All About Doctor Phil - Self-help Guru

<h1>All About Doctor Phil - Self-help Guru</h1>Author: <a title="Jacob Getty" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/jacob-getty/34191.htm">Jacob Getty</a> Oklahoma born Phillip Calvin McGraw on the 1st of September 1950 Doctor Phil has steadily made his way to stardom thanks to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah enlisted the help of Doctor Phil during a trail that she was going through. She hired his company to help read the jury and was impressed with his psychological knowledge and the ability to clearly interpret the characters of the jurers. Phil is a trained psychologist who used to run a sports school. Nowadays his TV personality and his books are the main reasons for his fame.

Doctor Phil makes a pretty penny, over $45,000,000 per year, and ranked #22 on Forbes Top 100 Celebrities of 2006. His super successful talkshow makes up the brunt of this income - it draws a huge 6.7 million viewers.

But he doesn´t just make his money from his talk show. He also has 6 best selling books as well as an endorsement deal from Match.com. He also made a guest appearance in the movie "Scary Movie 4".

Doctor Phil grew up in North Texas and family life was geared towards the desire of his father to become a psychologist. He had a football scholarship for his education at the University of Tulsa but had to pull out after he got injured. Inn 1975 he graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in psychology en after that he managed to earn a masters degree in psychology. Teamed with a PhD in clinical psychology Doctor Phil knows what he is talking about when it comes to psychology.

During the completing of his internship and 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 completing his internship for his Ph.D. After this he proceeded to give one on-one private sessions in his own office situated in Wichita Falls, Texas. He became more known for his life skills seminars that he ran together 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 the a trial consulting firm that he started together with Gary Dobbs in 1989. Doctor Phil and his business partner managed to advise over 500 companies.

In 1995, Oprah Winfrey enlisted the help from this firm to help her get prepared for her much published Amarillo Texas beef trial. She was very impressed with his psychological skills and hired him to perform on her daily talk show. He became the regular Oprah "Relationship and Life Strategy Expert". In 2002 Phil started broadcasting his very own television show, Dr. Phil, produced by Oprah’s very own company.

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Oklahoma born Phillip Calvin McGraw on the 1st of September 1950 Doctor Phil has steadily made his way to stardom thanks to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah enlisted the help of Doctor Phil during a trail that she was going through. She hired his company to help read the jury and was impressed with his psychological knowledge and the ability to clearly interpret the characters of the jurers. Phil is a trained psychologist who used to run a sports school. Nowadays his TV personality and his books are the main reasons for his fame.

Doctor Phil makes a pretty penny, over $45,000,000 per year, and ranked #22 on Forbes Top 100 Celebrities of 2006. His super successful talkshow makes up the brunt of this income - it draws a huge 6.7 million viewers.

But he doesn´t just make his money from his talk show. He also has 6 best selling books as well as an endorsement deal from Match.com. He also made a guest appearance in the movie "Scary Movie 4".

Doctor Phil grew up in North Texas and family life was geared towards the desire of his father to become a psychologist. He had a football scholarship for his education at the University of Tulsa but had to pull out after he got injured. Inn 1975 he graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in psychology en after that he managed to earn a masters degree in psychology. Teamed with a PhD in clinical psychology Doctor Phil knows what he is talking about when it comes to psychology.

During the completing of his internship and 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 completing his internship for his Ph.D. After this he proceeded to give one on-one private sessions in his own office situated in Wichita Falls, Texas. He became more known for his life skills seminars that he ran together 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 the a trial consulting firm that he started together with Gary Dobbs in 1989. Doctor Phil and his business partner managed to advise over 500 companies.

In 1995, Oprah Winfrey enlisted the help from this firm to help her get prepared for her much published Amarillo Texas beef trial. She was very impressed with his psychological skills and hired him to perform on her daily talk show. He became the regular Oprah "Relationship and Life Strategy Expert". In 2002 Phil started broadcasting his very own television show, Dr. Phil, produced by Oprah’s very own company.

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