Patrick Wanis
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Patrick Wanis is an Australian human behavior and relationship expert, clinical hypnotherapist, life coach and author based in the United States. He has coached various celebrities such as Hulk Hogan and Xtreme and is recognized as a Celebrity Life Coach.
He has published numerous books on human behavior, relationships, and the mind. He has been featured as a relationship expert and columnist for Date.com and Matchmaker.com
, is the human behavior and relationship expert for AMI Mini Mags, a featured behavior and relationship expert for Playboy Radio
and is the relationship expert to CupidDates.net and the 2010 motion picture "The Putt Putt Syndrome."
Griffith while also serving as anchor of the regional television news on MTN-9
, and hosted regional segments of the “Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital Telethon.” In 1985, he became the youngest talk show host in Australia
at age 23 for Radio 7BU with syndicated talk shows on TBN - The Tasmanian Broadcasting Network (including a Sunday night “Lonely Hearts” call-in show) and interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
on numerous occasions. He also won First Prize in the Australian Tourism Awards for Tas Travel – his weekly syndicated radio show. Wanis next became a talk show host for Canberra’s news/talk radio 2CA
and Political reporter for Ten News
television, in Canberra
interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
on television on numerous occasions and interviewing the candidates for Canberra’s inaugural state elections before becoming executive producer of 3AK
Talk-back radio in Melbourne, serving as executive producer for the Don Chipp
morning radio show and hosting his own afternoon drive talk show. Wanis also presented a live radio show from Australia's Parliament House, Canberra
on the eve of the 1990 Federal Election.
Wanis received the ranking of “A+++ Grade Journalist” (the highest industry grading possible) from the Australian Journalists Association
.
In 1990, Radio 3AK was sold to businessman Peter Corso who sacked most of its workforce in preparation to relaunch 3AK as Australia's first commercial Italian-language radio station. While interviewing Corso live on-air, Corso offered Wanis the opportunity to stay on as a broadcaster and show host. Wanis declined, stating he was going to travel overseas for three months.
Wanis subsequently 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. Wanis claims that in 1991, he 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. Wanis directed and co-hosted the “1991 Miss Africa World Beauty Pageant.” In The Gambia
, West Africa
, Wanis observed and studied the link between the belief in spells, curses, Juju
, witchcraft
, healing doctors (using witchcraft) and the behavior of The Gambia's people and its various tribes. Wanis concluded that the spells and curses only had power over those people who believed in them, forming a basis for his later work and studies in hypnotherapy and the power of the mind and beliefs.
In 1993, Wanis directed and co-hosted (in English and Spanish) “Miss Verano” beauty pageant in Spain before a live audience of 5,000 people; produced and co-hosted the 1993 “Junior Miss” and “Junior Mister” for 2000 children in Spain and won awards by Thomson Tours 1991, 1992 and 1993 for “Best Entertainment - The Gambia, West Africa”. In 1993, European TV program, Canal Plus “24 Horas” did a feature on Wanis.
(Ibiza
and Salou
), Wanis began to perform stage hypnosis
shows. His first shows used stooges (actors); Wanis claims he got the inspiration after watching another English performer do the same thing in a resort in Ibiza. Wanis began to read books about hypnosis and hypnotherapy to provide a convincing show and hypnotic induction. One day in Cozumel
, Wanis decided to leave a few volunteers up on stage with the stooges/actors as an experiment and two of those volunteers became hypnotized during the hypnotic induction. Subsequently, Wanis would have less stooges and more volunteers in his weekly shows, until he eventually stopped using stooges and actors, and only used real volunteers. While on vacation in Cozumel, a psychologist from Canada saw Wanis’ hypnosis show and suggested that Wanis study hypnotherapy. Wanis began to use hypnosis to work with clients wanting to lose weight and stop smoking and in 1993 began to study with the IACT (International Association of Counselors and Therapists) which Wanis became critical of for allegedly handing out hypnosis certification to anyone who paid and completed a weekend training program.
In 1995, he graduated from W.I.C.S. in Pennsylvania with degrees in Neuro-Linguistic Programming
(NLP) and Advanced Hypnotherapy
. In 1995, Wanis became the first resident hypnotist on Carnival Cruise Lines
, and was invited to Las Vegas to meet David Copperfield
. While working on the cruise ships, Wanis also began motivational and training programs and workshops for Steiners’ Salons, Carnival Cruises.
In 1996, he 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, after witnessing Wanis’ hypnosis show Hipnotica a United States production company sponsored him to come to America. In 1996, he 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) for a live audience of over 195,000 people.
