Welcome to Rejuvenation with Dr. Ron Kaiser.

This is Ron Kaiser on the host of this podcast, which is designed to help you live your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow, and every other day of your life.

I am a positive health psychologist and I ask my guests to be people who are themselves living life enthusiastically and are in a position to help others do so.

We have an interesting series of guests, as those of you who have been following the podcast know, and today it is going to be no exception.

Before introducing our guests, however, I do want you to be aware of our website, www.thementalhealth gym, which is the source of information about positive psychology, our concept of goal achieving psychology.

Rejuvenaging the art and science of growing older with enthusiasm, which coincidentally is the name of my best selling and award-winning book.

Now, today we have a special guest for you and I don't think we have interviewed a hypnotist before, but I don't know what that conjures up in your mind, but we've got a really special guest in terms of Kevin Stone,

who is one of the preeminent hypnotherapists in the world. Kevin has an impressive list of credentials and is listed in the prestigious Who is Who of Entrepreneurs.

Kevin is a master hypnotist, board-certified hypnotherapist, and highly sought after comedy entertainer around the globe.

He is kind of an interesting combination. We'll have to talk about that. He's also a leader in pioneer as well as a historian in the field of hypnosis and hypnotherapist.

He is a senior clinical instructor at the cranial facial pain TMJ Clinic of the Auto Lair and Gology Foundation.

That was my challenge for introducing him, the Auto Lair and Gology Foundation, how that do Kevin, of the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

In addition to those accomplishments, he is a motivational and keynote speaker holding workshops and corporate training programs for major Fortune 500 companies and others around the globe.

He's a television personality, an author, a radio host, a retired firefighter, and an animal rights activist.

There probably are some things that he hasn't done in this world, but I'm not sure how many he hasn't. Kevin is highly sought after his global expert and it's already on hypnosis and has been featured in countless media outlets and publications.

If I read them all, we would use up the entire time of the podcast, but believe me, they're out there. And so without wasting any more of my time so that you can hear the expert on this, I'd like to welcome Kevin to rejuvenaging with Dr Ron Kaiser. It's such an honor to have you with them.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in this world, listening or watching this amazing program. Well, Dr. Ron, that's a, that's a mouthful. You know, every time I listen to those accolades, I just, I stand on the shoulder of giants because I'm inspired by so many others, including yourself to continue my passion and my work in this particular area to help people to help themselves.

That's wonderful, but I do have to ask you right at the start. Yeah, I remember when I was growing up, there was a period of my life when I thought about being a firefighter. Never did I imagine, never did I thought enter my mind of why not be a hypnosis kind of wonder about your journey. How did you get to be who you are today with all these these accolades?

What does somebody decide to be a hypnotist? Yeah, well, I want to give you this simplistic answer and then we'll elongate that a little bit. You know, for me, Ron is very simple. I'm following my path, my God given path. And that's the simplicity of it. As far as I'm concerned, God has a plan for all of us. And all we have to do is ask, we follow that plan.

But to give you the long version, what happened with me was I was out of work. It was in firefighting and I was out of work and I needed to do something with myself. So I'm a type of person that I don't like to sit still and I don't even know what the word boredom means.

So I automatically when I find myself in compromising positions like that, I generally go to academia. I sign back up, go back into school, go back to the college, start to learn things that I'm fascinated by that I now have the time to do.

And that's exactly what happened in this situation back in the 90s. I'm now currently celebrating my 25th anniversary as a board certified hypnotherapist here in the state of California.

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