Quitted

Who moved our cheese? (An update episode.)

In June 2022, Holly drove across the country to move back to Los Angeles from New York after Martha Beck live-coached her into it on episode 14. The plan was to get to New Mexico by Friday in order to record episode 22 of Quitted (quitting compulsory sexuality!), but then Roe got overturned, and because we were both in the middle of having total life meltdowns already and didn't have much grace or space to begin with, we kind of broke. By July, neither of us had any desire to be talking in public; we couldn't even get ourselves together enough to release a five minute episode explaining why we were quitting Quitted. In the two years that have passed things have changed significantly for both our hosts in really beautiful and surprising ways, mostly thanks to their shared commitment to remaining in the messy ass middle of their individual transitions from founder/CEOs/influencers to whatever they are now (people??). This episode is a catch up episode in which both Emily and Holly discuss where they were, where they are now, and what happened when they didn't try to find their next gig, and instead sat in the complete shi^^y mess that is the long in between. Links: https://quitted.myflodesk.com/ https://www.emilyonlife.com/ https://www.hollywhitaker.com/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Diane Sanfilippo Quits Diet Culture Part 2

Diane Sanfilippo Quits Diet Culture Part 2 Last week in our interview with best-selling author of diet books and former-diet-entrepreneur-turned-anti-diet-activist Diane Sanfilippo: we got deep into how after 20 years of dieting and building a whole VERY SUCCESSFUL career steeped in diet culture, Diane found she couldn’t make herself lose the same x pounds yet again. Last week we dug into what diet culture is and how that came to define Diane’s existence. This week we go deep into the implications of that decision. We talk about changing our minds in public, being true to our integrity at the cost of the public’s understanding or agreement; the dreaded liminal space and what happens when you’ve got ADHD and nothing to keep you structured, and committing to the truth over consistency. About Diane Sanfilippo: Diane is the owner and founder of Balanced Bites - a wholesome food company that creates frozen meals, organic spice blends and snacks - all shipped nationwide. She's a certified holistic Nutrition Consultant, and two-time New York Times bestselling diet book author turned anti-diet advocate. Diane co-hosts Full Plate, a weekly podcast about healing from diet culture, setting boundaries, exploring mental health, and finding body liberation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Scott, and two fur kids. You can find Diane on Instagram: @dianesanfilippo and via her websites balancedbites.com [http://balancedbites.com/] and dianesanfilippo.com [http://dianesanfilippo.com/]  Support us: Quitted is listener-supported, made possible by us and by you; you can support this podcast by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/quitted [http://patreon.com/quitted] Music: Michael Blumenfeld, mikebloomstudio.com [http://mikebloomstudio.com/] Sound engineering + edits: Adam Day, https://www.adamdayphotography.com/ [https://www.adamdayphotography.com/] Producer: Cathleen Kisich ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Diane Sanfilippo Quits Diet Culture: Part 1

Diane Sanfilippo Quits Diet Culture: Part 1 During the pandemic, Diane Sanfilippo got on the scale and saw a number that was more than when she started dieting twenty years before; and she realized she couldn’t make herself diet again. This isn’t entirely exceptional, it probably happened to a lot of us, except in Diane’s case she was the author of six bestselling diet books, from Keto QuickStart to Practical Paleo to The 21-Day Sugar Detox. So it wasn’t as if she was just done dieting; she was also done with her career, livelihood, an entire identity.  What happens when the thing you believed in stops aligning? What if that thing is a decade’s worth of best-selling books that don’t represent your current value system? What if you’ve been the poster child of dieting and you’ve decided to not just stop dieting, but become a visible and active critic of diet culture itself? Or what about this: what if you’re career kept your life together, kept you structured, and all that just goes away and you’re left in the vacuum of what’s next?  In this first part of a two-part series, we get into a lot: What diet culture is, how it keeps us distracted and forever chasing acceptance within patriarchy instead of burning it down; what about using diets to actually not feel horrible or to improve our health and the spectrum of anti-diet to diet positive; whether sugar addiction is real!; how in 2021 Diane realized after getting on the scale and seeing she’d “undid” all her work and that she couldn’t diet again or spend the rest of her life managing her food, and what came from realizing she was part of the problem.  In next week’s episode we get way down into what happened after Diane walked away and how she’s managing a pretty extreme liminal space.  About Diane Sanfilippo: Diane is the owner and founder of Balanced Bites - a wholesome food company that creates frozen meals, organic spice blends and snacks - all shipped nationwide. She's a certified holistic Nutrition Consultant, and two-time New York Times bestselling diet book author turned anti-diet advocate. Diane co-hosts Full Plate, a weekly podcast about healing from diet culture, setting boundaries, exploring mental health, and finding body liberation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Scott, and two fur kids. You can find Diane on Instagram: @dianesanfilippo and via her websites balancedbites.com [http://balancedbites.com/] and dianesanfilippo.com [http://dianesanfilippo.com/]  Support us: Quitted is listener-supported, made possible by us and by you; you can support this podcast by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/quitted [http://patreon.com/quitted] Music: Michael Blumenfeld, mikebloomstudio.com [http://mikebloomstudio.com/] Sound engineering + edits: Adam Day, https://www.adamdayphotography.com/ [https://www.adamdayphotography.com/] Producer: Cathleen Kisich Host: Holly Whitaker, https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/ [https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/] Host: Emily McDowell, https://emilyonlife.com [https://emilyonlife.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