Houston, Texas, serving as a Sunday morning teacher and event leader for Uniteens (10 to14 year-olds) and he wrote, directed and produced two full scale Christmas musicals involving children, teens and adults for the church in 1996 & 1997.
In 2001, Wanis voluntarily directed the 7th annual televised Celebrity Mascot Games (NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball
, NHL and NCAA) to raise money for the New Hope Children’s Wish Foundation (now known as New Hope For Kids) and also co-hosted various television talk show specials with teens on terrorism
and the September 11 attacks in 2001 and “September 11 – One Year On.”
Since 2000, Wanis has presented motivational training programs for various schools in Florida, Texas and New York, and in Australia.
, MSNBC
, Fox news online and magazines Cosmopolitan, VIVA and The New York Observer.
Wanis has often spoken out publicly on television, radio and in print about celebrity narcissism
and meltdowns. In 2007, Wanis began his annual list of The Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns and became recognized as the expert on celebrity meltdowns; his list is featured each year on FOX News Channel.
In November 2011, Chaz Bono threatened to sue the National Enquirer over an article that cited Wanis and which claimed Bono's weight, stress, and the medications and issues associated with his gender reassignment, could increase the likelihood of an early death. Wanis was cited in the Enquirer article as a Human Behavior Expert (and contrary to claims by Bono’s attorney, Wanis was not cited or credited as a transgender specialist or medical doctor.) The following day, Wanis recorded a personal video message to Bono heeding him to “ignore the sensationalism of the Enquirer headlines such as ‘liver damage agony’ but still take action about his health, to surround himself only with people that really care, and to beware of Hollywood’s parasites.”
Wanis also claims the media often ignores domestic violence against women and instead gives priority to racism. Wanis criticized television executives for ignoring Charlie Sheen
's violent behavior against his wife (Sheen pleaded guilty to assaulting Brooke Mueller in 2010) and for waiting for Sheen to make partial racial slurs against his boss before firing Sheen from the hit TV show "Two and a Half Men."
In July 2010, eight months prior to Charlie Sheen’s infamous meltdown, Wanis told Alan Stock of Newsradio 840 KXNT Las Vegas and Russ Morley 850 WFTL Newstalk radio Miami: “We are showing favoritism towards Charlie Sheen. We watch Charlie Sheen on his weekly TV show and for almost 7 years, and we welcome his TV character and welcome him in life as a bad boy but we refuse to see him as a man who has abused a woman. The reality of his abuse, of his violence against a woman, is ignored because people generally seem to like him, to find him affable, viewing him as basically just a boy who is slightly wild and has not yet grown up. If we had heard the conversation between Charlie and his wife, would we still be giving him the free-pass? People quickly condemned Chris Brown for assaulting Rihanna but was that because we saw the photo of her bruised face or because Chris Brown is black and so our bias and prejudice spiked our anger and condemnation?”
In March 2011, Wanis criticized toymaker Mattel
for its Clawdeen doll stating that it is actually "encouraging a young girl to dress like a stripper" and to believe that she should be sexually enticing to everyone around her. Wanis also criticized clothing retail chain, Abercrombie & Fitch
, for marketing padded bikini tops to girls as young as eight years of age, stating to Fox News that the padded tops are both disturbing and dangerous: “Are we sexualizing young girls to get the attention of men or to encourage women to use their daughters to compensate for their own lack of sexual appeal by living vicariously through their daughter?" Wanis asked. "Is this the extreme extension of the beauty-pageant mother who now seeks to make up for what she can never be?”
He has published numerous books on human behavior, relationships, and the mind. He has been featured as a relationship expert and columnist for Date.com and Matchmaker.com
Matchmaker.com
Matchmaker.com is an internet dating service. It was founded in 1986, making it the oldest of the current online dating sites. From 2000 to January 2006, it was run by Lycos...
, is the human behavior and relationship expert for AMI Mini Mags, a featured behavior and relationship expert for Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio is a radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio. Playboy Radio was originally launched on XM Satellite Radio in September 2002. Included were programs such as Night Calls Radio, originally hosted by adult film star Juli Ashton and Playboy TV star Tiffany Granath...
and is the relationship expert to CupidDates.net and the 2010 motion picture "The Putt Putt Syndrome."
Early career
Wanis began working as a radio show host at Radio 2RG2RG
2RG is an Australian radio station on 963 kHz serving the Griffith, NSW region. It was opened in September 1936....
Griffith while also serving as anchor of the regional television news on MTN-9
MTN-9
MTN-9 and AMN-31 are television stations that are licensed to, and serve Griffith and the surrounding Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area . MTN-9 is a primary Nine Network affiliate via WIN Television and AMN-31 is a primary Seven Network affiliate via Prime Television...
