A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

Jill Angie (she/her) is here to take a stand for you: You. Can. Run. Jill shares how mindset-shifting running can be, and she dispels the most common worries about being over 40 and running: my doctor said my knees can’t handle it, I don’t want to be seen by other people, I can’t breathe when I run. And then Jill and Sophia get philosophical about what even is joy.

Jill Angie is a fat running coach who helps other fat women start running, build body confidence, and embrace their inner athlete- all in the body they have right now. She is the host of the “Not Your Average Runner” podcast and creator of the Run Your Best Life coaching program.

Mentioned in this episode: HAES Health Sheets

Connect with Jill on Instagram, Facebook, check out her free 30-day starter plan, and the Run Your Best Life coaching program.

This episode’s poem is by Alice Walker and is called “What it Feels Like.”

Sophia Apostol, the host of Fat Joy, has started the Fat Joy newsletter where you’ll get behind-the-scenes info on guests, hot takes, and top recommendations for all things fat joy.

As a thank you for subscribing to the Fat Joy newsletter, you’ll get immediate access, for free, to 55 videos that only paid supporters have been able to see until now. These minisodes were recorded after Sophia & her guest finished the main interview and Sophia asked them 10 unexpected questions for “Some Extra Fat Joy.”

Should you want to support the Fat Joy podcast financially, you can become a paid subscriber of the Fat Joy newsletter and receive subscriber-only content from Sophia.

You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.

Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

Author of the book “Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation,” Anastasia Kidd (she/her) is starting a movement inviting Christians to examine their own biases against fatness and embrace a more abundant gospel rooted in anti-oppression. She shares how hundreds of years ago, the church began implementing practices of control and power to have ownership over our bodies and how that has had lasting harm. Anastasia invites us all to become unrepentant fatties in this conversation.

Anastasia Kidd is a pastor, educator, storyteller, and fat activist who studies how Christian colonialism helped establish structural anti-fatness in U.S. society and beyond. She believes that identifying with unrepentant fatness can help undermine all that is wrong with the world by reconnecting humanity with the abundance of nature, practicing sustainable communal relationships, and cultivating beautiful and pleasurable ethics.

Connect with Anastasia on her website and Instagram.

This episode’s poem is by Chen Chen and is called “God, Gods, Power, Lord, Universe.”

Sophia Apostol, the host of Fat Joy, has started the Fat Joy newsletter where you’ll get behind-the-scenes info on guests, hot takes, and top recommendations for all things fat joy.

As a thank you for subscribing to the Fat Joy newsletter, you’ll get immediate access, for free, to 55 videos that only paid supporters have been able to see until now. These minisodes were recorded after Sophia & her guest finished the main interview and Sophia asked them 10 unexpected questions for “Some Extra Fat Joy.”

Should you want to support the Fat Joy podcast financially, you can become a paid subscriber of the Fat Joy newsletter and receive subscriber-only content from Sophia.

You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.

Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

Hannah Fuhlendorf (she/her) is a therapist and coach who helps her clients live uninhibited lives in a world that wants to inhibit them. Hannah takes us through several of the steps towards living from possibility: grieving old beliefs, reconnecting to embodiment, finding acceptance, and privileging pleasure & joy. Oh, and sex clubs.

Hannah Fuhlendorf is a licensed professional counselor, activist, educator, and public speaker who specializes in the areas of health justice and fat liberation. She has a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Hannah has worked professionally in progressive politics, human rights, eating disorder treatment, substance use treatment, and community mental health. When Hannah isn’t working she enjoys swimming, cooking, and being with her husband and cats at their home in Colorado.

Connect with Hannah on her website, Instagram, and TikTok.

This episode’s poem is by Jeanne Lohmann and is called “Questions Before Dark.”

Sophia Apostol, the host of Fat Joy, has started the Fat Joy newsletter where you’ll get behind-the-scenes info on guests, hot takes, and top recommendations for all things fat joy.

As a thank you for subscribing to the Fat Joy newsletter, you’ll get immediate access, for free, to 55 videos that only paid supporters have been able to see until now. These minisodes were recorded after Sophia & her guest finished the main interview and Sophia asked them 10 unexpected questions for “Some Extra Fat Joy.”

Should you want to support the Fat Joy podcast financially, you can become a paid subscriber of the Fat Joy newsletter and receive subscriber-only content from Sophia.

You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.

Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

Fat flexibility coach, Vera Schofield (she/they), grew up with an unhealthy obsession with fitness for weight loss. After starting their fat liberation journey, a pole dancing class became the entry point into unlearning those diet-culture informed views of movement. Vera is here sharing how to bring flexibility into our day and why it matters. Also, they share their fave body stretches for those of us who sit a lot throughout the day.

Vera is a Toronto-based personal trainer and flexibility coach who is passionate about body-neutral movement. Their brand, Flexibility with Vera, aims to create room in the fitness industry for people of all sizes and abilities to feel welcomed, safe, and excited about moving.

Mentioned in this episode were Roz the Diva, Curves with Moves, and the Nap Ministry.

Connect with Vera on their website, Instagram, and TikTok.

This episode’s poem is by Gail McConnell and is called “Worm”

Sophia Apostol, the host of Fat Joy, has started the Fat Joy newsletter where you’ll get behind-the-scenes info on guests, hot takes, and top recommendations for all things fat joy. As a thank you for subscribing to the Fat Joy newsletter, you’ll get immediate access, for free, to 55 videos that only paid supporters have been able to see until now. These minisodes were recorded after Sophia & her guest finished the main interview and Sophia asked them 10 unexpected questions for “Some Extra Fat Joy.”

Should you want to support the Fat Joy podcast financially, you can become a paid subscriber of the Fat Joy newsletter and receive subscriber-only content from Sophia.

You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!).

Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.

Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

A bonus minisode where each guest answers 10 surprising questions with unexpected results. Hilarity ensues.

Erica Sosa (she/her) helps fat folks work through the moments in our lives when fatness, desirability, and visibility intersect. Specifically, she works as a bridal consultant and as an erotic movement coach, and in many ways, what her clients feel in both settings is the same– like there’s something wrong with their bodies that must be forced to change. Erica shares how she invites people to shift from how they look to how they feel. And she gives us 3 tips we can use to connect to our bodies as they are.

Erica Sosa is a body justice educator, stylist for fat femmes, and erotic movement coach for fat femmes. She writes a monthly substack that dives into her personal experiences with the intersections between fatness, desirability, and visibility on social media and in real life.

Please connect with Erica on Instagram and Substack.

This episode’s poem is by Langston Hughes and is called “Freedom.”

Sophia Apostol, the host of Fat Joy, has started the Fat Joy newsletter where you’ll get behind-the-scenes info on guests, hot takes, and top recommendations for all things fat joy. As a thank you for subscribing to the Fat Joy newsletter, you’ll get immediate access, for free, to 55 videos that only paid supporters have been able to see until now. These minisodes were recorded after Sophia & her guest finished the main interview and Sophia asked them 10 unexpected questions for “Some Extra Fat Joy.”

Should you want to support the Fat Joy podcast financially, you can become a paid subscriber of the Fat Joy newsletter and receive subscriber-only content from Sophia.

You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!).

Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review.

Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.