The Bossticks Amanda Kloots On How To Turn Pain Into Purpose, Heal After Loss, & Build Unshakable Resilience
May 4, 2026
Amanda Kloots, a Broadway-born fitness and lifestyle authority turned multi-platform host and author, shares her journey of grief and resilience after losing her husband. She talks about how Broadway shaped her discipline. She reveals how community, daily rituals, and music became lifelines. She also discusses turning pain into purpose, launching a talk show and a supplement line, and parenting through healing.
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Meeting Nick During A Broadway Reading
- Amanda met Nick at a reading for Bullets Over Broadway and became friends while navigating her separation.
- Their closeness grew through late-night cast hangouts and intimate conversations that turned friendship into love.
The Sudden ICU Collapse And Loss Of Nick
- In March 2020 Nick contracted COVID, briefly tested negative, then spiked a fever and died after a sudden collapse on April 10th.
- Amanda describes frantic hospital fights to visit him and the shock of expecting rehab in days but receiving a death call instead.
ECMO Complication Led To Amputation
- After Nick was placed on ECMO, a cannula mistake caused a blood clot that led to the amputation of his right leg.
- Amanda explains the technical failure on life-support that compounded his medical decline.