Podcasts about beauty sick

Why do so many girls and women feel like they’re never “enough” when it comes to their appearance? In this powerful episode, Dr. Renee Engeln, author of Beauty Sick, joins Justin Coulson to explore the deep-rooted cultural obsession with beauty that shapes how girls and women see themselves. From five-year-olds already worrying about dieting to teens tying their self-worth to their looks, we discuss how self-objectification, social media, and unrealistic beauty standards impact mental health and self-esteem—and, more importantly, how we can help the next generation break free from beauty sickness. KEY POINTS: How self-objectification starts young—why even five-year-olds worry about their bodies. The role of social media in reinforcing beauty standards and distorting self-worth. Why puberty makes body image issues worse for girls while often benefiting boys. The pressures of perfection on women—from “mum jeans” to Botox and beyond. The hidden costs of beauty obsession—lost time, lost opportunities, and lifelong insecurity. How parents unintentionally reinforce body image struggles (and how to change that). The power of focusing on what bodies can do, rather than how they look. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: "We may no longer play dress-ups and pose in front of the mirror like young girls do, but I worry that’s only because we’ve internalised that mirror—we never actually left it behind." – Dr. Renee Engeln RESOURCES MENTIONED: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Dr. Renee Engeln Dr. Engeln’s TEDx Talk The End of Average by Todd Rose Beauty Sick Website—More on Dr. Engeln’s research Happy Families Website—Parenting resources Enough: A Session for Young Girls [Webinar] The Miss-Connection Summit [On sale!] ACTION STEPS FOR PARENTS: Create an “appearance-free” zone at home—focus conversations on interests, achievements, and values, not looks. Model self-acceptance—avoid negative self-talk about your own body in front of your kids. Encourage body functionality—celebrate what bodies can do, like running, dancing, creating, and learning. Audit social media—help your child follow diverse, inspiring accounts rather than beauty-focused ones. Talk about the beauty industry’s influence—help kids see how companies profit from insecurities. Give your teen a cause—channel their energy into fighting beauty standards, rather than succumbing to them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Quiconque né dans les années 80 se souvient d'avoir vu cette pub à la télé : Cindy Crawford sortant en minishort en jean d'une Lamborghini rouge, se dirigeant langoureusement vers un distributeur Pepsi, avant de s'enfiler une canette d'un trait sous un soleil de plomb. Grâce à ces images notamment, mais aussi grâce à son corps athlétique et son regard de braise, le mannequin américain est devenu au fil du temps la plus glamour des supermodels.  Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des top models, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Cindy Crawford a-t-elle gravi les échelons de l'industrie de la mode si rapidement ? À quel point, avec son brushing parfait et son grain de beauté au coin de la bouche, elle a influencé la pop culture ? Et enfin comment a-t-elle transmis à ces enfants, tous les deux mannequins aujourd'hui, cette réussite par la beauté ?   Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :   Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women  Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode. Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.      Cet épisode de Scandales est à retrouver sur toutes vos plateformes : Apple Podcasts,  Spotify, Deezer et Amazon Music.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Elle est considérée comme le premier membre du clan des supermodels. C'est d'ailleurs elle qui a fait le plus de couvertures de magazines : plus de 700... Linda Evangelista pouvait se métamorphoser en n'importe quelle femme, pour n'importe quel shooting, n'importe quel couturier… De manière tristement ironique, c'est une opération de chirurgie esthétique ratée qui l'a plus tard “défigurée”, selon ses propres mots.    Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Linda Evangelista a été repérée, encore adolescente, par Karl Lagerfeld ? Dans quelle mesure ses histoires d'amour ont fait - beaucoup - parler d'elle ? À quel moment son rêve a viré au cauchemar, après uneintervention de cryolipolyse ? Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :  - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse etcréatrice du Body & MediaLab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women  - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode. - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.  Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.    Cet épisode de Scandales est à retrouver sur toutes vos plateformes : Apple Podcasts,  Spotify, Deezer et Amazon Music.  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Elle a 14 ans quand elle est découverte au détour d'une rue à Londres. Quarante ans plus tard, sa carrière est juste phénoménale. Naomi Campbell est l'une des six supermodels qui ont complètement transfiguré les podiums des défilés dans les années 1990. Au côté de Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington et Tatjana Patitz. Au-delà de sa beauté inébranlable, elle a aussi la réputation d'une femme connue pour ses colères terribles.   Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Naomi Campbell a-t-elle réussi à s'imposer dans une industrie à l'époque peu ouverte à la diversité ? Et qu'a-t-elle fait pour mériter l'image de plus grande diva de la mode ?    Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :  - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women  - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode. - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.  Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.      Cet épisode de Scandales est à retrouver sur toutes vos plateformes : Apple Podcasts,  Spotify, Deezer et Amazon Music.  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Supermodel. Le terme est apparu dans les années 90, et renvoie à ce groupe très restreint de mannequins féminins de l'époque, extrêmement bien payées, ultra prisées par les maisons de couture, et jouissant d'une aura mondiale. Alors il y a Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Eva et la plus célèbre de l'époque, peut-être,…Claudia. Claudia Schiffer. Elle débarque sur les shootings à 20 ans, elle est allemande, elle mesure 1,80m, et ses mensurations sont loin de l'ultra minceur prisée ces dernières années... Les femmes l'admirent, et les hommes en rêvent. A l'époque, c'est le magicien David Copperfield qui conquiert son cœur et tout ce qu'on peut dire, c'est qu'on ne s'y attendait pas.  Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté étaient toute puissante. Comment Claudia Schiffer est devenue cette icône de mode incontestée qui hystérisait les foules ? Comment est né son couple inattendu avec David Copperfield, qui a donné lieu  au fil du temps à moult étranges rumeurs ?  Pour répondre à ces questions, se succèdent à son micro :  - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women  - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode. - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.  Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.  Cet épisode de Scandales est à retrouver sur toutes vos plateformes : Apple Podcasts,  Spotify, Deezer et Amazon Music.  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

I'm really excited to bring you this conversation today about a book that came out in 2017 called Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Dr. Renee Engeln. In the book, Dr. Engeln introduces us to beauty sick culture and what it feels like and looks like for women and girls. She writes in the book “How might women's lives be different if they book the energy and concern aimed at their own appearance and aimed it out at the world instead?” If women didn't have to worry about this, think of all we could get done. The desire to be thin and pretty, to be the beauty ideal, seems to affect girls younger and younger, and in Beauty Sick Dr. Engeln introduces us to what she calls the “tyranny of the mirror,” and writes that looks shouldn't matter—but they do. Beauty is used as a source of power for women, and girls learn that the most important asset they possess is their physical beauty. We don't teach boys and men this same lesson. Beauty, Dr. Engeln writes, is a weak and temporary power, and beauty sickness is a barrier to gender equality, where we see women as objects instead of human beings. Today we talk about how social media has played into this, how beauty sickness revolves around shame, how it attacks women's mental and emotional well-being and their financial well-being, as well, and how we should, in her words, “turn away from the mirror to face the world.” Dr. Engeln writes that she's looking for “a culture that sees women not as objects to be looked at, but as human beings who are ready and able to change the world in remarkable ways,” and so am I. Dr. Engeln's TEDx talk on beauty sickness received more than 700,000 views and reveals the shocking consequences of our obsession with girls' appearance, including depression, eating disorders, disruptions in cognitive processing, and lost money and time. This book combines scientific studies and the voices of real women of all ages, and I'm really excited to introduce you to Dr. Engeln, who has been a professor for 15 years at Northwestern, where she teaches about psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social psychology, and the psychology of human beauty. In addition to publishing numerous empirical journal articles and presenting at academic conferences on body image, media, and the objectification of women, Dr. Engeln presents talks on these topics to groups around the country and is regularly interviewed by media outlets, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Today.com, The Huffington Post, and more. At Northwestern, her lab, The Body and Media Lab, conducts research exploring issues surrounding women's body images, with a particular emphasis on cultural practices that create or enforce the frequently contentious relationship women have with their bodies. Take a listen to this compelling conversation.   Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Dr. Renee Engeln

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when I say the word acceptance?  As in accepting who you are and accepting your body, right here, right now? For many if not most people, the thought of acceptance brings up parts saying, "No!  I won't give up!"  Or, "I can't acceptance myself the way I am--I'm not good enough." Yeah....acceptance is really hard....Which is why we're discussing it on this week's podcast. First, let me just say that I think working toward acceptance needs to happen on multiple fronts, because there are numerous factors that contribute to the negative feelings so many of us have toward our bodies.  How we feel about our bodies is shaped by how we personally experience them, how others treat them, the messages we get about them, how they function, how much they differ from others--the list goes on and on.  I can't cover all of that on just one podcast--it would be 57 hours long.    So on this week's episode, we're just focusing on one factor that contributes to our negative body image and our difficulty accepting ourselves.  And I think it's one of the main factors:  the beauty industry.  Thanks to the beauty industry, most of us have spent time, energy, and money focused on our appearance.  And it's really impacted how we feel about ourselves and our bodies (and others' bodies) in an extremely negative way. In this episode, I'm sharing a lot of research completed by Dr. Renee Engeln, a psychologist who focuses on what she calls the "Beauty Game."  She wrote a fantastic book called "Beauty Sick:  How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women" that's chock full of information on this topic.  She's also done a couple of TED Talks on the subject, and she contributes regular articles to Psychology Today.   Just to give you a little idea of what we're up against, here are some research findings on the topic: 34% of five-year-old girls engage in deliberate dietary restraint at least sometimes (yes, you read that right--five-year-old girls) Between the ages of five and nine, 40% of girls say they wish they were thinner Almost one-third of third-grade girls report they are “always” afraid of becoming fat By age 13, girls report significantly more body shame than boys In the United States 69-84% of women experience body dissatisfaction, desiring to be a lower weight than they currently are Unfortunately, all of that isn't even the half of it.  The bad news goes on and on and on and on.  The beauty industry (and the diet industry) have wreaked so much havoc on women in particular that it's no wonder we have such a hard time feeling good about ourselves.   Here's a quote by Dr. Engeln that speaks to some of this:   "The more easily identifiable you are as a woman, the more you will be objectified. The more you are objectified, the more your body will begin to feel like a performance piece instead of the home in which you live." Our bodies should feel like our homes.  We should want to care for and nourish them well.  But thanks to the pressures we experience about our appearance, we often don't.   My hope in focusing on this topic is that parts of you will really start realizing that any negative thoughts and feelings you have about your body and your appearance are not authentic to you.  They're internalized messages from our appearance-obsessed culture.  They're learned.  Which means they can be unlearned. So, on this week's podcast we're looking at lots of research, and we're also talking about: What acceptance actually IS (it's NOT just giving up) What the "Beauty Game" is (defined by Dr. Engeln as a collection of cultural pressures that make women feel like all that matters is how they look) The impact of the media on our self-image The link between beauty and power I also give you ten ways to start working toward exiting the Beauty Game and working toward acceptance.   I'm not gonna lie--I personally think this is an important episode, because so many of our parts think that the negativity we feel toward ourselves is justified and valid.  IT'S NOT.  It's been cultivated by an industry that makes tons of money off of our insecurity.  I think it's incredibly important for your parts to have the correct information on this, so I hope you'll take a listen!  Check it out! Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Thinness Hurts Girls and Women Dr. Engeln's Psychology Today articles The Beauty Game TED Talk An Epidemic of Beauty Sickness TED Talk Where to Find Me: drkimdaniels.com Instagram TikTok

Our culture is OBSESSED with female bodies and their appearance making us all “beauty sick.” From constricting clothes to anti-aging skincare products, beauty culture eats up our precious time, money, and energy. This is an eye-opening and deeply-relatable discussion with Dr. Renee Engeln about “beauty sickness,” the disease that plagues so many women (to no fault of their own). You will learn about... - what the research shows about beauty culture and objectification of women - the performative aspects of femininity - the psychological effects of aging in a beauty-obsessed society - how we can fight off beauty sickness both individually and collectively Renee Engeln, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, is the author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. Her lab (The Body and Media Lab, a.k.a. “BAM”) conducts research exploring issues surrounding women's body images, with a particular emphasis on cultural practices that create or enforce the frequently contentious relationship women have with their bodies. The research, which has appeared in numerous academic journals, focuses on Objectification Theory, Fat Talk, and Idealized Media Images. She is regularly interviewed by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, BBC, the Huffington Post, and other national media. Her TEDx talk has over 800,000 views on YouTube. Remember: Though we won't heal from beauty sickness overnight, we have the power to minimize how much we participate in it. Get Dr. Renee's book, Beauty Sick: https://amzn.to/4c67da9 Learn more about Dr. Renee's Body and Media Lab: http://bodyandmedia.com Watch Dr. Renee's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XsokRPV_Y And if you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @beauty_sick Mentioned In This Episode... Ep. 18, Mary's first interview with Dr. Renee: https://open.spotify.com/episode/155JFBTBxSGCCA2UMK12qk?si=gWFYNVAjQxu2S2J8j69Z-w

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Quiconque né dans les années 80 se souvient d'avoir vu cette pub à la télé : Cindy Crawford sortant en minishort en jean d'une Lamborghini rouge, se dirigeant langoureusement vers un distributeur Pepsi, avant de s'enfiler une canette d'un trait sous un soleil de plomb. Grâce à ces images notamment, mais aussi grâce à son corps athlétique et son regard de braise, le mannequin américain est devenu au fil du temps la plus glamour des supermodels.   Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des top models, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Cindy Crawford a-t-elle gravi les échelons de l'industrie de la mode si rapidement ? À quel point, avec son brushing parfait et son grain de beauté au coin de la bouche, elle a influencé la pop culture ? Et enfin comment a-t-elle transmis à ces enfants, tous les deux mannequins aujourd'hui, cette réussite par la beauté ?     Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :    Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women   Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode  Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode.  Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève. Cet épisode intitulé «Linda Evangelista : dans l'enfer de la chirurgie esthétique» est diffusé sur les toutes les plateformes, dont Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify à partir du 2 octobre 2023. Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.       

