Performer Bio: 4 Question Interview with Comedy Stage-Hypnotist Giovanni Thodé

Oranjestad, Aruba. August 14th - 2013. 5:30pm. Sitting at Ruba Reggea, sipping on some Bailey's while savoring Djarum Black clove cigarettes, we begin the Interview: 

~"So as I understand, at the time you were successfully studying to make a Career becoming a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. 
And you dropped it all to take a risk studying Clinical Hypnotherapy while taking a salary dive becoming a Tour Guide for 8 and a half years?
What did it for you? What Inspired you to take such a bold career move, and pursue such a different and controversial study?"~
 
My Grandfather had Cancer in 2000. I wanted to help contribute to his healing. I wanted to have more nights sitting at the table with him playing Chess. I wanted him to see me achieve my Life's Goals.
I wanted more years to enjoy the privilege & the gift of the experience of his participation in my Life.

I sold all my MSCE study books to recoup a bit more than half my total investment and after stressing my head out for months on making a decision, I closed my eyes...and without looking back, invested it all in two different Hypnosis Schools of high calibre.  Committing to be the best of the best of the few and the proud, in the Art, for my Generation, on my Island...in a future. But for right then and there, in that moment in space and time,the objective needed to be about assisting the accelerated healing of the biggest role model I knew and Loved.

It did not go quite the way I planned, and he passed on. Sometimes when I feel like crying, I run stories where I victimise myself into temporarily believing I could have done something sooner to prevent it from happening. but there are only so many times you can use that memory to invoke tears. You don't easily escape the feeling, of having been left a hole behind that never healed. 
I used the pain of the loss to inspire me forward to become a more passionate student of the Art, often and frequently giving away my entire months salary, divided amongst bookshops around the World, in pursuit of rare and elusive knowledge in one or other aspect of the Art.
 
~" How did being a Tour Guide help you be a better Hypnotist? Or did Hypnosis help you be a better Tour Guide?How did Tour Guiding contribute to your Experience and studies? "~

Counting two bus or semi-submarine loads of people per day, you were talking about anywhere between 88 to 108 people a day, whose attention span you've got to get, hold and direct for an Intense 4 to 9 hours a day.
You learn to talk the Universal language in a way wherein people of diverse cultures are transported into a state of magic, fascination and  wonder, and left touched, moved and inspired to want to come back, and leave you good tips on the way out.
Being exposed to a crowd every day intensely accelerates your learning through experience. The experience alone was priceless practice that allowed me to perfect the delivery of suggestions through the mouths of impassioned characters I would create and develop, such as the "drama student working as a tour guide to develop a stand up comedy skit"  being a favorite role.

My tour scripts eventually became four and a half hour stand up comedy routines I had so ingrained in me through practice, that I could go on 'automatic pilot' whenever I did not feel like being 'fully present' to a crowd, and still deliver an amazing performance.
By being fully present living in the moment, and consciously participating in the ongoing creation of one or several effects simultaneously, weaved within, above and below my Tour Script  , I was able to consistently make 5 to 7 times my salary in tips.
Though I was making a minimum wage monthly, my tax free tips made sure I consistently had a good monthly income. 
I would review my performance and script at the end of each day, gauge feedback, rewrite, perform and record and rehearse over night, and come back the next day and test again and again, until I had been able to maximize reach and favorable feedback measured along many points, including, number of guests on the bus/semi-sub,nationalities present, ship name, demographics, languages, weather conditions of the day, etc,etc,etc,etc...including tips.

Weaving a successfully tested stand-up comedy script with the Island Tour script assured me a consistent good income as a Tour Guide. Laughter is such a powerful way to disarm spectators and lower their guards, as it's impossible to dislike anyone who genuinely makes you laugh consistently a few times. So I made my Island Tours into four and a half hour Comedy skits, with voice overs, character impersonations, voice effects in different ascents,and other misdirections,suggestions and showmanship. All which were customized and innovated upon daily to suit the unique group of cultures to which I was exposed. 
The environment offered me the unique venue to safely practice and perfect purpose driven language. Developing effective language patterns customized and designed to illicit very specific responses from the target audience and spectators. 

