Michael was born and raised in Austin, TX, a hotbed for health and wellness. He was introduced to the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle early in life. His father founded Peoples Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy with a uniquely holistic focus that taught Michael to explore options in caring for his own health.

After spending a decade in the intensely stressful world of investment banking, Michael looked for opportunities to truly make a difference in the world. This led him back to Austin, working at Peoples to help grow the family business and touch the lives of more people in the Austin community. Along the way, through his love of hospitality and service, Michael developed and launched two restaurant concepts in Austin. He also completed the health coaching program from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, arming him with new tools in his wellness journey.

In 2019, Michael had the opportunity to expand his reach in health and wellness with the acquisition of Alive and Well, an integrative wellness center in Austin. Through Alive and Well and its talented team, Michael is pursuing a mission of empowering people to take control of their own healthcare. He is passionate in his support of functional medicine – looking for ways to identify the root causes of illness.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Texas where he played lacrosse, and Rice University. He is supported in life by his wife Elizabeth. Together they have 4 daughters who provide daily inspiration.

Shannon has felt nothing but gratitude for the diverse professional opportunities she has experienced throughout her career – including and especially Alive + Well.  Shannon has been dedicated to Alive + Well since its beginnings 5 years ago, when many of the original staff wrote their intentions / vision for this incredible space on paper and buried it on the land.  She considers the center to be a place where your heart, soul and body can feel cared for, rejuvenated and healed.

Shannon started out her career in Clinical Counseling.  She graduated from the University of Victoria, BC in 1998 and for the next 6 years embraced the joy and intricacies of working in counseling centers, non-profits and adult mental health.  Her clients dealt with issues such as eating disorders, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, trauma related to abuse, etc. and she considers herself truly blessed for having worked with such resilient individuals through their life challenges.

After working for Mental Health, Shannon took a break from non-profit work and worked at People’s Pharmacy in Austin as a Wellness Consultant and continued to do that for 8 years.   People’s Pharmacy has always been a spring board for many to deepen their savvy in health and wellness.  As a result of her interest and passion in wellness she became a nutritionist.

While working at People’s Pharmacy, Shannon wanted to continue her professional journey in counselling and coaching and decided to do post graduate work for 2 years through Coaches Training Institute to become a Professional Life Coach.

Shortly after her post grad work, through many amazing “synchronicities”, she became a Law of Attraction Coach for many of the authors and speakers in the movie “The Secret”.  For 4 years Shannon was one of 8 Life Coaches that supported clients all around the world on topics such as health, relationships, self-awareness, financial matters, life purpose, inner healing and much more.  Unfortunately, in 2008 with the economic downturn, all of the coaches were laid off.  To this day Shannon is eternally grateful for the experience.  It shaped her lens on life and her coaching style.

Shannon’s next professional venture was in the world of Corporate Wellness where she became the Wellness Coach and Counselor for Intel, Austin TX.   She was amazed by this work!  Corporate wellness typically looks like discussing nutrition, exercise and biometrics.  But Shannon had the freedom to mold her wellness program into a more holistic offering that included spiritual, mental and emotional support, which is what had it be successful.  Clients could discuss what mattered most to them on their wellness journey.   While at Intel she facilitated group work and one on one sessions.

During her time at Intel she also trained for one year to become a Health and Wellness Coach which was enriching work that complemented all of her other education and training.

In 2016 Shannon had the good fortune of meeting some of the original team members at Hill Country Apothecary in Lakeway.  She discovered that they were seeking a consultant / Director of Operations for the future Alive + Well Integrative Wellness Center.   Well, she gladly accepted the position and 2 years she worked alongside the original owner and her team to create  Alive + Well and Drip Drop IV.  In addition to enjoying her work as the Director of Operations, she has been a consultant for individuals and groups around the country that want to open up their own IV Vitamin Therapy business.

If you ask Shannon what has made her diverse positions truly inspiring?  She would say that it’s always about building strong relationships based on values that promote healing, understanding, compassion, creativity and deeper consciousness.   Her life philosophy is about being in service to what’s present in front of you.   She believes that Life is truly a curriculum on how to love ourselves and others more deeply in the world, which is in her eyes vital to overall well-being.  Shannon trusts that if her focus is on love and being in service, that her life will continue to flourish just as its meant to both personally and professionally.

Jeremy hails from Nashville Tennessee and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Agricultural Economics. He entered his professional career in technology sales with Austin based Dell Computer in Nashville. Coincidentally, another Austin based company, Architectural Granite and Marble (AG&M) picked him off to cultivate outside sales in its new branch office in Nashville, and he rose to become the office’s General Manager in under two years. Monthly management meetings at the AG&M headquarters in Bee Cave cultivated a fondness for Austin 20 years ago. During this period he also met Michael Swail. (foreshadowing)

Jeremy was recruited by his father Jack to join his corporate wellness startup, Corporate Health Partners (CHP), in 2005. Otherwise completely content at AG&M, the chance to help improve health for employees while growing a start-up with his father was an offer he couldn’t pass up. For fourteen years he focused on the employer workplace "group health" space, working with C-suites and group benefit managers in 15 states to empower employees, while improving the bottom line for employers. In 2020, CHP was large and stable enough for Jeremy to once again break away for a new challenge.  

At long last and after reconnecting with Michael Swail, Jeremy finally had the opportunity to move his family to Austin to continue the pursuit of health and wellbeing in a vibrant new setting. He brings his valuable understanding of the U.S. health care system, its benefits and flaws, and is applying them in the Texas community to help improve human health, patient access, and provider efficiency in the V.P. of Business Development role at Alive + Well.  

When he's not chipping away with associates at Alive + Well to perfect an unrivaled healthcare experience, you can find him with his like-minded health-inspired wife and newborn, exploring trails in Texas hill country, playing golf, practicing yoga, doing HIIT workouts, reading or cooking at home.

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Matthew was born and raised here in Austin, Texas.  Growing up he spent most of his time outdoors exploring all the natural beauty the area has to offer.  An avid trail runner, he believes that regular outside activity is a key component to health and happiness.  That, and dogs.

A bit of a towny, Matthew earned both a pharmacy and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.  He has over twenty years of community pharmacy experience and learned long ago that it is more rewarding to embrace one's curiosity as a part of the creative process than to “count by five” as the saying goes.  Compounding allows him to collaborate with prescribers and to customize therapies that meet the individual needs of patients.  Matthew has been a member of the Alive and Well team since 2021 and looks forward to many years of hopefully empowering and elevating human health.