Tapping into a purposeful life
Do you ever feel like you need to fit in? Are you trying to conform to a world that doesn't get you? Well, it's time to break free from the mold and discover your true potential. Say goodbye to feeling like a square peg in a round hole and hello to a life that celebrates your individuality.
Step into your true potential with Leanna Hunt-Glazier, an expert in unleashing hidden powers. Leanna guides us toward a transformative journey of self-discovery with a blend of EFT tapping and Humand Design. Experience the power of tapping into critical points on our hands, face, and body while focusing on negative feelings, and then use positive affirmations to neutralize them. Discover our unique identity with the help of Human Design, a self-exploration system that draws from ancient and modern practices to reveal our true essence.
Listen and be inspired as we connect through Leanna's story of overcoming anxiety and panic attacks while caring for a baby and recovering from a concussion. She shows us that even in our most vulnerable moments, we can find the courage to push through and be there for those who need us. Her words remind us that we are not alone in our struggles and that we can always find the strength we need within ourselves. Leanna encourages us to break free from negative filters and embrace our inner child, taking charge of our lives and chasing our dreams. This message of hope and empowerment speaks to every one of us.
Leanna is a certified life and performance coach in various types of EFT tapping, a certified NLP timeline therapy techniques practitioner, and a Quantum Human Design and Alignment specialist.
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[00:00:00] Monica: Hi everyone! Welcome to the Kindling Project podcast. I am Monica Inestroza Curtis, also known as Mick, and I'm joined today by my very beautiful and talented partner in crime, Amy Drummond. Hey Amy. How you doing?
[00:00:14] Amy: I am doing really well. I'm excited because I get to meet a new friend today and I'm just really excited to be here.
[00:00:22] Monica: Are you feeling a little lopsided because we're missing our third wheel, Mel, I feel a little guilty because she's doing some real work and we're getting to do the fun part of our job.
[00:00:33] Amy: That's true. I know. Well, we'll all have to just take turns, but yeah, I'm excited to, to see how the three of us do. she knows that we're all gonna take care of it, so that's a good thing, knowing that your colleagues take care of things when you're not around, you know?
[00:00:47] Monica: That is the benefit I think, of having a partnership that it feels like, hey, when we're either having a bad day or a bad moment, we can all carry each other.
[00:00:55] Amy: Definitely, and we need that. I think even on good days, because we're really ramping up things here at the Kindling Project and I feel like we're all running around , like, oh my goodness. Just like keeping it together. But we're all putting in a lot of work right now and it feels good because I think, gosh, if they're doing this work and I'm doing it, we're gpnna be making a difference soon enough.
[00:01:19] Monica: Definitely. How is your morning? Have you been crazy this morning as well? It's like freezing outside.
[00:01:25] Amy: I know.
[00:01:25] Monica: This weather is driving me crazy.
[00:01:27] Amy: The good thing is the sun has been out. So to me that makes a difference. Although I'm in the catacombs of my basement. Luckily I didn't have to get up and get out, but I got up and I started working early and it felt good to be able to do that in my jammies for a little bit. Okay. So I came downstairs and I'm just setting everything up and my oldest son who's almost 21, he's upstairs. He came home early from work cuz he works outside and it's bitter cold. And I just start hearing this bell sounding like a clock. And I'm like, what is that noise? Well, I go upstairs, we've had a clock. I mean this is literally been in our family for probably about 60 years, maybe even longer. I don't even know. And this clock is turning so fast making these chime sounds. I'm like, Rocco, what is going on? I'm old. Okay. I've never heard this clock ever make any sounds. I mean, I didn't think there were any insides into the clock.
[00:02:22] Monica: Someone's trying to communicate with you.
[00:02:25] Amy: That's what I thought! I said, Rocco, we're not alone! Like we both were just looking at each other. Not out of fear, but I'm like, oh, this is so great. I'm hoping it's, my sister, my mom, my grandma. Oh, I'm like, oh!
[00:02:36] Monica: All of them!
[00:02:37] Amy: This is so exciting!
[00:02:37] Monica: They're all making some noise for you! They're like, woohoo.
[00:02:40] Amy: This is why, believing in a higher power and a God, it's like there's no way that just happened.
[00:02:46] Monica: No, absolutely. And how interesting that today our guest, we are talking to a really incredible person who I met through social media. Truthfully, I love her story so much because she really epitomizes the whole pivoting to a purposeful life. And she really does it with this sense of energy and it really drives her every being. So I would love for you to introduce her so we can get talking to her because she's so cool.
[00:03:16] Amy: I love that. Leanna, welcome. So nice to have you here. Your name is Leanna Hunt and you were born and raised in sunny Southern California, and you now live in Utah with your husband David, and your four children. Bless your heart. Let me just say this. Leanna and David were college sweethearts and both went to undergrad in Utah and moved back when their kids were little so David could open his own physical therapy practice. Leanna is passionate about helping teenagers and women recognize their potential and live a life aligned with their energy, their values, goals, and dreams. Leanna has been an entrepreneur before she even had children, was a wedding harpist all over San Diego. No matter what she has done, she loves people and loves helping others see the best in themselves and live a life they feel is worthy of being loved and being. Leanna is a certified life and performance coach, certified in various types of E F T, tapping, a certified N L P timeline therapy techniques practitioner, and a Quantum Human Design and alignment specialist. Wow, those all sound so impressive. Leanna, welcome. Welcome to the Kindling Project.
[00:04:28] Leanna: Hi guys. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
[00:04:32] Monica: That's a pretty fancy title, girl. I mean, that's a lot. That's a mouthful. You've got four kids, very busy. And aren't you also working on your master's?
[00:04:41] Leanna: Oh yeah. We didn't add that in there. I am a current graduate student working on my master's to become a clinical mental health counselor and therapist so that I can take what I do into a clinical setting and share it with more people in the world.
