The Culture Of It All
Your anti-diet sidekick and go-to resource as we explore what it really means to ditch diet culture whilst living life in a larger body. Your host, Melanie Knights will be sharing stories, busting diet culture myths, and breaking through the bullshit of the $72 billion diet industry.
Discussing topics such as anti-fatness, body liberation, body positivity, media representation, and intuitive eating. We will create a foundation for bodily autonomy, and take actionable steps to advocate for, and honour our own needs so that we can take up space, challenge weight stigma, and live a more confident, comfortable and joyful fat life!
The Culture Of It All
The Intersection of Diet, Hustle and Online Business Culture Part 2
In this episode, we continue our exploration of the intersection of diet culture, hustle culture, and online business. We’l continue to explore the paradoxical nature of these cultures and how they can negatively impact mental health. I’m sharing some stories of my personal experience “growing up” in the online business culture, and feeling like I never fit in and wanting to be successful in my own venture.
We also highlight the tendency to blame the consumer or client when desired results are not achieved, rather than questioning the effectiveness of the product or method. We explore spiritual bypassing and how this often leads to toxic positivity and a failure to address systemic oppression and privilege amongst online business coaching communities.
As always, we finish the episode with some journal prompts and reframes to help us deepen our personal anti-diet work.
Chapters:
06:53 Melanie's Journey To Starting An Online Business
09:59 Following The Rules & Fear Of Failure
13:28 Leaving The Business Coaching Bubble
19:41 Inflated Testimonials & Lack of Context
24:06 Selling The Next Best "Secret" & Marketing 'Pain Points'
28:04 Moving The Goalposts
32:46 Spiritual Bypassing, Toxic Positivity and Systemic Oppression in Online Business
34:49 Undermining Trust, Intuition & Autonomy
37:17 Ditching Diets & Online Business Coaching
38:36 Reclaiming Lost Parts of Myself
40:57 Anti diet journal prompt & reframe
43:30 Navigating the Online Space
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