What's going on?

What's cooking? How are you doing? Good. This is so fun. I'm very excited. I'm very, very excited. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. So just so you know, we are recording. Just so you're aware, we're recording it right off the bat because all like the best stuff happens right at the beginning. I'm very excited to speak with you.

So I've read the whole email.

But I want to hear everything from you regardless.

I just want to hear you break everything down. But before we even get into your fitness questions, I just want to get to know you better.

So tell me about you, Rachel, who are you?

Who is Rachel?

Well, hmm, I don't know if that would be appropriate for a podcast, but I'll give you some

snippets of who is Rachel. So this is actually very out of my comfort zone. Um, because I grew up

Orthodox Jewish. Okay. In a town that's very private and we don't typically do public

things like this. So it's a little, it's a little weird for me and I'm sort of hoping that

nobody will ever come across it. I'm, I'm doing this very selfishly because I want to hear your

opinions. I want your advice. So I'm like, fuck. This is what I'm doing. And you need to be

selfish so that you can be selfless. Like if you, you have to be able to fill your own cup before you can fill other people's cup. So it makes sense. Where did you grow up? Was it in New York? I grew up in Jersey. Jersey. Got it. Okay. You've got the, you've got that accent. I want to have coffee with you.

Are you still in that area? Got it. Okay. You've got that accent. I want to have coffee with you.

Are you still in that area? Yeah. Yeah. I live nearby.

Okay. Not the town that I grew up in, but I live nearby. But I'll just leave the name out for now.

So I grew up Orthodox Jewish. We didn't really do like a lot of organized sports and school or things like that. So movement was not not necessarily a thing that was so focused on. Like my dad always worked

out. Like since I'm a little kid, I remember him running, biking. We had a gym in the basement,

but he didn't really talk about it much. Like, it was just something that he did.

And then as I got older, I think it was probably maybe around ninth grade, something like that.

Like 13, 14, I decided to go on the treadmill a lot.

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