[00:04:54] Monica: Which Is incredible. But you know, before we dive into what you do now and how you help so many people, can we just take it back a bit and give us a little bit of history? if I rewind the clock and we go back five years ago who do we meet? Is it the same person that's in front of us? This moment?
[00:05:12] Leanna: That is such a good question , and I think you would've still seen me. You just would've seen a lot more frantic, burnt out, tired, exhausted version of myself kind of stuck in that, has anybody ever felt like they were stuck in a loop? Like one of those terrible rides at a carnival that you cannot get off of? That's what it would've looked like five years ago. If you saw me, it would've been like, at a carnival that was like your nightmare .
[00:05:40] Amy: Was that loop, Leanna, was that in your head or was it in every aspect of your life? How would you describe that?
[00:05:48] Leanna: It was in every aspect of my life. We moved here so my husband could open his own physical therapy practice and at this time he was just getting his business off the ground. So he was working like three or four jobs. I spent a lot of time doing direct sales. So, as a young mom, it really appeals to, I think, young moms to be able to sell a product from home. So I had worked my way up the ranks in a couple different companies and trying to balance a lot. My health was struggling, trying to get my hormones balanced. I had the first time in my life in my thirties, experienced a panic attack, several actually, and was struggling with my relationship with food. So it was a very vicious cycle with addictive patterns and just really wasn't happy and my health was showing. I had all my blood work done. They thought maybe I was developing arthritis and luckily those came back inconclusive. But really when I look back at it, it was an imbalance of stress. If we could put it all of what that nightmare Carnival was. Not being able to get off of that ride.
[00:06:53] Amy: Yeah. And stress will catch up. It does. was this after your fourth child?
[00:06:59] Leanna: Yeah, he was born in 2013. That was a really hard time in our life because my husband had recently lost actually right after my baby was born, he lost both his parents 20 days apart from each other. And I was in a car accident with all my kids. This all happened boom, like lineup. And with a young mom with my fourth baby and a husband trying to start a business and grieving the loss of his parents and so many other things. I can look back and see how the health things and the addictive patterns and the burnout and the stress just built upon each other for several years. And you finally get to a point, I'm sure so many of you are listening, might even be at the spot where you get to a point and you're like, I cannot do this anymore. I have to make a change.
[00:07:43] Monica: What was your rock bottom? Do you remember that day, like that moment where you're like, okay, this is it. No more. Can you take us back to that moment?
[00:07:51] Leanna: I think it was when I had that panic attack and I was home alone with a baby and still trying to recover from a really bad concussion from this car accident. Like I said, we just had lost both my husband's parents. It was really awful summer, and I remember not being able, sorry, it gets me emotional, not being able to breathe and that was really scary and I just remember, thinking, this can't happen again. There's a lot of people counting on me right now. This cannot happen again. And I'm sure for those of you that deal with panic attacks or you deal with anxiety at such extreme levels, my heart goes out to you because it is really scary the first time it happens.
[00:08:27] Monica: What goes through your mind? And how do you start building from that moment?
[00:08:32] Leanna: That was kind of when I reached out to other people. I started to use social media as a tool, I was home alone with little kids. And I needed some friends and support. I think that's why a lot of people probably tune into podcasts, right? And they read people's Instagram posts and get on other social media platforms because they are longing for connection. We'll just kind of fast forward because all those next couple years were critical. I met a lot of people. That's where I started doing business online. I sold makeup. I did it internationally. It was really cool. I got to go to Europe a few times and help launch a market there and that was really incredible. And then that kind of led into my health journey because I was feeling better, like having friends and being in front of people and selling products and making some money from home. And my health was still really struggling. So then I found a company that really helped me get my health back in check and my hormones and I had incredible success with my stress and my anxiety, and I really liked to do things that are all natural. So that felt really good to me. Was able to get off my prescription medications for my thyroid. My anxiety, this is everything all at once, which don't do without your doctor ever . had a lot of people in my corner helping me. I'm just giving you the fast forwarded version. It was through health coaching and sharing these health products that I started to see more patterns of people like me that would reach their health goals and lose 50 pounds or 40 pounds or even 10 pounds, and they couldn't keep it off. It wasn't sustainable and I wanted to know why. I wanted to know why we were sabotaging ourselves, me included. I wanted to know why we would reach a big goal, and then we would like almost, in a sense, take it back and say, no, I don't. I don't deserve this. I'm not worthy of this. And so it was at that point that I remember thinking, you guys mentioned God in your intro. I'm very religious and spiritual and have a really strong connection with my guardian angels and totally believe God is my higher power. And I do remember exactly where I was in prayer when it was like just this freight train came and hit me and it was says, you need to learn. This is your time to learn. and this was three months before the world shut down with Covid. At that point, I had already enrolled in a life coaching school and I think if I would've waited that three months with all my kids home and the world stopping, basically I think I wouldn't have done it because we were home. Everyone was homeschooling. And so I lept at that moment when I felt that inspiration and that has changed the trajectory of my life the last several years and led me to where I am now.
[00:10:58] Amy: Wow. It's interesting because so many of us have to crumble down into ashes in order to rise up and your story leanna I've heard this, where a woman is so high functioning, so to speak, where she's got it all together. You had your fourth kid, you had moved and your husband's parents, and I can't imagine everything else. And then the body dysmorphia all the food issues. I mean all of these things. And then you realize one day I can't do anything else . And it's scary because it comes to you in a way that you've never experienced before because you've been managing quote unquote, for so long. It's really inspiring to hear your story because I think that a lot of women don't realize that even though it's a really scary time, that is a time of transformation because especially as women, when we're in those spaces, we're open, we're teachable, and we're willing, and that's something I talk a lot about, being open and teachable.
