Hey, I'm John Gordon with Positive University, and my guest today is Coach Dar.

Coach Dar, tell us your full name.

It's Darlene Santor.

I have to say that because I know you and the world knows you as Coach Dar, but

right. But you know Darlina is a great name too. I joke around I said I think half the people don't even know I walked

if people walked in the locker once they said is darlene here and they said who's

that? So you work with pro sports teams you work with the Phoenix Sun this year as a as a mental coach.

How did you get started doing something like that?

Well I actually started out. I have been an occupational therapist for 21 years and I started taking care of traumatic brain injured patients and stroke patients.

So that's where kind of mindset, cognition, the neuroscience, helping people overcome like unbelievable odds and adversity and complete breakdown and dysfunction.

And when you go from helping people to overcome that with challenged

mental faculties and serious adversity years later when I opened up my own

practice it just became where someone said oh Dar I think you'd be perfect to help this person and it grew and then it grew into the sports world because at the end of the day,

sports is the profession, but human being is what we all are.

And so how someone, you know,

whether someone needs help through

mental edge, mental health, leadership or life,

those are the things occupation is helping you in the

occupational life. So it just grew and that's what brought me to sports and I've

been helping in sports pretty much on and off since 2008 when I got started in my practice.

Did you ever think you'd be doing what you're doing now?

No, never, never, never.

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