366: Sarah Stevens: The Beautifull Project: The Truth About Fatness and Thin Allies

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After leaving a career in corporate healthcare in 2016, Sarah set out to find work that better aligned with her passion and purpose. As co-owner of Black Pearl Coaching and Consulting, she served as a consultant to small businesses and nonprofits. Through this work, she accepted a position as the inaugural Executive Director with Lead(h)er, a nonprofit that connects women with mentors to fuel career and community engagement - a position she still holds to this day. In 2018, Sarah launched The Beautifull Project, an entrepreneurial effort that combined her past professional experience with her commitment to pursuing purposeful work. Using the power of collective storytelling, The Project invites women back to their bodies, encouraging, and supporting them as they learn to use their voice and take up space. When Sarah is not thinking up big ideas for The Project, she is shamelessly momming 3 teens, writing, reading, teaching yoga, and leaning as far as possible into an honest, authentic life. Listen in to hear Sarah share: Her experience growing up in a body she deemed to be “too big and too much” Her history of body image battles and disordered eating How her Beautifull Project was born out of the moment her doctor prescribed her speed and a 600 calorie a day diet for weight loss Why “being concerned” for a fat person’s health is a discriminatory crutch How she’s embracing living in a fat body How to talk to your kids about fatness and fat as a neutral descriptor Why thin people must be allies for fat people if we want to create space for all women to live safely in their bodies and in their power Links mentioned: Connect with Sarah Facebook: The Beautifull Project Instagram: @thebeautifullproject and @seeing_sarah The TED talk Podcast: Beauti: The Interviews Thank you to our sponsors: Embr: Go to Embr and Save $50 with code SHAMELESS at checkout. Grove Collaborative: For a limited time, my listeners get a free 5-piece cleaning set from Mrs. Meyer’s and Grove - a $30 value! Check out Grove and our special offer at Grove Collaborative. Lovevery: Save $15 off your Play Kit subscription at Loveveryand use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Offer good until 10/31. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 366 with Sarah Stevens. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.1	including any links mentioned, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going
0:09.8	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 366. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:21.9	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:28.2	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives
0:33.0	every damn day.
0:34.5	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:37.4	So be sure to join us in
0:38.5	our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find
0:43.5	us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
1:02.2	After leaving a career in corporate health care in 2016, Sarah Stevens set out to find work that better aligned with her passion and purpose.
1:08.1	As the co-owner of Black Pearl coaching and consulting, she served as a consultant to small businesses and nonprofits. Through this work, she accepted a position as the inaugural
1:10.8	executive director with lead her of nonprofit that connects women with mentors to fuel career
1:16.6	and community engagement, a position she holds to this day. In 2018, Sarah launched The Beautiful
1:21.9	Project, an entrepreneurial effort that combined her past professional experience with her commitment
1:26.8	to pursuing purposeful
1:28.1	work.
1:29.2	Using the power of collective storytelling, the project invites women back to their bodies, encouraging
1:34.1	and supporting them as they learn to use their voice and take up space.
1:37.9	When Sarah is not thinking up big ideas for the project, she's shamelessly momming three teens,
1:43.4	writing, reading, teaching yoga,
1:45.0	and leaning as far as possible into an honest, authentic life. Listen in to hear Sarah share,
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