[00:11:53] Monica: What I hear too is just listening to the whispers and through you, the whisper, from the man upstairs, whoever, the inside of you, just speaking to you so loudly, knowing that this was the time. It's scary to listen to whispers when your whole life is comfortable in another way. So I applaud you for that as well. And that's something Amy and I and Melissa are always encouraging women to do.
[00:12:15] Leanna: Yeah. And we'll talk about that when we get into more details about what I do now. But how we listen, there's a lot of different types of listening and based on our unique energetic blueprint, We have different ways that we get to respond and we get to show up to those whispers, quote unquote and so I'm excited, as we kind of get into this to be able to share some more about that.
[00:12:36] Monica: Is it something that when you now meet women profession aside and in your expertise in going to grad school, What is words of wisdom for women listening who are feeling that rock bottom that you fell like it's just all coming down crashing really hard.
[00:12:53] Leanna: So what I know now, and I say this, like what I would've told my younger self, and I say that like I have two daughters. They're at the current time that we're recording, they're 18 and 20, but what I want them to know is that they already are good enough right now. They don't need to wait for anything to feel like that validation has to come from themselves. You could tell me I'm amazing, and I could tell you're amazing. But until we actually feel it ourselves, are we gonna feel like we can actually do something about it? So it's just sitting right here and taking a deep breath, maybe pulling your car over if you're driving or if you're on a walk, just allowing yourself to be present for a minute and to just see how that feels when you tell yourself, I'm good enough. And when we tell ourself I'm good enough, there's gonna probably be part of us inside that's like, Nope. And if you can actually find where that is in your body, we can work on it and we can let it go.
[00:13:45] Amy: Yeah. And one thing that I do Leanna, is I work on teaching people that we have to act as if. We have to act as if we're okay. Even if we don't feel it. We have to work on telling ourselves that we are loved, that we are enough, that we are okay. Because if we have that negative narrative going on all the time, which it's usually been there probably decades for a lot of people. And your daughters are so lucky that your experiences now can teach them. And I always say one of the goals as a mom is for our kids to be a better version of ourselves. And it's tough because we're in a society that says, well, when you have the degree, when you have the house, when you have the husband, when you pay off this, it's always about tomorrow. But like we say, this is what we have, is right now.
[00:14:32] Leanna: It is right now. And I love what you said, Amy, about that. The one thing, like if we're gonna bring in, why I use the modalities I do as far as eft tapping, when we're actually tapping on pressure points that are specific for releasing energy, it actually helps us be able to believe the affirmations that we say. Like I'm a real proponent of not just saying affirmations without something accompanied with it. So a lot of times when we say the affirmations, there's gonna be part of us inside. And you might feel it right now if you try telling yourself an affirmation. Part of you might say, oh, that's not true, or, we don't believe that, and that's your unconscious brain, that's your subconscious that's trying to tell you that because of this and this, that's not true, or we're not gonna believe it. And so that's why I use the modalities that I do. So it actually helps us integrate those things that we wanna believe. And when we do that, it's like we're changing our reticular activating system in our brain. It's the filter system that we've set up, and it's really hard to believe, but all of us, everyone that's listening, all of us here today, me, Monica, Amy, every person, we set up the filters by which we view the world, and so we can change that filter. It's like being able to put on a different shade of glasses and our brain is constantly, in this place of validating the filters that we've set up. It's like the thought of, I'm gonna go buy a white car. I'm gonna buy a white Mercedes. If you said that, you're gonna start seeing that white Mercedes everywhere you go, right? It's the same concept.
[00:16:02] Monica: That's powerful. And you said it beautifully and exactly how I feel. So thank you for putting it in such beautiful words. You touched on this a little bit you really discovered throug EF T and human design is really where changing your lense has come from, is that correct?
[00:16:17] Leanna: Yeah. It was the life coaching program that I started, which helped me feel like, okay, I could be a coach. I wanted to get a certification that was recognized internationally. That was really important to me. I just didn't wanna get on, buy a Facebook ad for a $19 life coaching certification. I wanted something that was recognized, in the coaching world. And so then that kind of led to , the EFT tapping and the other forms of tapping that I do, because I first found tapping actually Brittany Watkins program that helps with emotional eating. And so I found tapping first to help with addictive patterns. What's so crazy is that a lot of times when we are having that craving or whatever it is, we're we just finally we give back into right when we say we're never gonna do this again. Like the diet starts on Monday, it's just our younger self Thats talking to us, just needs some love. A lot of times we're actually trying to recreate something that was a really happy memory. Like a lot of people that are trying to break their cycles with alcohol, they'll remember one of their very first memories of alcohol was actually really positive. Or they shared a drink with their grandma and their grandma's passed away and so they missed their grandma. And so then they wanna drink, or food or it doesn't matter what it is. And so, I found this program specifically to do this inner child healing layers of our younger self, because whatever you're struggling with now, it is most likely your younger self that is trying to talk to you and she's telling you something that she really needs.
[00:17:41] Monica: What do you think was the critical point, was it a childhood trauma? Was it wanting to go back to a good memory? Have you been able to tie it all in?
[00:17:51] Leanna: Yeah, it was both. We can do tapping like sometimes it's connected to positive memories, like I said, like trying to recreate something that we felt when we felt really safe as a child. And so for me, there was a lot of really good memories of food, feeling safe at my grandma's house. She would bake bread every Monday and I was there when my mom worked. She made my life so much fun. And so I was trying to create as an adult how I felt really good and safe at my grandma's. Safety's a big one, so you could ask yourself, when was the time that I felt safe? And oftentimes it can be connected to what you're trying to break the pattern from now because your brain made this connection. Okay. Bread means safety bread means fun. Bread means being completely having my grandma's attention, but then it can also be connected to the negative memories. And so that's where we can go in for things that happened as a childhood as far as trauma. And our younger self just needed to feel like she had a friend. She needed to feel like maybe she had some support that she didn't have. Sometimes she needs to go in and have a new conversation. And it sounds so weird cause we're like, well, this didn't really happen. I'm just making up this new scenario. But as we make up new scenarios, it's like we get to rewrite the programming in our brain, which that then changes our filters.