Elle est considérée comme le premier membre du clan des supermodels. C'est d'ailleurs elle qui a fait le plus de couvertures de magazines : plus de 700... Linda Evangelista pouvait se métamorphoser en n'importe quelle femme, pour n'importe quel shooting, n'importe quel couturier… De manière tristement ironique, c'est une opération de chirurgie esthétique ratée qui l'a plus tard “défigurée”, selon ses propres mots.      Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Linda Evangelista a été repérée, encore adolescente, par Karl Lagerfeld ? Dans quelle mesure ses histoires d'amour ont fait - beaucoup - parler d'elle ? À quel moment son rêve a viré au cauchemar, après une intervention de cryolipolyse ?     Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :   - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & MediaLab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women   - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode  - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode.  - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.   Cet épisode intitulé «Linda Evangelista : dans l'enfer de la chirurgie esthétique» est diffusé sur les toutes les plateformes, dont Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify à partir du 25 septembre 2023. Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.      

Elle a 14 ans quand elle est découverte au détour d'une rue à Londres. Quarante ans plus tard, sa carrière est juste phénoménale. Naomi Campbell est l'une des six supermodels qui ont complètement transfiguré les podiums des défilés dans les années 1990. Au côté de Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington et Tatjana Patitz. Au-delà de sa beauté inébranlable, elle a aussi la réputation d'une femme connue pour ses colères terribles.     Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté était toute puissante. Comment Naomi Campbell a-t-elle réussi à s'imposer dans une industrie à l'époque peu ouverte à la diversité ? Et qu'a-t-elle fait pour mériter l'image de plus grande diva de la mode ?      Au micro de la journaliste se succèdent :   - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women   - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode  - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode.  - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.   Cet épisode intitulé «Naomi Campbell, un destin hors du commun» est diffusé sur les toutes les plateformes, dont Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify à partir du 18 septembre 2023. Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.      

I've been talking to women my age about aging, and I learned that women start to feel invisible as they age. Invisible Women's Syndrome is a real thing that affects women around menopause age. They feel compelled to engage in beauty work to combat aging. But this creates a tension between being physically and socially visible by looking youthful and the realities of growing older. In other words, social (IN visibility) arises from recognizing signs of aging and reinforces ageist, sexist perceptions of older women's bodies.Books My Body https://www.amazon.com/My-Body-Emily-Ratajkowski/dp/1250848938/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NNFMOWY35V8Q&keywords=My+Body+by+Emily+Ratajkowski&qid=1692740315&s=books&sprefix=my+body+by+emily+ratajkowski+%2Cstripbooks%2C107&sr=1-1 Beauty Sick, How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Sick-Cultural-Obsession-Appearance/dp/0062469789/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NQ90EZHH5PHO&keywords=Beauty+Sick%2C+How+the+Cultural+Obsession+with+Appearance+Hurts+Girls+and+Women.&qid=1692740269&s=books&sprefix=beauty+sick%2C+how+the+cultural+obsession+with+appearance+hurts+girls+and+women.+%2Cstripbooks%2C106&sr=1-1

Supermodel. Le terme est apparu dans les années 90, et renvoie à ce groupe très restreint de mannequins féminins de l'époque, extrêmement bien payées, ultra prisées par les maisons de couture, et jouissant d'une aura mondiale. Alors il y a Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Eva et la plus célèbre de l'époque, peut-être,…Claudia. Claudia Schiffer. Elle débarque sur les shootings à 20 ans, elle est allemande, elle mesure 1,80m, et ses mensurations sont loin de l'ultra minceur prisée ces dernières années... Les femmes l'admirent, et les hommes en rêvent. A l'époque, c'est le magicien David Copperfield qui conquiert son cœur et tout ce qu'on peut dire, c'est qu'on ne s'y attendait pas.  Dans cette mini-série consacrée à la vie privée des supermodels, la journaliste Marie Salah vous emmène à la fin du siècle dernier, là où ces femmes régnaient sur les podiums et où leur beauté étaient toute puissante. Comment Claudia Schiffer est devenue cette icône de mode incontestée qui hystérisait les foules ? Comment est né son couple inattendu avec David Copperfield, qui a donné lieu  au fil du temps à moult étranges rumeurs ?  Pour répondre à ces questions, se succèdent à son micro :   - Renee Engeln, professeure à la Northeastern university of Chicago, chercheuse et créatrice du Body & Media Lab, auteure de Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women   - Audrey Millet, historienne, chercheuse au CNRS et experte en écosystème de la mode française. Auteure de Le Livre noir de la mode  - Nathalie Cros-Coitton, ancienne directrice booking chez Élite, présidente de la Fédération française de mannequins. Auteure de Catwalk : itinéraire d'une femme de mode.  - Valérie Gorin, sociologue des médias à l'Université de Genève.   Cet épisode intitulé «Claudia Schiffer : son improbable histoire d'amour avec David Copperfield» est diffusé sur les toutes les plateformes, dont Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify à partir du 11 septembre 2023. Scandales est un podcast de Madame Figaro, écrit et présenté par Marie Salah, et produit par Lucile Rousseau-Garcia. Océane Ciuni est la responsable éditoriale de Scandales, un podcast produit par Louie Créative, l'agence de contenus audios de Louie Média.     

Is body image a big issue in your home? You're not alone! Listen in for simple ways to help your children have positive body image! "Beauty Sick" by Renee Engeln Astonishing statistics Body image and teenage girls  Nature vs society's ideal Peer vs parental influence What determines our innate worth? What to focus on instead of body image "I like myself" by Karen Beaumont "Misconnection: Why your teenage daughter "hates" you, expects the world, and needs to talk" by Justin Coulson    Find us on Facebook at Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families Email us your questions and comments at podcasts@happyfamilies.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danielle Robay is a TV host and journalist, currently the host of E!'s While You Were Streaming. She is creator of the video podcast PRETTYSMART, and the best selling card game QUESTION EVERYTHING: 52 Cards For Deep(er) Conversation, noted by Forbes as a “game changer”. Previously, you may have seen Danielle on IMDb, NBC, E!, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight Online, HLN's Dr. Drew, The Steve Harvey Show and NBC's 1st Look, and Defy Media where her daily news segments and interviews received over 100 million views a month online. Today on the show we discuss: why reframing negative thoughts is essential for building confidence, why self validation is crucial for personal growth, the power of fitness for improving mental health, why having the right relationships can boost how you feel about yourself, how she transformed her relationship with self judgment  and more.    Thanks to today's sponsor:   Just Thrive: https://justthrivehealth.com/ Use Promo code "Doug" at checkout to receive 20% off your order     What to Listen For: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Dealing with judgment  03:58 Judgment vs. criticism  06:03 “Beauty Sick” 09:11 Your insides must match your outsides 10:52 Saying no with “love” 17:16 What is external validation? 19:12 Blending career and identity   24:21 Learning from Larry King 25:29 Asking yourself great questions lead to personal growth 28:11 Why being “hard on yourself” is a good thing 31:39 Avoiding the comparison trap 35:56 My battle with body image 41:34 Having a healthier relationship with external validation 44:39 What helps Danielle build confidence? 50:00 Friendship cleanse 54:26 We play Danielle's card game LIVE!       Episode Resources: Danielle | Website, Instagram       ⚠ WELLNESS DISCLAIMER ⚠ Please be advised; the topics related to health and mental health in my content are for informational, discussion, and entertainment purposes only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health or mental health professional or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding your current condition. Never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard from your favorite creator, on social media, or shared within content you've consumed. If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. If you do not have a health professional who is able to assist you, use these resources to find help: Emergency Medical Services—911 If the situation is potentially life-threatening, get immediate emergency assistance by calling 911, available 24 hours a day. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org.  SAMHSA addiction and mental health treatment Referral Helpline, 1-877-SAMHSA7 (1-877-726-4727) and https://www.samhsa.gov and https://www.samhsa.gov  

Zainspirowana książką "Beauty Sick" zapytałam dziewczyn na IG - czy czują się piękne. Odpowiedzi mnie ZSZOKOWAŁY do tego stopnia, że aż się popłakałam. W podcastcie czytam Wasze odpowiedzi, mówię o tym, jak wygląda to u mnie i jak moim zdaniem, możemy poprawić swoją pewność siebie. PS: Bardzo dziękuje za tak dobre przyjęcie podcastu! ❤️ PS2: spot o którym wspominam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrWF_myE4nI Całusy :* --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glowuppodcast/message

Today, we'll be talking about body image- a healthy body image and how it can be disturbed, the media's effect on body image, and what parents can do to help their children love their bodies.Joining us is Dr. Renee Engeln, professor of psychology at Northwestern University and author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women.The interview answers the following questions.You run the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern. Could you tell us your focus and work there? Body image- definition. What's a healthy body image?When and how might one's body image be skewed/altered? Social media/culture/etc.?Are there certain groups of individuals- ages, gender identities, orientations- who appear to have higher rates of “body image disturbance”? Why?Beauty SickBeauty Sick: “After researching women's battles with beauty for years, I can confidently tell you that girls and women who struggle to feel at home in their bodies are not some odd subculture of America. They are our daughters, our sisters, our students, our friends, our partners, and our loved ones.”“Beauty sickness is what happens when women's emotional energy gets so bound up with what they see in the mirror that it becomes harder for them to see other aspects of their lives.”Manifestations of beauty sickness, who, etc? Why for women? Other individuals?CAUSES of Beauty SicknessParents, Peers, MediaWhat's the answer/remedy? What can parents say or do to nip this in the bud for children (youth, teens) so they don't head down the wrong road? Tips?

