Episode Questions and Answers
Who is Jenn Drummond?
Jenn Drummond is a Park City Utah-based speaker, author, retreat host, and Guinness World Record holder as the first woman to climb the Seven Second Summits, the second-highest peaks on every continent. Jenn Drummond is the mother of seven children and the founder of the Summit Series weekly call and a series of Park City leadership retreats.
What is Project Climb Higher?
Project Climb Higher is Jenn Drummond's 2026 project to summit Mont Blanc, Elbrus in Russia, and Denali in Alaska. Completing all three will make Jenn Drummond the first and only woman to have summited both the highest and the second-highest points on every continent, adding a second Guinness World Record to the Seven Second Summits.
When did Jenn Drummond complete the Seven Second Summits?
Jenn Drummond began the Seven Second Summits on December 16, 2020 on Ojos del Salado and completed the project on June 1, 2023 on Mount Logan. Jenn Drummond later climbed Sumantri in Indonesia on October 9, 2024 to satisfy variable definitions of Australasia. The official Guinness World Record certificate was issued and opened live on Utah Business Spotlight with Peter Anthony.
What is the Summit Series?
The Summit Series is Jenn Drummond's weekly Tuesday night call where Jenn Drummond and rotating experts who have reached the summit of their own fields share the structural lessons that get other people to the summit in theirs. Recent calls have walked through the Odyssey plan exercise, building three full five-year life plans and looking for the themes worth honing in on. Sign up at jenndrummond.com/summit.
What retreats is Jenn Drummond hosting in Park City?
Jenn Drummond is hosting two leadership and intentional-living retreats in Park City Utah, the last weekend in February and a weekend in March. The retreats are intentionally outdoor-forward because Jenn Drummond's structural belief is that the brain runs farther, longer, wider, and deeper when there are no walls in the way. Details and registration at jenndrummond.com.
Can I join Jenn Drummond on Kilimanjaro?
Jenn Drummond is leading a Kilimanjaro group climb in August with a Tanzania safari attached. A few slots remain open for operators and families Jenn Drummond believes are a good fit. There is also an open conversation about leading an Everest base camp trip if enough operators raise their hands. Reach Jenn Drummond at jenndrummond.com to inquire.
How do I follow Jenn Drummond?
Follow Jenn Drummond at @thejenndrummond on Instagram and at jenndrummond.com. During expeditions Jenn Drummond runs daily tracking dispatches so the audience can follow the climb in real time. Operators interested in sponsorship of upcoming retreats and expeditions can reach Jenn Drummond directly through the website.
Episode Transcript
00:00 Why Jenn Drummond stops the room
Peter Anthony opens the episode of Utah Business Spotlight from inside our studio in Sandy Utah and welcomes Jenn Drummond, Park City Utah world record holder, mother of seven, retreat host, and the first woman to climb the Seven Second Summits. Peter Anthony frames Jenn Drummond not as a hero but as a structural standard, Jenn Drummond has architected finances, family, expeditions, retreats, and a Guinness World Record into the same calendar, and the conversation is about how that actually gets built.
02:02 When one child launches, everything changes
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony about the structural moment that reset everything. Dropping her son Jack at the University of Arizona made the Sunday night dinner table reality land, Jack was no longer going to be at the table. Jenn Drummond names the language Jenn Drummond uses on purpose, the children are launching, not leaving, and that vocabulary shift reframed the structural Utah parenting question Jenn Drummond was now sitting in front of.
02:43 The five-year window that reshaped her calendar
Jenn Drummond walks Peter Anthony through the structural realization. Six more children would launch over the next five years, and Jenn Drummond would never get that window back. Jenn Drummond ties it to the seventh anniversary of the car accident that became Jenn Drummond's structural inflection point, life lived in deliberate blocks, with big sprints inside each block, so the marathon of an entire life is full of memories the operator can actually replay. Peter Anthony names the structural Utah parenting truth, Jenn Drummond's framing is the model for any Utah operator with kids about to launch.
05:01 Using hard adventures to bond with her kids
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the structural calendar Jenn Drummond is now executing. Mont Blanc with the older boys in April, the highest point in Europe excluding Russia. Kilimanjaro with the younger kids in August with a Tanzania safari attached. Jenn Drummond names the operator rule, invent activities cool enough that the kids choose the trip over their other options without realizing it is the trade-off. Hard things, done together, build confidence, force the family to lean into each other, and create the structural bond no Sunday dinner can recreate.
06:50 Why Kilimanjaro became a shared family experience
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the older Drummond kids did not love Kilimanjaro in the moment, but Kilimanjaro now sits at the top of every one of their proudest-moments lists. The older kids are now choosing to climb Kilimanjaro again with the younger kids. Jenn Drummond names the structural Utah parenting payoff, the trip was selfish to Jenn Drummond at the time and invaluable to the kids thirty years from now. Time at base camp with strangers also teaches the kids how to be comfortable speaking with adults, how to see adults as peers, and how to walk into school, classrooms, and interviews without intimidation.
