Richard Nicholls is a practicing UKCP registered psychotherapist with a diploma in hypnotherapy awarded by the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis and a hypno-psychotherapy diploma through the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. He has also been given a Hypnos Award by the National Society of Hypnosis, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness and has held various directorial positions within his field. He has always had a great enthusiasm for personal development and started his podcast in 2010 to help show people that just because they've always been a certain way, doesn't mean that's how they will always be.