The Health Investment Podcast with Brooke Simonson

EPISODE 115 – Dr. Wendy Schofer is a certified life & health coach and pediatrician who specializes in helping parents struggling with their kids’ weight & obesity. Unlike medical weight loss programs, she doesn’t focus on what’s wrong with the child or try to fix their weight with diets, exercise, pills, and surgery. Instead, she empowers the parent to focus on wha...

EPISODE 114 | Brandon & Emily Wiseman are the owners of BE WISE Fitness. Simply put, they’re obsessed with helping busy moms and dads—like themselves!—get fit and reclaim their confidence, all without sacrificing family time. They call that a win, win, win!  Brandon & Emily believe that fitness is about more than the time spent in the gym. It’s about setting a good example for your ki...

EPISODE 113  | Candice Davies is a former psychotherapist who worked extensively in the field of addiction and eating disorders for over a decade. She has always been intrigued by the ways in which the mind and body are (or aren’t) connected, and the various forms in which this communication can be enhanced or severed. Her belief that the ways in which people nourish and feed...

EPISODE 112 | After 40 years on a diet, yo-yoing up and down the scale, Renée Jones had learned every diet—and every cheat!—before finally stopping the comfort and stress eating to shed “those last 30 pounds” yet AGAIN in 2012…but this time, she has maintained at her goal weight. Now she helps others overcome their emotional eating to shed their weight AND keep it off. Renée has a Maste...

EPISODE 110 | Kallista Andersen helps pregnant mamas get ready for their baby by preparing themselves, their space, and their significant other. She does so through her podcast, The New Mom Boss Podcast , as well as coaching, and online course New Mom Prep School. Kallista is a Registered Nurse, Certified Lactation Counselor, and mom of three. Her passion to help new moms was born when she ha...

EPISODE 109 | Marisa Lonic is the founder of Mama Work It . She’s a working mom of four kids, a native New Yorker, and a California resider. A self proclaimed “Time Momager,” Marisa helps busy moms juggling mom life, work life, wife life, and/or fill-in-the-blank life via her books, courses, and coaching programs. Her time management and goal achievement strategies have helped the...

EPISODE 108 | Rich Webster is a productivity expert, graphic designer, and entrepreneur. He teaches people how to run profitable and productive businesses, using those techniques to work less than 20 hours a week running three businesses. His productivity business—Work Less, Earn More—can be found on Instagram at instagram.com/richwebz , where he offers productivity tips, lessons, and executi...

EPISODE 107 | Robert J. Davis, PhD—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 three previous books on health, he hosts the “Healthy Skeptic” video series in which he dissects the science behind popular health claims. Davis holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton Uni...

EPISODE 106 | Lainey Younkin—MS, RD, LDN— is a Weight Loss Dietitian and Nutrition Communication Specialist based in Boston, MA. Her mission is to help people get out of a dieting mentality and into a healthy lifestyle. She has an “all foods fit” approach and is passionate about helping her clients change their mindsets and habits so they can get results without feeling restricted or deprived...

EPISODE 105 | Lauren Twigge is a Dallas based registered and licensed Dietitian with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition and a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science.  She works in corporate wellness and counsels private clients by day and runs her growing Instagram account by night.  Lauren was born and raised in a family of farmers located in central California and is an outspoke...

EPISODE 104 | Genevieve Anderson is a financial wellness coach who’s spent over a decade working in financial services, including banking and investments. She uses that experience—along with her personal experience—to help women increase their financial knowledge, take action towards their specific money goals, and become more confident investors. On her Instagram account, she shares easy-to-...

EPISODE 103 |  Decades of experience in the corporate world have shown Jodi Woelkerling that resiliency is a key feature of every enduringly successful individual and every organizational culture that’s productive and collaborative long-term. The modern workplace is filled with constant challenges and competing priorities—both for the business at large and for the individuals withi...

