About Carol

Meet Carol Swaim, Holistic Nutrition Consultant

Carol Swaim holds a B.A. in Chemistry and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of New Mexico. She enjoyed a long career in corporate financial management, including service as Budget Director for Scripps Health in San Diego, California, and as CFO and Managing Director of Business Operations for The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Upon return from service in the Peace Corps (Albania, 2006 – 08), she decided to pursue an encore career in health and wellness, a lifelong interest and practice that began when she became an ACE-certified aerobics instructor in the early 1980s. Carol has worked in catering and in the event kitchen of a bed and breakfast destination resort in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She moved to Boulder to study nutrition and received her certificate of Nutrition Consultant in March, 2016, from Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts. While earning her certification she studied everything from Musculoskeletal Health and Sports Nutrition to Stress and Endocrine Interactions.

Carol conducts her business, Kitchen Connections, as a Holistic Nutrition Consultant and Kitchen Coach in Durango, Colorado, where she lives with her husband. She enjoys cooking, eating for health, and dancing with her friends in ZUMBA® classes.