Episode 330: Joan Denizot
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joan Denizot is an inspiring speaker and inclusive business consultant who empowers organizations to embrace diversity, foster inclusivity, and drive positive change. She is the founder of Zize Bikes—a company that creates bikes that transcend conventional limits and empower individuals of diverse body sizes—and is also an author. Her most recent book, Big Body Business, redefines business success beyond profits, advocating inclusivity, comfort, and transformation.
In this episode, Tro and Joan talk about weight stigmatization and its negative impacts, why Joan founded Zize Bikes, what goes into engineering a bike that is comfortable to use for an obese person, small things that medical offices and other businesses can do to better accommodate overweight patients/customers, terminology and labels that are appropriate terms for referring to overweight people, the pros and cons of the body positivity movement, psychological hardships that overweight people are prone to as a result of their size, and why
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.0 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.3 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. I am here with an amazing |
| 0:29.3 | amazing person. Joan Denizode is here today. She is going to talk about her book. She's going to talk about her amazing company and let me tell you a little bit about her. |
| 0:40.0 | Joan started a company called Size Bikes, which has a mission to serve people with bigger bodies. |
| 0:51.0 | Obesity has been increasing in our country drastically |
| 0:56.0 | and there's been incredible weight stigma, |
| 1:00.0 | prejudice against people who are in bigger bodies. |
| 1:03.3 | And her mission has been to get people in bigger bodies |
| 1:07.4 | to feel comfortable moving, getting them on bicycles |
| 1:10.6 | that fit them, that are made for them. And she's really been a maverick in the |
| 1:15.0 | field of destigmatizing obesity and taking sort of the the prejudice out of having a bigger body. |
| 1:26.2 | I am so happy to have her here. |
| 1:29.0 | We know each other, we're friendly. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm so impressed, I send patience to her. I'm so impressed by her and she has a book and you should go to Amazon and get the book. |
| 1:44.7 | It's called Big Body Business, okay? |
| 1:48.5 | And she is going to talk to us about her own struggles with weight and why she started this company and why she |
| 1:57.2 | wrote this book. So I'm just happy to have her here today. Thank you for coming. |
| 2:01.9 | Thanks, Trot. |
| 2:02.9 | I look forward to sharing my story. |
| 2:07.9 | Yeah, so where do I begin? |
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