Brad Swail
The Cultivate Wellness Podcast is brought to you by Peoples Rx–Austin’s Favorite Pharmacy with your host Brad Swail. He is a fitness and wellness enthusiast. The son of a visionary entrepreneur and an innovative educator, Brad grew up in a household that valued teaching, serving others, and spotting opportunities for improvement.
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Host of The Cultivate Wellness Podcast
Brad Swail is a fitness and wellness enthusiast. The son of a visionary entrepreneur and an innovative educator, Brad grew up in a household that valued teaching, serving others, and spotting opportunities for improvement.
After graduating from The University of Texas, Brad pursued his own entrepreneurial path, starting multiple businesses, including a functional movement and personal training business where he worked with elite athletes, average Joes, and many with pain or disabilities.
Brad wants to help people. As a lifelong fitness and wellness devotee and expert, this native Austinite has experimented with every diet/supplement/protocol/training regimen out there. Hacking his own wellness has transformed him into a better version of himself, but when his second son was born with a rare chromosome 8 abnormality, he realized how privileged he was to have the knowledge and access to wellness practitioners, naturopathic doctors, and quality supplements. This inspired him to try to bring this access to the masses.
With nearly 18 years of pursuing his best health, and helping others find theirs, Brad is most interested in the effects of diet, exercise, and sleep on people, as well as the impact of gene editing and stem cells on transforming human health and healing diseases labeled as incurable. Brad believes that through proper care and feeding of the human body and mind, radical transformations are possible.
Using his knowledge of cutting-edge wellness practices on The Cultivate Wellness Podcast, Brad interviews industry leaders to bring you the knowledge of how to take control of your wellness and perform at the level you were meant to.
Brooke Taylor, LAc, MAcOM
Cosmetic Acupuncture & Facial Rejuvenation for Men & Women
Women’s Health, Menopause & Peri-menopause
Chinese Medicine Solutions for Healthcare
With deep experience in the skin care industry, Brooke specializes in a holistic approach to facial rejuvenation through ancient Chinese Medicine and acupuncture along with modern techniques.
Brooke began a career in skin care many years ago after she found her own skin in accelerated aging after spending years in the sun as a flyfishing instructor and guide. She became an esthetician, and eventually moved to Seattle, then Australia where she worked as a global educator and brand manager for a range of organic skincare in the spa industry. She has also worked to assist other brands with formulation of products, and now teaches her patients how to make good choices for their skin in nutrition and products or ingredients, as well as helping them utilize facial devices like guasha at home.
She chose to study Chinese medicine to further her skills, knowing she needed the benefit of treating the skin from the inside out – treating the body as a whole allows healing to take place in systems that have a direct impact on the skin, not just topically.
Her system works for improving your health, skin and wellbeing – you will find you sleep better, have improved digestion, less stress, less pain, less inflammation. Many issues of the skin resolve or improve when any one of the above improve, but her treatments also target specific complaints related to the skin or appearance. She also implements the teachings of CT Holman and Applied Facial Diagnosis after taking his course.
Brooke’s treatment is a natural alternative to more invasive procedures to get the results you want – a healthier, more vibrant complexion and youthful appearance. Incorporating techniques like acupuncture for the face and body, guasha, facial cupping, organic skincare, LED light therapy, and herbal medicine, each treatment is customized to the individual needs.
The difference with these treatments is you will feel better, not just have less wrinkles – you literally look and rested, bright and lifted.
Brooke pulls all of her knowledge together to help women and men look and feel their best. She looks forward to starting a healing journey with you!
Jeanne Lindquist Wisniewski, NTP, CFT, BS
NTP, CFT, BS @ Wellness Changer
Food as medicine paired with physical movement to heal the body
Transforming your health is so much more than a diet. It requires a lifestyle transition with optimal digestion and bodily function. A Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) identifies possible nutrient deficiencies using functional evaluation, palpation, clinical assessment tools …
NTP, CFT, BS @ Wellness Changer
Food as medicine paired with physical movement to heal the body
Transforming your health is so much more than a diet. It requires a lifestyle transition with optimal digestion and bodily function. A Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) identifies possible nutrient deficiencies using functional evaluation, palpation, clinical assessment tools, inquiry, and the Nutri-Q software. A NTP develops an individualized plan for each client’s unique needs. The human body has an amazing ability to restore wellness when supported with the raw materials necessary to function at its optimal potential. A RESTART instructor will work with a group in education, sugar detox, and camaraderie to meet weight management goals. Improvements can be seen in:
Digestion & Sugar Handling
Allergy & Immune function
Endocrine Issues
Cardiovascular Health
Inflammation
Mood
Vitality
Weight Management
Karen Shopoff Rooff
Health Coach @ Balance Personal Fitness Training
Karen Shopoff Rooff is a Women’s Wellness Warrior who champions realistic approaches to living a fit and healthy life. After earning certifications as a personal trainer & perinatal fitness specialist, Karen launched Balance Personal Fitness Training in 2008. In addition to in-person fitness, wellness, and health coaching, Karen facilitates self-directed ecourses and virtual bootcamps for clients worldwide.
Health Coach @ Balance Personal Fitness Training
Karen Shopoff Rooff is a Women’s Wellness Warrior who champions realistic approaches to living a fit and healthy life. After earning certifications as a personal trainer & perinatal fitness specialist, Karen launched Balance Personal Fitness Training in 2008. In addition to in-person fitness, wellness, and health coaching, Karen facilitates self-directed ecourses and virtual bootcamps for clients worldwide. Her blog Running on Balance is known for excellent content regarding women’s health, particularly as related to the childbearing year and perimenopause. In her free time, Karen loves to travel to new places to run marathons and ultramarathons. But because she believes in balance, Karen is also an avid reader and backfloater (though not at the same time).
Karen holds a variety of fitness, wellness, and health coaching certifications (listed from date earned):
Personal Training, Perinatal Fitness Specialist, Group Exercise Specialist, Aqua Yoga Instructor, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, Women’s Wellness Coach , Aqua Yoga Specialist, Health Coach
Vicky Tran
CEO @ Phoenix Vision
Holistic Wellness & Business Coaching
Her passion is in helping holistic practitioners expand themselves (and, thus, their business) and, as a result, energetically open doors for more opportunities and clients.
CEO @ Phoenix Vision
Specialties: Business Coach; Spiritual Coach; Psychic
Vicky Tran is a former New York lawyer turned spiritual specialist. Her magical abilities include helping people see what is the next step in the flow of life, what their blind spots are, and what their blockages are and where they stem from, including helping people work through all of the above.
Every workshop she has held has been transformational, and every reading she has given has been “spot on,” or so she’s been told countless times. Reviews are posted on the Facebook page under “Reviews” as well as “Photos.”
She has worked diligently in order to ensure that the information she receives and the way she presents it is from a pure source and exactly transmitted the way divine guidance wills it, and works hard to make sure she is of the utmost integrity in her work.