We recently connected with Leanne Elliott and have shared our conversation below.

Leanne, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

After 25 years as a successful entrepreneur and event planner, I found myself running on empty. What once inspired me had become a source of exhaustion. Despite the outward success, I was experiencing deep fatigue, burnout, and a cascade of physical symptoms that only grew worse the harder I pushed. I kept believing the next event, the next client, the next milestone would finally bring rest and fulfillment—but it never did.

During the pandemic, in a desperate attempt to restore balance, I began receiving Reiki energy healing. The experience was nothing short of transformative. As my energy realigned, I could finally see the truth: the very career I’d built my identity around was also what was making me sick. I didn’t need a new job—I needed a hard pivot.

I walked away from my career in July of 2022. It was no small decision, as I still had three young children at home and a mortgage in Santa Barbara wine country. Leaving the hospitality industry meant releasing my professional identity, my network, and my financial security. But at 50, I began to see midlife not as an ending, but as a sacred transformation—a magic time of recalibration. This is not aging; this is redefining, shedding, and reawakening to a more aligned, radiant, and soul-led way of living.

What began as a three-month sabbatical turned into a profound spiritual sojourn. In the space that followed, I launched The Living Wellness Muse podcast, became a certified Reiki Energy Healer, and began publishing a wellness magazine dedicated to transformation and sacred self-care. Through many powerful Reiki sessions, I discovered and embraced my gift as a Psychic Intuitive. Today, I run an energy healing and intuitive mediumship practice in Santa Ynez, California—where I also coach high-performing professional women through Transformational Intuitive Coaching where we don’t just go deep; we travel through cosmic realms, tap into Source Energy, and connect with Sacred Guides. Together, we activate intuition and call in divine messages that create the map to your heart’s deepest desires for love, belonging, and unimaginable fulfillment. We move beyond limiting beliefs and conditioning to uncover what uniquely belongs to you—then translate that wisdom into guiding principles for your life and career.

After many challenges, heartbreaks, and countless reckonings with a life that was out of alignment, I now stand in a place of deep and true fulfillment. I am excited again about life. I feel rested, nurtured, and profoundly on purpose—in how I serve my community and the women who are navigating their own sacred midlife transformations.

Leanne, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am an Energy Healer, Psychic Medium, Writer, and Transformational Intuitive Coach, based in Santa Ynez, California. I help women who feel stuck, burned out, or out of alignment reconnect with their true essence and higher wisdom. Through Reiki, intuitive guidance, and spiritual mentorship, I support my clients in finding clarity, peace, and energetic harmony—so they can move forward in life and career with confidence, vitality, and purpose. My sessions go far beyond traditional coaching or talk therapy; we work at the energetic and soul level, where true transformation happens. I channel divine messages and insights from Spirit Guides and higher consciousness, helping clients release what has been outgrown and align with what is uniquely meant for them.

My Transformational Intuitive Coaching is coaching like you’ve never experienced before. Together, we travel through cosmic realms, tap into Source Energy, and connect with Sacred Guides to illuminate your path. These sessions help women activate their intuition, reclaim their power, and chart the map to their heart’s deepest desires—for love, belonging, and unimaginable fulfillment. We move beyond limiting beliefs and external expectations to uncover what truly belongs to you, then translate that wisdom into guiding principles for your relationships, purpose, and professional life.

What sets my work apart is the way I blend the mystical with the practical. My background as a business owner and mother of three grounds my spiritual work in real-world understanding. I know what it means to carry responsibility and ambition, yet still crave meaning and inner peace. My approach honors both—the sacred and the strategic—because true wellness doesn’t ask us to abandon one for the other; it invites us to integrate both.

I’m most proud of the courage it took to start over at 50—to leave behind a thriving career and step into my calling as a healer, medium, and teacher. Today, my mission is to help other women experience midlife as a sacred transformation, not an ending. It’s a time of recalibration, magic, and deep remembering of who we really are beneath the roles we’ve played. Through my energy healing practice, The Living Wellness Muse Podcast, and my digital Living Wellness Magazine, I support women in navigating this profound season with grace, curiosity, and spiritual connection.

Above all, I want people to know that it’s never too late to begin again. Your intuition is your most powerful compass—and when you learn to trust it, it will lead you home to a life that feels aligned, vibrant, and deeply fulfilling.

What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?

My most effective strategy for building my clientele has been leading with authenticity, trust, and energetic alignment rather than traditional marketing. In this work, people don’t just want information—they want resonance. They’re seeking someone who feels safe, grounded, and genuine. I’ve found that when I share my personal journey of burnout, healing, and rediscovery through my podcast, magazine, and social media, the right clients naturally find their way to me. They recognize themselves in my story.

I also place a strong focus on experience-based connection. Most of my clients come through word of mouth, referrals, and community engagement. When someone has a profound energetic or intuitive session, they become an advocate—not because I asked them to, but because the transformation speaks for itself. Consistent visibility through my podcast, wellness magazine, and local workshops allows potential clients to experience my energy before ever booking a session. That genuine energetic exchange—before any sales conversation—builds lasting trust and creates a community rooted in soul-level connection rather than quick conversions.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

My most defining moment of resilience wasn’t a single event—it was the space in between. After walking away from my career, I found myself standing on the edge of the unknown. I knew I couldn’t go back to what I had built—it had taken too much from me—but I also didn’t yet know what was next. That in-between season was disorienting. I felt untethered, uncertain, and at times, invisible. There were days I questioned everything—my choices, my timing, even my sanity. No one, not even those closest to me, fully understood what I was doing or why I had stepped away from something so successful. But deep inside, I felt a quiet knowing that there was something more meant for me—something my soul had been waiting to express.

So I dug deep. I listened inward instead of outward. I kept the faith in my own fire and followed the faint sparks of curiosity and energy wherever they led. Reiki became my refuge, then my revelation. Through healing sessions, meditation, and surrender, I began piecing myself back together—not into who I had been, but into who I was becoming. Slowly, I felt clarity returning, along with a renewed sense of purpose.

Resilience, I’ve learned, isn’t loud or linear. It’s the quiet courage to keep walking when the path ahead hasn’t yet revealed itself—to trust the light within when the outer world goes dark. That’s where true transformation happens—in the void, where faith meets becoming.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.leanneelliott.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingwellnessmuse/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563782800293
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanne-cooper-elliott-638985250/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@livingwellnessmuse
• Other: https://stan.store/livingwellnessmuse

Image Credits

Lucia Kiel Photography