An Update Episode: Holly Whitaker and the Lost Place

An Update Episode: Holly Whitaker and the Lost Place This week, we’re checking in with Holly, who in 2021, basically removed her skin and left it in the closet of her former life. She lost the thing she’d thought she’d do forever, and the person she thought she’d be forever; in her first “who’s Holly Whitaker?” episode that we recorded back in January, she was deep in the long, humiliating, humbling, sucky journey of surrender through the lost place. In this episode, we catch up on where she’s at, and talk about her shifting perspective, the completion of cycles, and the surprising peace that eventually came from living in the quiet of the in-between – and from getting to really, really know herself. We didn’t do an intro for this one; we just get right into it. About Holly Whitaker: Holly is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and many others. Holly's work focuses on understanding the intersections of systems, culture, and individual experience and identity through the lens of addiction and recovery. She writes the newsletter Recovering [https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/] on Substack, co-hosts the Quitted podcast, and posts three times a year on Instagram as @holly. Support us: Quitted is listener-supported, made possible by us and by you; you can support this podcast by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/quitted [http://patreon.com/quitted] Music: Michael Blumenfeld, mikebloomstudio.com [http://mikebloomstudio.com/] Sound engineering + edits: Adam Day, https://www.adamdayphotography.com/ [https://www.adamdayphotography.com/] Producer: Cathleen Kisich Host: Holly Whitaker, https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/ [https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/] Host: Emily McDowell, https://emilyonlife.com [https://emilyonlife.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Sara Clark Quits the United States

Sara Clark Quits the United States It was meant to be a short vacation to Grenada in February 2020, but then Covid hit, and Sara Clark, who just happened to have all her things in storage (!!), followed her intuition and stayed in Grenada and left the U.S. for good.  That one terrifying (and she means terrifying) leap led her to an unimaginable quality of life as a Black woman now living in a Black country and as a recovering New Yorker living on an island with just over a hundred thousand people. The move to Grenada along with Covid also forced Sara--a well known yoga teacher at the top of her career in 2020---to take a step back and reconsider her entire career.  In this episode we talk about those big moves, impossible leaps of faith and terrifying risks, how the voice inside can tell us to burn it all down and how that is sometimes only sane thing to do, the difference between being rich in life and being rich on paper, and what kind of sacrifices we're really willing to make to live well and follow our hearts. About Sara Clark: Sara Clark is an international yoga and meditation teacher with over two decades of experience. She has been a Global Yoga Ambassador for lululemon, faculty at Kripalu and has graced the cover of Yoga Journal twice along with Prevention Magazine. Sara has created yoga and meditation videos for Shape Magazine, Yoga Today, and Glo. Known for her compassionate approach, Sara’s teachings merge the physical and spiritual practices of yoga with mindfulness and meditation techniques that support practitioners stepping into their limitless potential. You can find Sara at @saraclarkyoga or saraclarkyoga.com [http://saraclarkyoga.com/] Support us: Quitted is listener-supported, made possible by us and by you; you can support this podcast by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/quitted [http://patreon.com/quitted] Music: Michael Blumenfeld, mikebloomstudio.com [http://mikebloomstudio.com/] Sound engineering + edits: Adam Day, https://www.adamdayphotography.com/ [https://www.adamdayphotography.com/] Producer: Cathleen Kisich Host: Holly Whitaker, https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/ [https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/] Host: Emily McDowell, https://emilyonlife.com [https://emilyonlife.com/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.