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Hi, this is Pia Baroncini and welcome to everything is the best.

The podcast where I get phone or bowl and make others do it with me.

The goal here is to deep dive into interesting people's journeys,

finding common denominators and hopefully making you feel not so alone.

So let's laugh, let's cry and let's get inspired to live our best lives.

I love Vanessa. She's quick, smart, funny and doesn't fuck around.

She received her MS in marketing at NYU and worked as a senior dietician at Mount Sinai Hospital

for five years. She's certified in adult weight management by the Academy of Nutrition and

Dietetics. In her private practice, she works with the treatment of GI disorders, weight

management, PCOS and family nutrition. She was named by Essence Magazine as one of the top five

black nutritionists that will change the way you think about food and currently served as the

dietic internship director at New York University. Vanessa is also the founder of Kolnina Health,

which offers personal nutrition coaching and science-based online education.

Mostly, it's just the damn mentoring that you need to achieve your personal goals in a way that

is specific to you while feeling tons of support. You know I got all the tips and tricks,

so please enjoy. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm sorry I've been late this morning with our

recorder issues. You're good. You're good. Thanks for having me. So as someone who has so many,

I think so many eating issues forever. I'm so excited to talk to you because I feel like especially

during the pandemic, I'm sure, I mean, I can't. I imagine you noticed this day, why people

be like, I'm just at home all day and like, what's my food for? And people are probably getting

weird and bored. So tell me how you got into nutrition to begin with. Yeah, I actually went to

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