Stephanie Yeboah is extraordinary!

Katie Piper's Extraordinary People

Sony Music

Health & Fitness, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Yeboah is an author, public speaker, and role model for so many. Over the past 11 years, she's built up an online following as an advocate for self-love, whilst sharing her honest, and sometimes brutal experiences as a plus-size black woman. Katie and Stephanie catch up ahead of the release of Stephanie’s debut book ‘Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girls’ Guide to Living Life Unapologetically’, discussing the ‘acceptable fat’ shape, how brands could improve their diversity and inclusivity, and Stephanie’s viral article, titled ‘I Found Out The Guy I Was Dating Did It For A Dare’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.0	Hi, and welcome to Katie Piper's Extraordinary People, the podcast where I sit down with someone
1:15.4	who's lived a truly extraordinary life. My guest in this episode is writer, public speaker
1:21.2	and role model for so many, Stephanie Yaboa. Having been a writer for the past 11 years,
1:27.0	she really got people's attention when she wrote a piece called I found out the guy I was dating did it for a dare. Yep, you heard that correctly. But Stephanie's having the last laugh because she just got herself a book deal. Fatterly Ever After is out next month on the 3rd of September and it's all about
1:45.3	reframing how we think about our bodies and she joins me now to tell me more about it. Hello.
1:54.2	It's really cool to have you here. In the lead up to this episode I kind of listened to lots
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