Meet Owen Hunt

We were lucky to catch up with Owen Hunt recently and have shared our conversation below.

Owen , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

Trial and error. I firmly believe everyone has a purpose, we weren’t put here for no reason. The exciting part is finding your purpose and that comes through expanding your comfort zone and trying new things. Some of the things I thought would be my purpose, I hated. Other things surprised me. As an example, I thought I would love scuba diving. I romanticized it and thought if I tried it, I’d end up being a scuba instructor for the rest of my life. When I finally got the opportunity to go, I couldn’t clear my sinuses, got swept away by the current, and felt extremely claustrophobic with all the gear on. It just wasn’t for me. But I had to try. On the contrary, when I started working as a producer in pranks I was intimidated and really nervous to be around some of the celebrities and people in the industry. But I took to that like a duck to water and really enjoyed coordinating on film and Television shows.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I’m a personal coach, I teach and help my clients bring their most intimate work to the surface and give their gift to the world. I have a few irons in the fire and have owned several businesses over the years. I love event production, standup comedy, making videos and podcasts and ultimately helping people find their way.

There’s something special about seeing someone in their element, absolutely crushing it and knowing that you had a hand in their development feels pretty damn good.

I am one of the producers for the Athens Comedy Fest in Athens, GA along with a team that includes Karen Morgan, among others, who are absolutely incredible at what they do. Each of us have roles in the creation of the festival and we’re really excited to put on the second year in May 2026.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

I would say emotional regulation or ‘State Control’ is the most important. When I started in production, it was extremely stressful and demanding. Without the tools to take things in stride and not meltdown, I wouldn’t have lasted a week. I think the emotional regulation part is critical because you can’t really be creative in fight or flight. You have to first dig your heels in, accept the consequences as they are and make the best strategy possible to move forward with the options you’re presented with. Things don’t always (or rarely ever) go as planned, so to be calm in the pocket and be able to go with the flow while still taking action is the most useful skill I’ve learned as a producer, business owner and entrepreneur.

Second, I’d repeat the work of my mentor, Courtney Johnson who says, “The party is at the top of Cringe Mountain”. This is something every comedian has to face and probably anyone who is successful in a personal branding capacity. It’s the ability to move through the cringe. In order to develop our skills, we stsart out incompetent and from there we move into conscious incompetence. It hurts. It’s like learning to swim. You flail before you sail. You have to develop the capacity to look silly and keep moving forward in the face of embarrassment and public scrutiny. Without that skill, you’ll never move out of the shallow end of the pool.

Thirdly, I would say learning to ‘reframe’ situations and opportunities that happen to you in a positive light. This is an NLP technique, meaning you tweak the story in order to help you along. It helps with emotional state control as well as working through skill acquistion (the cringe). An example would be losing a game of chess and instead of getting upset and angry at the person you lost to, you ‘reframe’ it as a lesson that helped you develop your skills at chess. Does it suck to lose, sure. Is it painful to learn, of course. But the story we tell ourselves about the experience is the dominant narrative in our mind and we get to choose what that is. If we frame our loss as a win, it becomes a milestone for our growth. If we become a sore loser, we lose momentum and likely don’t learn the lesson that would make us a better chess player in the future.

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?

My Dad, without even knowing it, taught me the value of gratitude at a very young age. I don’t think he ever realized what he was doing but when we were young, he would have to wrangle me out of bed and in order that I didn’t just go back to sleep, he’d put me in the shower with him.

I remember something that he did every day and I’m honestly thinking of writing a book about it. It was so simple but profound. Every day, as we got into the shower he’d simply say, “Thank you God for the hot water.” That instilled the practice of gratitude in me at a very young age and I’ve learned over time, as much as it’s cliche to ‘be grateful’, no one ever complains their way to the top. My Dad found something to be grateful for every day, even if it was as simple as the hot water. He’s a self made man who I believe has become successful as a result of finding things to be thankful for.

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