Big Curvy Love: A Plus Size Podcast

Reigning Miss Fuller Woman Canada 2016, Vanessa Nash-Gale joins us on the Big Curvy Love podcast to talk plus size beauty pageants. Her day job is working as a professional hair stylist and makeup artist in Toronto so we can only image at night she wears her crown and does fabulous things dancing around in her undies being the plus size beauty queen she is.  

Roz the Diva is a professional plus size pole dancer and instructor. She was featured on season 10 of America’s Got Talent where Howard Stern said she was too fat to have a career in fitness and didn’t know why anyone would want to hire you. Well we know exactly why. She is amazing and there is so much more to her story than pole dancing. Roz has a degree in business, is a professional stunt woman and is the founder of Dangerous Curves. She is a personal trainer and group fitness instructor who is rocking it in New York City. If you want to know about pole dancing for plus size women this episode is a must. 

Award-winning plus size burlesque performer, Lillian Bustle talks us through the art form, what we can expect to learn in our first burlesque class and what it takes to make those sparkly costumes. Lillian says she takes off her clothes artistically in front of crowds, which has taught her to love her body. You might have seen her TEDx talk Stripping Away Negative Body Image or heard her as the co-host of The Body PosCast.  

This episode we chat with plus size supermodel Liris Crosse, who I now have a girl crush on because she is straight talking and awesome. She’s paved her own way in the plus size modeling business and been working for a solid decade. You might have seen her in Vogue and Cosmopolitan magazines as well as in the Lane Bryant & Ashley Stewart campaigns. I loved seeing her on the Project Runway finale last year walking in Ashley Nell Tipton's clothes at New York Fashion Week.  In 2014 Liris created her Life Of A Working Model Bootcamp course. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it really takes to break into the modeling industry and get paid, then this is an amazing episode that talks a whole lot of truth. You'll also hear shout outs to Gwynnie Bee, Eloqui, Torrid, Tess Holliday, Plus Model Magazine, Full Figured Fashion Week, and  Fashion to Figure.

Amy Pence-Brown stripped half naked, stood blindfolded wearing a black bikini at a farmers market in Boise, Idaho. She asked strangers to draw a heart on her body in support of self-acceptance. That video went viral and has been viewed more than 150 million times. This episode of the Big Curvy Love podcast we interviewAmy Pence-Brown s who is a body image activist, fat feminist and mother who believes in telling a powerful story of vulnerability, courage, and body positivity as well as taking a stand for something you believe in.