[00:18:59] Amy: Okay. First of all, you're gonna make an amazing therapist, okay? You're gonna do great. I know you're already doing your other modalities. But being licensed, you'll be able to take it into a whole different population. One thing that I really hear is that you have done a lot of work, don't just wake up healed. And that's why I say we have to show up, we have to suit up, and we have to do it. And I work with clients and it is not easy. They know when they're gonna come and work with me. They're like, oh. Why couldn't I come up with an excuse to cancel today ? Because they know that they're going to have to show up. And so I know I can hear that you have done that work and so I really want our listeners to know as well that doing the work is so worth it cuz you come out on the other side and you're like, oh my gosh. I just survived all of that. Thank you for also for being vulnerable with us too.
[00:19:50] Monica: You've gotta be very comfortable being uncomfortable. When you can simmer in the uncomfortable, meaning you actually address whatever is happening in your world. That's where the real breakthrough comes. And that's what I'm hearing from you, Leanna. You had to go back there and live in it for a minute to really understand it, identify it, and then say, okay, no more. Let me reprogram myself. And now you are moving forward and helping so many people. Incredibly amazing.
[00:20:16] Amy: One thing that I think people don't realize is that it also becomes part of your story. Instead of carrying around all the baggage and all the trauma, it becomes part of your story. So you can visit it every now and then, but once you've done the work, you don't have to carry it with you.
[00:20:31] Monica: How much does forgiveness and letting go play a role in the work that you do with your clients?
[00:20:37] Leanna: Forgiveness is huge part of it, especially when we are trying to create this life for ourself of more abundance and more opportunities and forgiveness is a really big piece of that. And we actually can do a lot of that in visualization because in actuality for a lot of us, We can't actually have conversations with those people that we need to have about forgiveness. So a lot of times we're just talking it out and doing it through visualization. And that is even really powerful for our brain because what I saw in my own life and with my clients too, is that if we are not willing to forgive it really is only hurting ourselves. And it is so much more powerful if we can still forgive in a sense without condoning what somebody did, and we can also forgive and have healthy boundaries. I feel like boundaries that are created with love versus boundaries that are created out of anger are much more sustainable and are much more conducive to us feeling good inside.
[00:21:36] Amy: Is that something Leanna that you find is a common theme when your clients come to work with you, that those variables come up?
[00:21:43] Leanna: Yeah, and that's why I love tapping. When we're tapping on pressure points, it's concept in Chinese medicine, that that basically opens the flow of energy. So it is like, yeah. You said bring the tissues. It's bring the tissues, but it is so much more calming and peaceful, and there's ways to address our younger self and people in a very safe way as far as visualization. So it's not like we just have to go in and have this really hard confronting conversation in our mind, and it just allows the release to happen very quickly. And a lot of times if we can't forgive the other person and for certain things, there's no right or wrong here, we can still learn to forgive ourself and there's so much power.
[00:22:20] Amy: That has to really happen first, is that forgiveness of self. And I always say that tears are wet words, so it's just releasing those because so many of those emotions people have been holding onto for so long, and you're giving them that permission and that's very powerful in your work.
[00:22:37] Leanna: Yeah, it is. It really connects into, it can be things that we've been caring for generations that we haven't let go. So a lot of the things we feel and we're like, I don't know why I feel this way. If you've ever said that, or I don't know why I can't let this go. A lot of times it has something to do that maybe happened to your grandma or your great grandma or a hundred years ago. And I truly believe that those of us that are living have this beautiful opportunity to be able to look at our genealogy our family history, and just decide I am going to change things now, and I'm going to be the one that teaches my children how to have healthy relationships and healthy boundaries. And that is a hundred percent possible.
[00:23:15] Monica: For women or your clients to be ready for this, it takes more than just saying, I wanna get better. I was having a conversation recently with a gal, and we were talking about her perfectionism and she was saying, I don't understand why I'm always trying to please others. People pleasing, even though I set boundaries for myself for that, I still needed to go look within with this real sense of curiosity of why do I always go back to that spot where I'm trying to constantly please others? And I think that's why I like what you're saying, because you have to really peel a lot of lagers back. It's not just acknowledging, oh, this is a pattern I do. It's more like, okay, but why do you do it? And what's inside of you that's propelling you to do X, Y, or Z? Right? To reach for the food, or reach for the alcohol, or reach for people pleasing, whatever it is. Getting really curious about pulling the Lakers back.
[00:24:09] Leanna: It is. And if that's where human design comes in, because I found that as the glue for everything it was kinda like the missing piece for me and the work that I do.
[00:24:18] Monica: You do a lot of social media and you are awesome on Instagram. You're always helping people, with your little titbits. And I love how engaging you are. By the way I'm so impressed you're so comfortable in front of the camera. I mean, Amy and I are always like, ah, it's not our favorite thing to do. But I love that you do hone in this lovability and you must find that it must be one of the biggest obstacles and if you can overcome that, or at least understand it?
[00:24:43] Leanna: The biggest obstacle.
[00:24:44] Monica: There's not like a quick fix to that. Right? So you're saying it takes work, but at least that's a good starting point. That's really where things start to break down.
