This is episode number 51 of the Paleo Women Podcast.

Welcome to the Paleo Women Podcast.

I'm your co-host Noel Tarr a nutritional therapy practitioner and a certified

personal trainer and with me is my partner in crime Stephanie Rupert author of

the best-selling book, sexy by nature.

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Hello friends, we are back as promised. I am Noel Tarr. I am your co-host and I am here with

Stephanie Rupert. Hello Stephanie Rupert. Hi Noel Tarr. How are you? I am super well. Super well, that's exciting.

Well, I'm talking to you. Yeah, that's really fun. How, how is your classes going? I wanted to ask you about this. I haven't talked to you about that. But how, like, did you start a new semester or when you're pursuing a PhD? Is it not like that? Are you just like doing your own thing? Well, so in the United States, a PhD program generally entails two years of super rigorous

classes.

Shut up, Noel.

And then a year of taking these really rigorous tests to certify that you know everything

there is to know ever.

And then you have two years to write your dissertation in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe for the most part

it's a totally different thing so I it's only a three-year program although most people take

longer I showed up people are like so you're gonna take four it's only a three-year program, although most people take longer.

I showed up, people are like, so you're going to take four years?

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