#193: Feminism, Marketing, and Breaking Free from Diet Culture with Kelly Diels, Feminist Marketing Consultant and Fat-Acceptance Advocate
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels joins us to discuss the links between diet culture, patriarchy, and anti-feminist marketing practices (aka The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand); the role of abundance in healing from diet culture; how to reclaim your life from The Life Thief; understanding and healing our relationship with money; and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about what to do if you’re one of those weight-loss “success stories” who’s actually just in the throes of disordered eating.
Kelly Diels (she/her) is a writer and feminist marketing consultant. She writes about a phenomenon that she calls "The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand," which she does not think is a good thing for women or our world. Kelly believes, instead, that we are culture makers and can create the culture we want to live in, right now. Kelly is also the Director of Marketing and Communications for SheEO (all opinions are her own). Find her writing and online workshops at KellyDiels.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:04.5 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.4 | learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course. That's christiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, |
| 0:19.6 | body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, |
| 0:24.3 | and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor |
| 0:28.6 | offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world make peace with food. |
| 0:33.5 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their |
| 0:37.7 | relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:59.1 | Hey there, welcome to episode 193 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and today I'm |
| 1:10.3 | talking with writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Deals. We talk about the links between |
| 1:15.2 | diet culture, patriarchy, and anti-feminist marketing practices, aka what Kelly calls the female |
| 1:21.1 | lifestyle empowerment brand. We also talk about the role of abundance and healing from diet culture, |
| 1:26.4 | how to reclaim your life from the life thief, understanding and healing our relationship with |
| 1:31.2 | money, and so much more. It's a really great episode. I can't wait to share it with you in just a |
| 1:35.3 | moment. But first, I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener named Andrew, |
| 1:39.5 | who writes, I'm a new listener, and so trying to understand some of the vocab and concepts in |
| 1:43.9 | this podcast. I'm a person who pursued intentional large volume weight loss after living in a larger |
| 1:48.9 | body for 10 years in my life. Since listening to your podcast, I've been introduced to the term |
| 1:53.5 | orthorexia, and I feel as though it describes the kind of disordered eating I still suffer from |
| 1:57.8 | post weight loss. Here's the thing though. In one of your podcasts, you cited a broad statistic that |
| 2:02.8 | of the people who pursue intentional weight loss, something like 90% will gain that weight back, |
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