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- A Mentalist Sent Me His Reel. None of the Audience Was Real. It took three and a half years to make a three and a half minute speaker reel. Here is how to tell whether the audience reacting in one is real.
- I Spent 20 Years Building This Keynote. TEDx Gave Me 18 Minutes. Kostya Kimlat's TEDx talk, How To Read Anyone In 6 Seconds, is live. Twenty years of a private keynote on reading people, condensed into 18 minutes.
- AI Is the Best Method Ever Built. It Still Can’t Create the Effect. Audiences feel the effect and never see the method. As AI handles more of the method, the way your people make customers feel is what sets your company apart.
- Let the Room Laugh at You First. Then They Listen. A Harvard psychologist explains why self-deprecating humor builds trust, and how leaders can use it to open up any room.
- Stop Convincing Your Customers. Let Them Convince Each Other. A magician's lesson from a crossover event: your customers convince each other better than you ever could.
- The Best Method Is the One Nobody Sees The best method is the one nobody sees. A magician's principle for leaders who want to make people feel something.
- Why AI Adoption Fails Great magicians know the secret to AI adoption: stop leading with the tool and start with the outcome your team actually wants.
- Why a Construction Worker Put His Phone Down Why my keynote held a room of pool builders and executives equally engaged for nearly two hours. The answer surprised me.
- What’s the One Sentence People Say About You After You Leave the Room? People summarize you in one sentence. Magicians call this the effect. Are you designing yours, or leaving it to chance?
- “Is Mentalism Real?” Answered Honestly by a Professional Mentalist A professional mentalist explains honestly whether mentalism is real, the ethics of performing mindreading, and why theatrical honesty matters.
- Why Preparing to Use AI Solved My Problem Without AI Preparing to prompt AI forced me to clarify my thinking so well, I solved the problem without it. The real power is in the clarity.
- The Day Your Microphone Betrays Your Brilliance A Yale study proves that poor audio tanks your credibility. Transform how you're perceived with simple fixes most professionals miss.
- Why Your Sales Team Keeps Losing to Companies That Shouldn’t Even Be in the Running Sales teams lose deals by focusing on product features (methods) instead of customer outcomes (effects). Learn how magicians create powerful perceptions to win consistently.
- The Executive’s Guide to Creating a Culture of Customer Astonishment Learn how magician Kostya Kimlat’s perception principles can help executives create a culture of customer astonishment that drives loyalty and growth.
- Why Financial Services Managers Need to Think Like Magicians Equip your branch managers with magicians' people-reading skills to transform customer service and boost retention.
- How to Win Over Any Stakeholder for Your Next Keynote Speaker Discover how to win approval for a keynote speaker by tailoring your pitch to each stakeholder's personality type for maximum buy-in.
- Transform Your Team into AI Champions Learn a magician’s proven framework to transform AI skeptics into enthusiastic adopters using personality-based communication strategies.
- How Attorneys Can Think Like A Magician™ Learn how attorneys can apply magicians’ perception principles to legal practice for better client relationships and practice management.
- Creating Astonishing Customer Experiences for Transformative Business Growth Learn how magician Kostya Kimlat can transform your business by teaching your team to create astonishing customer experiences that drive loyalty and growth.
- Step-by-Step: How Any Business Can Astonish Their Customers Go beyond “satisfaction” and aim for astonishment when taking care of your customers. Follow the three-step framework I use as a magician to deliver magic in your business.
- Stop Competing With AI. Think Like A Magician™ Instead. As AI masters knowledge work, discover why magicians’ skills in human connection and experience creation are becoming essential for business success in the age of artificial intelligence.
- Why You Need To Teach Your Team To Think Like A Magician™ Transform how your team creates customer experiences by teaching them the psychological secrets magicians use to amaze their audiences.
- Why Pro Athletes Are Obsessed With Magicians (And What CEOs Need To Learn From Both) Athletes love magic because it mirrors elite performance: mastery through practice, reading people, and creating peak moments.
