LEAH JOHNSON

AUTHOR~ EMPOWERESS OF JOY~ SPEAKER

The act of intentionally creating beauty in your life holds immense power. It allows you to connect with your inner self, heal, and experience more joy. Join me on the journey to Finding Fantastic Joy!

You are not broken or disconnected. You are the artist of your life — and the canvas is ready.

-Leah Johnson

Discover Your Path to Joy and Creative Freedom

Acclaim for “Finding Fantastic Joy”

  • Amazon #1 Best Seller

  • Tattered Cover Colorado Author

Always fierce and never filtered, Leah Johnson’s Finding Fantastic Joy is a tour de force in speaking truth to power. The power of self-doubt, self-examination, and ultimately self-redemption. In these trying times that have left so many of us battered and broken, Finding Fantastic Joy is a book that shows us how to build new and stronger foundations that help guide us toward becoming our best selves. Read it, and you’ll be better off for doing so.
— Will Johnson Senior Vice President, Business Development, Daily Kos

Leah Johnson | Speaker • Artist • Author • Guide

Leah Johnson is a former politician turned painter, speaker, and author who helps people reconnect with their creativity, live intentionally, and co-create their lives with the Divine. After a 25-year career in politics—where she led with conviction, compassion, and a radical belief that change is always possible—Leah made the bold decision to quit. Not just her job, but the identity that came with it.

While still in politics, Leah experienced a profound breakdown. Burned out and untethered, she descended into deep depression and disconnection amidst the constant pressure to prove herself. But in the quiet of that unraveling, she began to hear something she had long ignored: her creative voice. What followed was a transformation that led her from public servant to spiritual seeker, from politician to painter. And in that transformation, she discovered her truest calling—not fixing broken systems, but helping people reclaim the joy, creativity, and connection that systems often strip away.

Today, Leah is the author of two books: Finding Fantastic Joy: How Building a Self-Advocacy Campaign Led Me Out of Darkness and the forthcoming Girl! Baptize Yourself. Her work centers on helping others shed the roles, expectations, and performative “success” that no longer serve them—so they can live with authenticity, alignment, and joy.

She speaks powerfully on transformation, quitting with intention, creative reinvention, and spiritual growth. Her signature keynote, Your Permission Slip to Quit, reframes quitting not as failure, but as a sacred, creative act of realignment and rebirth.

Leah also leads retreats in Teotihuacan, Mexico, where she guides women into deep spiritual and creative healing through ceremony, intentional creativity, and connection to the Divine Feminine. She has been traveling to Teotihuacan for over a decade and believes it holds unmatched ancestral and energetic power to awaken what’s been lost or buried within us.

Whether she’s on an inspirational stage, leading a retreat, or painting with her hands in a riot of color, Leah is animated by one unshakable belief: that joy is not a luxury, it’s a lifeline.

She lives in Colorado, is lit up by color, connection, meaningful conversations, and her number one job: being a mom. Nothing brings her more joy than creating alongside her children and embarking on wild, wonderful travel adventures with her crazy, love-filled family. She always says, “I live in the world as I want it to be—not as it actually is.” And she invites others to do the same.

Meet Leah