048: The power of NLP with Mike Bundrant

Mike Bundrant is the author of Your Achilles Eel: Discover and Overcome the Hidden Cause of Negative Emotions, Bad Decisions and Self-Sabotage. He is also co-founder of the iNLP Center. With students in 63 countries, iNLP Center offers online certification in neuro-linguistic programming, life coaching and hypnotherapy.    Links: http://inlpcenter.org https://www.facebook.com/inlpcenter https://www.amazon.com/Your-Achilles-Eel-Self-Sabotage-Self-Esteem-ebook/dp/B00H6AIAFO/ Transcript: Welcome to The Art of Living big. My name is Betsy Pake entrepreneur, author and personal success coach. This is the show that brings you stories and small ideas to help you live a big life. I hope this once a week podcast will inspire you, motivate you and encourage you to think differently about what could be possible for your life. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let’s go live big. Hey, welcome to another show of the art of living big. I am here today with my friend Mike bun grant. Hey, Mike. Hey, Betsy. How you doing? Hey, I’m good. Thanks for coming on the show today. I’m really excited to get to talk and pick your brain and share a little bit today. Yeah, me too. And thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. Yeah, tell everybody a little bit about yourself and what you do, and then we’ll get into it. Okay, my name is Mike, Don drent. And my wife hope and I run the eye NLP Center, which is an online certification center, we teach neuro linguistic programming. And we have a life coach certification or about to come out with a hypnosis practitioner certification. So it’s essentially an online school that offers online programs blended with live online training. For people who want to learn these skills. We have students in 63 countries. That’s crazy. It is I know, we started in 2011. And I remember when the month we got our first student after putting together just our practitioner training, it took a year to put that just that program together. Yeah. And it was just a thrill to get, you know, our first student to now. Yeah, six years later, we are just rockin. We have students from all over the world, we have a lot going on a very engaging community and a lot of fun. Yes, it’s an awesome community. And I took your training, which is how you and I connected, which was awesome. So let’s talk about what NLP really is. And I will tell you, like how I found it, and I think I had heard about it like in college. Right? You know, so, I mean, I graduated from college. I don’t know 25 years ago or something. But yeah, yeah. But I remember like learning a little bit about that. And, and then last summer, I read a book, I’ve heard about it again, and I thought I want to look into that I read a book and then found you guys and took your training and it was amazing. And the community’s amazing and the online training that continues is amazing. But tell everybody what NLP really is. Okay. It stands for neuro linguistic programming and I know that doesn’t necessarily help with it because it’s not the best name in the world. But NLP there is a group of students and professors at the University of Santa Cruz in the early 1970s, who were into psychology Gestalt therapy they were they sort of formed this I don’t k...