Mais uma edição de Livra-te D'Ouro, desta vez também com direito a lista de Piores do Ano. 2022 foi fértil em favoritos para a vida e será um ano para recordar. 2023, estamos de olho em ti, ok? - Dear Dolly: on Love, Life and Friendship, Dolly Alderton (5:01) - The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (6:33) - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (8:52) - A Breve Vida das Flores, Valérie Perrin (10:10) - My Policeman, Bethan Roberts (11:47) - Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (14:43) - Funny Feelings, Tarah Dewitt (16:19) - Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski (18:26) - Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors (20:40) - The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (23:46) - Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn (25:33) - Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (27:50) - Book Lovers, Emily Henry (31:13) - Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (32:45) - Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson (34:24) - Carrie Sotto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid (36:09) - Lizzie & Dante, Mary Bly (37:51) - Heartstopper, Alice Oseman (39:43) - The Dinner List, Rebecca Serle (40:35) - Circe, Madeline Miller (41:14) - This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar e Max Gladstone (41:41) - How to Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie (42:46) - The Roughest Draft, Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka (43:31) - His Best Friend's Little Sister, Vivian Wood (44:02) - Daddy in Demand, Muriel Jensen (44:56) - To Hate Adam Connor, Ella Maise (45:25) - Reminders of Him, Colleen Hoover (46:20) - Para Interromper o Amor, Mónica Marques (46:46) - Tombos, Eunice Maciel (47:33) - Her Villains, Jade Presley (48:52) - A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (49:29) - Icebreaker, Hannah Grace (50:03) - Loveless, Alice Oseman (51:13) - Accidentally Amy, Lynn Painter (52:07) - A Sibila, Agustina Bessa-Luis (53:28) - Breathless, Jennifer Niven (53:52) - Beauty Sick, Renee Engeln (54:19) Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Juntem-se ao nosso Discord em: https://discord.gg/aRR7B2dfBT. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova/ twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova [a imagem do podcast é da autoria da maravilhosa, incrível e talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com]

"I don't want my kids to struggle with food and their body in the same way that I have." I hear this sentiment all the time in my health coaching practice so when Dr. Shefali agreed to come onto the show I knew I wanted to dive deep into the topic with her. Dr. Shefali is an expert in family dynamics and personal development, teaching courses around the globe and hanging with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Lewis Howes, Jay Shetty and many other thought leaders. She has written four books, three of which are New York Times best-sellers, including her two landmark books The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family.  In this episode, Dr. Shefali talks about how to navigate difficult body image moments with your kids and shares the best way to ensure your kids don't have the same struggle with food and body image that you do. She also shares a concept to help reduce the grip of MOM GUILT, something many of us struggle with as parents. PRESS PLAY and listen to the end for Erin's recap of the episode! Join Dr. Shefali in Vancouver on November 16th for her renowned workshop, "Conscious Parenting with Dr. Shefali". Tickets HERE. Use code : FRIENDSYVR for $25 off.

54% of women say they would rather be hit by a car than considered fat. How can we strike the balance of realistically caring how we look, and not having to care about how we look? Danielle + Dr. Renee Engeln, award winning psychology professor at Northwestern University and the author of Beauty Sick break down society's fixation with PRETTY.  Engeln reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives. She offers the possibility of practical solutions that help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and, ultimately, change their world. This is the author and book that inspired the PRETTYSMART podcast!  Produced by Dear Media.

Body Image Bandaids for a Beauty Sick World with Renee Engeln   Meet Renee… An award-winning psych professor at Northwestern University, Director of The Body and Media Lab, author of Beauty Sick and a TEDx Talk speaker whose research on body image with an emphasis on how cultural forces shape our views of our bodies […]

Body Image Bandaids for a Beauty Sick World with Renee Engeln  Meet Renee… An award-winning psych professor at Northwestern University, Director of The Body and Media Lab, author of Beauty Sick and a TEDx Talk speaker whose research on body image with...

Anyone feeling some sort of way about their bodies these days (or every day)??? If so, this episode is for you. Today, Karen & Katie chat with the incredible Dr. Renee Englen, Northwestern psychology professor & leading body acceptance researcher about ALL things related to body image.

El peso, el cuerpo y ¿la salud?En este episodio Andrea habla sobre llegar a un “número histórico” de peso y pide historias / consejos de Karla y Marisol para saber cómo sobrellevan estos retos de la vida. Sobre todo en cómo superar el número en la báscula para pensar en la salud. Y sale la frase célebre de Karla “¡SOY EL CRUZ AZUL DE LAS DIETAS!”¿A ustedes les ha pasado esto? ¿Cómo encuentran el balance entre la aceptación y la salud? Es un tema difícil.Menciones en el episodio: Abitu, Sylvia Sclavo y Nutri Spot Mx, Kelth, La Consultoría, Beauty Sick

The conversation in this episode is about body image. It's a huge topic, so we decided to start by focusing on what our bodies can do more than what they look like. The three talking points include:  What is body checking and why it's harmful Body checking is monitoring yourself from an outsider's perspective even if no one else is looking Body checking hurts us because we aren't fully present in anything that we're doing.  How to reduce body checking.  Focusing on experiencing life in our bodies rather that how our bodies look while we're doing things Ideas on how to reduce body checking Why the types of compliments we give matter Compliments on bodies bring attention to our bodies Ideas for non-appearance based compliments   RESOURCES:  Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Renee Engeln https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Sick-Cultural-Obsession-Appearance/dp/B06XBPP6GW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=beauty+sick&qid=1587772913&sr=8-1 An Epidemic of Beauty Sickness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XsokRPV_Y Body Positivity or Body Obsession? Learning to See More & Be More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDowwh0EU4w

Okay I am seriously freaking out (in a good way) about this episode because you know that book I keep recommending to you called “Beauty Sick”??? Well, the author of that very book is joining us today on the podcast to talk about beauty sickness- what it is and how we can combat it. Our culture is OBSESSED with appearance, more particularly, women’s appearance. So many of us feel like we are not good enough unless we look a certain way, whether that be a certain weight, body size/shape, or simply our makeup and outfit choices. It’s EXHAUSTING to constantly feel like that. Dr. Renee teaches us how we can stop being so focused on our appearance so that we can finally live free. Renee Engeln is a psychology professor and director of the “Body and Media Lab” atNorthwestern University. Her research and writing focus on issues surrounding women’s body images, with an emphasis on how cultural forces shape the relationship women have with their bodies. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and at academic conferences. She is regularly interviewed by media outlets, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Vox, and HuffPost. Her TEDx talk has garnered over half a million views. Get Dr. Renee’s book! It’s called Beauty Sick and it has CHANGED. MY. LIFE. You can also find her on Instagram as @beauty_sick and her research can be found at bodyandmedia.com

This is the second part of my interview with Vania Phitidis about Beauty Sick. This book was so good and so eye-opening that I could not cut any of it. In this episode we continue our discussion and cover: * The importance of having support on a body acceptance journey * What Beauty Sick means * The cause and perpetrators of beauty sickness * The negative power of symbolic annihilation * How social media perpetuates the cycle of body monitoring * The inversion effect and how this impacts the way we see women * What we can do to combat beauty sickness * How media literacy is not actually helpful * How being a feminist is not protection against beauty sickness * The reason why body connection is so important

My discussion with Vania Phitidis about this amazing book went long. I didn't want to cut it so in another first for this podcast, I am releasing this conversation in two parts. In this part of the conversation we: Discuss Vania's body acceptance journey Talk about the turning point and the pivot that helped her to break up with diet culture Dive deep into health as a value Hear about how Vania's beauty routine has changed over the years Get into the importance of having support I love this conversation and I know you will too. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast to get the second part the minute it is released.

In today's episode, I interview author and professor, Dr. Renee Engeln. She wrote one of my favorite books for healing body image called Beauty Sick. Topic's we cover: What is Beauty Sickness, how shame is not motivating, the problems with girls and women's fashion, how our obsession with appearance hurts us and what we can do about, aging and so much more. Dr. Renee Engeln is a psychology professor and director of the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is regularly interviewed by media outlets, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, and the Huffington Post. Her TedX talk at the University of Connecticut has garnered over half a million views. An award-winning professor, Dr. Engeln has been voted to the “faculty honor roll” for eight consecutive years at Northwestern University. Instagram: beauty_sick beautysick.com bodyandmedia.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode we’re giving you 5 ways to feel better about your body - without needing it to change first! Cultivating a positive body image isn’t about how you look - it’s about how you decide to think, feel, and act toward yourself. These strategies will improve your body image no matter what you look like. Make sure to catch our free webinar, How to Get Rid of Food Guilt: Why You Feel Guilty, How It Affects You, and What to do to Free Yourself. Get all the details + the link to watch at eatconfident.co/foodguilt. We’ll be sharing our 4-step process for getting rid of food guilt, and we know it will help you on your journey to becoming a Confident Eater. We’ll see you there! Links mentioned in this episode: Free webinar about food guilt: eatconfident.co/foodguilt Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln: https://amzn.to/37UJrwx Subscribe + Review in iTunes Are you subscribed to the podcast? If not, we want to encourage you to do that today so you don't miss an episode! We'd also be so grateful if you'd leave us a review over on iTunes. Those reviews aren't just fun for us to read...they also help other people find the podcast. We'd love to hear how the podcast has helped you, and we appreciate you listening!

I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor, Psychologist, and author of Beauty Sick, Renee Engeln, Ph.D.  We had a chat about how branding feeds the beauty sickness in our culture and how to fight back. Branding runs the show when it comes to beauty sickness and body image...but as usual, there is hope.    “It's hard to change the world when you're so busy trying to change your body, your skin, your hair, and your clothes. It's difficult to engage with the state of the economy, the state of politics or the state of our education system if you're too busy worrying about the state of your muffin top, the state of your cellulite or the state of your makeup. There is work to be done in this world. Leaving the world in better shape than how you found it is more important than the shape of your body.”  Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln, Ph.D

You are what you eat, the saying goes, and this idea is especially true for the content you consume. If all you follow are reality show celebrities or appearance-obsessed influencers, you’re not going to feel too great about yourself. But if you follow the advice of this week’s guest, Danielle Robay, currently a correspondent for NBC and formerly the youngest TV host in Chicago, you’ll take a more intentional approach to find content that helps you learn and grow.Danielle wants to be the millennial Barbara Walters and she’s well on her way. She talks to Jacq about her moment with Billy Porter at the Emmys, how the “Me Too” movement is shaking out in her industry, and why she left a lucrative dream job when she found out her male cohost made a third more than she did.If you’ve been feeling stuck, Danielle has great advice: take the leap and the net will appear.[00:10] - This week: Danielle Robay[01:42] - Constant evolution [03:13] - The mirror of pop culture [05:56] - Being the youngest TV host in Chicago[08:46] - Making women's voices heard[12:18] - Changes since the “Me Too” movement[15:33] - Current projects[16:35] - Beauty Sick [20:18] - The titan of cerebral entertainment[21:20] - Instagram clean-out[22:49] - Favorite interviews[24:21] - The Morning Show[28:49] - Take the leap[33:16] - Who is Danielle's Inner babe?Danielle Robay is a correspondent for NBC Los Angeles and formerly co-host of The Jam morning show in Chicago. At the time, she was the youngest morning TV host in Chicago. Danielle sees pop culture as this generation's cultural currency and is dedicated to making sure women's voices are amplified in this era. Her previous on-air reporting and hosting credits include Entertainment Tonight Online, NBC 4, and HLN’s Dr. Drew, where she’s interviewed everyone from Tom Hanks and Gina Rodriguez to Michael B. Jordan and Taylor Swift. You can learn more about her on her website and give her a follow on Instagram and Twitter.Jacqueline Gould is a self-worth enthusiast, wellness addict and founder of Your Inner Babe™. Follow her on Instagram @jacqgould where you can always find her latest posts on increasing your self-worth, conducting mindful introspection and finding that inner confidence that everyone has inside them.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Set That B*tch Free with Jacq Gould in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.This podcast episode was produced by Dante32.

