How to Support Someone with an Eating Disorder with Kristina Saffran

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kristina Saffran, the CEO of Equip, joins RealPod to share her journey from battling anorexia at a young age to co-founding Equip, a company revolutionizing eating disorder treatment with virtual care. Kristina shares the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to eating disorders, her personal struggle with anorexia starting at age 10, and the challenges she faced during recovery. She discusses the importance of family-based treatment and the need for accessible, evidence-based care. Kristina also talks about the societal impact of diet culture and the mission of Equip to provide effective, at-home treatment. This episode dives into the complexities of eating disorders, the importance of early intervention, and Kristina’s vision for a future where everyone has the support they need to recover!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.2	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:45.4	Christina, welcome to RealPod. Thanks for having me. So excited to be here. Of course. How special to have the CEO of a company equipped that I love and that sponsors this podcast on to share their story.
0:56.3	It's a dream, a dream come true. Oh, I love working with you guys. I think it's so important
1:00.5	what you're building. And I love when things are built out of purpose and out of a personal
1:06.4	journey. I think that's the most inspiring thing because it's someone who really understands the issue. I think about that with my nonprofit. I'm like, I was a student athlete who was struggling with these things. So now I know how I want to be like really student athlete focused. And I'm sure you can relate to that. Oh, 100%. I mean, I'm obviously biased, but I think that companies that are built by somebody who has lived experience
1:28.3	are the best companies because, yeah, as you said, like you truly intimately get it. And as you know,
1:34.1	like company building is hard. And so somebody who's going to have that grit and perseverance
1:39.1	that they like need to solve this problem, it tends to align with people who have had some sort of experience with
1:45.3	it. Definitely. And this is also an experience that's close to my heart having struggled with
1:50.0	a binge eating disorder. And honestly, I've been excited to talk to you about your experiences with
1:55.4	anorexia because I feel like it can be really misunderstood. I feel like sometimes I don't even
2:00.6	know the inner workings
2:02.6	of it, obviously, because that wasn't my experience. And I saw that you first struggle with this at a really
2:08.2	young age. Yeah. 10, which is young, but unfortunately not super rare. We treat six-year-olds at
2:14.1	equip and we're definitely seeing eating disorders come younger and younger.
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