- Why Anticipation Creates More Powerful Experiences Than Surprise Discover why surprise isn't the key to creating extraordinary experiences for your customers - and what actually drives deeper engagement.
- Transform Your Company Using The Magical ‘Power of Moments’ Learn how peak moments shape customer loyalty—transform routine service into memorable experiences using psychology secrets from the stage.
- Watch: My Magic Show at Christner’s Prime Steak & Lobster Have I done magic for you at Christner’s over the last 18 years? I’m preparing for our next season of dinner shows and reflecting on this amazing partnership. Since 2006, I've been performing magic at Christner's Prime Steak & Lobster, but this is the first time we’ve made a video about it!
- What Every Tech Trade Show Booth Needs Engage your audience and create lasting connections at tech trade shows with tailored magic and personalized interactions.
- UCF Alum Turned Keynote Speaker & Magician UCF’s Pegasus Magazine recently featured my motivational speaking and magician career in its magazine.
- Sales Kickoff Speakers: A Guide Looking for the perfect sales kickoff speaker? This guide explains how to find a top motivational keynote speaker for your sales kickoff event.
- The Magician’s Formula: 4 Tools to Create Legendary Customer Experiences Magicians are masters of customer perception. Learn their 4 techniques to get inside customers’ heads, exceed expectations, and create legendary service experiences.
- How I Became a Virtual Magician Doing Online Magic Shows From canceled gigs to Zoom magic shows — here’s my unexpected story to becoming a virtual magician.
- How Hairstylists & Image Professionals Think Like Magicians Magician and keynote speaker shares 3 tips from his presentation to 1000 stylists on how they can think like magicians to better understand clients, manage perceptions, and grow.
- Magician Keynote Speaker — Why Your Corporate Team Needs To Think Like A Magician™ As The Business Magician, I combine magic, psychology & motivation in my keynotes to teach perception management - helping teams connect, communicate & achieve extraordinary results.
- Healthcare Speaker: Secrets from a Magician for Medical Innovation Learn how healthcare providers can "Think Like A Magician™" to transform patient relationships and perceptions through improved communication and understanding.
- Think Like A Magician™ — But Don’t Trick People Learn how to Think Like A Magician™ to understand human psychology, boost empathy and communication, and positively transform how people perceive the world.
- The 15 ‘Muggle’ Jobs That Need to Think Like A Magician™ — And Why What can teachers and other careers learn from magicians? Adopting a magician's mindset can help anyone communicate more effectively and creatively solve problems.
- I’m a Magician Speaker - How I Can Transform Your Company Learn how thinking like a magician can transform your company's culture, shift perceptions and morale, improve communication and problem-solving, and streamline processes.
- A Magician’s Approach to Reducing Wait Times For Your Business Take a page from a magician's book of secrets and discover how to reduce wait times in your business. In this blog post, we'll explore the psychology of waiting, share practical strategies, and provide actionable insights that will leave you inspired to create extraordinary customer experiences.
- Elevate Your Performance–Two Magician-Approved Strategies to Level Up Your Job Skills Join me as I reveal my magician's dual-strategy approach to mastering job skills, turning ordinary work into extraordinary performances.
- Practice Like A Performer: A Magician’s Perspective on Your 9-to-5 Discover how to transform your everyday job into a journey of growth and development with the unconventional wisdom of a practicing magician.
- Job Search Like A Magician: 3 Secrets to Astonish Employers Here’s the secret I want to share with you: the principles of magic can also work wonders for individuals like you in your quest for a new job or career advancement. In this article, I’ll unveil a few magician’s secrets that will help you work your magic and elevate your career.
- Reduce Your “Time to Magic” At Work—And Serve Customers Like A Magician Discover the secrets to reducing the "Time to Magic" in your business and creating extraordinary customer experiences. Learn from the world of magic and apply principles that captivate and delight audiences effortlessly.
