Finding Our Hunger

Announcing the Your Body, Your Brand Podcast

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UNpodcast 164: UNsurveyed (Amy Olson) - Finding Our Hunger

“Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.” – Kevin McCormack Today’s guest is Amy Olson, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist with the International Association of Eating...

UNpodcast 163: UNperformed (Magnoliah Black) - Finding Our Hunger

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  – David Brinkley Today’s guest is Magnoliah Black, a queer, fat, black performance artist, writer, Bay Area burlesque dancer, motivational...

UNpodcast 162: UNclothed (Saundra Saulnier) - Finding Our Hunger

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” – Simone de Beauvoir Today’s guest is fashion designer and stylist Saundra Saulnier. In this episode we discuss: * Why Saundra loves style but hates fashion * What does your costume say...

UNpodcast 161: UNweighted (Chris Sandel) - Finding Our Hunger

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. – Peter T. Mcintyre Today’s guest is Chris Sandel, a nutritionist who runs his own company called 7 Health and the host of Real Health Radio. NOTE: We...

UNpodcast 160: UNposed (Kelly Diels) - Finding Our Hunger

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.  Aloud.” – Coco Chanel In this episode we discuss: * How having biracial children led to work in women’s “empowerment” * Why you cannot buy empowerment * Why even people who don’t have businesses...

UNpodcast 159: UNlettered (Erin Brown) - Finding Our Hunger

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them will illumination and forgiveness.  Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” – August Wilson Today’s guest is Erin Brown, an author, speaker and activist...

UNpodcast 158: UNcompeting (Melissa Toler) - Finding Our Hunger

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Gautama Buddha Today’s guest is Melissa Toler, a writer, speaker and body image coach. In this episode we discuss: * Why it feels like you have to...

UNpodcast 157: UNphilosophical (Tausha Ostrander) - Finding Our Hunger

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.  Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi This week’s guest is Tausha Ostrander, producer of this year’s Dangerous Curves Plus Size Pole Dance competition. In this episode we discuss: * Everything you want...

UNpodcast 156: UNrejected (Isabel Foxen Duke Returns!) - Finding Our Hunger

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton This week’s guest is frequent podcast guest and all around no-diet badass, Isabel Foxen Duke. In this episode...

UNpodcast 155: UNembraceable (August McLaughlin) - Finding Our Hunger

“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers.  I’m thinking not only of May Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.  You cannot divide creative juices from human...

UNpodcast 154: UNrelated (Elizabeth Cooper) - Finding Our Hunger

“I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.” – Lauren Bacall Today’s guest is Elizabeth Cooper, a queer body love coach, and the creator of the Queer Body Love speaker series. In this episode we discuss: * How disordered eating connects...

UNpodcast 153: UNsurprised (Dawn Serra) - Finding Our Hunger

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Veronica A. Shoffstall This week’s guest is Dawn Serra, sex coach, sex educator, and activist around body acceptance and sexual trauma and...

UNpodcast 152: UNresearched (Dr. Sandra Aamodt) - Finding Our Hunger

The words “I am” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.—A.L. Kitselman This week’s guest is Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., author of the new book:  Why...

UNpodcast 151: UNpatient (JD Ouellette) - Finding Our Hunger

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow Today’s guest is JD Ouellette, an advocate for evidence based treatment in eating disorders, and one of the creators...

UNpodcast 150: UNslut (Emily Lindin) - Finding Our Hunger

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it. – Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth Today’s guest is Emily Lindin, creator of the Unslut Project and author of Unslut: A Diary and Memoir. In...

UNpodcast 149: UNholistic (Alicia Melgoza) - Finding Our Hunger

“Be careful about reading health books.  Some find day you’ll die of a misprint.” – Markus Herz This week’s guest is Alicia Melgoza, MSW, MA, founder and creator of Taking Healthy Back (TM), and is a Health Nut + Fitness Junkie...

