AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe

Astrid Harms is a hypnotherapist, mind-body coach, single mom, former TV professional, and the person behind Soulessense Coaching and Hypnotherapy — and she has read somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 research papers on tinnitus. Not because anyone asked her to. Because someone told her it was impossible to treat, and her brain doesn't accept that answer.In this conversation, Astrid and Ryan start with tinnitus and end up somewhere in the neighborhood of epigenetics, the mind-body stress cascade, Ram Dass and his guru, nature gardens as stress management, and what single moms can actually do when the to-do list never gets shorter. It covers a lot of ground and none of it feels rushed.Astrid breaks down tinnitus in a way most people have never heard: not as a single condition but as a heterogeneous group of diseases with four distinct cause categories — auditory, somatosensory (neck, dental, cranial nerves), inflammatory, and psychological — that almost always appear in combination. Her approach works across all four. For veterans especially, she points out, tinnitus is one of the leading causes of disability, because it often arrives alongside trauma and the physiological aftermath of explosive sound, creating a stress-distress-sound loop that nobody has taught them to break. The key insight that changes everything for most clients: as long as you see the tinnitus as your enemy, it will behave like one. The moment you understand why it's there — whether it's a leftover alarm, a warning about inflammation, a nervous system signaling danger, or the mind's version of I don't want to hear this anymore — it often begins to quiet down on its own.She also walks through the cascade from thinking to emotion to hormone to cellular signaling, which lands for Ryan because he's been following the science of how chronic stress reaches the body at its deepest levels. Astrid confirms that stress — especially when it runs long enough to become chronic — changes how cells function and renew, and that this is one of the mechanisms behind why unaddressed psychological stress can eventually show up as physical illness. None of this is woo. Most of it just hasn't been fully investigated yet. Astrid's approach is to follow the chain as far as the research goes, and hold the rest as an honest maybe.She closes with future vision hypnosis — giving people permission to fantasize about a life with no constraints, and watching what surfaces when they finally stop arguing against their own desires. Most people, she says, already know what they want. They just decided a long time ago it wasn't for them.Three quotes from Astrid worth writing down:"As long as you see tinnitus as your enemy, it's going to bug you. As soon as you understand why it's there, it calms down — often all on its own.""Don't just rely on the single pill that will fix your life. Very often, the spark is in ourselves.""If you are doubting what your path is, either it's not the right one — or you still have too many limitations in your own mind telling you it can't work."Connect with Astrid Harms: Website: soulessense.co (or astridharms.com, which forwards there) YouTube: youtube.com/@soulessensecoaching Facebook community: Mind Explorations group Astrid works online only and sees clients internationally — discovery call required before booking. She also has courses coming — check her website for current availability. She presents at HypnoThoughts Live on Quantum or Quackery.Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

Lori Donnelly is a hypnotherapist, IEMT certified practitioner and trainer, co-founder of Hypno LA, and someone who nearly drowned at age 10 jumping into a rip current to save a smaller child — and woke up on the beach to a man with white zinc on his nose and a halo of light behind his head. She's never been afraid of dying since.In this conversation, Lori and Ryan discover immediately that they're kindred spirits: two people who've been to the edge and come back with a fundamental trust that the universe loves them. They spend the first half in a beautiful, wandering conversation about gratitude, abundance, and the study where people who identified as lucky consistently found the $100 bill on the floor while the unlucky ones walked right past it. Lori's take: it's not luck, it's what you're open to seeing.Then they get into the tools. IEMT — Integral Eye Movement Therapy — was developed by Andrew T. Austin as a response to a simple question: why does EMDR work brilliantly for some people and not others? The answer turned out to involve the direction of eye movement, and the distinction between bilateral patterns and diagonals. IEMT watches where someone's eyes go when they access a memory and uses precise eye movements to fractionate the memory — moving it from present and overwhelming to past and distant, where it belongs. Lori works with complex war trauma, phantom limb syndrome, PTSD, abuse survivors, and people who don't want to talk about what happened. She doesn't need them to. She just needs their eyes.She also talks about building Hypno LA — a conference born from watching the community at HMI College of Hypnotherapy simply disappear after COVID moved everything online, leaving practitioners alone in their offices with no fishing buddies. And she closes with the Golden Heart Exercise, which she leads live on air: a simple, energetic practice of holding someone you're struggling with in their truest spirit rather than their worst moment. People who've tried it for 30 days consistently report that the estranged person calls.Three quotes from Lori worth writing down:"Don't hold people at their worst selves. Their human is suffering, but their spirit is perfect and healed.""Thank you, thank you, thank you — in advance. I don't care what it is. That's how I pray.""There's plenty of fish. And the people who walk through life feeling blessed are the ones who find the $100 bill on the floor."Connect with Lori Donnelly: Hypnotherapy practice: wolfcreekwellness.us IEMT training and certification: iemttraining.us Lori is presenting at HypnoThoughts Live (July 14–15, full IEMT certification course) and co-running Hypno LA in SeptemberConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

Michael Watson has been in the hypnosis world longer than most organizations have existed. As principal trainer for IACT and one of the field's quiet elders, he brings something rare: genuine perspective, zero ego, and a willingness to say what he actually thinks.In this conversation, Michael and Ryan cover a lot of ground without rushing any of it. Michael unpacks his concept of Evolutionary Hypnosis — the idea that every client already carries the answer, and that our job is closer to Anne Sullivan reaching through the darkness for Helen Keller than it is to following a protocol. He talks about why Milton Erickson would have failed the IACT certification exam, why AI will eventually replace any hypnotist who thinks in protocols, and why the field's infighting comes down to the same thing every other fundamentalism comes down to: someone decided they had the right book.He introduces the Three Principles — mind, thought, and consciousness — through the lens of a subway station. Thoughts are the trains. You don't have to board every one. The ones marked "to hell and back" can be let go. He learned this the hard way when the company he was training NLP for in the UK started falling apart and Jamie Smart told him, calmly, that he was just experiencing the effects of his thinking. He wanted to punch him in the mouth. He was also completely right.They close on Mother Teresa declining an anti-war rally — but offering to attend a peace rally — and a client from 40 years ago in San Francisco who looked at Michael mid-session and said: we're just all poor sons of bitches trying to get through it. Michael still calls it the most Buddha thing anyone has ever said to him.Three quotes from Michael worth writing down:"If you just wait a minute when things are at rock bottom — it has to get better. And as it gets better, you have more resources to make worthwhile decisions instead of catastrophic ones.""Experience is something that we do. Not something we're subjected to. Stuff happens, and it becomes good or bad after we've made a decision about it.""Being miserable is optional. Your suffering is bogus. You can stop doing this right now."Connect with Michael Watson: IACT: facebook.com/IACTNews Michael teaches stress management certification, master trainer programs, and board-certified hypnotist courses through IACT — reach out through the association for upcoming datesConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Christopher Jones — Chicago's own, the only hypnotist ever to appear on America's Got Talent, whose clip hypnotizing Howie Mandel has over 22 million views, star of the Double Take series on Facebook Watch where he conspired with John Cena, Pamela Anderson, NeNe Leakes, and Steve-O to give unsuspecting superfans the surprise of a lifetime through hypnosis, and proud new father of a five-month-old who makes several unscheduled appearances throughout the recording.Chris came up from the South Side of Chicago, studied Sociology and Psychology in college, calling himself a "social engineer with deviant motives," was voted most likely to become a priest in his all-boys Catholic high school, went to college and promptly revised that plan upon discovering the gender ratio, got a master's in Therapeutic Recreation, watched a hypnotist on campus one night, chased him through the parking lot, got a book recommendation he had to scrape $60 together to buy, and never looked back. His mentor Fred Winters opened the floodgates. Then he drove 600 miles in a brand-new Prius with 17 miles on it to watch Salish perform in Southern Illinois, introduced himself while the man was eating pizza, and eventually made him the honorary uncle of both his daughters. The Howie Mandel story gets a full breakdown here, and it is more interesting than the clip suggests. The suggestion wasn't some general command to shake hands — Chris built it entirely around Howie's specific comfort condition. Howie shakes hands when everyone is wearing gloves. So Chris framed it that way, and when Heidi Klum started screeching in Howie's face, it didn't matter. Howie still thought everyone was wearing gloves. The frame held. Heidi's volume was irrelevant. Howard Stern apologized to Chris afterward. Chris's voice cracked audibly when it worked, and he still sounds slightly amazed recounting it.Then there was Michael Bublé, who did not cooperate. Then there was the green room immediately after, where Chris swore into a chain-link fence while a show psychologist stood nearby with a clipboard. Then there was the bar afterward, where he sat between a Britney Spears lookalike and an Oprah lookalike, pretty drunk, eliminated from a national talent competition, thinking: I don't understand my life. Then there was Lawrence Fishburne saying "nice job, young man" in the green room on a different TV appearance, and Chris being so embarrassed by a bad set that he said God bless you and walked directly out the door next to a Rolls Royce.The conversation goes everywhere it wants to go. They talk about why framing a suggestion around someone's specific psychology is the whole game, in stage work and in clinical work alike — Chris is currently helping a smoking cessation client and describes his intake process in detail: listen, listen more, ask what you're not telling me, wait, then politely destroy every excuse still standing. They talk about the ethics of combining mentalism and hypnosis and where the line is between theater and manipulation. They talk about diversity in the hypnosis world and a people of color panel at HypnoThoughts where everyone disagreed with each other immediately, which Chris points out is entirely human and probably inevitable. They talk about Larry Garrett, who hypnotized Saddam Hussein's son's limp away before September 11th happened and then had a very interesting conversation with the CIA afterward. They talk about why the best magicians in history have disproportionately been Jewish, which spirals into Exodus and Moses and snake-eating snakes.Chris also shares that his wife told him he couldn't marry her until he had a therapist. He got one. He now tells people he will encourage his daughters, if they ever marry a man, to make sure he has a therapist too. He said it without drama and clearly means it.And then he closes with the thing that actually lit him up: get a passport. He went to Honduras as a chubby sixth-grader with a 36-inch waist, walked everywhere, ate rice and orange juice and cheese, came home with an eight-pack, and realized for the first time that he had muscles. He has been going back to the world ever since.Three quotes from Chris worth writing down:"I framed it around his comfort level. If she's screaming in his face, it doesn't matter — because he still thinks everyone's wearing gloves.""I'm gonna teach you how to hypnotize yourself. I'm gonna teach you how to get out of your own way. Look at the finish line. The hurdle's gonna be there — you just step over it.""Wherever you go, people are people. If God's giving you suffering, say thank you for the suffering. I'm sure I'm gonna learn a lot more from it than from pleasure."Connect with Chris Jones: Website: chrisjoneshypnotist.com Facebook: facebook.com/chris.jones.114372 Chris performs his live show "Yes, And... Hypnosis" at the iO Theatre in Chicago, combining improv games with real audience hypnosis, and is a regular at Zanies Comedy Club. He's also available for corporate events, college campuses, and private events nationwide — booking form on his website For therapeutic work (smoking cessation and more): reach out through his website or social channels — he works on a donation basis Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with John Launius — certified hypnotist, Komoto (Master of Ceremonies in the Japanese incense tradition), martial artist of 44 years, fragrance expert of equal tenure, and one of the most genuinely original practitioners in the hypnosis world — for a conversation that moves from Nobel Prize-winning olfactory research to $660 half-grams of wood that produce the mental clarity of a month-long meditation retreat in a single breath. John is presenting at HypnoThoughts Live this year on Scent in the Subconscious, and by the time this conversation is over, you will understand exactly why that room is going to be full.John's origin story starts at age nine, with a bloody nose earned defending his brother, a martial arts teacher burning what he now calls bad incense, and a mother who kicked his door open when she smelled smoke coming from his room. Four years of studying world religions and incense later, a chance encounter at a childhood friend's house — going downstairs for a glass of water in a 19th-century three-story home — put him in front of a Japanese incense master who asked him what he knew about the tradition, liked his answers, and offered to teach him. For the next ten