1072. Defining Success on His Own Terms

“This is when the story really gets interesting because at this point, in some ways you might have described me as a typical Ivy League yuppie living in New York at the time. And I had done the Wall Street thing, I had my own business, and I was succeeding in much the way that culture and society expects one to succeed. I felt though that something significant was missing from my life. I wasn’t really satisfied. I was finding my success to be empty in many ways and I didn’t know why. And so, I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok….”

Mort Fertel is the creator of Marriage Fitness, a relationship renewal system that’s been used by millions of people in marital crisis. People from all over the world schedule private tele-sessions with him by joining the Marriage Fitness tele-bootcamp. Over 3 million people have subscribed to his free report, Seven Secrets to Fixing Your Marriage. He’s the subject of Back from the Brink, a documentary written and directed by Torres Thomas, which chronicles people in marriage crises. Mort graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 and was the CEO of an international nonprofit organization. He lives with his wife and five children, including triplets, in Baltimore, Maryland.