When I was given the books "Secrets of Contact Mindreading", "7 Deceptions",and "Psychological Subtleties" as gifts by a friend and magic bookshoppe dealer out of Texas,  I was set on Fire. Here were people achieving unprecedented results in their effects, magic and illusions by artfully weaving different arts together. Amazing ideas started to come to me in regards to how I myself could use this knowledge and these insights into my own performances. 
On the Island bus Tours I immediately started adding small Mentalism, and Mindreading set pieces such as mentioned and described in the books. Doing and practicing small, simple routines to perfection by rehearsing every day, and incrementally go building up experience and repertoire.

~"What successes did you Experience?"~

In the Atlantis Semi-Submarine where I was also it's narrator (where the spectators are five and a half feet below the waterline in the belly of a boat lined with windows staring out into the ocean), where I had a soundtrack to support my narration, I had many wonderful opportunities to practice and perfect Clinical Hypnotherapy type delivery of suggestion with the aim of helping guests that were secretly afraid of water or closed spaces their entire lives.  And after an hour long Marine Tour  found themselves walking away cured of a phobia that in the past robbed them of many great experiences, while leaving me with a wide smile and a $80 tip shoved into my hand.
Those little successes encouraged and inspired me to take Clinical Hypnosis to the streets after work, where I spent another several years helping crackheads and homeless experience varying degrees of success. 
I in turn got great experience practicing and honing the delivery of long progressive inductions, until I realized there was a faster way to do it.

On the Bus Tours I got a different environment to practice on and adapt to. It was a four and a half to five hour tour, with 3 to 4 stops during the Tour where people would get off the bus, walk around and get distracted then get back on the bus to head on over to the next stop,until we got back to the Cruise ship. On these tours I became conscious of the need to do re-inductions after everyone was back on the bus after each stop.
When I achieved a soon and sudden result while delivering a "Twisted Palm" I was left blown away and inspired some more. 
The person started to see the lines on their palms moving much sooner than I expected, and it left me with the revelation that indeed more could be done with less words.

It encouraged me to be more fearless in the experimentation of artificially producing trance phenomena. So I slowly started weaving suggestions for hallucinations on my tours on days where Nature did not cooperate with my script. 
So on those days where in places along our Tour, normally a dozen or so goats(or lizards) could be found and we arrive with a great tour group at that spot and behold...just one or two goats staring at us, totally contradicting and ridiculing the "Herds of Goats/Packs of Lizards" I mentioned we would be seeing 3 minutes earlier, i would then start to launch the relevant key words out, and play with time and silence ....and within a few minutes a few guests on the bus would start to see a few more goats appear that were not there before. Confidence is truly key, next comes showmanship.
It was soon after i was able to consistently deliver and achieve successful group hallucinations for Iguanas, birds, dogs, cats, centipedes and other creatures, plants, colors and things along the Tour route.
I was on a roll. I was hungry and curious to push the boundaries a bit more every day.

The first time I experimented with " for Andruzzi" was with a shore excursion manager for the "Ocean Village" cruise ship, who also happened to be a Nurse.
She let go a sudden shriek and puzzled look when she could not locate my pulse anymore, and after the Tour she had a great Tour Review faxed to the office, and later asked me if I ever thought of performing on the ship, though flattered but which due lack of repertoire at the time, I politely declined. 
These little successes kept boosting my confidence, and the increased confidence allowed my performances to appear more natural, effortless and spontaneous, further increasing effect.

Tour guiding filled all those learning & experience gaps in ways I was so fully satisfied that when it was time to move on I had a hard time letting go. You can only stay in school so long. There reaches the time you've got to take what you know and make the best of it, in the form you Intend it to Be. You beat Life into shape, instead of having life beat the enthusiasm and curiosity out of you. 

I took a career break from Tour Guiding to enter the Retail industry, where I got to practice using  hypnotic language within entirely new  Contexts and directions. But that;s another story.

~"Why Comedy Stage- Hypnosis? What do you want to Do with it, and Where do you want to take it?"~

I intend on contributing fun and laughter as tools towards removing fears and eliminating misconceptions about Hypnosis in my Community.!
No matter the form, that's basically it, in a nutshell.
Effectively de-mysteyfing the Art of Hypnosis  through exposure and awareness.

