The fat liberation podcast that holds the rage and the joy
Join host Sophia Apostol in her acclaimed, global top 2% podcast. Each episode brings you an honest conversation between Sophia and another fat person on how to flourish in an anti-fat world.
Episode 70 with Jill Angie
Jill Angie (she/her) is here to take a stand for you: You. Can. Run. Jill shares how mindset-shifting running can be, and she dispels the most common worries about being over 40 and running: my doctor said my knees can’t handle it, I don’t want to be seen by other people, I can’t breathe when I run. And then Jill and Sophia get philosophical about what even is joy.
Episode 69 with Anastasia Kidd
Author of the book “Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation,” Anastasia Kidd (she/her) is starting a movement inviting Christians to examine their own biases against fatness and embrace a more abundant gospel rooted in anti-oppression. She shares how hundreds of years ago, the church began implementing practices of control and power to have ownership over our bodies and how that has had lasting harm. Anastasia invites us all to become unrepentant fatties in this conversation.
Episode 68 with Hannah Fuhlendorf
Hannah Fuhlendorf (she/her) is a therapist and coach who helps her clients live uninhibited lives in a world that wants to inhibit them. Hannah takes us through several of the steps towards living from possibility: grieving old beliefs, reconnecting to embodiment, finding acceptance, and privileging pleasure & joy. Oh, and sex clubs.
Episode 67 with Vera Schofield
Fat flexibility coach, Vera Schofield (she/they), grew up with an unhealthy obsession with fitness for weight loss. After starting their fat liberation journey, a pole dancing class became the entry point into unlearning those diet-culture informed views of movement. Vera is here sharing how to bring flexibility into our day and why it matters. Also, they share their fave body stretches for those of us who sit a lot throughout the day.
Episode 66 with Erica Sosa
Erica Sosa (she/her) helps fat folks work through the moments in our lives when fatness, desirability, and visibility intersect. Specifically, she works as a bridal consultant and as an erotic movement coach, and in many ways, what her clients feel in both settings is the same– like there’s something wrong with their bodies that must be forced to change. Erica shares how she invites people to shift from how they look to how they feel. And she gives us 3 tips we can use to connect to our bodies as they are.
Episode 65 with Jeanette Thompson-Wessen
Inspired by a question from a Fat Joy listener, Jeanette Thompson-Wessen (she/her) shares how to be an intuitive eater whist on a fixed income. And then she expands the conversation into whether intuitive eating is actually accessible and whether that’s even the right question to be asking ourselves. She also shares useful tools to help us navigate our full health in ways that are useful, flexible, and compassionate.