Episode 022: On today’s episode of Real Health Radio I interview Virgie Tovar. Virgie is an author and one of the USA’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed, the founder of BABECAMP and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Virgie also edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health, Yahoo front page, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine Online, Bust Magazine, and was recently named in the Women in Power issue of San Francisco Magazine.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

3:00 How her lineage affected her body shape

6:10 How age affects beliefs about weight

9:15 How dating was different to what she had been led to believe it would be

15:05 How her home impacted on beliefs about her body

19:25 Why she prefers fat instead of terms overweight or obese

24:20 How fat shaming and weight discrimination happens in everyday life

29:45 How weight discrimination affects health

37:30 How privilege is an important concept that people need to be aware of

42:00 Why compassion can be so important in understanding privilege

47:20 Why she created #losehatenotweight

54:00 Her experience as a fat activist online

60:45 Her program Babecamp and what it’s all about

Here’s how you can connect with Virgie Tovar:

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Her book

Babecamp

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Episode 136: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Rupert Pugsley.

Rupert studied marketing and business management after finishing school and then spent over a decade working in the soft drinks industry, working for Pepsi and then Red Bull.

About three years ago he went back to school to pursue his interest in psychology, doing a double Masters in Psychology and Occupational & Organisational Psychology.

As a researcher his focus has largely been on authenticity at work, with the title of his most recent paper being “Examining the relationship of trust in co-workers with authenticity at work and imposter phenomenon”.

Rupert is passionate about helping people discover who they are and how they can be their true self at work.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

5:00: A bit about Rupert’s background

9:15: What drew him to psychology

16:00: How meditation ties in with this

19:15: What is authenticity?

24:15: Why is authenticity important at work?

26:30: What are the negative impacts of being inauthentic?

27:45: How to be more authentic

32:15: What is imposter phenomenon?

37:00: How to differentiate imposter phenomenon from regular nerves

40:30: How to overcome imposter phenomenon

44:15: What does it mean to truly trust?

47:00: Trusting others vs trusting yourself

49:30: Can you be too trusting?

50:30: The benefits of learning to trust

52:00: The key takeaway from all of Rupert’s research

58:45: How is his workplace authenticity research relevant to people who are self-employed?

1:01:45: What people don’t know about doing a dissertation

1:11:15: Rupert’s parting advice

Here’s how you can connect with Rupert Pugsley:

LinkedIn

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