Exploring Life & Business with Brenna Kietzmann and Madeline Stone of Move Happy

Today we’d like to introduce you to Brenna Kietzmann and Madeline Stone. They and their team shared their story with us below:

Brenna and Madeline started out volunteering in the healthcare field before transitioning to working in physical and occupational therapy in the outpatient, rehab, and skilled nursing settings seeing and treating a wide variety of patients as therapists for the past 5 years. Both Brenna and Madeline fell in love with working in geriatrics bringing them together as co-workers and then as friends and now as business partners. They share the same passions for active living, health & wellness, the outdoors, and volunteering in their community. As therapists, Madeline and Brenna have seen so many limitations in the care they are able to provide due to insurance regulations, cuts, and the healthcare system. Oftentimes patients will be discharged from therapy, not have the education or ability to maintain their level of function, and lose it.

Likewise, we see high-functioning seniors wanting to avoid the busy, big gyms but do not know how to construct a high-level exercise regimen at home. This is why Move Happy Co was created to stop the cycle and provide preventative care. We believe we have so much more to give to the people we serve and that our patients, clients, community members, and their families deserve and need more holistic, individualized care and education. Our true passion is to tailor our training and programming to fit the individual’s personal goals and passions wherever they’re functional. Today Move Happy Co. wants to share awareness of its services and the limitations within the healthcare system.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Starting small and organically, Move Happy Co.’s biggest obstacle and challenge is spreading awareness of our services and the limitations within the healthcare system.

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Move Happy Co.?
Move Happy Co. is a private pay senior service that provides in-home senior fitness training and home safety consultations. All of our services are provided by experienced and licensed physical and occupational therapist assistants. Our instructors have the expertise and extensive training/experience in dementia care, Parkinson’s care, chronic stroke, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, post-surgical, and orthopedics. Our senior fitness training targets the client’s personal goals and passions in a fun way. With our therapy background, we specialize in strength training from head to toe, balance training, gait quality, and cardiovascular conditioning to achieve your personal goals and improve overall mobility in clients’ everyday life. Want to play pickleball again? Have a pain-free golf swing? Want to be able to walk your daughter down the aisle? Trying to plan an overseas trip but fear your back pain and walking will slow your family down? Or have you noticed you’re having more trouble moving around the house? Move Happy Co. is the tool you need to achieve these goals and many more.

Home Safety Consultations provide preventative education and training to clients and their families to help them age in place. The goal is to ensure the home is as safe and functional as possible after a change in status or circumstance whether the client utilizes an assistive device or has age-related memory deficits. Our instructors have the background and knowledge to help you make changes in your home whether it be small changes like adding proper lighting or removing clutter to big changes like bathroom layouts or specialized medical equipment. Our instructors are able to look at your current levels, your past medical history, and your personalized goals to make specific changes so your home environment works for you!

We’d love to hear what you think about risk-taking.
It is definitely a risk to leave the corporate world and a risk to leave the stability and consistency of a 9-5 job. It is risky to speak out about the negative aspects of the healthcare world, especially as employees currently working in it.

We would like to speak out more about the things we see but it is difficult and sensitive and risky. The healthcare world and system are the status quo, and educating others on the realities we see is scary. But we believe so wholeheartedly in the intentions of Move Happy Co. and our model that the seniors in our community deserve more holistic, continued caretaking them from functional to thriving, and we are willing to take these risks.

Personally, Madeline and Brenna believe that nothing prosperous and great can come from living inside of our comfort zones and that starting something amazing will absolutely be uncomfortable, intimidating, and a risk to take.

Contact Info:

• Website: movehappyco.com
• Instagram: @movehappyco
• Facebook: @movehappyco
• Phone: 623-349-4747