Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, Air Force Tactical Controller and ultra-marathoner David Goggins will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association 43rd annual convention.

The 43rd annual convention will be November 10-12, 2019, at the Music City Convention Center in Nashville.

Goggins was in the military for 21 years and has completed over 60 ultra-marathons, triathlons, and ultra-triathlons, setting new course records and regularly placing in the top five.

In the Mont Blanc 100-mile race, Goggins had to complete 100 miles in 24 hours. After 70 miles, his body shut down but he didn’t stop. That led to him being dubbed the “toughest man in the world” and Outside magazine calling him the “Fittest (Real) Man in America.”

Goggins grew up in poverty, prejudice and physical abuse colored his childhood, “but through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world’s top endurance athletes,” according to the STAFDA announcement. Goggins has a Instagram following and is a popular speaker for Fortune 500 companies to sports teams.”

“Goggins is all about shutting up the voice in your head that says ‘I can’t do this.’ He has some of the most motivating and ‘hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck’ raising stories but his big message is that the only person in control of your destiny is ’You’.”

STAFDA previously announced Norton / Saint-Gobain VP Glenn Knowlton will be the associate State of the Industry speaker and association president Sean Baird of Hampton Roads Fastener & Construction Supply will give the annual Distributors’ State of the Industry address.

Registration begins June 24.  For STAFDA information contact Catherine Usher. Tel: 262 784-4774 Email: cusher@stafda.org Web: stafda.org