Fearless Rebelle Radio With Summer Innanen - Body Image, Body Positivity, Self-help, Feminism

I’m with Graeme Seabrook, certified life coach and founder of The Mom Center talking about how capitalism and the patriarchy shape the way we view motherhood, how this impacts our self-worth and how to start advocating for your wants. We discuss: - The personal story that inspired Graeme to become a coach for moms, - How capitalism and patriarchy is in EVERYTHING and particularly how it shapes motherhood, - How we are gendering our kids from birth and the implications this has on how we show up as parents, - What “the motherload” is and the burden it puts in our well-being, - How to identify the mental, emotional, physical and financial labor you put into your partnership and how to start to shift it, - The importance of making your “motherload” visible in order to shift the balance, - How “the motherload” impacts our sense of self-worth, - Why it’s so hard to identify and advocate for our wants and how to start doing that, Plus, so much more!

I’m interviewing Nina Purewal, co-author of the bestselling book Let That Shhhh Go. We talk about how to work through negative thoughts, cultivating forgiveness in the worst of situations and how to find more peace and happiness in the present moment. We discuss: - How some of the tragic events in Nina’s life inspired her to study mindfulness and write the book Let That Shhhh Go, - Some of the best ways to manage negative thoughts, - Why negative thoughts are addictive and so hard to break, - A helpful analogy to understand why it can take so long to change negative thoughts, - How to stop worrying about the future and fixating on the past in order to stay more present, - How to get away from thinking that happiness only exists in the future, - The importance of forgiveness and how Nina was able to forgive people in her life involved in tragedy, - Why you need to let that shhhh out before you can let that shhh go, Plus, so much more! 

Kaila Tova, creator of the Your Body, Your Brand podcast is on the show talking about why so many women are dropping out of the workforce to become coaches, how our current workforce takes away agency and why feminism is broken. We discuss: - Why Kaila decided to create the Your Body, Your Brand podcast and the questions she was hoping to answer, - How marketing is manipulative, - What Kaila’s experience was like in the health coaching world, - Why so many women are dropping out of the workforce to become coaches, - Why Kaila states that “women’s bodies are their brands,” 
 - What happens when women try to monetize their bodies, - MLMs and why women feel the need to go into this kind of business, - The biggest problem with corporate working environments and why they strip us of our agency, - Why feminism is broken and whether or not there are any solutions for true empowerment, Plus, so much more! 

It’s the Season 5 Premier of Fearless Rebelle Radio! I’m answering your questions about motherhood and talking about what I’m looking forward to about returning. Specifically: - My experience with motherhood thus far, - Mourning the parts of my pre-parent life, - The way having a baby changes your marriage and identity, - Maintaining body trust while having breastfeeding issues, - Letting go of the need to be “the perfect mom”, 
 - Real talk on pelvic floor health (a.k.a how is my vag?), - How to prepare for postpartum body changes and/or body image issues, 
 - What I’m looking forward to this year and what you can expect from this season. Plus, so much more! 

I’m revisiting my interview with Tara Mohr – author of Playing Big and expert on women’s leadership and well-being. We chat about how to be more loyal to your dreams than your fears, managing self-doubt and how to unhook from praise and criticism. Plus, I answer a listener question on how to respond to diet talk.  In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question on how to respond to diet talk, - How Tara’s work influenced my life and how I work with clients, - What it means to “play big” and the different ways that we play small and don’t even realize it, - The relationship between self-doubt and playing big and why we cannot eliminate self-doubt, - Why women are socialized to be people pleasers and how that influences the way we show up in this world, - Why body perfectionism is a common form of self-doubt and why it’s not really about your body, - The limitations of being hooked on praise and criticism, - How you can start to be less concerned with what other people think, Pl

I’m revisiting my interview with with Ivy Felicia – Certified Holistic Wellness Coach and Body Image Expert. W e chat about how to feel more comfortable in a bigger body and navigating “body love” through chronic illness and weight change. Plus, I’m answering a listener question on how to balance eating for athletic performance with body acceptance.  In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question on how to balance eating for athletic performance with body acceptance, - Ivy’s story of growing up in a larger body and suffering from PCOS, - What is PCOS and how it impacted Ivy’s relationship with her body, - Why she looks at “body love” as a relationship, like a marriage, - How to choose peace with your body, even when there is frustration and resentment, - How to navigate weight gain and be more comfortable in a bigger body, - What Ivy suggests for women who have gained weight and are feeling physically and emotionally uncomfortable in their larger body, - How to

I’m revisiting my interview  with the creators of Fattitude - Lyndsey Averill and Viri Lieberman. We chat about fat acceptance, thin privilege and body positivity and why they created Fattitude to change our culture to eradicate size prejudice.  And I’ll be answering a listener question on what to do if your partner is still subscribing to conventional standards of beauty.  In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question on what to do if your partner is still subscribing to conventional standards of beauty, - The inspiration behind the movie Fattitude and why Lyndsey and Viri created it, - Lyndsey and Viri’s personal experiences that led them to want to create this film, - How diet culture and the beauty industry has co-opted “body positivity” for their capital gains, - Whether weight loss and fat acceptance can go hand-in-hand, - How the media’s representation of fat bodies perpetuates size discrimination, - Why “health” is becoming the new guise for diet culture, - The insidiou

