S10 EP3 Hiking, cold water swimming, and mental health with Zanna Van Dijk

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Zanna Van Dijk - she’s a co-founder of Stay Wild, a sustainable swimwear brand, a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur and a lifestyle blogger with a passion for active travel and the outdoors.

This episode covers:

Zanna’s evolution on social media and on her blog over the years
Her passion for hiking and advice for those looking to start
Open water swimming and how its transformed her mental health
The societial pressures of being a woman in her 30’s
Fertility, egg freezing and having children
Maintaining and making new friends as an adult
Zanna’s struggles with mental health and what she’s doing now to support herself

To find out more about Zanna (including her hiking and travel guides) head over to https://www.zannavandijk.co.uk/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always Dr Hazel.
0:10.0	Today I'm joined by someone who I've known for many years now, and actually met through
0:14.3	social media and have remained friends with over the years. And while this guest was
0:18.8	highly requested by many of you, who also follow her online, this episode feels less like
0:24.6	your typical podcast episode, a more like two gals just having a chat about fitness,
0:29.7	hiking, fertility, babies, female friendships, and mental health. We're both quite open
0:35.1	and frank in this episode, which I think a lot of you are really going to enjoy.
0:40.1	Our guest today is of course Santa Vendique who is co-founder of Stay Wild, a sustainable swimwear
0:45.8	brand, a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, and a lifestyle blogger with a passion for active
0:51.4	travel and the outdoors. I don't think her bio does her justice as she does so many other things
0:57.6	and wears so many other hats which we get into in the podcast. As always if you are enjoying
1:03.3	listening to the podcast or any of the episodes, it would mean the world if you could take two
1:08.0	minutes to leave us a review and a rating as it really does help us reach a wider audience.
1:13.1	Let's jump into today's episode with Santa Vendique.
1:16.2	Santa, welcome to the Vendique podcast. I'm so excited to be here. I can't believe it's taken
1:22.3	this long to get you here, but I feel like it's better re-wasted because we've got more of a story
1:29.0	to talk about. Of course so much to talk about. I know. For those of you listening who don't know,
1:33.5	me and Santa have been friends for eight years. Nine years. Nine years. Back in the first early days
1:42.2	of social media. I would just love to start there because I've seen you grow from afar but also
1:51.0	really close up as one of your best friends. You grew up on social media. You spent most of your
2:00.3	20s on social media. My whole 20s? Yeah. You started as one of the hardcore fitness girlies.
2:08.4	As I did. I did. So start from the beginning for everyone. He doesn't know your story. I will try and
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