PrepperCon is May 18-19, 2018
Location: Mountain America Expo Center (formerly South Towne Expo), 9575 State St, Sandy, UT 84070
Time: 11am-10pm Friday, 9am-8pm Saturday.
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Celebrities and Special Guests
Mykel Hawke
Mykel Hawke is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, author, and television and film personality. He is perhaps best known for the television programs he created on Discovery Channel called Man, Woman, Wild and One Man Army. He left Discovery to work on two new programs: Lost Survivors for Travel Channel and Elite Tactical Unit for Outdoor Channel. He was also seen recently on ABC’s The Bachelor! Wait… Mykel was on The Bachelor? Yep, he was booked on the show to convince a bunch of female, contestants, to drink their own pee!
Matt Graham
Matt Graham is a Professional Survival instructor, TV Host, Author, Producer, Actor and Designer. He has done several top rated shows for Discovery and National Geographic channels. Though he has spent most of his life teaching wilderness skills, his training in martial arts, dance, acting, literature, and music have made him well versed for both entertaining, and educational TV/Film. Matt lived as a hunter gatherer and has spent up to six months solo in the wilderness. He has been referred to as the real “Tarzan” of Southern Utah by several published sources.
In his early years, Matt was a climber, surfer, mountain runner, and TV consultant. At age 23, he ran the length of California on the pacific Crest Trail (1,700 miles) in 58 days. He was a TV host/Talent and producer for “Dude Your Screwed”, “Dual Survival”, “Live Free or Die”, “Bushcraft Build Off”, and was featured on a documentary called “Living Wild”. He has been a Teacher with Boulder Outdoor Survival School, True Nature Farm, Anasazi, Wingate, and Earth Living Skills School. He is also considered a high ranking expert with the ancient tool called the “Atlatl”.
David Holladay
Widely regarded as one of the country’s foremost educators in Stone Age living skills, David is a frequent lecturer, author, and consultant on primitive technologies, edible/medicinal plants, and pre-Columbian culture. He served for 18 years as head instructor at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and was education director of Anasazi, a wilderness program for teens. David has served as a consultant for products such as Cast Away, Survivorman, Man vs. Wild, Road Rules, and numerous others, and was most recently featured on No Man’s Land, a History Channel production.
Russel Redenbaugh
Russell G. Redenbaugh is an economist, investor, inspirational speaker, author of the book Shift the Narrative, and one of only two known blind jiu jitsu black belts in the world. Redenbaugh is a three-time world champion in jiu jitsu, fighting sighted opponents. Blind from the age of sixteen due to an accident which also cost him six fingers, Redenbaugh was one of the longest serving members of the United States Civil Rights Commission (1990-2005). He is a recipient of the Louis Braille Award from the Pennsylvania Council for the Blind.
PrepperCon is honored to have Redenbaugh join our Survivor Talks Series to share his story of determination and mental fortitude, sharing lessons on the power of reframing our challenges so that they become our strengths.
“It’s not what happens to you, It’s what you do about it”
Zachary Felton
Zachary Felton is a 24-year-old from Southern California, an avid explorer who’s had the opportunity to travel to various parts of the world. On January 7th, 2018, Zachary left with three friends on a celebratory road trip to Vernal, Utah, stopping to explore Little Brush Creek Cave. In one tight area where they traversed over a void with their backs pressed against a ledge, Zachary’s foot slipped and he hit his head on the rock in front of him. Unconscious, he fell 80 feet; his body slamming against the rock walls until he met the ground.
When Zachary regained consciousness, he knew that he couldn’t move, but didn’t know that he had broken nearly 30 bones (many of them compound fractures), sustained a brain bleed, and a severely bruised lung. Zachary will speak about his extraordinary experience, his 18 hour rescue, and how he was able to cheat death despite the odds. After more than a dozen surgeries, Zachary is determined to recover. Zachary’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to help them with the medical bills. Donations can be accepted HERE.
PrepperCon is proud to have Zachary as a speaker in our Survivor Talks series to share his experience. As he puts it, “This accident has knocked me down… only briefly.”