[00:24:53] Leanna: I think sometimes we feel like everything has to change our life has to be hard, and I'm here to tell you I've done a lot of things and there's aspects that were hard, but actually letting it go, if you have the right person to guide you and you're open and you're willing and you have the right tools, I've been having a lot of conversations and people reaching out some that are big coaches from all over. Or they know about human design and they like to use human design in their practice. Or even maybe you're a personal trainer and you know about human design and it's gonna help you be able to understand your client's needs a little bit. But so many people say, okay, I know my human design, but now what? How do I align with the energy it's listing on this chart and this piece of paper? These conversations just started showing up. And so I can respond to that and I'm like, okay, that is the need right now. And so this, now what is what I'm working on creating, and I think it'll come probably in the form of a membership where people have access to me at a lower price point where we can have a theme every month, there's nine core needs like lovability that we can see in the chart that I'm certified to help you work through. That way, I feel like I'm trying to find ways I can serve more people, but I don't know all the answers.
[00:25:54] Amy: Right, because there's only one of you!
[00:25:55] Monica: So girls, I think this is a great place to pause, reflect and maybe redirect to deeper conversation on E F T and human design. But I think the themes I'm hearing is that you're never stuck and it's never too late to pivot. which I love, and responding versus reacting, healing, and forgiveness. I mean, we're painting a lot of big themes on this conversation. Leanna, I think we could talk to you for hours. Do you agree, Amy?
[00:26:22] Amy: Definitely, she's speaking my language so much. I love it.
[00:26:25] Leanna: Aw, thank you guys!
[00:26:27] Monica: So why don't we take a break here and we'll go into a part two of this conversation?
[00:26:31] Leanna: I love it. Thank you so much.
[00:26:32] Monica: Okay guys, hang tight.
[00:26:33] Amy: Talk soon.
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[00:00:00] Amy: All right everybody, welcome back. Welcome back Monica and Leanna. It's so nice to have you both here again. Everybody doing okay? I'm
[00:00:07] Monica: salivating at the information Intel Leanna sharing with us. So I'm really excited for part two of our conversation.
[00:00:13] Amy: We're gonna continue our conversation with Mrs. Leanna Hunt.
[00:00:17] She is, she's been sharing with us. The work that she does with teenagers, with women with other clients. And just as a reminder, Leanna is a certified life coach, performance coach. She's also certified in various types of E F t tapping. She is a certified N L P timeline therapy techniques practitioner, and a quantum.
[00:00:40] Human design and alignment specialist, and you are also in grad school, getting your master's in clinical mental health. That is really great that you're doing that. When are you hoping to have that
[00:00:51] Leanna: done by next year? Oh, 2024. Don't you
[00:00:54] Amy: find that when you're in a Master's program, even though it's a lot of work, you have four kids, you have a husband, you have lots of responsibilities, you have a job, but don't you find.
[00:01:03] it's a little bit smoother because you're so passionate about the
[00:01:06] Leanna: subject topics. Absolutely, and I feel like I'm, I structure my time better when I know okay, I have to get this done. I'm working on this research. It's been amazing and I couldn't do it without a supportive husband. A little plug for David
[00:01:19] Monica: That's so nice. How long have you been married? 23
[00:01:22] Leanna: years. I got married when I was, Don't tell my
[00:01:25] Monica: kids such a baby to advise your daughters to do the same. They're, I mean, you have a 20 year
[00:01:30] Leanna: old. I have a 20 year old. Yes. I think what I know now, what I'm teaching my daughters is as they learn to trust theirselves, their inner authority, have a really good relationship with their higher power, have goals set that are aligned to their energy.
[00:01:43] What they wanna do in the future. If they came to me and said, this is what the plan is, and I knew that they were doing everything else, it'd be really hard for me to say no. Oh, absolutely.
[00:01:52] Monica: I think that's a really good answer. We can actually transition right into human design. What the heck is it? Human
[00:01:58] Leanna: design.
[00:02:00] I feel like it's kind of just been all around. Lately, I think maybe during Covid, people were looking for more tools. You know, a lot of people became really passionate during Covid about the Enneagram, so maybe some of your listeners are already really aware of their Enneagram and if we look at Enneagram, that to me is still more considered personality type testing.
[00:02:19] Human design is based on your birth information, so it's based on your birthdate, the location. And when we look at the energy of the planets on when you came into the world, Basically affects the energy that you carry now. So it's a combination of the Chinese ing system, which is a very ancient system.
[00:02:39] The Judea Cabala system. The Hindu chakra system, and as some principles from astrology, those systems were created at different parts of the world and they all integrate kind of like a puzzle. It's fascinating, and that is what creates human design. So when I look at a client's chart now, within the first five minutes,
[00:02:58] I can usually see, based on what they told me, why they're here and what they're struggling with. We can usually see possibly where the disconnect is coming from based on if you've been using your unique energy appropriately or not. If you're listening and you're like, I'm not like the rest of the world, or not doing things, how other people do them, or you haven't given yourself permission to do business or life or a relationship in a unique way, maybe this is gonna give you that invitation and that permission.
[00:03:24] Karen Curry Parker, who's. teacher for Quantum Human Design. If she created this analogy of every type, if it was your role in a movie, this is really fun and this will help explain human design. This is what it is. So 70% of the world, we're the crew members for the movie. We are the workers. We are the ones with sustainable Life Force energy.
[00:03:41] We're the ones that we respond to things outside of us, like Leanna, do you wanna be on this podcast with Monica? And I can actually use my gut center. It's my Sacl center, and I can be like, ah-huh. It feels really. So we are more connected to our gut, that Life force energy. 9% of the world are manifestors.
[00:03:59] We are like the producer, let's say producer of the movie who says, I'm gonna produce this movie and put the idea out there. That's only 9% of the population, and the projectors are about 20% of the population. They are the directors. They get invited and to say yes to the invitations that Tru. Feel aligned with them.
[00:04:18] And then there's 1% of the world that are our beautiful reflectors. They are the audience. They get to reflect back the state of the world. Those of you that are struggling and we can see oftentimes too, we can see burnout here. This is the number one place I look for burnout is in your human design chart because we're raising our kids to just go and do it to embody the Nike symbol.
