Bill Gladwell - "The Hypnotist"

Bill Gladwell is "The Hypnotist".

Bill is called the master manipulator of thoughts and behavior, and you realize why from the first moment you meet him.

Bill is able to predict and influence people's thoughts and actions with covert suggestion, manipulate their decision-making process, and read unconscious signs that indicate what a person is thinking.

By combining hypnosis, NLP, psychology, and directed awareness with twenty years of focused attention on the study and application of advanced mind control techniques; Bill creates an intimate performance that you will never forget.

When Bill is not in front of a camera or on a stage...

• Hypnosis Trainer — Bill is one of the top hypnosis trainers working today. His students include mental health professionals, entertainers, celebrities, salespeople, CEOs, and everyone seeking to master influence over themselves and others.

• Corporate Trainer — Bill has developed and facilitates programs ranging from sales training and customer service to teaching people how to relieve stress and anxiety.

• Personal Coach — Bill takes private clients and conducts group sessions for weight loss, smoking cessation, stress relief, personal change, achieving your goals, and much more.

BIOGRAPHY

Bill was born in 1971 in Lima, Ohio. He traveled often with his parents, but they only took him to places that were a lot like Lima… wide-open spaces, tractors, corn fields, and the smell of livestock.

Bill’s entrance into the performing arts was as a classical pianist. Beginning very young, he performed for whoever would listen.

When Bill ran out of people who would listen in Lima, he toured the United States on more than one occasion. During one of his tours, Bill shared a venue with a hypnotist who's show captivated him. He made the decision to learn everything he could about hypnosis.

So, as you sit there and scratch your head, you’re probably asking yourself what corn fields, classical piano, and hypnosis have in common. Well… nothing. Bill simply thought it would be “really cool” to make people do what he wanted them to do. He took classes, attended seminars, and became a master hypnotist. Bill went back on tour… this time as a very successful stage hypnotist.

One evening, Bill arrived at a club that promised to have over 200 people in attendance. There were 17 people (including the bartender and waitress), and they were all inebriated (including the bartender and waitress); but still, the show must go on… until a rather large woman passed out on stage immediately after the chair in which she was sitting buckled. The applause from a few drunkards floated to the stage, but that was the beginning and the end of that particular performance. There is a difference between being hypnotized and passing out. Passing out does not make good entertainment. Bill was not paid, because the show lasted three minutes.

Promising himself that he would not go unpaid again, he began to experiment attempting to develop a form of hypnosis that works on anyone at anytime. He didn't stop there. Bill also wanted a way to break through what he had always been taught... "People cannot be hypnotized against their will."

Knowing that his new research and experiments were going to take him to places that the mainstream hypnosis community could not, Bill broadened his approach and his skills.

Over the next several years, Bill was able to infiltrate and study some of the most secretive and guarded organizations known for their influence and mind control techniques, including law enforcement, agencies that are not supposed to exist, religious groups and cults, the military, and others. At the same time, he continued his study of human psychology and behavior, covert hypnosis, and social dynamics.

Pulling the most powerful common elements from each field and combining them with his skills as a master hypnotist, Bill developed one of the most powerful forms of influence in existence.

Bill discovered that people can't be hypnotized against their will, but they can be hypnotized without their knowledge.

If you really need more of Bill's biography... http://tinyurl.com/dht2jz

To boldly go

This week, I am speaking to a room full of managers of Marriott Hotels on the topic of “Growth and Innovation”; and I want to leave them with one skill that will make the most impact when they go back to their jobs and the real world. After several days of thought, I pinpointed the one skill that has made the most difference in my life… being bold.

If my life were a television show, the opening sequence would include “To boldly go where few ever do”; and “boldly” is the key word in that line. So many social and business challenges for which people seek my help can be overcome if they simply learn the art of being bold.

