And we’re back! Introducing: Diabetes Digital
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After a 6-month break, we're thrilled to be back with exciting news about our new business, Diabetes Digital. In this episode, we go over alarming diabetes statistics, how diabetes disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities, and highlight our commitment to weight-inclusive and culturally competent care. As dietitians and entrepreneurs, we share the challenges and rewards of this journey, from insurance hurdles to our excitement about this new venture!
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- Life updates and our current journey with Food Heaven
- Our latest venture: Diabetes Digital
- The crucial roles dietitians play in long term diabetes care
- Eye-opening stats for adults dealing with diabetes or prediabetes
- The disproportionate impact of diabetes on BIPOC communities
- How we are enhancing accessible care and combating biased nutrition education
- Why we are choosing a Health at Every Size (HAES) approach for diabetes care
- How to join Diabetes Digital and what our membership offers + MORE!
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Are you living with diabetes or prediabetes and seeking support from a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist covered by insurance? Visit diabetesdigital.co to sign up for personalized, one-on-one nutrition counseling with one of our culturally aware and weight-inclusive Diabetes Dietitians today! Visit diabetesdigital.co/quiz to get started.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Wendy and I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast |
| 0:04.1 | your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. Welcome back, O-M-G. It has been over six months and even taking out my podcast recording equipment. |
| 0:29.7 | It almost felt like, yeah, I was like, oh my God god it was like I was uncovering something |
| 0:34.9 | ancient because it's been so long and I was actually like kind of excited and |
| 0:41.4 | giddy about it I'm like oh my God I kind of mis and giddy about it. I'm like, oh my God, I kind of miss recording. It's been so, so long. And yeah, we miss you all. And we've been doing so so much behind the scenes which we're going to update you on today. |
| 0:56.0 | But yeah, I'm sure you're wondering where we've been, what we've been up to. |
| 1:00.7 | Jess, how has life been lifeing for you? Okay a couple things before that. So one same thing with my |
| 1:06.9 | podcast equipment it was in the garage so I'm like kind of dust it off figure out where it is. |
| 1:16.0 | Also for those who were just tuning in for the first time, we have to tell them what's going on. So we are registered dieticians and this is our podcast about nutrition and wellness and we've taken a break for the last six months just to gather ourselves and we have been going through a business and strategy pivot. |
| 1:34.7 | So if you're listening for the first time, definitely |
| 1:37.2 | listen to this episode and then go back to the last like what, |
| 1:40.3 | six episodes and hear our story about how we've decided that we want to have a |
| 1:45.4 | pivot in business so that's kind of a little backstory now the other funny thing |
| 1:50.3 | is when it comes to podcasts when we took a break from our podcast, I was |
| 1:56.3 | over podcast completely. You couldn't pay me to listen to a new podcast, but since then I've fallen in love with some amazing pods and I |
| 2:06.8 | become a supergirl fan or a super fan or whatever and now I I realize how you can become a huge fan of a podcast which I did |
| 2:16.7 | it before. |
| 2:17.7 | So like when people would write us and say I listen every week I love you guys I'm just like |
| 2:21.6 | oh cool really how and so now I'm like oh yeah I'm |
| 2:27.6 | totally a super fan of some podcast now so it's been nice to rediscover yeah |
| 2:31.8 | exactly I think having that time off from recording |
| 2:36.0 | allows you to enjoy things that are similar. |
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