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and exercise and what you’ re doing now? J- Education-wise just a lot of reading. One of my best friends is a dietician, I picked her brain a lot. She was into the exercise nutrition part of it. It’ s just come over time with studying it out on my own and just figuring out what was gonna work for me. Asking a lot of questions. No official classroom study. With my health coaching now I am certified through the Villanova University – they have a program that you do and it’ s certified through the company. That’ s my education component. D- Self-education, best way to do it. You’ ve touched a little bit on your history, as far as where your passion kind of started and how it’ s evolved and things like that. Is there anything else as far as your history that you’ d like to share? J- Maybe just a little bit about how I found the program. D- Yeah that’ d be great! J- I was on Facebook and I saw a post from a friend of mine that I went to High School with. She lives in Colorado now. She kept posting things about getting healthier, losing weight, and kind of peaked my interest. So after a lot of thought and being nervous about that I reached out to her. She told me about the program, and I researched it a little bit more and it really appealed to me. A lot of different aspects of it appealed to me, mostly the fact that they had an endgame for it. It wasn’ t just a weight loss or diet … it was a lifestyle change! So I decided to jump in with both feet and go for it. D- Sweet. And that was how long ago?