What's up everybody? Welcome to the Mike Dolce show. Very special guest in the house. We have Jackie Kaminsky, the fight nutritionist. And we have very good friends good people in common jackie our good friend

tony ritchie who is a friend of the show he's been on multiple times and he just has amazing things

to say about you so i'm super happy to have you on yeah thanks for having me and where are you right

now what part of the world are you in i am in in South Florida, so West Palm Beach. Oh, that's not so bad. Yeah, sunny, you know, sunshine state over here. Born and raised in Florida? Are you from up east? No, I'm like, you know, born and raised. So when people talk about Floridians, I'm like, I'm a true Floridian, been here my whole life. Yeah. And same location in Florida where you are right now? Yep. Same. I mean, like all over South Florida. So just different parts, but pretty much like the Palm Beach area my whole life. Yeah. Okay. Nice. And a little bit of background as we kind of get in, because we got some fun stuff to talk about. But background on you.

How did you stumble into this whole nutrition? as we kind of get in, because we got some fun stuff to talk about. But background on you.

How did you stumble into this whole nutrition thing?

We'll talk about fight sports in a minute, but let's get a little origin story from you.

Yeah. So, I mean, I kind of knew early on that I wanted to get into nutrition.

I was an athlete my whole life.

And I realized early on how important that was.

When I started school, I went to Florida State, go Knowles. They had a dietetics program.

I quickly fell in love with it. So I went there for my undergrad and then stayed for my

master's as well where I got my master's in sports, nutrition and exercise physiology.

But from there, it was just kind of deciding, okay, like, you know, what field I don't want to go into? Because I hate the hospital setting. So clinical was out of the question. Um, food service, not my, you know, not my thing either. Um, and then community just, it wasn't really the types of people that I was looking to work with

for me to really feel like I'm doing a good job. You know, I like my motivated clients, people

who are actually, you know, looking for useful information that they can implement in their everyday

life and are actually committed to the process. So, you know, kind of athletes was really the only

kind of people, the only clientele that I found myself, you know, really wanting to work with is just the question of, you know, where I wanted to go.

Because obviously people mostly go towards a bigger sports like football or basketball.

Yeah.

And then, you know, at the time I had a friend who was like a kickboxing instructor.

So they started getting into that and you know not that

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