Brain Software with Mike Mandel

By Chris Thompson

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Episodes: 290

Rolando Duque
 Apr 11, 2019
Glannative!!

Acrunchyfrog
 Sep 15, 2018
Fantastically wacky, entertaining, and refreshing. Very informative and empowering for anyone looking to improve themselves or their relationships.

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For the complete newbie or the experienced hypnotist, Brain Software with Mike Mandel is the world's most interesting, educational and fun podcast discussing hypnosis, NLP and strategies for peak performance and self improvement. Mike Mandel is a 6-time award winning hypnotist, immensely popular keynote speaker, stage performer, psychotherapist and NLP trainer. He has been doing hypnosis since he was 12 years old. Mike has an amazing ability to demystify hypnosis, teach core concepts, and tell highly entertaining and engaging stories from his decades of professional experience. Nothing is held back.

Episode Date
Session 288: Aphantasia and Hypnotic Success Stories
Sep 05, 2025
Session 287: The Magic of State - Hacking Your Mindset Instantly
Aug 22, 2025
Session 286: HypnoThoughts Live 2025
Aug 08, 2025
Session 285: The Unconscious Mind, and Much More…
Jul 25, 2025
Session 284: Hypnotizing Cheaters and a Visit to the Hypnotic Art Gallery
Jul 11, 2025
Session 283: The Hypnotic Power of One Tiny Word
Jun 27, 2025
Session 282: Hockey, Aging Horribly and Hypnosis
Jun 13, 2025
Session 281: Hypnosis vs Talk Therapy Cage Match
May 30, 2025
Session 280: For Those Who Get Triggered … We Will Trigger You
May 16, 2025
Session 279: Big Crowds and Bad Logic: Trump, Hypnosis, and the Fallacy Factory
May 02, 2025
Session 278: Epic Stories from Decades of Stage Hypnosis Shows
Apr 18, 2025
Session 277: The Hypnotic Power of Words: How Language Shapes Your Reality
Apr 04, 2025
Session 276: Massage Drunk & Mind Hacks: How Hypnosis Works Everywhere
Mar 21, 2025
Session 275: The Evolution of Hypnosis: From Mesmer to the Future of Trance
Mar 07, 2025
Session 274: Busting the Biggest Myths About Trance and Suggestion
Feb 21, 2025
Session 273: Tony Robbins and Mass Hypnosis in the Media
Feb 07, 2025
Session 272: Quantum Hypnosis? What the heck is that? Magic
Jan 24, 2025
Session 271: Oyster Allergies, Fear of Spiders, and Needle-Free Dental Magic
Jan 10, 2025
Session 270: Hypnotic Experiences with Time
Dec 27, 2024
Session 269: Microdosing and the One Word
Dec 13, 2024
Session 268: Distinctions for a better life
Nov 29, 2024
Session 267: Learning Faster with Artificial Intelligence
Nov 15, 2024
Session 266: Self-Work with Ideomotor Signals
Nov 01, 2024
Session 265: Perceptual Positions to Solve People Problems
Oct 18, 2024
Session 264: Repairing Burnt Bridges and Cutting Cords
Oct 04, 2024
Session 263: Crushing Everyday Problems with This One Method
Sep 20, 2024
Session 262: Hypnosis for Strange Unconscious Problems
Sep 06, 2024
Session 261: Takeaways from the World’s Biggest Hypnosis Conference
Aug 23, 2024
Session 260: Hypnosis to Reframe Recharge and Relate
Aug 09, 2024
Session 259: Brainwashing Secrets and Pain Relief through Hypnosis
Jul 26, 2024
Session 258: Conquering Negativity: Hypnotic Techniques and Optimistic Living
Jul 12, 2024
Session 257: Hypnotic Mistakes and Mastery: Insights from Mike, Chris, and Timothy September
Jun 28, 2024
Session 256: Bernheim’s Amnesia Technique and the Power of Personal Development in Hypnosis
Jun 14, 2024
Session 255: More Q&As
May 31, 2024
Session 254: Erickson was the GOAT
May 17, 2024
Session 253: More Questions and Answers about Hypnosis
May 03, 2024
Session 252: Questions and Answers about Hypnosis
Apr 19, 2024
Session 251: Is Hypnosis Scientific?