Today on the podcast we explore why and how we’re working to grow up alongside our kids. We examine the pressure-filled impostor syndrome of new parenthood, the power of the growth mindset, the weight of our egos, and ways to play in the gray with our our learning as well as our kids’. When we can respect our kids as equals, then we can move forward, hand in hand, growing together. When we can show vulnerability, resilience, awareness and humor in our mistakes and successes, they are given that permission, too. And when we can say “I’m not done yet”, then we can all feel brave enough to ask “what’s next?” We laugh, we cry, we lean in. Join us! Relevant Links: - Upbringing’s 12 Empowerments - Upbringing’s RESIST Approach - Implicit Learning - Brene Brown - Carol Dwek Revisits the Growth Mindset - Child development: The right kind of early praise predicts positive attitudes toward effort - Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln - Screen Free Parenting Resource site - Harvard study about how the closeness of relationships helps us live longer WE’RE NOT DONE YET- We may be grownups, but we aren’t done growing. We want our journey as parents to be about progress, not perfection, so we begin each day fresh with the acknowledgement that we have just as much growing up to do as our kids. Today’s episode is supported by Tradlands- high-quality, sustainably crafted essentials for women, inspired by classic menswear. Visit www.tradlands.com and enter code Upbringing15 for 15% off your purchase. Visit our website, www.upbringing.co to learn more about us and sign up for our newsletter! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together. Email us: info@upbringing.co Follow UpBringing on: Instagram: @up_bringing Facebook: @jointheupbringing

Ever skip an event because you don’t like how you look? Do you believe if you were thinner or prettier you’d feel more confident? It’s no wonder women are beauty obsessed given the unattainable beauty standards the media portrays. In today’s episode Renee Engeln is an award-winning professor of psychology at Northwestern University, shares with us how the current beauty obsession came to be, the price women are paying, and how to opt out of this culture so you can live a full life!  Renee’s book Beauty Sick: https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Sick-Cultural-Obsession-Appearance/dp/0062469770 More about Renee’s work: http://bodyandmedia.com/ To join Rachel’s 6 week online program Break Free From Binge Eating go to rachelgoodnutrition.com/program

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why we put alcohol into our systems in spite of the overwhelmingly negative impacts that it has on our minds and bodies... --How the "mirror neurons" in our brains figure into our societal addiction to drinking booze... --How beauty acts as a form of currency in America... --Why looking at your reflection less could lead to a more wholesome life... --Where corn is hiding in everything that you eat, and finally... --Why the government subsidizing corn is the reason why fast food is so cheap and health food is so expensive.   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. The Impact of Alcohol on the Mind and Body https://www.alcohol.org/effects/ 2. Resources for Alcoholics and Problem-Drinkers https://alcoholaddictioncenter.org/alcoholism-resources/ 3. All About Mirror Neurons https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct05/mirror 4. Alcohol - Weighing the Risks and Potential Benefits https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/alcohol/art-20044551 5. Fairly Oddparents - "The Same Game" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0575708 6. Beauty-Sick - How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beauty-sick 7. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Today on the podcast I'm sharing four steps you can take to improve your body image and how you can use these steps to change the cultural focus on beauty by rejecting the belief that our bodies are the most important thing about us. Click HERE to purchase Renee Engeln's book, "Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women"

I’m thrilled to share with you one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done - a chat with the author of Beauty Sick. Renee Engeln, PhD, has the perspective on the research of how our focus on appearance is hurting us, and also suggestions for how to fight back against this cultural trend and learn to find peace in our bodies - no matter what we look like. Click here to grab a copy of Beauty Sick - it’s one of my favorite books ever! Check out the Beauty Sick website here. Follow Beauty Sick on Instagram @beauty_sick Click here to watch Renee Engeln’s Ted Talk.

