We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Hannah Mckitrick a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hannah, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.

My Intuitive Health is the culmination of my passions.
I worked in corporate for a few years after college and soon realized how utterly boring that was! I deeply yearned for more out of this one wild and precious life so I quit that job to follow a dream of mine – culinary school in Italy. It was euphoric. Upon returning back to the States I fell into the corporate trap again. The job I was in was so unfulfilling that I took it upon myself to dive deeper into studying wellness, yoga, self-growth, and holistic nutrition on the side. After putting in my time I quit that job to again follow my dreams overseas to the Academy of Healing Nutrition in London while simultaneously getting my yoga teacher training.
I had so many passions – travel, Italy, wellness, nutrition, cooking. I spent years looking for my “dream” job elsewhere. I looked for jobs that would satisfy at least one of my passions in the wellness space, travel industry, retreat industry, food, of nutrition. I never dreamt that I would be able to combine all of my passions into one (trust me, I searched high and low!)
In 2020 I got a manifestation journal of sorts where I was prompted to write down 5 things I’m grateful for, followed by “10 dreams I made happen” as if they were already done. I didn’t even realize what I was writing, I was simply letting a stream of consciousness take over and put words into my fantasy dreams: “health and wellness business” “healing nutrition business” “healthy cooking business” “get paid to travel” “website with 100s of recipes” “healthy cooking and wellness retreats in Italy” were some of the many dreams I wrote down.
Less than 1 year later, every single “dream” came true.
A few months after I began the journal, the pandemic hit. I was in a job that felt insignificant compared to the life events unfolding around me. I craved deeper meaning and impact with the work I brought into the world. I also had little patience for settling. The world was demonstrating how short life can be. And so I had the idea: create a business that helps people have FUN with healthy food and in turn, their lives. My business idea would combine virtual healthy cooking programs, wellness coaching, and culinary wellness retreats in Italy. This idea set my passion on fire and the rest is history.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My specialty is bringing joy and lightness back into the self-growth and health journey, paving a new way that transcends diets and embraces the synergy between energy and food. As the founder of My Intuitive Health, I look to create sanctuary spaces in my virtual cooking classes and on retreats in Italy where people can experience embodied alignment.
I created this industry from my own lived experience of Crohn’s disease and anxiety. I wanted to offer a service that lit people’s hearts on fire (cue retreats in Italy) but also wove in the food, health, and spiritual practices that helped my heal my own gut of Crohn’s disease and create internal and external harmony.
The foundation of my approach is joy-infused wellness that nurtures the whole self—physically, emotionally, and energetically. By integrating energy work with cooking and intentional connection, I help clients create a gentle, flexible, and playful path toward self-growth and alignment. My approach prioritizes joy as the key to transformative health, using food, connection, and embodied experiences to inspire vibrancy and healing from within and rejecting the rigidity that can stifle self-growth.
Trained in transformational coaching, psychology, emotional intelligence, psychic development, Eastern medicine, culinary arts, and nutrition.
I love helping clients access a higher vibration and nurture their “soul health” from the inside out. Whether in my transformative cooking programs or during my culinary wellness retreats in Southern Italy, I focus on providing an uplifting space for people to experience healing and self-discovery with a healthy dose of joy and FUN!

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I had to unlearn a lot of “logic” conditioning. Time and time again in my business success has not come from hours of cold calling. Oftentimes, it was hard to find a linear correlation of results per output. Instead, my success has come from alignment. When I am in alignment, I encounter more serendipities. I meet the right connection more quickly, I get called to fly to LA to film a TV segment, I sell out my retreats without a website, and so on. It wasn’t from the traditional hustle and grind. But rather, my best success has come from being in the energy of allowing, joy, and confidence.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

So many! I’m currently reading Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks which has profound education on the universal laws. It highlights your current vibration as the means to create your own reality.
Early on in my career, books like Jen Sencaro’s You Are a Badass helped me take bold leaps like quitting my job to pursue nutritional education.
I recently thoroughly enjoyed The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer which guides the reader through the profound miracles that happen when you just get out of the way and go with the universal flow.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://myintuitivehealth.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannah.mckitrick/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-mckitrick-91649573/