Apr 05, 2024
Session 250: Hypnosis to Forget an Ex…and Other Cool Stuff
Mar 22, 2024
Session 249: Giving Hypnotically Dynamic Presentations
Mar 08, 2024
Session 248: Communicating well, when the other person doesn’t!
Feb 23, 2024
Session 247: Staying Safe in this Crazy World
Feb 09, 2024
Session 246: Staying Safe in this Crazy World
Jan 26, 2024
Session 245: NLP Classic vs NLP New Code
Jan 12, 2024
Session 244: Hypnosis, Imagination and Guided Imagery
Dec 29, 2023
Session 243: The Rise of Top-Down Therapy
Dec 15, 2023
Session 242: Get out there, and wreck those relationships, while there’s still time!
Dec 01, 2023
Session 241: Calibration, Conversation and Hypnotizability
Nov 17, 2023
Session 240: Presentation Skills, for Stage and Life!
Nov 06, 2023
Session 239: Reframing, Systems, and Mailbag…
Oct 20, 2023
Session 238: All about FEAR!
Oct 06, 2023
Scott Adams on Reframing – Brain Software Podcast (in-betweener episode 02)
Sep 23, 2023
Session 237: Keys to being an Awesome Hypnotist!
Sep 22, 2023
Session 236: Hypnosis Questions Answered
Sep 08, 2023
Session 235: Stop doing these 10 things right now!
Aug 25, 2023
Session 234: Back from HT Live!
Aug 11, 2023
Session 233: What is hypnosis? That, and conversational power for all of us…
Jul 28, 2023
Session 232: Bad therapy, regression to cause, and more!
Jul 14, 2023
Session 231: Hypnosis and Language So Fun It Ought to be Illegal
Jun 30, 2023
Session 230: Hypnosis Miracles
Jun 16, 2023
Session 229: Gang of Four
Jun 02, 2023
Session 228: Sleep and Dreams
May 19, 2023
Session 227: AI, Automatic Writing and Allergies
May 05, 2023
Session 226: Pet Peeves Part 2
Apr 21, 2023
Session 225: Pet Peeves
Apr 07, 2023
Session 224: Resources and where to find them…
Mar 24, 2023
Session 223: From Wimp to Wizard the Making of Mike Mandel
Mar 10, 2023
Session 222: Stage Hypnosis as a Career
Feb 24, 2023
Session 221: How to Tell if You’re in a cult
Feb 10, 2023
Session 220: This is your brain on fun
Jan 27, 2023
Session 219: Health and Fitness Made Simple
Jan 13, 2023
Session 218: The Power of Perception
Dec 30, 2022
Session 217: MMH Rules for Living
Dec 16, 2022
Session 216: What about Mesmerism? And hypnosis tools to blow people’s minds…
Dec 02, 2022
Session 215: Everyday hypnosis for everybody
Nov 18, 2022
Session 214: Generative Changework for hypnotists
Nov 04, 2022
Session 214: Generative Changework for hypnotists
Nov 04, 2022
Session 213: Where did hypnosis come from?