years, John studied under her formally. About a year before her death, he earned the title of Komoto. He has been working at the intersection of fragrance, healing, and consciousness ever since.The science underneath the work is real and growing. Scent is the only one of our five senses that does not filter through the thalamus before reaching the limbic system — the seat of memory and emotion. That direct line is why a single inhale can unlock a feeling from thirty years ago before the thinking mind has time to intervene. Buck and Axel won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for identifying where human olfactory receptors actually are and how aroma signals travel into the brain, and the research has been accelerating ever since. John came across a poster in a jetway at a UC San Diego research station asking whether smell might be a cure for Alzheimer's. He wasn't surprised at all.His practice, which he calls fragrance hypnosis, starts with a Natural Preference Survey — a document that maps the client's scent library based on their background, culture, and lived experience — before a single fragrance is introduced. He uses the survey to identify which molecules are already encoded in the client's nervous system as comfort, safety, and resource, then builds the session around those, layering in additional fragrances based on the presenting challenge. For veterans and first responders dealing with PTSD and TBI, the work often involves the inverse: identifying the trigger fragrances (diesel, burning hair, medicinal smells) and carefully building new associations around the pre-trauma scent memories that can serve as anchors for re-regulation. He was sent a veteran who came in openly skeptical — told John directly that the whole thing was two letters — and who by session three was apologizing.The crown jewel of the personal incense journey is Agarwood, the rarest and most expensive incense wood in the world, running between $1,500 and $3,500 a gram. John recently paid $660 for half a gram from a trusted vendor, which he considers a deal. A thirty-minute session with Agarwood, he says, produces the mental clarity of a thirty-minute meditation in a single inhalation — not a high, not a sedative, but a genuine quieting of extraneous thought that takes most practitioners years of sitting practice to access. A transcendental meditator of twenty years who traveled seven hours to work with him described the experience in about forty-five seconds and couldn't find a longer sentence.John closes with the phrase he's been using for thirty-five years when someone calls what he does woo-woo: his job is to take you from the woo-woo to the wow-wow. And as a Komoto, he makes a promise he takes seriously — to lead without imposing his will. Hypnosis, he says, makes the weak stronger and the strong stronger. All he needs is a powerful yes or a powerful no. Everything else follows from there.Three quotes from John worth writing down:"Scent is the only sense that does not filter through the thalamus. It goes directly to the seat of memory and emotion. That's why fragrance can have a more immediate impact on the subconscious than almost anything else.""Your entire life, you have a whole library of fragrances related to your memories and emotions. Every single one of them is in there, waiting.""My job is to take you from the woo-woo to the wow-wow. Once I do that, you've integrated it."Connect with John Launius: John presents at HypnoThoughts Live 2026 on Scent in the Subconscious — additional links and resources will be in the Whova app before the conference Free 45-minute hypnosis consultation: reach out through his social channels or conference presence to schedule John works with individuals, veterans and first responders through the Special Operations Charity Network, and high-profile clients in business and entertainment privately — in person in St. Louis and remotely with clients who source their own fragrance supplies in advancewebsite: www.Shihan-Wellness.comConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Jeff Broomfield — hypnotist, former thrash metal guitarist, print industry veteran, Figment the Dragon enthusiast, and the man behind jeffbroomfield.com — for one of the most wide-open, philosophically alive, and quietly warm conversations the show has had. Jeff joins from Canada wearing a Figment shirt and with a Figment stuffed toy perched on his shoulder like a parrot, which sets the tone immediately: this is someone who takes imagination seriously enough to wear it.Jeff came up through the graphics and printing industry, where he spent years studying light, color, and imaging at a professional level — and where he first started noticing that things weren't quite what they appeared to be. You can't actually see light. You can only see its reflection when it hits something. That observation became a doorway into Carl Jung, into projection, into the outside-in theory that now forms the spine of his entire practice.The outside-in theory is simple and unsettling in equal measure: from birth, we are conditioned by religion, culture, family, and society to believe we are not enough — that our instincts need to be suppressed, our authenticity needs to be managed, and that authority lives outside us rather than within. Jeff's argument is that most people are already in a trance when they walk through a hypnotist's door, and that the real work isn't putting them into one. He asks every hypnotist he meets the same question: when you're working with a client, do you ever feel like you're actually taking them out of a trance? Most of them say yes.The conversation covers a lot of ground. They dig into Jung's mirror — how everything that triggers us in other people is a reflection of something unresolved in ourselves — and Ryan turns it on himself in real time, wondering aloud whether his irritation at a peer charging $14.95 for a $2,000 hypnosis course is really about his own history of being taken advantage of. Jeff doesn't let him off the hook easy. They talk about the Rebel Reflex and why you can't tell someone what they need to change — you can only create the conditions for them to find it. They talk about grief as quicksand, about cutting toxic strings, about the soul realignment work Jeff does after clearing the emotional bucket: taking clients into their own inner light and watching the smile arrive on their face when they find it. Seventy-year-old women telling him they've never felt love like that before.They also talk about the woman with three months to live whose son had just died of a fentanyl overdose — who transferred her trust from her oncologist to Jeff, lived six more years, and whose ex-boyfriend reached out to thank him for the time they got back together. They talk about the collective consciousness and why you can't walk on water alone when everyone around you is still certain you can't. They talk about Dr. Emoto and frequency and love as the open guitar string — the note that everything else is a suppressed version of. And Jeff closes with the one thing he most wants people to know, delivered while leaning into the camera with a smile: be yourself. If I can get here from playing Slayer in a thrash band while people called me a Satanist, so can you.Three quotes from Jeff worth writing down:"When you're hypnotizing your clients, do you ever feel like you're actually taking them out of a trance? Because that's what we're really doing.""You are a being of love and light. That is your soul. That is who you are. Everything else is suppression.""Be yourself. That is what love is. Once you love yourself, you love everybody else. You can't truly love other people until you love yourself."Connect with Jeff Broomfield: Website: jeffbroomfield.com YouTube: youtube.com/@JeffBroomfield Jeff presents at the Michigan International Hypnosis Conference in September and the Toronto Hypnosis Conference in October — topics include the Outside-In Theory and spoon bending with the power of your mind (yes, really — reach out to find out more)Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Dr. Michael Harris — Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP practitioner, author of five books (and counting), trainer, and the man behind drmichaelharris.com — for a conversation that starts in a Fort Worth construction company in the pre-internet era and ends with Ryan signing up for the Nonverbals course and both of them agreeing to a part two. Dr. Harris trained with Robert Dilts, Tim and Kris Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Nick LeForce, and Steven Gilligan, worked alongside Steve Andreas on a shared client, has stories about Dave Dobson that nobody else has, and spent years working with USA Gymnastics Junior competitors before semi-retiring, meeting his wife during COVID lockdown, and deciding to build what he calls a new wild bunch.His origin story runs through a construction company where he noticed a vast communication gap between the C-suite and the rank and file, found an ad in the back of the Green Sheet for a communication class, called his company owner to get reimbursed for a weekend course, and came out the other side feeling like someone had pulled the curtain back on language. He never stopped pulling. Personal training company, 17 lead singers, sold it, played golf for a year, got bored, heard about a hypnotist named Dr. Mike who made a fortune doing stop smoking and nothing else out of a wrapped minivan, ended up writing a check to a small university in Huntington Beach to do their master's and PhD program, sat in a lawn chair in a bare apartment with a train 150 feet from his front door at 4am making a threshold decision to finish his dissertation on Sleepnosis or go get a job. He finished it. Here we are.The conversation goes deep in every direction. He walks through his approach to well-formed outcomes, with a fourth question that most NLP trainers skip: does this align with your core values? Before the old NLP version asked what's preventing you from having this now, which collapses all the energy you just built. He explains the six representational sequences that determine how someone actually succeeds, not just VAK but the specific order that completes the loop, using the example of a kid who didn't sit down to play chess but stalked the board. He covers the ecology check, the double-bind presuppositions Bandler and Grinder borrowed but never fully taught, how every presenting problem maps to a hypnotic phenomenon the client is already running on themselves, and why Dave Dobson's concept of dehypnotizing people is still the most useful frame for all of it.He also tells the Samantha story: a gymnast competing in one out of four events when he met her, working with a coach who was slowly demolishing every girl in that gym, and the moment the following season when she changed gyms, came back in, said she had a goal but didn't want to tell him what it was, and he ran the whole well-formed outcome content-free. Then there is the diabetes story, which Ryan asks to keep going even though they're running over time. Blood sugar at 441, A1C at 13.2, a doctor on the phone at 7am asking why he wasn't in the hospital. Six months of daily self-hypnosis, talking to his liver, talking to his pancreas, and most importantly clearing every trace of bitterness. Metaphorically, he points out, Type 2 diabetes is the body's inability to accept sweetness. He reversed it. His endocrinologist is perplexed. His next goal is his eyesight.They close with automatic writing, idiomotor signals, and a plan for part two.Three quotes from Dr. Harris worth writing down:"The primary focus of my self-hypnosis was eliminating every trace of bitterness in my life. Metaphorically, Type 2 diabetes is your inability to accept sweetness. What is the opposite of sweetness? Bitterness. So I worked on that.""Everybody is already in trance. The only question is whether it's the trance you want to be in. Dave Dobson called our job dehypnotizing people.""I want to create a new wild bunch. Train people up and empower them to fly higher than I ever dreamed."Connect with Dr. Michael Harris: Website: drmichaelharris.com Free 30-minute consultation: email through his website Free Mastermind: email to join the list, get access to full recordings and club pricing ($300 per course vs. standard rates) Free book: Hidden Agenda (teaches how presuppositions work in media and news) — ask for the link when you join Books on Amazon: Forbidden Hypnosis (Volumes 1 and 2), Ericksonian Alchemy, The Lost Secrets of NLP, and companion presupposition books for attorneys and analysts — search Dr. Michael HarrisConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Holly Stokes — international bestselling author, Master NLP Coach Trainer, National Guild Hypnosis Trainer, speaker, and the Brain Trainer herself — for a conversation that moves from autoimmune disease to placebo surgery to the Wright Brothers to Ryan laughing while his dentist drills out a tooth, and somehow all of it connects. Holly co-owns the Life Harmony Wellness Center and Training Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, has worked with thousands of clients over 20 years rewiring the brain out of old habits, fears, stress, and self-sabotage, and has been quoted in Shape Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Active Times. She is presenting at HypnoThoughts Live on Intuitive Hypnosis Mastery.Her origin story is dramatic in the best way. She was a professional whitewater rafting guide and wilderness backpacker for a decade — her actual job was camping — when she started noticing unexplained bruising and eventually received a diagnosis of an incurable autoimmune condition. The symptoms included an allergy to sunlight. For an outdoor girl who lived in sunshine, the diagnosis was devastating. Western Medicine's answer was: suppress your immune system and hope for better drugs. Holly's answer, pieced together over years of applying hypnosis, NLP, herbalism, and systems thinking to herself, was different. She is now medication-free, symptom-free, and back in the sun. Her book, The Miracle Code, is her practical account of how she got there.The conversation builds a coherent argument from the ground up. Stress is not just a feeling — it's a biochemical event that floods the body with hormones that affect everything from pain response to immune function to sleep. Eighty percent of the stress most people experience comes from their own thinking, not from their circumstances. Trauma encodes not just the event but the meaning the mind assigns to it, and it's the meaning that keeps the stress response running long after the original event is over. Those meanings become identity-level beliefs — the I'm-nots, as Holly calls them — and those are the stickiest ones to shift because the unconscious mind argues for them the way it argues for anything it has claimed as self.Then she gets into placebo surgery. A knee surgeon wanted to know which part of his procedure actually drove recovery, so he set up three groups: one group got the full procedure, one got part of it, and one got a sham surgery with an incision but no physical