Allan Hunkin... Life Enhancement Expert

Allan Hunkin read his first self improvement book when he was eight years old. It was called "How to Hypnotize Yourself" and he has joked often that it must of worked because he spent the next twenty years "un-hypnotizing himself." 

Thus began a life long passion for making it better for people and the world.

In order to call yourself a Life Enhancement Expert you must have had a life that needed enhancing and Allan has certainly had that... the good, the bad, the ugly, and... the beautiful. 

Allan grew up on a farm in rural Manitoba. He was driving farm vehicles by the age of six. He knows about dirt... about tools and machinery, growing things, and how to wait for the harvest. He knows that John Deer is more than a logo on a baseball cap.

Allan was adopted at birth. He knows about family, love and connection. It took a long time to understand and accept the dynamics of disconnection. 

Allan left home when he was sixteen. He knows about making his way in the world.

Allan went to college.  He knows how to think, rethink and then think again.

Allan was married when he was nineteen and remained married for nearly twenty years, he knows how to be married and stay married and he knows how get divorced and still be good friends.

Allan had dozens of jobs supporting himself and his young wife and son, he knows how to work hard and figure out things he hasn't done before. He knows what it's like to have the electricity turned off... more than once.

Allan is a dad to his son Larry who is now in his 30's. He knows how to be a parent. He's learned  how to stop giving answers to questions people hasn't even thought up yet.

Allan lost his father when he was eighteen, three buddies in separate accidents by the time he was twenty-one and his brother in law by the time he was twenty-three. He knows about grief and the recovery that is available beyond it.

Allan has created from scratch, built and sold five businesses, he knows the challenges of the entrepreneur and small business owner.

Allan has been a consultant, counselor, coach, and advisor, he knows how to ask the questions that get results.  He knows how to wait for the answers.

Allan is a sport and airshow pilot. He knows how to function upside down, and backwards. In 1985 he was chosen to lead the Northern Lights, a six plane flight demonstration team.

Allan has invested over thirty years in the study of psychology, sociology and spiritually. He holds credentials in five different models and has training in several more.

Allan has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada, he has been to Europe, Asia and operated a business in the Caribbean.

Allan has been rich, poor, broke and really broke, he knows how to survive on nothing.

Allan almost died twice as a child. He is a cancer and diabetes survivor...  He knows about learning to live healthily. 

Allan is friendly, personable and easy to know. He has interviewed some pretty cool people including Kenny Loggins, Alan Alda, Dennis Weaver and Marlo Thomas.

Allan is a professional speaker and seminar leader. He has written two non fiction books, and a screenplay which was considered a serious work by Tom Cruise and Martin Sheen.

Allan has been using a computer to write and create since 1985. He has been on the Internet since 1992 and broadcasting Internet Radio since 1997.  He has a technical mind and has designed and implemented software systems.

Testing shows that Allan is a double right brain thinker, able to "see" and understand concepts very quickly and able to "feel" what the consequences of those concepts are to people around them.

Allan has been taught personally by such renowned leaders as Chuck Spezzano, Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley, John Bradshaw and Don Beck.

Allan Hunkin hosts several radio programs including "Wake Up to Success", “How Good Can You Stand It?" and "Written Voices" Over three million people have listened to the 500 Interviews and Audio Showcases Allan has done with guests from around the world.

Allan is listed in the book “Self Improvement: The Top 101 Experts That Help Us Improve Our Lives” as a thought leader, change agent and social scientist. 

"Allan Hunkin is a lamplighter of our time"
                                  John Bradshaw

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