Work Smart Hypnosis | Hypnosis Training and Outstanding Business Success

  As hypnotists, it’s important that we remember our role in our client’s change process. Our role is not to create goals for our clients, but rather, to help them achieve the goals they create for themselves. Sometimes, those goals may simply be to help them make things ‘suck less’ – like cutting back on the number of cigarettes they smoke each day instead of quitting smoking entirely. And t...

 Former Catholic priest turned entrepreneur and hypnotist, Joshua Wagner is a motivational speaker, media specialist, and certified hypnotist at Inspiring Hypnosis, a hypnosis business he founded in 2020. Joshua helps clients that are feeling stuck to find happiness and break free from trauma, anxiety, and negative thinking. He received his certification in hypnosis from the Mike Mandel Hypnosis...

Kryssa Marie Bowman is a Hypnotherapy Practitioner and Certified Hypnotherapist focusing on Transformational Therapy and methods that provide lasting freedom from emotional, physical, and psychological issues. Kryssa’s approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Life Between Lives and Regression Therapy, and Neo-Ericksonian Hypnosis. She completed the Rapid Transformational Therapy Certificati...

  >> Get the FREE Hypnotic Resource from this Podcast!   Make it rain! Discover my seven secrets to booking high-dollar services. I share the exact strategies of what is working now, explain why you need to speak your audience’s language and discuss how to optimize your schedule and approach. I describe how you can book a higher rate of clients and ensure that they find you even faster....

Time management can be tricky. Many hypnotists find it hard to keep control over an active schedule and to-do list. As your hypnosis practice begins to grow, you’re likely to start looking for ways to get better results from your clients and your business. However, if you are overwhelmed by the number of tasks and clients you have, you run a higher risk of burning out. Today, I reveal the secret t...

Steve Woods joins me today to share how his mobile hypnosis business takes hypnotism into people’s homes. He describes the advantages of performing hypnosis in the homes of clients and reveals how you can use environmental distractions to your advantage. He highlights why hypnotic phenomena and finding the client’s motivation for change are vital. He also shares how he builds credibility and visib...

Mailin Colman joins me today to share how hypnotherapists need hypnotic resilience to continue having a healthy career. She reveals the multiple sides of resilience and shares why compassionate detachment is essential. Mailin describes what to expect at the AHA World Conference and highlights the networking opportunities that will be available. She also shares how hypnotherapy has developed as a p...

Jon Cook isn’t a hypnotist, but he hypnotically influences people to take action through his powerful copywriting skills. Jon joins me today to share how to use brain chemistry for messaging. He reveals which words to target for releasing specific brain chemicals in your audience’s minds and bodies. He highlights how you can ethically use these words and phrases to achieve small wins and appeal to...

Patricia Eslava Vessey joins me today to share the techniques of HypnoKinesthetics, a system that pulls together the mind and body with movement and NLP. She describes how this system helps to motivate the real changes that people are looking to make in their lives and shares her 30-years of experience while working in challenging situations as a counselor, before finding a passion for coaching an...

Angie Hernandez joins me today to share her story of starting her own business and why hypnotic blogging is essential for hypnotherapy practitioners. She reveals why hypnotherapy continues to engage her every day and describes her approach and techniques for working with anxiety. Angie highlights a few strategic ways to get your first 100 clients and shares how the art of blogging and harnessing c...

James Tripp joins me today to share his story and his methodology of “Hypnosis Without Trance.” He reveals how he is working with clients in a non-formal way, using improvisation and non-verbal suggestion. James describes how hypnotists can deal with perceived failure through client engagement during hypnosis sessions. He also highlights how he is harnessing what is working right now and shares hi...

  >> Get the FREE Hypnotic Resource from this Podcast!   Roy Hunter joins me today to share his four cornerstones of successful hypnotherapy. He describes the benefits approach and reveals the foundation of client-centered hypnosis, which can be used when you experience subconscious resistance. Roy describes each of the four cornerstones of hypnotherapy and shares working examples of eac...