Oct 21, 2022
Session 212: Building Self Confidence
Oct 07, 2022
Session 211: All About Behaviors
Sep 23, 2022
Session 210: Las Vegas debrief, and what we’ve learned from the best trainers
Sep 09, 2022
Session 209: Amaze and Astound Your Friends Part 2
Aug 26, 2022
Session 208: Amaze and Astound Your Friends Part 1
Aug 13, 2022
Brain Software Podcast In Betweener Ep 01 - Ken Guzzo
Aug 04, 2022
Session 207: The Secrets to Mastering NLP
Jul 29, 2022
Session 206: The Secrets to Mastering Hypnosis
Jul 15, 2022
Session 205: Beliefs vs Hypnosis
Jul 01, 2022
Session: Hypnosis Q&A
Jun 17, 2022
Session 203: Ideomotor and Ideosensory
Jun 03, 2022
Session 202: A Discussion on State, Focus and Physiology
May 20, 2022
Session 201: What We Believe about Beliefs
May 06, 2022
Session 200: A Celebration of Context Free Humour
Apr 22, 2022
Session 199: What We Have Learned from Other Hypnotists
Apr 08, 2022
Session 198: Tips to Become a Great Direct Hypnotist
Mar 25, 2022
Session 197: Becoming a Better Ericksonian Hypnotist
Mar 11, 2022
Session 196: Life as a Series of Continuums
Feb 25, 2022
Session 195: Be an Awesome Communicator
Feb 11, 2022
Session 194: Modelling Success in Any Area
Jan 28, 2022
Session 193: Compounding to Make 2022 a Great Year
Jan 14, 2022
Session 192: The Power of Baby Steps - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Dec 31, 2021
Session 191: Power of Decisions and Imagination
Dec 17, 2021
Session 190: Hypnotic Age Regression or Regression to Cause
Dec 03, 2021
Session #189: In Pursuit of Happiness
Nov 19, 2021
Session 188: Using the Pareto Principle to Improve Your Life
Nov 05, 2021
Session 187: Transforming Yourself with Questions
Oct 23, 2021
Session 186: Distinctions for a Better Life
Oct 08, 2021
Session 185: Abandonment, Chronic Pain and More Q&A
Sep 24, 2021
Session 184: How We Can Overcome Fear
Sep 10, 2021
Session 183: Never be Lied To Again Part 2
Aug 27, 2021
Session 182: Never be Lied To Again
Aug 13, 2021
Session 181: 3 Models for an Awesome Life
Jul 31, 2021
Session 180: Ego State Integration and the Magic of Heteroaction
Jul 16, 2021
Session 179: Performing Surgery in Your Own Brain Now Possible Using Ego State Transformation
Jul 02, 2021
Session 178: Do these TIPS to Greatly Reduce Stress
Jun 18, 2021
Session #177: Improve Your Hypnotic Abilities with These TIPS
Jun 06, 2021
Session 176: CONTROL Issues!
May 21, 2021
Session 175: Truth & Lies | Detection and Indicators
May 08, 2021
Session 174: How MMH got started
Apr 23, 2021
Session 173: Stage Hypnosis vs Hypnotherapy
Apr 10, 2021
Session 172: How to Command Respect
Mar 26, 2021
Session 171: All About Confidence Part 2
Mar 12, 2021
Session 170: All About Confidence
Mar 12, 2021
Session 169: Dunning Kruger and Imposter Syndrome
Feb 12, 2021
Session 168: Cheat Sheets and Exit Strategies
Jan 29, 2021
Session 167: Attitude and Gratitude Part 2
Jan 15, 2021
Session 166: Attitude and Gratitude Part 1
Jan 01, 2021
Session 165: How to Screw Up Your Life Completely
Dec 18, 2020
Session 164: Hypnotic Stories and Metaphors
Dec 04, 2020
Session 163: Hypnotic Language
Nov 20, 2020
Session 162: All About NLP Part 3
Nov 06, 2020
Podcast 161: All About NLP Part 2
Oct 23, 2020
Session 160: All About NLP Part 1
Oct 09, 2020
Session 159: Wellness and Mass Hypnosis with Dr. Tro Kalayjian
Sep 25, 2020
Session 158: Journey to the Castle
Sep 11, 2020
Session 157: Mail Bag Edition
Aug 28, 2020
Session 156: All About Beliefs (part 2)
Aug 14, 2020
Session 155: All About Beliefs (part 1)
Jul 31, 2020
Session 154: The Mandel Model
Jul 17, 2020
Session 153: Easy Self Hypnosis
Jul 03, 2020
Session 152: Become Assertive
Jun 19, 2020
Session 151: Ten Tips to Change Everything
Jun 05, 2020
Session 150: Conversational Hypnosis Part 3
May 22, 2020
Session 149: Conversational Hypnosis Part 2
May 08, 2020
Session 146: Cold Reading is Awesome!
