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Cast:Dr. Tara Egan, hostAnna, teen co-hostMichelle Holleman, Sex Addiction Therapist - guest expertHey listeners, today Tara and Anna are having a very interesting conversation with Michelle Holleman, Sex Addiction Therapist. Michelle specializes in the treatment of chronic infidelity, betrayal, other traumatic relationship experiences, and family systems in addiction. What Tara has been seeing over and over lately in her practice is how sex addiction is playing a huge role in the family dynamics and how it is affecting the kids of these families. Tune in to hear the discussion about "Understanding the Impact of Sex Addiction on the Family System." We'll discuss:What is a sex addiction? (Note: It' not addiction to having intercourse and typically starts at a young age) How sex addiction impact the brain and how similar it is to drug and alcohol addiction.What causes it? How is it diagnosed? What are the risk factors associated with developing a sex addiction?The different types of addiction.How ANY addiction impacts the entire family. What are some ways that the family may be impacted?Porn addiction, infidelity, sex offenders, pedophilesSometimes parents think their kids/teens don't know or are oblivious to the fact that a parent has a sex addiction. Almost always, kids know that something is going on. So how do we handle that as parents and  how do we prevent ourselves or our kids from developing a sex addiction?To get in touch with Michelle in Charlotte, NC go to www.lifehealingcounseling.com lots of free resources, free assessments. Another great resource is www. seekingintegrity.com drop in groupsTo learn more about Dr. Tara Egan's child & adolescent therapy services, visit HERE.To join our private FB group for parents of high schoolers and soon-to-be high schoolers, visit HERE.To join us on Instagram, visit HERE.To learn more about Dr. Egan's online mini-course called "Managing Your Family's Technology and Social Media", created to help parents eliminate power struggles, keep your family safe from internet misuse, and reconnect with your family, go HERE.

Practicing Yoga to Improve Self Awareness, Increase Confidence, Reduce Stress, Relieve Tension and Optimize Your Health (Without Attending a Single Class)!!!   Today's conversation is going to be relaxing, soothing and empowering because we are talking about yoga with global wellness expert and founder of Strala Yoga, Tara Stiles. Tara brings a revolutionary approach to being, moving and healing to inspire millions around the world with her relatable perspective with regards to yoga, meditation and movement.    Now before you press pause or exit because you aren't interested in yoga, I invite you to continue to listen to the “Yoga Rebel.”   The New York Times recognizes Tara as such because of her unconventional approach to this sometimes intimidating subject. She isn't into the dogma of yoga or forcing you to do a bunch of poses or making you chant. Again, if that's your jam, no judgment from either one of us. I would say that for most people their resistance to yoga is because of the time commitment, inflexibility, feeling insecure, not feeling aligned with the spirituality aspect, etc.   After hearing today's episode, I can promise you that these challenges will be diminished as Tara's approach is efficient, relatable, empowering and practical for anyone looking to reap the incredible benefits of yoga. Yoga can reduce stress, relieve tension, improve your confidence, help you sleep better, gain flexibility and so much more.    The focus of our discussion today centers around what the average person can do if they want to get started with yoga and incorporate it into their daily routine or regular workout program. We break down the many walls or barriers that I mentioned previously and why spending just a few minutes a day practicing yoga or even taking one breath can be beneficial. Tara shares why “the better you move” within the poses matters more than how far you stretch. We discuss what you can do to reduce tension and stiffness and Tara shares what she does to help manage her stress. We go "all in" on the topic of hot yoga including the dangers and why Tara thinks most people should stay away from it.   Topics discussed:    Tara's backstory and how she got into Yoga   Why "dogma" in yoga turns people away    How to get started with yoga easily and efficiently   Can yoga help heal trauma?   How to relieve daily stiffness and tension   Is it better to stretch more or move better?   All things hot yoga   The dangers of hot yoga   Why Tara thinks people should stay away from hot yoga   What Tara does to manage her stress   How to find a yoga class that's right for you (if you want to attend one)   Incorporating yoga into a daily routine or regular workout program   Connect with Tara:   Website: https://www.tarastiles.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tarastiles/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaraStilesOfficial   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TaraStilesStralaYoga   Strala Yoga: https://stralayoga.com/   Connect with Doug:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dougbopst/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/dougbopst   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dougbopst/   Website: https://www.dougbopst.com   More on Earth Echo Foods/Cacao Bliss:   www.earthechofoods.com/dougbopst   Use Promo code "Doug" at checkout to receive 15% off your order

Cast:Dr. Tara Egan, hostAnna, teen co-hostTara and Anna are flying solo and sharing their thoughts on today's topic, "Should I Force My Teen to Spend Time With Me?" As teens begin to grow up, what is the best way to have them connect with you AND should you as parents fight that battle to keep your them engaged with the family?Annas gives her teenage perspective on whether teens should be expected to spend time with their parents and how she sees her friends response to spending time with their parents.We discuss:What Tara's professional opinion is about teens be "forced"  to spend time with their parents. How to use spending time together as an opportunity to get to know each other better, bond, and talk about important topics in their life.How parents are a home base when life gets scary or their teen needs support.What can parents do to make the process less awful to spend time with them and their family? We discuss how important setting expectations ahead of time can be, by giving advance notice, how long you are expecting them to participate, if they can bring a friend, etc. How kids from divorced families have even more family obligations and that it should be taken into account. In closing, Tara tells parents that family time can be looked at like a pie. Family time should not be a tiny piece of pie. Family time should be substantial enough for the teen to connect and have balance. If the pie is just consisting of school, friends and technology -  that is not balanced and should be looked at to make adjustments. To learn more about Dr. Tara Egan's child & adolescent therapy services, visit HERE.To find lots of great free parenting resources and learn more about Dr. Tara Egan's coaching services and books, visit her website, HERE.To join our private FB group for parents of high schoolers and soon-to-be high schoolers, visit HERE.To join us on Instagram, visit HERE.To learn more about Dr. Egan's online mini-course called "Managing Your Family's Technology and Social Media", created to help parents eliminate power struggles, keep your family safe from internet misuse, and reconnect with your family, go HERE.

Tara Newman has been my mentor, coach, client, and one of my best friends for a number of years. I couldn't imagine doing business or life without her. She dropped a wisdom bomb recently that prompted me to want to have a conversation about women and money, the shame we carry with it, and the woo-wooing versus the doing when it comes to managing money or running a business. 5:36 - What Tara wrote that prompted this episode 9:53 - Becoming a product of the marketing messages sold to us 13:53 - Lack of money discussions in my family growing up 16:56 - How Tara figured out money by almost losing her house and her relationship with her dad 22:23 - What pushed Tara to set an intention to increase her financial literacy 28:50 - The danger of women not seeing themselves as financial providers for the family 33:29 - Why women have a hard time keeping money 40:25 - Resisting the woo without the do and the 7-figure business 43:43 - What makes your business sustainable (it isn't money) 48:14 - The best place to learn more about Tara's work Follow Lisa's journey on Instagram. Follow Tara on Instagram. Visit Tara's website The Bold Leadership Revolution to sign up and receive her free tools and resources. How much significant and lasting transformation do you believe you can experience in just one hour? Book a 60-minute transformational call with Lisa and find out!

