Bloomington Breakfast Club Kickoff Featuring Lonnie Bedwell

Bloomington Breakfast Club is a new monthly speaker series created to bring people together around powerful stories, meaningful work, and genuine connection.

The kickoff event will be hosted at The Dimension Mill, with future gatherings rotating monthly through creative and community spaces across Bloomington. Each event will feature thoughtful speakers and conversations with people doing meaningful things, in a setting that is welcoming, simple, and community-driven.

Our kickoff event features Lonnie Bedwell, a Hoosier, military veteran, blind adventurer, and motivational speaker whose life and work are rooted in resilience, leadership, and service.

After losing his sight at 39, Lonnie went on to kayak the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, climb Mount Everest, and complete major peaks around the world. He is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and a Guinness World Record holder, and is widely respected for his work in adaptive sports and community leadership.

At the heart of everything Lonnie does is service. He mentors, speaks, and shows up for others with a deep commitment to helping people reframe adversity and believe in what is possible again.

“Moving is living.”

Lonnie is now on the final chapter of the Explorers Grand Slam, one of the most elite achievements in adventure. It includes reaching the North Pole, South Pole, and the highest peak on all seven continents. Fewer than one hundred people in the world have completed it. No blind person ever has. The North Pole is his final frontier.

After the talk, we will host Community Picture Day with free professional headshots for attendees.

Free and open to the public.
Coffee, conversation, and community.

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