Ep. 57 Navigating the body positivity space with Katie Willcox
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Katie Willcox is an author, public speaker and CEO of two companies. One of which is her blog, Healthy is the New Skinny and the other is her agency for curve models, Natural Models LA. Katie is coming on the podcast today to talk about the science behind why we are always so focused on our bodies, how corporations take advantage of us in order to sell their products, eating disorders, the body positivity movement and how we can start to navigate this space in a more thought provoking way.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media Production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, |
| 0:18.2 | seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine, |
| 0:21.8 | or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. |
| 0:28.8 | Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:39.3 | History repeats itself and that's why it's really important that we have these conversations |
| 0:42.8 | because whether it's a cigarette's or body positivity, |
| 0:45.6 | like our empowerment is going to be associated to social acts and products. |
| 0:50.3 | And until we take ownership of defining what that is for us and really like |
| 0:54.1 | combing through a lot of this information to understand how history does repeat, |
| 0:58.6 | we're not really independent. |
| 0:59.9 | Because knowledge is power, we're not saying that you can't have models that show off |
| 1:06.1 | beauty products or anything like that, it's that you need to know that you're being targeted. |
| 1:10.8 | Right. And you can buy products, right? So this is a thing we love products, |
| 1:14.7 | but are you being lied to and are you being manipulated? And one of the things when it comes to |
| 1:19.4 | the skinny beauty ideal and why that was so powerful was because it was synonymous with everything |
| 1:26.0 | that you're repressing about yourself. |
| 1:29.9 | Hi friends. So excited to be sitting down with Katie Wilcox today on the podcast. |
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