intervention. Followed up at two and five years, all three groups healed equally well. Holly's read on it: the doctor may not be the agent of healing so much as the permission structure for it. The body already knows how to heal a cut without a band-aid. The question is what else it's capable of when given the right conditions.Ryan's dentist visit the day before the recording becomes a perfect live example. He went in expecting dread, shifted his mind deliberately, laughed through the drilling, and watched the bill drop from $1,100 to $500 to zero in three conversations. Holly just nods. That's the whole thesis.She also walks through her change structure formula — the iceberg model of conscious versus unconscious mind, how to identify the brain tangles underneath any presenting symptom, and why Intuitive Hypnosis Mastery means not needing a specific script for every issue because the deeper structure of change is always the same. She closes with a centering technique she does with every anxiety client: tapping gently on the chest, and saying out loud, even though I feel this stress, I come back to my center now. Past tense version too, because the unconscious holds history.Three quotes from Holly worth writing down:"If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.""80% of the stress people experience every day actually comes from their own mind. Not their circumstances. Their thinking.""What else is possible? That's the question. Whatever you're facing — are you open to something more? Are you open to the solution?"Connect with Holly Stokes: Website: thebraintrainerllc.com Book, placebo effect documentaries, and free Keys to Self-Healing video: thebraintrainerllc.com/book Holly presents at HypnoThoughts Live on Intuitive Hypnosis Mastery — she also teaches NLP, hypnosis, and coaching skills through her training center in Salt Lake CityConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Kathy Lindert — certified hypnotist, former stockbroker and mortgage banker, published author, first responder specialist, and the woman behind The Mental Edge LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina — for one of the most energetic, practical, and genuinely funny conversations the show has had. Kathy came out smiling, as her mother will confirm, and has not really stopped since. She's been quoted in Woman's World and Discover magazine, has been doing this for over 20 years, and is presenting at HypnoThoughts Live on Friday morning, which means everybody better show up sharp because she will be moving fast.Kathy did not come into hypnosis from a spiritual background or a healing calling. She came in from the Yellow Pages, a mortgage banker suit, a briefcase, and a son named Kevin who had OCD so severe he wouldn't eat and couldn't sleep. Medication was making it worse. She found a tiny article in Prevention Magazine that said hypnosis helps with fears and phobias. She was having panic attacks of her own — couldn't drive over bridges, felt her world caving in. She called a school in Edison, New Jersey the next day, told them she'd pay for it one week at a time if it didn't work, showed up with her pens and her pad, told them to pick on her as much as they wanted because she was there to learn, and went home that night with one NLP knuckle technique. She did it with Kevin. He slept through the night. The teachers started asking questions. Her panic attacks about bridges dissolved after one session, and she used the same anchor — green, the number seven, left hand — to drive over the Tappan Zee for the first time.That was her entry point. Twenty-plus years later, she has built a practice around the people who need it most and are the least likely to ask: first responders. Police officers, firefighters, EMS workers, nurses — people who absorb other people's trauma and crisis all day, get screamed at, get called names, have to hold it together in front of everyone, and statistically have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. The tipping point for Kathy was a police officer on Highway 485, Steel Creek, who pulled off the road and killed himself. She said, there has to be a better way. She is now one of the people building it, and her HypnoThoughts presentation will teach practitioners not just the techniques but how to actually break through the blue line and get in the door.The conversation is also full of practical gold: her three rules for every client (it's about you, we're changing your language, and yes, she curses), why she gives out rocks from the Jersey Shore and Lake Wiley and why losing one means Mother Nature took care of it, why she anchors in a higher power whenever she has permission to, the knuckle technique she used on Kevin that night, why she demands a number instead of the word "good," how she did better success rates on Zoom during COVID than in person because clients could rewatch the session, and why she finishes every induction with God kissing the client on the forehead and saying I love you, I'm here, lean on me.She closes with the word that started it all: Abracadabra. Aramaic for I will create as I speak. She holds it up on her phone for the camera, lets it land, and says, be careful with what you take in, because that's what you're creating. It lands exactly as it should.Three quotes from Kathy worth writing down:"I teach them to not own that shit. I teach them to command their day.""When you constantly hear derogatory statements, it does something to the person's psyche and their confidence. And so I teach them to change their language. I can. I will. I'm worth it. I'm important.""Abracadabra is Aramaic for I will create as I speak. Be careful with what you say, or what you take in, because that's what you're creating."Connect with Kathy Lindert: Website: mentaledgellc.com Kathy is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and sees clients both in person and on Zoom, with ongoing referrals from doctors in New York and New Jersey Books: How to Quit Smoking Without Gaining Weight (currently being updated and rereleased) — search Kathy Lindert on Amazon HypnoThoughts Live: Friday morning session on working with first responders, including techniques and a full marketing breakdown for practitioners who want to break into this communityConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Doug O'Brien — NLP Master Trainer, certified hypnotist, Havening techniques practitioner, storytelling teacher, personal success coach, and the author of the User's Guide to Sleight of Mouth and the User's Guide to Storytelling — for one of the most wide-ranging, funny, and genuinely illuminating conversations the show has had. Doug joins from the same time zone as Ryan, which they both somehow find surprising. ACDC was originally scheduled to open. They called out last minute.Doug's entry into this world started in New York City, where he was playing rock and roll and scraping together enough money to stay in youth hostels. A friend dragged him to a Tony Robbins firewalk. He didn't want to go. He went. He found it surprisingly, genuinely interesting — and the 15-day certification course that followed brought in Richard Bandler for a day, Robert Dilts for a day, and a hypnotist named Dave Dobson, who stopped Doug in his tracks completely. Dobson became his primary mentor. Stephen Heller, who shared an office with Dobson and inherited his client list when Dobson retired to Friday Harbor, became another important voice. Doug has been studying, teaching, and practicing in this lineage ever since.The conversation covers a lot of ground and earns every minute of it. They dig into why NLP started as modeling and drifted into technique-selling, how Bandler and Grinder literally became Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson — adopting their accents, their postures, their cigarettes — before they understood what they were doing, and what it means to model someone at a level beyond their writings. Doug tells the story of Stephen Gilligan being double-inducted by Bandler and Grinder into a deep trans-identification with Erickson, then saying things to Gregory Bateson — personal, private things between two old friends — that Gilligan had no possible way of knowing. Bateson ran from the building.From there they move into hypnosis as a state of being rather than a technique, the bicameral mind and what Julian Jaynes thought was actually happening when someone goes under, why the other-than-conscious mind is purposeful rather than rational, why you can accidentally give yourself terrible suggestions while drifting off to sleep, and why prayer and manifestation work by the same mechanism. Ryan holds up the idea of trances like clothes — we're always wearing one, hypnosis just gives you the choice of which one to put on. Doug loves it.Then Doug breaks down Havening in detail: the four conditions required to encode a trauma, the neurochemical cascade that locks it in place, and how stroking the arms, face, and hands generates delta waves that open voltage-sensitive calcium channels in the lateral amygdala, dissolve the phosphate molecule holding the AMPA receptors in place, and remove them permanently. The trauma doesn't get managed. The receptor that was firing it simply disappears. Ryan points out that it looks exactly like Mr. Miyagi. Doug agrees immediately.Ryan then presents his theory that the subconscious might live in the mitochondria — which have their own DNA, inherited entirely from the maternal line, connecting every human back to a single original mother. He suggests the fascia might be how they communicate outward. Doug is quiet for a moment and says, wow. That's it. Just: wow.And then Doug closes with the Erickson horse story, which is maybe the best answer anyone has ever given to the question of how you do psychotherapy.Three quotes from Doug worth writing down:"We're in trances all the time. The question is, can you get into a productive one? Erickson used to say: discover their patterns of happiness.""The other-than-conscious mind is purposeful. Tell it to go forward, it goes forward. But you better be careful what you're telling it — because it's listening all the time, including when you're falling asleep.""I didn't know where the horse belonged. But I knew the horse knew. All I needed to do was keep its attention on the road."Connect with Doug O'Brien: Essential coaching skills membership: essentialcoachingskills.com Books: User's Guide to Sleight of Mouth, User's Guide to Storytelling — search Doug O'Brien on Amazon Doug teaches Sleight of Mouth, Havening, and personal success coaching — check his site for current training dates and membership optionsConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Janet Rotella, certified professional hypnotist, Reiki practitioner, sound healer, meditation teacher, and the founder of Calm and Brite Holistic Wellness Services in Florida, for one of the most spiritually grounded and quietly emotional conversations the show has produced. Janet is presenting at HypnoThoughts Live for the second year in a row, this time for a full hour on hypnosis and energy work with autistic, special needs, neurodivergent, and non-to-low verbal communities. Little Big Daddy, her therapy dog and former service dog to her late sister, makes a brief but memorable cameo.Janet came to this work through a path that keeps proving her own point about coping skills: a background in marketing and communications, a mobile day spa that was the first business shut down during COVID, a COVID grant she used to go back to school for hypnotherapy, and a lifetime of watching her only sister, Andrea, navigate the world as a low-verbal special needs person who was given exactly two options at birth in 1968 or 1969 — an institution, or home with no support. Her parents took her home and did everything with her. Andrea learned to ride a bike, went to speech therapy for years, eventually developed a vocabulary that included a respectable collection of curse words, and became Janet's reason for every certification she ever earned. Janet brought her through nine months of terminal cancer using hypnosis, going all the way into OR rooms, inducing her at the edge of PET scan machines, and sitting with her every night to say a prayer they made up together. When Andrea passed at 55, Janet changed the last line of the prayer. She still says it.The conversation goes deep and moves around a lot. They talk about why the non-verbal community often responds to hypnosis better than anyone else — because they have no filters, no skepticism, no performance anxiety, just a lifetime of signals stuck inside them with nowhere to go. Janet's whole philosophy around the special needs community reframes autism and nonverbal behavior not as a cognitive absence but as a wiring short: everything is registering, nothing can get out. Her job is to give them a different way through.They get into the question Janet says comes up constantly: how does a devout Christian who serves at her Bible-based church every Sunday also run a Reiki and energy work center? Her answer is thorough, personal, and lands pretty simply. Nothing about holistic healing is new. Oils, laying on hands, healing through prayer, walking up to a bush and pulling off a berry to make a salve: that's biblical. She calls Reiki prayer on steroids and leaves it there. She also talks about doing explicitly Christian-based inductions for clients who want them, using scripture as suggestion, and finding that the framework of abundance and limiting belief maps almost perfectly onto what she was already reading in Jeremiah.There is also a conversation about God, the Holy Spirit, the soul, the subconscious, a corporate org chart, a Bentley with flat tires, a hard drive that needs defragging, and Dan Marino finally getting his Super Bowl ring in heaven.And then Little Big Daddy wanders onto camera, does his paws up, gives a big yawn, and the whole thing feels exactly like what Janet's center is actually trying to be: a place where you can just show up as you are, even if all you can do is make it to the parking lot.Three quotes from Janet worth writing down:"We have something for everyone, because everyone has something. And there is always help, and there is always hope.""I wanted her healed. I just didn't get her healed in the way I was expecting. But I got her healed.""If the ocean can calm itself down, so can you. Let's work on it together."Connect with Janet Rotella: Website: calmandbrite.com Janet is based in Florida and presents at HypnoThoughts Live in July — Little Big Daddy will be there too Calm and Brite also rents space to other practitioners and hosts group classes including Janet's signature Hypnoki sessions, a fusion of hypnosis, Reiki, sound healing, and meditationConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

Yesterday, I broke down and cried in the middle of the grocery store. Here's an article I wrote about it:https://medium.com/trancewell/grief-sorrow-and-when-the-healing-doesnt-seem-to-work-592d48a353e6?sk=716685a230703bea6bed2babceae5e87Please enjoy this episode. If you need support or want to explore what is possible in your life, write me at [email protected].

