The 2026 40 Under 40s will be announced soon! Watch for more info and a registration link to our awards event May28! Here’s a Q&A with one of our 2025 awardees:
Brooke Knowles, Manager & Wellness Account Executive for Nutritional Healing LLC
What has been the most rewarding part of your professional journey so far?
So far, the most rewarding part of my professional career has been seeing the changes we make in people’s lives at Nutritional Healing. Through functional lab testing and personalized nutrition and lifestyle programs, we can reverse chronic conditions and give people their health back. I meet so many people who have lost hope in our current healthcare system. To be able to give them that hope back is truly rewarding.
What do you wish more people understood about your field or industry?
In this current “age of information”, there is a rapidly widespread availability of information, not all of which is correct. You can essentially type a health diagnosis into your phone or computer and get hundreds of conflicting opinions about treatments and therapies. Each person’s body is unique, and your health conditions stem from multiple root cause issues including diet, lifestyle, environment, and genetics.
Can you share one of the most significant challenges you’ve faced in your career and how you overcame it?
As a business that thrives on face-to-face interaction with clients, 2020 was extremely hard. We found ways to take our platform virtual, with some minor changes. Five years later, we help people all over the country get their health back because of what we were forced to overcome in 2020.
What is one cause or issue that you’re especially passionate about, and why?
Since completing a research paper on their organization back in college, I have always been a huge advocate for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The fact that families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food allows parents and other family members to solely focus on the child. As a mom of two little boys, I can’t imagine being in such a terrible situation and still have to worry about those financial aspects.
What legacy do you hope to leave, both in your career and in your community?
I hope that anyone who crosses my path through my career—especially our clients—thinks that I took the time to really listen to their story and tried to align proper solutions to help them reach their goals. I hope I am seen as helpful both in our place of work and in the community. Servant leadership is always something I have strived to keep in the forefront of who I am, so I hope that is something people feel as well.
