Author · Narrator · App developer · Former actor
I've spent twenty years making hypnosis and meditation programs that help people sleep, relax and change their habits. They started on iTunes and grew into audiobooks, apps and a Prime Video channel. Now I'm on the road with Later Abroad, finding out what a brighter next chapter looks like.
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I'm testing what it takes to live, work and travel abroad, starting in the Philippines. Each week I share the real numbers and the real neighborhoods, so you can decide whether a move like this could work for you.
Work
Everything below links to the store or show where it lives. For hypnosis programs and support, visit Motivational Hypnotherapy.
Written and narrated · on Audible
On the App Store since 2010
Host · guest
About
I started as an actor in Los Angeles, doing theater with Sacred Fools and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. That's where I learned that a voice can move people.
I played Gunseng Harkonnen, on camera and in voice, in the game Emperor: Battle for Dune. I also acted in the series Divergence and wrote 74 episodes of Vern Fonk Vision. Performing led me to hypnosis, which I started practicing in 2006.
Digital felt like the future, so I put my programs on iTunes, released my first App Store apps in 2010 and started my own publishing company in 2011. I've worked closely with Audible ever since, including a five-year exclusive starting in 2014.
Today the catalog includes more than 600 audiobooks, apps like Weight-Loss Hypnosis and MindfulSleep, and the Sleep Sounds & Meditation channel on Prime Video.
These days I build with AI, rebuilding my apps and producing voice work with new tools. I'm also documenting a new chapter on Later Abroad: traveling, working and exploring, starting in the Philippines.
2001
Emperor: Battle for DunePlayed Gunseng Harkonnen2006
Starts practicing hypnosisPrograms go out on iTunes2010
First App Store appsIncluding Weight-Loss Hypnosis2010–2013
Vern Fonk VisionWriter, 74 episodes2011
Founds his publishing companyAudiobooks, apps and video under one roof2012
DivergenceActor, 2 episodes2014
Audible exclusiveFive-year partnership2017
Prime Video channel launchesSleep Sounds & Meditation; also writes Radiant Health & Strength2026
Later AbroadTravel, work, explore, starting in ManilaContact
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