Mat Hotho sits down with Sam Fishman, the founder of AnyBody & EveryBody and a full-time adaptive CrossFit coach based out of CrossFit Palace in Ithaca, New York. 

Sam's path here runs through speech pathology, special education, EMS, and a decade of advocacy—for students, patients, and athletes alike. She opened AnyBody & EveryBody in September 2024, coaching people with disabilities and medically complex individuals from age four to their seventies, and founded The AnyBody EveryBody Foundation, a 501(c)(3) providing financial assistance to make adaptive CrossFit accessible in the greater-Ithaca community. She also serves as a medical floor lead at the WheelWOD Games. 

In this conversation, they dig into what success actually looks like on the gym floor, what event medicine demands, and what Sam would tell someone ready to take the plunge and build something of their own.

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