, and hosted regional segments of the “Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital Telethon.” In 1985, he became the youngest talk show host in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
at age 23 for Radio 7BU with syndicated talk shows on TBN - The Tasmanian Broadcasting Network (including a Sunday night “Lonely Hearts” call-in show) and interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
on numerous occasions. He also won First Prize in the Australian Tourism Awards for Tas Travel – his weekly syndicated radio show. Wanis next became a talk show host for Canberra’s news/talk radio 2CA
2CA
2CA is a commercial radio station on the AM band in Canberra, Australia, which originally began broadcasting on 1050 kHz changing to 1053 kHz in 1978. 2CA has had many owners since its inception and is currently jointly owned by regional radio operators the Capital Radio Network and Grant...
and Political reporter for Ten News
Ten News
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont...
television, in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
on television on numerous occasions and interviewing the candidates for Canberra’s inaugural state elections before becoming executive producer of 3AK
3AK
3AK is the call sign of SEN 1116 and earlier the on-air name of a former Melbourne talk-back radio and music station, which, in 2003, leased its licence to sports network SEN 1116...
Talk-back radio in Melbourne, serving as executive producer for the Don Chipp
Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp, AO was an Australian politician, and the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats.-Early life:...
morning radio show and hosting his own afternoon drive talk show. Wanis also presented a live radio show from Australia's Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House is the meeting facility of the Parliament of Australia located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The building was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects and opened on 1988 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia...
on the eve of the 1990 Federal Election.
Wanis received the ranking of “A+++ Grade Journalist” (the highest industry grading possible) from the Australian Journalists Association
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries...
.
In 1990, Radio 3AK was sold to businessman Peter Corso who sacked most of its workforce in preparation to relaunch 3AK as Australia's first commercial Italian-language radio station. While interviewing Corso live on-air, Corso offered Wanis the opportunity to stay on as a broadcaster and show host. Wanis declined, stating he was going to travel overseas for three months.
Wanis subsequently began working and traveling in Africa, England, Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. He performed hypnosis
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...
, dance, comedy, musicals, and murder mystery musicals in multiple languages. Wanis claims that in 1991, he 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. Wanis directed and co-hosted the “1991 Miss Africa World Beauty Pageant.” In The Gambia
The Gambia
The Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....
, West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...
, Wanis observed and studied the link between the belief in spells, curses, Juju
Juju
A Juju is a supernatural power ascribed to an object.Juju may also refer to:-Geography:* Juju , one of seven districts on the island of Rotuma in Fiji* Juju , a village in the district of Juju on the island of Rotuma-Albums:...
, witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
, healing doctors (using witchcraft) and the behavior of The Gambia's people and its various tribes. Wanis concluded that the spells and curses only had power over those people who believed in them, forming a basis for his later work and studies in hypnotherapy and the power of the mind and beliefs.
In 1993, Wanis directed and co-hosted (in English and Spanish) “Miss Verano” beauty pageant in Spain before a live audience of 5,000 people; produced and co-hosted the 1993 “Junior Miss” and “Junior Mister” for 2000 children in Spain and won awards by Thomson Tours 1991, 1992 and 1993 for “Best Entertainment - The Gambia, West Africa”. In 1993, European TV program, Canal Plus “24 Horas” did a feature on Wanis.
Hypnosis
In SpainSpain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
(Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
and Salou
Salou
Salou is a municipality of the comarca of Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The city is approximately 10km from Tarragona and Reus on the Costa Daurada and 112km from Barcelona...
), Wanis began to perform stage hypnosis
Stage hypnosis
Stage hypnosis is hypnosis performed in front of an audience for the purposes of entertainment, usually in a theatre or club. Expert opinion is divided over whether participants' responses are best explained as being due to an altered state of consciousness or by a combination of deliberate...
shows. His first shows used stooges (actors); Wanis claims he got the inspiration after watching another English performer do the same thing in a resort in Ibiza. Wanis began to read books about hypnosis and hypnotherapy to provide a convincing show and hypnotic induction. One day in Cozumel
Cozumel
Cozumel is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. Cozumel is one of the ten municipalities of the state of Quintana Roo...
, Wanis decided to leave a few volunteers up on stage with the stooges/actors as an experiment and two of those volunteers became hypnotized during the hypnotic induction. Subsequently, Wanis would have less stooges and more volunteers in his weekly shows, until he eventually stopped using stooges and actors, and only used real volunteers. While on vacation in Cozumel, a psychologist from Canada saw Wanis’ hypnosis show and suggested that Wanis study hypnotherapy. Wanis began to use hypnosis to work with clients wanting to lose weight and stop smoking and in 1993 began to study with the IACT (International Association of Counselors and Therapists) which Wanis became critical of for allegedly handing out hypnosis certification to anyone who paid and completed a weekend training program.