Mar 27, 2020
Session 145: Dealing with Disaster
Mar 13, 2020
Session 144: Discovering Your Sub-Personalities
Feb 28, 2020
Session 143: All About Anxiety
Feb 21, 2020
Session 142: Personal Development Lessons from Chris (Part 2)
Feb 06, 2020
Session 141: Make 2020 Your Best Year Ever - part 2
Jan 17, 2020
Session 140: Make 2020 Your Best Year Ever (Part 1)
Jan 03, 2020
Session 139: Personal Development Lessons from Chris
Dec 27, 2019
Session 138: Aim Your Brain
Nov 23, 2019
Session 137: Fascinating Hypnosis Conversation
Nov 08, 2019
Session 136: The Architecture of Change
Oct 25, 2019
Session 135: Words That Work
Oct 12, 2019
Session 134: Top Ten Wellness Tips
Sep 27, 2019
Session 133: Top Ten Transformational Techniques
Sep 14, 2019
Session 132: Top 10 Greatest Hypnotists of All Time
Aug 30, 2019
Session 131: Interview with Michael C. Anthony, World's Greatest Stage Hypnotist
Aug 12, 2019
Session 130: Hypnosis Mail Bag
Aug 03, 2019
Session 129: No Instructions Required
Jul 20, 2019
Session 128: Logical Levels and Your Best Life NOW!
Jul 08, 2019
Session 127: Hypnosis and Manipulation
Jun 21, 2019
Session 126: Communication Pitfalls
Jun 08, 2019
Session 125: Part 2 of Suggestion, Regression and Timelines
May 17, 2019
Session 124: Suggestion, Regression and Timelines
May 03, 2019
Session 123: Turn Insomnia into Quality Sleep
Apr 19, 2019
Session 122: Ramping Up Your Creative Power!
Apr 05, 2019
Session 121: Building a Quality Life
Mar 23, 2019
Session 120: Communication Tips Part 3
Mar 08, 2019
Session 119: An Interview with Anthony and Freddy Jacquin
Feb 22, 2019
Session 118: Communication Tips Part 2
Feb 09, 2019
Session 117: Powerful Communication Strategies Part One
Jan 26, 2019
Session 116: The Principles of Hypnosis Part 4
Jan 11, 2019
Session 115: Principles of Hypnosis Part 3
Dec 28, 2018
Session 114: The Principles of Hypnosis Part 2
Dec 14, 2018
Session 113: Principles of Hypnosis Part 1
Nov 30, 2018
Session 112: The Unconscious Mind and Never Surrender
Nov 14, 2018
Session 111: Dealing with Toxic People
Oct 29, 2018
Session 110: An Interview with Dr. Richard Nongard
Oct 12, 2018
Session 109: Las Vegas Aftermath, Hypnosis Cards, and a Dishwasher
Sep 29, 2018
Session 108: Rudy Giuliani, Mail Bag and the Lawn Tree Blooms
Sep 14, 2018
Session 107: Assertion, Argumentation, and Inner Child Work...
Aug 24, 2018
Session 106: Interventions, Incidentalomas and the Magic Cabbages
Aug 10, 2018
Session 105: Wellness, Ego States and Blood Chokes
Jul 27, 2018
Session 104: Hypnotic Influence, Assertion, and the Window of Doom!
Jul 12, 2018
Session 103: False Memories, Monica, and That’s Ridiculous!
Jun 29, 2018
Session 102: Eliminating Allergies and More Days of Awesome
Jun 14, 2018
Session 101: Mirroring Hands and Awesome Days
May 25, 2018
Session 100: Addictions and 100 Days of Awesome!
May 11, 2018
Session 99: Guilt, Shame, Empathy and the Bucket List
Apr 20, 2018
Session 98: Take Action Now!
Apr 06, 2018
Session 97: Learning to Think Better
Mar 23, 2018
Session 96: Making Order and Chaos Work for You!
