadership, and achievement. It shows you how to steady your mind, quiet fear, and push forward with purpose even when the path feels impossible.

This is your blueprint for achieving meaningful success, no matter what mountain stands in your way.

The SUMMITS Model helps you…

Build resilience, stay focused under pressure, and create a path to success that is intentional, disciplined, and deeply fulfilling.

The SUMMITS Model is a step-by-step foundation for navigating any challenge. Inspired by the lessons of the world’s highest peaks, it gives you the tools to stabilize your mindset, take strategic action, and build momentum even in uncertain terrain.

You will learn how to set a true summit, unleash your potential, move with clarity, measure progress, adjust with intention, traverse obstacles, and finally reach your pinnacle with a renewed sense of purpose.

This book is your guide to achieving success on your own terms with focus, resilience, and inner strength.

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Choosing the right book on achievement and resilience matters. Why should Finding Your Summit be the book that earns a spot in your backpack, on your desk, and in your journey upward? Here is everything you need to know.

Finding Your Summit is a practical and inspiring guide to rising through adversity and achieving meaningful goals. Built around the SUMMITS Model, the book reveals how the lessons Mark learned from the NFL and the Seven Summits can help you create clarity, build discipline, strengthen resilience, and keep moving when life gets steep. It shows you how to find your internal summit and the mindset required to reach it.

Not at all. The mountains are a metaphor. While the stories come from extreme environments, the lessons apply to business, teams, personal goals, and everyday moments where discipline and clarity matter. Anyone who is navigating obstacles or pushing toward a meaningful goal will find value in these pages.

The SUMMITS Model is the foundation of Mark’s keynotes and coaching programs. The book gives teams and individuals the same tools he brings to corporate events, leadership retreats, and high-performance workshops. It acts as a shared language that helps organizations strengthen culture, improve momentum, and create lasting performance after the event ends.

If you are a leader, entrepreneur, athlete, or anyone working through challenge, transition, or high-pressure environments, this book is for you. It is built for people who want to perform with purpose, navigate uncertainty with confidence, and stay driven without losing their focus or energy. It resonates with anyone who feels called to climb higher in any area of life.

This book is not theory. It is built on lived experience from two of the most demanding arenas in the world: the NFL and high-altitude mountaineering. Mark takes lessons learned from real pressure, real risk, and real adversity and turns them into a simple framework you can use right away. It blends raw storytelling with a clear, structured path for personal and professional growth.

You will walk away with a clearer sense of direction, a stronger mindset for navigating adversity, and a step-by-step process to reach your next summit. You will learn how to set better goals, manage pressure, stay consistent, and build the type of resilience that lasts. Most of all, you will gain a renewed belief in your ability to rise higher than you thought possible.

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