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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Just in time for the new year, a cautionary tale: In this re-run from last year, Brittany Dawn rises to Instagram fame as a body-positive influencer. She launches an online business as a personal trainer and fitness coach and sells “personalized” plans to help others who are struggling with the same issues she did. But when her clients discover their plans are not at all what was advertised, they decide to team up – and uncover the truth about Brittany’s business.
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0:07.0 | And heads up to our listeners, today's episode discusses eating disorders. |
0:11.0 | Please listen with care. |
0:13.4 | Sarah, what's your stance on New Year's resolutions? |
0:20.4 | Do you make them, do you keep them? |
0:22.4 | Is there any point in even coming up with them? |
0:25.0 | I do make them more as a guideline of what I'd like to do. I'm not really super strict with them. |
0:31.0 | So I keep it easy. Well, a lot of people, for whatever reason, really I feel about diets generally speaking. Oh yeah. |
0:43.0 | Well, the episode we're going to air today originally aired around last year, but I think it's |
0:47.4 | the perfect time to revisit it, because it's a cautionary tale of sorts about what happens |
0:51.9 | when diet culture meets capitalism meets total incompetence. |
0:55.7 | It's terrifying, it's dangerous, and at some points, unfortunately, it's really funny. |
1:01.2 | This is one of our favorite episodes we've ever recorded. Here's Brittany Dawn, the fitness faker, with a new updated ending. |
1:08.0 | Satchi, I am about to ask you a very loaded question. I need to know if you're ready. |
1:14.0 | I'm never ready but go ahead. |
1:17.0 | What are your opinions on taking fitness or health advice from Instagram influencers? |
1:23.2 | I mean, I don't, and I wouldn't, |
1:26.1 | but I understand why it is so enticing |
1:29.4 | and it makes people feel hopeful |
1:31.7 | or it makes people feel really bad they think that they miss |
1:34.1 | something but it's usually just like some random person on the internet with a |
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