Welcome to the Tending Creativity Podcast! Episode 10: Becoming a Fashion Designer, Sustainability and Work-Rest Balance ft. Tara Efobi For this episode I got to talk to designer and YouTuber Tara Efobi about her journey and design work. In this episode we talk about: Tara talks about her interest in fashion and creative things as a child and throughout adolescence. Her experience in high school and being encouraged to pursue design. Fear of pursuing your interests. Tara's interest in film growing up and considering that as a career. Her experience starting a YouTube channel in high school. What YouTube was like when we were kids/in middle school (early 2000s). Tara's decision making process when it came to going to and choosing a college. Her college experience and the validity of different college experiences. Her experience studying abroad. Her experience preparing to graduate and post grad- internships, job searching, etc. Learning about and realizing her passion for sustainability. Looking for and choosing a fashion design internship. What it's like advocating for sustainability in a large company. Considering freelancing. How Tara forms her goals for herself. The design process and her creative process as a designer. Tara's experience working from home this past year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coping with difficult times- goal setting, planning, getting outside. Her experience moving to Colorado and living in Colorado now. Doing YouTube and Instagram while working full time. What Tara does for fun just for herself - cooking, thrifting, relaxing. The importance of rest. Buying and missing out on pieces she designed when they get released. Tara's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taraefobi/ Tara's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BeautyJunkiessTaraE Tara's Website: https://www.taraefobi.com/ View Full Transcript of the interview: https://www.marissuelena.com/blog/tendingcreativity/episode10 Subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Follow us on Instagram Host/Marissa's Instagram Host/Marissa's Youtube Channel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tendingcreativity/message

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala Yoga. It would have been great to only talk with her about yoga, but in light of the twin crises of Covid and racial injustice, we wanted to dig a little deeper.  We wellness folk do tend to feel things a bit more, so it’s great to talk with another feeler. She talks about how we can continue to have difficult conversations, having an open mind for yoga, how listening and learning is better than silently not participating, and the problems the wellness industry has created for itself. We hope this conversation brings a new perspective to anyone listening.   Tara talks about... The two pandemics we’re facing What Tara’s community is looking like now Using your platform to use your voice Making yoga unique and your own Evolving as a yoga teacher The gatekeeping of yoga purists The problems with the wellness industry   Resources: stralayoga.com Instagram: instagram.com/tarastiles Facebook: facebook.com/TaraStilesOfficial Twitter: twitter.com/TaraStiles   Highway To Well is a production of Crate Media

Welcome to Lunch Chat, in this episode Tara and Jay discuss Tara being sick, Jay's Rhode Island care package, What Tara would put in a Massachusetts care package and the pressing issue with records. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram And you can email us at: LunchChatShow@gmail.com You have a great week, Cranberry Country!

Welcome to Lunch Chat, in this episode Tara and Jay discuss Tara being sick, Jay's Rhode Island care package, What Tara would put in a Massachusetts care package and the pressing issue with records. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram And you can email us at: LunchChatShow@gmail.com You have a great week, Cranberry Country!

In this episode, I talk to Tara Tomlinson, a woman who was indoctrinated into Non-Denominational Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, and suffered from trauma because of it. Tara was brave enough to share with us her “normal” upbringing, and takes us on a journey along an “underlying river of religion” that connects everyone in her story. What Tara shares may shock you, or you may just simply be moved by it, or maybe listening to Tara’s story will help you begin your own (what Tara calls) “deconstruction.” Photography helped Tara. She says that photography helps create peace, and she finds and creates security through the art. She’s now an amazing photographer of weddings and portraits. Check out her website: www.taratomlinson.com. Thank you for listening.

How We Can Overcome  Times of High Anxiety with Tara Henley   Tara Henley is a Canadian Broadcaster and writer whose new book, LEAN OUT (Penguin-RandomHouse, March 2020), shows how people are overcoming anxiety brought on by everything from Covid-19 to overwork.  Henley knows of this trend personally – what she thought of as a health crisis wasn’t a cardiac event, but instead anxiety that told her it was time to slow down.  What Tara then learned as she searched for answers can change how we look at the biggest issues of our time.   Twitter @tararhenley 

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala Yoga. It would have been lovely if all we wanted to talk about was yoga, but in light of the twin crises of Covid and racial injustice,we wanted to dig a little deeper.  We wellness folk do tend to feel things a bit more, so it’s great to talk with another feeler. She talks about how we can continue to have difficult conversations, having an open mind for yoga, how listening and learning is better than silently not participating, and the problems the wellness industry has created for itself. We hope this conversation brings a new perspective to anyone listening.   Tara talks about... The two pandemics we’re facing What Tara’s community is looking like now Using your platform to use your voice Making yoga unique and your own Evolving as a yoga teacher The gatekeeping of yoga purists The problems with the wellness industry   Resources: https://stralayoga.com/ Instagram: instagram.com/tarastiles Facebook: facebook.com/TaraStilesOfficial Twitter: twitter.com/TaraStiles   Highway To Well is a production of Crate Media

Tara Kerzhner is an award-winning photographer, cinematographer, and accomplished rock climber. We talked about being creative while stuck at home, the importance of shooting what you love, balancing her work with art and climbing, becoming a more powerful climber, and telling stories through film.  Support on Patreon:patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing  Show Notes:  http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/tara-kerzhner  Nuggets:  2:06 – Using the podcast to hangout out with friends  2:51 – Cactuses  5:50 – Working from home, “the snack loop”, and Tara’s favorite tea  11:33 – Working in restaurants, learning to manage money, not having mentors, and a sheltered upbringing  15:21 – Learning to believe in herself, “garbage collecting”, and increasing your percentage of good photos  17:37 – “Shoot what you love”, being grounded for 6 months, and taking risks  19:29 – Some of Tara’s favorite photos and what made them memorable  23:51 – Learning about storytelling and film making, and why Tara feels like she hasn’t made her best film yet  25:16 – Tara’s new film camera  26:50 – Tara’s photo tick list, shooting “new” angles, and Jim Thornburg  29:59 – Balancing working with art and climbing, sending ‘Vesper’, and going in and out of shape  34:24 – Why Tara is considering doing more strength training for photo/video work  38:22 – “Un-Smithing” herself, seeking out more powerful climbs, and ‘Don’t Call Me Dude’  44:26 – Why grades “don’t really make sense”  47:06 – Tara’s goal routes at Ceuse, trying ‘Sprayathon’, and the irrelevance of grades  50:38 – ‘To Bolt’, and why climbing it would be such a meaningful route for Tara  53:33 – Alex Honnold’s free solo big wall tick list  55:02 – Multipitch sport climbing, wanting to go climb ‘Logical Progression’, and why multi-pitch trad climbing isn’t always type 1 or 2 fun  57:55 – Why free climbing El Cap isn’t a current goal  58:53 – Cats  1:00:08 – House cat —> ocelot  1:01:39 – What Tara feels especially grateful for  1:04:25 – Sladies 2, the ethics of what we choose to do right now (during COVID), and why Tara isn’t planning any trips right now  1:06:40 – Why Tara is excited to explore more editorial/journalistic photo and video work in the future, shooting in Fiji, and photos vs videos  1:08:50 – Tara’s website, Instagram, and why she prefers email when responding to people  1:10:32 – Climbing on the home wall, why 45 degrees might be the hardest angle in rock climbing, and “it’s all about body positions”  1:12:13 – Wrap up, why Tara doesn’t like some of her earliest films, and “it’s good to be up on the wall”  