- Your Barista is a Mentalist Discover the hidden skills of your barista that make them akin to mentalists in predicting your tipping behavior. Learn the power of observation, empathy, and perceptual transactions to enhance your understanding of others and elevate your communication skills.
- Perception is My Obsession As A Magician—It Should Be Yours, Too Ever wondered how a magician captivates their audience? How they can keep you guessing, mystified, and engaged for hours on end? The answer lies in an all-powerful concept—perception.
- Trade Show Magician - Maximize Your Convention ROI With Magic Discover how incorporating captivating magic performances can transform your convention experience and maximize your return on investment (ROI). Stand out from the competition, engage attendees, and leave a lasting impression that generates leads and boosts brand recognition.
- The Invisible Thread Binding Ukraine and Me I find myself caught between two worlds—my comfortable life as a corporate magician in the United States and the heartbreaking war tearing through my birthplace of Ukraine.
- My Favorite Type of Magic to Perform Magicians and lovers of magic might be surprised to find that my favorite type of magic to perform is not actually card magic—but theatrical mentalism.
- Virtual Magic Shows: A Guide Discover the secrets to planning, executing, and maximizing the impact of virtual magic shows with this comprehensive guide, featuring valuable insights and practical tips from a renowned virtual magician.
- Corporate Magicians: A Guide Corporate magicians are highly skilled entertainers who perform magic that supports the goals of a corporate event. Whether it’s a company event, a conference, or a special occasion, a good corporate magician can bring high energy, fun, and excitement to the entire audience.
- Why The Virtual Magic Show is (Surprisingly) Here To Stay Even as the world starts to return to normal and the acute phase of the pandemic comes to an end, virtual magic shows are here to stay.
- Virtual Mentalism Shows: 5 Reasons Why They’ll Psych Up Your Employees If you’re looking to add some excitement and novelty to your virtual team-building events, consider booking a virtual mentalism show. Here are 5 reasons why.
- Announcing OrlandoMagicians.com I’m excited to announce the launch of orlandomagicians.com, a centralized home on the internet for finding the best magicians in Orlando! As the CEO of See Magic Live, a company that helps you book top magicians nationwide, I understand the importance of finding the right performer for any occasion.
- Combatting Hunger with a Virtual Magic Show: On TV with Jason Guy I'm preparing for my virtual magic show to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. This morning I got to speak with our local news reporter, Jason Guy, and I got to do a little magic for him and tell him all about the show.
- 7 Questions to Ask BEFORE You Book a Virtual Magic Show (How to Choose a Magician) So you’ve decided to host a virtual magic show for your company’s employees or clients. You have realized through your research that magic shows can work really well on Zoom, where everyone feels the thrill of a first-row seat and the potential to participate.
- 5 Secrets to a Successful Virtual Take Your Child to Work Day Five tips for a virtual Take Your Child to Work Day, so you feel prepared, your team feels supported, and your team’s kids feel inspired.
- What is the Right Audience Size for a Virtual Magic Show? In the last few months, I've performed for groups of 10, as well as several thousand. While there's no limit, the number of people does influence the KIND of interactions I get to have.
- The Best Platform to Host a Virtual Magic Show? This week, I’m performing for Google employees, and I’ll be hosting the virtual magic show using Google Meet. When I performed for Cisco, we used WebEx. So many virtual platforms! Which one is best for you?
- Zoom Magic Shows: Behind the Scenes Can I really do all this in Zoom? It's one of my favorite questions. I recently had someone watch our main promotional Zoom magic show video showing how the show looks like.
- Online Magic Shows for Businesses I’ve performed countless Virtual Magic Shows since March 2020, so I wanted to make a video to explain what an online magic show is and how it can benefit your business.
- Strategic Partnerships To Grow Your Business in the Digital Economy The post-COVID virtual/digital economy is opening new doors for businesses and individuals willing to adapt and embrace change. Strategic partnerships with other businesses can help our organizations, employees, contractors and communities.
