Colin Potts is an amputee, writer, speaker, COO of Regenerative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and former professional chef with an infectiously positive attitude.

Colin is someone who genuinely loves life and wants to share his life experiences to help you see and embrace the power of positivity. Colin will teach you how important your attitude is when you face adversity, ways to deal with adversity, and steps to build back your life after any kind of loss. In addition, Colin wants to create a voice for amputees and people with disabilities so that they don’t go home, they live and thrive.

When you meet Colin, you will always be greeted with a warm, contagious smile. You will learn that he has been through many tragic events in his life’s ourney, the latest being the loss of his brother to pancreatic cancer at the end of May. No matter what he has endured he has picked himself up, dusted himself off, and has never lost his positive outlook on life. Colin wants to be a catalyst for positive change in your life by teaching you the insights and lessons that he has learned. Keeping your eyes open, just one more step, re-birth, gotta fight, feed your soul, staying out of the negativity vortex, acceptance, tomato therapy – these are just a few of the many topics he shares his feelings on. In the end, he will challenge you to become a part of a POSITIVITY REVOLUTION and change your outlook on life.

Colin’s journey has been covered by the Baltimore Sun, the University of Maryland Athletics Department, ABC7 News and most recently the Adventist Healthcare Magazine. In his free time, he is an avid gardener, loves cooking, and is an active peer visitor for amputees. Colin is a participant on the Amputee Coalition Peer Visitor Committee and a devoted fan and former volunteer with Maryland Athletics which awarded him with an honorary “M” and the Heise Spirit of Maryland Award.