Presenting and performing squeaky clean family oriented shows filled with fun and laughter, aimed at provoking astonishment and thought, fascination and wonder. inspiration and respect towards the Art.

I intend on being the best of the best of the few and the proud in the Art like this hemisphere has never previously seen before. Pushing the limits of what is possible with its artful use in ways never imagined before. Producing results beyond what was once possible, and then in turn taking that to another level.

Seeing the invisible and doing the Impossible...
 



Requesting quotes for Private Performances or performance itinerary, Please Email: Giovanni.Thode1@gmail.com




 


 
 



    

Aruba's first Stage-Hypnosis&Mentalism Show in 11years.

Hypnotist Turns water Into Wine For Dry July.
Show Premiere Venue Sold out!

Comedy Hypnotist Giovanni Thodé lets people Experience water as their favorite alcoholic drink during Dry July!

Oranjestad, Aruba. April 22, 2013.
During July, many people are attempting to go without Alcohol for a Good cause.
Taking united action to be a part of the new National awareness campaign initiative effort towards lowering drink-and-drive deaths called:"Dry July."

To make things easier, Aruba's first Stage-Hypnotists in over 11years(Anyone still remembers Heroudini and Rostelli shows at all still?), Giovanni Thodé is offering to help anyone who attends his first show of July by hypnotizing them to get the same satisfaction and enjoyment out of a glass of water.
All the fun without the hangover, expense and health issues!  

After the show with just a few simple hypnotic & Imagination exercises, Giovanni will guide those wanting to take him up on the offer. He may even celebrate with a couple of water shots himself!

What about if you could turn around the dread of suffering all those annoying relatives you spend your year avoiding?
Imagine feeling good about being told you look a lot heavier this year!
 
With a technique anyone can learn in minutes and use all year long, Giovanni has also offered to teach you readers, listeners, viewers and anyone attending his shows,  how to embrace those crazy family conversations in a way whereby each word makes you feel happier and happier!

Challenging traditional hypnosis show's, Giovanni guarantees his shows are a memorable night for all the right reasons, highlighting the talents and creativity of the volunteers for big laughs rather than embarrassing them. 
  
No Two shows are ever the same!

Further Info at his website,blogs and Facebook Page.
 
To book an interview, or for further information, please email: giovanni.thode1@gmail.com or visit his Facebook Page.

High resolution photos are available on request.
Giovanni is also available for in-studio interviews and is happy to do an on-air demonstration.

    

Transforming Limiting Beliefs. One Thought at a Time.

~"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,..."~

-William Shakespeare 

 
~" And I gave my heart  to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly,...
I sought in my Heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their Life."~
-Proverbs of King Solomon

~"Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences(riddles & rhymes,entrenched maxims,dark proverbs), and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom King(Nebuchadnezzar) named Belteshazzar(master of magicians), now let Daniel be called, and he will reveal and uncover the Interpretation."~
-Book of Daniel 


~"There are questions you need to ask your Self. Fundamental questions that are not normally addressed in our Society or the current Educational Systems we are exposed to. There are exceptions.
The answers to those questions define your very Being and purpose in Life.  
Who are you? What is your Purpose for being here, in this life, in this shape, form and body? 
What is the form in which you need to express your Life's purpose?
At the deepest parts of you...will you Choose to believe in Freewill or Pre-destination?
 You will live whatsoever you Believe..., consciously or unconsciously."~
- Giovanni Thode
Contemporary Aruban Philospopher

~"For in much Wisdom is much grief, and he that increases in knowledge increases sorrow."~
-Proverbs of King Solomon

Becoming aware of the unconscious assembly of your Belief Systems

~"Concentration...is defined as the 'act or process of concentration...mental application', concentration enables us to observe the details of an idea."~
-Websters Dictionary

It is imperative that everything you say to your Self and the manner in which you say it...should be consciously designed to focus on increasing your own level of concentration.

I want to talk to you about Beliefs.
What we believe is not necessarily real.