How We Can Overcome  Times of High Anxiety with Tara Henley   Tara Henley is a Canadian Broadcaster and writer whose new book, LEAN OUT (Penguin-RandomHouse, March 2020), shows how people are overcoming anxiety brought on by everything from Covid-19 to overwork.  Henley knows of this trend personally – what she thought of as a health crisis wasn’t a cardiac event, but instead anxiety that told her it was time to slow down.  What Tara then learned as she searched for answers can change how we look at the biggest issues of our time.   Twitter @tararhenley    -The unique anxiety and stress brought on by Covid-19-How to manage this growing anxiety when nothing is normal.  -What was driving anxiety rates up before the Covid-19 crisis.-How the health crisis has hidden gifts – like forcing us to lean out.-Why self-help is not the solution, and how to shift our thinking. -How income inequality is actually the issue underlying every crisis we’re facing.-The power of human connection and the role of the tribe in healing ourselves.-What the lasting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic might be.

Tara (nutritionists and social media addict) reveals how social media influencers can actually be harming our health without us even realising it. What Tara has to say is important for anyone using social media. She provides a behind the scenes look at how health influencers get sent products and paid to promote products, and often they don't even have to have tried the product to get paid to say it's amazing. Things like detoxes, skinny teas, protein powders are all subtly being shoved in our faces while we innocently scroll through our social media feed. This can be harming us in a number of different ways - our physical health AND mental health. This is Part 1 of a series of episodes about this topic. Tara has extensive knowledge in the area of social media, having worked for a social media agency, and then building her own social media audience for The Nutrition Guru and the Chef. She has spoken extensively at conferences and seminars around Australia on the topic of social media and the impact it is having on our health.Follow Tara on Instagram Follow Tara on Facebook Check out the Website Support the show (http://www.thenutritionguruandthechef.com)

Today's guest, is a dear soul-sister and one of the most beloved 2019 Ignite Your Soul Summit performers, Tara Romano. Tara is an inspirational speaker for women empowerment, serial entrepreneur, and YouTube star with over five million views of her internationally renowned fitness videos featuring her original choreography and love of dance. Tara is the creative director and creator of Tone & Tease which is a fitness program incorporating cardio, toning with easy-to-follow dance moves using a strategically placed chair. Through her program, she encourages her diva tribe to “Unleash & Let Go.” In this episode, Tara shares her story about overcoming the challenges of having an eating disorder and a negative body image. Plus, Tara reveals how she finds her alter ego, ways we can step into our higher self, and how to navigate the stigma behind network marketing. In this Episode You'll Learn:  All about today's guest, Tara Romano [ 0:30 ] Why we create doubt in our minds [ 8:00 ] The inspiration behind Tone & Tease [ 11:00 ] How we need to live in our bodies [ 16:10 ] The steps to finding our alter ego [ 19:15 ] About Tara's background [ 24:20 ] How to be inspired without judgments [ 28:35 ] The ways to navigate our feelings of being misaligned [ 30:40 ] How to balance the network marketing stigma [ 33:30 ] About using our energy in network marketing [ 43:25 ] Ways to keep our social media content authentic [ 45:45 ] About Your Life Unleashed [ 48:00 ] What Tara would tell a former version of herself [ 50:25 ] Soul Shifting Quotes:  “No matter where we are on our journeys, we all experience the same doubt.” “My students helped me evolve Tone & Tease.” “Take out the fear of what is about to happen.” “We can release energy when we let go.” “Network marketing found me.” Links Mentioned:  Learn my 7 Secrets to Uplevel Your Brand & Land Your Dream Clients  Grab your FREE training, How to Call in Your Tribe + Create Content that Converts  Read The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life Attend Your Life Unleashed  Learn more about Tara at her website: https://www.tararomano.com and be sure to follow her on Instagram: @tara_romano and Facebook: Tara Romano Tag me in your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom    Did you hear something you loved here today?! Leave a Review + Subscribe via iTunes  Listen on Spotify 