Mar 03, 2018
Session 95: All About Anxiety
Feb 16, 2018
Session 94: Being Your Best
Feb 02, 2018
Session 93: Energy and Negative Emotions
Jan 18, 2018
Session 92: Onward in 2018
Jan 05, 2018
Session 91: The Fascinating Field of Hypnosis
Dec 15, 2017
Session 90: How to have an awesome life
Nov 29, 2017
Session 89: An Interview with Steve Roehm
Oct 31, 2017
Session 88: Thirteen Relationship Hacks
Oct 05, 2017
Session 87: An Interview with Jason Linett
Sep 18, 2017
Session 86: Focus, Empathy and Weird Word Whiskers
Aug 15, 2017
Session 85: The Ryan Intervention, Hitler, and the 4th Johnny!
Jul 01, 2017
Session 84: PGO car crashes, online attacks, and Nelson Mandela
Jun 10, 2017
Session 83: Inversion and Rejection, plus Miss ASMR!
May 25, 2017
Session 82: Pre-suasion and Chris' Big Dictionary
May 04, 2017
Session 81: Triggers, Bacon, and Cold Pizza!
Apr 07, 2017
Session 80: We cut open the Mail Bag, and it didn’t hurt a bit!
Feb 22, 2017
Session 79: Spotting a Logical Fallacy
Jan 25, 2017
Session 78: Three Models of Language
Dec 24, 2016
Session 77: Laughnosis with James Hazlerig
Dec 05, 2016
Session 76: Fun vs. Depression and Scaring People in the Street
Oct 22, 2016
Session 75: Relationships and Love Languages
Sep 23, 2016
Session 74: Logical Levels: An Awesome Method for Personal Change!
Aug 16, 2016
Session 73: The secret to changing another person’s behaviour
Jul 28, 2016
Session 72: Riders on the rash and power of reframing!
Jun 30, 2016
Session 71: Gus Grissom is Alive and Well in Tweed Ontario!
Jun 03, 2016
Session 70: Let’s focus on the positive! Even if it kills someone.
Apr 29, 2016
Session 69: Social Hypnosis, and You’re Still Just Danny!
Mar 29, 2016
Session 68: Mind if I 'Scape You?
Mar 04, 2016
Session 67: Cold-reading, the Jerry Intervention, and jokes while driving!
Feb 12, 2016
Session 66: Chris is a “bast”, Alacrity, Incarceration, and Dennis Bryce-Morgan in the studio!
Jan 19, 2016
Session 65: Beach Volleyball, Timelines, the Dancing Hair, and all the zany fun of another episode of the Honey Hallmark Show!
Dec 11, 2015
Session 64: The Bag of Pykthos mystery, psychedelic endings, hypnotizing South Americans, and how tomato seeds can lead to inadvertent circumcision!
Oct 29, 2015
Session 63: Logic, graphology, alternate sexuality, and street fights with James Randi...It's the Honey Hallmark Show!
Oct 01, 2015
Session 62: Hypnothoughts Live in Las Vegas!
Aug 27, 2015
Session 61: Top 10 Terms Every Hypnotist Needs to Know!
Aug 16, 2015
Session 60: Foreign accents, strange warts and hypnotizing crazy people
Jul 27, 2015
Session 59: Vitreous detachment, earbud hypnosis, and the word “membrane”
May 04, 2015
All About The Enneagram: An Interview with Bettylynn Stoops
Apr 17, 2015
Session 58: The Amazing Kreskin, flying tables and naked audiences
Apr 13, 2015
Session 57: Unnecessary Filler
Mar 26, 2015
Session 56: Spunky, Beezer and the Context Free Humour Tag Team
Feb 25, 2015
Session 55: Black Hats, Reframes, Violets and Lavender
Dec 16, 2014
Session 54: Hidden Observer and Ego States
Nov 26, 2014
Session 53: Hypnotic Intersection
Oct 28, 2014
Session 52: Insanely Stupid Food Aversion Hypnotherapy
Sep 20, 2014
Session 51: Building a Powerful Trance
Jul 24, 2014
Session 50: The Magic of Mentalism
May 30, 2014
Session 49: Posthypnotic Suggestion, a Powerful Tool
May 06, 2014
Session 48: How Metaphors Work
Apr 15, 2014
Session 47: Context Free Humour and More
Mar 22, 2014
Session 46: Language Patterns and Arguments
Feb 18, 2014
Session 45: Boring People into Trance?
