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/Interested in more content like this? Check out www.thefoodmedic.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel.
0:09.9	Today I'm joined by someone who I've known for many years now and actually met through social media and have remained friends with over the years.
0:18.0	And while this guest was highly requested by many of you who also follow her
0:22.2	online, this episode feels less like your typical podcast episode and more like two girls just
0:28.2	having a chat about fitness, hiking, fertility, babies, female friendships and mental health.
0:33.8	We're both quite open and frank in this episode, which I think a lot of you are really going to enjoy.
0:40.2	Our guest today is of course Zana Van Dyck, who is 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.
0:53.5	I don't think her bio does her justice as she
0:56.1	does so many other things and wears so many other hats which we get into in the podcast. As always,
1:02.4	if you are enjoying listening to the podcast or any of the episodes, it would be in the world if you
1:07.6	could take two minutes to leave us a review and a rating as it really
1:10.9	does help us reach a wider audience let's jump in to today's episode with sanna van dyke
1:15.9	sanna welcome to the food medic podcast i'm so excited to be here i can't believe it's taking
1:22.4	this long to get you here but i feel like it's better re-weighted because we've got more of a story to talk
1:29.5	about I've got so much to talk about I know for those of you listening who don't know means Anna
1:34.1	have been friends for eight years nine years nine years um back in the first early days of social media
1:43.7	and I would just love to start there because I've seen Back in the first early days of social media.
1:53.4	And I would just love to start there because I've seen you grow from afar but also really close up as one of your best friends.
1:58.7	And like I, you kind of grew up on social media.
2:02.1	Like you spent most of your 20s on social media.
2:03.0	My whole 20s.
2:03.4	Yeah.
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