The Health Investment Podcast with Brooke Simonson

EPISODE 140 – Dr. Michael Albert is a co-founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Accomplish Health, a virtual obesity medicine practice. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Before joining Accomplish Health, he served a joint faculty appointment at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA. In addition, Dr. Albert founded the Medical Weight...

EPISODE 139 – Tonia helps people declutter and redesign their lives so they can have time for what matters the most. This helps them live a more organized life which supports them in managing time, spaces, mental health and living their life purpose. She started her career as a teacher and after 12 years, in 2014, decided that she wanted to follow her passion of helping people create sp...

EPISODE 138  – Michelle Mendez is a paradigm shift coach helping individuals to identify and replace limiting beliefs and habits hindering them from achieving their goals and dreams. Her personal growth journey began a few years ago when, through coaching, she became aware of her own limiting paradigms that were keeping her from achieving her boldest dreams. Because of the beautifu...

EPISODE 137 – A veteran of the health and fitness industry, Ryan has spent over 14 years studying the human body and how it moves. At one point in his fitness career, he was squatting and deadlifting over 400 pounds, but his butt wasn’t showing it. Then his knees and back started giving out and his hips were so tight he couldn’t sit crossed-legged on the floor. After seeing vario...

EPISODE 136 – Dr. Kara Wada is an Assistant Professor of Allergy/Immunology with over 10 years of experience teaching medical trainees about misbehaving immune systems. Currently, she serves as Associate Fellowship Program Director at the Ohio State University and Founder/CEO of The Crunchy Allergist. Her advocacy work focuses on improving the physician-patient relationship, improving awaren...

EPISODE 135 – EC Synkowski is the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition, which delivers B2B and B2C educational nutrition programs without the dogma and gimmicks that saturate the current nutrition market. She has a bachelor’s in biochemical engineering, and two master’s degrees (one in Nutrition & Functional Medicine). She’s also a Certified Nutrition Specialist®, Licensed-Dietician Nutr...

EPISODE 134 – Frederic Bahnson is a personal and executive coach who works with individuals and teams to create happiness, improve performance, and foster well-being in their personal and professional lives. He has devoted two decades to the art and science of decision-making, delivering practical strategies that streamline this important human process. In addition to coaching, Frederic...

EPISODE 133 – Robert Davis—aka “The Healthy Skeptic”—is an award-winning health journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, PBS, WebMD, and in The Wall Street Journal . The author of four books on health—including a newly updated version of his book Fitter Faster —he hosts the “Healthy Skeptic” video series in which he dissects the science behind popular health claims. Davis holds an und...

EPISODE 131 – Michelle Kapler is a Certified Life Coach specializing in overdrinking and alcohol freedom. She works with individuals who identify as women who want to change their relationship with their alcohol consumption. Michelle is on a mission to create a modern conversation around drinking, alcohol culture (especially in motherhood), and how we think about using alcohol as a way to co...

EPISODE 131 – Angela Ficken, LICSW, is a full-time psychotherapist in private practice specializing in OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety-related concerns. She’s spent years building her business into something more than a standard full-time private practice, writing for Huffington Post (and eventually other major online sources) as an expert. Through her writing and hearing from her clients...

EPISODE 130 – When Christopher Klesh left his successful marketing career with AT&T behind, he became a master of traveling in luxury for pennies on the dollar. Chris took advantage of his entrepreneurial nature and extensive travel experience to launch Lifetime Leisure Experiences . Since 2002, as a professional speaker, coach, consultant and media guest, Chris has guided hundreds of fa...

EPISODE 129 – Sini Ninkovic is known as “The Untethered Guy.” He’s a Berkeley MBA and Silicon Valley professional who turned digital wellness guru. After a lifelong struggle with digital dependency, Sini quit his job at Apple to live in a van and untether from tech. Along the way he learned that the key to inner harmony wasn’t found in abstaining from technology, but in red...

EPISODE 128 – Hosts of the weekly podcast Loving Beyond The I Do , Jason and Tina Marie Scott are committed to building stronger marriages mentally, physically, financially, and spiritually. They are empowered and dedicated to helping married couples build, maintain, and have the ultimate marriage. Their goal is to emphasize the importance of building a strong community of remarkable couples...

EPISODE 127 – Stephan Guyenet specializes in the neuroscience of obesity and is an advocate for information accuracy in health communication. He received a BS in biochemistry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington, where he remained as a postdoctoral fellow studying the neuroscience of obesity. His scientific publications have been cited m...

EPISODE 126 – Dr. Melina Jampolis is an internist and board-certified physician nutrition specialist (one of only several hundred practicing in the United States). She is the past president of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and has served on their board of directors for nearly a decade. Trained as an internist, for the past 20 years she has specialized exclusively in n...

EPISODE 125 – An innovative drive and appreciation for simple, satisfying food has always been a part of James Beard Award-winning chef Marco Canora, found in everything from the seasonal, nourishing food he serves at Hearth to the restorative, sip-able bone broths of Brodo. After years working with and training under Danny Meyer and Tom Colicchio at Gramercy Tavern and Craft, Marco opened H...

EPISODE 124 – Dr. Evian Gordon is Chairman of the Board, Founder, and Chief Medical Officer of Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform that has more than 1,000,000 registered users. He has more than 30 years of experience in human brain research and is considered one of the originators of the field of integrative neuroscience. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed...

EPISODE 123 – Daniel Rosenthal is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach who, after years working with clients in person, now works as an online weight loss coach. He used to be an overweight chain-smoker, at one point smoking 40 cigarettes every day while barely touching a vegetable. Daniel decided to clean up his act. He quit smoking, started studying nutrition, and learned about...

EPISODE 122 – Traci Butz is the owner of Traci Lynn Life Coaching. After 25 years in corporate America, Traci left it behind at the age of 45 so that she could fulfill her dream of becoming a Certified Professional Life Coach. She specializes in helping women over 40 make the second half of their lives the best half of their lives. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Studies and works...

EPISODE 121  – Lorna Green was born in Scotland, but she’s made the world her home. She’s best known for laughing loudly and sometimes she’ll talk so fast it’s hard to tell if she’s still breathing. Lorna is a yin yoga teacher and NLP master practitioner who loves nothing more than combining yogic wisdom and science backed mindset techniques to help you stress less and accomplish more....

EPISODE 120  – Dr. Janeeka Benoit (better known as “Dr. J” on social media) is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Sports Medicine Specialist. She’s the Founder of MedFitDO and also a runner, exercise enthusiast, and former ACE Certified personal trainer. Not only does she enjoy caring for athletes, she also has a passion for preventing chronic disease through exercise so...

EPISODE 119  – Dr. Jane Tornatore is a therapist, speaker, and author based in Seattle, WA; she has been in private practice for 15 years. Her style incorporates compassion, curiosity, deep listening, and heartfelt optimism, along with powerful shots of playfulness. Jane has dedicated her career and her life to helping people love themselves and have self-compassion. She received a Master’s...

EPISODE 118  – Tricia Nelson lost fifty pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. She’s spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of the addictive personality. Tricia is an Emotional Eating Expert and author of the #1 bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now . She also certifies health coaches so t...

EPISODE 117 – Welcome to this special *BONUS* episode! Since the content of this ep is so timely, I wanted to release it stat!! Paul Offit, MD, is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania....

EPISODE 116 – Elizabeth Edwards is a graduate of Purdue University and a Registered Dietitian.  She has worked in the food service industry for 17 years holding many different positions including grocery store stocker, restaurant line cook, server, hospital food prep & cook, and has been a K-12 Director of Food Service for the past 7 years.  Elizabeth believes establishing healthy eating...