Jan 31, 2014
Session 44: Be strong and take control of your own life
Jan 14, 2014
Session 43: The complete insanity of yesterday's mainstream hypnosis
Dec 10, 2013
Session 42: What are the Limits of Hypnosis
Nov 18, 2013
Session 41: Generating Your Own Hypnotic Language
Oct 25, 2013
Session 40: The Chris and Jeff Show
Sep 27, 2013
Session 39: Riders on the Storm
Sep 12, 2013
Session 38: Flow states and Practical Jokes
Aug 14, 2013
Session 37: The Riders of the Hypnotic Storm
Jul 19, 2013
Session 36: Creating Peak Performance
Jun 27, 2013
Session 35: The Threshold of Change and The Models of Hypnosis
Jun 12, 2013
Session 34: Improving Your Memory (Part Two)
May 22, 2013
Session 33: Improving Your Memory (Part One)
Apr 20, 2013
Session 32: How to Increase Your Intelligence
Apr 08, 2013
Session 31: Power Napping, Grief and The Idiocy of Tautology
Mar 20, 2013
Session 30: Dealing with Pain and other Fun Hypnosis Conversation
Mar 04, 2013
Session 29: Hypnosis and pattern matching, dealing with grief and Mike's hacked email account
Feb 14, 2013
Session 28: What's Happening in the World of NLP (with Hugh Comerford)
Jan 26, 2013
Session 27: Clean Hypnotic States, Congruence, and Comedy
Jan 11, 2013
Session 26: Hypnosis, NLP, Anchoring, Milton Model and Much More!
Dec 20, 2012
Session 25: Mentalism, Handwriting and Hypnosis
Dec 07, 2012
Session 24: You Can't Fix Stupid
Nov 23, 2012
Session 23: The Nonsense of Hypnotizability Studies
Nov 08, 2012
Session 22: The Buffet is So Much Better than Grilled Cheese and Fries
Oct 20, 2012
Session 21: Street hypnosis with Gabriello Pitman
Oct 05, 2012
Session 20: Reframing, submodalities and more mentalism
Sep 21, 2012
Session 19: Practical jokes, marketing, and hypnosis Q&A from the audience
Sep 05, 2012
Session 18: Weight management with hypnosis (with special guest Didi Vergados)
Aug 14, 2012
Session 17: Handwriting and hypnosis, age regression, the Enneagram model and hypnosis Q&A
Jul 26, 2012
Session 16: Pain management, creativity and problematic people
Jul 10, 2012
Session 15: Conversational hypnosis, propaganda and marketing
Jun 19, 2012
Session 14: Hypnotic phenomenon, hypnosis uses, anchoring, amnesia and much more!
Jun 06, 2012
Session 13: Dr. Mike's latest hypnosis class, REM and Elman inductions, and more
May 23, 2012
Session 12: Self hypnosis, human givens, REM sleep, fixing insomnia and building confidence
Apr 24, 2012
Session 11: Telemarketers, Lucid Dreaming and more Hypnosis Q&A
Apr 07, 2012
Session 10: Hypnosis and other models of therapeutic change
Mar 25, 2012
Session 09: The Mandel model of therapy and more hypnosis & NLP discussion
Mar 10, 2012
Session 08: Hypnogogic states, dreams and much more Q&A about hypnosis
Feb 23, 2012
Session 07: Messing with People's Minds Part 2
Feb 07, 2012
Session 06: Messing with People's minds Part 1
Jan 25, 2012
Session 05: More hypnosis Q&A, Mentalism, Metaphors & Training
Jan 10, 2012
Session 04: Hypnosis and TV, reality tunnels, opinions of other hypnotists, self hypnosis, Hellstromism
Dec 27, 2011
Session 03: Hypnosis Q&A, metaphors, headaches, hilarious stage hypnosis "therapy" and the Acid Test revealed
Dec 12, 2011
Session 02: The most popular hypnosis questions we get, and Mike Mandel's answers
Nov 29, 2011
Brain Software with Mike Mandel Session 01
Nov 17, 2011