[00:04:41] But as we look at energy, that is not what a lot of the world, how we.
[00:04:45] Monica: I got into this, I don't know how I learned about this months ago, and I was playing around and I got so excited about it. I thought it was so fun to do my chart. I mean, I don't have the knowledge that you have Leanna, but I just send you mine.
[00:05:00] I wanna tell the listeners this part. I don't know what Leanna's about to say, but I can tell you that the only connection I've had with Leanna. I she posted something that I read on bullying and parentings really going off tracks with kids in sports. And her article really got me going, so I reached out to her and that's how we know each other.
[00:05:22] So we're not personal friends per se, we're just now getting to know each other. So she really doesn't know my personality at all.
[00:05:29] Leanna: Okay. So go. So Monica, you are a generator type, so you do. That sacral center, there's two types of generators. There's emotional generator, which I am, and you are a pure generator, which means you can trust your gut in the moment.
[00:05:45] The gut motor is right here, like in our sacral center, like if you were to put your hand like below your belly button, so we actually answer this motor is a ah-ha uhuh. So can I try this with you? Your all your job is to answer is Ah-huh uhhuh . This helps us take us out of our head center and it allows us to actually answer with.
[00:06:03] Sacral center, our gut center in our design. Okay. Okay. Is your name Monica Uhhuh. ? Are you sitting down? Uhhuh. ? Do you have blonde hair? Uhuh. Do you love yourself? Uhhuh. . Was that hard to answer? Was that easy? Easy. Do you struggle with self confidence? Uhuh, are you in alignment with yourself? Uhhuh, . See how easy that was?
[00:06:24] If we sense a pause, then we know that we're not actually answering from our gut. We're trying to answer from our mind. And our mind is a pressure center. So if we're getting caught up here trying to solve ideas in our mind, if you guys are struggling with like anxiety about thoughts a lot, oftentimes that actually is because we're trying to make things happen in our mind, and that is not actually where we make things.
[00:06:48] If you're trying to make a decision, Monica, you just check in with yourself, this Aha Uhuh before you go, like you can go to the fridge when we're done and open the fridge and be like, do I want blueberry? . Huh Am I even hungry? Uhuh like maybe grab some blueberries and you can close the fridge and you can try it with anything.
[00:07:01] So that's your job for the next 30 days and report back. Okay. .
[00:07:05] Monica: Okay. Wow. I love that. And so the point is, if I do this, I'm going with my energy and I'm in flow. So Leanna, is this something that you'd now do with everyone who's close to you? Because it gives you a lot of, in incredible
[00:07:20] intel.
[00:07:20] Leanna: And it's funny cuz Amy and I were talking on break with.
[00:07:24] License as a social worker and me going back to grad school, the first book I ever read on human design was written by a therapist, which is so cool. That was my first exposure to human design, and I'll just tell you so you can see how energy works. Somebody said, Leanna, you should read this book. I didn't get the idea.
[00:07:40] Someone said, Leanna, you should read this book. So I said, oh, ah-huh. . Because I'm a generator. Ah-huh. Yeah, that, that looks great. I read the book, the Forward by the book was written by Karen Curry Parker, who is now my teacher in Quantum Human Design. So that led me to meet Karen again, happening outside of me.
[00:07:57] I read it in the book. This program showed back up to me, showed up to me, and then all tied back into me applying for grad school. That's like a perfect example of how the natural flow of energy works. I didn't force any. There's no forcing energy in anybody's chart, and I'll say that a million times over.
[00:08:17] There is no forcing. So
[00:08:20] do
[00:08:20] Monica: you ever catch yourself knowing so well yourself now being really in tune with your own human design? Do you still have moments of, no wonder that was terrible. I was for, you know, looking back are do you still catch yourself going against the flow
[00:08:33] Leanna: a li a little bit. And then again, I can bring that back to be like, okay, my sleep is off, or my nutrition hasn't been as good, or I'm lacking in a morning routine, or maybe I haven't said my prayers or done tapping or meditated.
[00:08:46] So usually we can look back at all the things that we're using to support ourself, and that is where we can oftentimes become out of alignment.
[00:08:54] Amy: I refer that to as our roots, our emotional, physical, and spiritual roots. And if those are. Being cultivated, tended to, the alignment is like just all in the wind.
[00:09:05] One of the things that's taught though, I think for, especially for women, is that women aren't really taught to listen to that. I'm gonna call it that instinct. That flow going with it, because I've done that, especially in my younger self. Oh yeah, that sounds like a great idea. And then the day comes and I'm like, Why would I even agree to this?
[00:09:28] I believe that people know that is in there if they have like s slivers of awareness, but it's a matter of actually listening to it and following through with it
[00:09:38] too.
[00:09:39] Leanna: That takes practice and that's where the tapping, I'm finishing this next week, like the highest level of. E F T that actually connects in with how to use that with human design.
[00:09:50] So when we look at your design, how can we actually heal the lovability, the issues with self-trust, with self-worth, with vitality, with courage, with empowerment. These beautiful concepts that we hold inside. And if we can, Work on that. That's why I use tapping once I look at a chart, because that helps us get back to our owning our energy.
[00:10:13] And when I show people their chart, probably the most common thing I hear now is wow. It's like I feel seen. , or this is how I was as a little girl, but at some point it was not safe for me to be myself or based on conditioning with parents or teachers or it's not just, you know, this isn't just, our parents didn't do a good job raising us, so that's not what I'm saying.
[00:10:33] I'm the society, right? We're raising people to be a certain way, and so at some point, usually in our early childhood, it became no longer okay for us to be that intuitive. And we all have different ways that we access and use our intuition. That is
[00:10:50] Monica: really powerful. Right, Amy? I mean, I feel like Leanna should write a parenting book on this.
