Joy Through the Journey: Amberly Lago on What You Become When the Thing That Defined You Is Gone

COACHED with Coach Keren · Apr 30, 2026 · 58m

This episode is not going to just inspire you. It is going to initiate you.

Amberly Lago was a professional dancer, fitness instructor, and fitness model living her California dream when a single motorcycle accident in May 2010 shattered everything. What followed was 34 major surgeries, a 1% chance of keeping her leg, a diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome — an incurable neurological condition of relentless pain — and eventually, a quiet spiral into alcoholism that she hid from her husband, her clients, and herself.

She didn't choose this work. She was dismantled into it. And what she…