#54 - It's Never Just About the Hair - Metastatic Breast Cancer and Resilience with Bare Short Film Director Kerith Lemon and Co-Writer Rebecca Hall
Oct 31, 2017
Rebecca Hall was only 25 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s been a long and challenging road for her, and Rebecca wants other women, especially young women with metastatic breast cancer, to know “you are not alone.” Tune in to hear us talk about Rebecca’s journey.
Watch Bare, the film she...
#53 - Why We All Need Fat Activism with Marilyn Wann, Author of Fat!So? and Creator of the YAY! Scale
Oct 24, 2017
What if we all were fat activists? It’s an interesting thought for people who are finally at the place of rejecting diets and a singular (thin) standard for beauty and health. Activism is not always getting angry and standing on the street with a sign screaming. Sometimes it IS that, but there are lots of forms...
#52 - Radical Self-Acceptance with Body Image Activist and Author Rosie Molinary
Oct 17, 2017
When Rosie Molinary was looking in the mirror at her frizzy, unruly hair in the dead of summer and freaking out over what product would 'tame the mane,' she had an epiphany: 'I have bought into the beauty myth of what society says I should look like.' She told herself, 'I'm going to work with boys in an alternative...
#51 - Why Diets are Bad for Your Brain with Neuroscientist and TED Talk Superstar, Sandra Aamodt, PhD
Oct 10, 2017
Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt's TED Talk "Why dieting usually doesn't work" has been viewed over 4 million times. She really didn't want to do a TED Talk, but she was so driven to put a science-based, anti-diet book out into the world that she marched her introverted self onto the TED stage, stood on the big red dot,...
#50 - Challenging The Overwhelm with Bestselling Author Brigid Schulte - How Can We Find the Time to Have a Good Life?
Oct 3, 2017
Tiara syndrome. Tunneling. Time Confetti. If you don't already know about these terms, you will after hearing me talk with award winning journalist and bestselling author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, Brigid Schulte.
When we don't have the time or make the most of our time, we...