Can we have a bit of honest and open conversations about what your Beliefs are in terms of Spirituality?
We all get stuck in our belief systems, however sensible we think they are.

To me...the New Age community and Traditional Religious establishments are particularly guilty of not testing or challenging what they claim.
It's all about questioning.
But there are beliefs we are not encouraged to question and these are often the beliefs upon which we are asked to make important Life's decisions.
These are the areas we should test and look for misinformation, because often we are making Life decisions(consciously, mostly unconsciously) based upon information we are getting from seeming authority figures representing different religious belief systems.

What does something like Psychic healing, or Crystal healing, healing through pharmaceutical chemical medicine, Reiki, Homeopathic/Natural Medicine, or Divine healing mean to you?
If you don't think it's just a question of you sort of buy into it and believe in it, and it sort of works because you are expecting it to?
Do you think it is genuinely MORE than that? How do you sort of grasp that?

Let those questions bounce around in there for awhile and come back to the answer to the question:
What Do YOU think about it...
 Yes, to you personally!
Our own opinions rarely swim close to the top, so become aware of the answers you are giving your Self.
Are the opinions, judgements and beliefs your very own? Beliefs you chose and decided for yourself? Or are they someone else s voices, opinions, judgements and beliefs being echoed and reflected through you?

Whether we believe in Alien abduction, psychic energy, crystal energy, talking to the Dead or Christianity, we are rightly or wrongly buying into a very powerful set of belief systems.
As intelligent human beings we should be prepared to question our beliefs, and the people who encourage us to make Life decisions based on information they give us.

Your world will behave in a way that confirms your beliefs about it!

Beliefs structure your experience of the world. Therefore the powerful need to take conscious direct control over what beliefs are bouncing around in your inner world, in your thoughts and Imaginations.

~"As a man thinketh, so he becomes"~
-Proverbs of King Solomon

You literally become and act in your daily Life what you habitually think about.
Your character becomes the complete sum of all your thoughts.
Sadly, for most of us this process happens very unconsciously, we have been programmed by exterior influences and behave as if we consciously chose and agreed with those beliefs. 
We just never stopped to question why we believe what we believe.

Consciously examining your Hidden Beliefs and Victim Acts.

You are already responsible for your Life, totally. Right Now.
The only question is, will you acknowledge it?

You are responsible for your Life no matter what you say about it. 
Becoming aware of what your mind invents to avoid responsibility tends to be a very uncomfortable process.

By the way, let us be clear on some facts, the words "Love", along with "Responsibility" are the least understood among all words in the Language, therefore, what you probably THINK those words mean ...they really Do Not mean. 

Redefine what things mean to you.

"Responsibility" is the willingness to be the author of all your experiences, even the ones you do not like.

 ~"We act not according to what things really are but according to what we Expect them to be, Believe them to be, and Imagine them to be."~
-Dr.Deepak Chopra 

While you are still stuck running stories and rackets in your head, that others are to blame for your life not working or turning out, in one way or the other, in one area or the other... then you have surrendered all power over your own Life to someone else. Someone else has control over your life, not You. 
You unconsciously put together a Victim act by blaming others, in one form or the other(most do so by complaining). This is at the true core of poor self-esteem. 
Develop an awareness of what Is your Victim story. 

Remember, it took years to put together a Victim story, it won't clear up instantly. 
It starts with the willingness to consider the possibility that it can clear up. 
As you examine the unconscious process by which you put together your beliefs, it is important to not direct any anger towards yourself. Becoming aware of how we have consciously or unconsciously lied to ourselves releases a lot of anger. 
Be patient with your Self.


Decide what to Focus on. What things Mean to You.

~"It is the Questions that drive us."~
-Morpheus. The Matrix

What are the areas in your Life in which you would like to experience a Transformation?

Who would you be if you Knew you could not Fail?

Who would you be if you knew no Limits?

Who would you be if everything was possible and nothing was impossible?

The clearer and more defined the questions you ask...the clearer and more defined shall be the Answers the Universe will return to you.

The most powerful life-altering decisions and agreements you could ever make...are the decisions and agreements you make with your Self.

