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Welcome to the Mike Dolce show.

Today we are talking to Mr. Jason Phillips.

Jason Phillips is the founder of the Nutritional Coaching Institute, and he's working now to help

coach coaches in leading a revolution of evidence-based science with regards to health, fitness,

and optimizing performance. So I'm going to let Jason tell you all that he's up to here.

Let's get him on board. Jason, what's up, my man?

What's up, brother? It's good to be here, man. How are you?

That's good. It's good to see it, you know, face to face. We did a little bit of a Instagram, you know, DMing and texting like that. But it's good to be here man how are you it's good it's good to see you know face to face we did a little bit of a instagram you know deemming and texting like that but it's nice to have a chat with you it's been a minute man it's uh it's always good to catch up man i know we're we're finally on the same side of the country and uh right so yeah man it's it's always good so where are you right now where's home base? Right now, I'm in South Carolina. I'm actually visiting my parents.

My dad's ill, so I'm down here.

But home now is D.C. for me. So Northern Virginia, D.C. area. Oh, wow. Okay. You know, kind of chaos up there up near the Beltway, right? As they say. Yeah. Unfortunately, I stay outside of that as much as I'm out in the suburbs of mountain like Loud County Virginia but it's yeah man

it Yeah, unfortunately, I stay outside of that as much as I'm out in the suburbs, I'm out in like Loud County, Virginia, but it's, yeah, man, there's definitely a lot of chaos in the D.C. area. So, and you don't get caught up at all the, all the traffic, all the chaos, all the political BS, right? I'm close enough to Dulles Airport that I, you know, I get there, I get out, I get to stay out of the city. I kind of get to do my own thing, man. Anybody that knows me knows I'm pretty, I'm pretty much a homebody. So I just actually just got a new house and just putting that together to make it my sanctuary, man, and do my work and hang out and enjoy life, bro. Awesome. Hell yeah. That's what it's about. So what I wanted to do, I want to get down and dirty in nutrition, obviously. That is your expertise. But before that, I just want to get a little bit of background on you so the audience can better understand you, where you're coming from. And I think our backstory really does shape what we do today. And that's,

that's what we find out. So let's go all the way back. Where, where were you born? Where was

your origin? Yeah, man. I was born in Washington State, but I lay no claims to Washington

at all. I was out before I turned to one. I actually grew up in my hometown, so in northern Virginia,

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