Mark Wellman is a nationally acclaimed author, filmmaker and motivational speaker. Despite being paralyzed in a mountain climbing accident, Mark has inspired millions to meet their problems head-on and reach for their full potential. A two-time Paralympian and former Yosemite Park Ranger, Mark's NO LIMITS philosophy encourages individuals to adventure into new horizons; to go beyond the seeming unreachable. Mark is used to being on the road since he travels throughout the year, bringing his adaptive climbing wall to companies, organizations, and schools. We caught him during one of his road trips and he agreed to swing by Golden, Colorado to the No Barriers podcast studio and catch up with his old friends, Jeff, Dave, and Erik. Mark is unbelievably accomplished but also reserved and humble. He talks about his legendary, groundbreaking athletic achievements with the same tone most use to describe what they had for lunch. But there was a time in Mark's life where he was unsure, depressed, and hopeless with no clear path ahead. Mark discusses his near-death injury that he sustained on a climb that left his paralyzed from the waist down. He spent months in the hospital unsure of how to go forward and lost. That was, until he received some wisdom. I had this one physical trainer, she was from Germany, and she said: “You need to train like your training for the Olympics!” And I just really took that to heart.” Mark first was determined to find employment where he could stay connected to the outdoors. So, he went back to school and got his degree in Park Management. He worked as a Park Ranger in various capacities, already shattering people's ideas of what he was capable of, but that was just the beginning. He soon discovered the world of adaptive sports and threw himself into learning more and designing his own adaptive equipment to get back out into the field. It was then he came up with the crazy idea of climbing the sheer granite face of El Capitan. He found a partner, built an ascending rope pulley system, and started to train. Now, folks of many different abilities have climbed El Cap, but until Mark, this was unthinkable. He pulled it off and became the first paraplegic to make the ascent. “Are you crazy to take this paraplegic guy up El Cap? Seems like a really stupid idea. Something could go wrong,’ but fortunately we didn’t really listen to that.” Mark went on to gain tons of media attention, made national and international news, met the President, lit the flaming torch up a 120-foot rope at the Paralympic games in Atlanta; a fun story he shared with us, and continued on to break even more records of athletic achievement, like being the first paraplegic to sit-ski unassisted across the Sierra Nevadas. Listening to Mark describe his epic achievements it's easy to forget he has a disability or about all the struggle that led him to this point in his life. But for Mark, it's about mindset. “I learned my disability wasn’t a death sentence - let’s get on with life, dude!” But Mark wanted to share what he learned with others. He details the spark of an idea he had with a friend that led to the formation of the nonprofit, No Barriers, and the humble beginnings of an organization that is now becoming a movement. He uses his time to speak to groups and offer inspiration, as well as lead hands-on adaptive activities that get people out of their comfort zones. “Let’s get out and enjoy life.” Read Mark's Autobiography Here Visit Mark's website: No Limits Learn more about No Barriers autobiography Climbing Back. The first paraplegic to sit-ski unassisted across the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, --------------- EPISODE TRANSCRIPT ------------------------- Dave: Well welcome to our No Barriers podcast. We are thrilled today to have Mark Wellman with us, who's one of the founders of No Barriers. Can't wait to hear some of his stories about what this organization was founded upon. He's really the heart and soul behind why many of us are here at the organization. Before we get into that conversation, Erik, you just came back from a really interesting experience, why don't share with our listeners a little bit about it? Erik: [00:00:30] Yeah, I was at a conference with all these authors. There were four of us, and the first was a lady, she was the author of Hidden Figures, this great book that was made into a movie, these African American women who were behind getting us to the moon, didn't get any credit at first, but then their stories were really illuminated by her book. And this guy who is falsely sent to death row for 30 years. He was incarcerated- Dave: Wow. Erik: In a five by [00:01:00] seven room, had to kind of go into his mind and think about how to expand his mind. He said in his mind he married Halle Berry. They were married for 25 happy years. Dave: When was this set? Erik: Recently. Literally just got out of ... he got out of jail, no apology from Alabama. But he wrote this amazing book, so ... And then a lady who wrote a book called Beauty Sick, mostly [00:01:30] about girls who struggle with body image, and how much productivity is lost in the world because girls are having to pay attention to makeup, and weight, and all the things that they worry about. Guys too, but mostly the focus was on girls, and I have a daughter, so I was sitting there just hanging on every word, thinking about my daughter and her struggle, so it was really book because it was four very No Barriers... Dave: That's a lot of No Barriers. Erik: ...authors right there. [00:02:00] Maybe we'll get them on the podcast at some point. Dave: That sounds like perfect fit for the kinds of topics we explore. Erik: Yeah. And I am totally thrilled... this is great. I'm so psyched to have my friend, all our friends, Mark Wellman on the podcast today. Dave: The legend. Erik: The legend, the dirt bag... is that okay to say? Mark: Yeah, yeah. Dave: You embrace it, right? Mark: It's great to be here. I embrace everything. Erik: Mark almost doesn't need an introduction, but Mark is [00:02:30] a world class adventurer, and an innovator, and is the key founder of No Barriers. Has done amazing things that blow your mind as an adventurer. Has skied across the Ruth Gorge. Has traversed the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Has mountain biked the White Rim Trail. Has climbed El Capitan, Half Dome. We were just talking this morning, your Half [00:03:00] Dome ascent was 13 days? Mark: Yeah, it was. Erik: On the wall. Just, Mark, a hero of mine for sure. You're a few years older than me. When I was a teenager and you were just a little bit older climbing El Capitan and doing all these amazing adventures, you were a huge part of my motivation, so I'm psyched right now. Mark: It's great to be here, thanks a lot Erik. Yeah I guess I could [00:03:30] start off with... 35 years ago I was an able bodied climber and we were climbing a peak called Seven Gables, which is pretty close to the Mount Whitney area. We had a 20 mile backpack to get into the base, and this is back in 1982, I was 22 years old. My good friend Peter Enzinger and I were back there to do this climb. [00:04:00] We set up a base camp about 10,000 feet, and the next morning we got up pretty early, grabbed our technical rock climbing equipment and left most of our provisions at the base camp, our sleeping bags. Sure would have been nice to have that sleeping bag with us but didn't have it. And we climbed Seven Gables. It was sort of technical, kind of a mixed route. There was a little bit of ice, a little bit of rock, and made [00:04:30] the ascent. By the time we topped of it was a little bit late in the afternoon, about five o'clock. We just embraced this beautiful view from the summit. American Alpine Club places sometimes these cairns, or climbing registers, at the top of the mountain. It was kind of cool to see this. In this case it was just a pile of rocks with a Folgers coffee can. And I opened up the Folgers coffee can and dumped out the little pieces of paper, and there's my [00:05:00] hero Royal Robbins had climbed it. "Cool man, I'm gonna put my name next to Royal." Did that, and then we decided we're gonna go down a class four descent on the backside, just scrambling, not roped. We were just kind of walking down a tail of slope. I'll be the first to kind of admit my guard was down. My partner said, "Hey, maybe we should put a rope on [00:05:30] this one section here." I go, "No, no. I wanna get down to base camp, I'm really hungry. There's some really good freeze-dried food I wanna eat." You know that wonderful Mountain House stuff. Erik: And 35 years ago. Dave: Delicious. [crosstalk 00:05:44] Mark: So next thing I knew, I slipped on some scree, and I pitched forward and I started rolling. I made a couple of somersaults and I rolled off about a 100 foot cliff. When I landed I broke my lower back at T 11, T 12. Of course at the time I didn't know it. [00:06:00] I was 22, I didn't even know what a wheelchair was. That happened, and my partner thought I possibly could have been killed. But he heard me yell back at him. He got down to where I was... he said he spent a couple hours with me stopping some bleeding on my legs, and some other stuff. Jeff: What's your recollection of that period of time... Mark: He said he was with me for two hours, it felt like ten minutes. Erik: Right. Mark: And then he left. [00:06:30] He left an orange, an extra jacket, and some trail mix and said "Man, I gotta get out and get some help." So after 30 hours, the best sound I've ever heard in my whole life was the sound of this... [helicopter sounds] ...coming up the canyon. Erik: You almost froze to death. Mark: It was cold that night. Yeah it was real cold. I was laying on some ice. That probably helped because it kept the swelling down in my back. So I'm an incomplete [00:07:00] para. I have a little bit of movement in my legs. They said that might have helped me, the swelling. But the helicopter got up there, it was actually a ship from the Forest Service. They were gonna just go up and see if it was more of a body recovery, but fortunately I waved to them and the helicopter disappeared. About an hour later, a second helicopter came up and this time was from Lemoore Navy Base, and they did [00:07:30] a technical rescue. Flew in, brought the rotors within several feet of the cliff surface, lowered a navy medic, got me in a stokes litter, got me back up into the ship. I was down at a trauma center, they were cutting my clothes off, and a nurse said, "Who's your insurance company?" And fortunately I did have insurance, I had Kaiser. I went through stabilization of my back with Harrington rods. I was in the hospital in 1982 for seven months. Dave: [00:08:00] Wow. Erik: Including rehab? Mark: Including rehab and the whole nine yards. And nowadays, a paraplegic if you go to Craig Hospital, it's kind of the factory up here in the west. A paraplegic will be in the hospital for about six weeks. It's pretty dramatic... in those days, it was a much longer hospitalization. Learning how to take care of yourself. And then... Erik: More time is better, right? I mean, [00:08:30] would make sense right? You can develop more time? Mark: Yeah, a little bit. I think seven months was a little excessive. Erik: Right. Mark: But you know, there's a lot to learn. Your life has really changed. Your spinal cord runs your body, and you're paralyzed from your waist down. You have bowel and bladder issues. You have skin issues you have to be careful about. So all those things were really important, and I had this one [00:09:00] physical therapist who was from Germany and she goes, "You need to train like you're training for the Olympics." I just really took that to heart and started lifting weights. Was ambulating with long leg braces. This was sort of the beginning of the wheelchair revolution where wheelchairs weren't a stale piece of medical equipment, they were a lightweight piece of aluminum that was more of an extension of your body. And the wheelchair [00:09:30] could take you from point A to point B. Fortunately, in 1982 was really when these wheelchairs... they started making lightweight chairs. And I was a part of that. Erik: Not the clunky Vietnam-era things, right? Mark: Exactly. The old Everest and Jennings chairs were more obsolete, and they were using... well there was a woman who started Quickie wheelchairs, Marilyn Hamilton, she got hurt in a hang gliding accident. They took hang gliding technology, clevis pins, aluminum, powder coat. [00:10:00] And they kind of messier of manufacturing these wheelchairs sort of like... taking the technology from hang gliders and applying it to wheelchairs. Erik: We're still less than ten podcasts in here, but we've already heard a lot of stories of people... these No Barrier stories of people who go down deep into these dark places. I don't want to bring you down, but you have a lot of experience right now and so you can look back. You went to a dark [00:10:30] place, obviously. Mark: Yeah. It was close to saying goodbye to this Earth. Fortunately I made it through. I remember getting back into rehab, then I met a state rehab counselor who said, "You know Mark, you have this great love, this great passion for the outdoors, why don't you become a park ranger?" And I'm thinking, "How's somebody in a wheelchair gonna be a park ranger?" I'm thinking [00:11:00] law enforcement, search and rescue, and she goes "No, there's many hats in the National Park Service, or many different jobs." She took me down to Fort Funston where I met a ranger who kind of showed me the ropes and said "Hey, you could maybe do a job, this would be an entry level position, but you could help us plant dune grass and work in the nursery, or you could go to the entrance gate and help out there." [00:11:30] So I did that for a summer and then I went back to school and went to West Valley College and studied park management. Erik: Cool. Mark: And became a ranger at Yosemite. I remember my first job wasn't exactly my idea being a ranger. There I was sitting in this little kiosk, this little booth, at Big Oak Flat, the entrance to Yosemite. In those days it was a three dollar entrance fee and I'd collect the money and be breathing in auto fumes all day long. That really wasn't [00:12:00] my idea of being a ranger. But it was entry level. The next summer I went down to Yosemite Valley and started working at the visitor's center doing interpretation. Interpreting the natural processes of the park, the public. Bear management, geology, climbing was a big subject too. I'd give programs on climbing, talk about A climbing versus free climbing. Jeff: Were you transparent with people that would come through the park, with how your injury took place? [00:12:30] When you'd talk about the [crosstalk 00:12:31] Mark: I was, I was. I would start my climbing program off with my accident, actually. And bring that in, because I think that was a big part of it. They might say, "Well who's this guy in a wheelchair, what does he know about climbing?" I'd kind of bring that in. That was before I climbed El Cap, I was doing those things. Jeff: Were you percolating on doing something like that when you were there? Mark: I was. It's kind of an interesting story. There was a magazine called Sports And Spokes, it was a wheelchair [00:13:00] athletic magazine. On the front cover on that magazine was a DSUSA chapter, a woman who was being lowered down a cliff in a wheelchair on a river rafting trip. The river went over a waterfall, and then you did portage all the equipment around the waterfall. They had a swami belt and a climbing rope and they had a helmet, I guess they wanted to put a helmet on her for safety, sounded like a good idea. And they lowered her down this cliff in this wheelchair, [00:13:30] and it was on the front cover of this magazine, Sports And Spokes. I got the magazine at my little cabin in Yosemite and I had it on my lap. I was wheeling over to the visitor center to open it up in the morning, and I bumped into my future climbing partner Mike Corbet. And Mike's nickname was Mr. El Cap back in the 80s, he had climbed El Cap more than anybody else in the world, over 50 times. And Mike had never really talked about climbing to me because he knew that's how I got hurt. But when [00:14:00] I showed him this picture, Mike's eyes got really big, and he got really excited. He goes, "You know what Mark, I wanna start climbing with you, but what I really wanna do is climb El Cap." And we had no idea how we were gonna do it. Dave: That's great. Mark: That evening, we were sitting at the mountain room bar, we might have had a beer or two. Dave: Or three. Jeff: That's where all good decisions are made. Mark: Where all good decisions are made. So we had a little beer napkin and we started writing down notes. We said, "Okay, [00:14:30] we're gonna take a jumar..." A jumar is a rope ascender, this was back in the day, kind of like what Kleenex is to tissue. So we took a jumar, and we mounted a pull up bar and a jumar, and then we had a second ascender on a chest harness. And we put a rope up right by the Ahwahnee Hotel. Church ball tree. It was an oak tree. We had this rope and we started ascending up into the tree and then he'd lower me back down. So we go, "Okay, [00:15:00] so a paraplegic can ascend a rope using their upper body strength. Now to get on El Capitan, we got to actually protect your lower extremities from the granitic rock." We knew we were gonna be up there at least a week. I don't have feeling in my legs, so I really needed to protect my legs from any kind of abrasion or any kind of sore that could have occurred up there. We went down to this hardware store in Fresno, California outside [00:15:30] of the park. We bought some leather, a speedy stitcher, some closed cell insulation foam, and we just started making these rock chaps and they sort of evolved over a course of six months. We were climbing Jam Crack, Warner's... Erik: Weren't they... what was the material of those? I've felt your chaps before. That sound's weird... Dave: The truth comes out. Jeff: Hey, we're all friends here. Mark: The original [00:16:00] rock chaps were made out of leather and canvas. But the pair of rock chaps you felt were actually made out of some kind of silky material. No, no... Dave: Oh that was lingerie? Not chaps. Jeff: This was the first No Barriers improv meeting, what you're talking about, with your buddy Mike. Mark: Absolutely. Jeff: That was it, that was the genesis of what... fast forward to today, that was the beginning. What [00:16:30] year was that? 1980... Mark: That was 1988. Jeff: 88. There you go. Mark: Yeah 88. I was 28 years old. Erik: So if you think about it that way, No Barriers began in the Ahwahnee bar. Jeff: Yeah, on a bar stool. On a bar napkin. Dave: I know you guys are all dirt bag climbers. I'm not a dirt bag climber. For our listeners who are not dirt bag climbers, someone paint a picture, because we're getting to the El Cap story. Which is a phenomenal story. Paint a picture of El Cap for us, because not everyone knows what that is. Jeff: Yeah, well. El Cap [00:17:00] is probably the most revered, iconic, monolith in North America if not the world. Uninterrupted, over 3000 feet of granite. It is... when you're in Yosemite, you look up at it and it's got this perfectly symmetrical flank apron on both sides that comes out into this promontory called the nose. And [00:17:30] you can't take your eyes off it. If you look away for a minute, you have to look back at it just cause it's so magnificent and powerful. And it represents so much too. If you want to call yourself a climber, you kind of have to climb El Cap at some point. Erik: When you stand in the meadows below, which is just clogged with tourists just all driving by gawking. What I've heard, is you have to look up and up and up, way higher than [00:18:00] you think you have to. Dave: And if you see a person climbing, as a person who's not a technical climber speaking, you think "Those people are crazy. They're insane. What are they doing up there?" Jeff: Erik and I climbed El Cap. And his dad, Erik's dad, and future wife were down there in the meadow with telescopes watching us. We had one of those little lighty things, little sticks, and we were shining our headlamps down at everybody. It's [00:18:30] a magnificent thing, but it's also very intimidating. It can be very cool when you stand up and look at it, but then the idea of going and climbing it I think is a whole different story. Erik: And as a quote on quote gimp, and that's a word by the way that Mark taught me. I never even heard that word before. It's one of those words I guess you somehow have the license to use if you are... Mark: If you are. Erik: If you are in a chair or you are blind. So what did, when you talked about this out loud, what did people [00:19:00] think? Are people like, "You're nuts." Mark: Yeah, we had kind of a mixture of both. People that knew us, were "Oh yeah you guys should go do this." Mark's been training, he's always skiing, always riding his bike, hand bike around... well in those days it was more of a row cycle. And then we had people say, mainly not to me so much but more to Mike, "Are you crazy? Take this paraplegic guy up El Cap? Seems like a really stupid [00:19:30] idea. Something could go wrong." But fortunately, we didn't really listen to that. We just started training, we made these rock chaps. Like I said, they kind of just evolved over about a six month period. We kind of have a little circuit in Yosemite Valley that we climbed together. We did Jam Crack, the Prude, Warner's Crack, The Rostrum, we went over there. Erik: Oh, wow. Mark: So we did some stuff in the Valley [00:20:00] just to really warm up. And then I actually went up and spent a night on El Cap. Because we wanted to feel what that was like. Jeff: Up at sickle? Mark: We actually went to Heart Ledge. Erik: Wow. Jeff: Over on the south. Mark: Yeah, over on the south. The route we were gonna climb was a shield. So... Jeff: Cause it's overhanging. Mark: It was overhanging... once you get over the shield roof it's overhanging. The beginning of it's not. It's pretty low angle. Jeff: Were you scared at all before you did this or [00:20:30] were you just super fired up and kind of naïve? Mark: I was scared the night before. Jeff: You were. Mark: Yeah. Jeff: Like really scared? Mark: Yeah I was... couldn't sleep. This kind of what happened was... really Mike, about two weeks before we're gonna blast off, Mike goes, "Man we've trained so hard for this, I'm gonna write a letter to Tom Brokaw..." who is the national NBC News guy, who is a climber too, a little bit. And, I'm going, "Okay... " so basically [00:21:00] Corbet just wrote out a note with a pencil. He was a janitor at the Yosemite Medical Clinic to support his addiction to climbing. He just wrote a little note to Tom Brokaw, and I think three or four days later he's talking to... Tom Brokaw called the medical clinic and talked to Mike, and said "We want to come out and do this story." Erik: Gosh. Mark: And all of a sudden the pressure was on. That's when I really was thinking, "Wow you're telling national news, this is gonna add [00:21:30] a lot more pressure for myself." But as soon as we got to the base of El Cap and I touched that granite, all that training and preparation really got into par, and I got relaxed. I started doing pull up after pull up, dragging myself up the largest unbroken granite cliff in North America, El Capitan, and the first night... we do something called, we fix pitches. So we were fixed [00:22:00] up about 800 feet. So we had... Mike used to say, "It's always nice to kind of have a jumpstart." Erik: Right. Mark: You know, fix those lines, get all your water, we had 250 pounds... Erik: It's like a trail of ropes that go up 800 feet so you can just... Mark: The next morning... Erik: Start on the ground and zip up 800 feet and have like a jumpstart on this gigantic monolith. Mark: Exactly. And have all your water, all your gear up there. So he had to work three or four days to make that happen prior to us [00:22:30] leaving. Once we left Mammoth Terrace, we were on our own. We went through the Gray Ledges, and we went over... the roof was really tremendous. Because Mike is basically climbing upside down, and then gets up onto the pitch above it and fixes a rope. Then I kind of untied myself and I swing underneath that roof, and you can hear the cheers of the people down below. It's like [00:23:00] what Jeff was saying, It's quite a scene at the El Cap meadow. You really have to have binoculars. It's hard to see climbers up there, because they're so tiny, they're like little ants up there. If you don't know what to look for, it's hard to see these people. The crowd was yelling, and the green dragon would come by. It's a tour vehicle that has it's open air shuttle. Erik: "If you look upright you will see a nutcase [00:23:30] climbing El Capitan." Mark: We could actually hear them talking about "Mike Corbet, Mark Wellman, first paraplegic..." So that was kind of interesting. Finally when we topped out, it was seven nights, eight days of climbing. This was before digital technology on El Cap, when national news came out. They had a mule train, they brought out a satellite dish that was like five feet wide, and we were live on top of El [00:24:00] Cap talking to Tom Brokaw. Jeff: Sick. Mark: And we've got... between the Today Show and NBC News, and in a week we were on TV for like several hours if you took all the time that they played this. There wasn't really much going on in the news, so they really kind of played this story up in a big way. As soon as we got off that climb, about a week later, we're sitting in the Oval [00:24:30] Office talking to President Bush. It was myself, Mike Corbet, "Writtenaur" who was Secretary of the Interior, and Jack Morehead, superintendent of Yosemite. The four of us are in the White House, in the Oval Office, talking about bone fishing because President Bush loved to bone fish and we presented him with a flag that we took with us on the climb, and it changed my life. Erik: Mark, so you're not that old, but I see [00:25:00] you sort of as the father of adventur e sports for people with disabilities. I want people to understand that the idea to climb El Cap back in the 80s... nowadays, I think... how many people have climbed El Cap in chairs, paras? Mark: Oh the chairs? Erik: Dozens, right? Mark: Yeah, dozens. Erik: But you sort of unleashed that. You opened up this door. And now, quote on quote gimps are doing everything, right? Mark: Every summer there's [00:25:30] a paraplegic. Erik: But you opened that door for all of us. So, it's sort of a crazy thought to me. Mark: It is. You can't take the first ascent of El Cap, you can't take that away from me. That's something I'll always remember. It was a huge accomplishment for both Mike and I, and there's been different paraplegics who have gone up it. A gentleman with cerebral palsy, Steve Wampler, was probably the most [00:26:00] disabled person that's been up there. Lots of amputees. I call them amputees, hardly disabled. Paraplegics wanna be amputees. Erik: Those will be our first complaint letters. Dave: Exactly. [crosstalk 00:26:15] Mark: Quadriplegics wanna be paraplegics. Everybody has their differences. There's been a quadriplegic, incomplete quadriplegic, climbed El Cap with Tommy Thompson, good climber. [00:26:30] Steve Muse. Erik: There's that kid who climbed The Chief, he was inspired by you. Mark: Yep. Erik: He was a quad, and he climbed The Chief. He invented kind of this, almost like a contraption with wheels if I remember right, that kind of rolled up the face. Mark: Yeah it was... the premise was taking the Dolt cart. A climber by name of Dolt had this cart and he used to use it for a hauling system on El Cap. Brad "Szinski", the Canadian guy you're talking about, he came up with this [00:27:00] cart. His hands didn't really work as well as a paraplegic, he lost some muscle mass in his hands and fingers. So he had a different type of system where he could ascend a rope using a crank, and developed that. So there's been all kinds of different adaptations that allow people that are wheelchair users to go rock climbing. Jeff: This sort of set you [00:27:30] on this course to being an improvisational pioneer, those are my words. Were you like that always or do you feel like your accident cued you up for this opportunity to then over the past thirty years... Mark: Thirty five. Jeff: Yeah thirty five years. Now you've continued this trajectory of being this pioneer when it comes to just making it work. You make it work, right? Mark: I was so young. When I got hurt [00:28:00] I was 22. I wasn't climbing big walls, I hadn't got to that point yet of climbing El Cap. Finally, when I did have my accident it kind of made sense. The steeper the climb for somebody in a chair the better. Mountaineering is gonna be really tough. There are ways of doing mountaineering. We got four paraplegics on top of Mount Shasta. Erik: Yep. Mark: And there was a guy named Pete "Rikee". It's