09:54 Project Climb Higher and the next world record
Jenn Drummond shows Peter Anthony the passport that just came back from Houston, including the Antarctica stamp and the freshly issued Russia visa. Jenn Drummond names the 2026 project, Project Climb Higher, Mont Blanc, Elbrus in Russia, and Denali in Alaska. Completing all three will make Jenn Drummond the first and only woman to have summited both the highest and the second-highest points on every continent, a second Guinness World Record stacked on the Seven Second Summits.
10:54 The Denali setback that changed the mission
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the structural Denali story. The 2025 expedition did not summit. Jenn Drummond's guide got sick, had to be helicoptered off the mountain, and the expedition ended. Peter Anthony was following Jenn Drummond's media in real time and watched the team protect each other before any individual outcome. Jenn Drummond names the structural cost, financial, emotional, physical, and the time away from seven kids, and the structural choice that came next.
12:37 Five minutes of rage and moving forward
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the operator rule Jenn Drummond now lives by. Give yourself five minutes, maybe ten, to rage as heavy and as hard as the body will allow. Five minutes of full-output rage is structurally exhausting, the same way a five-minute sprint is exhausting, and on the other side of it the channel is clear to find the next win. Jenn Drummond turned the failed Denali expedition into a service mission, leaving snacks, band-aids, and warm socks for the operators still on the mountain so parts of Jenn Drummond were structurally still summiting. Peter Anthony adds the parallel exercise from working with Jack Canfield, the five-minute rage that finally cleared 40 years of guilt about never learning the guitar and freed the structural capacity for the things Peter Anthony was actually built to do.
16:07 Starting mountain climbing later than expected
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony Jenn Drummond climbed her first mountain at 19, not as a child prodigy, not as a lifelong climber, and certainly not on the timeline most people assume from a Guinness World Record holder. Jenn Drummond names the structural longevity truth, 40 is the new 20, reinvention is allowed at any block of life, and what an operator is exposed to is what becomes real. Peter Anthony names the Utah operator pattern, Jenn Drummond's vocabulary is its own motivational engine, and any operator inside earshot of Jenn Drummond for thirty days would inherit a different default setting.
17:10 Opening the Guinness World Record certificate live
Jenn Drummond opens the official Guinness World Record certificate live on Utah Business Spotlight with Peter Anthony. The certificate confirms Jenn Drummond as the first woman to climb the Seven Second Summits, beginning December 16, 2020 on Ojos del Salado, completing June 1, 2023 on Mount Logan, with Sumantri in Indonesia added October 9, 2024 to allow for variable definitions of Australasia. Jenn Drummond names the structural family payoff, the kids will humble Jenn Drummond inside the hour anyway, which is exactly the point.
19:10 Retreats, Summit Series, and what she is building
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony what Jenn Drummond is building beyond the climbs. Two Park City Utah leadership retreats, the last weekend in February and a weekend in March, at jenndrummond.com. The Summit Series, a weekly Tuesday night call at jenndrummond.com/summit where Jenn Drummond and rotating experts who have reached the summit of their own fields share the structural lessons. Jenn Drummond walks Peter Anthony through the recent Odyssey plan call, every operator builds three full five-year life plans (current life, the plan if the current life ended today, and the dream plan) and then looks for the themes worth honing in on.
22:06 The Kilimanjaro experience operators can join
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the August Kilimanjaro group climb has a few open slots for operators and families Jenn Drummond believes are a good fit. Peter Anthony names the structural truth from Peter Anthony's own Kilimanjaro climb with Tony Robbins, the trip is one of the highest-leverage experiences a parent can put on the calendar. Jenn Drummond is also open to leading an Everest base camp trip if enough operators raise their hands. Kilimanjaro has a high success ratio, runs camp to camp over a series of days, and is structurally accessible to operators who are not lifelong climbers.
24:00 Putting things on the calendar that pull you forward
Jenn Drummond names the operator rule for Peter Anthony plainly. Put things on the calendar that pull you forward. If the operator wakes up and the day is not feeling awesome, that almost always means there is nothing on the calendar doing the pulling. Peter Anthony names Jenn Drummond's vocabulary as its own structural advantage, the language interrupts the autopilot before the autopilot has time to win.
24:41 Why the outdoors changes the way she thinks
Jenn Drummond tells Peter Anthony the structural reason the retreats are outdoor-forward. Jenn Drummond has spent the year inside masterminds in beautiful hotels with four walls, and Jenn Drummond's brain runs farther, longer, wider, and deeper outside, where there is no wall confining the visual field. Peter Anthony names the parallel from forty years of running masterminds, the best hotels in the world, almost no memory of the countries, and agrees Jenn Drummond's interactive outdoor model is the structurally better container for the work.
26:48 Where to follow Jenn Drummond and what comes next
Jenn Drummond closes the episode with Peter Anthony on how to stay close. Follow @thejenndrummond on Instagram. Visit jenndrummond.com. Join the newsletter and the Summit Series weekly call. During expeditions Jenn Drummond runs daily tracking dispatches so the audience can follow the climb in real time. Utah operators interested in sponsoring the upcoming retreats and expeditions can reach Jenn Drummond directly through the website. Utah Business Spotlight is produced by The INCubator AI Marketing Agency and filmed in Sandy, Utah.
