What up team, welcome to episode 278 of The Genius Life.

What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of The Show.

I'm your host Max Lugavir, filmmaker, health and science journalist and New York Times best-selling

author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices including what we

eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel and our health

span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state,

which I call living like a genius. Big news everybody. As you know, it's my mission to create the

best health and wellness content around. I'm excited to announce that I've created a membership

program where you can now get ad-free episodes of The Show with early access to some episodes

and epic bonus content including a monthly Q&A. I'll explain more at the end of this episode,

but if you'd like to learn more now you can head over to TheGeniusLife.com.

Today on The Show I'm super excited to introduce you to my new friend Tara Schuster.

Tara's first book by herself The Effing Lillies was selected by a whole host of publications including

Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Goop and Publishers Weekly as one of 2020's best books on mental health

and self-care. Before she became an author, Tara served as the vice president of Talent and

Development at Comedy Central where she was in charge of such critically acclaimed shows as the

M&P Body Award-winning Key and Peel. She is a regular contributor to In Style, The New Yorker

and Forbes among others. And today we are going to celebrate the release of her new book,

Glow in the Effing Dark. Simple practices to heal your soul from somebody who learned the

hard way, which is out this week. Over the next hour and some more minutes we're going to discuss

how to cultivate resilience and resolve in times of stress. Tara is going to share the simple

tools that she used to overcome body image issues coupled with childhood trauma. She's going to

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