310 Pilar Gerasimo- How to Become a "Healthy Deviant"
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am super excited to announce that I'm hanging out with the brilliant Pilar Gerasimo! Pilar is an award winning health journalist and the author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.
"If you choose to be a healthy, happy person in a context of a world where most people are not, you're going to have to deviate from a bunch of social norms and conventions." - Pilar Gerasimo
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm super psyched that you're hanging out with me today because I'm hanging out with someone |
| 0:10.8 | super special, so you're going to get to hang out with her as well. |
| 0:14.9 | This is a girlfriend jam with Polar Drasamo, who is an award-winning health journalist |
| 0:21.3 | pioneering social explorer, and she's the author of a book that came out in January called |
| 0:26.5 | the Healthy Deviant, a rule-breakers guide to being healthy in an unhealthy world. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, hello. |
| 0:32.9 | Ain't that the truth? |
| 0:35.7 | I've known Polar. |
| 0:36.7 | I think we met a bunch of years ago through, I don't know, it was through Gabby Bernstein |
| 0:42.1 | and Aviva Ram. |
| 0:43.1 | I think we had a dinner together a long time ago. |
| 0:46.7 | I mean, maybe 10 years ago, I think it was when she was still at Experience Life magazine. |
| 0:52.3 | So she was the editor of Experience Life for about 15 years, and then she was also the |
| 0:57.7 | top health editor for Huffington Post, so she's really, really into taking responsibility |
| 1:05.0 | for our health. |
| 1:06.0 | But she is a healthy Deviant and teaching us how to be healthy Deviants of how can we be |
| 1:10.6 | healthy in this kind of a world where everything is organized to sort of keep us unhealthy, |
| 1:19.2 | feeling insecure. |
| 1:21.3 | There's so much out there, so much conflicting information. |
| 1:26.0 | So anyway, I loved talking to her so much about being healthy in this unhealthy world. |
| 1:33.6 | She's got so many great ideas for us. |
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