I’m revisiting my interview with  Caroline Dooner – Creator of The F-It Diet. We chat about Caroline’s approach to making eating easy and more. And I’ll be answering a listener question on whether mindful eating is important in healing your relationship with food.  In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question on whether mindful eating is important in healing your relationship with food, - Why nourishment is the foundation of The F-It Diet, - How your fear of weight gain can get in the way of truly trusting yourself around food, - The tools that Caroline used to help her overcome her body image issues, - How the media influences our body image and how certain actresses are going against the norm to promote body acceptance, - What to do if you live in a toxic environment where appearance is valued above all else, - The most important question to ask yourself when you are feeling judged, Plus so much more!

I’m revisiting my interview with Chrystal Bougon – Owner & Resident Curvy Girl at Curvy Girl Inc and activist. We chat about feeling sexy at every size, reclaiming the word fat and the importance of sexual pleasure as self-care, plus I answer a listener question on fat oppression and eating disorder recovery. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question fat oppression and eating disorder recovery, - What loving your body means to Chrystal,  - The spark that fired her up to start Curvy Girl Lingerie, - Why she identifies as a fat woman and the importance of reclaiming that word, - The importance of asking for what you want in the bedroom and how this empowered Chrystal to be kinder and truer to herself, - The power of asking for what you want in the bedroom and life, - Your life is happening now, not 10 pounds from now – don’t put it on hold, - Why it’s a discipline to work on your inner confidence and compassion, - Why both Chrystal and I still have bad body days and how we deal w

I’m revisiting my interview with my friend and colleague, Vivienne McMaster - creator of Be Your Own Beloved. We chat about how you can heal negative body image through selfies and choose compassion over critique in photos and I’ll be answering a listener question on body acceptance and aging. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question navigating body acceptance and aging, - How Vivienne used photography to heal her body image and change her negative stories, - How long it took Vivienne to start to see her body in a loving way through photography, - What it really feels like to “love your body” and why there isn’t a “self-love” party at the end of it, - Selfies are so much more than arm’s length photos, - How to start seeing your photos through a loving and compassionate lens, - What to do if you typically avoid photos or find them triggering, - How to begin to love pieces of you where you normally direct hate, - Are we really so much more than a body? - Simple ways for you to start

I’m revisiting my interview with Kelsey Miller, author of Big Girl. We chat about her journey out of disordered eating, what she learned about herself from giving up dieting and how she moved from the role of sidekick to leading lady in her life and I’ll be answering a listener question on what to do if you’re afraid of people judging your weight gain. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question what to do if you’re afraid of people judging your weight gain, - How Kelsey’s first extreme diet at the age of 11 planted the seed and kept her hooked on “the manic power of skinny” for years, - How the pattern of being in the “zone” of a new diet followed by periods of crushing shame kept her trapped in the dieting cycle for years, - The influence of Kelsey’s mom on her relationship with food and her body, - The point when Kelsey realized she was done with dieting and self-loathing and ready to choose living, - What it was like to become an intuitive eater, - The real issue that was at the he

I’m revisiting my interview with Nutritionist Chris Sandel.  We chat about on the physiology of the restrict-binge cycle, the fallacy of weight control and dieting, how to learn to trust your body again and I’ll be answering a listener question on how to find balance between eating what you want and health.  In this episode, we chat about: -  I answer a listener question how to find balance between eating what you want and health, - How Chris realized that his weight was not in his control and how that shaped his approach with working with clients, - The physiology of the restrict-binge cycle and why we really can’t control our food, - The fallacy around the amount of control we have over our weight, - Why recovery from disordered eating and chronic dieting involves more than simply “eating normally,” - Mental versus physical deprivation – knowing the difference and how to heal both - How to trust your body and what this process actually looks like, - The importance of doing the inner w

I’m revisiting my interview with fat activist Ragen Chastain. We chat about size stigma, HAES, why every body deserves respect, her experiences training for an Ironman and I’ll be answering a listener question on what to do if you feel like you cannot trust your body. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question about what to do if you feel like you can’t trust your body, - How Ragen went from having an eating disorder to becoming a fat activist, - The research on dieting and weight loss and why health habits are the best way to get a healthy body, - The experience that made her to realize the oppression against fat people and how this was the catalyst for her activism, - The role of fat stigma on body image, - If you have issues with your body, it can be you and your body against that problem—not you against your body, - Why your life wouldn’t be better if you were thinner—your life would be better if you lived in a world that didn’t stigmatize fat and why changing the world is the solu

I’m revisiting my interview with awesome anti-diet Dietician Glenys Oyston. She blows up the BS on health and weight and talks about how you can focus on health without being restrictive, plus answer a listener question on whether there is a “there” as an intuitive eater. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question about whether there is a set of “criteria” to being an intuitive eater, - How Glenys overcame her battle with restrictive eating and discovered Health At Every Size, - Why dieting is so seductive and hard to let go of, - How to overcome the ramifications of dieting – a.k.a. “Diet PTSD,” - Why looking at health through the lens of weight is B.S., - How to focus on health without being restrictive, - Her experience working as a “fat dietician” who practices HAES, Plus, so much more! 

