Exclusive: MLW's Salina De La Renta On Future Goals, McDonald's, Getting A Ph.D & More

On when she decided that wrestling was going to be a career and not just a series of one-offs:

Salina De La Renta: "Well, I decided it was going to be a career pretty much when I started. I was determined to make it but I didn't know if it was going to work. But when I started I was a manager at McDonald's and I was making maybe 300 bucks a week, maybe $400, a manager makes a little bit more. But I was using that money to try and invest in wrestling. All the money I had was for wrestling, for my clothes and I would sometimes starve... I would say a year and a half in the business I was able to quit my job and just do it as a permanent thing. I was a wrestler at the time."

On when she learned healthy eating habits despite managing a McDonald's:

Salina De La Renta: "This year I did it... This past year I got a coach and she's helped me a lot with my eating habits... This past year I've been trying to take more care of myself and I started losing weight but it was because I was eating very little amounts of food and my coach was like, "No no no, you're doing it all wrong. You have to cook, you have to make your food.'"

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Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. In the years following, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Format Magazine, Businessweek, The Improper, Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Darren is also the host of the "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" podcast, as co-produced with PureGrainAudio. He is also the author of two published books, including 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press).