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan goes down the rabbit hole straight through the Earth's core and comes out in Melbourne, Australia — where he finds James Tsakalos, one of the most respected and quietly influential figures in the NLP world, running a live Master Practitioner training in the room right behind him, whiteboards covered, Italian pasta lessons happening between sessions.James has been teaching NLP for over 30 years, and the reason people in the field — Lance Baker, Melissa Tears, James Tripp, Jonathan Alfelt, and others — keep saying his name with a particular kind of reverence is simple: he teaches NLP the way it was originally meant to be taught. Long, immersive, embodied, in-person. Not a 7-day certification. Not a Udemy click-through. The real thing. He describes it as a full-contact sport, and he means it literally — most of what NLP is actually about lives in the body and in unconscious competence, not in techniques and language patterns you can read from a slide.The conversation goes deep on what NLP actually is at its core — not a bag of tricks, but a process of reverse-engineering extraordinary human performance that most people never encounter. James draws a sharp distinction between the modeling process itself and the techniques that come out of that process, and explains why the field drifted toward selling the outputs rather than teaching the method. He introduces apprehension vs. comprehension — the difference between knowing something through your senses and nervous system versus knowing something through logic and explanation — and makes the case that most of the important things we learn in life, from language as children to reading a room as adults, we learn through apprehension. Trying to get there through comprehension is the thing that blocks it.They also cover: why kids are the best models for the state you need to do real modeling work, why the comparison and judgment that emerges around age 6 or 7 might be the original sin of learning, how Gregory Bateson introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, what metaphors like the "brain as computer" silently do to how we think about change, pattern detection vs. pattern understanding, language evolution, the funk, the Tao, and why if a trainer is being presented as a celebrity with the power to change your life you should run in the opposite direction.And then — what James did or said in the two minutes he stepped off camera while Ryan accidentally stopped recording — remains the secret to having everything you want in life. We'll never know.Three quotes from James worth writing down:"NLP is an attitude of wanton curiosity, and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques. The techniques are not NLP — they're what NLP left behind.""Your ability to understand something has nothing to do with your ability to perceive its existence. Pattern detection and understanding are completely different things. And one of them will prevent the other.""Everyone is just making it up as they go along. Everyone. The most successful people you've ever met — they're all just winging it. Be okay with that."Connect with James Tsakalos: Website: jamestsakalos.com Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Brandi EMME — certified clinical hypnotherapist, shamanic practitioner, astrologer, former fitness instructor, cuddle therapist, and the force behind EMME Therapy Lounge — for one of the most wide-open, spiritually electric, and quietly profound conversations the show has produced. Brandi joins from wherever her life has landed her, carrying two decades of vegan living, a Tibetan shaman master who changed everything, and a last name she invented — which turned out to mean exactly what it needed to mean.Before they even hit record, she pulled up Ryan's natal chart. Libra sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising. She had notes.Brandi came into hypnosis through a Tibetan shamanic lineage — not a weekend certification, but years of deep practice with a master who refused to give her the one thing she showed up wanting: amnesia. She arrived with money in hand, ready to erase a childhood that included watching her father shoot her in the face and murder her mother. The shaman said no. Instead, he put her in neutral — and spent the next two years watching her fight it. When she finally stopped fighting, something shifted. The anger valve disconnected. She noticed it the day a stranger rode off on her bicycle and she just... let him go.The session that changed her relationship with hypnosis entirely came during a past life regression in school — when she found herself in a beautiful, lonely castle in a white satin slip gown, and then watched her mother roll in, in the same dress, in a glass casket. And heard, clearly, that she was doing exactly what her mother had done — staying loyal to a man who would destroy her. She left her ex-husband shortly after. She credits that regression with saving her life.From there the conversation goes everywhere it wants to: why Black and Hispanic communities are underrepresented in hypnosis (it's not mistrust of hypnosis specifically — it's mistrust of the category, rooted in religious culture and historical good reason), how Brandi accidentally discovered she was conducting body attunements during cuddle therapy sessions without knowing it, a woman who came for fertility work over Zoom and two days later had baby footprints mysteriously appear on the back of her car window — and three months after that, a baby. A smoking cessation session that turned into a full shamanic extraction. And why Brandi doesn't use scripts, doesn't guarantee specific outcomes, but does guarantee transformation.She also breaks down what EMME stands for — Energetic Medicine Metaphysical Experiences — which she didn't consciously know when she chose the name. It came to her a year later, as a joke, in a conversation over drinks. It clicked immediately. That's pretty much how her whole life works.Three quotes from Brandi worth writing down:"Whatever I'm doing to you, I'm doing to me too. Energy does not discriminate. We're just channels.""I went to look for my anger, and it wasn't there. I said, come on — where'd you go? And it just... wasn't there anymore.""You will never leave the same way that you came in. No one does. And you never will."Connect with Brandi EMME: EMME Therapy Lounge Linktree: linktr.ee/EMMETherapyLounge Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

Note: This episode contains open, honest conversation about childhood sexual abuse. It is handled with care and courage by both Ryan and Shawna — but please be mindful of your own readiness before listening.In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Shawna Griffin — hypnotherapist, manifestor, former real estate powerhouse, world traveler, and the woman behind both Trance-formed Hypnosis and The Butterfly Theory Podcast — for one of the most raw, courageous, and unexpectedly hopeful conversations the show has ever had.Shawna didn't plan to become a hypnotist. She was in real estate, thriving by most measures, when she got so sick she couldn't get out of bed. Doctors found nothing. But the downloads kept coming — first a pull toward talking about childhood sexual abuse, a subject she'd never discussed publicly, then the word hypnosis, arriving three or four times in the span of a week until she finally booked a last-minute flight to a cram course and never looked back. She describes the whole arc like Jonah and the whale: she kept saying no, and the universe kept saying actually, yes. She didn't get well until she said she was all in. Within a few days of surrendering to it, she was back on her feet.The mission she landed on is both specific and profound: breaking the cycle of molest by working with at-risk individuals — not primarily the survivors, but the people at risk of perpetrating. Her working theory, still forming, is that most people who commit these acts had a neurological wiring event in childhood — their own abuse, early exposure, a moment of shame that froze them in time — and that hypnosis can reach the root cause in a way nothing else can. She's considering building a non-profit around it so that no one who genuinely wants help can be turned away for financial reasons.Ryan meets her there completely — sharing his own experience of being abused as a child, dragged into a basement, screaming for help while people walked by. He talks about eventually realizing that the cycle of self-abuse — holding onto the identity of a discarded tissue — was something he was perpetuating on himself long after the original perpetrator was gone. And that forgiving himself for that was the door to forgiving the man who hurt him, a man who later murdered his wife and went to prison.The conversation moves through parts work, intuition vs. fear, manifestation without force, the Bhagavad Gita, Pentecostal downloads, the movie The Drama, cholesterol, Popeyes, and why the best practitioners in any field show up not because they need clients but because they're simply here to help. It is heavy in places and strangely light in others. That balance is the whole point.Three quotes from Shawna worth writing down:"If you're hearing two different things — should I, should I not — one of them is your intuition. And the other one is probably fear.""I believe that most people who commit these acts had a wiring in their brain at childhood. And if we can get to the root cause of that and shift it — they don't do that anymore.""I didn't get well until I said I was all in. And within a few days, I was feeling better."Connect with Shawna Griffin: Email: [email protected] Podcast: The Butterfly Theory Podcast — search YouTube and major platforms Shawna's podcast is brand new and just launching — now is a great time to find it early and follow along as the mission unfoldsConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Kenton Knepper — master mentalist, suggestionist, magician, mystic, and pianist — for one of the most wide-ranging, reality-bending conversations the show has ever had. Kenton joins from Phoenix, Arizona, where he has been quietly bending spoons, affecting weather, putting podcast hosts into trance mid-sentence, and channeling original piano music at a rate of three to four compositions a week — sometimes more — for most of his adult life. He has been doing paid magic performances since he was 8 years old.Professionals in his field refer to what he does as "Kentonism" — a strange blend of magic, mentalism, suggestion, psychology, and hypnosis that doesn't fit cleanly into any single category, which is exactly how Kenton likes it. His teaching website, WonderWizards.com, is primarily for magicians and mentalists, but the conversation makes clear that what he's really teaching is the nature of consciousness itself.Ryan came into this conversation having just drawn the Magician card from his tarot deck before hitting record. Kenton walked in carrying Hermetic philosophy, a spoon metaphor that reframed the entire culture war in about four minutes, a story about a skeptical partner and a perfectly timed Journey song, and a conversation he'd had with Claude about the future of humanity and AI that ended with the suggestion to buy less stuff from Amazon.The conversation covers: the moment as a teenager when Kenton stepped outside and realized it was all a movie — and turned to look, and it was gone. How Ormond McGill, the father of stage hypnotism, used to drop people coming off trains with a single word. Why the High Priestess in tarot is the same figure as the Virgin Mary in Catholic stained glass — and what that tells you about how symbols enter consciousness whether we understand them or not. Why Aleister Crowley's ego got in the way of his tarot deck. The BOTA deck, which you have to color by hand, because that's how the symbols go in properly. How Kenton relates every planet in astrology to specific piano keys and composes accordingly. Why he stopped doing singing bowls when everyone and their uncle got certified as a gong master in a weekend. And why the conscious mind is not the destination — it's the magnifying glass.He also puts someone into an altered state on a podcast by accident, refuses to let the host edit it out, and calls it the best proof he could offer for why this work matters.Three quotes from Kenton worth writing down:"Magic was always more like me being honest. It was a representation of things I'd actually experienced in life.""How do you make hot water cooler? You add cool water. You don't try to take away the hot water. That's how you work with polarity — you hold the other end, and slowly things shift.""The more I can get my personality out of the way to allow things to work, the better off I am. I'm just trying to keep up."Connect with Kenton Knepper: Magic, mentalism & intensives: wonderwizards.com Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Jacquelyn Haley — hypnotherapist, counsellor, shamanic practitioner, reflexologist, nutritional diploma holder, and one of the most genuinely alive people to ever sit across from a camera in South Wales — for a conversation that starts with a tarot card prediction and never really slows down from there.Jacquelyn's origin story is one of the most compelling in the field. She was a resort team leader traveling the world for a major tour company — not remotely interested in spirituality, loudly skeptical of anything she couldn't explain — when her sister was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2007. A brochure arrived through her door for a hypnotherapy school that specialized in cancer care. She was pregnant with her first child. She rang them up anyway, promised she'd be there by December, showed up, and fell completely in love from the very first session.What followed was a nine-year journey alongside her sister's cancer — multiple diagnoses, two major surgeries in six weeks, lung involvement, and then something her oncologist couldn't explain. Her cancer simply stopped following its predicted pattern. In 2016, she had her last bout. In February 2023, the NHS told her treatment was over — not because they'd given up, but because there was nothing left to treat. She now runs a Reiki practice and has a gift for mediumship that Jacquelyn says the trauma helped open.The conversation goes everywhere it wants to go. Jacquelyn walks Ryan through the Incan medicine wheel — snake energy, jaguar, hummingbird, eagle — and how each maps onto the stages of healing. She describes seeing things around her clients during sessions and thinking she was losing her mind, until she stopped fighting it. She talks about a client with a brain tumor, non-epileptic seizures four to five times a day, who came in dragging his leg and left three sessions later walking normally — and then sent a WhatsApp photo of a letter saying the remaining portion of the tumor had disappeared. She doesn't claim credit for any of it. She just says: who knows.She also talks about building a thriving practice without ever running an ad, buying a derelict old bus garage that her friends thought she was insane to want, and defining her business goal not as a revenue target but as being at every single school concert her children ever had. She made it to all of them.The sun came through the closed curtains and flooded the room for the entire recording. Her dogs wrestled on the couch. Ryan drew the Six of Cups before they started. It felt like it was supposed to happen.Three quotes from Jacquelyn worth writing down:"When you can remove all the noise — guess what happens? You connect.""If an emotion turns up in your body, it's saying: hey, I need your attention. You wouldn't leave a friend knocking at the door. So why do we do it to ourselves?""I never doubted for one minute that it wouldn't work. Not one minute. This is what I was going to do, and this is where I'm going with it."Connect with Jacquelyn Haley: Instagram: @jacquelynhaleyhypnotherapy Facebook: facebook.com/jacquelyn.haley Jacquelyn is based in Swansea, South Wales, working one-to-one with clients in a city centre office. She is moving into a new space with a dedicated training room and will be launching group training and stage hypnosis shows in Wales later this year — collaborating with a singing client for combined music and hypnosis events. She is also training as a stage hypnotist with Dylan Lovejoy and in advanced techniques with Justin Tranz — reach out through her social channels for updates.Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Daniel Browne — hypnotherapist, counsellor, coach, author, trainer, and the man behind The Mind Bender Method — joining from Royal Leamington Spa in the UK. Daniel is internationally recognized as the leading authority on LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy in the hypnosis world, has trained thousands of practitioners across the globe, and is heading to HypnoThoughts Live with not one but two presentations: a full-day pre-conference workshop on the Mind Bender Method, and a main stage talk called The Hypnotic Rainbow: Tailoring Trance to Every Identity.Daniel came into hypnosis the same way a lot of people do — sideways, skeptically, and through a backdoor. His background was mental health care, supporting people with schizophrenia transitioning back into the community. He trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist, stumbled into a hypnosis qualification almost by accident, and was hooked from the very first class. Seventeen years later, roughly 60-70% of his clients are trans, and anxiety has replaced smoking cessation as the number one thing people come to see him about.The conversation goes deep and stays honest. Daniel talks about what identity crisis actually looks like — not just for LGBTQ+ people navigating gender and orientation, but for anyone who has lost the role that defined them: the mother whose kids just left home, the executive who got laid off, the person coming out of a decades-long marriage asking who am I now? The Mind Bender Method's three core outcomes — confidence, resilience, and clarity — turn out to be universal, even if the protocol was built specifically for queer communities.Daniel also opens up about his own internal work: a period where he was so uncomfortable around straight white men that he stopped going to networking events entirely. He talks through what self-awareness actually looks like in practice, why most people have buried prejudices they don't know they're carrying, and why the answer isn't shame — it's curiosity and doing the work. Ryan shares his own audit, wondering whether he might have biases he can't yet see. Neither of them pretends to have it fully figured out.And Daniel ends with a direct call to action: LGBTQ+ communities are in crisis right now — in the US, in the UK, globally — and the people who can help most are the straight, cis practitioners who are willing to get educated, stay open, and show up as vocal, visible allies. You don't have to be queer to do this work. You just have to be willing to learn.Three quotes from Daniel worth writing down:"You don't have to be part of this community to work with our communities. You just need to be open-minded, willing to listen, willing to learn, and accepting.""We know what it feels like to be on the outside — and I think that's exactly why LGBTQ+ communities tend to be so welcoming to everyone who's a bit different.""Now is the time to step up and be a visible ally and a vocal ally, and just realize how much good work you can do with your skills for this community."Connect with Daniel Browne: daniel-browne.co.uk Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Simon Bartholome — a quietly profound German thinker, writer, and longtime student of non-dual spirituality who Ryan first discovered through his Facebook page, where nearly every post distills the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, Osho, and others into something clean, universal, and free from religious baggage. Simon lives in Hirschbeck, Germany, surrounded by soccer posters, and is about as regular a guy as someone who casually talks about the nature of consciousness for an hour can be.The conversation moves from Bruce Lee and Triceratops boxing matches to Sanskrit, Charlie Brown and Lucy, Michael Jackson, near-death experiences, the difference between Ramana Maharshi and Neem Karoli Baba, why Christian theology accidentally puts God on a pedestal instead of pointing you inward, and why Simon thinks the word consciousness is more spiritually useful than God — because it carries no conceptual baggage and nobody puts up their shield when they hear it.Simon's central thread is disarmingly simple: you are not the thoughts, not the emotions, not the body — those are all objects appearing in awareness. What you actually are is the awareness itself. And that awareness, your true nature, has never been afraid, has never been separate, and has never really been lost. The path home is just uncovering what was always there — removing the conditioning, not acquiring anything new.Ryan shares his near-death experience. Simon talks about Ramana Maharshi surviving cancer surgery without anesthesia. They explore why 95-99% of our fears are about things that never actually happen, why joy and love aren't the opposite of fear but rather what remains when fear is seen through, and what it means that even hate — properly understood — is an expression of love.Then Ryan thinks he forgot to hit record. Simon laughs. Everything is fine. They roll with it.This one is for the quietly curious — people who sense there's something underneath all the noise but haven't found words for it yet. Simon is excellent at finding the words.Three quotes from Simon worth writing down:"Fear is just a thought. It is impossible to be afraid without thoughts. So your deeper, true self is always inherently free from fear.""95 to 99% of our fears refer to something that is not really there. In most cases, that which we are afraid of never really happens.""You are nothing special. You are just the infinity — that which is."Connect with Simon Bartholome: Facebook: facebook.com/simon.bartholome Simon posts daily in English and German — quotes, reflections, and excerpts from spiritual teachers across traditions Books: Currently in German only, available on Amazon.de — two more in progress (one on Bruce Lee, one on animals). English translations are being considered for the future. Search "Simon Bartholome" on Amazon.de to find his current titles.Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Melissa Boher Jacobson — hypnotherapist, coach, Bunny Talk certified trainer, and four-time presenter at HypnoThoughts Live — for a warm, practical, and genuinely useful conversation about what it takes to help people get out of their own way. Melissa joins from Mexico, where she now lives, and where she says the culture of open creativity and celebration is one of the reasons she stayed.Melissa spent over 25 years coaching performing artists before stumbling into hypnosis — skeptically, she'll tell you — and having a moment with a balloon and a bucket that changed everything. She became a devotee almost immediately. Since starting her practice in 2018, she's built a specialty working with families, kids, teens, and neurodiverse clients, and she's quick to reframe the whole conversation: ADHD and autism aren't deficits. They're different brains with different gifts — and often, extraordinary ones.In this conversation, Melissa and Ryan dig into why 85% of humans struggle with self-esteem, why narcissism is actually rooted in low self-worth, why neurodivergent people are disproportionately drawn to the arts and entrepreneurship (oasis of competence, she calls it), and why fear isn't a useful tool for anyone running a business or a life. The antidote, she argues, isn't confidence — it's trust. Specifically, self-trust. And she has a whole ladder for that.She shares two client stories that stop you in your tracks: a young man who was never expected to live independently and is now applying for scholarships and heading to college, and a 7th grader with crippling social anxiety and a mathematical genius-level mind who eventually flew to South Korea at 14 to speak at an aerospace conference — and who just messaged Melissa recently to say she's finally enjoying singing. Then, as a closing gift, Melissa walks Ryan through the WIN method live on air — What's Important Now — and dissolves his overwhelm in about four minutes flat.This one is practical, warm, and quietly profound. Come with your to-do list.Three quotes from Melissa worth writing down:"Failure is definitely an option as an entrepreneur. Lots of it. But here's what is not an option — and that is fear.""85% of humans have low self-esteem. And pretty much every single client I work with has some level of I'm not enough, or I'm not worthy.""We're born with self-esteem. It's a human right to feel good about yourself. So let's restore it."Connect with Melissa Boher Jacobson: Website: melissaboherjacobson.com Skool community (Self-Hypnosis for Success): skool.com/exceptional-you-8143 Facebook group: Change Work for Therapists and Coaches Melissa presents at HypnoThoughts Live in July — her talk is titled The Intersection of ADHD, Hypnotherapy, and Executive FunctionConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Pablo Amira — psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, mentalist, musician, and the mind behind Metanoia — for one of the most philosophically layered conversations the show has produced. Pablo joins from Chile, surrounded by at least five guitars, a shelf of books, pendulums made from amethyst and quartz, and what may or may not be coffee in an old bottle. The vibe is immediately clear: this is someone who lives what he teaches.Pablo moves through the world guided by two Greek axioms he keeps close — know yourself, and everything in moderation. He works with clients not by chasing more of them, but by trusting that the relationships he cultivates naturally draw the right people. His intention isn't more business. It's deeper presence with the people already in his life — his wife, his three-year-old son Gael, his friends. Everything else, he says, follows from that.The conversation opens with pendulums and the ideomotor response, winds through Jungian alchemy, Greek philosophy, Ericksonian utilization, the spiritualist roots of mentalism, Chile's unresolved grief from dictatorship-era disappearances, and why the three stages of alchemical transformation — nigredo, albedo, rubedo — matter more to him than "mental health" as a concept. Pablo's framework isn't about removing what's dark. It's about transmuting it. Fear becomes courage. Grief becomes meaning. The symptom becomes the doorway.Then he performs a card effect live — the Ace of Diamonds, predicted in Spanish before the session even began — and uses it not to impress, but to connect. He follows it with a pendulum demonstration using Ryan's sock and a pen. Then he closes the episode with a spontaneous induction so quiet and clean that Ryan admits he was gone before he noticed.This one is for anyone who thinks therapy and mysticism are opposites. Pablo makes the case they are the same thing, in different costumes.Three quotes from Pablo worth writing down:"That person already knows. But they don't know that they know. I am the one that shows — look, something is happening. I am the one that points.""Courage is not a feeling. Courage is the trust that I have the seal of the future me — I can do this.""Life is not just about being mentally stable. Life is to be full, to be crazy, to be fun, to enjoy, to serve others, to love others. Let's inject life."Connect with Pablo Amira: Blog & writing: metanoiapabloamira.blogspot.com Full site & services: pabloamira.com Email: [email protected] Pablo works in Spanish and English, offering psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and mentalism — and is an excellent referral for Spanish-speaking clients seeking deep transformation workConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Allan Hassoun — hypnotist, Reiki master, energy worker, and the Mind Alchemist himself — for one of the most wide-open, down-the-rabbit-hole conversations the show has ever had. And that is saying something.Allan came into Ryan's orbit the way the best connections do: Ryan posted a video on Facebook playing with dowsing rods made from coat hangers, and Allan messaged him immediately. Turns out Allan has been working with dowsing rods and pendulums for decades — using them to measure belief, track resistance, clear energy fields, and even attempt to alter the frequency of water. And yes, he has stories.In this conversation they cover a lot of ground: a man named Raymond Grace who reportedly purified a cyanide-contaminated well using nothing but his mind, children bending spoons at a picnic while adults stood there baffled, a spoon that cracked in half on the highway because Allan finally stopped trying, the Abraham Hicks Money Game, inherited trauma encoded in DNA, a mass on an x-ray that disappeared before surgery, using Pac-Man to visualize healing, time distortion for a client in an MRI machine, and why Allan quietly raises the energetic frequency of his entire neighborhood without telling anyone. Oh, and they do a live pendulum demonstration — including a silent yes/no test that Ryan couldn't have influenced even if he wanted to.This one is firmly in woo territory and neither of them apologizes for it. Come curious.Three quotes from Allan worth writing down:"The resistance is the stuff that pulls the cork down. Every time you do some hypnosis and you feel better, you let go of some of that programming, and you start moving up. The higher you move, the more effortless life becomes.""Whether I actually did something or not — there's no way of telling. But I know the power of the mind.""Things are okay. When you look from a bigger perspective, everything is working out, and everything will come back to balance. Don't worry so much."Connect with Allan Hassoun: Website: mindalchemist.ca YouTube: youtube.com/@mindalchemists Phone: (647) 699-2204 Free 5-minute anxiety audio: available on his website Free complimentary session: Allan is offering a free hour to anyone who reaches out before July 10th — link in the show notesConnect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Lori Hammond — hypnotist, group work pioneer, and the woman behind trancypants.com — for one of the most joyful, honest, and surprisingly deep conversations the show has produced. Lori came to hypnosis the way a lot of people do: skeptical, a little scared, and quietly desperate for something to actually work. What she didn't expect was that learning hypnosis to lose weight would quietly eradicate decades of clinical depression along the way.Since 2018, Lori has run Trancy Tuesdays — a weekly group hypnosis session that's become something of a sacred container for hypnosis professionals. She's done approximately 500 of them. In this conversation she and Ryan dig into why group hypnosis often works better than one-on-one, why the witnessing field created by a group has more in common with prayer than most people are comfortable admitting, and why getting a person out of their story and into their body is the move that changes everything.They also get into marketing (it's just hypnosis with a different name), niching (your ideal client is usually a mirror of yourself), the surprising overlap between Abraham Hicks and somatic hypnosis, what Bingo and brain surgery have in common, and why the word "try" already has failure baked into it. Lori closes the episode by walking Ryan — and everyone listening — through a live somatic intention setting demo that is worth the price of admission alone.This one goes places. Come ready.Three quotes from Lori worth writing down:"Marketing and hypnosis are pretty much the same thing. When you're good at one, you're a lot better at the other.""What you resist persists. When we stop trying to fix grief and just witness it — from a place of neutrality — things start to shift within 90 seconds without a single suggestion.""It is all about the is-ness of this present moment. That is all. Right here."Connect with Lori Hammond: Website & free hypnosis audio: trancypants.com Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with James Harrison, a clinical hypnotist from Portland, Oregon, and the author of the just-released Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: An Updated Model of Clinical Hypnosis. The book is six years in the making — and it started with three words from a double board-certified psychiatrist: show me the evidence.James and Ryan dig into what that six-year journey uncovered: that hypnosis isn't mysticism, it's biology. The brain is a prediction machine built for survival, and a skilled hypnotist is someone who knows how to help a client's nervous system update predictions it couldn't update on its own. James walks through the core framework of the book — state change, interoception, exteroception, and predictive processing — and explains why these four domains give hypnosis a scientific foundation that can finally hold up in a medical setting.The conversation goes deep on why insight alone rarely produces lasting change, how the placebo effect and hypnosis share the same underlying mechanism, and what Bingo in a dementia ward taught James about the most ancient learning system in the human brain. They also get into the ethics of guide work, the difference between a therapist and a hypnotist, and why James calls the book a love letter to the hypnosis community.Three quotes from James worth writing down:"You're helping somebody update their neurology. I wanted to know why — and the book really came out of that.""Our ability to imagine is taking memory, putting it into the future, and removing the timestamp. That's what the imagination is.""A good hypnotist reawakens that mental foraging capacity that every creature has — that's what we do."Connect with James Harrison: Book & newsletter: mentalforaging.com Email: [email protected] James will also be presenting at HypnoThoughts in July — come find him there.Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected] Ryan's review of Mental Foraging (non-paywall link) here:https://medium.com/trancewell/book-review-mental-foraging-and-the-evolution-of-memory-868d74488913

