Heather Olson Spotlight
Heather Olson is a young woman who has been down many career paths before sticking a landing at Golden State Gymnastics. Heather is originally from San Jose. As a young child she ended up in the entertainment industry which lead her to Burbank. Over the years she has been in various television ads, a few movies and even landed a steady role on Days of Our Lives. As she grew up, Heather found herself drawn to working with kids. For five years, she worked as a professional nanny and decided that she would dedicate her life to working with kids and being a positive role model.
Heather, along with all of the other program directors and coaches at Golden State Gymnastics, is USA Gymnastics safety-certified. In addition to this training, Heather's work as a child actor and nanny makes her sensitive to the individual needs of each child she works with. When she coaches she not only teaches kids about the fundamentals of gymnastics, she also tries to instill important social skills and self-confidence.
Golden State Gymnastics is a non-profit organization that relies on fund raising and donations. Working for a non-profit, Heather has learned that it's not always about making money, instead life becomes more rewarding when you're making a difference. Creating and sustaining a sense of community are the goals of the organization, and they try to help their community by instilling habits in the children of our community that embody healthy living. They have summer camps, daily classes, and "parent's night out". Parent's night out (held once a month) falls on Saturday nights and the idea is to give Burbank parents the opportunity to drop off their kids in a fun and safe environment while they go out and have "grown up time" out on the town.
We at justBurbank want to salute Heather and Golden State Gymnastics for all of their efforts to make our community a better place for kids (and parents on Saturday nights).