Nothing winds up my anti-diet nutritionist guest Tara Leong more than the influencer-led anti-sugar movement. She is in FITS of rage - to the point of goosebumps - about the mountains of misinformation being spread as liberally as nut butter. She’s LIVID about harm being done to innocent people who are being told that they’ll risk giving their kids cancer if they eat bananas. She is OUTRAGED by the misleading tactics being used by these for-profit companies who aren’t able to print the truth on their nutrition labels. She is f***ed off about fructose. And don’t even get her STARTED on the fruit pyramid! Join us for a much needed discussion about the anti-sugar movement, Tara’s attempts to reach out to Australia’s anti-sugar guru Sarah Wilson, and Sarah’s foray into mental health advice. This is one hell of a conversation!     ShowNotes My guest is Tara Leong from The Nutritionist & The Chef, and she is fired up to the point of GOOSEBUMPS about the influencer-lead I Quit Sugar (IQS) trend! Sugar is definitely public enemy #1 right now, and this global sense of fear is impacting everyone, from all ages and all walks of life. We’ve seen various foods demonised over the years, from fats, to carbs, and now sugars. And leaders of these food fad movements have historically been weight loss gurus or medical professionals. But the anti-sugar trend seems to be dominated by “influencers” spruiking their lifestyle brands. There have been some medical professionals - like Dr Lustig who loves to crow about sugar. But in Australia, the shiny beautiful people, like Sarah Wilson, are really heading up the anti sugar movement. Tara commends Sarah for raising awareness about how we can take care of our bodies, but the messages put out via her “I Quit Sugar” social media channels and in the book “I Quit Sugar” are not based on science and are destructive, especially with regards to the impact these messages have on people’s relationship with food. The whole Sarah Wilson/“I Quit Sugar” phenomenon traces back to 2011. Sarah is a journalist and was the ex editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, back then she was a judge on the first season of Masterchef. After that she moved to Byron Bay and began to freelance, writing articles for newspapers. She literally didn’t have a topic for an article one week, and had read David Gillespie’s “Sweet Poison” book (Gillespie is a lawyer). So she did an experiment quitting sugar, wrote about it, and the “I Quit Sugar” machine was born. She started to sell e-books and from there it became a massive empire. She caught the Zeitgeist - just at the start of the anti-sugar climate. Plus, she’s pretty and can write well, and is well connected. This also came at the tail end of the low-fat movement, when research began to recognise that fat wasn’t actually a villain - so we needed a new villain. Enter sugar! Wellness industry 101: 1. Find the villain, 2. Find very vague modern health symptoms like ‘brain fog’ or ‘bloating’, and blame this on the villain, 3. Use your own vague health symptoms to glowing health story as ‘proof’, 4. Sell people a rule-based program to rid themselves of aforementioned villain. I Quit Sugar (IQS) requires people to stop eating any added sugars for 8 weeks. This was beautifully skewered on “The Katering Show”, 2 comedians with a parody cooking show who did a great job of showing, through comedy, just how awful it is to quit sugar. Modern influencers are using this tactic of telling their own stories, of sharing their own tales of ‘recovery’ from vague health symptoms, to sell their ideas. Influencers use their humanity, their accessibility, they are friendly and you feel like you know them. Whereas health professionals are discouraged from sharing their own stories with clients as it is not seens as ‘professional’, especially in psychology where the space is created for the client, not the psychologist. Influencers use their stories as aspirations, as hope - and of course, thinness! “If you eat like me, you’ll end up being like me as I eat zoodles on my $20000 table! Some of the claims in IQS are quite strange. Sarah talks about having Graves disease, and then later on, Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, which pricked up Louise’s ears, as she has Hashimotos’. She is of the understanding that this condition is largely genetic, and no-one is really sure as to why it switches on. As someone with the condition, Louise has to take a pill every day and has blood tests every 3 months. It is not an easy condition to control - it is something that is always changing. Louise knows that what you eat has bugger all to do with developing Hashimotos’. But on IQS Sarah implies - strongly - that quitting sugar will cure it. Sarah’s claim that a change in her sugar consumption ‘cured’ it ignores the fact that she also takes medication to control it. This is a confound - you cannot claim that autoimmune disease can be cured by not eating sugar if you’re taking meds at the same time. If you want to promote eating in a way that makes you feel good, there’s no issue. But if you want to demonise one thing - ie sugar - there’s an issue! Tara also recognises the wonderful array of nutrients that can be excluded when you promote something as stringent as IQS. A while ago, Tara found a very fancy looking ‘fruit pyramid’ which was presented in a similar way to the old ‘food pyramid’ which used to be promoted as a way to eat. A pyramid is where foods on the bottom are ‘eat lot’ and foods on the top are don’t eat’, or ‘eat very little of’. So the team at IQS developed a fruit hierarchy, and at the top there were bananas! And the fruits you can eat ‘every day’ are berries! Raspberries, lemons & avocados. Now Tara needs to unpack this. Firstly, avocados are not a fruit. Botanically, yes, but not nutritionally - they don’t provide carbohydrates, they provide more fats. Who’s going to slice up a lemon for a tasty snack?! “I really struggle with the ethics of telling people they can only eat raspberries”. Tara calculated that for a family of 4, in order to meet nutritional requirements, a family of 4 would spend around $250 per week on raspberries alone. This is privileged, ridiculous nonsense. To not have even thought of things like expense? And the comments from people thanking IQS for telling them that bananas were dangerous. Tara had a heartbreaking message from a mum who was having a huge panic attack because she was so worried she’s given her kids cancer. The no. 1 pathway into an eating disorder nowadays, for Louise’s clients anyway, is this huge fear of foods and what are considered ‘healthy’ foods. The pro-IQS community really seem to disregard the risk of eating disorder development. Like it’s ‘not a thing’. In preparation for this podcast, Louise has been reading Sarah Wilson’s latest book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful”. This is her story and she really is open about her lifelong mental health struggles. In it she reveals she had a childhood diagnosis of severe anxiety and insomnia, in her teens severe OCD, and then bulimia, and then bipolar disorder. Louise admires Sarah for writing such a raw and real book about the reality of living with severe mental illness. She is clearly a very intelligent person. But you can see the anxiety in the pages. You can see the pressure of the bipolar. So here is the ethical question - should authors with diagnoses such as these be giving full disclosure before giving out ‘dietary advice’? Especially when one of the diagnoses is an eating disorder? So here we are in the land of the ‘influencer’. Sarah is a journalist who has gone & obtained a health coaching ‘credential’ with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York. Tara has something to say about this Institute. This Institute looks pretty impressive. On their website it says you can study for 6 months and get the health coaching certificate. But you don’t study physiology, chemistry, or anatomy. You just study all the different types of diets out there and whether or not they’re ‘good’. “If I was running an Institute where I’m comparing diets I’d be like - let’s close, because none of them work”! So the degree should be - everything doesn’t work. Here’s your piece of paper! Go out & tell everyone why your diet won’t work - how good would that be! Tara has found that the IQS people always claim that it’s not a diet. They always claim that it’s not restrictive. But Tara cannot fathom how telling someone to cut out a whole food source for 8 weeks is not restrictive? Modern diet culture tells people, if you’re not counting calories it’s not a diet. The recipes are interesting, often full of rice malt syrup, which is of course, sugar. For a while, Louise remembers seeing a whole row of IQS baking products - cakes etc - in the supermarket. And they got in trouble for not being honest on their labels about how much sugar was in them. They only wrote down the sugar content before the rice malt syrup was added, which is of course totally misleading for consumers.* Tara finds this highly unethical & wonders how this was able to happen according to Australian laws surrounding nutrition panels. Rice malt syrup is sugar derived from rice. It does not contain fructose, but it is definitely still sugar. Louise went into a book shop to read IQS. There was a whole page on why you have to quit sugar: because of fructose. So what’s the deal with fructose? Fructose is found naturally in fruit. In the USA, it is manufactured from corn, resulting in what is called high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This is a highly concentrated version of fructose. This is put into soft drink, in the USA - not in Australia. We use sugar cane syrup, so the fructose is at much lower levels of concentration. Research on the health issues linking consumption of HFCS has been done mostly on rats and mice, and they have been exposed to mega-doses of HFCS in these experiments. So we cannot say that the health problems are happening because of the HFCS or just the mega dose. We could all develop health problems if we mega dosed on broccoli! We also can’t generalise rodent studies to human health. So the problem we have is someone not trained in physiology reads these studies and jumps to enormous conclusions. Just because some American rats OD’d on high fructose corn syrup doesn’t mean we shouldn’t eat bananas! Most of the people spouting the IQS ideas are not adequately qualified or trained in the science of nutrition. There are some medical people talking about it, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Many influencers are not reading the research