35| Amber Edwards: Fitness as a Non-Traditional Occupational Therapy Setting

Please welcome today’s guest Amber Edwards. Amber is an Occupational therapist MS OTR/L, strength coach, and is a podcaster herself on the Reaching Your Potential podcast. Amber’s OT specialty is working in rehabilitation with the geriatric population. When Amber is not working in home health care and at grade schools coaching track, she is a trainer in NYC. 

Amber is an athlete herself -a 3x NCAA DIII national qualifier and 2x DIII all-American in the 60m and 100m hurdles and currently has a passion for kettlebell training and inspiring others to lead fit and thus healthy lives. 

In this episode we discuss...

• How understanding failure tolerance as an athlete helped Amber become a great coach
• What is Occupational Therapy?
• Fitness as a nontraditional OT setting
• Advice for OTs wanting to get into the fitness industry

Find Amber on IG: @thick.amb.fit
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