This is the Listen to Your Body Podcast. I'm Steph Godro your host. Thank you so much for

tuning into this very off-the-cuff very low production value. Bonus episode, I guess I would call it I'm really grateful that

you're here I wanted to take some time and just chat with you about what's been going on in my life, what's going on with the show in the future

and the changes that I want to make and the things that I'm going to be committing to doing to making the

podcast more diverse equitable inclusive and anti-racist. So this is the 22nd of June and I haven't published a show in the last

three weeks I think we had three week a three week break and I had participated in the Amplify

millinated Voices challenge on Instagram at the beginning of June, learned so much and

that was giving me a lot of perspective I did a lot of and I'm still

doing a lot of internalized reflection and then also looking out into my

business and where I can do things better and I will be the first to say that I am not an anti-racism

educator or expert at all and in fact later on in this episode which will hopefully not go on too long

like I'm going to remind you to please go and learn from those people because they are dedicating their lives to this

work from their lived experiences and they are really the people who are the ones to learn from. But also I know that I am the voice of

this show or the host and oftentimes I am the sole voice

and it is also my responsibility

to bring people in to speak on ways in which systems of oppression intersect with things like health and wellness, which is part of what we do here or understand that diet culture, the roots of it are in white supremacy and fat phobia is a part of that and

anti blackness is a part of that and just to make that a point of awareness,

I think is one of the things I can do

with literally my ability to put this message out

and amplify voices of the people who are living these experiences,

especially at those intersections of their social identities.

So yes, if we're going to talk about and continue to talk about things like intuitive eating and diet culture and why we hate our bodies and how we can build more peaceful relationships with our bodies.

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