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LET IT OUT

268 | artist + entrepreneur Whitney Bell on overcoming trauma, spoon theory, creativity, and being present in your body

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

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

4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Bell is an LA based activist, entrepreneur, Teen Vogue writer, and producer of the vulnerability variety show, Stories of Women. We sat down in Las Vegas at the Emerge Music Festival for this live interview. Whitney not only make really inspiring and moving work, but also manages to lift up others' while still prioritizing her own self care. She's a successful multi hyphenate who has worked through her childhood trauma and an eating disorder through therapy and medication and channeled her experiences into her artwork. She's known for her hugely popular art installation, "I Didn't Ask For This: A Lifetime of Dick Pics", and has since gone on to launch her own clothing line, Kid Bell, and storytelling platform, Stories of Women. In this week's episode she talks about her experience of burnout, mistakes in relationships, building a team, and punishing her body. Now she's in a place where she prioritized her mental and physical health, helps other people, and is constantly creating but in a way that's sustainable. We had a cozy conversation that talked about her habits and routines, the best advice from her therapist Jennifer, and what her younger self would have thought of her life now.

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0:00.0

We need to cry, we need to talk, we need to share our feelings, and if one person does it, then two people do it, then ten people do it.

0:09.0

And...

0:10.0

...ha...

0:11.0

...woh, let it out. Let it out. Let it out.

0:21.6

Let it out. I'm your host, Katie Delbout. And every week I talk to a different person, a person who I'm curious about and I want to get to know. And last week we started a series that I recorded live at the Emerge Music Festival in Las Vegas.

0:58.5

I did a lounge with a company that I love so much called Little Space. They're a digital

1:05.6

wellness company and they've sponsored the podcast in the past and we partnered their founder, Kim, is a friend of

1:12.8

mine and we did a lounge at this music festival. And to hear more about the music festival,

1:18.9

I had the founder on last week. His name is Ray Han, so you can go back and listen to that episode

1:23.2

if you haven't already. But essentially this music festival brings together art and activism.

1:30.5

And one of the people at this festival was today's guest, Whitney Bell.

1:37.0

And Whitney Bell is a event producer, the founder of the stories of women, which you'll hear about here.

1:43.7

She's a writer for Teen Vogue and

1:45.6

the owner of this really cool shop. And I just liked her a lot. I think you'll really like this

1:50.9

episode. We talk about building a team and leading a team. We talk about dating. We talk about therapy a

1:57.4

lot. She has this prolific therapist named Jennifer who gives some really great insights to her,

2:05.5

which she then shares with all of us. One of them is something called the spoon theory, which I'd

2:10.0

never heard before, and we get to it about halfway through this episode, but it's been

2:13.7

life-changing for me. And then something else about dating and romantic relationships,

2:17.8

which, again, was very eye-opening. I learned a lot in this episode. I think you will too.

2:23.9

I think you'll love Whitney as much as I did. And I want to get to it as quickly as possible.

2:28.9

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