I recently taught a group of men and woman how to break the ice with the opposite sex. The average age of the room was 45-years-old, and I would consider 90% of the attendees to be prominent professionals (physicians, attorneys, entrepreneurs, etc…). Most had been married for 20 years or more, divorced, and are now back in the world of dating. The number one comment that I heard from both the men and the women was, “I just can’t walk up to someone that I find attractive.”

My reply, “Why not?”

What is stopping you from walking up to any stranger on the street and saying “Hi!”… even if they are attractive? An even better question: What would happen if you did? And yet a more intriguing question: What will you miss out on in life if you don’t?

In every boot camp that I conduct, I ask the women the following question: What initially attracts you to a man? I consistently get the same response time and time again… Confidence (Boldness) and Humor. This is the recipe for success when dating and in business. Learn to be bold and funny, and you will take your personal and professional life to the next level.

Boldness is a trait that is admired by all ages of men and women. It is respected and is a quality that is found in leaders and influencers of all types. But, you are asking, what does bold look like?

Being bold for some is simply saying “Hi!” to the woman behind you in line at the grocery. Like someone once told me, however; “If we are gonna do it, we may as well go all the way.” I totally agree. If you choose to display your boldness, do it in a way that very few people will ever attempt. Let me give you an example.

I attended an event at an upscale sushi bar. This particular venue on this particular evening was full of professionals. I was working the crowd collecting and handing out business cards, booking appointments, and meeting new friends. As I was walking past a group of people, one of the woman in the group yelled, “Hey, aren’t you Bill Gladwell?” Without hesitation, I stepped onto an empty chair near the group; and I said, “Yes, I am. Now, tell me something exciting about yourself.” This immediately drew the attention of the entire group of nine people, all of them stopped their conversations, and the attention was on the interaction that we had just started with each other.

From that chair, I booked three meetings with very prominent business owners, I had a phone number pressed into my hand, I received a drink from a generous young lady, and I commanded the attention of each and every person in that group (and within sight).

Now, am I saying that you have to jump up on a chair to be bold? Absolutely not, but you do have to stand out from the other 99% of people that you meet on a daily basis… “To boldly go where few ever do”. What makes you different? What makes you bold?

Allen of AskRomeo.com (a dating advice Web site) posted a column titled “On Being Cautious: A Cautionary Tale”, and he drives my point home with the following…

Whenever you find yourself coming up with reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t go up and talk to a girl: GO TALK TO HER!
Whenever you find yourself coming up with reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t ask a girl out: ASK HER OUT!
Whenever you find yourself coming up with reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t kiss a girl: KISS HER!
Whenever you find yourself coming up with reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t ask a girl back to your place: ASK HER BACK TO YOUR PLACE!

I’m sure you get my point. Whenever you are coming up with reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t take the next step towards what you want: take that next step!

Be bold, be funny, enjoy life, and always remember… “If we are gonna do it, we may as well go all the way.”

May
7th

Tue

Amazing news despite the “help” of a psychic

After a decade of being held prisoners inside a house on Cleveland’s near West Side, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were found alive yesterday (Monday, May 6, 2013).

A police dispatcher received an excited call from Berry yesterday afternoon saying she was alive and free after being kidnapped 10 years ago. Police say, all the girls are “alive and safe.”

Three brothers have been arrested, ages 50, 52, and 54.

This is very happy news. Most of the time, these stories do not end this way. Congratulations, and I wish you all the very best.

In addition to the kidnapping and imprisonment, there is another sick and twisted story attached to this case.

Back in November 2004, The Plain Dealer published a related story, “Amanda Berry dead, psychic tells her mother on Montel Williams’ show”.

For close to 2 years, Amanda Berry’s mother, Louwana Miller, refused to give up hope that her daughter was still alive.

Miller had a lot of unanswered questions from authorities and was desperate for clues to her daughter’s whereabouts, so she turned to psychic Sylvia Browne.

Sylvia Browne did an evil no better than the original kidnappers who took Berry.

On an episode of The Montel Williams Show, Browne told Miller…

“She’s… See, I hate this when they’re in the water. I just hate this. She’s not alive, Honey; and I’ll tell you why… here we go again. Your daughter was not the type that would not have called you.”

