Hello everyone and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your girl, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet,

and person who loves to talk about money.

And today we are here with a guest to dive deep on a subject that has been widely requested by you guys at home,

both for the fashion slash aesthetic angle, but also from a more

social justice angle and looking at the prism through which we all approach money based on

the person that we are and the body that we're in. I also recently interviewed YouTuber

Mina Le who talks a lot about things like fashion, culture, beauty, et cetera. But often when we

talk about these things, especially as they pertain to consumerism and our finances and the markets

in which we're all operating, we often get requests to dive into these more specifically from

a plus size angle. Because when it comes to all of these consumer choices, as well as the way that we're

treated in our bodies everywhere from a clothing store to a doctor's office, being in a larger

body means something totally different. So while these conversations are complementary, I think

they're both very much worth having, especially as they pertain to the more generalized phatphobia and way that that manifests

financially and otherwise. My guest today is actually someone who has collaborated with

TFD before in various ways. He is someone who speaks really thoughtfully on these issues and is

for the first time ever a debut author. He is a new book that just arrived today in the mail.

It's actually coming out August 16th. It's called The Power of Plus. And it's all about these topics and it touches on

everything from the finance of it all to the fashion of it all. I'm very, very excited today to be speaking

with writer, editor and friend of TFD, John Lugaruso. Hello. Hi, thank you so much for having me.

Thank you for being here.

And before we get started, I want to thank Avast for supporting today's episode of the Financial Confessions.

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