UNpodcast 148: UNcurious (Dr. Judith Brisman) - Finding Our Hunger

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town” – Anne Lamott This week’s guest is Dr. Judith Brisman, founder of the Eating Disorder Resource Center in New York. In this episode we discuss: * Why your #DiscoveryNotRecovery...

UNpodcast 147: UNaccidental (Courtney Marshall) @feministfitness - Finding Our Hunger

“It’s never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, or a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.  We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these...

UNpodcast 146: UNnormative (Andrea LaMarre) @andrealala89 - Finding Our Hunger

“Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork…My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.” – Alfred...

UNpodcast 145: UNinfinite (Anita Wing Lee) - Finding Our Hunger

“Why do you go away?  So that you can come back.  So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.  And the people there see you differently, too.  Coming back to where you...

UNpodcast 144: UNjournaled (Katie Dalebout) - Finding Our Hunger

“…hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.  Being one place and wanting to somewhere else…Wanting life to be different from what it is.  That’s also called leaving without leaving.  Dying before you die.  It’s as if...

UNpodcast 143: UNradical (Virgie Tovar) - Finding Our Hunger

“There’s an adrenaline rush that comes with denying the common rules of society: that I should always be trying to lose weight, that I should always be unhappy with some flaw. To say I am perfectly content with my body...

UNpodcast 142: UNokay (Project UROK) @jennyjaffe @sarahhartshorne - Finding Our Hunger

“Your present circumstance don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Quebein Today’s guests are Jenny Jaffe and Sarah Hartshorne, creators of the nonprofit organization and YouTube channel Project UROK. In this episode we discuss: * Why...

UNpodcast 141: UNfeminist (Louise O’Neill) - Finding Our Hunger

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus Today’s guest is Louise O’Neill author of Only Ever Yours and Asking For It. In this episode we discuss: * What does it mean to...

UNpodcast: UNshared (Camille DePutter) - Finding Our Hunger

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.  Always.  All the time.  That story makes you what you are.  We build ourselves out of that story.” – Patrick Rothfuss Today’s guest is Camille dePutter, creator of Storytelling...

Unpodcast 139: UNcathartic (Jessie Kahnweiler) @Jesskahnweiler - Finding Our Hunger

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.” – Madeleine L’Engle Today’s guest is Jessie Kahnweiler, filmmaker and star of the new web series The Skinny. In this episode we discuss: * Why it’s cathartic NOT to make your art therapy * Why we...

UNpodcast 138: UNgood (Mindy Dillard) - Finding Our Hunger

“I am the poet of the body, and I am the poet of the Soul.” —Walt Whitman This week’s guest is Mindy Dillard, an award-winning singer-songwriter and a body image activist who recently released her second full length feature album, How...

UNpodcast 137: UNinsured (Joanna Kay) @_middle_ground - Finding Our Hunger

“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” – Kurt Vonnegut Today’s guest is Joanna Kay of Middle Ground Musings. In this episode we discuss: * What happens when you only recover “enough” to convince yourself of something...

UNpodcast 136: UNcounted (Jessica Raymond) @RecovryWarriors - Finding Our Hunger

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey Today’s guest is Jessica Raymond, founder and director of Recovery Warriors, a rapidly growing resource hub for all things related to eating disorder recovery. In...

UNpodcast 135: UNdiscriminated (Susan Greenhalgh) - Finding Our Hunger

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” – Jamie Lee Curtis Today’s guest is Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and author of Fat Talk Nation. In this episode we discuss: * The...

UNpodcast 134: UNmarketed (Kat Whitfield) @katissimusdorsi - Finding Our Hunger

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne Today’s guest is Kat Whitfield, a graphic designer and no-diet-bullshit fitness coach (who totally blows my mind with her grasp on marketing messages...

UNpodcast 133: UNprivileged (Kelsey Miller) @mskelseymiller - Finding Our Hunger

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey Today’s guest is Kelsey Miller, author of the new book Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life and the creator of the Anti-Diet Project on...

