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 Disorders and professionals. In this episode we discuss: * The power of pole dancing in recovery * Why we need pole mamas * Myth and eating disorders: What we can learn from Persephone * An important study on pole dance and eating disorders And more! CONNECT WITH AMY: WEBSITE: http://fulllifeconsulting.com STUDY: http://www.badkitty.com/news/pole-dancing-and-eating-disorders/ BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click on the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: VISIT: Anita Johnson here and here Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

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 speaker and eater of food in public. In this episode we discuss: * Why you need to live your life as if it were phenomenal * How performance can be a tool to humanize your identity for others * How to create space for people with marginalized identities * How kink, embodiment, and no fucks given led to a one girl revolution And more! CONNECT WITH MAGNOLIAH: FACEBOOK: Magnoliah Black FACEBOOK: Irene McCalpherin BLOG: The ungrateful fat bitch BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: WATCH: Gypsy VISIT: Kitty von Quim VISIT: Rubenesque Burlesque Troupe WATCH: Juicy D’Lite Fat Camp number WATCH: Jet Noir VISIT: Burlycon VISIT: Burlesque and Why VISIT: Ellion Ness (age), Vagina Jekins (sex worker), Dottie Lux (eating disorders), Alexa Von Kickinface (boobs and safety), Lay Si Luna (being latina, but also non-binary) SEE: Wonder Woman burlesque – Dee Dee Queen Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 about you? * Why you need to stop using clothes as things And more! CONNECT WITH SAUNDRA: WEBSITE: saundrasaulnier.com WEBSITE: styleshift.us BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a free trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: VISIT: #rockthecroptop Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

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 discuss health food, weight loss and calories in this episode.  Please note that there are potential triggers in the first 20 minutes of the interview. In this episode we discuss: * Why most dieters believe more restriction is the answer to their problems * Why it’s terrifying to reject the idea that thinness is a goal – and why it’s imperative we reject it * How to get food to just be food again * What is the difference between weight and health, and why does it matter? And more! CONNECT WITH CHRIS: WEBSITE: seven-health.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/7Health PODCAST: Real Health Radio   BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: READ: The Healthiest Weight Might Actually Be Overweight, Massive Study Finds READ: Minnesota Starvation Experiment LISTEN: UNpodcast 107: Harriet Brown READ: Go With Your Gut WATCH: John Oliver on Scientific Studies PLAY: Gratitude Mad Libs READ: Brene Brown READ: Health at Every Size READ: The Obesity Myth READ: Intuitive Eating Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman

“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 are selling themselves as a brand * How diet marketing creates oppression And more! CONNECT WITH KELLY: WEBSITE: kellydiels.com BOOK: The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand FACEBOOK: facebook.com/kellydielswriter BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: READ: How Empowerment Became Something for Women to Buy READ: We Were Feminists Once READ: Understanding Patriarchy Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 whose work focuses on women and autonomy, positive body image, authentic narrative, cultural rebellion, and radical self-care. In this episode we discuss: * How did we learn to hate ourselves? * Why your self-worth can’t be dependent on only one variable, like size * How to let toxic people go so you can love yourself * Why confidence is a muscle that must be trained (and how to train it) And more! CONNECT WITH ERIN: WEBSITE: iamerinbrown.com BOOK: Letters to Lola SNAPCHAT: @iamerinbrown TWITTER: @iamerinbrown INSTAGRAM: @iamerinbrown FACEBOOK: facebook.com/iamerinbrown BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on  iTunes or  Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 “effort” to exist as a woman * Why happens when your body image is not compatible with real life * Why feminism took away everything I believed in (and why that’s a GOOD thing) * Why you can’t “green smoothie” your way through body image issues and recovery And more! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: WEBSITE: melissatoler.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MelissaDToler INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/melissadtoler FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaDToler BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start with a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 to know about plus size pole dance and Dangerous Curves * Why the world doesn’t end when you show skin as a plus size dancer * Why we need to move past “beauty” as a way to measure worth * Reappropriating the male gaze and celebrating ourselves with pole dance Have a question for me to answer on the podcast?  Email me at kailaprins@gmail.com or ask through findingourhunger.com/ask! CONNECT WITH TAUSHA: FACEBOOK/APPLICATION: facebook.com/DCCompetition INSTAGRAM: @taushaostrander BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album\ * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: LISTEN: UNpodcast 111: UNcurvy (Roz the Diva) SEE: Dangerous Curves at International Pole Convention READ: Here’s How Fatphobia Is Being Marketed to You – And Why So Many of Us Buy Into It Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 we discuss: * Why your definition of binge eating is wrong (and hurting you) * Why body positivity alone doesn’t always help you stop emotionally eating * How to make healthful choices and pursue your value of health without getting obsessive * How to get comfortable with rejection (and why that’s important) And more! Have a question for me to answer on the podcast? Email me at kailaprins@gmail.com or ask through findingourhunger.com/ask CONNECT WITH ISABEL: WEBSITE: isabelfoxenduke.com PROGRAM: Stop Fighting Food BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much! <3 MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: WATCH: Why do you want to be friends with assholes? Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 juices.  And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.” – Erica Jong This week’s guest is August McLaughlin, an award-winning, nationally recognized health and sexuality writer and host and creator of Girl Boner®. In this episode we discuss: * The connection between eating disorders, recovery, and sexuality * #notastripper vs. #yesastripper * What do you do if you don’t have support for Discovery? * How to shift your mindset around sex and body image And more! Have a question for me to answer on the podcast?  Email me at kailaprins@gmail.com or ask through findingourhunger.com/ask! CONNECT WITH AUGUST: WEBSITE: http://www.augustmclaughlin.com BOOK: Embraceable PODCAST: Girl Boner BOOK TRAILER: https://youtu.be/vollX170qko GIRL BONER, AN INTRO: https://youtu.be/V5mZu3-UMSY BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: LISTEN: Girl Boner Radio: Dillon Harper WATCH: Barbie Girl Burlesque Join the conversation at  findingourhunger.com/bookclub.. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or  Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 with our ideas about gender performativity * Femme drag: Is beauty a construct? And can it still be empowering? * Why it’s so hard to gain weight, even if you get your life back * Why you NEED community to recover and grow And more! CONNECT WITH ELIZABETH: SPEAKER SERIES: thequeerbodyloveseries.com WEBSITE: http://www.elizabethjcooper.com FACEBOOK: Queer Body Love BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: READ: Dear Straight Allies: Please Don’t Come to Pride Until You’ve Understood These 6 Things READ: Sharon Salzburg, LovingKindness Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

