What if warehouse workers, first responders, and high school athletes had access to the same athletic trainers who keep D-1 football stars healthy? As our guest today explains, this vision of athletic trainers embedded across workplaces and schools is starting to be a reality. And the implications for physical—and mental—health are profound. In this conversation with Ally Smith, the founding Chair of Antioch’s new MS in Athletic Training, we discuss this profession’s broadening horizons, what it means to be a competency-based clinician, and how she imagines a world that sees “people not as disposable, but as an asset to be taken care of and nurtured.”