UNpodcast 132: UNauthentic (Jessamyn Stanley) - Finding Our Hunger

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move.  Move the way love makes you move.  Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho Today’s guest is Jessamyn Stanley, creator of EveryBody Yoga. In this episode we discuss: * How yoga can be...

UNpodcast 131: UNtransformed (Julie Creffield) @juliecreffield - Finding Our Hunger

“But why are we so put off from standing out and being different through the disproportionate fear of possibly being laughed at?  Imagine what the world would look life if every woman who was scared all of a sudden stopped,...

UNpodcast 130: UNgone (Blaire Sharpe) @blairesharpe - Finding Our Hunger

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Today’s guest is Blaire Sharpe, author of Not Really Gone. In this episode we discuss: * Why suffering is the human condition (and why that’s not a...

UNpodcast 129: UNwilled (Traci Mann) - Finding Our Hunger

“You have power over your mind – not outside events.  Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Today’s guest is Dr. Traci Mann, author of Secrets of the Eating Lab: In this episode we discuss: * Why dieters can’t stop...

UNpodcast 128: UNinvested (Caroline Dooner) - Finding Our Hunger

“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” — Ian Wallace Today’s guest is Caroline Dooner, the creator of the Fuck It Diet. (And, yes, this episode is explicit!) In this episode we discuss: *...

UNpodcast 127: UNmodeled (Nikki Dubose) - Finding Our Hunger

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahlil Gibran Today’s guest is Nikki Dubose, a former fashion model, host, and commercial actress who recovered from a 17 year battle with anorexia and bulimia. In this...

UNpodcast 126: UNchanged (Christy Harrison) @chr1styharrison - Finding Our Hunger

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” – Amy Bloom Today’s guest is registered dietitian nutritionist and certified Intuitive Eating counselor Christy Harrison. In this episode we discuss: * Why being a mentor can help you stay recovered * The...

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UNpodcast: UNintrepid Katie Dalebout @katiedalebout (TW: pro-ana) - Finding Our Hunger

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Nicholas Chamfort Today’s guest is speaker, life coach, author, blogger, and podcaster Katie Dalebout. In this episode we discuss: * How to find worth outside of your body * Why it’s so hard...

UNpodcast 124: UNwanted (Katie Horwitch) @katiehorwitch - Finding Our Hunger

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar Today’s guest is Katie Horwitch, the woman, warrior, and wellness activist behind WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, a website and initiative that helps women move...

UNpodcast 123: Unconnected Lauren Fowler, RDN - Finding Our Hunger

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” – Elizabeth Gilbert Today’s guest is Lauren Fowler, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in eating disorders and women’s health. In this episode we discuss: * What...

UNpodcast 122: Unrevealed (Chris Cole) @chriscolecoach - Finding Our Hunger

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through.  Face it.” – Joseph Conrad Today’s guest is a recovery coach and the author of the memoir The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, Chris Cole. In...

UNpodcast 121: Unapproachable (Chrystal Bougon) - Finding Our Hunger

“My body, my business. Your body, your business.”  Today’s guest is Chrystal Bougon, owner of Curvy Girl Lingerie in San Jose, CA. In this episode we discuss: * Why there’s no shame in pleasure * Why we need more places for women of all...

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UNpodcast 120: UNcontrollable (Lynn Chen) @mslynnchen - Finding Our Hunger

“Scars are not injuries… A scar is a healing.  After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.” – China Mieville Today’s guest is Lynn Chen, an actor, blogger, and body image activist. In this episode we discuss: * How to stop letting external...

UNpodcast 119: UNsensitive (Noelle Tarr) @coconutskettles - Finding Our Hunger

“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” – Astrid Alauda Today’s guest is Noelle Tarr, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and the voice behind Coconuts and Kettlebells (as well as 1/2 of the Paleo Women podcast). In this...

UNpodcast 118: UNdead (Mike Kemski) - Finding Our Hunger

“It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become, enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”...