funny... people [00:28:30] come to me if they've got an idea, a lot of times they'll want me to be a part of the project. Least... Erik: That was a pod that they were in, that had almost like tractor wheels, right? Mark: Exactly. What we did is we took a snowmobile and cut the snowmobile track in half and made a tractor stance. So you have two tracks and a seat with a bicycle crank, and we actually crank our way up Mount Shasta. We had to get special permit from the Forest [00:29:00] Service. You can only be on Shasta for three days, and we knew we were gonna be up there for a week. So I had to drive up... I was trying to explain to this district ranger on the telephone, he really wasn't getting it. Erik: Sometimes they don't get it. Mark: And he wasn't getting it at all. He was thinking mechanical device... Jeff: Motorized... Mark: Right. He knew who I was, so he said "Come up and bring the machine with you so I can take a look at it." So I brought one of the snow pods up there and I met with the district ranger [00:29:30] and a couple of his back country rangers, and they got it. They said, "This is cool man, we'd like to let you guys do this." They gave us a special use permit. The big thing about the Forest Service and wilderness, or National Park Service wilderness, you cannot take... supposedly mechanized devices cannot go into the wilderness. But if you have a disability, your bicycle could almost be considered a wheelchair, or your snow pod can be considered [00:30:00] a wheelchair. Long as it doesn't have a Briggs and Stratton engine on it. That was the big thing, it has to be a manual piece of a gear that's human powered. So we got that, and we got four paraplegics on top of Mount Shasta. Erik: And El Cap really launched you into being able to do all these amazing things, right? You pretty much became a professional climber, adventurer, doing these things around the world. I know you lit the torch for the Paralympics, right? Mark: I did, I lit the Paralympic torch in Atlanta in 1996. [00:30:30] Muhammad Ali lit it for the able bodied Olympics. They had this torch, and the night before we're training for it... it's a big surprise, they don't want to see the person light the torch the night before, no media, so we're out there. I was gonna climb an 80 foot rope doing rope ascension, doing pull up after pull up. And North Face made me a little, kind of a... we envisioned this Robin Hood thing with... behind [00:31:00] my shoulders, this arrow quiver where I put the actual torch in. I didn't wanna burn my hair, what's left of it, so... Erik: You had a lot more hair... Mark: So I said, "Let's make this torch holder so it comes off your legs." So they made that for me. That night we're training, I get up the 80 foot rope, and I lit the fuse and the fuse blew out. Erik: Oh no. Mark: And the pyrotechnics guy goes, it was windy, and the [00:31:30] next day it was gonna be windy too. So the pyrotechnics guy guys... "Okay Mark, I'll make sure this fuse doesn't go out the night you do it." And I go, "Great." So I get up there in front of 80,000 people, I'm climbing up this rope. Liza Minnelli is singing this song and she's going "Go Mark, Go Mark." The whole stadium of 80,000 people is going nuts. So I lit this fuse, and literally the thing blew up. There was fire all over me. And I'm leaning back, hoping I'm not gonna catch [00:32:00] on fire. Then the fuse went up and lit the actual cauldron, and that was the start of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Jeff: You did not combust. Mark: I did not combust. I had the best seat in the house. Erik: You'd be like a Motley Crue drummer. Mark: Exactly. So that was fun. Erik: Takes us on a little tour of what you did. All those amazing adventures that you did after that. Takes us on a little tour around the world. Mark: What a lot of people don't realize, which I think is harder than climbing [00:32:30] El Cap, or spending 13 days on Half Dome was another big ascent we did years ago... but was doing the Trans Sierra ski crossing. I've done it twice now. I did it in 1993, it was a big winner, and I did it in 2011. So we took a cross country Nordic sit ski. You sit low to the ground, you have two skis mounted underneath a frame with a seat, and you're sitting maybe a foot off the snow. And you have two [00:33:00] poles, and you actually double pole. So you're double poling to make this device go down the trail. I was on the US Disabled Nordic Ski Team. Competed in two Paralympics, in France and in Norway. Got beat up by the Finns, the Norwegians, they're so passionate about that sport. Jeff: And they're vikings. Mark: And they're vikings, man. They're so tough. My best finish out of 30 guys was of fifth place, that was in France. [00:33:30] In Norway, I got even more beat up. I wanted to actually get into Nordic ski racing because I had other things I wanted to do. I wanted to try to get into the back country in a Nordic ski. Back in 93 a guy named Jeff Pegles and myself was also on the US disabled Nordic team. We took sleds, little polks, behind our rigs. We had our bivy gear. And we skied 55 miles from Snowline [00:34:00] on the east side of the Sierra on Tioga road, we got someone to open up the gate. Guy that worked for the power company opened up the gate. We got up to Snowline and we skied from Snowline to Crane Flat, which is 55 miles. Jeff: Wow. Mark: Following the Tioga road. Jeff: Just the two of you? Mark: Well we also had Pearlman with us too. Erik: Filming. Mark: He was filming, yeah. Erik: And, you gotta tell the story about the White Rim. So you biked the White Rim, I think you were on one off mountain bikes? Mark: [00:34:30] Yep. Erik: Or some kind of devices, hand crank mountain bikes. And it was so sandy, the story I heard, you had to get out and you had to pretty much pull yourself on your arms and pull your chair, did you pull the other guys chairs too? Or were the other guys' bikes... Mark: It was an epic, groveling adventure. Seems like everything I do turns into that. Jeff: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:34:50] Mark: If you're not suffering, you're not having a good time. That's kind of how it is out there. We had these one off mountain bikes and [00:35:00] we actually did a Jeep tour to kind of check it out a couple years prior. We did have it a little easier, we didn't carry all our water and food with us, we had a swag wagon out there. Suburban, follow the four paraplegics. Myself, Bob Vogel, and Steve Ackerman. We rode this, 52 miles is the full circumnav of the White Rim. There was times, [00:35:30] yeah, it was an interesting experience out there because some of these washes were like moon dust. We couldn't get our bikes through it. So I had a pair of rock chaps with me and I threw the rock chaps on and did some crawling. Had an 11 mil static rope and dragged the guys behind me. Did a few epic things like that. Jeff: I mean, If I'm riding my mountain bike and I come up on that scene in the middle of the White Rim, who knows what to make of that? Mark: [00:36:00] You can walk man, so best thing to do is just walk your bike. Jeff: Like, "You guys are good right?" and they'll be like "Yep, we're good man." Erik: Leave us alone. Jeff: Leave us alone. Mark: Don't touch me. Jeff: There's nothing to see here. Yeah. Erik: Yeah. Jeff: Wow, that's rad. Mark: And then recently, just a couple of years ago... in the winter we had a drought in California and Tahoe, so I circumnaved Lake Tahoe in a kayak in winter. And that was a really amazing adventure. It was 72 [00:36:30] miles, two nights of camping. But the cool thing was, and it was cool at night, it was really cold at night. There was no power boats. In the winter you don't have any power boats on Lake Tahoe, it was kind of like being out there in the 1800s. Seeing bald eagles, none of the tourists were on the water, it was really a fantastic trip. Dave: So Mark, you are someone who really embodies the spirit of No Barriers and you helped [00:37:00] start the organization. So tell us, all these adventures, all these things you've done to challenge what's possible, what people think is possible. Why No Barriers? Tell us that story. Mark: You know, No Barriers... I did a movie called No Barriers, and I got a poster out called No Barriers. It was a word that really meant a lot to me. My wife and I, we were down in San Francisco at a fundraiser... in those days it was called Yosemite Fund, now it's called Yosemite [00:37:30] Conservancy. We were at this dinner, and I met this kind of wild old character named Jim Goldsmith. And Jim came up to me, knew who I was... we started talking. He had a cabin in the subdivision I live in called Tahoe Dawner. So Jim and I, and Carol, and his wife Connie would get together, we had a couple of dinners together. And then Jim started talking about the Dolomites, and his [00:38:00] son-in-law and daughter. And he said, "Man, it would be really neat to kind of do something for disabled people and able bodied people if we did something in the Dolomites." And I go, "Man, I know a couple of guys who I've done some stuff with, a guy named Hugh Herr, double amputee who's done some rock climbing with him, and Erik Weihenmayer." This was probably after your Everest... Erik: Yeah, after. Mark: This was after your Everest climb. And I said "Hey, these [00:38:30] guys..." we did a climb out in Moab Utah, the three of us, it was kind of gimp helping gimp, it was this real magical event out there. Which was really cool... Erik: Climbing the Fisher Tower. Mark: Yeah. The Fisher Tower. Ancient Ark. Erik: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Mark: And it was this really fantastic climb. I'd like to get these two guys involved with what we're talking about. SO I called Erik, I called Hugh, and we ended up putting our first [00:39:00] little... in those days, it was more of a festival, we called it, instead of a summit. We did it in the Dolomites. It was a very obscure little place up in the mountains, this real beautiful location, but nothing was really accessible. The hotels weren't that accessible, everything was kind of difficult to put this together. But it was this real magical place in the mountains... Erik: I remember the chair operators didn't even know how to get people with disabilities on the chairs. Mark: They didn't have [00:39:30] an idea. They didn't... yeah. Erik: On the ski lifts. Thank you. Yeah. Mark: They weren't doing adaptive skiing in those days in that little village. It was actually the home of the 1956 Olympics. SO that was kind of my envision was to start this, and who knew it was gonna get into what it is today. It's just amazing what you guys have done, and all the different things No Barriers has to offer people. Erik: What do you think about when you think about the evolution? You had this little germ [00:40:00] of an idea to go to this town and start talking about accessibility and innovation, and some of your lessons about how you've broken through barriers, or how the three of us had broken through barriers. And now, when you look at it today... Mark: [sighs] It's kind of mind boggling how it's grown so big and how many different people it affects, it's not just the disabled community, it's able bodied community bringing everyone together. Trying new experiences. The youth programs [00:40:30] that you guys have been doing is tremendous over the years. Soldiers to the summit. We're having all these guys coming back doing ten tours, they're not adjusting back into society very well, and taking them out into the outdoors with Jeff and different mountain guides, it just changes their lives. Brings them more back into a reality where they can really kind of adjust back into society. And then the summit is just... I love [00:41:00] coming to the summits. I've been to every one now, I haven't missed one since the beginning. It's gonna be fantastic in New York, I'm really looking forward to that. Erik: And you bring your climbing wall, your portable climbing wall. Mark: I'll have... Erik: Almost to every summit. So that's your mission now, right? To go around and use your climbing wall as a No Barriers tool to help people break through barriers. Tell us about that. Mark: Absolutely. Climbing has been such a big part of my life, that I just like to introduce different [00:41:30] people to the sport. A lot of times, somebody that's... we don't say electric chair, electric chair is something you die in. Power chair. A power chair takes you from point A to point B. A power chair user, a lot of times doesn't have all the... there's not as many things out there for a power chair user to participate in. Climbing on my wall, they can. We have these harnessing systems [00:42:00] that support your core. It's almost like a Bosen's chair, pulley system. If you have the desire to get on the climbing wall, we can facilitate that. We don't turn anybody away. We've had people that weigh 500 pounds on my wall before. Very obese wheelchair users... it doesn't matter. I had a gentleman that had spina bifida and he was unfortunately caught up in the American society of drinking a lot of soda, [00:42:30] and became really big. We got him on the wall, it was really difficult for him. We would talk to him and he wouldn't really look at you eye to eye as we were talking. I saw him a year later, he dropped 150 pounds, quit the soda, got into a training, cut his hair in a mohawk, and it just changed his life. Got out of the power chair and was in a manual chair. So climbing was kind of the responsibility of really changing this guys life, and now I see [00:43:00] him down in Los Angeles. I probably take the wall to Southern California maybe seven or eight times a year, San Francisco, Bay Area. I sort of have different groups hire me year after year, once they experience the wall they really want to have it be part of their event. We bring in, mini El Cap I call it, and we get people on it and we have a great time. Erik: And you're traveling around with your wall, full time. People bring you in to create this experience for their [00:43:30] rehab hospital or organization or team, right? Mark: Exactly. All those venues... I do adaptive climbing seminars. So a gym might call me and wanna know, "how do we get an adaptive climbing program going?" So I do that. And a lot of times I'll do not only a seminar on adaptive climbing, but then maybe that evening do a show and tell about adventure sports and where adventure sports have taken the disabled in the last 35 [00:44:00] years. Erik: And you are like Kleenex now, because... you talk about the pulley system, it's not a pulley system, pull up system, a lot of people say, "Oh yeah, Mark Wellman system." Mark: Yeah, it's... yeah it's kind of getting that way. Jeff: You're like Beyonce now. Mark: I'm like Beyonce. It's just kind of neat that my passions over the years... everybody should have a passion. And my passion has always been [00:44:30] to be out camping, doing something in the outdoors, coming up with new ideas, new technologies... and some of these technologies are more like a backyard technology. It's not that fancy. Sometimes some of the most simplest things can change something. Like mountain bike tires on a wheelchair can change a chairs getting into the back country tremendously. Mounting a pull up bar in a sender can allow a paraplegic [00:45:00] to do 7000 pull ups in eight days to go up El Cap. Just simple little technologies can really change peoples' lives, and you can take that backyard technology, garage technology, put something together that works for you that can help a whole bunch of people. Dave: I'd like to go back to that... You've told us a story, sort of the arc of your life, and when I look at you Mark and think about what you've accomplished I think "God, this is incredible. [00:45:30] This is an incredible human being that very few people who had what happened to you would ever have chosen the path that you have chosen." And I think, when I think about our No Barriers community, every so often you get folks who will say "Yeah, that's Mark Wellman but that couldn't have been me. You're putting someone in front of me that's so incredible, how could I possibly do this?" Erik: Yeah, you're de motivational. Mark: Right, right. I know, I get it. Dave: I'd love to hear, what do you think we can... 'cause this is what we do at No Barriers. We... If you're [00:46:00] listening to this, it's not like we take everyone up mountains, but we try to remind them about something in their spiri t... Mark: Yeah. Dave: ...that teaches them anything is possible. So talk to us a little bit about, Mark, how did you get to that point? Is it just sort of who you were from the beginning, was it an evolution? It just seems like everything you encountered, you are like, "I can do more." Mark: I think it's really important for people to get out of their comfort zone. Nowadays, it's so easy for young people to get... they get into gaming. And they [00:46:30] just, you know... it's stagnant. You're not getting out of your comfort zone. And the outdoors has a way of getting you out of your comfort zone. And you can make it safe... you don't need to think about what I do, it's more about finding, maybe getting some different experiences. And that's what's so cool about the summit. You have all these different activities going on where you just get a little taste of it. And hopefully [00:47:00] that little taste will inspire your imagination to want to try it again. And that's where I think it's really important if you're facilitating skiing or climbing, or whatever you're facilitating, you have to make sure that these people, their first experience is a good one. If they don't have a good experience, most likely they're not gonna go back to it. And, it's really important that the very first time... One of our board members, Sasha. [00:47:30] He was an academia guy, a professor. He came to the No Barriers event in Squaw Valley, the first one. Never had tried climbing before, and we took him to Donner Summit and got him up on this road cut climb that's 80 feet with big exposure, and it changed the guys life. It was something he was real nervous about, but it was getting him out of his comfort zone, and him [00:48:00] really having, you know... it was exciting for him, it was thrilling, it was challenging not only physically but mentally challenging at the same time. All those things combined. Kind of changed his life. And he became a board member of No Barriers because of that. Dave: Yeah. Mark: And there's stories like that all the time. Or Mandy, I remember her... wonderful singer. She got on my wall, it was 25 feet, and she [00:48:30] was really scared. It was a really scary moment for her where she had this big fear of heights. It wasn't like she was on a 1000 foot rope, she was on a 24 foot wall. But she might have well have been. Jeff: Relative for her. Mark: Could have been a 1000 foot climb. But she made it through. And came down... I got a guy that helps me, Wes, he's a search and rescue guy, kind of a big guy. He's just magical with [00:49:00] people, and really helped her a lot. So, you have all these different experiences... Erik: And I think that experience, by the way, gave her the courage to go out and do something completely non-climbing related, which was to write music and to go on to America's Got Talent, and... Mark: Exactly. Erik: Get into the finals, and now skyrocket into stardom. Mark: To fame. Absolutely. Making a better quality life for herself. [00:49:30] A lot of times when you say, somebody that's a wheelchair user... what is it, like 90 percent of the people in wheelchairs don't have jobs. And it's always kind of bummed me out, I'm thinking, "Wow." Why would you wanna be caught in a system like with Social Security and be basically poor your whole life, because "Oh I have Medicare, I have my Social Security disability," So you're trying to live on six to eight hundred dollars a month. And you're caught [00:50:00] in this kind of vicious circle. You've got to get away from that somehow, and get into the workforce, be productive. You're gonna feel better, you're gonna be a more productive citizen in this country, and you're not gonna be wrapped up in this vicious circle of never getting ahead and always having the government thumb you down, so to speak. Erik: Last question for [00:50:30] you from my end, this is Erik, and I wanna know, I've made it kind of clear that I look up to you. Tell me, who are the people that you look up to? Tell us about that guy Larry, tell us about some people who influenced your life. Mark: Oh man. There's been a lot for sure. There was a guy named... actually I think you're thinking of a guy named Mark Sutherland. When I first got hurt, Mark was a quadriplegic ten [00:51:00] years post to my injury. And he was back in the hospital. He had a bone spur, the spur was touching his spinal cord, and he was losing some of his action. Some quadriplegic can move their arms and they can push manual chairs, and he was one of those. But he was losing some of his arm strength, so he was in the hospital, and my room was next to his. We would talk at night. 'Cause I was really bummed out when I was first injured. To me, being a paraplegic was a fate [00:51:30] worse than death. I was on the sixth floor, if I could have crawled over to the window and jumped out I would have cause that's how bad I felt. I was just thinking, "Not having the use of my legs, I'm not gonna ski again, I'm not gonna climb." I was 22, I was just like, "Why didn't the mountain just take me." Those were the kind of thoughts I was having. But then I would go into this guys room, Mark Sutherland, and he would talk about, "Oh I had this milk truck that I converted, and I had a stool. One time I was driving it with my hand controls [00:52:00] and I fell off the stool, and I was on the ground and I had to throw my hand on the brake to stop it so I didn't kill anybody." Jeff: And you were like, "That's the greatest story ever." Mark: Yeah. I wanna do that. So I was just hearing this stuff from this guy, and he was talking about girlfriends, and how he was running around doing this and doing that, and I'm going, "Man, this guy has a life." And it was really inspiring to be... so where I was really depressed and laying in the hospital bed, and couldn't feel [00:52:30] my lower extremities, and "What's a catheter?" And I'm just like, "Man, this is horrible, what did I get myself into." And this guy was really upbeat and uplifting... Jeff: Showed you it wasn't a death sentence. Mark: Yeah. Showed me it wasn't a death sentence, and let's get on with life, dude. And it was like, boom. That just changed me. Then we went into rehab together, we were more in a hospital setting and then we both went into our physical rehab. That's [00:53:00] when it just started clicking for me, and that was it. Dave: Well, just to wrap up this excellent conversation that we're having about the history of No Barriers and all that you've done as well just individually, you've seen No Barriers be this thing that started in the Dolomites in 2003, we're 15 years into this. What's your dream for what it becomes? Mark: Wow. I would just consider it to be... I'd like to see maybe a couple summits a year, possible. [00:53:30] More, smaller clinics would be really cool too. I think you guys are really on a good, good path. But maybe some smaller events too. Just keep growing it. Keep doing more of these kinds of things. More technology. Bringing in more people, better speakers. Better people that are... or people that are doing more things that inspire others that give the ideas [00:54:00] to do more things. I'm amazed in 15 years where it's come to. Who knows where it's gonna go. Another 15 years from now, man this could be a huge, huge organization that could affect a lot of people and bring a lot of people together. This whole family, bringing the tribe together. It's always fun at the summits, and seeing people I haven't seen for a year, [00:54:30] spending time with them. I love getting people out climbing, so that's my passion. Erik: What if people want to learn how to get in touch with you, how to work with you, how to bring your wall to their organization? Mark: Yeah. Google Mark Wellman or just go to my website, No Limits Tahoe dot com. Give me a call. Erik: Although they won't talk to you, 'cause you're never home. You're always out [crosstalk 00:54:55] or something. Dave: Always on the road, right. Mark: Well, no, yeah I'm easy to get a hold of. Talk to my wife, Carol, [00:55:00] and I can get back to you. Erik: Right. Mark: Send me an email. I'm better on the phone, I don't like to email tons. Love to talk to you, if you have ideas lets talk about, lets see you at the summit. Lets get out and enjoy life. Erik: Cool. Well thank you so much Mark. Jeff: Listen Mark, I know you well enough to know you don't need to hear what I'm about to tell you, but, I think it's important for you and the listeners to know [00:55:30] in conversations like this, it becomes so clear how you are sort of the upside down pyramid. And you're the point on the upside down pyramid. And it all sort of funnels up from you, really. And I know there's others, but you're the man. And I know it's important for you, it is important for me to know that you know how many thousands of lives you've impacted. Erik: Tens of thousands. Jeff: Thousands of lives dude. You have been the kick starter [00:56:00] and the imputes. And you're just one of the most wonderful pioneers. I know you know it, but you need to hear it more, because you're the man. Mark: I appreciate it man, it's humbling. And, to take a passion that I had and a dream... and like I said, just simple adaptations, a pull up bar on a jumar. Man, how that changed other people to go climb up El Cap, or do Castleton, or whatever [00:56:30] mountain you want to get up, it's been a pretty cool experience. It's been fun to work with other companies. We're making more adaptive climbing equipment now. It's really kind of evolved from just handmade rock chaps to a real sophisticated pair of rock chaps that allows people to get out there and do a lot of cool stuff. Dave: Well it's been an honor to have you here Mark, I know many of our listeners are part of that No Barriers tribe. Many of them will know you, but a [00:57:00] lot of them won't. The movement has grown so big that it's well beyond you. But per what Jeff was saying, it's so important I think for the people of our community to know where this began. Mark: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Dave: And you are the point that Jeff mentioned where it began, and so, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate having you. Mark: My pleasure. Erik: What did you guys take away from that? Might take us a while. Dave: Yeah. Exactly. Jeff: Might be a lengthy debrief on that one. Dave: I guess for me, as someone who's helping to build [00:57:30] this movement, like I was ending with there, just to remember the roots of where No Barriers began which is individuals coming together in small communities around creative ideas to do stuff that people didn't think was possible. And as we start to move to tens of thousands, maybe millions over the next ten years of people that we impact, that there's something in that special sauce that's still about the [00:58:00] individuals getting together having a fun, creative idea and going out and pushing their comfort zone. Erik: Yeah. I think that, No Barriers recipe is sort of hidden right in the story of El Capitan, which is... Mark's a smart guy, but he's not a scientist or anything, he's not Hugh Herr, who's inventing stuff where you go, "I could never do that." What he said is a pull up bar and a jumar. These are commercially available things. I think he had to adapt a few things, but [00:58:30] not all that crazy technology. Pretty simple. You combine that series, that innovation with the human spirit and a great friend or great support system, a great rope team, you do this amazing thing that opens up the door for a lot of people. It's a pretty simple recipe. Dave: It is. Jeff: All the big things that have happened with regards to our species all started with this small [00:59:00] germination of somebody sitting in their theoretical garage just being like, "How do I do this? Hmm?" And head scratch, and start piecing these things together, and then, boom, the movement begins. I think Mark embodies that, and what a great cornerstone for this organization. Dave: Well, and the movement continues. So if you're sitting there listening saying, "I wanna be a part of this organization, I wanna be a [00:59:30] part of No Barriers," please go to our website, No Barriers USA dot org. You can join us at the summit that Mark mentioned that's coming up in October in New York. There are many more ways you can join us but please, No Barriers USA dot org is our website. You can also share our podcast with your friends and colleagues and families, and follow us on our Facebook page. Thank you so much for listening. Erik: Live No Barriers. Dave: Thanks.

