Patrick Combs is an on-fire, authentic, soulful entrepreneur with a love for performing, speaking and helping. His career challenges categorization.

Raised by a single mother of little financial means in a small town, he was the first person from his family to complete college. Since graduating Patrick has navigated his life based on his soulful-passions, daring to create his destiny based on possibility, not probability.

At 26, Patrick set out to become a speaker and author. He had zero connections into the speaking world and after 3 years he had accumulated $45,000 of credit card debt, yet audiences and clients took note of his passionate, authentic, and dynamic speaking and by 35, he found himself sitting across from Barbara Walters being interviewed on national television. He also found himself with a client list that included companies such as Visa, Shell, Boeing and Motorola and Universities such a Penn, Babson and NYU. Today, Patrick is a Hall of Fame keynoter, with more than 1,500 speaking engagements for companies, associations, universities, CEO's, entrepreneurs, and direct sales associates.

Additionally, Patrick is a bestselling author of three books (Major in Success, Gearing Up for a Great Life, Man 1 Bank 0). In Major In Success, Patrick took aim at helping college student identify and succeed at their passions. The book has been selling well for 15 years and 120,000 copies and counting. (http://www.goodthink.com/store/books.cfm)

At 36, Patrick began pursuing a big dream in the world of theater as a comedic monologist. The first year was all back rooms, classrooms, criticism and tomatoes. But the next year he was noticed by HBO and invited to perform with Chris Rock, Jack Black, Diane Keaton, and Drew Carey at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. A year later, he made it all the way to Off-Broadway with what Broadway World called the “funniest, fastest moving, most fascinating show to hit New York in many a season.” Next, he was invited to perform in the most prestigious of all comedy festivals, Just For Laughs in Montreal. This time he was on the bill with Bill Cosby, Margaret Cho, John Cleese and Jason Alexander. He continues today to tour his smash-hit one man show, Man 1 Bank 0, to sold out theater audiences around the world. (http://www.man1bank0.com)

Today, in both the world of speaking and the world of theater, he his best know for his ability to light up a stage and rock an audience.

At 40, Patrick became co-founder a global personal development company, signing on as the company’s Chief Transformational Officer, in charge of creating the company’s home-study personal development course, and its 3 day and 5 day, transformational conferences held at destination locations around the world. Patrick’s relentless focus on excellence, has helped the company achieve more than 10,000 associates worldwide and annual revenues of 6 million plus. Additionally, Patrick was the primary architect of the company’s giving back program, which gives associates the money to give to charitable causes of their choice on every sale.

Patrick is always invested in bringing hope, assistance and relief to those in great need through strategic alliances with Global Giving, Children.org and The World Food Bank. (http://www.lpunews.com)

Patrick can be seen as the star of the film, Awakening The Movie, and as the Lead Luminary and course guide in popular program, The Discovery Series.

Patrick is also the host of a weekly live global teleconference show, Beyond Discovery. Thus far Patrick has interviewed more than 120 epic people to learn secrets to success, results, happiness, fulfillment, resilience, adventure & extraordinary living. He's probed the minds and lives of Millionaires, Gold Medalists, Bestselling Authors, Humanitarians, Doctors, Psychologists, Healers, Musicians, Athletes and Adventurers. His guest have included Bernie Siegel MD, Cynthia Kersey, Srikumar Rao, Mark Stevens, Sean Stephenson, Tim Sanders, David Goggins, John Assaraf, Lisa NIchols, Derek Sivers, Deanna Latson, Dr Judith Orloff, Roy Firestone John Taylor Gatto, Ray Zahab, Gay Hendricks, Marci Shimoff and Stewart Emery to name just a few.