thoroughly or just cherry picking research that supports their ideas, which is not in the spirit of science! Nutrition science is hard, and complex. The relationship between our health and what we eat is confounded by many factors. One important aspect which is never spoken about by these influencers are issues like poverty, oppression, and even the impact of dieting itself, and the anxiety and food guilt created by such nervous attention to food. What Tara doesn’t like is when a professional such as herself speaks up - in a calm manner - to enquire about the harm being potentially done - and they don’t engage. So with the fruit pyramid issue, Tara politely enquired if the IQS people could share with her the research to support the pyramid. They responded by saying there is ‘lots out there’, but also said that the IQS program is not based on science but a “gentle experiment”. This is mind blowing - telling people they can’t eat bananas, telling them to eat only expensive fruits, charging people $99 for this program, making promises to reduce weight and depression - but none of it is based on science? Tara cannot fathom how that is ok to do that to people. “You can’t give a rigid rule and then call it a gentle experiment” - that’s gaslighting. This is modern diet culture. Everything’s exactly the same. We’ve still got the rigid rules, we’ve still got the ‘this is the way to diet’. Except we’re no longer allowed to call it a diet, or pursue weight loss. We’ve got to talk about wellness or healing really ill defined things. And then use the language of self compassion to turn this into something loving and gentle. And its really not! So, IQS is huge - it has made millions of dollars. Last year Sarah decided to shut the IQS company and move on. She’s very much into the environment etc, reducing food waste. And she’s written the book, First, we Make the Beast Beautiful, a very detailed account of her complex mental health issues. And the question is, should she have disclosed this while she was selling IQS? Louise can understand why she wouldn’t have, this is very personal and private information. But if someone has a history of severe mental illness and an eating disorder, jumping on the food advice bandwagon is, in Louise’s opinion, of concern. In a recent article from the UK, Sarah was interviewed by a reported who had an eating disorder background herself, and the interview did not go well for Sarah. Through the reporter’s eyes, Sarah presented as someone who still had eating issues. And the interview did claim that Sarah had given up on quitting sugar, a claim which Sarah has since vehemently denied. Sarah has claimed she was misquoted, and IQS has done an interview with Sarah to present her side. Tara contacted Sarah on social media to ask her if she had quit the IQS movement, and also put some questions to her regarding the potential harm that IQS has caused. Sarah then posted that she had been bullied by Tara, and by the journalist. She also said that someone with mental health issues should never be bullied. Tara then apologised, and asked for clarification about what Sarah felt had been misquoted in the article. She offered Sarah the opportunity to detail what was wrong about the article and said she would share this with her followers in order to clear it up. She gave Sarah her phone, email and other contact numbers. But she did not respond, and actually went offline for a couple of days. Tara can see how this would have been hard for Sarah - being questioned in public, on social media, about your philosophy, is not easy. Tara gets it: she has her own lived experience with PTSD, and close family members are experiencing severe mental health issues. But Tara does not think this means it is ok to hide accountability behind. She believes it may be a reason, but not an excuse. This has not been easy for Tara either - many in her profession have commended her for having the guts to speak up, some have questioned her. But she doesn’t do it for ‘reputation’ - she does it for her clients. When you see such large numbers of people being harmed by the IQS messages, it’s impossible to stay quiet. It’s not about herself. It’s about all of the people out there who are suffering, and using her voice to stick up for them. "Sometimes I feel like I have an ethical duty to speak up for the general public". In the book, it is clear that Sarah has a big heart, and a big brain. She is genuinely trying to help people, and herself. It’s not easy to live with bipolar disorder, severe anxiety, OCD. But in the book Sarah also talks about being diagnosed with an eating disorder - bulimia - and for that, she has not had treatment. She has had all kinds of treatment for her anxiety. But not for the eating issues, which are very much absent from an otherwise very thorough exploration of her mental health. Louise is a biased too, with her eating disorder hat on, but surely that aspect of mental health has to come into this too? Understanding anxiety is important, and an eating disorder for many people is a way of controlling anxiety by controlling food. Sarah talks frequently about her anxiety as a constant grasping at things to give her a sense of safety in the world. So you can see how controlling what she eats, and having clear lists of foods to eat, could control her anxiety. This kind of connection is not made in the book. And for Louise, it’s a missing piece. People writing self help books are in a position of power. It’s not ok to put responsibility back into the lap of the consumer! Tara has copped criticism for calling Sarah out on this topic, even from fellow health professionals. But she asks: where do we draw the line? Do people have carte blanche to just say anything they like, and then withdraw responsibility by citing poor mental health? We’re grappling now with this question, if someone has a mental health issue can they say anything, cause harm, and that’s ok? Trump’s feelings are also potentially hurt, but people are much less upset about it! Is this a gender thing? What would have happened if it was Paleo Pete coming out with a history of severe mental health issues!? We don’t have the answers, but it is important to have this conversation. Tara has reflected and learned a lot from this experience. Maybe Sarah Wilson has, who knows? Tara’s hope is that if a nutrition professional reaches out to an influencer, they’ll at least listen and have that conversation. If Tara was told that some of her advice had caused harm, she’d be concerned and working at understanding the situation and make sure it doesn’t happen again. But we don’t see this with influencers. The Paleo Pete disaster when he wanted to publish a book with a ‘bone broth’ recipe for babies that was so dangerous it could cause death. Pete was contacted by hundreds of health professionals and organisations pleading with him not to do harm. So he self published the book anyway! Wouldn’t you at some stage check in with yourself? Or just blatantly double down? It reflects the strength of these people’s belief in their nutrition camps. Throughout Sarah’s book is peppered this assumption that sugar is bad. She even tells people that in order to fully recover from anxiety, you definitely need to quit sugar! And that’s not an interpretation, it’s down there in her book, in black & white. “You need to quit sugar. Down to 6-9 teaspoons a day”. That’s not a gentle experiment! This is written in a book for people who are living with anxiety. Because this comes from her belief system, in which anxiety is either caused or worsened by fructose, the book has all of these ideas which are very damaging and could ultimately increase people’s food anxiety. That fear of sugar will create or exacerbate the anxiety which the book is apparently all about alleviating. No-one with an eating disorder can read this book. Also, no one in a larger body can read this book - it’s very fat phobic. There is research on gut health to show that plant foods with lots of fibre can improve our gut health, and that can be linked to mental health. When you quit sugar, you likely eat more plant foods, and that increase is what’s responsible for any improvements, rather than the absence of sugar per say. In intuitive eating, it’s all about adding foods, not taking them away. What’s annoying is this increasing normalising of sugar as a bad thing across our society. Kids are picking up on it. Tara’s 5 year old daughter did a lesson in class on how much sugar was in a can of coke! She’s 5! The world that Tara & I live in - we work in the intensive care ward for eating concerns - and we are seeing people flood in, casualties of the anti-sugar crusade. Sugar is the “devil right now’, and as health professionals it is ok that we are concerned. We’re not picking on any 1 person, we’re talking about figureheads of a movement. We need to remember who we’re trying to protect. It’s our kids. Tara hopes that the influencers can see that nutrition professionals are genuinely helping people - we see genuine concern, genuine problems. Tara is not just a schill for Big Sugar! Tara was asked by “The Conversation” to write an article about the dangers of sugar. Instead, she wrote an article about the dangers of always talking about sugar in a negative way. It ended up being one of the most read articles The Conversation had ever published. Tara was blasted by anti-sugar people for ‘giving people diabetes’. All because she used her scientific knowledge to suggest a much less extreme approach to sugar. And of course people suggested she’s been paid off by “Big Sugar” to write the article. She wasn’t! Good things can happen when people push back and ask questions - for example at the end of last year, the Dietitians Association of Australia stopped taking funding from big food companies. But this absolute demonisation of one food group is just ill advised and short sighted. Resources: Find out more about Tara Leong, including her fabulous anti-diet merchandise, here. The wonderful Katering Show & its wonderful IQS satire The bizarre IQS Fruit Pyramid: The now-closed “I Quit Sugar” empire, which still sells the books etc. Sarah Wilson’s book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful” *Here is the article about the misleading food labels on the IQS range - note that the products were not actually removed from shelves, but they were discussed as misleading. The Daily Mail article by Eve Simmons claiming that Sarah Wilson had quit quitting sugar (strongly contested by Sarah Wilson) Paleo Pete & his baby killing bone broth Tara’s amazing article in The Conversation about the dangers of talking about sugar as the new devil  

