In this deeply moving episode of the HerStory Podcast, Kylie King sits down with Leone Wilson, the founder of Harvesting Health and host of The Natural Narrative podcast. At 63 years young, Leone shares her extraordinary journey of turning personal tragedy – from surviving childhood medical trauma at Chelmsford Hospital to facing severe grief and autoimmune conditions – into a thriving “ecosystem of care.”

Integrating qualifications across naturopathy, nutrition, counseling, and psychology, Leone breaks down how her multi-disciplinary Gold Coast clinic bridges the gap between physical health and emotional well-being. She also opens up about the grit required to navigate business growth, defend a trademark while caring for her dying partner, and why you are ultimately the true expert of your own life and health.

What You’ll Learn in Episode 84

• Leone shares her transition from a massage therapist in a renovated garage to founding Harvesting Health as an all-encompassing “ecosystem of care.”

• You will learn how Leone’s early lived experiences with severe anorexia nervosa and medical trauma shaped her holistic approach to health and mental well-being.

• Leone explains why she continually pivoted her education, adding degrees in naturopathy, nutrition, counseling, and psychology to better serve her clients.

• We unpack the realities of protecting a brand, including Leone’s intense battle to defend her business trademark while in palliative care with her late partner.

• Leone breaks down the connection between chronic physical illness, childhood stress, and emotional health, highlighting why allopathic medicine doesn’t always offer a complete solution.

• You will discover how Leone created her trademarked program, Brave Bites, designed to address eating disorders through a unified lens of psychology, counseling, and nutrition.

• Leone discusses her future business expansion to Southport and her goal of making holistic mental and physical health services accessible via NDIS, private health, and Medicare.

• We explore the importance of rest and life-work balance, learning why taking time to recharge ultimately makes you a higher-performing business owner.

• Leone provides a powerful perspective on handling life’s greatest adversities and using business as an anchoring force for purpose and resilience.

• You will walk away with Leone’s ultimate advice for aspiring women in business: stop waiting for the “right time” and step into your role as the expert in your own life.

Leone Wilson is the founder and Clinical Director of Harvesting Health, an integrative health practice on the Gold Coast, and the host of the award-winning podcast, The Natural Narrative.

Her professional journey was shaped by her own search for care. After experiencing childhood trauma, medical trauma through the Chelmsford deep sleep treatment program, PTSD, eating disorders, the loss of her first baby to SIDS, homelessness during her teens and later Hashimoto’s thyroid disease, Leone understood what it meant to feel unheard, powerless and unable to find support that considered the whole person. Having left school at fourteen, completing one university degree once seemed almost impossible. Leone has now completed degrees in naturopathy, human nutrition and counselling and is currently undertaking postgraduate psychology studies. Her decade-long education has been a deliberate pathway toward creating the kind of integrated, compassionate and evidence-informed care she once needed herself.

Through Harvesting Health, Leone brings together naturopathy, nutrition, counselling and complementary therapies within an ecosystem of care designed to improve access and reduce the fragmentation often experienced within healthcare. She also teaches and mentors future practitioners and uses The Natural Narrative podcast to make meaningful health conversations available beyond the clinic room.

Following the death of her partner, David, from glioblastoma in 2025, Leone’s work became not only her passion but also her anchor. Her story is one of transforming adversity into agency, education into empowerment and lived experience into purposeful service for others.

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