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan sits down with Jason Gobeli, a high-energy author and expert who refers to himself not just as a hypnotist, but as a "neurocommunications expert". Drawing from a lifelong background in sales, Jason views all communication as an advanced form of suggestion and sales pitch, starting from the moment a newborn baby cries for milk.The core of the conversation revolves around Jason’s proprietary FFL Modality (Faith, Forgiveness, and Love), a framework designed to release individuals from self-sabotage and the "past muck" that holds them back. Jason breaks down his unique philosophy on prosperity, redefining money as a fluid energy that functions simply as an expression of gratitude. He challenges traditional therapeutic ideas around "boundaries"—which he argues often turn into isolating walls—and instead advocates for radical authenticity, aligned identity, and vulnerability. The episode concludes with a live demonstration as Jason guides Ryan through a powerful, rapid "holy water" shower visualization designed to wash away limiting beliefs and install a protective shield of positive energy.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"All communication is sales. We sell ourselves to everybody, whether it's a job interview, going on a date, or expressing our ideas back and forth to another person. Just communicate better, everything's gonna be okay." "Money is nothing but an expression of gratitude. It's not solid. Money is like water—it's fluid, it flows. When you look at it as an expression of gratitude, it's a mindset. It's energy." "You are not a victim of your past. Your past does not have to define you. Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, but today is cash in hand. Today you can be whoever you want to be." How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Jason Gobeli:Jason is the author of several books, including Infused Hypnosis, Beyond Sales, and Real Estate Neuroscience. You can connect with him online and catch his presentations at major hypnosis events like HypnoThoughts Live.Home | Go Under Hypnosis – Jason Gobelihttps://www.youtube.com/@JasonGobeliHypnotist/Work with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan welcomes Melissa Tiers, a true powerhouse in the hypnosis world, founder of the Center for Integrative Hypnosis, and the author of multi-award-winning books like Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change. Coming from a background in punk rock, Melissa brings a beautifully disruptive, anti-authoritarian energy to the changework field.The conversation dives deep into why practitioners must avoid falling into rigid protocols or getting bored of their own methods. Melissa emphasizes the vast unknown still remaining in consciousness research and advocates for an evolving, adaptable framework that integrates hypnosis, neuroscience, and conversational agility. From discussing the "fledgling" nature of modern psychology to the necessity of keeping a sharp, experimental edge, Melissa provides a masterclass in staying endlessly curious and letting go of clinical dogma.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"Having come from rock and roll, I was in no way, shape, or form a rock star... but recently, because of the political climate, really, I've been missing having that kind of punk rock outlet.""They never expand, and when you listen to them lecture about it, they're bored. They're bored of their own shit. And so, you know, that's what I would suggest, is to... is to stay curious.""We have barely scratched the surface of this field. We still can't agree on what the fuck consciousness is, let alone unconsciousness. And so, once you get that, that this is still fledgling, even though it's been around for thousands of years..."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Melissa Tiers: Explore Melissa’s books, practitioner training programs, and integrative approaches to clinical hypnosis and coaching.Website: melissatiers.comCenter for Integrative Hypnosis: centerforintegrativehypnosis.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan welcomes Dr. Bill Anapoell, a medical doctor and clinical hypnotist who bridges the gap between traditional medicine and subconscious change. Dr. Anapoell shares his unique perspective on how he integrates hypnotic tools into his medical practice to help patients navigate complex health challenges and emotional blockages.The conversation explores the concept of "tackling the moment," a philosophy centered on facing obstacles directly as the primary task at hand. Dr. Anapoell discusses his upcoming presentations at hypnosis conferences and his work on a new book, highlighting the importance of presence and decisiveness in the healing process. This episode provides a deep look at how a clinical background informs the use of hypnosis to handle life’s most difficult tasks with clarity and intent.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"Tackle the moment. And what I mean by tackle the moment is take the moment in front of you. No matter what's facing at the time, the obstacle... the obstacle... is your task.""Being a doctor was more than just prescribing medicine; it was about understanding the human condition. Hypnosis allowed me to see the person behind the symptoms and work with their mind to improve their physical health.""In the hospital setting, things move fast. You have to be decisive. I found that the same level of focus and intent I use in the ER can be applied through hypnosis to help people clear lifelong emotional blockages in just a few moments."Work with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan is joined by the legendary Pam Grout, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of E-Squared, E-Cubed, and her refreshingly practical take on a spiritual classic, A Course in Miracles Experiment. Shifting away from clinical practitioners, this conversation explores Pam’s work as an explorer of "the field," where she encourages everyone to treat the universe as a giant laboratory for joy and manifestation.The discussion dives into Pam’s philosophy that we are all connected to an "FP" (Field of Infinite Potentiality) that is constantly waiting for us to notice it. Pam shares her insights on why we often miss the miracles right in front of us and how simple, 48-hour experiments can prove that the universe has our back. From deconstructing the voice of limitation in our heads to embracing the "Pam I Am" spirit of playfulness, this episode is a call to stop playing small and start acknowledging the profound love and abundance available to everyone.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"No matter how much you think you're loved, I guarantee you you're loved so much more.""Stop listening to that voice in your head that tells you any limitation, any voice that tells you something's not possible. The universe is much bigger than your small thoughts about it.""It's pretty cool how we can just talk to our subconscious and get a feel for it. We don't have to be experts; we just have to be willing to play and see what happens."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Pam Grout: Pam is a world traveler and the author of 20 books. You can join her ongoing experiments in consciousness and read her "news reports" from the field on her blog.Website: pamgrout.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan sits down with Dr. Kathy Gruver, an author, speaker, and health practitioner known for her expertise in stress management and mind-body medicine. The conversation explores Kathy’s diverse background, ranging from her work as a massage therapist to her success as a trapeze artist and her appearances on platforms like TEDx and Dr. Phil.The discussion focuses on practical strategies for navigating stress in a high-pressure world, emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and the "mini-meditation". Kathy shares her insights on how to interrupt the stress response in real-time, the power of visualization, and the necessity of finding joy and play in everyday life. Ryan and Kathy also dive into the mechanics of belief and how our internal narratives dictate our physical and emotional health, offering listeners a grounded approach to reclaiming their sense of agency.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"Stress isn't what happens to us; it's our reaction to what happens to us. When you realize that, you realize you have the power to change the entire experience just by changing your breath.""I do trapeze because it forces me to be 100% present. You can't be worried about your taxes when you're flying through the air. We all need that thing that demands our full presence.""The ego wants to keep us safe by keeping us small and afraid. My work is about helping people realize that safety is actually found in growth, movement, and the willingness to be seen."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Kathy Gruver: Kathy offers coaching, keynote speaking, and a variety of books and resources focused on stress reduction and personal development.Website: kathygruver.comTEDx Talks: Search Kathy Gruver TEDxWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan welcomes Jonathan Altfeld, an internationally recognized NLP trainer and consultant known for his deep expertise in the technical and structural side of Neurolinguistic Programming. Moving away from traditional hypnosis, the conversation focuses on Jonathan’s specialized work in belief installation and the precise linguistic patterns that drive human behavior.Jonathan discusses his evolution within the field, emphasizing that many of our current challenges are actually outdated compensatory habits—behaviors that served us in the past but have now become blockages. They explore the importance of precision in communication, the difference between cognitive understanding and neurological change, and why Jonathan believes that no one is ever truly stuck; they are simply running a program that hasn't been updated yet. This episode provides a masterclass in the "NLP guy’s" perspective on how to deconstruct the architecture of one's own mind to create lasting, systemic change.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"We learn our compensatory habits to cope with current circumstances. And then, without noticing it, circumstances shift. And now we've got a habit that's not serving us anymore, and we feel stuck. And no one is ever truly stuck.""If you change a belief, the behavior changes automatically. Most people spend their lives trying to change behaviors while keeping the old beliefs in place, which is like trying to drive a car with the handbrake on.""NLP isn't about being 'positive.' It’s about being accurate. When you get accurate about how you are representing the world to yourself, you suddenly find you have a lot more choices than you did five minutes ago."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Jonathan Altfeld:Jonathan offers advanced NLP training, business consulting, and specialized workshops on belief change and linguistic influence.Website: nlpmasteryinsight.comgeniusmapping.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan is joined by Sean Michael Andrews, widely recognized as the world’s fastest hypnotist. Sean shares his journey into the art of rapid induction, discussing how he transitioned from a fascination with the mechanics of the mind to mastering the techniques that allow for nearly instantaneous hypnotic states.The conversation explores the practical applications of speed in both street hypnosis and clinical settings, emphasizing that rapid inductions are not just for show but serve as a powerful way to bypass the analytical mind quickly. Sean discusses his passion for teaching others how to use these tools ethically and effectively, his experiences traveling the globe to train the next generation of practitioners, and his philosophy on the profound value of helping people heal themselves through the "coolest thing ever"—hypnosis.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I remember the first time I did a rapid induction on someone and they just dropped. I realized then that the conscious mind is just a gatekeeper, and if you know how to knock correctly, the door opens immediately.""Being a hypnotist is doing the coolest thing ever. Entertaining people is great, but helping people heal themselves with hypnosis is a truly valuable thing to do on this earth.""The speed isn't about the ego of the hypnotist; it's about the efficiency of the change. When you can move someone into that state in seconds, you have so much more time to do the actual work that matters."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Sean Michael Andrews: Sean offers world-class training in rapid induction, street hypnosis, and clinical applications through his various courses and live demonstrations.Website: worldsfastesthypnotist.comYouTube: (1) World's Fastest Hypnotist - YouTubeWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan explores the intersection of identity and business with Cassie Clouser, an archetypal branding strategist and the founder of Magnetic Branding. Shifting away from clinical hypnosis, this interview dives into the world of brand psychology, where Cassie explains how she uses universal archetypes to help entrepreneurs build authentic and resonant professional identities.The conversation focuses on the "Magnetic Branding" framework, which moves beyond simple logos and color palettes to address the core "soul" of a business. Cassie details her use of branding archetypes—such as the Sage, the Hero, or the Explorer—to create a consistent and attractive brand story that aligns with a founder's true self. They discuss the transition from asking "who am I?" to "who do I get to become?", highlighting how a well-defined brand serves as a catalyst for personal and professional growth.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"Archetypes are the shortcut to the unconscious. When you align your brand with an archetype, you aren't just selling a service; you are inviting people into a story they already understand and trust.""Most people approach branding as a mask they put on to attract customers. I look at it as the process of taking the masks off until the true, magnetic essence of the founder is what’s actually leading the business.""Instead of asking who you are, ask: who do I get to become? Your brand should be a vision of your future self that you are stepping into every single day."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Cassie Clouser: Cassie helps entrepreneurs and companies discover their brand archetypes to create a magnetic presence in their industry.Website: cassieclouser.comMagnetic Branding: magneticbranding.coWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, the conversation features Joanne Carvalho, a gifted intuitive and guide who shares her unique perspective on spiritual connection and the path to inner peace. Joanne Carvalho discusses her role as the founder of Gateway to Soul, where she focuses on helping individuals reconnect with their essence and understand the deeper messages their lives are presenting.The discussion emphasizes that Joanne is not a hypnotist or NLP practitioner; instead, her work is centered on spiritual intuition and helping people find clarity through their own inner guidance. She shares how her journey has led her to support others in opening their own "gateways" to the soul, facilitating a deeper relationship with the self and the universe. Topics include the power of presence, the role of vulnerability in healing, and how to trust the intuitive nudges that lead us toward a more fulfilling and connected life.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I don't think of myself as doing something to people. I'm just holding the space and opening a door so they can see what’s already inside them that they might have forgotten was there.""The soul doesn't speak in a loud voice; it speaks in whispers, in feelings, and in those moments of quiet that we usually try to fill with noise. My job is to help people get quiet enough to finally hear it.""When you finally step through that gateway, you realize that all the searching you were doing on the outside was just a way to avoid looking at the immense beauty and power you’ve been carrying within you all along."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Joanne Carvalho:Joanne offers intuitive guidance and spiritual support through Gateway to Soul, helping individuals navigate their personal journeys with clarity and grace.Website: gatewaytosoul.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan explores the intersection of ritual, consciousness, and neurolinguistics with Philip H. Farber, a master hypnotist and licensed NLP trainer with over 30 years of experience. Phil is the creator of Meta-Magick, a system that blends traditional magical practices with contemporary neuroscience to help individuals "reprogram" their own neurological experience.The conversation centers on Phil’s book, Brain Magick, and his philosophy that magical invocation is essentially a "ritual technology" for accessing peak states of consciousness. Phil explains how he uses NLP to deconstruct ancient rituals into practical, repeatable exercises that allow anyone—from novices to adepts—to take control of their own internal "story". They discuss the "Way of Woohoo," the role of intentionality in change, and how to use the body and breath to anchor transformative states of mind.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"The core of the work is asking yourself: how much do you want your own story to rock? If you can get the brain to say 'Woohoo' to a new possibility, the old limitations start to lose their grip on your reality.""Magick is essentially the art and science of changing your own internal state on purpose. We use rituals not because they are 'supernatural,' but because they are highly effective ways to speak to the unconscious mind in a language it actually understands.""Invocation is about bringing a specific quality or entity into your current field of awareness. Whether you call it a 'spirit' or a 'neurological resource,' the result is the same: you become more capable, more passionate, and more present."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Philip H. Farber: Phil maintains a private practice in New York's Hudson Valley and offers workshops and training in NLP, hypnosis, and Meta-Magick.Meta-Magick Website: meta-magick.comHawk Ridge Productions: hawkridgeproductions.