Nothing winds up my anti-diet nutritionist guest Tara Leong more than the influencer-led anti-sugar movement. She is in FITS of rage - to the point of goosebumps - about the mountains of misinformation being spread as liberally as nut butter. She’s LIVID about harm being done to innocent people who are being told that they’ll risk giving their kids cancer if they eat bananas. She is OUTRAGED by the misleading tactics being used by these for-profit companies who aren’t able to print the truth on their nutrition labels. She is f***ed off about fructose. And don’t even get her STARTED on the fruit pyramid! Join us for a much needed discussion about the anti-sugar movement, Tara’s attempts to reach out to Australia’s anti-sugar guru Sarah Wilson, and Sarah’s foray into mental health advice. This is one hell of a conversation!     ShowNotes My guest is Tara Leong from The Nutritionist & The Chef, and she is fired up to the point of GOOSEBUMPS about the influencer-lead I Quit Sugar (IQS) trend! Sugar is definitely public enemy #1 right now, and this global sense of fear is impacting everyone, from all ages and all walks of life. We’ve seen various foods demonised over the years, from fats, to carbs, and now sugars. And leaders of these food fad movements have historically been weight loss gurus or medical professionals. But the anti-sugar trend seems to be dominated by “influencers” spruiking their lifestyle brands. There have been some medical professionals - like Dr Lustig who loves to crow about sugar. But in Australia, the shiny beautiful people, like Sarah Wilson, are really heading up the anti sugar movement. Tara commends Sarah for raising awareness about how we can take care of our bodies, but the messages put out via her “I Quit Sugar” social media channels and in the book “I Quit Sugar” are not based on science and are destructive, especially with regards to the impact these messages have on people’s relationship with food. The whole Sarah Wilson/“I Quit Sugar” phenomenon traces back to 2011. Sarah is a journalist and was the ex editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, back then she was a judge on the first season of Masterchef. After that she moved to Byron Bay and began to freelance, writing articles for newspapers. She literally didn’t have a topic for an article one week, and had read David Gillespie’s “Sweet Poison” book (Gillespie is a lawyer). So she did an experiment quitting sugar, wrote about it, and the “I Quit Sugar” machine was born. She started to sell e-books and from there it became a massive empire. She caught the Zeitgeist - just at the start of the anti-sugar climate. Plus, she’s pretty and can write well, and is well connected. This also came at the tail end of the low-fat movement, when research began to recognise that fat wasn’t actually a villain - so we needed a new villain. Enter sugar! Wellness industry 101: 1. Find the villain, 2. Find very vague modern health symptoms like ‘brain fog’ or ‘bloating’, and blame this on the villain, 3. Use your own vague health symptoms to glowing health story as ‘proof’, 4. Sell people a rule-based program to rid themselves of aforementioned villain. I Quit Sugar (IQS) requires people to stop eating any added sugars for 8 weeks. This was beautifully skewered on “The Katering Show”, 2 comedians with a parody cooking show who did a great job of showing, through comedy, just how awful it is to quit sugar. Modern influencers are using this tactic of telling their own stories, of sharing their own tales of ‘recovery’ from vague health symptoms, to sell their ideas. Influencers use their humanity, their accessibility, they are friendly and you feel like you know them. Whereas health professionals are discouraged from sharing their own stories with clients as it is not seens as ‘professional’, especially in psychology where the space is created for the client, not the psychologist. Influencers use their stories as aspirations, as hope - and of course, thinness! “If you eat like me, you’ll end up being like me as I eat zoodles on my $20000 table! Some of the claims in IQS are quite strange. Sarah talks about having Graves disease, and then later on, Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, which pricked up Louise’s ears, as she has Hashimotos’. She is of the understanding that this condition is largely genetic, and no-one is really sure as to why it switches on. As someone with the condition, Louise has to take a pill every day and has blood tests every 3 months. It is not an easy condition to control - it is something that is always changing. Louise knows that what you eat has bugger all to do with developing Hashimotos’. But on IQS Sarah implies - strongly - that quitting sugar will cure it. Sarah’s claim that a change in her sugar consumption ‘cured’ it ignores the fact that she also takes medication to control it. This is a confound - you cannot claim that autoimmune disease can be cured by not eating sugar if you’re taking meds at the same time. If you want to promote eating in a way that makes you feel good, there’s no issue. But if you want to demonise one thing - ie sugar - there’s an issue! Tara also recognises the wonderful array of nutrients that can be excluded when you promote something as stringent as IQS. A while ago, Tara found a very fancy looking ‘fruit pyramid’ which was presented in a similar way to the old ‘food pyramid’ which used to be promoted as a way to eat. A pyramid is where foods on the bottom are ‘eat lot’ and foods on the top are don’t eat’, or ‘eat very little of’. So the team at IQS developed a fruit hierarchy, and at the top there were bananas! And the fruits you can eat ‘every day’ are berries! Raspberries, lemons & avocados. Now Tara needs to unpack this. Firstly, avocados are not a fruit. Botanically, yes, but not nutritionally - they don’t provide carbohydrates, they provide more fats. Who’s going to slice up a lemon for a tasty snack?! “I really struggle with the ethics of telling people they can only eat raspberries”. Tara calculated that for a family of 4, in order to meet nutritional requirements, a family of 4 would spend around $250 per week on raspberries alone. This is privileged, ridiculous nonsense. To not have even thought of things like expense? And the comments from people thanking IQS for telling them that bananas were dangerous. Tara had a heartbreaking message from a mum who was having a huge panic attack because she was so worried she’s given her kids cancer. The no. 1 pathway into an eating disorder nowadays, for Louise’s clients anyway, is this huge fear of foods and what are considered ‘healthy’ foods. The pro-IQS community really seem to disregard the risk of eating disorder development. Like it’s ‘not a thing’. In preparation for this podcast, Louise has been reading Sarah Wilson’s latest book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful”. This is her story and she really is open about her lifelong mental health struggles. In it she reveals she had a childhood diagnosis of severe anxiety and insomnia, in her teens severe OCD, and then bulimia, and then bipolar disorder. Louise admires Sarah for writing such a raw and real book about the reality of living with severe mental illness. She is clearly a very intelligent person. But you can see the anxiety in the pages. You can see the pressure of the bipolar. So here is the ethical question - should authors with diagnoses such as these be giving full disclosure before giving out ‘dietary advice’? Especially when one of the diagnoses is an eating disorder? So here we are in the land of the ‘influencer’. Sarah is a journalist who has gone & obtained a health coaching ‘credential’ with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York. Tara has something to say about this Institute. This Institute looks pretty impressive. On their website it says you can study for 6 months and get the health coaching certificate. But you don’t study physiology, chemistry, or anatomy. You just study all the different types of diets out there and whether or not they’re ‘good’. “If I was running an Institute where I’m comparing diets I’d be like - let’s close, because none of them work”! So the degree should be - everything doesn’t work. Here’s your piece of paper! Go out & tell everyone why your diet won’t work - how good would that be! Tara has found that the IQS people always claim that it’s not a diet. They always claim that it’s not restrictive. But Tara cannot fathom how telling someone to cut out a whole food source for 8 weeks is not restrictive? Modern diet culture tells people, if you’re not counting calories it’s not a diet. The recipes are interesting, often full of rice malt syrup, which is of course, sugar. For a while, Louise remembers seeing a whole row of IQS baking products - cakes etc - in the supermarket. And they got in trouble for not being honest on their labels about how much sugar was in them. They only wrote down the sugar content before the rice malt syrup was added, which is of course totally misleading for consumers.* Tara finds this highly unethical & wonders how this was able to happen according to Australian laws surrounding nutrition panels. Rice malt syrup is sugar derived from rice. It does not contain fructose, but it is definitely still sugar. Louise went into a book shop to read IQS. There was a whole page on why you have to quit sugar: because of fructose. So what’s the deal with fructose? Fructose is found naturally in fruit. In the USA, it is manufactured from corn, resulting in what is called high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This is a highly concentrated version of fructose. This is put into soft drink, in the USA - not in Australia. We use sugar cane syrup, so the fructose is at much lower levels of concentration. Research on the health issues linking consumption of HFCS has been done mostly on rats and mice, and they have been exposed to mega-doses of HFCS in these experiments. So we cannot say that the health problems are happening because of the HFCS or just the mega dose. We could all develop health problems if we mega dosed on broccoli! We also can’t generalise rodent studies to human health. So the problem we have is someone not trained in physiology reads these studies and jumps to enormous conclusions. Just because some American rats OD’d on high fructose corn syrup doesn’t mean we shouldn’t eat bananas! Most of the people spouting the IQS ideas are not adequately qualified or trained in the science of nutrition. There are some medical people talking about it, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Many influencers are not reading the research