Control the moment by moment manifestation of your reality and world, and the moment by moment operation of your Mind by consciously choosing...

A) Your Decisions about what to focus on.
B)  Your decisions about what things mean to you.
C) Your Decisions about what to do to create the desired outcome.

Or from,

A) Know where you want to Go!
B) Know where you are! 
C) Know how you're going to get there!

Or said another way,

A) Raise your standards
B) Change your Limiting Beliefs
C) Change your strategy

Consciously take time out to dwell and concentrate on these questions...
Observe what Answers emerge from deep within you...

Become aware of your inner dialogue. The narration of your Inner Voices. The stories you tell your self. What you say and the manner in how you say it to your Self.

Examine and Observe what comes up...
For some, this process may be a bit disturbing as they are forced to confront barriers they have created for themselves. Barriers that prevent them from experiencing and expressing their true inner beauty and Life's Purpose.

Choosing to Live a Purpose Driven Life!

~"Confusion is that wonderful state of mind before Clarity."~

As you start to become aware of your inner dialogue and voice-over narrations after some time meditating upon these questions...

You will start to become aware of your own resignations and cynicism. Your self-created barriers.
You become aware of how our lives are filled with contradictory desires every second of every day, and we experience only some of the contradictions as problems only some of the time.
Every now and then we in effect choose to experience a contradiction as a problem.

Consciously stop and examine the nature and origin of these inner contradictions, opinions, judgments, and beliefs that surface in you...

Allow yourself to become fully aware of how attached you are to your standards, ideals, opinions, beliefs and judgements. Notice what you are attached to and the degree to which you are attached.
When these attachments become apparent and known...we can begin to see the unconscious  process by which they were assembled and the degree to which they govern our daily lives, how they affect what we see and don't see, what we consider and what we fail to notice, what we are able to do and what seems beyond our reach.

Become aware of stories and thought-narrations your mind makes up that cause you to doubt, fear and disbelieve.
Become aware of your self made paradigms of failure and fear. 
Become aware of the all-pervasive filters that profoundly color(or obscure) our relationships with people, circumstances and even ourselves.
 
As you become aware of what is behind your beliefs, choices and actions... you gain an ongoing access to the power to choose Who you are and Who you can Be.
You are now left, perhaps for the first time... with a choice in what you Believe.

~"It is what you do that defines you."~
-The Dark Knight

Will you choose...right now...to take responsibility for your choices, and the thoughts you habitually entertain moment by moment and how your Life turns out in the end?

Who will you Choose to Be(come)?

Your actions are defined by who and what you Think You are! 

~"Let every man be fully persuaded and convinced in his own mind."~
-St.Paul

~"Your capabilities and skills are constant, and how much of them you use depends upon the Identity you have for yourself."~
-Dr.Joseph O Connor 

Choose to take a stand for values that will transform the world around you, the experience of the world as you know it.

Choose to relate your personal growth to the growth and evolution of your family, community, organization, Country and Planet.

 Choose to make it your objective to empower and enable people to generate and fulfill new possibilities.
Learn the art of consistently creating and providing Metaphors and Paradigms that produce extraordinary results in the lives of those around you!

Choose to Be the power of transformation that keeps people alive, real and present in a space of constant wonder, fascination and magic.

Take a stand to share yourself as a Miracle and you will experience a miraculous Life!

Every day choose to be the living manifestation of the experience of Love, Power, Fearlessness and Passion.

Be a Miracle. Be a Living Miracle.

Be free from constraints of your past. You are not your story, you are not your stuff. You are not your Past. History should not define the Present. You are responsible for the Mind that created the stuff, you are however not your stuff. 

You are a Miracle itself. You are a Love-Feast. You are a Miracle worker. You are a Warrior of the Light. You are a Channel for Higher Good.  You are the living incarnation of the most noble Ideals and Ideas.

You are a the carrier of Divine Language.
A Living Spark of God...able to create your moment by moment reality with your Imagination, and the power of your Words spoken forth...

Give Miracles to others and thereby experience a miraculous Life.

Be the Agent of Transformation that causes breakthroughs beyond predictable logic.

Do what it takes to make your Life work moment by moment, day by day!