Ep. 391 How to stop the body shame spiral!

Sorta Awesome

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Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Hey you, before you head out to shop for this year’s summer wear and swimsuits, you NEED to listen to this conversation! Meg is joined by Awesome and fat activist Amanda Martinez Beck who has so much to share with our community about how we can avoid the body shame spiral by changing our understanding of what are bodies are FOR. You do NOT want to miss this conversation! Pass it on to the people in your life who need to hear Amanda’s wisdom, too! AND! It’s the PERFECT time of year to become a Sorta Awesome Super Star! You’ll get HUNDREDS of hours of exclusive podcast episodes to download and binge right now, plus get our texting number so you can REALLY share your thoughts! Join us at patreon.com/sortaawesome THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Stitch Fix Kids: Try today at stitchfixkids.com/awesome and get 25% off when you keep everything in your Kid’s Fix Truebill: Don’t fall for subscription scams. Start cancelling today at truebill.com/AWESOME LinkedIn: Post your first job for free at linkedin.com/AWESOME SHOW NOTES: Meg’s AotW: Essence Plumping Nudes Lipgloss (affiliate link) Amanda’s AotW: Jon Batiste’s new record We Are Jon Batiste and Nathaniel Rateliff More of You: The Fat Girl's Field Guide to the Modern World Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Gave Me You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Find Amanda on Instagram, Twitter, or visit her website amandamartinezbeck.com! Buy her books More of You: The Fat Girl's Field Guide to the Modern World and Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Gave Me! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.1	It's May the 20th, 2022, and I am absolutely delighted to be joined today by Amanda Martinez-Beck.
0:51.1	Now if you're part of the awesome community, you are cheering right now because you know Amanda
0:55.7	and how very awesome she is. And if you aren't part of our community yet, that's okay. Hop on in.
1:01.2	We are so glad that you're here. You are going to love hearing from Amanda today.
1:06.4	Amanda is a fat activist, an author. She is the host of the Fat and Faithful podcast.
1:12.4	In addition to being a body image coach for people in all sizes of bodies. Her second book,
1:19.8	More of You, The Fat Girls, Field Guide to the Modern World, comes out in just a few days at the end
1:25.6	of May of 2022. Amanda, welcome to sort of awesome. I'm so glad to be here, Meg. Thank you.
1:33.1	I have been meaning to have you on the show for so long. And I am so glad that the release of your
1:40.0	new book means that we finally get to sit down and talk. I know that the awesomes are going to love
1:44.8	hearing from you today. So perfect timing. Yeah. I mean, it is really perfect timing if you think
1:51.6	about it. Not only is your second, but just about to drop. But as you know, as we move into the summer
1:56.8	season and swimsuit season and wearing shorts and sunglasses to season, we all start getting
2:02.2	all kinds of messaging about how to get that beach body, right? Right. And it's a fraud situation.
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