Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel, a medical doctor,

nutritionist, PT, author and founder of the Food Medic. Today I'm joined by Laura Henshaw and

Steph Clare Smith, founders of KIC, a leading health and wellness app born out of Australia.

This episode, Laura and Steph share their experiences with toxic wellness culture and how they're rewriting the diet rulebook we were

once told and help others build a healthy and more sustainable relationship with food and exercise.

I want to flag that this episode does contain conversations around eating disorders and

disordered eating behaviours which some people may find triggering.

If so, this episode may not be for you.

Lauren Steph, welcome to the Food Medic podcast.

Thank you for having us.

I'm so happy we got to squeeze it in just before you guys fly back. Oh, we're so happy. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much for having us. I'm so excited. No, I'm so happy we got to squeeze it in just before you guys fly back.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you so much for having us.

I'm so excited.

No, I'm excited to chat to you guys and learn about like your story.

And I think that's a really great place to start.

You guys are really good friends, best friends, and own a business together.

So how did you meet?

Like how did it all start?

We met in 2013 through the modelling industry. We both were casted on a lot of similar shows in Melbourne Fashion Week, Spring Fashion Week. And there's a lot of downtime. Anyone that's

seen the behind the scenes of those fashion shows would know there's like a lot of fittings,

there's a lot of sitting around. So we got to know each other quite a lot in that time. And it was a very quick, strong friendship bond, like when you meet someone and you feel like you've known them for years. So that was really beautiful. And we were also both very new to that. Neither of us had done a catwalk before, so I think we just both felt

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