Today we’d like to introduce you to Leanna Hunt.
Hi Leanna, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
This is a big question, my life has had many stages with so much to learn along the way and it might help make more sense if I go from now to then.
I am currently waiting for my first book to be released. It is titled: Becoming a NeuroHeir (TM after NeuroHeir): Releasing What Was Never Yours To Carry. I had a publisher, GracePoint Publishing, pick it up after I wrote the proposal in the first quarter of 2025, which I wrote after my dad passed away unexpectedly during surgery at the age of 68. He had had clear scans months before his treatments for his melanoma cancer, and then it came out of nowhere and took over so quickly. I arrived in San Diego 2 hours too late to say goodbye. This rocked me at my core because I didn’t get to repair things I wanted to before he passed away and all of a sudden my chance to heal our relationship was gone.
Through the most intense grief came the book idea and now I know it’s what I am meant to put out into the world. My mentor, dr Karen Curley Parker, the founder of quantum human design told me to write a book and that is how people would find my work and so that is what I did. I came up with the concept of a NeuroHeir, someone who choosing to release what no longer serves them and consciously choose what to pass forward,
I realized so much of my own struggles with not feeling like I was enough and having a secret binging food disorder from the time I was 15 was connected to more than just me. I spent so much of my life blaming myself and wondering what was wrong with me. After my dad passed away, I started reading the journals of my dads from the time he was 19-21 while he was serving an lds mission in Baton Rouge, LA. He talked about his own nervousness, as he called it, and now I know that was his anxiety because no one was using the word anxiety in 1975. He wrote about his own inadequacies and fears.
For the first time in my entire life I started to feel like no wonder I struggled so much. I never knew about my dad’s struggles to this extent and his panic attacks. And I thought, what would this have been like to know all of this when he was alive? What could this have changed about me if I had known that assessing my dad’s moods impacted my own nervous system because I never knew what version of him I would get when he came home and now I know it was so much of his own insecurities that came across as mean and unavailable to me.
So I created NeuroHeir through my grief and healing and it’s been like I have been healing with my sad closer to me than he was for most of my life as I have learned more about what he carried that never could release. There is the book coming, the podcast is out and the coaching membership is just launching. It’s an exciting time to see creations come out of the ashes.
It is my mission to share what I have learned with others and the impact of strides generational trauma to my clients, both in clinical therapy and coaching and for my audience so that they can explore what they can heal in themselves with curiosity for looking at what their family has endured that was maybe never healed.
I am the oldest of four kids and we grew up in vista California. My mom did everything she could to make our lives fun and happy despite having an often angry father. We spent as much time at the beach as possible and getting to the ocean whenever I can is still the goal even living in Utah.
My career path has been evolving since high school. I was a harpist and played at weddings and event from the time I was really young. I went to Brigham young university and graduated with a bachelors in English. I wanted to be a teacher, I met my husband David at byu and we were married in December 1999. We both stayed in Utah until we both graduated and then went back to California for my husband to start his doctorates program for physical therapy. I taught as a permanent sub at a private school in LA instead of finding the California teaching credential process because I found out we were pregnant with our first daughter right when my husband started school in 2002.
After grad school with a 2 year old and then 6 month old second daughter I started playing my harp more and played all over San Diego. This is really where I first learned the benefits of entrepreneurship and sales. We balanced my gigs with two kids and were very busy! By 2008 we had bought our first home and then had our son. By 2009 we realized we really couldn’t afford this life we were trying to create in San Diego so we www.mymascara.life odd to Springville Utah July 4th 2010.
This was a huge change for us but looking back really has brought so many blessings.
I got into running and triathlons at this time and loved the high of racing. I was still struggling with a very unhealthy relationship with food and body dysmorphia and used running and racing to not feel or face so many things.
2012-2013 was probably our hardest years ever. After really intense financial and relationship problems our marriage was struggling intensely and we found out I was pregnant again with another boy. And a few months before our son was born we found out my husband’s mom’s cancer wasn’t treatable. I gave birth in March which was a weird time living this new baby and grieving what was to come and unexpectedly my husband’s father passed away in June. And this was right after a bad car accident I was in with all the kids and was left with a really bad concussion. And then my husband’s mom passed away 20 days after that. This year was so tough. How do I heal myself, care for my kids and help my husband through the most intense grief of his life?
