Marisa Meltzer, THIS IS BIG

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Marisa Meltzer is the author of This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me). She co-authored How Sassy Changed My Life and also Girl Power, and is a contributor to New York Magazine and The New York Times. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue. The inspiration for her newest book, This Is Big, was sparked when she read The New York Times obituary of Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers. Part biography and part memoir, Marisa combines two compelling stories: her own journey with weight and body image, and her immersion into the world of Weight Watchers to research Jean's fascinating life and entrepreneurial impact. Marisa and I talked about our personal relationships to dieting, eating habits as a product of our society, and the complicated influence food has on girls and young women in particular. I think this conversation and her book will resonate strongly with a lot of people because it explores how nuanced transformation - physical and emotional - really is.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
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0:21.2	Hi, everybody.
0:22.0	I hope you're having a great week.
0:23.5	This week I am pleased to announce that my sponsor is going to be somebody I've picked.
0:28.9	I'm not accepting money from sponsors anymore.
0:31.6	I'm just trying to help out small businesses while we all go through this period of time.
0:36.2	And I've collaborated with page one books, page one books.com, and the one is not
0:41.4	O'N-E, it's page number one.
0:43.7	Page one books.com and also Hampton's Hand Pored, which is a small candlemaking business.
0:49.2	And the three of us have teamed up to create a book box bundle containing three
0:53.6	books that are particularly
0:54.8	relevant slash funny slash entertaining for this period of time, one by John Kenny, one by
1:00.6	Carla Nomburg, and one by Jen Gotch, and also a candle that has a label that says,
1:05.8	Next Chapter Please, because I don't know about you, I'm definitely ready for the next chapter
1:09.6	of life. So please go on page 1books.com. 15% of the proceeds, which is my entire portion,
1:16.3	I'm donating to COVID-19 recovery efforts. So buy yourself a box, send a box to someone who you know
1:23.5	needs and pick me up. It'll be really helpful. They'll read the three books, light a candle,
1:27.7	and feel immediately better. Now's the time. And it helps support these two small businesses, Page One Books and Hampton's Handport. And you'll make a difference on so many levels. So please check it out. It's on my website, and it's also on page onebooks.com. Thanks so much. Also, just wanted to remind you that this week, like every week, I have five new essays up in We Found Time, my new online magazine. We Found Times five essays this week are written by Christina Geist, Tiffany Schlaen, Wendy Walker, Beth Rickinotti, and Marr Laura Philpott, who have all been on my podcast already, so you might have listened to their episodes, or you should go back and listen to them again. And they've written fantastic essays on everything from
2:03.8	taking one day off a week for technology to not prioritizing finding a new man when you have a
2:09.6	teenage boy at home, all sorts of great stuff. So please check out wefoundtime.com any day this
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