In 1995, he graduated from W.I.C.S. in Pennsylvania with degrees in Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...
(NLP) and Advanced Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.The word "hypnosis" is an abbreviation of James Braid's term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system"....
. In 1995, Wanis became the first resident hypnotist on Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line, based in Doral, Florida, a suburb of Miami in the United States. Originally an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, the company is now one of eleven cruise ship brands owned and operated by Carnival Corporation & plc...
, and was invited to Las Vegas to meet David Copperfield
David Copperfield (illusionist)
David Copperfield is an Emmy Award-winning American illusionist, and was described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. Copperfield's network specials have been nominated for 38 Emmy Awards and won a total of 21 Emmys...
. While working on the cruise ships, Wanis also began motivational and training programs and workshops for Steiners’ Salons, Carnival Cruises.
In 1996, he 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
New Line Television
New Line Television was the television arm of the company of the same name, in turn a subsidiary of Time Warner.The company was founded in 1988 in order to produce Freddy's Nightmares, a television series based on the studio's popular Nightmare on Elm Street film series...
. Meanwhile, after witnessing Wanis’ hypnosis show Hipnotica a United States production company sponsored him to come to America. In 1996, he co-produced Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
’s visit to Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
during the 1996 campaign
United States presidential election, 1996
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack...
. 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
James Belushi
James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...
Estate) for a live audience of over 195,000 people.
Children and teens' issues
From 1996-1998, Wanis volunteered with the department of Youth Education and the Children’s Ministry for Unity Church of ChristianityUnity Church
Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...
Houston, Texas, serving as a Sunday morning teacher and event leader for Uniteens (10 to14 year-olds) and he wrote, directed and produced two full scale Christmas musicals involving children, teens and adults for the church in 1996 & 1997.
In 2001, Wanis voluntarily directed the 7th annual televised Celebrity Mascot Games (NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
, NHL and NCAA) to raise money for the New Hope Children’s Wish Foundation (now known as New Hope For Kids) and also co-hosted various television talk show specials with teens on terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
and the September 11 attacks in 2001 and “September 11 – One Year On.”
Since 2000, Wanis has presented motivational training programs for various schools in Florida, Texas and New York, and in Australia.
Recent years
In 2002, Wanis began to write pocketbooks (Mini-mags and Micro-mags) for American Media, starting with "How to Hypnotize Anyone." With the publication of more titles and books, he became recognized as a relationship expert and soon after as a human behavior expert. Subsequently, he was regularly featured and interviewed on syndicated radio and TV shows including Mike and Juliet Morning show, Montel Williams show, Fox News ChannelFox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, Fox news online and magazines Cosmopolitan, VIVA and The New York Observer.
Wanis has often spoken out publicly on television, radio and in print about celebrity narcissism
Narcissism
Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait...
and meltdowns. In 2007, Wanis began his annual list of The Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns and became recognized as the expert on celebrity meltdowns; his list is featured each year on FOX News Channel.
In November 2011, Chaz Bono threatened to sue the National Enquirer over an article that cited Wanis and which claimed Bono's weight, stress, and the medications and issues associated with his gender reassignment, could increase the likelihood of an early death. Wanis was cited in the Enquirer article as a Human Behavior Expert (and contrary to claims by Bono’s attorney, Wanis was not cited or credited as a transgender specialist or medical doctor.) The following day, Wanis recorded a personal video message to Bono heeding him to “ignore the sensationalism of the Enquirer headlines such as ‘liver damage agony’ but still take action about his health, to surround himself only with people that really care, and to beware of Hollywood’s parasites.”
Women's issues
Wanis has often criticized Hollywood, the media and advertising for their portrayal of women and the sexualization of young girls and babies. “Women are bombarded everyday with advertising and messages that there is something wrong with them, something missing – all of these [wedding reality] shows target the insecurity of women” he told Fox News.Wanis also claims the media often ignores domestic violence against women and instead gives priority to racism. Wanis criticized television executives for ignoring Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
's violent behavior against his wife (Sheen pleaded guilty to assaulting Brooke Mueller in 2010) and for waiting for Sheen to make partial racial slurs against his boss before firing Sheen from the hit TV show "Two and a Half Men."
