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I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right. We are finally at the episode where I'm sharing how I got to where I am today as far as my career path goes,

I get this question, I mean, at least like three times a day in my DMs.

And it's one of those things where I'm like, it's a pretty loaded question.

So I decided to finally make a podcast episode about it.

I felt like it would be really boring.

But people, I did a poll on Instagram, people wanted to hear it. So I'm like, all right, here it is.

So I'm going to get into, like, how it all got started, what I did for functional training. I'll

share all the trainings for the most part of what I've done. I'm not going to share ones I didn't

like, because I don't want to say anything negative about

certain programs and stuff. Uh, and then I'll talk about hair test, starting my business,

how to like tips for continuing education, like all that fun stuff. So let's get into where this

all started. So I was originally, I was in school to become a dietitian at the University of Connecticut.

They have a really great, oh my gosh, how do they, how do they say it?

It's like a combined program where you don't have to do an internship after you do it while you're going to school.

It's like nursing school.

So your second two years, you're not only taking your dietetic classes,

but you're also doing all of your clinical hours as well, or at least most of them. And so I was

going through that program. I, it's like, it's very traditional. So I often have people ask how you got through it.

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