E149: On today’s episode we speak with hypnotherapist, illusionist, and writer Michael Mezmer. Michael has traveled the world performing as an act and helping those with trauma with hypnotherapy. Michael is also an author of several books and currently writing new works we discuss in the show.  In this episode we talk through the transition period from high school into your passion and getting your first paid gig. Michael shares some extremely wild ways to drum up publicity, build a personal brand, and highlights when to separate your personal brand as your act and yourself in home life and stage. We speak through business design, mindset, and experience.   In This Episode We CoverGetting your first paid gigExperiencing different cultures around the worldTaking chancesGetting publicity The transition from high school into your passionBeing comfortable with not knowing how it will happenSeparating your personal brand from you as a person when you need toThe benefits of hypnotherapyDon’t over represent yourselfBuilding your personal brand Quotes “You can’t get attention by being the norm, you have to live out of the norm.” - Michael Mezmer “You’ve gotta be 100% in. If you have faith in yourself others will have faith in you.” - Michael Mezmer “There’s so many times where you don’t really know where the money is coming from, you don’t know how somethings going to happen, or even what you are personally going to do yet but somehow it’s going to happen.” - Host Dave Swillum   Michael’s Links Michael’s Hypnotist Sitehttps://mezmer.weebly.com/ Michael’s Danger Magic Sitehttps://dangermagik.weebly.com/  Resources Noted In This Episode Tough Times Never Last, Tough People Dohttps://amzn.to/33D5ueT Weebly Website Builderhttps://www.weebly.com/  Waking Up From Work Podcast Links  IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!@davewakeup Merch To Support Us!https://wakeup.itemorder.com/sale?fbclid=IwAR30nyVXdpFaax0mN0CRcC_mVjNzafbMo0spds82eoG-GMo01HG6Uq0dvzw Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork Facebook Community to connect to creativeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/ Email[email protected] Youtube Channel & Serieshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber For audio advice and more in depth music content from Davewww.crawlspaceaudio.com Dave’s Indie Band Broadwinghttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee