We recently connected with Mark Pattison and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Mark, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?

After going through a rough patch 10 years ago, I decided to become the 1st NFL Player to climb the Seven Summits. After I had climbed 4 of the mountains, I started to gain attention from my NFL playing days. Rather than soak up the attention, I decided to redirect the media focus to my daughter Emilia who was suffering from Epilepsy.

For 20 years, she battled and fought her way through this disease having 10+ seizures per day that would last between 2-15 seconds each. Controlled with meds, that was considered a win. She couldn’t ride a bike, drive a car or play on the Monkey bars.

We held multiple fundraisers and she put her face to the campaigns by getting up on stage and talking about it. It was a struggle. We raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help bring money and awareness to help others.

When I got to Mt EVEREST, I really struggled coming off the summit and nearly died. It was because of Emilias inspiration and fight that got me back off my butt and started my way back down the mountain.

She gave me a gift and I am grateful for it. BTW: she is 100% healed from Epilespy now.