2026 Spring LEAP Cohort First Place Winner | Mobility Matters, Greenville, SC
Dr. Quinn Winters never planned to become a business owner. In 2017, she attended a conference for physical therapists exploring private practice, mostly to support a friend who was considering the leap. But while sketching out a sample business plan just to follow along, something shifted. Starting her own practice suddenly felt possible.
At the time, Quinn was living in San Francisco. The idea pulled her back home to South Carolina, and in 2020 she launched Mobility Matters as a mobile physical therapy practice in Columbia.
Then COVID hit, and the mobile model she had built her business around became nearly impossible to sustain. Quinn stepped back into full time employment, but the idea never let go of her. She kept returning to the same thought: Mobility Matters still needed to exist.
A move to Greenville gave her a second chance to figure out how. The Upstate's spread-out geography made a fully mobile practice hard to scale, so Quinn pivoted to a brick-and-mortar model instead. In 2024, she opened a one-room clinic on Augusta Street.
Two years later, that single room had become too small for what Mobility Matters had grown into. Quinn moved the practice to a larger space on Rutherford Street, one that required a significant renovation to bring her vision to life. The expanded location celebrated its grand opening on Cinco de Mayo.
Throughout the buildout, Quinn was also working through SCCLF's LEAP program, balancing daily operations with the demands of expansion. Winning first place in the Spring 2026 cohort gave her funding that helped keep the renovation on budget and kept the momentum going.
Today, the larger Rutherford Street space means Mobility Matters can offer more than physical therapy alone, opening the door to additional wellness services and a growing base of clients across Greenville.
From a conference she almost skipped, to a mobile practice, to a pandemic setback, to a one room clinic, to a thriving wellness practice, Quinn's story is proof that sometimes the idea that keeps calling you back is the one worth building.