Patrick Wanis

Patrick Wanis is an Australian life coach, clinical hypnotherapist and author based in the United States. He has coached various celebrities such as Hulk Hogan, consulted for major corporations and published numerous books on human behavior, relationships, and the mind. Wanis is the relationship expert & columnist for Date.com and Matchmaker.com, the human behavior and relationship expert for AMI Mini Mags and the relationship expert for Playboy Radio. He consults and presents custom programs for major corporations such as El Paso Energy, Exxon, Doubletree & Hilton hotels, Rinoval (Mexico and Canada), SuperClubs Bahamas, and Alpha Model Group.

Early life
Wanis began his career in Australia on stage, radio, and television. He worked as executive producer of News/Talk Radio 3AK in Melbourne, and Political reporter for Tens News Television, in Canberra. He hosted regional segments of the “Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital Telethon”, in 1989, and won First Prize in the Australian Tourism Awards, for his Tas Travel radio show in 1989 and 1990. Later that year, Wanis became the youngest talk show host in Australia, interviewing the Australian Prime Minister on numerous occasions both on radio and television, and received the ranking of “A+++ Grade Journalist” (the highest industry grading possible) from the Australian Journalists Association. Wanis also presented a live radio show from Parliament House on the eve of The Australian Federal Elections, 1990.

In 1991, he began working and traveling in Africa, England, Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. He performed hypnosis, dance, comedy, musicals, and murder mystery musicals in multiple languages. In 1991, Wanis became the first person to introduce pantomime musicals to West Africa, with his own original musical parodies of Snow White, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood. He also directed and co-hosted the “1991 Miss Africa World Beauty Pageant.”

In West Africa, Wanis studied the link between the belief in Juju spells and the behavior of various tribes. Later, Wanis began motivational training programs & workshops for Steiners Services, Carnival Cruises.

Rise to fame
In 1993, in front of a live audience of over five thousand people, he directed and co-hosted (in English and Spanish) “Miss Verano” beauty pageant in Spain, and produced and co-hosted the 1993 “Junior Miss” and “Junior Mister” for 2000 children in Spain. Thomsons further recognized Wanis’ achievements with awards over three consecutive years, 1991, 1992 and 1993 for “Best Entertainment -Gambia, West Africa.” In 1993, the renowned European TV program, Canal Plus “24 Horas” featured Wanis' performances.

In 1995, he graduated from from W.I. C.S. in Pennsylvania with degrees in neuro-linguistic programming and advanced hypnotherapy. In 1995, Wanis became the first resident hypnotist on Carnival Cruise Lines, and he was invited to Las Vegas to meet David Copperfield. Wanis also began motivational and training programs and workshops for Steiners’ Salons, Carnival Cruises.

In 1996, Wanis produced, performed and directed New Line’s The Mask! in a live musical production. Wanis went on to consult on a TV comedy variety show version of “The Mask!” with New Line Television. Meanwhile, a Unites States production company was so impressed by Wanis’ hypnosis show Hipnotica it sponsored him to come to America. In 1996, Wanis co-produced Al Gore’s visit to Orlando during the 1996 campaign. In 1998, he was a regular co-host and hypnotherapist on the syndicated radio show America Talks Health.

He created and produced the show Blues Brothers 2000 for Daytona (licensed by the Belushi Estate) in front of a live audience of over 195,000 people.

Recent years
Wanis continues to do public speaking and training programs,. He is the regular relationship and human behavior expert for the nationally syndicated TV show, “The Daily Buzz”, WMWX FM in Philadelphia, American Media Mini Mags and booklets. Wanis has hosted three TV talk show specials with teens on terrorism and September 11.