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LET IT OUT

141 | Lynn Chen of the Actors Diet on love & balance with food, acting, blogging, & a bunch more!

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Health, Well Being, Fashion & Beauty, True Crime, Mental Health, Arts, Wellness, Self-help, Self-care, Love, Personal Growth, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8831 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

This week I talk to Lynn Chen of the Actor's Diet blog. Lynn is a super talented actor as well as a food writer, TV personality, long time blogger with the Actor's Diet (now also a podcast) as well as an eating disorder advocate, and founder of Thick Dumpling Skin a platform to help Asian American's with disordered eating. Lynn is way cool & I loved our long wide ranging conversation.

Transcript

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Whenever you're going through something with your own body, like nobody else can go through it but yourself.

0:09.0

So I have to make that decision for myself and I can't allow other people's opinion to make me act in any other way than how I want to be acting.

0:20.0

Katie. in any other way than how I want to be acting. Katie, Katie, let it out with Katie, let it out with Katie,

0:32.6

about enthusiast and curator of people and ideas you need to hear.

0:48.5

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Let It Out with me, Katie Del Bout.

0:53.9

And today on the podcast, I have Lynn Chin of the

0:57.6

Actors Diet. And I'm going to get into that conversation so quickly. I'm sitting here with

1:02.9

Friend of the podcast, Abby Moore. You might remember her from last season. Say hi. Hi. She's visiting me

1:09.8

tonight. She's about to shoot a wedding tomorrow,

1:11.9

and we're heading to dinner so you know that this podcast intro has to be super short. So we're

1:18.1

going to get right into it. This is a very tangential conversation. We talk about food and body

1:23.9

image per usual. We also talk about acting. She gives tips for young actors. We talk about

1:29.8

creativity and feeling like you're a jack of all trades and master of none because that's how I feel

1:35.5

most of the time. So of course I bring that up. And Lynn is just a really cool, interesting,

1:40.9

fascinating person that I got to meet in L.A. a couple months ago when I was there for

1:46.0

my book launch, and we got this amazing restaurant called Squirrel Together, which if you're in L.A.

1:51.7

You must go to. It was fantastic. Anyway, I'm going to get into this episode. If you want to

1:58.6

support the show, if you find value in it,

2:01.2

if it makes you feel less alone, if you enjoy listening to it, if it entertains you, if it keeps

2:05.3

you company on your commute or while you're cleaning the house, when do you listen, Abby?

2:10.2

Mostly when I'm working.

2:11.4

When you're working? If it keeps you company.

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