"Rock Your Bliss Specialist"
An on-fire, big idea entrepreneur with a love for performing, speaking and helping, Patrick is best known for his ability to light up a stage and rock an audience.
Raised by a hard-working single mother, in a double-wide trailer with rickety stairs and a dirt yard – and the first from his family tree to go to college – Patrick has navigated his life based on his soulful-passions, daring to create his life based on possibility, not probability.
Patrick helps people win by helping them Be who they were Born to Be, and Do what they were Born to Do. For 18 years, he's been passionately committed to helping individuals move from stuck, uncertain, or unsuccessful into a life that is big, brilliant and blissful.
Speaker
With zero connections into the speaking world, at 26, Patrick set out to become a speaker and author. It was hard and he accumulated $45,000 of credit card debt. He worked from a desk made of milk crates and a board he found in the alley.
Today, Patrick is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, who has presented more than 1,250 outstanding speaking engagements for companies, associations, and universities. His client list includes world class organizations such as Visa, Shell, Boeing and Motorola and universities such a Penn, Babson and NYU. By 35, he was sitting across from Barbara Walters being interviewed on national television.
Additionally, Patrick is a bestselling author of three books (Major in Success, Gearing Up for a Great Life, Man 1 Bank 0). Major In Success, helps college student identify and succeed at their passions, and has been selling well for 15 years with 120,000 copies sold, and counting. http://www.goodthink.com/store/books.cfm
Theater Monologist
At 36, Patrick spent a year suffering classrooms, criticism and tomatoes pursuing a big dream in theater. In his professional debut he was caught not knowing stage left from stage right. But within a year, he was selected by HBO as one of the funniest new shows in the world, 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 selling out shows Off-Broadway and blowing critics away with what Broadway World called, "the funniest, fastest moving, most fascinating show to hit New York in many a season.” A year later, he was performing in the most prestigious of all comedy festivals in the world, Just For Laughs in Montreal.
Today, he continues to tour his hilarious, smash-hit, one man show, Man 1 Bank 0, to sold out audiences in theaters around the world. http://www.man1bank0.com. And he has a new show in development titled "Foolhardy."
Co-Founder
At 40, Patrick dove into a high-risk, no salary situation to co-found a global, personal development company. As the company’s Chief Transformational Officer, he led the creation of the company’s home-study personal development course, and its transformational conferences held at destination locations around the world. Additionally, he architected the company’s giving back program, which gives to charity on every sale. Patrick is invested in bringing hope, assistance and relief to all those in great need through strategic alliances with Global Giving, Children.org and The World Food Bank.
At the company's height, before Patrick's departure, the company had achieved more than 10,000 associates worldwide and annual revenues of 6 million plus.
In 2010, he launched his new company, MIGHTclub. It supports people with big dreams, big passion or a remarkable project realize phenomenal results in record time. http://mightclub.org
Discovery Host
Patrick is also the interview host of a weekly live global teleconference show, "Beyond Discovery." He's probed the minds and lives of more than one hundred Millionaires, Gold Medalists, Bestselling Authors, Humanitarians, Doctors, Psychologists, Healers, Musicians, Athletes and Adventurers to learn the secrets to living great.
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.
Raves
"This guys got star power."
- Variety magazine
"Patrick is exceptionally successful. Love the chutzpah!"
-Tom Peters, best-selling business management author
"Beautiful person. Thanks for helping The Universe."
- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
"I recommend Patrick to Olympic athletes and company presidents alike. I dare say no one can hear Patrick speak and not be positively affected."
- Lanny Bassham, Olympic Gold Medalist
"I've seen them all – Anthony Robbins, Tom Hopkins, Les Brown, Dick Vitale, and many more – and Patrick's the first speaker that I listened to and didn't look at my watch once. Hands down the best speaker Ive ever seen."
- Ted Collins, executive VP
"Combs has refined his storytelling to an art." Time Out NY
Unusual biographical notes that made international headlines:
- In 1988, Delivered a baby on a sidewalk in San Francisco while walking to work
- In 1995, Deposited a $95,093.35 junk-mail check into his bank as a joke – the bank cashed it. The rest of the story is outrageous history and the basis of his book and touring show titled Man 1, Bank 0.
- In 1996, Starred on the hit shows Hard Copy and Real TV doing man-on-the-street, hidden camera segments.
Email or connect with Patrick directly
To communicate directly with Patrick, email him at patrick@goodthink.com or phone 858-759-6994.