I started running again and it’s like I couldn’t stop and the next year did my first and only full distance Ironman triathlon. Like good I used exercise to escape and cope when I didn’t know how to feel.
This started a while journey of significant hormone and health problems. Adrenal farigue, reoccurring mom, panic attacks, really bad anxiety and so many others. I felt so alone during this time, again looking back it would have been so helpful to have these types of conversations with my dad knowing he experienced things like me. From 2014 until now has led on the healing journey for me. As a stay-at-home mom, I became a part of a makeup MLM and did really well, which I think was mostly because it gave me a sense of community I craved. It didn’t matter my size or health stuff or running pace., this was complicated though because I did not know what healthy phone boundaries looked like and this caused increased stress and strain on my body so by 2018 I was extremely burnt out. Through a friend, I found some supplements that helped me so much using adaptogenic herbs and cellular cleansing, and for the first time, I started to have some relief. I no longer was on anxiety meds and my panic attacks had subsided.
And these supplements were part of another mlm so I joined that and was no longer able to sell makeup and lost that business which was sad but also I was finally starting to feel so much better. I also did really well with this company and it was the first time I had made 6 figures in one year working from home. I learned more how to speak and present and really wanted to do this more. I had an amazing mentor that poured into me and this is truly where I first learned about personal development. I realized after reading my first personal development book, by her recommendation, that I had a mindset and it could change. this concept was mind blowing for me. It’s like I couldn’t stop after reading the Big Leap.
To try to wrap up this very long thing, which led me to wanting to become a coach outside of selling supplements and protein powder. I hd also learned something incredible called EFT tapping and started having significant shifts with my relationship with food. This literally snowballed me into this learning journey, and I haven’t stopped since. I stopped promoting that company and became a certified performance coach in 2020, and then launched my own coaching business. I worked closely with women leaders in direct sales businesses to help them strengthen their self-belief. I did get to a point where I realized there was more to learn and eventually went back to grad school to get a master’s in clinical mental health counseling. I graduated in 2024 at the age of 44.
I have learned so much from the clinical world, but feel called to help as many as I can in a more coaching capacity, working with the nervous system. I have gained so much knowledge through my different trainings and certifications working with the body as a somatic practitioner, and many of the tools I have can be used in a coaching setting. I feel called more than ever to create a community where we can gather to support each other in nervous system healing so that we do not have to continue unhealed patterns. I believe our nervous systems tell the story of what our family has carried for generations and with the book, the podcast and the coaching community, we can heal forward.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No, it has been so challenging, but I always try to look for the little things along the way for how others, including God and the universe, support us and show up for us. Now more than ever, I believe we have guardian angels who want to help us heal and do the work they couldn’t do while they were alive. When there is an obstacle or trial, I really try to allow myself to look back and reflect on what I can learn from it. I truly believe that what we are able to learn allows us to move forward and helps our brain find a sense of purpose in our pain.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I currently see clients for therapy at Renew Relationship Counseling in Springville. This is my clinical work, and I work a lot with teens and young adults struggling with anxiety and stored trauma. All the clinical work I do through the lens of the nervous system and working with the body to release what it has been holding.
My coaching community is separate from my clinical work and again is a place for those to gather online and learn somatic tools and practices to work with their own nervous systems, including things like somatic breathwork and EFT tapping.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
Growing up many would say I was friendly and bubbly but it feels complicated because of how much I didn’t share like my eating disorder. It really took up until I started to learn about my nervous system to really change my relationship with food and to understand that my body has been trying to tell me all along.
I loved dancing, playing my harp, singing in choir and also playing field hockey. I spent as much time at the beach as possible growing up and still do.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://leannahunt.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aligningwithleanna/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanna.glazierhunt
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanna-hunt-11b11545/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@leannahunt-ACMHC
- Other: https://pod.link/1844881126