Happy FIVE YEARS of the Work Smart Hypnosis Podcast! Thanks to all the guests so far, and YOU, the listeners! Jodi Scholes joins me today to share how the Business of Bodywork helps entrepreneurs own their zip code and find financial stability. She highlights why it is vital to build relationships, integrity, and trust through networking. Jodi describes the metrics that you should be looking at to...

Roberta Fernandez joins me today to share her work on pain management through Hypnotic Emotional Resolution. She describes how every client can get a degree of pain relief through hypnosis techniques and visualization. She also highlights why it is vital to learn and practice as many techniques as possible and never to stop learning. Roberta is the Founder and President of FARE Hypnosis Center , w...

Roger Moore joins me today to share his work on hypnosis for dementia. He describes how he works with people who have cancer, chronic pain, and autoimmune diseases and the highlights the benefits of short-session self-hypnosis. He shares his first experiences of working with people with dementia and Alzheimer’s, using favorite memories and music, and why it is important to also help the caregivers...

Anthony Galie joins me today to share a revolutionary new theory of hypnosis, based on the role of mutual inhibition. He reveals how consciousness is always competing with trance-like behaviors and identifies the types of people who are most likely to respond to suggestion. Anthony describes the role of chemical switches on the hypnotic trance and shares how the hypnotic induction narrows a person...

  >> Get the FREE Hypnotic Resource from this Podcast!   Today, I share an update to THE ALL-POSITIVE PRETALK. I reveal the concepts behind the hypnotic pretalk and highlight why it is essential to talk about what is going to happen instead of what is not going to happen. I share why each statement is included in the process and describe the intention of each phrase. I also reveal how to...

Today, I share my story of the recent office move of Virginia Hypnosis. I reveal why it was critical for me to move my office space and share insight into the decision that many businesses owners have to make; whether to buy or rent an office space. I explain the advantages of buying versus renting. I also share how the new office is set up for consulting with clients as well as hypnosis trainings...

Marian Spurgeon joins me today to share her hypnosis approach of working with clients through an organic trance. She reveals how and why she works without scripts and highlights the ways in which she frames hypnosis and the trance state during the pre-talk. She shares her experiences of working with people with chronic illnesses and how she uses a tuning fork within her hypnotherapy sessions. Mari...

Martin Castor Peterson joins me today to share how you can produce a significant and massive change in one session. He shares the situations where conversational hypnosis strategies create one session results. He stresses the importance of focusing on the intention over the behavior and why you should use positive alternatives to achieve true change in one session. Martin also shares how he convin...

Lance Baker joins me today to discuss the features and benefits of hypnosis and shares how Reiki and other arts of healing changed his life for the better. He discusses the energy side of hypnosis and what sets it apart from other forms. He also shares how he applies his talent in sales when healing clients as well as other methods he tries to personalize. Lance is the Founder of Branches of Heali...

Lori Hammond joins me today to share how she is going live on Facebook to offer value up-front and scale her business. She reveals what her Facebook Live events look like and the benefits of building rapport in the process of encouraging effective personal change in her weight loss niche. She also shares how group sessions work through Zoom conferencing and the advantages of these group sessions....

Michael DeSchalit joins me today to share the opportunities of being a virtual hypnotist. He reveals what it is like to see clients virtually and online, including the negative and positive elements compared to running a face-to-face hypnosis practice. He shares the technologies and software that make a virtual practice a possibility and touches on how he markets his business. He also shares the p...

David Snyder joins me today to share techniques you can use to boost your persuasion power. He reveals how to be more influential by using conversational hypnosis while taking on personas that will affect the emotional state of your client. He also shares examples of client conditioning for compliance and explains the research behind power poses and how these postures can create a positive state....

Howard Cooper joins me today to ruin a magic trick that he has been using in response to client questions such as ‘What do I do if this wears off?’ and ‘What do I do if this stops working?’ Howard Cooper is a rapid change consultant, hypnotist, and founder of Rapid ChangeWorks where he helps clients make rapid changes and overcome obstacles such as fear and anxiety. He also provides professional s...