I recently went on the RD Real Talk podcast with Heather Caplan and Shelby Gordon to talk about what’s been going on in Health at Every Size® this year, and where we go from here. Here’s the episode description from Heather: A LOT has happened in the Health at Every Size® and weight-inclusive communities since Marquisele…
I don’t generally think of myself as what I call a “101-level educator.” That’s the kind of person whose talent is bringing people who are brand new to a concept gradually through it. To be honest, I don’t have the patience or emotional energy to gently and patiently convince people that fat people are both…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ I love digging in and talking about the practical aspects of body liberation, especially when it comes to running a business. On Massage Business Blueprint, Allissa, Michael and I discuss how all…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ It’s always a delight to talk with the Fat Faces, and this time we did it on the record! We dig deep into my entrepreneurial journey, why I chose to work with…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ “I guess that’s what’s hard for me to understand. What harm does it to do to a concern troll to start trolling the systems that are doing this? Troll the airline industry….
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ “Fat people can’t be photographers.” Is that true? I’ve spent the last five years finding out, and on this episode of Fashion for All – The Smart Glamour Podcast with Mallorie Dunn…
I went way out of my comfort zone with Chelsea of Chelsea Levy Nutrition and ate on camera for a special Instagram live eating support session. It is so important to normalize fat folks eating in public. Too often, we get stares, comments or open stigma for simply doing what humans need to do: eat….
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ What do anger and art have in common? Shohreh Davoodi @shohrehdavoodi and I talk about it — and lots more — on episode 53 of her podcast, Redefining Health & Wellness. We…
Today I’m asking body-positive and Health at Every Size®-aligned nanny and parent consultant Sarah @bodypositiveparenting all about her job, including: 🚸 What does a body-positive nanny do? What does #HAES have to do with it? 🚸 What should parents look for in a nanny who will help their kids grow up with a positive body image? 🚸 What Sarah…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Over at @femtastic_podcast, Katie Breen and I talk about why it’s so important that we see representations of diverse bodies in the media, and how I use my platform to create stock imagery…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Because I have my fat fingers in so many pies, this chat with Chrystal Bougon @chrystallee78 of Curvy Girl Lingerie and All Bodies Electrolysis touches on lots of topics! If you’ve ever…
For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ On the Fat Girl Finds Love Podcast, I’m talking with Briana Cavanaugh @lovedosed about fategories, luck and privilege in relationships, finding a doctor you trust, and scars in photography. Give it a listen…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ When you think of a runner, what image pops into your head? Most of us come back to the same image informed by the stock photos we see and use papers, magazines,…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ On this episode of the Rising Whole podcast, Prim Ormanovich @risingwholeprim and I talk about how coherency in your business comes from having an underlying ethical framework or cause, and how my…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ This is the first podcast where I’ve ever needed to stop and ask, “Can I say this on the air?” Nōn Wels @YouMeEmpathy, Jenipher Lyn @JenipherLyn and I talk about body image…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ What do boudoir photography, subscription boxes and stock photos have in common? What even is a stock photo? How does body liberation play into all this? In this video, I chat with…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Every single time I’m asked to be on a podcast, it’s an honor, but it’s an especially big deal to be the very first guest on an existing podcast! Jenn Hume, owner…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Eat the Rules (formerly Fearless Rebelle Radio) has been at the top of my podcast speaking wishlist for years, and it was such an amazing opportunity to appear in episode 168 with…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ I’ve had the honor of being on a number of Australian podcasts, and every time, I wonder the same thing: What do they think about my American accent?? More importantly, it is…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ If you’d like a shorter podcast listen, Love, Food is for you. In each episode, Julie answers a letter from a reader. As a podcast guest, I love this format because I…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ So many of the dynamics around bodies, weight and worth are really about power, and it was fascinating to dig into those power dynamics with Leela Sinha, host of the PowerPivot podcast (not on…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ When I began writing the Body Liberation Guide, my weekly newsletter, I didn’t expect it to change my life. A compilation of the resources I was already creating, sharing some of my…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Louise Adams may call her wonderful podcast All Fired Up!, but I think of my episode as a phrase a little closer to my Southern U.S. roots: I’m all het up. I…
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ One of the reasons I talk about vulnerability in business so much is that giving ourselves the grace and space to be vulnerable allows us to not expect perfection from ourselves or…
The experience of being a business owner in a marginalized body is very different from the mainstream, and it’s one I spend a lot of time thinking about. It was a pleasure discuss it with Melanie Knights on the Entrepreneurial Outlaws podcast. I love the way Melanie described our episode: We are in a period…
I love talking about ending weight stigma in the real world, and how we get there on a practical level. What does that look like? Where do we go from here? In this episode of the Nourished Circle podcast, I talked with Lori Short-Zamudio about: Where weight stigma in healthcare comes from How what you…
✨ December is Podcast Month! I’m spending this month slowing down, taking deep breaths, digging into my own inner world, resting and planning my work and energy use for the next year. I won’t be providing as much free labor and education here as I normally do, so this is an excellent time to dig…
In this episode, Karin Lewis is joined by Lindley Ashline, photographer, author, cat mom, entrepreneur, musician and activist. Lindley creates photographs that celebrate the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional “beauty” standards. She fights weight stigma by giving fat people a safe place to explore how their bodies look on camera and by…
Louise Adams may call her wonderful podcast All Fired Up!, but I think of my episode as a phrase a little closer to my Southern U.S. roots: I’m all het up. I went down a small rabbit hole looking up the origins of that phrase, and it turns out that it’s a shortening of “heated…
I went way out of my comfort zone with Chelsea of Chelsea Levy Nutrition and ate on camera for a special Instagram live eating support session. It is so important to normalize fat folks eating in public. Too often, we get stares, comments or open stigma for simply doing what humans need to do: eat….
New podcast drop! I had the chance to talk with Health at Every Size®-aligned and fat-positive nutritionist Amy Rapone on her podcast RadLove Radio. In this episode, we talk about: How I became a photographer despite never having seen anyone like me doing photography Susan Boyle and talking dogs Who finds career opportunities from 15…
I’ve had the honor of being on a number of Australian podcasts, and every time, I wonder the same thing: What do they think about my American accent?? More importantly, it is very cool to have the opportunity to speak virtually all over the world about body acceptance and fat activism, most recently with the…
If you’d like a shorter podcast listen, Love, Food is for you. In each episode, Julie answers a letter from a reader. As a podcast guest, I love this format because I feel like I’m speaking directly to someone out there! This episode is for all who were once theatre kids, or anybody who’s ever…
Every single time I’m asked to be on a podcast, it’s an honor, but it’s an especially big deal to be the very first guest on an existing podcast! Jenn Hume, owner of Hell Yeah Tech, and I talked on her Hell Yeah Techcast about websites, marketing and inclusive stock photography. Jenn is exactly my…
Fat Face Feelings is made up of Eron Huenefeld and Amanda Underwood, two women on a journey toward fat liberation, and sharing that journey with the world via podcast. Their podcast is fun, funny and vulnerable, and they’re both a delight. For some sessions, my subjects come in with a firm idea of how they’d…
When I started my photography business in 2015, I had never seen or met another fat photographer. I wasn’t sure if it was even possible. (Because what we see around us tells us what is possible for people like us.) Now, of course, I know many fat photographers, both because I’ve deliberately sought out other…
