Talent Biography
Paul McKenna
Paul McKenna was born at 8.10am in The Mother’s Maternity Hospital in Hackney, East London on 8 November 1963. Growing up he wanted to be either James Bond, a rock star, or a radio DJ. Paul began to turn this dream into reality when he did the young DJ slot on Capital Radio at only 12 years old. He went on to work at Radio Caroline, Chiltern, Capital and finally Radio One.
Paul’s interest in hypnosis and all things self-improvement began after he interviewed a hypnotist for one of his radio shows. He started small, doing stage shows in his local pub, but within a few weeks they were standing-room-only. He then moved on to bigger theatres until he broke all records when he put on the largest show of stage hypnosis in the world by selling out The Royal Albert Hall in London. Paul received rave reviews when he took this show to New York for a run on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
His show transferred to television as The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna in 1993. The series went from being a hit on ITV to being a global success, broadcast in over 42 countries around the world, with over 500 million viewers. Paul also starred in his own prime-time special in America on ABC entitled The World's Funniest Hypnotist. Other series followed including Hyp The Streets for Channel 4, and The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna for ITV. More recently he has co-produced two self-help based factual series for Sky One: I Can Change Your Life and Paul McKenna Will Make You Thin.
Paul is the brand leader in self-improvement products in the UK, having sold millions of self-help CD’s, DVD’s and books. His last four books (Change Your Life In 7 Days, I Can Make You Thin, Instant Confidence, and Quit Smoking Today) have all been Number One bestsellers. He has one of the largest self-improvement training companies in Britain, teaching thousands of people every year how to increase their confidence, motivation and optimism. In addition to all this, Paul spends a lot of his time working with individual private clients in the US and in Britain, with extensive work in the corporate sector too.
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