I’m revisiting my interview with one of my fav coaches Keri-Anne Livingstone on radical acceptance and how to become the truest version of yourself and I’ll be answering a listener question on how to feel feelings. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question about how to feel “negative” feelings, - How Keri-Anne went through big life challenges to find joy, - Why surrendering to our struggles can help us find gifts, - What it means to Dare To Suck and how this intention can help you unlock your greatest potential, - How to implement ‘Daring To Suck’ in your life to be fearless, - How a simple mindset shift of ‘detaching yourself from the outcome’ can help you overcome self-doubt, - Why paying attention to what lights you up is the first step towards finding the fulfillment you crave, - How acknowledging and allowing all of the different parts of yourself to ‘admit their crap’ is integral to creating the emotional release needed to move forward, - How to feel worthy to make the changes you

I’m revisiting my interview with Isabel Foxen Duke from 2014 all about how to stop fighting food. This was truly revolutionary then! Plus, I’ll be answering a listener question on overcoming fear of weight gain. In this episode, we chat about: - I answer a listener question about what to do if you’ve accepted where your body is at, but you are scared of gaining weight, - Isabel tells her story of being a chronic dieter and finally realizing she had to let go of all judgments to heal her relationship with food, - Why judgment about a right or wrong way to eat leaves you doomed for failure, - Why when our motivation is driven by our desire to lose weight, things gets very complicated, - Thin privilege: what is it and how it holds up the body acceptance movement, - Challenging fatphobic beliefs and letting go of that need to be thinner, - Overcoming the belief that you need to be thinner to have a good relationship, - Challenging the belief that if we lose weight we can control the entire universe, - The social

It’s the Season 4 Finale of Fearless Rebelle Radio! I’m talking about what you can expect while I’m gone, what I’m looking forward to/terrified of and how you can work with me. Specifically: - Fearless Rebelle Radio hit 1 Million downloads – thank you!!!!!! - What’s happening with the podcast while I’m gone,  - Why I’m really excited about re-releasing old episodes,  - What maternity leave is going to be like for me, - How I’m feeling going into maternity leave,  - Various ways you can get support while I’m gone,  - I’m going to miss you!!! Plus, so much more! 

It's a special episode because I’m speaking to 4 incredible women, whom I’m willing to bet will have pieces of their story resonate with you. These are 4 of my clients who worked with me during the You, On Fire program and they are here to show you that it is possible to go from obsessing over food and hating your body, to no longer fretting about your reflection and having so much more confidence in who you are outside of how you look. These women go on to be role models to their kids, they have more time so they volunteer or become advocates for social justice, they ask for a raise and a promotion at work, they speak up to their medical professional about HAES or they pursue a new calling. And in all of these little ways, they start to leave a different kind of mark on this world and change the culture. To enroll in You, On Fire go to summerinnanen.com/youonfire

Jes Baker, author of Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is on the show talking about the difference between body love and body liberation, doing things she never thought she could, the struggle with finding a good relationship with food and more. In this episode, we chat about: - Jes tells her story of how she found fat acceptance and how this changed her life, - What she wants people to get out of Landwhale and why it was such a hard book to write,  - Why “bopo light” is necessary and a needed stepping stone, - The struggle she had in healing her relationship with food and what is working for her right now, - Why understanding things logically is different than implementing it into your life, - The difference between body love and body liberation and how liberation is needed to really heal, - What helped her to do the myriad of things she never thought she could do and her advice for others,  - Why this idea of being bulletproof to criticism and trolling doesn’t exist and why this idea is harmf

Virgie Tovar, author of You Have The Right To Remain Fat is on the show talking about why diet culture is so toxic to our self-worth, the influence of sexism on our desire to diet and so much more. In this episode, we chat about: - Virgie’s new book, You Have The Right To Remain Fat – why she wrote it and what’s she’s hoping people get out of it, - How Virgie felt the magic of her body as a child before she was introduced to fatphobia and how that magic feels today,  - The importance of understanding what internalized inferiority is, how this is upheld by diet culture and how you can unpack that for yourself, - Why “dieting is a survival technique” and obligation in our culture,  - The role of sexism in diet culture and why it’s a means of controlling women’s lives,  - Why intimate relationships might take longer to cultivate once you’ve opted out of diet culture, but will ultimately be more meaningful and fulfilling, - The difference between liberation and acceptance and why we need to be aiming for liberati