Biochemist and author Jessie Inchauspe (Aka - the Glucose Goddess) joins Jameela to talk about the many ways glucose affects your body. They define what glucose is and its function in the body, how glucose spikes can affect everything from mood to diabetes to PCOS, "glucose hacks" you can utilize to keep your spikes at a minimum, how we can empower people with their own bodies, and more.
 

Check out Jessie's book Glucose Revolution - wherever books are sold.

You can follow Jessie Inchauspe on Instagram & Twitter @glucosegoddess

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Author and podcast host Aubrey Gordon joins Jameela this week to discuss her new book "You Just Need To Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People. They discuss the correlation of health and fatness, how fatphobia is born from the idea that you can blame an individual for their weight, the danger of the recent trend of weight-loss injections, the myth of "promoting obesity," and more. 

Check out Aubrey's new book - "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People - wherever books are sold! 

Follow Aubrey Gordon on Twitter & Instagram @yrfatfriend  

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Author and podcaster Amanda Montell joins Jameela this week discuss all things cults. They cover what makes a cult vs. what makes something cult-ish, what to be on the look out for when assessing if something is a cult (or cult-ish), the dangers of large cults or the cult of one, the cultish qualities of the diet and wellness industries, and more. 
 

Listen to Amanda's podcast - Sounds Like a Cult - wherever you get your podcasts

Follow Amanda on Instagram @amanda_montell 

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Stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger joins Jameela this week to discuss motherhood and raising a daughter her own way, where Iliza's confidence comes from and how she keeps jealousy from getting her down, how women are pitted against each other by society, how feminism doesn't mean loving every woman, what we lose by labelling people, and more. 
 

Check out Iliza's podcast - Ask Iliza Anything - wherever you get your podcasts. 

Follow Iliza on Twitter @iliza & Instagram @ilizas

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Happy almost new year! We are re-releasing a favorite episode of ours that we think will be encouraging as we all step into the new year. Author and expert in menstrual health Maisie Hill joins Jameela this week to discuss the different seasons of the menstrual cycle, how different bodies respond differently to hormones, why perimenopause is a space to process the expectations on people socialized as women, why we are so bad at diagnosing autism in women, and more. 

You can find Maisie Hill's books -Period Power and Perimenopause Power- on her website and wherever books are sold: https://www.maisiehill.com/

You can listen to Maisie's podcast -Period Power with Maisie Hill - Wherever you get your podcasts

You can follow Maisie on Instagram @_maisiehill_ and Twitter @MaisieHill_

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Happy holidays! We are re-releasing an episode we love and think will be encouraging to us all as we head into the holidays this weekend. Entrepreneur, host, and mental health advocate Poppy Jamie joins Jameela to discuss her new book - Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself From Anxiety. Poppy walks Jameela through her research and explains how we tend to have two "radio channels" in our brain - Stressed FM & Relaxed FM. She helps us understand how to turn down Stressed FM and turn up Relaxed FM. She covers the importance of belly breathing, stiff thinking vs flexible thinking, why we are so overwhelmed, and shares the best advice she was ever given - "never waste a breakdown." 

Happy Not Perfect is out now wherever books are sold

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Playwright, actor, poet, and filmmaker Sarah Jones joins Jameela this week to discuss her new film Sell/Buy/Date, which explores the many complicated layers within the sex industry. They discuss how the sex industry manifests the racism and inequalities of culture at large, the difference between legalization and decriminalization, who truly benefits within it, the ways the industry can be either empowering or dehumanizing, and more. 

Sell/Buy/Date is streaming now!

Follow Sarah on Instagram and Twitter @yesimsarahjones

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Therapist and author Nedra Glover Tawwab joins Jameela to talk all things boundaries! They discuss why boundaries are so important, what setting healthy boundaries looks like, how to have boundaries with family over the holidays, why you don't have to explain your boundaries, and more. Plus, they answer listener questions on boundaries worth ending friendships over, not expecting others to change, and how to set boundaries with parents. 

Check out Nedra's book - Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide To Reclaiming Yourself - wherever books are sold. 

Follow Nedra Glover Tawwab on Instagram and Twitter @nedratawwab

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Artist and activist Jesse Krimes joins Jameela to share his powerful story. He describes his experience being incarcerated, discusses how solitary confinement was used as a manipulation tactic, explains the ways that prison is both violent and human, shares the way the prisoners were manipulated, details the racism which pervades the system, and explores how art saved his life in more ways than one. 
 

Check out Jesse Krimes' documentary - ART & Krimes by Krimes - now streaming on Paramount+ 

Follow Jesse on Instagram and Twitter @jesse_krimes

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