Quit Succeeding
I help high achievers see what success is costing them before it costs them their health, marriage, kids, peace, or happiness.
You made the money. You built a career. You checked every box that was supposed to make you happy. Todd knows why the next win still feels like the only thing keeping you okay, because he lived it, and he broke from it. His work exists to reach you before life forces the lesson.
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About Todd Patkin
He was the champion everyone admired. Privately, he was exhausted, anxious, and headed for a breakdown.
Todd spent 18 years growing the family business into an extraordinary success while his health, peace, and happiness paid the price. At 36, everything came crashing down. That breakdown became his breakthrough, and today he helps successful people change what winning means before it costs them the life they worked so hard to build.
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EXPLORE THE COURSE
What Success Is Giving You and What It's Taking From You
Todd helps successful people change their primary goal from achievement to happiness.
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Name the Addiction
What looks like drive, discipline, and ambition may actually be an addiction to the feeling success gives you. Todd helps you see it clearly, with compassion instead of judgment.
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See the Cost
Tools like the Tombstone Test and the success gain versus cost exercise make the invisible cost visible while there’s still time to change direction.
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Redefine Winning
Redirect the same drive that built your success toward happiness, health, family, faith, peace, and presence.
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Todd as Your Next Keynote Speaker
Todd helps successful people change their primary goal from achievement to happiness.
Keynote Speaker
Todd’s keynote helps successful people recognize what achievement is costing them before life forces the lesson. His story gives the message credibility, and his direct, personal style gets audiences laughing while the truth lands.
One-Day Workshop
A full-day intensive where participants identify what success is giving them, what it’s costing them, and where achievement has started running their life. Includes workbook and ongoing resource access.
PODCASTS & MORE
Watch Todd as a Guest Speaker
See why audiences call Todd’s message life-changing.
Todd Patkin at TEDx
Todd shares his journey from high-achieving businessman to complete personal breakdown, and challenges the belief that success automatically leads to happiness.
Watch Todd on Fox News Health
Todd explains how external achievement can mask exhaustion, anxiety, and burnout, and what genuine wellbeing actually requires.
Watch Stand Up to Bullying
Todd uses humor and personal insight to show how laughter opens the door to self-reflection and emotional clarity.
Books by Todd
The story behind the message, and the tools to change.
Finding Happiness
At 36, Todd had everything the world calls success. Then the breakdown came. Finding Happiness shares his raw personal story alongside expert insights from psychologist Dr. Howard J. Rankin, plus the step-by-step Twelve Weeks to Living a Happier Life program.
Twelve Weeks to Finding Happiness
A workbook for people ready to do the work. Each week introduces one focused practice, from exercise and managing your thoughts to gratitude and being kinder to yourself, building steady progress one week at a time.
Reach Out. Magic Happens Here.
Let’s start a conversation about what success is costing you or your organization.
Finding Happiness
Schedule a free 30-minute call with Todd to talk through what you or your team are facing and how his work can help.
Contact Us Directly
Questions about Todd’s speaking, workshops, or courses? Our team typically responds within 24 hours.