7 mistakes even healthy people make...
Professional Bio
Lara is a Longevity Expert, as a highly trained Nutritionist, Stress-Management Consultant, and Pilates/Barre Teacher. She's led hundreds of individuals, groups, and TV interviews in LA and NYC—to "eat, think and move" well.
Lara draws upon two Ivy health degrees, post-grad at UCLA's mindfulness research center (and work overseas for more insight)—all so you don't have to!—for results that even A.I. ChatGPT just can't provide.
SPEAKING
Lara is an eMindful Teacher, for stress reduction. She's also led seminar-series for diverse sectors—stressed corporate settings including Wall Street, time-crunched staff including UCLA's, chic and health-conscious fitness chain Equinox, pressured fashion models prepping for shows, underserved schools in Harlem and Compton, and more. She's also been an on-air expert, below.
“Come back to an awareness wiser than thinking.”
Lara Leone
TV & PRINT
As a spokesperson, Lara's represented Del Monte pineapple for high vitamin C, Adidas apparel worn in the Olympics for daily performance, Knudsen and more. As a TV guest expert, she's dished advice on Oxygen, MTV, Fox and more. She was a recurring nutrition and fitness expert on The CW morning show in NYC, including for sweeps, for 3 years.
In print, her wellness advice has been penned in Mensa Bulletin, quoted in NY Daily News and Self , and featured full-length in Weight Watcher’s, SI Advance, Mode and GQ stating early on, “I highly recommend raiding your piggy bank for at least one session with…Lara!” A fitness model during grad school, she booked Reebok Catalogue, Fitness Magazine and more. A teen jock, the LA Times named her a defender selected to the CA A-1 soccer team.
EDUCATION
Lara holds a Columbia University M.S. in "Applied Physiology and Nutrition," Cornell University B.A. in "Biology and Society," and UCLA Mindfulness Research Center, certification in mindfulness facilitation for stress reduction.
She maintains certifications in Pilates, Barre (and formerly Fitness Training).
For speaking, she draws upon theater training, as SAG-AFTRA.
Q & A
with Lara
How did you get into the field?
Well, I've had I've had a "front-row seat"—from childhood on—to industry insider insights, that I just don't see around social media, youtube or even ChatGPT...
Not one, but two industry pilots—that I watched BFF-mom in—reeled me in:
Jane Fonda’s first-of-its-kind strength video for women, and Richard Simmons first-of-its-kind meal plan.
My aunt M.D. was Public Health Commissioner of New Mexico (from NYC), with cutting edge health practices.
Passionate about nutrition and longevity, I went to grad school for it, then post-grad for stress-management, mindfulness-based (which was also just emerging).
I kept learning alongside "celebrity expert" colleagues, consulting high-performers to the everyman.
I bring "tried-and-true" yet always "up-to-the-minute" insight into what's working best for our bodies now!
What's your mission?
Well... clients as young as 23 have reported energy like a grandma. When was the first moment you felt older?
I started at 29, on a date with a "kindred spirit," also 29. He said, “We have matching lines around our left eye!" Oh the synchronicity!
If my skin was getting some wear and tear so young, what other organs were too?!
Around 40, I got heart palpitations (despite healthy eating, sans saturated fat), which my mom had been hospitalized for in her 50s. Oh. heck. no! I also had shifting weight, less energy, and more.
Professionally, I found the metabolic root of it all, and nutritionally restored it all, almost reversing time.
Now I help others regain "time and energy," from their figure to skin health to bill of health—so that however much time is gone, their best life is still ahead.
It’s never too late, and it’s never too early, 70s to 20s, to tap in.
What's your approach?
Living the real (top-ranked) “mediterranean diet,” while working there for years, informed my approach...
Not this food or that, but the lifestyle...
Like heating up food on an actual stove, vs microwave!
Or family-owned eateries, serving warm-hearted and fun-loving connection, as the main ingredient.
As for food, my take is beyond more plants, or protein, or calories—though I do have a "plant-rich" slant (maybe even “green mediterranean,” a researched twist with anti-aging benefits).
Beyond that, it's about "refueling our body's systems" from wear-and-tear, and getting into the habit of it.
Whether you're confused about what to eat anymore, or you kinda know, but aren't doing it... I've got you.
