162: Jordan Younger - Overcoming Orthorexia • Do Away With Labels • Breaking Vegan
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Younger is the blogger behind the realness-based wellness and lifestyle blog, The Balanced Blonde. She is also the creator of health-inspired conscious clothing line TBB Apparel and author of the finding-balance memoir, Breaking Vegan.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The origin story of The Blonde Vegan
- How Jordan found out she had an eating disorder
- Going from The Blonde Vegan to The Balanced Blonde
- Why did Jordan go vegan in the first place?
- Becoming addicted to a liquid diet
- What is orthorexia?
- Orthorexia vs. anorexia
- The difference between being orthorexic and being passionate about health
- Getting help for an eating disorder
- Living from a place of authenticity
- Connecting to your body through your breath
- Do away with labelling your diet
- How Jordan winds down at the end of the day/her evening routine
- Acquiring "thebalancedblonde" Instagram account
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Related links:
Jordan Younger - Breaking Vegan (book)
Jordan Younger's website (The Balanced Blonde)
Follow Jordan Younger on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Jordan's podcast - The Balanced Blonde Podcast // Soul On Fire
Jordan Younger - Soul On Fire (Yoga E-Book)
Listen to Dave Asprey previously on TUHP (episode #159 & #61)
Lauryn Evarts - The Skinny Confidential
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 162 |
| 0:15.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:17.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:21.0 | This week our featured guest is Jordan Younger. She's the blogger behind |
| 0:24.8 | the Realness-based Wellness and Lifestyle blog The Balance Blonde. She is also the creator of the Health |
| 0:30.4 | Inspired Conscious clothing line, TBB apparel, and the author of the |
| 0:34.8 | finding balanced memoir Breaking Vegan. She is just such an authentic person. Her |
| 0:39.9 | story is just so pure and you guys are just going to love hearing her speak. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah I could totally relate to Jordan's story because you know after hearing her |
| 0:48.8 | whole story about her coming out to her community about not being vegan anymore |
| 0:52.0 | certainly reminded me of me sharing |
| 0:54.4 | with my platform that I was no longer vegetarian. |
| 0:57.4 | So a lot of similarities and you know it just really made me think about how when you're |
| 1:01.5 | really true to who you are and you want to |
| 1:04.4 | share that message, you know, the real people, the people who want to support you |
| 1:08.0 | and stand by you will be the ones who actually respond. So, you know, it's just |
| 1:12.2 | amazing just to hear how similar our stories |
| 1:14.1 | both were and you guys are going to love her message. She is, as Jesse said, very |
| 1:18.2 | authentic, very real and it's such a great conversation. Yeah, your stories were so similar. |
| 1:23.6 | The one big difference is hearing about her audience |
| 1:26.9 | and the negative lash back she got from them |
| 1:29.8 | when she made that dietary change. |
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