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan connects with Lance Baker, a multi-modality healer and teacher based in Australia. Lance shares his journey from traditional hypnotherapy to developing a broader, more holistic approach that incorporates elements of Qi Gong, energy work, and ancestral healing.The conversation focuses on Lance’s "Branches of Healing" philosophy, where he emphasizes that the mind is only one part of the recovery process. Lance explains how he uses "Akasha Talks" to bridge the gap between logical, scientific understanding and the more intuitive, spiritual aspects of healing. They dive into the importance of body awareness, the role of the nervous system in trauma, and why Lance believes that true transformation often requires stepping outside the clinical room and into the natural flow of life.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I stopped calling myself just a hypnotist when I realized that the body often remembers what the mind has worked very hard to forget. You have to work with both if you want the change to stick.""Healing isn't about fixing something that's broken; it's about clearing the static so you can hear your own internal guidance again. We are all just trying to get back to our natural state of flow.""If you only talk to the conscious mind, you're just rearranging the furniture. When you work with the energy of the person, you're actually changing the foundation of the house."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Lance Baker: Lance offers clinical sessions, online workshops, and deep-dive training into Qi Gong and advanced healing modalities.Branches of Healing: branchesofhealing.com.auYouTube (Akasha Talks): youtube.com/@LanceBakerWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan is joined by Carlos Casados, a master of NLP and hypnosis who specializes in modeling the mindsets of high achievers. Carlos discusses his journey through various modalities of change, focusing on how we can bridge the gap between our current selves and our highest potential by understanding the internal structures of success.The conversation dives into the heart of the Authenticity Show, exploring what it truly means to live a life aligned with one's core values. Carlos shares insights into his work with Sacred Medicine Journeys, discussing the integration of ancient wisdom with modern psychological tools to facilitate profound breakthroughs. From deconstructing the "strategy of excellence" to navigating the vulnerable path of personal discovery, Carlos offers a grounded and sophisticated look at how we can rewrite our internal programming to live more authentically.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"Modeling is the heart of everything I do. It’s not just about copying what a person does; it’s about figuring out how they perceive the world so clearly that success becomes the only logical outcome for them.""Authenticity isn't a destination you arrive at; it’s a constant process of stripping away the layers of who you thought you had to be to survive, until all that’s left is the truth of who you actually are.""When we work with sacred medicines or deep hypnotic states, we are essentially opening a window into the soul. The real work isn't just the 'journey' itself, but the integration—how you bring that light back into your everyday life on Monday morning."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Carlos Casados: Carlos offers a range of services from high-performance coaching and NLP training to guided integration work for transformative experiences.Hypnotherapy Breakthrough: hypnotherapybreakthrough.comThe Authenticity Show: authenticityshow.comSacred Medicine Journeys: sacredmedicinejourneys.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan is joined by the legendary Bob Burns, a master hypnotist from Montrose, Scotland, and the creator of the world-renowned Swan protocol. Bob shares the fascinating history of how The Swan—a unique ideomotor procedure that allows for direct communication with the unconscious mind—evolved from his early days in stage magic and mentalism to become a staple in modern clinical hypnosis.The conversation dives deep into Bob’s "no-nonsense" clinical approach, including his famous The Wall protocol for smoking cessation and his philosophy on the "Swan-Take". Bob discusses the importance of bypassing the analytical mind and why he believes the unconscious is not just a storage unit, but a protective, intelligent entity that can be bartered with to achieve rapid, life-changing results.Whether discussing his experiences in the "old days" of hypnosis or demonstrating the elegant simplicity of the Swan, Bob provides an masterclass in rapport, clinical intent, and the art of working with the part of the mind that truly holds the keys to change.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"The Swan isn't an induction; it's a way of talking to the part of the mind that doesn't usually get a seat at the table. Once that hand starts to move, the analytical mind has to sit back and watch the truth come out.""I don't care about the 'why' of the problem. I want to know if the part of the mind that is running that problem is willing to do something else instead. If we can get a 'yes' from the unconscious, the work is already half-done.""Clinical hypnosis should be a conversation, not a lecture. When you use The Swan, you aren't telling the client what to do; you're helping the client discover what their own mind is finally ready to let go of."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Bob Burns: Explore Bob's training, clinical protocols, and his extensive video library to learn The Swan and other high-level hypnotic tools directly from the source.YouTube: youtube.com/@BobBurnsHypnotistWebsite: lifelinehypnotherapy.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, the conversation features Victor Richman as he explores the profound connection between human consciousness and the personal narratives we construct. Victor Richman discusses his journey of learning to trust the universe, moving away from a life of forced effort toward a state of allowing and building deep-seated trust that his needs will be met.The discussion focuses heavily on the psychological "masks" and personas we wear to navigate the world, often at the cost of our authentic selves. Victor shares his insights on how deconstructing these long-standing characters is a necessary step in expanding one's consciousness and stepping into a more empowered reality. Topics include the relief of dropping social expectations, the ethics of influence, and how shifting your internal frequency allows the universe to provide in unexpected ways.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I feel like I've been playing a part for so long that I’m not even sure where the character ends and I begin. It’s exhausting to keep the mask on when you’re ready to move on.""If I can change the way I look at my own history, I can change the way I step into the future. It’s about realizing that the story isn't set in stone.""There’s a certain terror in dropping the old role, but there’s also a massive sense of relief in finally being able to breathe as myself instead of as the 'version' everyone else expects."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Victor Richman:Victor is currently exploring the intersection of identity, personal growth, and the expansion of consciousness.YouTube: youtube.com/@VictorRichmanFacebook: facebook.com/victor.richman.hypnotistWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

Sensitive language warning: for those that already know Karl, you already know this...there may be one or two or more F bombs. Maybe.In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan talks with Karl Smith, the creator of the Kinetic Shift technique and founder of the UK Hypnosis Academy. Karl shares his transition from a high-stakes career as a military and police firearms officer to becoming one of the most recognizable names in modern hypnosis.The conversation focuses on Karl's "no-nonsense" approach to rapid change, moving away from traditional, long-winded scripts toward active, kinesthetic interventions. They discuss the "Kinetic Shift" method—a four-stage process designed to resolve trauma and emotional blockages quickly by bypassing the analytical mind. Karl also dives into his experiences working with veterans and first responders, emphasizing the need for tools that work in the "real world" where people don't have time for months of talk therapy.Ryan and Karl explore the importance of intent, the power of non-verbal communication, and Karl's mission to professionalize the industry through aggressive, result-oriented training.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I don't want to hear your story. I don't care about the 'why' of the trauma. I want to know where you feel it in your body right now, and then I want to use your own energy to get it the hell out of there." "Traditional hypnosis is often too slow for the warrior mind. When you're dealing with someone from a military or police background, they want a mission. Kinetic Shift is that mission; it's fast, it's tactical, and it gets the job done." "The analytical mind is a liar. It makes excuses for why you stay stuck. My job is to distract that liar for long enough that the subconscious can actually step in and do the clearing it’s been wanting to do for years." How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Karl Smith:Explore Karl’s Kinetic Shift courses, clinical work, and extensive video resources to see how he uses rapid hypnosis to transform lives.Website: karlsmithhypnotherapy.comYouTube: youtube.com/@karlsmithhypnosisWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan is joined by Hugh Comerford, the director of NLP Centres Canada and a trainer with over 30 years of experience. Hugh shares his remarkable journey from being a housebound agoraphobic to becoming an expert in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), a transformation that began in a small apartment on the "wrong side of the tracks" in Montreal.The conversation dives deep into the heart of NLPWORKS, Hugh's training program that prioritizes "depth over shortcuts". Hugh explains that true NLP mastery isn't about memorizing scripts; it’s about training your nervous system to calibrate and respond to people in real-time. They discuss the "Hümmo Method™," Hugh's approach to unconscious communication, and his philosophy that if a technique isn't "Monday-morning usable," it doesn't make the cut.Whether exploring his background as a Certified Innovation Facilitator for multinational corporations or his work helping individuals overcome deep-seated trauma, Hugh provides a grounded, ethical, and refreshingly "fluff-free" look at how we can rewrite the programs of our own minds.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I remember the day—I was looking out the window of a third-floor apartment in a really rough part of Montreal, and I realized that the only thing keeping me in that room was the story I was telling myself about what would happen if I stepped outside.""People think NLP is about 'doing' something to someone else, but the real magic is in the calibration. If you aren't actually seeing and hearing the person in front of you, you're just talking to a ghost of your own making.""My 'Monday Morning' rule is simple: If you can't take what we did in the training room and use it to solve a real problem or help a real person by the time the sun comes up on Monday, then it's just intellectual entertainment."How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Hugh Comerford:Hugh offers comprehensive 120-hour NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner certifications that blend Classical, New Code, and 3rd Generation NLP.Website: nlpworks.comTraining Details: NLP Practitioner CertificationWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis and NLP?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this raw and practical episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan steps into the hot seat for a live conversational hypnosis demonstration with Terance Schmidt. Terance, a practitioner who specializes in helping adults with ADHD move past "task paralysis," uses the "Enter the Loop" methodology to help Ryan explore internal resistance surrounding business and money.The conversation highlights Terance’s journey from learning hypnosis for social confidence to using it as a high-level tool for neurodivergent professionals. Rather than focusing on "trying harder," Terance demonstrates how to pinpoint the exact moment an internal "loop" creates a blockage and how to shift it in real-time. This episode is a perfect example of how conversational hypnosis functions as a collaborative exploration of the mind to achieve effortless alignment.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"With ADHD, it’s not that you don’t want to do the thing. It’s that there is a 'loop' in the way. My job is to find where that loop starts and help you step out of it so you can just get on with your life." "You don't need to go into a deep trance to make a big change. We're just talking, but we're talking to the part of you that actually holds the keys to your behavior." How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Terance Schmidt: Terance specializes in helping adults overcome the exhaustion of ADHD-related task paralysis. You can experience his conversational approach for yourself by visiting his site. Website: hypnoticenhancement.comWork with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis? Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan talks with David Stern, a master at Internal Family Systems (IFS) who has spent his career helping people navigate complex behavioral changes. David shares his journey into the field and his philosophy on what makes conversations with the parts of us such a powerful tool for lasting transformation.The conversation explores David’s approach to clinical work, emphasizing the importance of rapport and the client-practitioner relationship as the foundation for success. David explains his transition from other modalities into hypnosis and why he believes the subconscious mind is the key to unlocking potential that traditional talk therapy often misses.Ryan and David dive into the specifics of "meaningful change," discussing how to move past surface-level symptoms to address the root causes of anxiety, habits, and self-doubt. This episode offers deep insights into the ethics of the practice and David’s commitment to providing clients with the tools they need to take control of their own mental well-being.Key Takeaways & Meaningful QuotesHypnosis isn't about me doing something to you; it's about us working together to help you discover what you're already capable of.When you can reach the subconscious, you aren't just talking about change—you're actually experiencing it. That is where the real work happens.The goal is to make myself unnecessary. I want to give my clients the skills, so they don't need to come back to see me forever.How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with David Stern:Learn more about David Stern’s clinical work and how to schedule a session with him.Website: ABOUTWork with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan talks with John Scanlon, the driving force behind the Irish Hypnosis Conference. John shares his unique journey from a career in construction to becoming a hypnotist after discovering the power of the mind to manage pain following a serious accident.The discussion focuses on the growth of the hypnosis community in Ireland and John’s mission to bring world-class training to Irish practitioners. John emphasizes the importance of community, continuous learning, and the shift toward professionalizing hypnosis through high-quality events that foster connection and peer support.Ryan and John explore the nuances of running a major conference, the value of in-person mentorship, and why Ireland is becoming a hub for hypnotic excellence. This conversation highlights the warmth and dedication John brings to the field and his commitment to helping others find their path in the world of hypnosis.Key Takeaways & Meaningful QuotesI realized that if you can change how you think about something, you can literally change how you feel it. That was the spark that led me to hypnosis.My goal with the conference was to stop the silos. I wanted to bring people together so we could learn from each other instead of just working in isolation.Hypnosis isn't just about the techniques; it's about the connection between the two people in the room. If you get that right, the rest follows.Work with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan welcomes Scott Sandland, a prominent leader in the hypnosis movement and founder of the world’s largest hypnosis convention. Scott shares his origin story, starting at just 18 years old as a skeptic seeking relief from chronic pain after a car accident, and how that necessity blossomed into a 25-year career.The conversation explores the craft of hypnosis, emphasizing its utility in high-stakes medical environments like dentistry and skull surgery. Scott passionately advocates for clinical teamwork, urging hypnotists to stop competing with psychologists and instead get in the way of people who need help by joining medical clinics and focusing on patient outcomes rather than marketing funnels.From discussing the expectation to ritual ratio to the therapeutic parallels found in the movie Inception, this episode is a masterclass in professional presence and the ethical application of hypnotic skills.Key Takeaways & Meaningful QuotesHypnosis is a craft. There is real work that goes into making it functional and as permanent as possible. It can do, not just be. Please go help people by putting your ego aside and just being on the team. Just being the lowest member on the team. I went from taking out the trash to highest hourly rate in two and a half years. People in this world need you. They don't need a catchphrase, they just need a person who's present. They don't need a really cool funnel. They need a person who will hold their goddamn hand because they're sad. How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Scott Sandland:Explore the world’s largest hypnosis conference and access hundreds of hours of clinical training, instructor videos, and AI-driven resources for practitioners.Hypnosis Training & Conference: htlive.net HT Live 365 Subscription: htlive365.com Work with Ryan DeJonghe:Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis?Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan sits down with Isaiah Deshon, a hypnotherapist and mindset coach who is redefining what it means to lead by intuition. After years of traditional talk therapy failed to provide the necessary tools for his own ADHD, PTSD, and bipolar diagnoses, Isaiah turned to hypnosis to "reprogram" his own mind—clearing his symptoms in record time.Isaiah shares his journey from growing up in the hood to mastering conversational hypnosis and memory reconsolidation to help high-performing business clients overcome self-sabotage and imposter syndrome. The conversation dives deep into the mechanics of manifestation, the hypnotic nature of modern church services, and why representation in the hypnosis community is vital for reaching marginalized populations.Whether you are looking to understand the science of state control or want to learn how to manifest your reality without the trap of cognitive dissonance, this episode offers a raw and metaphysical look at the power within.Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes"I wish someone could just, like, hypnotize me and, like, take all the things out and put the right things in... I jumped into certifications and whatnot, and learned it for myself, pretty much, and was able to clear pretty much all of my own problems." — (00:01:32)"I’m fearless, but I still have a human nervous system that feels nervous sometimes, and it's just about allowing that and then being able to control your state after that." — (00:21:00)"My belief is that all of reality is just God vibrating in and out of existence really quickly... If all of reality is just God blinking in and out of existence, then there's infinite possibilities, because God is infinite." — (00:29:00)How to Connect and Work with UsConnect with Isaiah Deshon: Isaiah works primarily with business owners to clear mindset blockages and also offers support to those in need within his community. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isaiah.h.338Work with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis? Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan DeJonghe welcomes Claudia Rickard, a standout presenter at HypnoThoughts Live and a master of creative hypnotic intervention. Claudia shares the fascinating story behind her famous "Bunny Talk"—a playful yet profound approach to hypnotic language that bypasses conscious resistance. They explore how using lighthearted, metaphorical storytelling can lead to deep neurological shifts, making the process of change feel less like "work" and more like a natural evolution.Key Discussion PointsThe Origins of Bunny Talk: Claudia reveals how a simple, spontaneous metaphor about bunnies evolved into a powerful therapeutic tool for helping clients release anxiety and find internal peace.The Power of Play in Hypnosis: Why "serious" problems don't always require "serious" interventions. Claudia discusses how playfulness lowers the brain’s threat response and opens the door to creativity.Bypassing the Critical Faculty: A deep dive into the linguistic structures Claudia uses to distract the conscious mind, allowing therapeutic suggestions to land softly and effectively.Embodied Language: How Claudia uses her voice and presence to create a "container" of safety, helping clients move from their heads into a more grounded, resourceful state.The HypnoThoughts Experience: Claudia previews her upcoming workshop and talk at the world’s largest hypnosis conference, sharing what practitioners can expect from her unique "Bunny Talk" methodology.Memorable Quotes"Sometimes the most profound changes happen when we stop trying so hard and just allow ourselves to play with the possibilities.""Bunny Talk isn't just about rabbits; it's about finding a language that the subconscious mind actually wants to listen to."Special Segment: Hypnotic GiftStay tuned until the end of the interview for a special hypnotic gift from Claudia Rickard. She leads a signature "Bunny Talk" guided session, designed to help you quiet your inner critic and tap into a state of calm, effortless resourcefulness.(Note: This session is designed for relaxation; please ensure you are in a safe place where you can close your eyes and focus inward.)Episode Timestamps00:00:15 – Introduction: Why everyone is talking about "Bunny Talk"00:05:40 – Claudia’s journey: From traditional hypnosis to creative mastery00:14:20 – The "Bunny" Breakthrough: How a simple metaphor changed everything00:25:50 – The Science of Play: Why the brain learns better when it’s having fun00:38:15 – Mastering the Tone: Using voice and rhythm to deepen the trance00:52:10 – Previewing the HypnoThoughts workshop and global tour01:03:45 – Hypnotic Gift: A "Bunny Talk" Journey to Inner Peace01:10:00 – Final thoughts and where to find Claudia onlineConnect with Claudia RickardOfficial Website: claudiarickardhypnosis.comTraining & Events: Find out where Claudia is presenting next, from London to Chicago.Connect with Ryan DeJongheIf you want to experience a session that feels as light and effective as the "Bunny Talk" we discussed today, let's connect:Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan DeJonghe connects with Roi Werner, a dynamic force in the international hypnosis community and the visionary behind The Hypnotic Horizon. Roi shares his mission to bridge the gap between different schools of thought, creating a collaborative space where practitioners of all levels can refine their craft. They discuss the importance of "deliberate practice," the evolution of the hypnotic community, and how to stay at the cutting edge of a rapidly changing field.Key Discussion PointsThe Vision of Hypnotic Horizon: Roi explains the inspiration behind his platform—a desire to move beyond "silos" and create an open, community-driven space for learning and demonstration.The Power of Deliberate Practice: Why watching a seminar isn't enough. Roi breaks down how real mastery comes from active, repetitive practice and receiving high-quality feedback from peers.Bridging the Traditions: A look at how Roi integrates classical, Ericksonian, and modern rapid-induction techniques into a cohesive, flexible approach.The Online Revolution: How digital platforms have changed the way hypnosis is taught and practiced, and how to maintain "human connection" in a virtual space.Global Collaboration: Roi discusses the upcoming Hypnotic Horizon online conference and the importance of learning from a diverse array of international experts.Memorable Quotes"Hypnosis isn't something you 'know'; it's something you practice. The moment you think you've mastered it is the moment you stop growing.""We are building a horizon where every practitioner can see further by standing on the shoulders of the community."Special Segment: Hypnotic GiftStay tuned until the end of the episode for a special hypnotic gift from Roi Werner. He leads a session focused on "Expanding Your Horizon," designed to help you tap into a state of open-mindedness, creativity, and professional (or personal) clarity.Episode Timestamps00:00:15 – Introduction of Roi Werner (and the proper pronunciation!)00:08:40 – The birth of The Hypnotic Horizon: From idea to community00:19:25 – Why "Deliberate Practice" is the secret to hypnotic mastery00:32:10 – Breaking down the "Silos": Collaborative vs. Competitive learning00:45:50 – The future of online hypnosis training and conferences00:58:15 – Integrating different styles for a "Whole-Mind" approach01:03:45 – Hypnotic Gift: Expanding Your Internal Horizon01:09:30 – Final thoughts and how to join the Hypnotic Horizon communityConnect with Roi WernerThe Hypnotic Horizon: hypnotichorizon.comYouTube Channels:Roi Werner Personal ChannelThe Hypnotic Horizon OfficialConnect with Ryan DeJongheIf you want to sharpen your own internal focus or experience the transformative power of a session, let's connect:Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan DeJonghe sits down with Steve Roehm, a master hypnotist and coach widely recognized in the professional community (including a massive following on Reddit) for his "no-nonsense," conversational approach to transformation. Steve shares his philosophy on why the best hypnosis doesn't look like "hypnosis" at all—it looks like two people having a profound, life-changing conversation. They discuss how to strip away the clinical fluff and get straight to the heart of what drives human behavior and change.Key Discussion PointsThe Reddit Legend: Steve reacts to his reputation as the "hypnotist's hypnotist" and explains how his style evolved from complex techniques to simple, powerful conversation.Conversational Alchemy: Discover how Steve uses everyday language to induce deep trance states and facilitate breakthroughs without the need for formal "eyes-closed" inductions.The Power of "Just Talking": Why some of the most profound shifts happen when the client doesn't even realize they are "doing hypnosis," and how to maintain that level of natural engagement.Removing the Friction: Steve breaks down how to identify the specific mental blocks that stop people from succeeding and how to "unstick" them through strategic questioning.Authenticity in Practice: A deep dive into why being a "real human" in the room is more effective than playing the role of a stiff, clinical professional.Memorable Quotes"The most powerful trance isn't the one where you're asleep; it's the one where you're finally awake to who you actually are.""I don't 'do' hypnosis to people. I have conversations that allow people to stop doing the things that aren't working for them."Special Segment: Hypnotic GiftStay tuned until the very end for a special hypnotic gift from Steve Roehm. He leads a masterful conversational journey designed to help you shift your perspective on a current challenge and step into a more resourceful version of yourself.(Note: While this segment is conversational, the shifts can be deep. Please listen when you can safely focus on the internal experience.)Episode Timestamps00:00:15 – Introduction: How Reddit led Ryan to Steve Roehm00:06:50 – Beyond the Certification: Finding your true voice as a hypnotist00:14:30 – The Art of the Informal Induction: Why "Just Talking" works00:26:45 – Identifying the "Glitch" in the client's narrative00:40:20 – The Mechanics of Conversational Change00:55:10 – Steve’s advice for practitioners: Stop trying so hard01:04:15 – Hypnotic Gift: The Conversational Shift Session01:07:30 – Final thoughts and where to find Steve’s trainingConnect with Steve RoehmOfficial Website: steveroehm.comMastery Training: Check out Steve’s programs for advanced conversational hypnosis.Connect with Ryan DeJongheIf you want to experience a "magic conversation" that helps you move past your own limits, reach out to me:Website: trancewell.helpEmail: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan DeJonghe welcomes a true legend in the field, Mike Mandel. Known globally for his work at the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy, Mike has trained thousands of practitioners in the art of efficient, elegant, and results-driven hypnosis. They dive into Mike’s philosophy of "Neo-Ericksonian" hypnosis, exploring how to move away from clunky, script-based approaches toward a more fluid, conversational, and highly effective style of change work.Key Discussion PointsThe Mandel Methodology: Mike shares his journey from stage performer to clinical master, detailing how he distilled complex psychological concepts into the "Mandel Model" of rapid change.The Death of the Script: Why Mike advocates for throwing away hypnotic scripts in favor of dynamic, real-time interventions that respond to the client's unique "map of the world."Precision Language: Discover the power of "clean language" and the subtle linguistic shifts that allow a hypnotist to bypass the conscious mind’s critical faculty with ease.Brain Software & Hardware: Mike explains his perspective on the mind as a series of programs and how to "patch" or rewrite the subconscious software that keeps people stuck in old patterns.The Ethics of Empowerment: A discussion on the responsibility of the hypnotist to empower the client, ensuring they leave the session with more autonomy and a deeper connection to their own resources.Memorable Quotes"We aren't fixing people; we are just helping them run better software in a brain that was already designed for excellence." "Hypnosis is the art of getting the conscious mind out of the way so the subconscious can do the job it was always meant to do."Special Segment: Hypnotic GiftDon't miss the end of the episode for a special hypnotic gift from Mike Mandel. He leads a signature "Empowerment Induction," a session designed to help you integrate your internal resources, clear mental fog, and step into a state of peak confidence and peace.(Note: Please listen only when you can safely relax and give the process your full attention.)Episode Timestamps00:00:15 – Introduction of Mike Mandel00:07:20 – Why the hypnosis community trusts the Mandel Method00:16:45 – Scripts are for actors: Moving to dynamic change work00:29:30 – Linguistic Precision: The "Mandel Model" explained00:41:10 – Rewriting the Subconscious Software00:55:00 – The Power of "Peace and Love" in Therapy01:06:20 – Hypnotic Gift: The Mandel Empowerment Session01:14:45 – Final words and where to find the Mike Mandel Hypnosis AcademyConnect with Mike MandelOfficial Website: mikemandelhypnosis.comTraining: Join the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy (MMHA) to learn the full system of change.Connect with Ryan DeJongheIf you want to experience the kind of rapid change Mike and I discussed, or if you're ready to "update your own internal software," let's connect:Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan DeJonghe welcomes Kryssa Marie Bowman, an expert in sovereignty, energetic alignment, and subconscious transformation. Kryssa shares her journey of moving beyond traditional coaching into a space where energy and embodiment take center stage. They explore how to reclaim your personal "sovereignty"—the ability to own your internal state regardless of external circumstances—and how to use the "Joy-Pleasure" axis to create a life of deep fulfillment and effortless change.Key Discussion PointsThe Path to Sovereignty: Kryssa defines what it truly means to be "sovereign" in your own life, moving from a victim mindset to a state of complete internal authority and energetic autonomy.The Joy-Pleasure Frequency: Discover the difference between fleeting pleasure and sustainable joy, and how to tune your nervous system to resonate with these higher frequencies for natural healing.Embodied Transformation: Why traditional talk therapy often fails to reach the root of the issue, and how Kryssa uses somatic awareness to release stored trauma and "stuck" energy from the body.Creating Your Energy Bubble: Kryssa discusses practical techniques for protecting your energetic field in a chaotic world, allowing you to stay grounded and centered no matter what is happening around you.Subconscious Alchemical Change: A deep dive into how Kryssa combines hypnotic principles with energetic work to "transmute" old limitations into new, expansive possibilities.Memorable Quotes"Sovereignty isn't about being alone; it's about being so centered in your own truth that the world can't knock you off balance. ""Your body is the most sophisticated technology on the planet. When we learn to listen to its energy, change becomes an act of pleasure, not a struggle."Special Segment: Hypnotic GiftBe sure to stay until the end of the episode for a special hypnotic gift from Kryssa Marie Bowman. She leads a powerful "Sovereignty and Energy Alignment" session designed to help you clear stagnant energy, ground into your physical body, and awaken a deep sense of joyful presence.(Note: Please ensure you are in a safe, quiet space where you can fully relax during this guided experience.)Episode Timestamps00:00:15 – Introduction of Kryssa Marie Bowman00:08:30 – Defining Sovereignty: Taking back the reins of your life00:19:45 – The Science of Energy: Moving beyond the "woo-woo" label00:32:10 – Joy vs. Pleasure: Tuning your internal frequency00:45:50 – Somatic Wisdom: Why the body holds the key to the mind00:58:20 – Practical Energetic Hygiene: Protecting your peace01:10:45 – Hypnotic Gift: The Sovereignty & Energy Bubble Session01:16:10 – Final thoughts and where to connect with KryssaConnect with Kryssa Marie BowmanOfficial Website: kryssamariebowman.comPrograms: Explore Kryssa’s latest workshops on embodiment and sovereignty.Connect with Ryan DeJongheIf you are ready to reclaim your own sovereignty and want to work with me to clear the mental blocks standing in your way, let's talk:Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]