- Virtual Magic Show and Dinner Delivered to Orlando and Tampa I’m excited to announce a brand new partnership with the premiere catering company in Orlando, Puff ‘n Stuff Catering. They’re going to deliver their amazing meals and I’m performing my virtual magic show to bring joy, wonder, and togetherness to your home in Central Florida.
- Why You Want To Watch The New Season of "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” is probably your favorite magic show on TV and it’s my favorite TV show, period. Thanks to the show, just like people know there are different genres of music and different styles of comedians, now they know there are different genres and styles of magic.
- Today, I Teach Keynote Speakers to Thrive as Virtual Keynote Speakers Today, I’ll be sharing my secrets of virtual presenting with other professional keynote speakers at the invitation of the National Speakers Association.
- The Show Must Go On Kostya Kimlat’s in-person magic events disappeared during the lockdown faster than you can say, “abracadabra.” Learn how Kostya pivoted to Virtual Magic Shows in this story by J Life Magazine.
- Virtual Magic Show for Client Engagement and Appreciation Engaging Kostya to present a virtual magic show for their clients gave this business the opportunity to create a unique customer experience.
- The Coronavirus Does NOT Mean Curtains For Artists If you’re an artist, you have the choice to stop thinking like a starving artist. If you want your art and business to flourish, stop thinking like an artist and think instead like a small business owner.
- Virtual Magic on TV News via Zoom This week I made an appearance on FOX 35 News in Orlando, using Zoom to connect with host, David Martin and amaze him with a magic trick.
- How Two Businesses Formed A Strategic Partnership To Engage Their Customers Smart business owners are using this time to create engaging customer experiences that would have never happened before. Kostya’s virtual magic show is the gift they get to give their community, while building their business.
- Virtual Magic Shows: A Message For My Colleagues Kostya Kimlat is leading the way in the new medium of virtual magic shows. Here is his advice for his colleagues.
- Virtual Magic Show For Online Client Appreciation By creating a virtual experience that your clients can experience in the comfort of their own home, your business is fostering the client relationship by gifting a unique, personal and memorable experience.
- Redefining The Purpose Of Your Business During A Pandemic In my keynotes for business organizations, I speak about methods, results and effect. As the world is transformed by this global pandemic, I wanted to use my own principles to ensure I’m on the right path and that I remain effects-focused.
- This Franchise Used A Virtual Magic Show To Engage Their Franchisees Across The Globe If your franchise is looking for a way to engage your people, consider hosting a virtual magic show or a virtual keynote speaker for a unique and powerful experience.
- How I've Pivoted My Business From Physical to Virtual I'm thankful for the opportunity to embrace change head on. I was able to pivot my business by going back to the core of what I do: engaging and entertaining. And by finding my bigger purpose: bringing people relief during a difficult time.
- Embracing Digital Leadership As a facilitator of live events, I’ve never embraced the digital world. Now, having the choice to do that or do nothing, I’ve decided to pivot.. In this time of “physical distancing,” it’s time for “digital socialization” and a new era of “digital leadership.”
- Questions About Perception And Change I’m obsessed with perception. It’s what I speak about, it’s what I think about. The following questions are perceptual. I don’t have any answers, yet. I hope to get the answers over the next few days, weeks, years and decades. As I do, I’ll share them with you.
- Perceiving Your Work-Life In A Time of Crisis: Diving In or Tuning Out This is an unprecedented time to reconsider, re-evaluate and re-think the relationship you have with your business. If you’ve taken care of the fundamental physiological and safety needs to get you through the Covid-19 crisis, you now have a choice of what to do with your time.
- New Orlando Magic Show Launch A Sold Out Success The Orlando magic show, 52! A Magic Show of Infinite Impossibilities, presented exclusively inside a private room at Capa Steakhouse & Bar at Four Seasons Resort Orlando at WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort, launched with two sold-out shows on December 17 and 19, 2019.
