Gaining Grit Health and Healing with Bryana Kudek LAT, PES

Today I’m joined by Bryana Kudek, founder of Gaining Grit Health and Healing.

Bryana is a Licensed Athletic Trainer with over 11 years of experience, a Performance Enhancement Specialist, and a Pregnancy & Postpartum Exercise Specialist. After years serving as a Head Athletic Trainer in high school settings, she took a bold leap and opened her own clinic in 2021—just 12 weeks postpartum with her first baby. Talk about grit in action.

Bryana is advanced rehab certified, trained in dry needling and myofascial decompression (cupping), and even serves as a CPR instructor. She works with a wide range of patients, but especially women navigating back pain, shoulder and elbow injuries, postpartum recovery, and common sports injuries like ACL and meniscus tears. Her approach blends clinical expertise with real-life understanding of what women’s bodies go through in different seasons.

In this conversation, we talk honestly about resilience, strength, and what it really looks like to keep showing up when life feels hard. This is one of those episodes that meets you right where you are—whether you're walking through change, challenge, rebuilding, or growth.

Bryana is also one of the six incredible practitioners joining us for the Rise Up Women’s Empowerment Summit happening April 18–19. During the summit, Bryana will be leading a mobility session focused on back pain and hosting a healthy walking workshop—practical, empowering tools you can immediately apply to your daily life.

register for the summit here: https://square.link/u/U8uDXfKb

This episode was originally recorded in March of 2024, and its message feels just as relevant—maybe even more so—today.

So take a breath, settle in, and let’s dive into this conversation with Bryana.