Melissa Urban Gets Candid On Whole 30, Diet Culture, Sexual Assault, & Addiction Recovery
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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#440: Melissa Urban is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. On today's episode Melissa joins the show to share her journey with Whole 30 and her struggles with addiction recovrery and a traumatic sexual assualt. We also discuss diet culture and healthy habits that can set us up for long term success.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:03.4 | Sometimes I fantasize and I wonder, don't tell my wife, don't tell her this, |
| 0:08.9 | Lauren, don't listen to this. |
| 0:12.6 | What would these dating apps look like for someone like me? |
| 0:15.8 | And I wonder, strange. |
| 0:17.7 | Because I miss the entire kind of era of dating apps. |
| 0:22.4 | But if I was on a dating app, if that ever happened, |
| 0:25.7 | if my fantasy ever came to fruition, I don't want to call it fantasy. |
| 0:30.0 | But if my thoughts ever did, I would think I would try the match dating app. |
| 0:34.0 | And here's why. |
| 0:35.4 | I don't want to get in an endless stream of swipes and flips and flaps and whatever you do on these |
| 0:40.4 | other ones. I'm for meeting the right person that's matched for me. |
| 0:44.5 | I think it's really strange that we just go through and just swipe, swipe, swipe, |
| 0:47.8 | swipe, and don't ever actually look and take the time to figure out who would actually be right for us, |
| 0:51.4 | which is why I love this partner for us, the match dating app. |
| 0:54.3 | And match has a really interesting new feature called expert picks. |
| 0:57.3 | Get this actual human dating experts hand-picked matches for you to help you bring that human touch |
| 1:02.9 | back to dating apps. And it's working. |
| 1:04.7 | You are more than eight times as likely to hit it off with someone new when you use the expert |
| 1:08.9 | picks feature on the match app. I think this is an incredible platform for people that are looking |
| 1:13.2 | to get into a serious relationship to find that person who they can call theirs. |
| 1:16.8 | And so forth. Like I said, this thing has some substance. It has some depth. It has people that |
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