About

By Wayne Elise

March 2025

Here you can get tips on conversation with strangers, learn how to connect romantically, as well as maybe, just maybe, be entertained by lusty stories. Please read the posts or hire me for coaching. You can reach out via email to wayne (at) charismaarts.com

Our history: Charisma Arts has gone through a lot of changes throughout the years. It started as a way of formalizing the ideas I’d worked on previously, teaching men to meet women, into a company. I brought in a business manager and we contracted instructors. Many of them excellent people who were successful in other endeavors. We taught bootcamps and seminars all over the world. I created the Conversation Camp. But things really took off with the publishing of the book The Game in which I wrote a chapter under the simple name Juggler. I hosted the TV program Seduction School for the UK network Channel Four, and guested on Welcome to the Parker for Bravo in the US. I had spots on radio shows, and we even started podcasting way before people knew what that was. Our teaching got written about by Reuters, covered by magazines and buzzed on our own online forum. Those were the heydays.

But after the crash of 2009, we had to reduce things. And after the economy got better, I’d lost the will to run a company. I had no desire to direct other people. You know those surveys they give you in school to see what job would be best for you? I remember I got park ranger. Other kids got ‘manager’ and I remember thinking what an awful job. So maybe I was just returning to my original form. I also didn’t feel like teaching guys to pick up girls or make conversation anymore. I wanted to do those things myself. So I disappeared into my own adventures, made a fool out of myself, loved and lost, dated a socialist, dated a republican and hung with anarchists. Eventually I met my wife (not politically aligned), and got married for the second time in Hawaii (she jokes I have a punch card).

Over time I remembered I love talking and writing about this stuff. I enjoy sharing the stories of meeting new people. And teaching is fulfilling. I don’t think I’ll ever retire from it even though I’m getting old. Some might call it silly, still talking about dating. But I really do see the world through client’s eyes, learn more everyday through their experiences. So here we are. Welcome to the site. Hope you find it helpful and feel free to reach out.

I can also be found on BlueSky @wayneelise.bsky.social