Paul McKenna on mindset, happiness and catching bad guys.
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to 2026!
We've lined up the perfect guest for our first episode of the new year. Paul McKenna has helped millions of people with his books, DVDs, CDs & downloads. He's one of the best-selling self-help authors on the planet, and in this chat he opens up about finding love through hypnotism, the darker side of hypnotism and the ethics of toying with someone's self-conscious.
It's a fascinating conversation and we hope it helps add some positivity to what can feel like the longest month of the year!
We are fast approaching our 500th episode, so we'd love to know what your favourite episodes have been, how long you've been listening and what you enjoy about the podcast - feel free to drop us an email to hello@whitewinepod.com
From all of the team at White Wine Question Time we'd like to wish you a Happy New Year, and all the best for 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of white wine question time this guy said look rather than you interview me |
| 0:08.6 | why don't i hypnotize you and i said okay you know benevolently skeptical knock yourself out and as he |
| 0:16.8 | started speaking i relaxed and all my burdens and worries just floated away and my mind slowed down |
| 0:24.1 | and I felt this beautiful kind of bliss. When you can get somebody, you know, who has had some lifelong |
| 0:32.9 | debilitating phobia of public speaking or they're anxious all the time or whatever it is and suddenly you take |
| 0:39.0 | that away that that feels really good he said what you need to do is think who do i like to be with |
| 0:46.7 | and who am i attracted to and i went oh now being a hypnotist i put myself into trance and put the |
| 0:53.8 | two suggestions into my head, |
| 0:56.4 | and my unconscious has a sense of humour. |
| 0:58.7 | And it drew an Excel spreadsheet, and at the top was Kate. |
| 1:03.9 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast had asked its guest three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:11.8 | And my guest today is one of the world's most famous hypnotists. |
| 1:15.6 | And to boot, one of the UK's most successful non-fiction writers, more than 15 million copies |
| 1:21.7 | of his books sold in 32 languages. |
| 1:24.7 | His professional life has been spent helping millions of people transform their lives, |
| 1:28.5 | quite literally, with the power of the mind, with the times crowning him as one of the world's |
| 1:33.1 | most important modern self-help gurus. From Ikemeet Thin, the best-selling self-help book in |
| 1:39.1 | UK history, to his sell-out live events and hugely popular self-hypnosis app. |
| 1:49.0 | He spent almost four decades teaching people how to rewire their mind. |
| 1:54.0 | But rewind a few decades and his path could not have been further from hypnosis. |
| 1:57.9 | Born and raised in Enfield, he had a tough time at a strict school where teachers relentlessly mocked his dyslexia and told him, well, he'd struggle to amount to anything. |
| 2:03.3 | So at 16, he left to chase a very different dream, music, starting out as a DJ at Topshop, before moving into radio. |
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