After the taping of the show, Browne continued with her visions by saying she saw Amanda’s jacket in a dumpster with “DNA on it”.

During their conversation, Browne convinced Miller to accept the grim fact that her daughter was dead. Miller went home, cleaned up Amanda’s things, gave away her daughter’s computer, and began packing things away. Miller said, “I’m not even buying my baby a Christmas present this year.”

Miller was devastated. ”I lost it,” she said.

Hope can go a long way and help people through devastating times in their lives. Sylvia Browne took that away from Louwana Miller.

Amanda Berry’s mother died in March 2006 believing that her daughter was dead.

This is the harm that psychics cause people. They give false hope, they take hope away, they lead people on wild-goose chases, they cause people to take actions that may be detrimental to what they want to accomplish, and they take people’s money in return for a fabricated story.

Because I spend my time exposing and debunking psychics, I know many psychics around the world. Believe it or not, some psychics stay in contact with me. Some are friends.

I have found that some psychics are blatant scammers. They know that they are feeding their targets lies just to get the cash from their wallets. Others, however, truly believe that they really do have psychic abilities. They are wrong, but they believe.

I know a psychic in the Columbus, Ohio area who charges around $90.00 for an hour reading in which she offers psychic advice on personal and professional matters; and these same people return week after week. She will see several clients a day. After getting to know her fairly well, I would never follow any personal or professional advice from her. This is a psychic who uses her abilities to advise people on important and sometimes life-altering decisions, and she was unaware that her office manager was stealing from her.

As a psychic, you would think she would have picked up on that.

Psychics take advantage of psychological principles that we all fall victim to, and they can seem pretty convincing at times.

Psychics are not real, but they can cause very real harm.

If you are thinking about consulting a psychic, record your session. If the psychic tells you that you cannot record the session, stop the session right there; and do not hand over any money.

Any recording that you get, send a copy to me. I will listen to it and analyze it for you. I will explain what psychological principles are being used, and how they were used on you.

By educating you, perhaps I can stop a psychic from causing the pain that Sylvia Browne caused Louwana Miller.

May
6th

Mon

Why my fans and audiences are more intelligent than yours

Alternate Title:

What the heck is a mentalist?

I opened my mentalism show at the Iris Theater in Gatlinburg in August 2012; and after a couple months and many different audiences, I began to notice a trend: My audiences were becoming smarter.

A smarter audience greatly appeals to me; because any entertainer worth his salt will tell you that the smarter an audience, the more easily fooled they are. That’s a very counterintuitive idea, but it’s true. Studies have shown that the more intelligent a person is, the less likely they are to believe that an authority figure on stage is employing a methodology to deliberately deceive them. As you will read later, this is a critical ingredient to my performance.

For over 23 years, I performed a stage hypnosis show across the U.S.; and the members of my audiences where an excellent cross section of the population. No one specific demographic stood out more than any other. My stage hypnosis show appealed to almost everyone. My mentalism show, however, seemed to be appealing to a more sophisticated demographic.

With a degree in marketing and an insatiable need for answers, my mind began dwelling on the question…

“Why is my mentalism audience skewed toward a higher intelligence level?”

It took several days of thinking before I realized that the answer to my question was right in front of me the entire time. The intelligence level of my audience is higher at my mentalism show, because of one word: Mentalism.

When you ask someone to tell you about a hypnosis show, you will get a correct answer immediately from 95% of people. On the other hand, when you ask someone to tell you about a mentalism show, you will get a correct answer from 5% of people. Who knows what a mentalism show is?!?

If you take the time to look up Mentalist in the dictionary, you will find out that a mentalist is a mind reader, psychic, or fortuneteller; and at that point you are uber confused; because who has ever seen a mind reader, psychic, or fortuneteller perform a show? Answer… Very few people.

