Who is worth your time, and who is selling you a feeling
Plain reviews of personal development teachers and their programs: what they teach, what it costs, who it suits.
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- The teachers of The Secret, twenty years onWho they were, what they sell now, and what the film left out.
- Your Wish Is Your CommandOur top free pick, and the record on its author.
- Joe DispenzaThe teacher most people find after The Secret.
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Teacher profiles
- Bob ProctorThe elder statesman of The Secret, and the bridge from Napoleon Hill to the modern law of attraction industry.
- John AssarafThe vision board story from The Secret, now repackaged as brain training.
- Esther Hicks (Abraham-Hicks)The source most law of attraction teachers quietly borrow from.
- Jack CanfieldThe Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator, and the most practical teacher in The Secret.
- Joe VitaleA copywriter turned law of attraction author, best known for bringing ho'oponopono to a wide audience.
- Mike DooleyThe man behind 'thoughts become things' and the daily Notes from the Universe emails.
- Michael Bernard BeckwithThe spiritual voice of The Secret and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center.
- Lisa NicholsThe most powerful speaker in The Secret, now a teacher of speaking and personal transformation.
- Joe DispenzaNot in The Secret, but the teacher most people find next. Meditation presented with brain scans.
- Tony RobbinsThe biggest name in the business. Stadium events, state change and decades of bestselling books.
- Grant CardoneThe 10X man. Sales training, a large conference and a real estate investment business.
- Alex HormoziThe current favourite of small business owners. Gives away most of his teaching free.
- Russell BrunsonCo-founder of ClickFunnels and the internet's most prolific teacher of sales funnels.
- Rhonda ByrneThe television producer who made The Secret and turned the law of attraction into a household phrase.
- Napoleon HillThe author of Think and Grow Rich, the book nearly every teacher on this site started with.
Program reviews
- Your Wish Is Your CommandKevin Trudeau's fourteen-session training. Free.
- Global Information Network (GIN)The paid club behind it. $1,650 to join, $150 a month.