We recently connected with Trisheana Barzar Hunter and have shared our conversation below.

Trisheana, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?

My daddy, my grandma and my mom played a huge part in who I have become. Before the second grade, I experienced eight brain surgeries, a major seizure, and a brain hemorrhage. I lost feeling in my left side. All of this was very challenging for me. I had to learn how to walk again and even how to feed myself again. I struggled with basic tasks, like holding a spoon or a fork. I couldn’t play or catch a ball. During these times, I would sometimes get really upset, feel overwhelmed, and become embarrassed. I would lash out and even cry. But, my mom patiently helped me learn to do things all over like how to feed myself again. These memories are still very vivid for me.

My grandma was a very important person in my life. She was always with me and never let me give up. She hired tutors and pushed me to keep going and kept me from falling behind. I would get so angry because often I just wanted to quit. But, she wouldn’t allow it. Thanks to her, despite missing most of kindergarten and first grade, I was never held back in school. My grandma refused to let me give up or quit. She even got a job at my elementary school as a playground monitor to make sure I could still go to school and be safe on the playground given I had significant brain trauma and had to wear a helmet due to the fact I was missing part of my skull. Because of her, I had a normal life and I learned not to give in to my many health challenges. I learned how to be a fighter and push through when most would have given up.

My daddy is a veteran. He served in both the Air Force and in the Army. He has been with me through all 12 of my brain surgeries. When I had my surgeries as a child, he would anoint me with oil and pray over me. He, my grandma, and my mommy stayed by my side comforted me, prayed for me and taught me the importance of faith and belief in something greater than myself. I knew early on I had a true purpose and calling in life.  My mom would take her time before my surgeries when I was little to comb and braid my hair. She cried with me as we knew it would have to be shaved off in order for me to have the operations. She sacrificed a lot for me from the very beginning. Although, I really didn’t learn how much my mom sacrificed for me until I was much older. It is something I wish I would have known much sooner.

When I got sick and needed brain surgery again in 2014, my grandma showed up as much as she could. She was older now and my grandfather died that year in October. I remained sick and had 5 brain surgeries, septic shock, and three extremely painful breast construction surgeries from 2014 to 2020. Unfortunately, my grandma ended up in a nursing home not too long after my grandpa passed. She was my world and she passed away in 2018.

But, my daddy never missed. He showed up for every surgery. Drove 90 minutes sometimes two hours to be by my side, kept me laughing till I cried, and encouraged me through it all. He is a huge part of how Moving Mountains Coaching was born. I would call him crying, wanting to give up. I got so weary from all of the health challenges that seemed to never end. When I called my daddy he would say “you got to put one foot in front of the other®” “You just got to keep picking em up and putting em down®” I often would go hiking and I’d start feeling physical pain and want to give up. But, I would hear my daddy telling me to “keep picking em up and putting em down, just put one foot in front of the other®”! Then one day hearing my daddy’s voice hiking, I realized, “If I Can Climb The Mountain, I Can Move It®” and Moving Mountains Coaching was born.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am often asked how I became the coach I am today. The answer is, through a life of unique experiences, adversity, and living through the unthinkable. These experiences help me connect with a diverse range of individuals facing equally diverse challenges and qualifies me to help my clients achieve freedom, overcome obstacles and live fulfilling empowered lives. I provide Elite Mental Health Coaching and Couples Coaching Services for athletes, celebrities, executives, and their families.

Additionally, I provide relatable mental health support through Transformational Life Coaching and Mental Health Coaching to individuals struggling to get out of their own way, develop positive habits while overcoming mental, emotional and even spiritual blockages preventing them from connecting with their best self on a deeper level, living life the way they desire, and being unapologetic about walking in their truth.  I help clients achieve their personal and professional goals, overcome challenges, and improve their overall sense of well-being and personal satisfaction.

As the owner and coach at Moving Mountains Coaching, I provide a premier support experience through personalized coaching services, based in proven techniques tailored to each client, free of judgement and with the utmost discretion and confidentiality. Through my coaching, I help clients create powerful change in their lives, by improving their relationship with themselves, and helping them transform how they process and navigate their experiences in different situations and with those around them.

My clients grow in greater understanding of their value, are empowered to embrace the best in themselves and develop lasting positive habits leading to a more rewarding life. My couples and relationship clients grow in communication skills, intimacy, setting common goals, and maintaining respect in their relationships. Couples I work with learn how to maintain a relationship that involves fighting fair, forgiveness, compassion, and safe spaces to be themselves while reigniting passion in their relationships. Through coaching I provide a relatable coaching experience drawing from the challenges I have faced in my own life dealing with adversity, trauma, and chronic illness, which have taught me the importance of having experienced support and developing skills and positive habits that move mountains.

Working with me, clients gain freedom from self-sabotage, improve in self-awareness, build confidence and are elevated to a place that allows them to walk in acceptance of the unique value within them that makes them worthy of the life they desire and deserve.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

The most important skill to being successful in my field is the ability to truly connect to other human beings. Being successful, requires a genuine curiosity to learn someone else’s life experiences, engage in their story and a have an unwavering desire to help them make peace with their experiences, acknowledge their gifts and even their flaws in order for them to embrace themselves, exercise greater self-compassion and learn how to
grow in their truth. To help others create powerful transformation, it is important to find peace and acceptance in your own experiences. Clients need and deserve someone who is comfortable being themselves and someone they can relate to. Clients need to feel
safe working with you and know this is a place they do not have to put on any of the mask they wear for the rest of the world. To help clients find their own power it is extremely important to meet them where they are and genuinely believe them to be capable
of achieving what they desire most. As a coach, it is mandatory to create a safe space base in mutual respect and never betray your client’s trust.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.movingmountainscoaching.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/movingmountainscoach
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/movingmountainscoach
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisheana-barzar-hunter/
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@Dopesoulcollective?si=5vN0fYJkY89WXYPl