The reason my audiences seem smarter is due to the fact that they are. These are people who either already understand what a mentalist is, or they are willing to experience a performance that they know little about just to expand their view of the world. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to explain what a hypnotist is, but it does take someone with a strong vocabulary and understanding of words to explain what a mentalist is.

The moment I had this epiphany, I changed my marketing plan to appeal to the more sophisticated, intelligent crowd who want to laugh and be entertained while learning something about themselves. That 5% is my core audience.

So, what the heck is a mentalist?

The introduction to the hit television show The Mentalist reads…

Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis, and/or suggestion. A master manipulator of thoughts and behavior.

That is a great definition of what I do, but how is that entertaining?

By combining my skills as a hypnotist with NLP™, suggestion, psychology, directed awareness, and showmanship; I am able to read the unconscious signs of what a person is thinking, influence their actions, and manipulate the person’s decision-making process to give the appearance that I am a mind reader with supernatural psychic powers.

In other words, I have practiced for many years to read and influence others. I have become so proficient in my field that most people cannot comprehend someone being able to do what I do, and they come to the conclusion that I must be psychic.

When you combine all of what I just wrote with the fact that I lie, steal, and cheat throughout my performance; you get a 75-minute show in which I appear to pluck thoughts directly from the deepest corners of your mind.

Of course, don’t take my word for it. Attend my show, and see it for yourself. You will walk away from my show with a memory of a great time and an expanded view of what’s possible as a human being.

Apr
29th

Mon

“Instantly Thin” Hypnosis Audio Program

Bill Gladwell takes you through the 6 steps to your Perfect Weight.

With over 23 years of coaching clients in the area of weight loss, Bill’s program targets the most common areas and issues that his clients have presented. Tested and tweaked for over two decades, Instantly Thin will help you develop the habits you need to lose weight and keep it off.

Modules

Introduction
Commit For Life
Perfect Weight
Optimum Metabolism
Stop Emotional Eating
Cut The Cravings
Exercise Motivation

NOTE: Upon successful payment, you will receive an e-mail to a link to download a file. The file is a PDF, and this PDF contains the instructions and link to download all 7 Modules.

If you have any challenges downloading the program, please contact Bill via the Contact page. He will personally make sure that you get these files downloaded and in use.

Apr
25th

Thu

Top 10 things to remember while spelunking

I finally got the chance to go spelunking since I made the move to the mountains over a year ago. If you don’t know what spelunking is, perhaps the sentence example on Dictionary.com will help you understand…

“Well, he didn’t have the energy to go spelunking tonight.”

That clears it all up, doesn’t it?

Here are the top 10 things to remember while spelunking (exploring a cave)…

Don’t drink the water, because it contains Magnesium. It goes in as water, and comes out as the night of 1,000 waterfalls.
If it does come out of you, you carry it out. Bring baggies.
If trapped, eat the most annoying person first.
Related to number 3, make it known to everyone that you suffer from a rare, systemwide disease. This will keep you from being eaten early on; especially, if you are the annoying one.
Never go spelunking with a guy named Kevin. An echoing cave makes “Kevin” sound like “cave in”, and that’s never fun for anyone.
Drop Cheez-It® Crackers in order to find your way back out.
Having a light attached to your head is helpful, but it is never stylish.
Glowsticking moves that you learned at the Rave will not help you underground.
If you are the largest person, stay in the middle of your group. You then have people on either side of you who can extricate you from a tight situation.
If you get lost, do what your mother always told you to do… Sit down, and stay put. Someone will come along sooner or later.

Apr
17th

Wed

LeConte Medical Center

I shot this photo last evening after being at the hospital with my son who was suffering from an asthma episode and a bit of walking pneumonia. The lights up the wall of the hospital is what caught my attention as we left, and I thought it would make a great photo. It did.

I would like to send the photo to the administration at LeConte Medical Center. If any of you have a contact there, please get in touch with me. I would really appreciate it.

