Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today we are spending the week with

Shauna Spence. She is our guest this week. She's a registered dietitian, nutritionist based in Brooklyn, New York.

She works in public health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, doing community

nutrition lessons, and also owns her own company, the Nutrition Tea. She describes herself as an

all-foods-fit dietitian and creates a platform for open discussion on nutrition

and wellness topics that are inclusive, non-diet, weight neutral, and all with an intersectionality

of social justice. She also writes frequently for publications like self, shape, outside,

well-and-good magazines, and her debut book entitled Live Nourished, Make Peace with Food, Banished, Banished, and

Reclame Joy is out now.

We have such a great conversation this week.

Oh, she was such a joy to chat with Shana.

We talked a lot about body image,

culture, the meaning of nourishment, what that really means. And of course, as you can probably

imagine, her desire to help us reclaim joy around food. Now, I know you're going to enjoy this conversation. So let's jump into it

with Shauna Spence. As we just hear a little bit about her journey as a black woman in the

nutrition space. Let's hear from her. Hi, Shana. I'm so excited to have you with us today. How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty well, I have to say. I feel good. How about you?

Good. Today has been a struggle. Shana was just such an amazing guest already because tolerated the world win, which is me

blowing in, being like, things are broken.

I don't know what I'm doing.

What's going on?

Anyways, you graciously tolerated that.

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