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 the co-host of the no-holds barred weekly podcast, Sex Gets Real and the creator of the annual Explore More Summit. In this episode we discuss: * What it’s like to make dating decisions based on fear * How to have the sex you don’t yet think you deserve * Why shame is never our own (and we must fight it!) * What would it be like if I had friends who celebrated me for who I wanted to be instead of what they wanted me to be? And more! If you have a question that you’d like me to answer on the podcast, please email me at kailaprins@gmail.com. CONNECT WITH DAWN: WEBSITE: dawnserra.com PODCAST: sexgetsreal.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/dawnserra TWITTER: http://twitter.com/dawnserra INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/dawnserra BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: VISIT: Karen B.K. Chan READ: Brene Brown VISIT: Lauren Marie Fleming Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

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 Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss. In this episode we discuss: * The real reasons we believe that fat is unhealthy (and why it’s not) * Why we’re so lost when tells us not to diet * Why being a “dignified grownup” can lead to health problems * How to stop being such a perfectionist and go enjoy life And more! CONNECT WITH DR. AAMODT: WEBSITE: www.sandraaamodt.com BOOK: Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss I also answer the following question: I am 6 months into recovery and have gained some much needed weight, self awareness and energy.  I am currently still working with a therapist and dietician who have both been very helpful in my discovery, as you would say. I am finally ready to open up about my struggle now that I am in a better place mentally.  My friend runs a health blog and will be releasing an article within the upcoming weeks with my before and after photo for the world to see.  Some of the people in my circle are aware of my recovery, others, not so much. My goal in sharing would be to inspire anyone else who has struggled silently, as I have for 6 years.  My question to you would be: how do I cope with the attention I may receive after opening up about it?  How did you cope when you went against the grain of “being skinny is everything and I must control my body” to sharing your new view on the world? As you know, eating disorders keep you isolated, secretive and in captivity.  So opening up about my eating disorder is not only something that ED would hate, but I feel it is also something I really want to do in order to put it behind me and free myself from. Do you have a question you’d like answered on the podcast? Email me! BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – I appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: WATCH: Sandra Aamodt’s TED talk: Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work Join the conversation and read this month’s book at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 of World Eating Disorders Day (which is June 2.) In this episode we discuss: * What it’s like to be a parent to someone in recovery * How you get involved in the eating disorder recovery conversation * Why we need intersectional eating disorder representation and treatment * What is World Eating Disorders Day? And more! CONNECT WITH JD: WEBSITE: worldeatingdisordersday.org TWITTER: twitter.com/WorldEDday INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/worldeatingdisordersaction FACEBOOK: facebook.com/WorldEatingDisorderDay YOUTUBE: Watch the PSA Read more about JD and today’s conversation at Performing Woman.   BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have FIVE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Listen to the 1st 100 episodes by getting a Finding Our Hunger Podcast Album * Start a FREE trial with audible.com * Shop amazon.com (just click the link and buy whatever you want!) Thank you for listening – we appreciate you SO much <3. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: VISIT: FEAST VISIT: ICED VISIT: BEDA READ: In the Blink of an Eye Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman  

“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 this episode we discuss: * What does it mean when you call someone a “slut?” * Why women and girls need to be empowered to feel pleasure in age-appropriate ways * Are pole dance & burlesque as fitness/hobby sex work? * How a poly relationship taught me to communicate in a monogamous one And more! CONNECT WITH EMILY: WEBSITE: unslutproject.com BOOK: Unslut: A Diary and Memoir. FACEBOOK: Unslut Project TWITTER: @unslutproject Read more about Emily and Today’s conversation at Performing Woman. BY THE WAY: If you love the Finding Our Hunger podcast, you have THREE great ways to support us: * Become a Patreon * Leave an iTunes review * Start a FREE trial with audible.com Thank you for listening – I appreciate you SO much <3. Join the conversation at findingourhunger.com/bookclub. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio, and make sure to leave a review. MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: BUY: Define “Slut” shirt VISIT: Sedusa Studios in Campbell, CA Keep dancing, @PerformingWoman