Apr
14th

Sun

Sorcery Law’s Are Real… Idiocy Abounds

The headline in yesterday’s The New York Times read… “Papua New Guinea Considers Repealing Sorcery Law”. This has to be The Times using satire to get a point across, right? Wrong.

Of course, this caught my attention; because Papua New Guinea is going on my list of places not to visit. I would surely be charged as a sorcerer the moment I stepped onto their soil, and I don’t like the consequences that go alone with the job.

I make it clear in my stage show and lectures that I do not believe in psychic abilities, ghosts, and other paranormal claims. I debunk claims of the paranormal, and I challenge anyone to show scientific proof that would change my mind. I am 41-years-old, and I have yet to be presented with any scientific proof. I am not holding my breath.

But why? Why am I so determined to educate the general public on the fraudulent practices of the paranormal community? Two reasons…

So-called psychics, mediums, and other “experts” in the field take advantage of the belief that many people have in the paranormal. The general public hands over hundreds of dollars to these “professionals”, and they receive back fairytales that are just vague enough to fool some of the best of us.
It’s because of stories like the one from yesterday’s The New York Times. When people believe, actions are taken. When people believe in stupidity, stupid actions are taken.

As you read this article from The New York Times, and you think that this could never happen in the United States; I refer you to the Westboro Baptist Church. It could happen.

“Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has vowed to repeal the country’s controversial Sorcery Act after the latest in a string of brutal public killings of people accused of practicing black magic.”

Read the rest of the article here… http://goo.gl/OP3px

(Source: The New York Times)

Sorcery Law’s Are Real… Idiocy Abounds

The headline in yesterday’s The New York Times read… “Papua New Guinea Considers Repealing Sorcery Law”. This has to be The Times using satire to get a point across, right? Wrong.

But why? Why am I so determined to educate the general public on the fraudulent practices of the paranormal community? Two reasons…

So-called psychics, mediums, and other “experts” in the field take advantage of the belief that many people have in the paranormal. The general public hands over hundreds of dollars to these “professionals”, and they receive back fairytales that are just vague enough to fool some of the best of us.
It’s because of stories like the one from yesterday’s The New York Times. When people believe, actions are taken. When people believe in stupidity, stupid actions are taken.

As you read this article from The New York Times, and you think that this could never happen in the United States; I refer you to the Westboro Baptist Church. It could happen.

Read the rest of the article here… http://goo.gl/OP3px

(Source: The New York Times)

Gatlinburg At Night

I took the long way home from the theater tonight via the Gatlinburg Bypass, and I grabbed this shot. If you have been to Gatlinburg without driving the Bypass at night, you are missing out.

Apr
13th

Sat

ANNOUNCEMENT: Bill Gladwell and Eric Dittelman LIVE!

For those of you who watch America’s Got Talent (and for those of you who don’t), I have a very special announcement.

Eric Dittelman, semifinalist on last season’s America’s Got Talent, will be joining me on stage at the Iris Theater in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

When not on television, Eric entertains audiences at colleges, comedy clubs, and private events with his unique blend of mind reading and stand-up and improvisational comedy.

Eric and I initially met online with a few quick Tweets sent back-and-forth. A few months later, we ran into each other in Las Vegas, and I had the opportunity to see him perform a short set of his material. Eric is a great mentalist, a very nice guy, and someone you need to see live.

Eric and I will be performing a 90-minute show on Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15. We will add additional shows as the theater becomes sold out.

During this 90-minute performance, Eric and I will be sharing the stage performing the best of our material as well as some new material designed specifically for these two dates.

As of the writing of this post, the details have not been officially released; but tickets will be made available to the public within the next seven days. To be the first to know when tickets go on sale and for updates to this event, check back here and “Like” my Facebook Fan Page.

We’re both looking forward to seeing you at the show!

Alternate Title:

What the heck is a mentalist?

Modules

For those of you who watch America’s Got Talent (and for those of you who don’t), I have a very special announcement.​

For those of you who watch America’s Got Talent (and for those of you who don’t), I have a very special announcement.