Interview: Jess Weiner, host of Dominant Stories on Shifting Ideas of Fitness, Bodies and Beauty

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode Amira Rose Davis interviews Jess Weiner, host of the new podcast Dominant Stories. They discuss Jess's involvement in Dove’s real beauty campaign, Mattel’s inclusive Barbie line and how we challenge and shift the Dominant Stories we tell about fitness, bodies and beauty. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Use the code FLAMES2022 for 22% off your order in January. Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:04.4	And I'm throwing to burn it all down.
0:07.8	Oh, yeah.
0:09.8	Welcome to Burn It All Down.
0:11.9	Amir here, and I am thrilled today to be joined by Jess Weiner, cultural expert and host of the new podcast, dominant stories.
0:19.4	Jess, welcome to Burn All Down.
0:21.3	Amira, I'm so happy to be here with you.
0:23.4	Oh, I'm thrilled.
0:24.3	Well, first and foremost, you're a nitty lion.
0:28.6	I sure am from a million years ago, but I hear it doesn't expire.
0:33.6	No, they will keep claiming me and my daughter joke that like Penn State folks are everywhere.
0:39.4	And we didn't realize that until I started working at Penn State.
0:42.1	And it's literally like we have been out of the country and the first person we saw is wearing a Penn State hat.
0:49.5	Yeah.
0:50.0	My daughter was vintage shopping in Austin yesterday, literally, and found a row of Penn State, like, grungy bar crawl shirts.
1:01.4	And we were just like, we can't escape it.
1:03.3	Like, we never can escape it.
1:04.7	No.
1:05.8	Awesome.
1:06.4	Well, you know, you've had quite a journey from Penn State to dominant stories.
1:10.7	And I'm thrilled to have you on because I really want to talk about some of the things you've worked on and build up to these discussions about dominant stories.
1:19.6	Because, you know, obviously here at Burnett All Down, we're all about narratives and disrupting stories. And it feels very parallel to a lot of the things you're working on. And so the two campaigns,
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