As a companion to Kalology (BEAUTY STANDARDS) Alie reads your thoughts about appearance and beauty culture in this, a bonus minisode. You wrote in about how make-up is a creative outlet, how beauty standards can be an oppressive time suck, about hairy pits and culture clashes, money burdens, appearances in different professions, trans and non-binary perspectives, and what you wish the next generation did differently. Y'all made Ol' Ward tear up more than once, and it's an honor to share your stories. Dr. Renee Engeln's work "Beauty Sick," the book Camp Ologies tickets, September 15 in Portland Dr. Crystal Dilworth's TEDx Talk To become a patron: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, pins, totes, shirts, etc. Follow Ologies on Instagram or Twitter Follow Alie Ward on Instagram or Twitter.com More links at www.alieward.com/ologies Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris Music by Nick Thorburn Support the show.

We love it. We hate it. BEAUTY CULTURE. Looking good can make us feel decorated, empowered and more confident -- but why? And why are certain groups subtly told to "make-up" for their appearance? What's the line between self-care and oppression? Psychologist and beauty-researcher Dr. Renee Engeln shines a huge bright floodlight on the sometimes ugly machinery of the billion-dollar beauty and "fitness" industry. This is an episode for make-up lovers, haters and the millions of us confused about being both at once. It's also an opportunity for dudes to learn just how how skewed the standards are. Buckle up -- this ologist will change the way you see the world, others and hopefully, yourself. With the companion Bonus Minisode: Kalology -- Your Letters Dr. Renee Engeln's work "Beauty Sick," the book Camp Ologies tickets, September 15 in Portland To become a patron: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, pins, totes, shirts, etc. Follow Ologies on Instagram or Twitter Follow Alie Ward on Instagram or Twitter.com More links at www.alieward.com/ologies Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris Music by Nick Thorburn Support the show.

