Anena Hansen: mission-driven relational expert
​specializing in real estate sales and trauma awareness. 

who i am

Raised in a conservative religious community in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, I dropped out of college to be a starving artist and lived in a quarter of the US states before embarking on a two-week volunteer trip to Kenya that lasted eleven years. ​In Nairobi I stumbled into a job subcontracting for the Economist magazine. (I also worked briefly in South Sudan after independence, where my most notable achievement was falling down the stairs in front of a South Sudanese army regiment.)
Over my years in Africa I drank, adopted a baby, and eventually got sober. I worked as a copywriter with clients on five continents and built a coaching and workshop business, teaching feminine-strength-based entrepreneurial skills to Kenyan women from grassroots to C suite level. 

In 2019, I came back to the US with my daughter. Met the man I’d been waiting for, who was a powerhouse recovery advocate, and we built a beautiful life together that ended when he relapsed and died of an overdose. That was my great course-correct—if someone as smart and dedicated as Phil can lose his life to addiction, then I’d better get off the sidelines and get some skin in the game. I’ve been working in the field of addiction and trauma ever since.

But there’s more! During covid, my baby brother David Hansen, a top 5% NH real estate agent for a gazillion years, talked me into getting my real estate license. So nowadays I keep myself busy bringing my trauma-informed skills to both passions: delivering supportive service to clients  through the stress and excitement of buying or selling a home, and delivering trauma awareness trainings to businesses and organizations who want to foster safety and connection.

what i've done

  • US congressional task force advisor
  • TV show host
  • advocate for addiction-related policy at the state and federal levels
  • board member of statewide and nationwide nonprofits
  • ​speaker on addiction, trauma and recovery
  • NH's number-one delegate to the national convention for a US presidential candidate, 2023
  • coach to women political candidates​
  • published author in numerous publications and anthologies 
  • steering committee member of the Monadnock DEIB Coalition 
  • ​business & travel writer
  • Founding Trustee of Graca Machel's pan-african initiative for women's financial inclusion, Kenya chapter​
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Working with my shero, Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel

what i'll do for you

  • speaker
  • podcast guest
  • ​workshop facilitator 
  • nervous system literacy educator
  • oh and the best agent to help you buy or sell your New Hampshire house, of course!​​​
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The one who gives meaning to it all: my amazing daughter
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