[00:10:54] It would. Eliminates so many arguments and so much going against the grain because we forget that they are individual little human beings. That they're not an autopilot. We don't get to just dictate their every move. And so learning that about them, I think it would be incredibly helpful. It would've really helped me with my.
[00:11:13] Especially the tough teenage years where they're, you know, you butt heads
[00:11:16] Leanna: so much. One of my children is a projector. The rest of us are generators. That the needs of a projector child are completely different. That child needs more alone time needs to be off. Screens more again, is not gonna probably have that nine.
[00:11:32] That child job isn't gonna do chores the same as my other children is gonna make money differently. College differently if he goes to college. And so now that I know that and he actually responds better with open-ended questions versus the questions I was asking Monica, generators do better with Yes.
[00:11:49] No. So if I didn't know that, which I didn't until just a couple years ago, if I didn't know that we had a, we were having a lot of disconnect with this child and how do we get through to this child? How do we strengthen our relationship? It's just like we're not connected and now things are, So much better.
[00:12:06] It's like we have this amazing bond with this child again, and all I had to do was learn to speak the language that child. .
[00:12:15] Amy: Yeah. But the glitch though is getting the parents on board, you know, because the parents they may or may not have done their own work as well, you know, because the parents they may or may not have done their own work as well.
[00:12:29] And so they're taking, that's the generational, you know, they're taking all of their issues or concerns and more than likely putting it on their children. wanting their children to go to a certain university major in something this and make this amount of money. So unfortunately we see that as well. And I'm curious, Leanna, the, your child, that is a projector, you said I Is that child more empathic?
[00:12:56] Leanna: Yeah, but then we'll start to see one child that's very empathic. We've had conversations and we knew this from the time she was little, but now she actually knows the things that she needs to do that help her get rid of that energy. That's not her hers. So she listens. This isn't forcing. I don't say, this is what you have to do.
[00:13:13] I try to set an example now. and I share things with her. She watches my Instagram stories, on human design. And I can see now when she's taking that time to kind of process and kind of come into herself, have some practices of releasing that energy. And it's really cool to watch your teenager do that.
[00:13:30] Amy: Yeah. Yeah. That is so important. I've learned you know, like I mentioned being in the field for so long that it's so important to create boundaries and. You know, just protection around myself and know that I would have to really put on my oxygen mask after working with different clients and populations and things like that, because it would just, And this was much earlier on in my career, you know, so, but still it's important.
[00:13:57] I think for anybody, regardless of what we do, we're gonna still come into contact with, I call 'em energy suckers. You know, somebody that just comes into the room and just wants to take all the energy because theirs is like, Completely gone haywire. So we have to learn how to also manage our energy and not give it away.
[00:14:17] You know that I think oftentimes people think that maybe I have to just keep giving my energy away, and we don't have to do that. You know, we have choices. And that's really what it sounds like you're doing. Leanna is teaching empowering to. Make their own choices for the people that you're working with.
[00:14:33] Leanna: If you're looking at your human design chart or you have a copy of it or you guys go, you can just get on Google and type in free human design chart. There's a lot of websites. You don't have to pay for a chart, you can pay for a reading, but to get your chart should be free. So don't pay for a chart if.
[00:14:46] There's free resources, but when you look at your chart, you're gonna see this graph. And Monica kind of described it as like playing operation. It does look like the whole body graph is what we call it. And you'll see colored in areas and you'll see open and white areas. And when we're looking at the centers, those are all those squares or diamonds or triangles, anywhere that is open.
[00:15:06] In that center you have, you actually pick up that energy of people around you and you not only pick it up, but you amplify it. So that is really where we see a lot of empathic energy. So if I could give you guys one question as parents that you can start practicing with yourself and ask your kids, are you feeling things that are not.
[00:15:27] And the younger the child is, the more likely they are to answer it. Honestly. Older kids might be like, that's the weirdest question, but as an adult, just sit with it. If you're feeling off and you've been in a group or you watched a weird show on tv because we can be influenced always. So tell
[00:15:41] Monica: us about EF f T a little bit.
[00:15:42] I mean, we've, you've mentioned it several times, so what exactly is
[00:15:46] Leanna: it? So EF FT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. It is a combination of eastern and western medicine. So from the eastern side, it is based on the meridian. And if some of you, if you've had acupunc. , then you have had little needles put into these points for specific purpose, right?
[00:16:04] There's a lot of different reasons why you would go to acupuncture. This is more like accu pressure, where we're just tapping on specific pressure points that help open the flow of energy. We have these energetic highways that run through our body according to any medicine. And so by tapping on these points, we're opening up the like emotional currents to be able to run more freely through your body.
[00:16:24] And so that's combined with principles in psychology as. Is it a daily practice? Whenever you want. Yes, but I would say at least daily. And the main thing when we are tapping the words that we're saying is based on psychology terms like exposure technique, where we're actually allowing ourselves to be okay.
[00:16:43] Saying even though I'm feeling this negative emotion, whatever it is, or even though I'm feeling anxious right now, I love myself and I'm. , that would just be a version of what we would say. So we're acknowledging that it's okay to feel what we feel, but we're also gonna be okay and that we love ourself anyway.
[00:16:59] So that combination with the tapping allows this beautiful process of release to happen inside our body where we can be calm and we can see change in as little as 60 seconds. So can we try
[00:17:11] Monica: a little one here? A mini one? I'll
[00:17:12] Leanna: show you guys the points. If you're driving, wait till you stop driving or pull over.
[00:17:16] That's my only thing. So the main point is on the side of your hand. This is actually just acknowledging it's kind of, this is connected to the small intestines meridian. So if we think about the small intestines in our body, our small intestines separates what our body's using as nourishment from waste.