In July 2010, eight months prior to Charlie Sheen’s infamous meltdown, Wanis told Alan Stock of Newsradio 840 KXNT Las Vegas and Russ Morley 850 WFTL Newstalk radio Miami: “We are showing favoritism towards Charlie Sheen. We watch Charlie Sheen on his weekly TV show and for almost 7 years, and we welcome his TV character and welcome him in life as a bad boy but we refuse to see him as a man who has abused a woman. The reality of his abuse, of his violence against a woman, is ignored because people generally seem to like him, to find him affable, viewing him as basically just a boy who is slightly wild and has not yet grown up. If we had heard the conversation between Charlie and his wife, would we still be giving him the free-pass? People quickly condemned Chris Brown for assaulting Rihanna but was that because we saw the photo of her bruised face or because Chris Brown is black and so our bias and prejudice spiked our anger and condemnation?”
In March 2011, Wanis criticized toymaker Mattel
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...
for its Clawdeen doll stating that it is actually "encouraging a young girl to dress like a stripper" and to believe that she should be sexually enticing to everyone around her. Wanis also criticized clothing retail chain, Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch is an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22. It has over 300 locations in the United States, and is expanding internationally....
, for marketing padded bikini tops to girls as young as eight years of age, stating to Fox News that the padded tops are both disturbing and dangerous: “Are we sexualizing young girls to get the attention of men or to encourage women to use their daughters to compensate for their own lack of sexual appeal by living vicariously through their daughter?" Wanis asked. "Is this the extreme extension of the beauty-pageant mother who now seeks to make up for what she can never be?”
Publications
- Wanis, Patrick. (2001). Subconscious Imagery Personality Test. (audio book) New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2002). How to Hypnotize Anyone. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2002). Angels - Are Everywhere. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2003). Angel Encounters. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2003). What a Woman Wants – And How to Give It to Her. New York: WOW Media ISBN 978-0-9779192-0-8
- Wanis, Patrick. (2003). How to Find Happiness. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2003). How to Meet a Girl. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2003). Are You Psychic? - How to Tap Into the Hidden Powers of Your Mind. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2004). How to get over it – Breakups, Betrayals & Rejection. (audio book) New York: WOW Media ASIN: B004EEOFVS
- Wanis, Patrick. (2004). Soul Mates – Discovering, Sharing & Loving. New York: WOW Media ASIN: B004EEOFTK
- Wanis, Patrick. (2004). Finding God –Spiritual Strategies To Help You Find Happiness, Fulfillment And Inner Peace. New York: WOW Media B004EEOFV8
- Wanis, Patrick. (2004). How To Connect With A Woman – by Her Sign. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2005). Hypnosis & The Science of Seduction. New York: WOW Media ASIN: B004EEOFUY
- Wanis, Patrick. (2005). Angels – Angel History and Angel Encounters. New York: WOW Media ISBN 978-0977919215
- Wanis, Patrick. (2005). Soul Mates – Find Your Perfect Match Now. New York: WOW Media ASIN: B004EEOFS6
- Wanis, Patrick. (2006). Get What You Want. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2006). Get What You Want. (audio book) New York: WOW Media ISBN 978-0977919246
- Wanis, Patrick. (2006). Get the Man You WANT. (audio book) New York: WOW Media ISBN 978-0977919239
- Wanis, Patrick. (2006). The New Science of Persuasion...for men only. (audio book) New York: WOW Media ASIN: B002PXRRJM
- Wanis, Patrick. (2007). The Greatest Money-Making Secret of All Time. New York: WOW Media ASIN: B004EEOFWW
- Wanis, Patrick. (2007). Find Love Fast. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2008). How to Get Over it – breakups, betrayals & rejection Volume 2 & workbook. New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2008). Secrets To Getting Over It. (audio book) New York: WOW Media
- Wanis, Patrick. (2008). Who are you – Talker, Doer, Thinker, Watcher? – Personality test. (audio book) New York: WOW Media
External links
- Patrick Wanis Official site
- What do men want? What do women want? Date.com article by Patrick Wanis
- Secrets To Losing Weight, Being Thin & Loving Your Body Date.com article by Patrick Wanis
- Patrick Wanis coaches singing duo Xtreme on TV
- Michael Jackson and the 'extreme' price of fame - CNN.com article featuring Patrick Wanis on Michael Jackson's death
- My Take: Casey Anthony and the challenge of forgiveness - CNN.com article by Patrick Wanis
- How A Self-Help Guru Brainwashed 3 People To Their Death - HeadDRAMA.com article by Patrick Wanis
- When Sorry Isn't Sincere - HeadDRAMA.com article by Patrick Wanis
- Fairytale Endings: Do They Really Exist? - Sydney Morning Herald article featuring Patrick Wanis on The Royal Wedding
- Easily Caught With Their Pants Down - Canberra Times article featuring Patrick Wanis on high-profile infidelities