- New Magic Show at Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort I’m excited to announce the launch of a brand new magic show, presented exclusively at Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort. 52!
- How a Young Magician Became the World's Most Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick is a “white hat” hacker who abides by the law and breaks into computer systems to help corporations and organizations figure out the weak spots in their security.
- Hosting an event with little or no alcohol? Here’s the kind of entertainment that “sober curious” people go crazy for. if you’re hosting an event and looking for entertainment that will delight both drinkers and the newly minted group of “sober curious,” interactive, strolling, close-up magic is the greatest shared experience you can create for your audience.
- This College Footballer Mastered Misdirection (A Magician's Perspective) North Texas punt returner Keegan Brewer is a magician—a “sleight-of-body” magician. Here’s how he successfully used principles of magic to misdirect his audience (the opposing team) so that he could score a touchdown.
- My Life Story in Print (So Far) I recently had the opportunity to sit down with J Life Magazine, which was interested in telling my story from my childhood in the Soviet Union to my career and the Penn & Teller stage. Here's the story in full, told by the talented Allison Slater Tate.
- Healthcare CFO talks about hiring keynote speaker, Kostya Kimlat After hiring Kostya Kimlat as a keynote speaker for her group for a third year, Karen Fauer, of UltraGroup Healthcare, discusses her expectations and reflections on his keynote presentations.
- Why I Lie To Children Last week, I spent a couple of hours lying to children. It’s the most beautiful lie I can create and I’m hoping they believe it completely.
- 3 Strategies to a Successful Trade Show Exhibit I’m a professional speaker who became “the business magician” after the focus of my work became trade shows, conventions and sales meetings. Here are my thoughts and tips for any company exhibiting at a trade show.
- The Best Keynote Speakers Share This Purpose The purpose of my keynote speech is to do what Seth Godin describes: “ to communicate emotion. To create tension. To bring change.” This quote comes from a great interview in Forbes magazine by Michael Solomon.
- The Perception of Magic in Culture is Changing The zeitgeist is changing. In today’s social world magic is cool and popular. And in my real-world performances people are approaching me before I approach them, asking to see some close-up magic. I think what's most important is that people are starting to understand that magic takes skill.
- Lifestyle Changes That Last, Like Magic Practicing magic for 20 years has taught me that practice never ends. You're constantly refining ideas, perfecting techniques. The levels of learning make themselves very clear.
- How To Catch a Playing Card In Mid Air Want to learn to catch a playing card from a deck of playing cards that are flying by? I'm happy to teach you. Anyone can do this. It just takes practice. I decided to reveal the method myself because I think "revealed" videos that are prevalent on YouTube are just terrible.
- Fool Us: No Tricks, I Just Do It In Season 2 of "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" I fooled Penn & Teller and made Penn pretty mad about it. The performance video went viral and made a huge difference in my life. Invited back for Season 5, I decided to do something different. Here’s the full video.
- After retiring this trick for a decade, I brought it back for Penn & Teller Without giving away too much, let me tell you a little bit about the trick I decided to perform this time, on Season 5 of “Fool Us.” The effect is catching a selected playing card while the cards are falling down in a cascade that magicians call a "dribble." It's the hardest trick I do.
- Lions, Tigers & Siegfried...Oh My! On the second of the three days I spent in Las Vegas with my wife Amy prepping for my second “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” appearance, we found ourselves with a free afternoon.
- How A Magician Prepares for Penn & Teller: Fool Us While viewers of “Fool Us” see 5-8 minutes of a particular magician’s performance, let me tell you about the 3 days each of us spends in Las Vegas getting ready for the showtime/showdown with Penn & Teller. Our first morning began bright and early, with filming for the “bio package.”
