BBW - Big, Beautiful & Winning

Jodi Smith-Meisner details her journey into motherhood, as a mother who welcomed a daughter into the world 4-months premature.

Introduction to Season 3 of Big, Beautiful & Winning. This episode includes a teaser for what listeners can expect this season.

This is the series finale of Big, Beautiful & Winning - the Pregnancy. This episode recaps what the first three months as a mother is like, referring to this time as the fourth trimester of pregnancy. This episode also explores how Patience integrates womanhood and motherhood as a single woman.

This episode details my labour and delivery experience, complete with medical complications, racist and sexist microaggressions and other facets of the mother-making transformation that is giving birth.

This episode is about the shame associated with single motherhood.

All about birth planning for a first-time mom.

This episode is about the village that supports mothers as they bring a new life into this world... and what that looks and feels like from a millennial perspective.

This episode is about maternity leave and the financial aspects of planning to be off work after you have a baby.

Listeners should be advised of mature materials in this episode. Might not be something you want to listen to with your kids.

In this episode I share a piece of a recent conversation with my mom about names, and Nigerian traditions around babies.

In this episode Patience describes the process of learning the gender of her child and walks listeners through the initial disappointment she felt after learning that it was not what she expected.

This episode is an introduction to the 10-episode pregnancy series that will be featured on Big, Beautiful & Winning.

This episode was made with care while social distancing during COVID-19, it's about how to feel BBW while at home.

This episode is about culture and how it plays a role in the way we perceive our bodies.Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/science/who-is-fat-it-depends-on-culture.html

This episode we look at how bodies are read at work, paying special attention to professional athletes and how they’re bodies affect or distract people from their capability.Sabrina Razack is a subject matter expert in the intersections between Women, Sport, Media and Race, as a long-time educator Sabrina is particularly talented at creating curriculum guides. Sabrina latest curriculum guide can be found here: http://just2001.temp.domains/~teachbey/changing-the-game-women-race-sport-media/

This episode is about how we initially form intimate relationships with our bodies in the Physical Education/Gym classes and environments made available to us in our elementary and secondary schools. It features an interview with Sabrina Razack, a Physical Education subject matter expert and someone who has served as an educator for over a decade.It is an important conversation and context-setter for those who are unfamiliar with the issues.

I knew at the beginning of the season that I was going to dedicate two episodes to big women who have simply changed the game. So this episode will have all the regular segments, but centered on Mindy Kaling.Mindy Kaling is the EPITOME of changing the game. Sources:https://www.npr.org/2014/10/16/356390794/comedian-mindy-kaling-on-refusing-to-be-an-outsider-and-sexism-on-sethttps://parade.com/167806/shawnamalcom/thoroughly-modern-mindy-kalings-house-rules/

This episode is about how big has become sexy. I attempt to connect the sex appeal of the Kardashians with the love of butts in Brazil and we have fun with it. Closer to the end of the episode I show my appreciation for Ashley Graham and problematize Mattel's production of Barbie.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/nov/19/butt-seriously-how-bottoms-became-a-fitness-obsessionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37009138

Everyone says I have so many clothes, but what they don't realize is that I have certain clothes I wear when I'm a bit smaller and others that I wear when I'm super bloated. This episode is about the challenges of clothing when you are bigger than the average Jane.

An episode about how even being curvy has become so specific to and oppressive of different bodies.