The Fat Joy podcast is a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness. Each episode is a conversation between host and Professional Coach Sophia Apostol and another fat person about how to flourish in our fatphobic world. We’re exploring the harms, biases, and oppressions we’ve experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture. But most importantly, we’re sharing how we still dare to have the audacity and courage to reach towards joy ...
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It's time for a Fat Joy podcast pause -- Sophia Apostol
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Sophia shares why she's pausing the podcast, her biggest a-ha moments from 100 episodes, and how to stay connected to Fat Joy. This episode's poem is Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese." Mentioned in this episode: Fat Joy Newsletter- subscribe for free to receive the newsletter to your inbox. Fat Joy Writing Workshop- it's currently full, but if you're inte…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Aubrey Gordon
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Talking To Non-Fat People About Fatness -- Aubrey Gordon
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Aubrey Gordon (she/her) is back! We’re talking about the amazing success of the film Your Fat Friend, how it changed her family relationships, and what it’s like being filmed over six years. Aubrey and Sophia share their experiences having conversations with non-fat folks about how to be good allies. Spoiler: not all of these conversations go well.…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Kate Manne
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Unshrinking -- Kate Manne
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Sophia has created a workshop called Fat Joy- specifically for listeners of this podcast who are interested in exploring the fat experience through writing. Please go to Firefly Creative Writing to learn more about the Fat Joy workshop. For $50 off the workshop, use code: FATJOY Kate Manne (she/her), philosopher and author of Unshrinking: How to Fa…
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Rejecting Diet Culture Through The Science Of Less -- Tiana Dodson
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Tiana Dodson (she/her) explores how liberation consciousness requires hope and imagination, even when they feel impossible. Part of that exploration is rooted in exploring the ‘science of less’ and how being subtractive rather than additive can unlock new levels of awareness and help dismantle oppression. With a decade as a body liberation facilita…
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I Love My Body -- Elle Baez
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Sophia has created a workshop specifically for listeners of this podcast who are interested in exploring the fat experience through writing. Please go to Firefly Creative Writing to learn more. For $50 off any Firefly workshop, use code: FATJOY Elle Baez (she/her) is the brilliant singer-songwriter of the runaway hit “I Love My Body.” Elle shares h…
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Feeling Belonging, Accepted, and Loveable -- Charis Stiles
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Please go to Firefly Creative Writing to see if any of our cozy writing workshops are for you. For $50 off, use code: FATJOY Charis Stiles (she/her) wants us all to feel like we belong, are accepted, and are worthy of love. Often, the barriers to feeling this way stem from wounding that was out of our control, however there’s a lot we can do to rep…
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Fat Girls Get To Fall In Love -- Crystal Maldonado
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Please go to Firefly Creative Writing to see if any of our cozy writing workshops are for you. The Fall schedule will be on the website for July 11th. For $50 off, use code: FATJOY Crystal Maldonado (she/her) is a young adult author with a lot of feelings that she’s channeled into romcoms for fat, brown girls. She shares what it was like to write t…
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Representation And Equity In The Outdoors -- Parker McMullen Bushman
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In this riotous episode, Parker McMullen Bushman (they/she) takes us on their journey to become an activist and educator in the environmental education and outdoor spaces when no one looked like them. Fat, Black, queer, and non-binary, Parker shares how disparities in access to nature are outcomes from the Jim Crow laws, how race is different from …
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Melanie Tufts and Emma Deakin
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Fat-Positive Boudoir Photography -- Melanie Tufts and Emma Deakin
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(Content Note: mention of sexual assault) Melanie Tufts (she/her) and Emma Deakin (she/her) collaboratively create boudoir photography experiences grounded in fat-positivity, equity, and consent. Sophia, host of the Fat Joy podcast, did a boudoir photo shoot with them and shares her experience being photographed nude, and how everything they did th…
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Freeing The Jiggle -- Jessie Diaz-Herrera
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Jessie Diaz-Hererra (she/her) is here to help us “Free the Jiggle,” which is one of the signature dance offerings from her company, Power Plus Wellness located in New York City. Jessie shares the moment she learned to feel shame about her body, and how that moment actually led to the co-founding of her movement business that now offers classes like…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Dr. Theresa Melito-Conners
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Self Care As Rebellion -- Dr. Theresa Melito-Conners
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Dr. Theresa Melito-Conners (she/her) brings her Ph.D-level expertise to a conversation about the ten domains of self care. No, not bubble baths and spa days (although we can love those too), but rather deeper levels of how we show up fully and authentically as humans and what might get in our way. Theresa Melito-Conners, Ph.D. (Dr. MC) is the found…
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Celebrating Fatness Through Art -- Lindsey Guile
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Artist Lindsey Guile (she/her) draws charcoal images of nude, fat people…on canvases that are eight-feet tall. Her fat bodies literally take up space and tower over viewers. Lindsey shares what motivated her to embrace fat liberation (spoiler: gallbladder disease and an eating disorder) and use her artistic talents to challenge the hierarchy of art…
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Weight Stigma At Work -- Andrea Westbrook