thoroughly or just cherry picking research that supports their ideas, which is not in the spirit of science! Nutrition science is hard, and complex. The relationship between our health and what we eat is confounded by many factors. One important aspect which is never spoken about by these influencers are issues like poverty, oppression, and even the impact of dieting itself, and the anxiety and food guilt created by such nervous attention to food. What Tara doesn’t like is when a professional such as herself speaks up - in a calm manner - to enquire about the harm being potentially done - and they don’t engage. So with the fruit pyramid issue, Tara politely enquired if the IQS people could share with her the research to support the pyramid. They responded by saying there is ‘lots out there’, but also said that the IQS program is not based on science but a “gentle experiment”. This is mind blowing - telling people they can’t eat bananas, telling them to eat only expensive fruits, charging people $99 for this program, making promises to reduce weight and depression - but none of it is based on science? Tara cannot fathom how that is ok to do that to people. “You can’t give a rigid rule and then call it a gentle experiment” - that’s gaslighting. This is modern diet culture. Everything’s exactly the same. We’ve still got the rigid rules, we’ve still got the ‘this is the way to diet’. Except we’re no longer allowed to call it a diet, or pursue weight loss. We’ve got to talk about wellness or healing really ill defined things. And then use the language of self compassion to turn this into something loving and gentle. And its really not! So, IQS is huge - it has made millions of dollars. Last year Sarah decided to shut the IQS company and move on. She’s very much into the environment etc, reducing food waste. And she’s written the book, First, we Make the Beast Beautiful, a very detailed account of her complex mental health issues. And the question is, should she have disclosed this while she was selling IQS? Louise can understand why she wouldn’t have, this is very personal and private information. But if someone has a history of severe mental illness and an eating disorder, jumping on the food advice bandwagon is, in Louise’s opinion, of concern. In a recent article from the UK, Sarah was interviewed by a reported who had an eating disorder background herself, and the interview did not go well for Sarah. Through the reporter’s eyes, Sarah presented as someone who still had eating issues. And the interview did claim that Sarah had given up on quitting sugar, a claim which Sarah has since vehemently denied. Sarah has claimed she was misquoted, and IQS has done an interview with Sarah to present her side. Tara contacted Sarah on social media to ask her if she had quit the IQS movement, and also put some questions to her regarding the potential harm that IQS has caused. Sarah then posted that she had been bullied by Tara, and by the journalist. She also said that someone with mental health issues should never be bullied. Tara then apologised, and asked for clarification about what Sarah felt had been misquoted in the article. She offered Sarah the opportunity to detail what was wrong about the article and said she would share this with her followers in order to clear it up. She gave Sarah her phone, email and other contact numbers. But she did not respond, and actually went offline for a couple of days. Tara can see how this would have been hard for Sarah - being questioned in public, on social media, about your philosophy, is not easy. Tara gets it: she has her own lived experience with PTSD, and close family members are experiencing severe mental health issues. But Tara does not think this means it is ok to hide accountability behind. She believes it may be a reason, but not an excuse. This has not been easy for Tara either - many in her profession have commended her for having the guts to speak up, some have questioned her. But she doesn’t do it for ‘reputation’ - she does it for her clients. When you see such large numbers of people being harmed by the IQS messages, it’s impossible to stay quiet. It’s not about herself. It’s about all of the people out there who are suffering, and using her voice to stick up for them. "Sometimes I feel like I have an ethical duty to speak up for the general public". In the book, it is clear that Sarah has a big heart, and a big brain. She is genuinely trying to help people, and herself. It’s not easy to live with bipolar disorder, severe anxiety, OCD. But in the book Sarah also talks about being diagnosed with an eating disorder - bulimia - and for that, she has not had treatment. She has had all kinds of treatment for her anxiety. But not for the eating issues, which are very much absent from an otherwise very thorough exploration of her mental health. Louise is a biased too, with her eating disorder hat on, but surely that aspect of mental health has to come into this too? Understanding anxiety is important, and an eating disorder for many people is a way of controlling anxiety by controlling food. Sarah talks frequently about her anxiety as a constant grasping at things to give her a sense of safety in the world. So you can see how controlling what she eats, and having clear lists of foods to eat, could control her anxiety. This kind of connection is not made in the book. And for Louise, it’s a missing piece. People writing self help books are in a position of power. It’s not ok to put responsibility back into the lap of the consumer! Tara has copped criticism for calling Sarah out on this topic, even from fellow health professionals. But she asks: where do we draw the line? Do people have carte blanche to just say anything they like, and then withdraw responsibility by citing poor mental health? We’re grappling now with this question, if someone has a mental health issue can they say anything, cause harm, and that’s ok? Trump’s feelings are also potentially hurt, but people are much less upset about it! Is this a gender thing? What would have happened if it was Paleo Pete coming out with a history of severe mental health issues!? We don’t have the answers, but it is important to have this conversation. Tara has reflected and learned a lot from this experience. Maybe Sarah Wilson has, who knows? Tara’s hope is that if a nutrition professional reaches out to an influencer, they’ll at least listen and have that conversation. If Tara was told that some of her advice had caused harm, she’d be concerned and working at understanding the situation and make sure it doesn’t happen again. But we don’t see this with influencers. The Paleo Pete disaster when he wanted to publish a book with a ‘bone broth’ recipe for babies that was so dangerous it could cause death. Pete was contacted by hundreds of health professionals and organisations pleading with him not to do harm. So he self published the book anyway! Wouldn’t you at some stage check in with yourself? Or just blatantly double down? It reflects the strength of these people’s belief in their nutrition camps. Throughout Sarah’s book is peppered this assumption that sugar is bad. She even tells people that in order to fully recover from anxiety, you definitely need to quit sugar! And that’s not an interpretation, it’s down there in her book, in black & white. “You need to quit sugar. Down to 6-9 teaspoons a day”. That’s not a gentle experiment! This is written in a book for people who are living with anxiety. Because this comes from her belief system, in which anxiety is either caused or worsened by fructose, the book has all of these ideas which are very damaging and could ultimately increase people’s food anxiety. That fear of sugar will create or exacerbate the anxiety which the book is apparently all about alleviating. No-one with an eating disorder can read this book. Also, no one in a larger body can read this book - it’s very fat phobic. There is research on gut health to show that plant foods with lots of fibre can improve our gut health, and that can be linked to mental health. When you quit sugar, you likely eat more plant foods, and that increase is what’s responsible for any improvements, rather than the absence of sugar per say. In intuitive eating, it’s all about adding foods, not taking them away. What’s annoying is this increasing normalising of sugar as a bad thing across our society. Kids are picking up on it. Tara’s 5 year old daughter did a lesson in class on how much sugar was in a can of coke! She’s 5! The world that Tara & I live in - we work in the intensive care ward for eating concerns - and we are seeing people flood in, casualties of the anti-sugar crusade. Sugar is the “devil right now’, and as health professionals it is ok that we are concerned. We’re not picking on any 1 person, we’re talking about figureheads of a movement. We need to remember who we’re trying to protect. It’s our kids. Tara hopes that the influencers can see that nutrition professionals are genuinely helping people - we see genuine concern, genuine problems. Tara is not just a schill for Big Sugar! Tara was asked by “The Conversation” to write an article about the dangers of sugar. Instead, she wrote an article about the dangers of always talking about sugar in a negative way. It ended up being one of the most read articles The Conversation had ever published. Tara was blasted by anti-sugar people for ‘giving people diabetes’. All because she used her scientific knowledge to suggest a much less extreme approach to sugar. And of course people suggested she’s been paid off by “Big Sugar” to write the article. She wasn’t! Good things can happen when people push back and ask questions - for example at the end of last year, the Dietitians Association of Australia stopped taking funding from big food companies. But this absolute demonisation of one food group is just ill advised and short sighted. Resources: Find out more about Tara Leong, including her fabulous anti-diet merchandise, here. The wonderful Katering Show & its wonderful IQS satire The bizarre IQS Fruit Pyramid: The now-closed “I Quit Sugar” empire, which still sells the books etc. Sarah Wilson’s book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful” *Here is the article about the misleading food labels on the IQS range - note that the products were not actually removed from shelves, but they were discussed as misleading. The Daily Mail article by Eve Simmons claiming that Sarah Wilson had quit quitting sugar (strongly contested by Sarah Wilson) Paleo Pete & his baby killing bone broth Tara’s amazing article in The Conversation about the dangers of talking about sugar as the new devil  