[00:17:31] So this is actually helping us just kind of separate our. Right here and to just focus for a minute. So we just tap really lightly. There's no right or wrong, just not too fast and not too hard. What are you feeling? Have we got anything negative coming up right now, Amy or Monica? .
[00:17:45] Monica: Deadlines a lot of
[00:17:46] deadlines,
[00:17:46] Leanna: so let's go stress.
[00:17:47] Even though I'm stressed with these deadlines, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. And then we just say that three times. So even though I'm feeling stressed about these deadlines, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyways,
[00:18:00] Monica: even though I'm stressed with these deadlines. Stressed about these deadlines.
[00:18:04] I deeply and completely love myself.
[00:18:08] Amy: I deeply and completely love myself anyways, even though I am stressed,
[00:18:12] Monica: stressed about these deadlines, deeply love myself.
[00:18:14] Leanna: Anyway. Sometimes, because this is a wider spot, I like to use three fingers under the nose and then under the lips. Then find your collarbones. And then right below your collarbones is like that flushy spot, and it might even be sore in there.
[00:18:26] And just tap there, the stress with these deadlines. And then right at the bottom of your bra strap, just turn your hand sideways and there might even be a sore spot. There's a meridian point we wanna hit right there. The stress with these deadlines, and then the top of your head, the stress with these deadline.
[00:18:38] Grab a big drink of water, get a drink, and then just sit with it and see. On a scale of one to 10, oh, I should have asked you first on a scale of one to 10 what shifted?
[00:18:46] Amy: Yeah, it's weird. I feel like coolness
[00:18:49] Monica: just to feel I feel calmer. Like it's okay. It's okay. It's gonna be okay.
[00:18:55] Leanna: Once we feel the shift, we can do as many rounds of that until we feel our energy changing.
[00:19:00] Then we just say, even though I felt this stress in the past, I'm choosing to feel, what is it that you wanna feel now? No pressure. What's the opposite of no pressure? Let's turn that around into the form of the positive. Just flow, ease. I'm choosing to flow, I'm choosing to feel flow and be in the flow.
[00:19:18] And so that's what we would say three times on that. I love myself deeply and completely. And then we would just say, I'm choosing to be in the.
[00:19:24] Monica: She's gonna be in the flow.
[00:19:25] Leanna: She's gonna be in the, she's gonna be on the.
[00:19:33] Monica: I think what I like about this the most is once you learn it and use the right language with it and marry it together, it's something that we can apply. I can do it to your point anywhere. That's why you do it. When you go on your walks, Leanna, you just tap away.
[00:19:48] Leanna: I tap and walk and that can kind of connects into some aspects of my human design.
[00:19:52] I, I, now I know why that's a conversation for another time, but when the ways my ideas flow is when I'm walking, and so sometimes I have to tap to calm because I get so many ideas and downloads I have to calm myself why I'm walking . It's really awesome for your readers. I have a. Topping points, pdf and a basic topping EF f t topping script for everybody.
[00:20:12] Amy: Obviously you have some really unique skillset and we're so excited that you've shared 'em, so thank you. But I'm curious if you were to name that you have a kindling project, because I know you're like us. So with that knowledge then, what would you say you are working on as a kindling project? Right
[00:20:32] Leanna: now it's just creating awareness.
[00:20:35] and hope that we do not have to stay stuck. And even if we have tried a certain modality in the past or we've tried therapy and so many people say, well, it didn't work, that there still is ways and tools for you to become your best self no matter what has happened in your past, and to help them feel.
[00:20:56] That they can make decisions and give themselves permission to make decisions that are aligned with them what would you suggest then? My first suggestion would be to practice tapping on your own. And like I said, we'll provide resources here. There's plenty of YouTube videos and things that are not done by me.
[00:21:14] But again, when you're learning to tap, when you can feel confident using your own language, it will always be better than somebody else's. So I would say that you guys are welcome to follow me on social media. Like Monica said, I post a lot of videos of tapping and I'm talking more and more about human design.
[00:21:31] And in the future there'll be some group programs that are coming up and hopefully a membership site. You can schedule a free call for my Instagram aligning with Leanna and where we can just kind of talk about what your goals are, and I would love to do that. And if any of you pull your human design chart or mention my name and this podcast, like in your social media stories and saying, I learned about EF f t or human design, I will send you a few voice messages.
[00:21:54] Personally sharing some things that I see in your chart or something that you could tap on. So if you tag me and the kindling project there, so it has to be in your stories. That's the easiest way for me to see it. That's really
[00:22:05] Monica: great. Okay, so we wrap it up, and I think you already answered this, but we'll remind our listeners, what would you tell your young self, knowing what you know now?
[00:22:13] I would just
[00:22:14] Leanna: tell her that you are enough and it's not in what you do. That makes. better and makes you great. It's by just recognizing that you are already great.
[00:22:23] Amy: That's beautiful. I love that. Thank you.
[00:22:25] Monica: Thank you. Amy. Any last words or do you wanna do a shout out? Aimes.
[00:22:31] Amy: I wanna give a shout out to Leanna, really, because Leanna, you have really inspired me and I just am so honored to have met you and the people of Utah and the people around social media are incredibly blessed to come into contact with you.
[00:22:46] And I do believe you have a gift and a message and keep on truck and little Mama. Just keep going. You got places to. We'll be cheering for you. Yeah, I mean,
[00:22:55] Monica: Leanna, I feel like you're just going to be doing some massive things in this world and the, that you're going from a place of service and really caring for people and healing is a beautiful thing.
[00:23:07] So we are here for you and we support you. And whatever we can do to help you in your journey, know you can count on us. So thank you for
[00:23:14] Leanna: your, Thank you so much and for letting me kind of share a little bit about my story, and I hope this podcast brings hope and the hope of all possibilities for all of you that are listening because you are all worthy and deserving of everything that you want in your life.
[00:23:28] Beautiful. Thank you.