- If You Can Think This Way, You Can Think Like A Magician™ Because we all perceive the world differently, we need—now more than ever—to better understand each other in order to communicate more effectively. This skill of understanding each other is one magicians have honed for centuries.
- How Fooling Penn and Teller Changed My Life Performing for Penn and Teller changed my life in one way I never expected. Up until then I had assumed I was going to remain, for the rest of my life, an anonymous, local magician. And this wasn’t a bad thing.
- Back with Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 5! I’m beyond excited to share with you that I will be back on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” this year, performing on the fifth season of their amazing show. The video of my first performance has almost 10 million views and nearly 4,000 comments.
- Want to Wow at Work? Learn to Think Like A Magician™ I’ve been a magician for over 20 years, specializing in teaching businesses the secrets of magic and how those insights can improve communication, sales and client relationships. As a speaker, trainer and facilitator, I teach that magic is a rich source of thinking tools.
- If You're In Sales, You Need To Think Like A Magician™ A sale, like a great magic trick, occurs inside the customer’s mind. And it is there where it is replayed, remembered and redefined continually after. The mind is the final battleground.
- When Customer Service Is A Crime When an automotive department employee received a bad performance review by her employers at the Walmart in Sanford, Florida, she created a plan to boost her ratings—by giving customers free merchandise.
- Senior Class Students Think Like Magicians To Prank Their School Magicians don't make the impossible possible; they just create the illusion that they do.
- A Close-Up Magician Is Easing the Tension Between North and South Korea When the leaders of North and South Korea came together today after their meeting on denuclearization, they brought in a magician to “break the ice and get everyone laughing.”
- A Magician's Take on ABC's 'Deception' Pilot Law enforcement and magicians have a long history. There's the CIA Manual of Trickery & Deception which earned magician John Mulholland $3,000 for writing during the Cold War.
- How To Read People Like A Magician Many people have taken personality tests to tell them who they are. But very few people can instantly assess the personality style of someone they meet. Thanks to this magical system, you’re now equipped to do just that.
- Why Your Pet Can Help Your Career Did you know that research shows that your pet's presence can influence not just you, but other people's perceptions of you? As a business speaker and magician, I am fascinated by the way our perceptions are shaped in our personal and professional lives.
- Overcome Sales Objections by Turning Your Company's Flaws into Features Overcoming objections in sales and business can be tough... I have to handle concerns and objections often just by virtue of being a magician. So, what's the solution? Transform what people perceive as your company's FLAWS into FEATURES.
- The One Question That Saved This Company From Losing My Business I was trying to get electronic payments out to my partners and vendors before the end of the year. What should have been an easy process turned into a nightmare. When I first signed up with my financial institution five years ago, the charm of a small, hometown bank drew me in.
- A Magician's Look at Retail Marketing (Manipulation) As consumers, it’s important to keep these perceptual tricks of the trade in the back of our minds when we shop. As business owners, operators or managers, it is equally important to know when to use them and when to avoid them.
- 3 Ways to Maximize How Customers Perceive Your Brand This post is about how organizations can create experiences for their customers that are positive, engaging and align with their brand. The three strategies I share can be applied by any business that wishes to create a more engaging customer experience.
- The Most Social Audience at a Keynote Speech Every speaker loves audience participation and social engagement. It's wonderful to get off the stage and see that people are talking about your presentation online, sharing pictures and quotes from your talk.
- In Memoriam: Tim Glancey Let me tell you about an amazing friend. Tim Glancey put me on the path to success. He helped me develop my magic business in a way I never imagined.
- How Marshall McLuhan Impacted the Medium of Magic I talk to business people about the role of perception in communication and interpersonal relationships. In performing magic, I bring about an awareness of how our perceptions are impacted, affected and easily misled and self-manipulated.
- Orlando Magician on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" This morning I got to accompany my friend, Jimmy Ichihana, as he appeared on CW's Orlando affiliate station and amazed news reporter, Jason Guy. You can see the video of him astonishing Jason with a spectacular card trick below.
