Finding Your Summit

Welcome back to Finding Your Summit! Host Mark Pattison sits down with Jim Sonefeld, the original drummer and founding member of the iconic 90s rock band Hootie and the Blowfish, for an extraordinary conversation about fame, addiction, redemption, and the power of second chances. In this deeply moving episode, Jim opens up about his remarkable journey from playing sold-out stadiums with one of the biggest bands of the 1990s to battling alcoholism, finding sobriety, and reinventing himself as a contemporary Christian artist, speaker, and devoted father. This episode offers a masterclass in resilience, demonstrating how someone can achieve extraordinary success, lose themselves in the process, and ultimately find their true summit through faith, discipline, and authentic self-discovery. Jim shares the untold story behind writing the massive hit "Hold My Hand," the surreal experience of going from bar band to number one album in America, and why stepping away from fame at age 40 to get sober was the most importa