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Katie Cooper

Katie Cooper

Founder of Katie Cooper Wellness; occupational therapist and board-certified health coach specializing in burnout recovery for working professionals.

Jul 21, 2026

10:11
What did you decide? How did you decide what you wanted to do with college? And then how would that translate
10:16
into your career? Yeah.
10:17
So I actually decided in seventh grade what I wanted to do.
10:21
So I was, I knew I wanted to do something that was like helping people or animals.
10:27
So I was like, maybe a veterinarian, maybe a nurse, you know, what am I going to do? And I was in Girl Scouts and in Girl Scouts, you do lots of different experiences and activities to earn badges and I don't even remember what we were working on but a woman came to talk to us who was an occupational therapist and she was explaining her job and I was like oh that's it that's what I want to do and I remember going to high school and it was like the first day of freshman year and one of our teachers asked us what do you want to do when you graduate high school and I raised my hand and I said I want to be an occupational therapist and he was like
11:03
do you
11:04
know what that is and why and why do you know you want to do that? She was just floored that I had this.

10 MINS LATER

21:01
And I don't think we've recovered from that.

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