EPISODE 102 | Vee Lockard is the host and co-founder of the popular sleep story podcast, Snoozecast. Snoozecast boasts over 400 episodes, 10,000 listens per day, and over 7 million total downloads. Along with her husband, they started producing Snoozecast over two years ago to help people who have trouble falling asleep. Like many Snoozecast listeners, V ee has experienced anxiety throughout...

EPISODE 101 | Erica Ziel is a mom of three, an FDN Practitioner, a certified personal trainer and Pilates instructor, a health and nutrition coach, AND a core exercise and pre/postnatal exercise specialist whose mission is to help women live a healthier life and heal their body through movement, wellness, intuition, and breath work. She’s morphed her education with her constant finding...

EPISODE 99 | Lodro Rinzler is a meditation teacher and the author of seven books, as well as the co-founder of MNDFL meditation studios in New York City. His books Walk Like a Buddha and The Buddha Walks Into The Office both have received Independent Publisher Book Awards. Lodro has taught meditation for twenty years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and travels frequently for his books, havi...

EPISODE 98 | Stephen Simpson is Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre and Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. After graduating as a biologist from the University of Queensland, Steve undertook his PhD at the University of London, then spent 22 years at Oxford before returning to Australia in 2005 as an Australian Research Council F...

EPISODE 97 | Paul Salter is a Registered Dietitian, Coach, and Author who’s passionate about helping high-achieving men and women bring awareness to what’s really holding them back from achieving their sustainable weight-loss goals and feeling, looking, and being the best version of themselves—like their negative self-talk, toxic thought patterns, limiting beliefs, counterproductive hab...

EPISODE 96 | Herman Pontzer, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Research Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke University, investigates how our species’ evolutionary past shapes our lives today. His team conducted the first measurements of daily energy expenditure in traditional hunter-gatherers and in non-human apes, with findings that have challenged the way...

EPISODE 95 | Katie Clack is a personal chef and restaurateur specializing in healthy meal prepping. With her unique meal plans, she teaches people how to batch cook individual ingredients that can be mixed and matched throughout the week to create a variety of delicious and healthy meals. She focuses on teaching people helpful and time-saving habits to take the stress out of their weekly cook...

EPISODE 94 | Tracey Showalter is the founder of The Lighthouse Co., a home wellness consulting firm. “Home wellness” is a new concept that’s taken Columbus, Ohio, by storm! Whether it’s through organization, deep cleaning, or education, Tracey is steadfast in her mission to help you live lighter. In the episode, she shares a foolproof 4-step system to reclaim any space that’s taken over your...

EPISODE 93 | Lisa Sylvestri has 20 years of experience as a physical therapist, over 12 of which are in the lymphedema and oncology arena. Her passion is working with the lymphedema, breast cancer, and oncology patient population, and her mission is to ensure every patient who has received a cancer diagnosis is able to have a great quality of life. Lisa works with patients one on one to help...

EPISODE 92 | Dr. Ted Naiman is a board-certified Family Medicine physician in the department of Primary Care at a leading major medical center in Seattle. His personal research and medical practice are focused on the practical implementation of diet and exercise for health optimization. He is the author of The P:E Diet . In the episode, Dr. Naiman shares why protein is the most important macr...

Episode 90 | Dr. Anthony Pearson is a noninvasive clinical cardiologist who’s board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. Aside from his clinical practice, he’s spent time in academic cardiology, done research and teaching, and published more than 100 papers in major cardiology journals. All of his experiences taught Dr. Pearson to cultivate a health...

EPISODE 89 | If you have some type of goal for *lasting* change in your body composition, strength, or overall health, you’re gonna have to change the way you approach all aspects of life—like vacation! After years of vacationing this NEW way—sticking with my typical healthy habits throughout my time away—I can assure you that vacations are MUCH more enjoyable when you continue to do the thin...

EPISODE 88 | Elizabeth Dall is the owner of awomanofwellness.com and helps women heal their relationship with food and their bodies and experience joy in wellness. She believes every woman has the knowledge of what she truly needs deep within herself and that they can learn to love their bodies, heal their relationship with food, and find joy in exercise and movement. Elizabeth helps by offer...