Today we’d like to introduce you to Okon Antia.
Hi Okon, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started this journey in early 2019. I was laid off as Regional Director at a very prominent corporate PT practice after a CEO change caused the organization to go in a different direction and what I was brought there for was off the table. I spent a few months looking for the right role but knew I wanted to do something different. Traditional outpatient PT was not my jam anymore. I took a flier on a part-time role with a company that provided employer-based health center services. A month after arriving a position opened up that would have taken me from part-time to back to the regional/national level. I prepared hard and emptied out my notebook of ideas. I ended up becoming a finalist for the position but alas, close but no cigar. The disappointment from that decision and all the ideas I proposed led me to start my company. I literally started it a week later and it was officially incorporated in October 2019. I was part-time still and had no interest returning to standard outpatient PT so I decided to start the company as a side hustle.
I planned to start seeing clients in Jan 2020 and saw my 1st client that 1st week of 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic then started in March 2020 and of course, I had barely gotten off the ground before the world was shut down. I didn’t have a single client for three months in my practice while the entire world was in quarantine (July 2020), although I still maintained the part-time gig.
Fast forward a year to July 2021. After a year of having W2 employment and a side hustle with a few clients, due to unforeseen circumstances, it was now time to go full-time into my business without looking back…
I say all of this to say believe in yourself when no one else does. If you are not content with your situation then take the steps necessary to get where you want to be. Your greatest triumphs happen when you overcome your biggest obstacles!
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Campus Motion Physical Therapy & Sports Recovery?
Our company has been providing sports medicine, physical therapy, injury prevention, and sports recovery services to the community since 2019. We provide these services in traditional brick & mortar offices as well as #OnCampus at the convenience of your work office, school, club sports field, or gym via our innovative Campus Motion Mobile Clinic. This is a Sprinter Van built out into a mobile clinic to allow our team to serve patients and clients wherever they are, whatever “campus” they prefer. We currently have two brick & mortar offices, one in the Fairfield area of Cypress, TX (NW Houston) and the 2nd location in the Towne Lake/Bridgeland area also in Cypress as of June 2022. This 2nd location added whole body cryotherapy, local cryotherapy, and red light therapy services to our existing sports recovery services such as compression and percussion therapy.
Campus Motion has set out to meet the recovery/injury prevention needs of the community and developed specific specialty recovery programs for runners, cyclists, baseball players, tennis players, football players, and track athletes. Our goal is to switch the sports health paradigm in the community from reactionary episodic care to proactive preventative care and to make it as convenient and seamless as possible. We offer a unique approach to sports health delivery in that we’ve meshed a full-fledged physical therapy office with a recovery/wellness center while providing those services mobile as well. We even offer virtual telehealth PT services. We truly embody “Movement wherever you are” and are grateful for the trust our clients have shown us!
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
The quality I have that I believe is most important to my success is problem-solving. I am a problem solver by nature and am constantly trying to find new ways to solve problems whether they be process-oriented or service-oriented. I’ve built this company in a non-traditional way by solving problems and creating efficiencies for our clients. If someone tells me I shouldn’t do something because it has never been done, my response is “Why Not? Throughout my career, I have always made suggestions and recommendations to the organizations I’ve worked for to add innovation and was always told, “That is not how we do it”. So I decided to put all of my “rejected” ideas into my own business and here we are, I’m in the business of solving problems with fresh ideas, not regurgitating strategies that are sub-optimal.
Pricing:
- We offer 50% off your 1st Recovery Service Session with us (Whole Body Cryotherapy, Local Cryotherapy, or Red Light Therapy)
- With our Gold and Silver Memberships, if you purchase 5 months, you get the 6th month free and a free Hypervolt or Therabody massage gun
Contact Info:
- Website: www.campusmotion.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/campus_motion/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campusmotion.org
