All right, Rachel, I'm excited to have you on, especially because we literally just talked less than a week ago or was it exactly a week ago. I think it was exactly a week ago.

I think it was a lot. Yeah, because is it Thursday? I don't even know what day it is anymore, but it was last Thursday. So yeah, about a week ago. Yeah. So I already knew a good amount about you. I've seen your name and your podcast float around quite a few

times leading up to that. So I was excited for us to get connected. We did the podcast last week,

which went extremely well. I had a blast coming on your show. And now we get to return the favor

and bring you on here to highlight you and talk about you. So first and foremost, give the listeners an intro. Tell us who you are and a little bit

about why you do what you do. And then I'm going to kind of pick apart your background. But just give

us Rachel in a nutshell for now. Yeah, sure. So I'll try to keep it brief. I tend to ramble on.

So again, like I mentioned off air, feel free to interrupt me. So just to kind of go back, I grew up playing sports my whole life. I grew up in New York. I was really into just all things, all things athletics through high school. I played basketball and softball. I thought that I was going to go on and play basketball in college. I ended up getting injured my junior year, which kind of cut me off from being able to do that. I missed my whole season. And so I actually, as I was going into college and thinking about what I wanted to major in, I realized that if I couldn't be an athlete, I could kind of find the next best thing, which would be treating athletes.

So I decided to go to the University of Miami and get my undergrad and athletic training, sports

medicine.

As I was there, I actually found that getting more into my sophomore year of college, I

started taking, I took my first nutrition class, and was like, oh man, like I love nutrition.

I started getting really into it, taking more classes and realized that athletic training

might not be the career path that I wanted to go down. And so at that point, I decided to

kind of think into the future and think about what I could do to get more into the nutrition

and also like the strength conditioning side of things. I was really getting into that.

I did triathlons in college, but I also started to getting more into lifting as I,

as like my senior year came around. So anyway, kind of fast forward into grad school. I went and

got my master's degree in nutrition, exercise physiology, and I was working

as an athletic trainer at the time. So it was a two-year program, and that was at James Madison

University. And we had to do a master's thesis study. So my advisor at the time, he basically told my

class, hey, go out and go into the research

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