It's hard to feel confident when there are messages everywhere that you're not pretty or thin enough. Jeremy was surprised and unsettled when he read the book Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln. Maeve joins him for a discussion about his male perspective on American beauty standards and how our cultural obsession with perfection makes for an impossible standard for women.

BET Style editor, Danielle Prescod, and I talk through A LOT in this last episode of 2017. Danielle doesn’t drink, “doesn’t enjoy food like that” AND she’s celibate — clearly, she’s got some super-human willpower.We discuss Meghan Markle, what working in fashion does to your closet, what therapy has done for her, dating in NYC, and how Danielle balances her work & downtime even though she’s a self-described ‘content monster with a pathological need for attention’. Danielle’s introduction to fasting and the cult of Dr. Charles Passler, started out as a story she was working on for ELLE but soon developed into a total body transformation and entirely new approach to eating. We discuss her matcha latte, bone broth and tea diet, and getting your body into a ketogenic state for maximum fat burning. Listen for: Racially Screening Soul Cycle instructors (lol!) Hiring Glam Squads For Nights Out Working Out & Finding the Right Hairstyle Getting “Eyebrow Shamed” by your Facialist The Benefits of Clearing Out Your Closet What Therapy has Helped her Learn & Avoiding “Prescription Pushers” Going Blonde “Instagram Face” & a lot more Products/Stories Mentioned How to Get the Body of A Victoria Secret Model by Danielle Prescod: http://bit.ly/2zHZiNJ Dr. Passler’s “Pure Change” Program: https://www.purechange.co Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women http://amzn.to/2m68o1N Closet Organization Journey of a Fashion Editor https://www.manrepeller.com/2017/10/closet-organization-with-a-former-fashion-editor.html Roe Morgan - Naomi Campbell (and Danielle’s) hairstylist https://www.instagram.com/hairbyromorgan/ Glam Squad - On Demand Beauty Services https://www.glamsquad.com Soul Cycle Instructors Danielle Loves Francis https://www.soul-cycle.com/instructors/10411/francis/ Mike https://www.soul-cycle.com/instructors/10347/mike+press/ Mabel https://www.soul-cycle.com/instructors/10337/mabel/ Products Danielle Loves: DPL Teeth Whitening (swears by this) http://bit.ly/2lm7CxG MAC’s Next to Nothing Mattifying Powder http://bit.ly/2Drbl4d Shieheido Eyebrow Powder http://bit.ly/2C8QROg Kjaer Weis Cream Blush (expensive but worth it) https://kjaerweis.com/product/cream-blush/above-and-beyond See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Be a man.”  “Boys don’t cry.”  “Don’t be a sissy.” Boys hear these things all the time – from parents, from teachers, from friends and peers.  What does it do to their emotional lives when they crave close relationships but society tells them to keep emotional distance from others? Join my guest Alan Turkus and me as we quiz Dr. Judy Chu, who lectures on this topic at Stanford and was featured in the (awesome!) documentary  The Mask You Live In (https://www.amazon.com/Mask-You-Live-Ashanti-Branch/dp/B01AEOM74S) . This episode is a must-listen if you’re the parent of a boy, and may even help those of you with girls to understand more about why boys and men treat girls and women the way they do. Don’t have a boy?  Check out How To Raise A Girl With A Healthy Body Image (https://yourparentingmojo.com/beauty/) . References Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chu, J.  When boys become boys: Development, relationships, and masculinity (http://amzn.to/2CYtFB6) .  New York, NY: NYU Press. (Affiliate link) Maccoby, E.E. (1990). Gender and relationships: A developmental account. American Psychologist 45(4), 513-520. Miedzian, M. (1991). Boys will be boys: Breaking the link between masculinity and violence. New York, NY: Doubleday. Pollack, W. (1998). Real boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood. New York, NY: Random House.   (#)   Transcript Jen:                                      (https://www.temi.com/editor/t/L0IO1Ve9Zv4-k5_LiJzekQmMxFZkZaAABIFCLcEfovHKmfoZyR9PzH9gxoKah9JCXj9fzF0pOKK4by5hJsSeX9V0Z7c?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=40.15)                    Hello and welcome to the Your Parenting Mojo podcast. Regular listeners may remember that a few weeks ago, I interviewed Dr Renee Engeln who wrote the book Beauty Sick on the topic of raising girls with a healthy body image. Even though I don’t have a son, I know a lot of you do, so in today’s episode we’re going to talk about some of the challenges associated with raising sons and how we can be better parents to sons, and specifically how fathers can be better parents to sons. So since I am not a father and don’t have a son, I figured I’d better find someone who is both of those things. So today I welcome a co-interviewer, Alan. Alan grew up in New Jersey with a comfortable middle class family whose father was physically present and not physically abusive, but who had what Alan calls embarrassing spasms of anger that came with yelling and throwing things and when he wasn’t angry, he was pretty emotionally absent, so Alan feels as though he didn’t really have a great model for this whole fathering thing, but he wants to parent his own son differently and it started to take some steps in that direction, but he isn’t really sure if it’s enough or what else he should be doing. Welcome Alan. Alan:                                   (https://www.temi.com/editor/t/L0IO1Ve9Zv4-k5_LiJzekQmMxFZkZaAABIFCLcEfovHKmfoZyR9PzH9gxoKah9JCXj9fzF0pOKK4by5hJsSeX9V0Z7c?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=102.611)                    Thank you. Jen:                                      (https://www.temi.com/editor/t/L0IO1Ve9Zv4-k5_LiJzekQmMxFZkZaAABIFCLcEfovHKmfoZyR9PzH9gxoKah9JCXj9fzF0pOKK4by5hJsSeX9V0Z7c?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=104.44)                    And to help Alan and I figure all this out. I’m so excited that we’re joined today by Dr Judy Chu. I first learned of her work on the documentary called The Mask You Live In, which you can rent on Amazon or on Netflix and I would highly encourage you to do that even if you’re the parent of a girl because it really helped me to understand some of the reasons why boys and men treat girls and women the way they do. Dr

Folks, this one is personal for me.  As someone with an ~ahem~ family history of disordered thinking about body image, it is very, very high on my priority list to get this right with my daughter.  Dr. Renee Engeln, author of the book Beauty Sick, helps us sort through issues like: Should I tell my daughter she’s pretty? What should I say when she asks me if she’s pretty? Is teaching our daughters about media literacy – the ability to critique images they see in the media – enough to protect them, or not? …and so much more! I know there’s a lot more to raising a girl than just this issue, and in time I hope to find another expert to discuss how we can raise daughters who aren’t limited by broader societal expectations, but there’s enough on this topic to make it an episode by itself. In the show, we discuss a prompt you can use to write a self-compassionate letter to yourself as a way of recognizing all the amazing things your body can do. Professor Engeln actually sent me two of them; you can find these below. You’ll have to listen to the episode to find out why this picture is here:   Body-Compassion letter (based on Kristin Neff’s exercises available at  self-compassion.org (http://self-compassion.org/) ): For the next 10 minutes, you will be writing a letter to yourself. The letter should be all about your body, but it should be from the perspective of an unconditionally loving imaginary friend. Think about your body from the perspective of a friend who cares about you. What would your friend want to tell you about your body? If you run out of things to write, re-write what you already have, perhaps with different wording. Think about this imaginary friend who is unconditionally loving, accepting, kind and compassionate. Imagine that this friend can see all the strengths and all the weaknesses of your body, including any aspects of your body that you may view as flawed or imperfect. Reflect upon what this friend would say about your body, knowing that you are loved and accepted with your body exactly as it is, with all your body’s very human imperfections. This friend recognizes the limits of human nature and is kind and forgiving toward you. In his/her great wisdom, this friend understands your life history and the millions of things that have happened in your life to give you the body you have in this moment. Write a letter to yourself, about your body, from the perspective of this imaginary friend. What would this friend say about your body from the perspective of unlimited compassion? How would this friend convey the deep compassion he/she feels for you, especially for the pain you feel if you tend to judge the flaws and imperfections of your body harshly? What would this friend write in order to remind you that you are only human, that all bodies have both strengths and weaknesses? As you write to yourself from the perspective of this imaginary friend, try to infuse your letter with a strong sense of his/her acceptance of your body, caring, and desire for your health and happiness. Above all else, be kind, understanding, and compassionate toward your body.   2. Body Functionality letter: For the next 10 minutes, you will be writing a letter to yourself. The letter should be all about what your body does. Think about all your body does and how it helps you do the things you want to do each day. Focus on everything your body can do for you and write a letter to yourself about that topic. If you run out of things to write, re-write what you already have, perhaps with different wording. Think about all the strengths of your body in terms of everything it can do. What has your body allowed you to do throughout your life? Think about the different parts of your body and how they each play a role in helping you do what you need to do each day.   References Engeln, R. (2017)....

Episode 9: Social Media and Kids. Plus, Dr. Renee Engeln joins The Moms to discuss her new book, Beauty Sick.

Kim Racon and Michael Fynan call Renee Engeln, author of BEAUTY SICK. Learn more: https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062469779/beauty-sick/.