All About Doctor Phil – Self Help Guru
Born Phillip Calvin McGraw in Oklahoma on September 1, 1950, Doctor Phil has steadily risen to stardom thanks to The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah enlisted the help of Doctor Phil during a tour he was going through. She hired her company to help read the jury and was impressed with his psychological insight and ability to clearly play the jury characters. Phil is a trained psychologist who used to run a sports school. Today his television personality and his books are the main reasons for his fame.
Doctor Phil makes quite a bit of money, more than $45,000,000 per year, and is ranked #22 on Forbes Top 100 Celebrities for 2006. His super-hit talk show accounts for the lion’s share of this income, attracting 6.7 million viewers .
But he doesn’t just make money from his talk show. He also has 6 best-selling books, as well as a Match.com endorsement deal. He also made a special appearance in the movie “Scary Movie 4”.
Dr. Phil grew up in North Texas and family life turned towards his father’s desire to become a psychologist. He had a football scholarship for his education at the University of Tulsa, but had to withdraw after being injured. Inn 1975 graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in psychology after he managed to earn a master’s degree in psychology. Along with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Dr. Phil knows what he’s talking about when it comes to psychology.
During the completion of his internship and while working on his PhD, Phil ran a construction company together with his brother-in-law. McGraw owned a construction business with his brother-in-law while he completed his internship for his Ph.D. Following this, he proceeded to give private one-on-one sessions at his own office in Wichita Falls, Texas. He became best known for his life skills seminars that he led with his father and Thelma Box. After this, Doctor Phil moved on to bigger and better things. He started his own company called Courtroom Sciences Inc. This was a trial consulting firm that he started with Gary Dobbs in 1989. Dr. Phil and his business partner have gone on to advise over 500 companies.
In 1995, Oprah Winfrey enlisted the help of this firm to help her prepare for her much-publicized Amarillo Texas beef essay. She was very impressed with his psychological skills and hired him to appear on her daily talk show. He became Oprah’s “relationship and life strategy expert.” In 2002, Phil began airing his own television show, Dr. Phil, produced by Oprah’s own company.
