Early Career
Wanis began working as a radio show host at Radio 2RG Griffith while also serving as anchor of the regional television news on MTN-9, and hosted regional segments of the "Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital Telethon." In 1985, he became the youngest talk show host in Australia at age 23 for Radio 7BU with syndicated talk shows on TBN - The Tasmanian Broadcasting Network (including a Sunday night "Lonely Hearts" call-in show) and interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke on numerous occasions. He also won First Prize in the Australian Tourism Awards for Tas Travel – his weekly syndicated radio show. Wanis next became a talk show host for Canberra’s news/talk radio 2CA and Political reporter for Ten News television, in Canberra interviewing the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke on television on numerous occasions and interviewing the candidates for Canberra’s inaugural state elections before becoming executive producer of 3AK Talk-back radio in Melbourne, serving as executive producer for the Don Chipp morning radio show and hosting his own afternoon drive talk show. Wanis also presented a live radio show from Australia's Parliament House, Canberra on the eve of the 1990 Federal Election. Wanis received the ranking of "A+++ Grade Journalist" (the highest industry grading possible) from the Australian Journalists Association.
In 1990, Radio 3AK was sold to businessman Peter Corso who sacked most of its workforce in preparation to relaunch 3AK as Australia's first commercial Italian-language radio station. While interviewing Corso live on-air, Corso offered Wanis the opportunity to stay on as a broadcaster and show host. Wanis declined, stating he was going to travel overseas for three months.
Wanis subsequently began working and traveling in Africa, England, Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. He performed hypnosis, dance, comedy, musicals, and murder mystery musicals in multiple languages. Wanis claims that in 1991, he became the first person to introduce pantomime musicals to West Africa, with his own original musical parodies of Snow White, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood. Wanis directed and co-hosted the "1991 Miss Africa World Beauty Pageant." In the Gambia, West Africa, Wanis observed and studied the link between the belief in spells, curses, Juju, witchcraft, healing doctors (using witchcraft) and the behavior of the Gambian people and their various tribes. Wanis concluded that the spells and curses only had power over those people who believed in them, forming a basis for his later work and studies in hypnotherapy and the power of the mind and beliefs.
In 1993, Wanis directed and co-hosted (in English and Spanish) "Miss Verano" beauty pageant in Spain before a live audience of 5,000 people; produced and co-hosted the 1993 "Junior Miss" and "Junior Mister" for 2000 children in Spain and won awards by Thomson Tours 1991, 1992 and 1993 for "Best Entertainment - The Gambia, West Africa". In 1993, European TV program, Canal Plus "24 Horas" did a feature on Wanis.
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