- Why I teach magic I'm back at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia for my twelfth or thirteenth summer teaching at Tannen's Magic Camp. It's exactly as geeky and amazing as you imagine it to be. One week of the year, magicians from across the US come together to teach the future stars of magic.
- The Importance of Social Proof Over the years I neglected to ask my clients for testimonials. I was there to engage the audience! I thought the only proof necessary of a job well done was when my clients hired me back a second time. But you and I know that nothing can help us make a buying decision easier than social proof.
- Scientists Explain Why People Learn More When They're Emotional Scientists at NYU have proven what magicians naturally discover after performing a few shows—that laughter, surprise and joy create positive emotions that make occasions extra-memorable.
- Can Watching Magic Tricks Transform Your Health? Watching magic makes you happier and healthier. As long as it’s astonishing and awe-inspiring magic. That’s what science is showing in the new Parade article, “Feeling Awe May Be the Secret to Health and Happiness.”
- Can you transform customer perceptions? As a magician, I specialize in surprises: creating unexpected experiences and memorable moments. While the unexpected is a great foundation to my art, it is a challenge for my business. People want to buy what they know; what they have seen, heard and touched.
- What is your perception of money? In four fascinating interviews, this Esquire article showed how four different men in four different economic standings thought and acted about money, retirement and taxes.
- Perception Wins Elections Perception is instrumental to politics and storytelling is a powerful tool used to transform our perceptions. In an election, storytelling and narrative can be the decisive factor in voter turnout and decision making.
- How a speaker tricks an audience into paying attention As a speaker, when I walk off stage, I enjoy hearing audience members talk about what stuck out for them or what lessons they took away.
- This business is blatantly advertising their customer service training. A new franchise of Wahlburgers is opening up a block away from where I live in Downtown Orlando and last night there was a sign on their door the likes of which you don’t often see. “Training in Progress. Look forward to serving you soon.”
- Live in Vegas with Penn & Teller On Sunday, November 15th, I received my prize for successfully fooling Penn & Teller on their TV show, “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” I got to perform at their live show in Vegas. And not just perform, but close their show.
- How learning magic helps CEOs run their businesses In a weekly interview series with business leaders, the New York Times posted a video of Daniel Lubetzky, C. E. O. of KIND, where he talks about his early influence of learning magic and how it impacted him as an executive.
- Watch the Kardashians magically vanish I just broke my cardinal rule for doing magic on TV. Don’t do anything new you just came up with last night. But this… I couldn’t resist. Here’s how I made the Kardashians vanish for news anchor John Brown, of FOX. He asked for it.
- “Did you really get Penn high?” And Other Frequently Asked Questions I’m overwhelmed by the positive response to my performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. I’ve received emails and calls from around the world from friends and clients and have been following the fascinating online comments and posts from strangers on YouTube, reddit and twitter!
- The time I made Penn mad (and Teller giggle)
- Why I Performed for Penn & Teller At the beginning of this year I received an e-mail invitation to perform on Penn & Teller’s hit TV show on the CW network, “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” A dozen thoughts went through my head. How do I respond? What do I perform?
- A Surprise Package from the Carbonaro Effect There’s an awesome magic show on TV called The Carbonaro Effect. I tweeted about it because I think it’s great. TruTV responded back and 5 days later I received an awesome gift in the mail. The gift was a sweet, reversible sweatshirt. And it came with this clever card.
- Appearing on Penn & Teller: Fool Us Tune in to CW on August 17 at 8pm to see me perform for the Las Vegas duo, Penn & Teller. Here is the trailer where I get to introduce this amazing duo onto the stage.
- Welcome I’m a magician and speaker. Born in Kiev, Ukraine and living in Orlando, Florida. I speak at corporate events, entertain at social gatherings, and specialize in interactive magic. I have shown executives, managers and employees at GE, Apple, SYSCO and NASA how to Think Like A Magician™.
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