Freedom Bodyworks Company has been a long time coming! Erica began her career in aviation after receiving her B.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2007. After years of working in an unfulfilled job, she decided to transition to the medical field where she felt she could better serve her community. Erica received her physical therapist assistant license in 2013 and has been working acute, subacute, and inpatient rehab with patients of various diagnosis from orthopedic to neurological to cardiac and pulmonary. 

Meanwhile, she loved her hobby and sport of powerlifting and has been a competitive powerlifter since 2014 when she entered her first meet. Over years of competing, she decided to open up her own private gym in 2018 to other powerlifters, become a certified club coach through her powerlifting federation, and coach on the side while still working full time. From there, it grew to coaching athletes of various sports as well as the general population for health and wellness. It didn't take long before she realized that being a strength coach and business owner was her calling. She decided to decrease her hours at the hospital and focus on growing her business. 

The missing piece was her ability to legally assist her clients with aches and pains even though she had the education to do so through her physical therapy experience. To mitigate this, she decided to obtain her license as a massage therapist. She fell in love with the skill of massage therapy and all its modalities. She saw the effectiveness of it every time she worked on a client, not only for stress relief, but for injury prevention and rehabilitation. In order to complete the gym package, she also obtained her nutrition coach certification through Performance Nutrition.

Erica strives to continue learning and growing in all aspects of her life. With the combination of Physical Therapy, Massage Therapy, Nutrition, and Powerlifting knowledge, Erica has grown as an athlete, powerlifting coach, strength coach, and has equally been able to apply knowledge of all subjects to positively impact her clients and her community.