I attended a workshop with Paul and Mary Blackburn with 70 other attendees and decided to write this review to share my experiences. Should you attend?
A good question to ask. After all, you want to know if he’s the real deal. You know – can he actually help you during these challenging times?
Because from what I’ve seen in Australia, there are plenty of legitimate trainers out there. Then there are those rogue fly-by-night operators who leave us with a sour taste.
That in itself tarnishes the reputation of those doing it properly. Unfortunately, cutting corners happens in every industry known to man.
So I’m going to provide both my opinion and experience with this trainer.
Paul Blackburn Review
I attended Paul’s 3-day weekend workshop some time ago. I was certainly one of the youngest, if not the youngest in the audience. In fact, the average age was closing on 50 years old.
Since that workshop, I went on to consume a lot (and I mean a lot…) of personal development materials. Hundreds of books, plenty of YouTube and a few dozen conferences and workshops.
Why is this important? Because I can fairly compare Paul’s offering from the others in the market, instead of saying “Yeah it was a great weekend”.
The weekend consisted of:
- Emotional healing from past wounds
- Getting our mind right about money
- Touched on the law of attraction (a bit voodoo these days)
- How to better deal with challenging people
As I was new to the entire self-help world, I did find it challenging to properly assimilate the information. Then again, I’ve attended Tony Robbins which was more challenging.
The weekend workshop
Now the million-dollar question is: Should you attend his workshop?
It really depends on your experience. If this is the first time you’re going into a training or personal development program like this, then you’ll get a lot out of it.
Paul Blackburn has certainly geared his training towards beginner and intermediate level attendees. In fact, most of his life coaches (he has dozens now since 2011) started out just like you.
However, if you’ve already done quite a bit of NLP and other training, then you probably won’t find as much value. That isn’t to say that Paul is bad, but you may not get an “AHA!” moment and might leave feeling a bit disappointed.
Again – it depends on you and your existing journey through life.
Money issues
While he’s geared towards self-help and emotional mastery, Paul talks a lot about resolving money issues. In fact, his old program was called Resolving the Money Riddle. It’s fair to say that he’s well experienced and the bulk of his audience likely has money problems too.
Most people in Australia do have money issues as well. My #1 recommendation in 2020 is to build an online business where you control the outcome.
What I noticed is that Paul doesn’t really teach the “How” of making money, instead, he focuses on removing mental roadblocks. This is great as there are numerous strategies available.
Just keep in mind that he often runs his life coaching training workshops in Canberra though the event I attended was in Adelaide when I lived there many years ago.
One of the best things I ever did was learn about selling on Amazon. In fact, I created some fantastic guides to help beginners just like you.
In summary
Paul Blackburn has been running his company for 10+ years now. By now we can see that he’s quite clearly established.
Is he for everyone? No. In fact, many people would ignore someone like this.
In the 10 years that he’s been running Beyond Success Pty Ltd, it’s clear that the bulk of his students has been pleased with positive reviews left.
That in itself is part of the recipe for success – simply do something for long enough while overdelivering on value.
