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The Psychology of Eating Podcast

The Making of a Health Crusader: An Interview with James Colquhoun

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Marc David speaks to esteemed filmmaker of the "Transcendence" docuseries and the documentary, "Hungry for Change," James Colquhoun. Like many of us passionate about health and wellness, James' journey into healthy living began after a life-changing and tragic event. His father developed multiple medical conditions, and did what most people do: go to their doctor and start taking various medications. As his father's health continued to decline, James became determined to figure out how to use nutrition and holistic health to reverse his dad's medical diagnoses. 
 
After reading book after book, beginning with the classic, Diet for a New America by John Robbins, James and his partner Laurentine learned everything they could about health and nutrition. And as he became more informed, James gradually convinced his father to let go of the medications that seemed to only worsen his conditions and lead to terrible side effects. 
 
And the result? His father was able to drop all his medication within three months of implementing nutritional changes, lost 50 pounds, and resumed his active lifestyle of running every day.
 
From this, James' career as a health crusader and educator was born. In this interview, you'll hear some of his powerful distinctions around the healing power of food that have changed the lives of millions of people around the world. 
 
Tune in now for a truly inspiring conversation between two of the world's leading voices in health and nutrition!
 
For more on James, his films, guided programs, and nutrition certification training, visit his global online wellness hub FoodMatters.com and streaming channel FMTV (now Gaia.com). 

And to learn more about the Food Matters Nutrition Certification program, please visit https://www.foodmattersinstitute.com/program/nutrition-certification
 
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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/ 
 
Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.
 
Or, take our 8-week public program, Transform Your Relationship with Food, if you're looking to transform your own relationship with food. You'll learn our uplifting and life-changing approach to ending eating challenges like emotional eating, binge eating, weight, chronic dieting, body image, food worry, and nutrition-linked disorders such as fatigue, digestive concerns, autoimmune disorders, and more. Learn more here: https://psychologyofeating.com/transform
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway

0:08.2

into a happier, healthier life.

0:11.6

Now here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology

0:18.4

of Eating, Mark David.

0:29.1

Welcome everybody. Mark David here, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

0:36.8

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing a colleague of mine, James Kohun. Welcome, James. Good to see you here. Hey, Mark. It's great to be here

0:39.6

and to connect again. It's been a little while. Yeah, it has been. Let me just brag on you for a

0:44.5

couple of moments. So James Cohun is the co-founder of Food Matters. It's a very popular and

0:51.2

well-loved global online wellness hub.

0:57.4

It focuses on nutrition, health, personal transformation.

0:59.6

James is also a filmmaker.

1:06.7

He's created the Transcendence docu series and the movies hungry for change and food matters.

1:14.0

He's also the founder of the popular streaming channel FM TV and i just want to dive in and just share um what you're up to with our world here and um because you do so many interesting

1:21.9

things and the first time i found out about food matters and was poking around your website i thought

1:27.3

wow this is so good.

1:31.5

So first of all, how did you get into this line of work?

1:36.1

Like, did you wake up one morning and said, I'm going to create an online wellness and food

1:41.2

portal?

1:43.4

No, and I think most of the people in this space maybe didn't start out that way.

1:48.9

But my journey into nutrition and, you know, bringing a lot of these films and work to the

1:54.2

world was really around personal tragedy.

1:56.6

You know, my father was quite unwell.

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