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Andrea Westbrook (she/her) is a Size-Inclusion Specialist who works with organizations to become less stigmatizing for plus-size and fat folks. She shares why this is essential for all workplaces, what it’s costing businesses who don’t do it, and 5 steps that both individuals and organizations can take to do better by their employees. Andrea Westbr…
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Setting Yourself Free -- Lama Rod Owens
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Lama Rod Owens’ (he/him) earliest memories of suffering were related to his body. He shares how through compassion and joy, we can find the space and sacredness to come into balance with our bodies and the natural world. Lama Rod’s experience with queer male spaces, and his need to separate from them, led to seeking community and, ultimately, his o…
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Ditching Diet Culture At School -- Cait O’Connor
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Diet culture and anti-fatness are very present in our schools, from being designed into the curriculum to showing up in the teacher’s lunchroom. Cait O-Connor (she/her) began her own fat liberation journey in her early 20s and quickly brought anti-diet principles into her classrooms. Cait shares how students have responded to her anti-fat lessons a…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Choniece Stevenson, Ellen Miller, and Rebecca Breedlove-Berry
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Plus-Size Pageant Queens -- Choniece Stevenson, Ellen Miller, and Rebecca Breedlove-Berry
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counseling. (Content Note: mention of sexual violence.) Plus-size pageant Queens Choniece Stevenson (she/her), Ellen Miller (she/her), and Rebecca Breedlove-Berry (she/her) share what got them into pageant world, how being part of this exp…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Mary Lambert
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Everybody Is A Babe -- Mary Lambert
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counselling. (Content Note: this episode mentions childhood assault, sexual assault, and incest.) Mary Lambert (she/her) shares how she uses music and poetry to “make art for the wound” of being made to feel wrong. As someone who is fat, q…
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Stop Trying To Be Like Everybody Else -- Michelle Osbourne
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counselling. Michelle Osbourne (she/her) reinvented her life after divorce. She wanted to normalize being a fat, Black, queer woman and built her social media platform by sharing authentically and vulnerably about her life. Michelle also s…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Heather Mader & Ali Kight
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Making Tampons Accessible -- Heather Mader & Ali Kight
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If you’d like to learn more about mental health care by and for fat folks, please check out Tend and Cultivate Counselling. Heather Mader (she/her) and Ali Kight (she/her) teamed up to improve how people who menstruate insert tampons. Designed in 1931 and having gone through almost no improvements since, traditional tampons weren’t designed to acco…
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Making Plus Equal -- Andrea Kelly
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Andrea Kelly (she/her) collaborates with outdoor apparel brands to extend their plus-sizing, because no one should be excluded from outdoor activities for a lack of clothing options. With 20 years of experience in the apparel industry, Andrea shares why it’s so hard for brands to warm up to the idea of more diverse sizing, why they’re leaving money…
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Leslie Jordan Garcia
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Racism, Eating Disorders, And Individual Liberation -- Leslie Jordan Garcia
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Leslie Jordan Garcia (she/her) experienced a racially motivated betrayal that started her eating disorder. Recovery led her to specialize in coaching racialized people through their own eating disorders. She shares how we can individually liberate ourselves, engage in intersectional healing, and stop demonizing our cultural foods. Leslie is a multi…
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I’m Extra. Deal With It. -- Manny Martins-Karman
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Manny Martins-Karman (she/her) was stuck in Covid lockdown thinking she would have lots of time for her abstract art. But that didn’t happen. Instead, she felt disconnected. So, she posted a fashion video like what she’d seen her fave influencers do. A few videos later, Manny went viral. She shares how playing with clothes has led to her being told…
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Men, Toxic Masculinity, & Diet Culture -- Aaron Flores
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Aaron Flores (he/him) talks to men about their body stories. As a fat man, he spent years weight cycling and then advising others on weight loss as a dietitian. He shares his own experiences with diet culture and masculinity and how he found his way to intuitive eating, which completely changed his professional dietitian practice. Aaron and Sophia …
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Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs with Annie Nardolilli & Louisa Hall
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Why Being Fat Is A Superpower -- Annie Nardolilli & Louisa Hall
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Annie Nardolilli (she/her) and Louisa Hall (she/her) are the singers/songwriters behind the musical comedy group, Griefcat. In this hilarious conversation, they share how they became ‘musical soulmates,’ what sparked their maximalist on-stage aesthetic, and why being fat is their superpower. Also, they sing to us. Griefcat is an all-women musical c…
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Fat Mermaids -- Chè Monique
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Mermaid Chè Monique (she/her), one of the stars of the Netflix documentary “MerPeople,” shares how each time she puts her tail on, she’s defying stereotypes of what it is to be fat and Black. She’s the founder of the Society of Fat Mermaids and developing an online school for folks interested in learning about mermaiding. She practices living from …
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Plantar Fasciitis, Knee Pain, And Tension Headaches -- Kristy Elesko
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Kristy Elesko (she/her) is back to talk about three common injuries: plantar fasciitis, knee pain, and tension headaches. In this very practical conversation, she shares exercises that can help heal these injuries, obstacles that may be encountered because of body size, and some practical ways to self-advocate. Kristy Elesko is a massage therapist …
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