Our cultural obsession with weight and attaching weight to health and worthiness is damaging to us as individuals and as a collective.

I became fed up and frustrated with the traditional wellness paradigm once I realized it was reinforcing toxic body and beauty standards under the guise of health. I became hyper aware of how health and beauty are sold to us using young, thin, and mostly white, able-bodied women. We are bombarded with outside voices telling us how to eat, how to look, and who to be.

I believe this is especially damaging for those of us who are constantly pushed out into the margins because of race, gender, ability, size, or sexuality. It can really complicate our sense of identity, wholeness, and belonging. As a result, I've been searching for ways to redefine wellness through a process of unlearning, relearning, and telling our own stories.

One of the ways I hope to do that is through this podcast. I'm having conversations about all of these things with Black health and wellness professionals and fat activists who have taken a weight-inclusive approach to their work. My goal is to uncover the lies and myths that get sold to us, but more importantly I want us to explore how we can filter out the cultural noise and begin to hear our own voice .

There's so much freedom, and truth, and joy, and fun in these conversations.  And I'm delighted to share this with you.