Title: Founder and Owner
Company: Acoustic Cellars Lodge
Location: Sedona, Arizona, United States
Leon Morton, founder and owner at Acoustic Cellars Lodge, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Business Owners for dedication, achievements, and leadership in entrepreneurship.
With a career spanning multiple industries and an unwavering commitment to excellence, Mr. Morton has earned recognition for his unique blend of five star retreat hospitality, peak performance psychology, winemaking, and music, establishing himself as a trailblazer in each of his pursuits. A native of the United States, his diverse career began with his passion for music, which started at a young age when he was introduced to performing and music, traveling on his parent’s gospel tour bus. He quickly became adept at singing, playing the drums and later, the guitar, developing a deep connection to the roots of American music—particularly Delta blues.
Mr. Morton’s unique musical tribute showcase, “The Crossroads Chronicles,” an interactive edutainment multimedia program for the American RootsBlues Foundation™ is his current focus sharing stories and songs from the early roots of blues. This program has led him to perform on stages around the world and producing several albums, including “Down Home” in 2022, “Best of Undercover Acoustic” in 2021, and “Lay My Burden Down” in 2004. Mr. Morton’s musical contributions earned him numerous accolades, such as the one of the Telluride Blues Festival Acoustic Showcase winners in 2009, induction as Performing Artist and Ambassador into the National Heritage Blues Hall of Fame in 2011, Arizona Blues Showcase victories in 2012, 2013, and 2023, and an International Memphis Blues feature in 2024.
On the entrepreneurial business side, after a shortened career as a college student athlete, Mr. Morton embarked into real estate investing and contracting while finishing his education in the newly burgeoning field of Mind Body Integration and Natural Health Sciences. Self-funded from his real estate holdings and contracting company, he embarked toward his passion of Natural Health, specifically in the field of stress management and performance enhancement through therapeutic sessions of physical massage therapy, guided imagery and visualization founding Stress Busters of America Inc. in the mid-1990s. His customized programs and successful results were pioneering in this specialized field benefitting athletes, executives, and corporate clients, helping them maximize their potential both on and off the field.
Mr. Morton’s innovative work includes customizing programs for the NFL’s Detroit Lions, professional, collegiate, and amateur athletes, executives, corporate teams and the lay person. His approach is rooted in his own transformative experiences, where he harnessed the power of mind-body interaction to achieve peak performance as a player, coach, and entrepreneur. He further developed these techniques through advanced studies at institutions such as the University of Natural Medicine, the University of Massachusetts, Milton Erickson Foundation certification of Clinical Medical Hypnosis, and as a certified master trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming.
In 2016, Mr. Morton’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to establish the Acoustic Cellars Lodge in the heart of Sedona Wine Country in Page Springs/Cornvile Arizona. After completing his enology coursework in winemaking at the Yavapai College Southwest Wine Center, he transformed a scenic property into a private family winery and exclusive lodge that offers intimate lodging experiences, wine-tasting tours, and live music events. The lodge, which accommodates up to 14 guests, has earned a reputation as one of the top-rated retreat destinations in the Verde Valley AVA. Mr. Morton and his wife, Dawn, also host special showcases featuring musicians from around the world, combining their passion for music, wine, and hospitality.
Mr. Morton is an accomplished author, with published works such as the co-authored project “Success Is a State of Mind” in 2009 by Insight Publishing Co. with Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen and Deepak Chopra. His new book release is “Resilient AF: The Mental Playbook for Overcoming Life’s Toughest Challenges,” published through Lulu Press in 2025. He looks forward to the pressing of his next book in October 2025, “Personal Power 2.0” through Lulu Press, which he co-authored with his wife Dawn Morton. Each of his published works as well as his e-book series’, and multiple contributing articles, reflect his dedication to helping others unlock their full potential.
Mr. Morton’s work continues to inspire individuals worldwide to embrace the power of trained mental visualization, guided-imagery, plasticity programming™ and other mental modules to enhance, peak performance, sports psychology, character alteration, and living a successful lifestyle anchored in persistent self-development and personal growth. He is a multifaceted individual whose life’s work continues to resonate with his life philosophy of living a “Renaissance Life” – pursuing activities and work that captures your passion and interests, and then excelling in those endeavors to contribute to others creating a journey of variety and success. He has synchronistically accomplished this vision in the hospitality, professional music, and personal growth and performance industries. As a proud husband, father, and leader in his community, Mr. Morton remains committed to enriching lives through the harmonious integration of music, wine, nature, through personal growth workshops, retreats and seminars at his Lodge and on stages speaking across the country
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