Do you struggle to sleep through the night? How does that impact your health? Nighttime is when our bodies heal and recover. It’s when we flush out the stressors of the day. So, what can we do to enhance our natural sleep cycles and get the full benefit of a good night’s sleep? Tara Youngblood is the Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Chili Technology, a company dedicated to the development of temperature-controlled sleep products. Since launching the ChiliPad in 2007, Tara has spent more than 10,000 hours studying the science of sleep. She authored the leading white paper exploring the benefits of cold therapy during sleep and is a highly-regarded international speaker on the topic. Tara leverages her background in physics and engineering to help shape the future of sleep-driven health, working to make sleep both easy and drug-free. Today, Tara joins us to share the Chili Technology origin story and explain how the ChiliPad and OOLER products work. She explains the science behind core body temperature and quality sleep, citing Jerome Siegel’s research on hunter-gatherers, and walks us through the health benefits of using cold therapy while we sleep. Tara also discusses why the Chili team has elected not to make mattresses, pillows or cooling clothing, and she offers insight into the sleep cocoon she’s working on now. Listen in for Tara’s tips for getting optimal rest and learn why the future of health is in sleep! Topics Covered [2:00] How well Tara sleeps Challenge with four boys, travel Track sleep to make best of situation [3:22] The Chili Technology origin story Desire to be comfortable during sleep Different temperature than husband [5:03] How the ChiliPad works Use water to cool or heat Adjust temperature between 55° and 110°F [5:54] How the OOLER differs from the ChiliPad ChiliPad functions as thermostat for bed Program OOLER to change temperature through night [7:11] The patents Tara holds through Chili Technology Many for structure of pad itself, how it functions Two for using temperature to enhance sleep cycles [9:29] Jerome Siegel’s work on hunter-gatherer sleep Light AND temperature have impact on sleep Circadian rhythms follow temperature profile [10:57] Why Chili Technology doesn’t make mattresses Lifespan doesn’t match technology Pad allows for flexibility, individual preference [13:11] Why you wake up less during the night with ChiliPad Core body temp wants to drop 2° in middle of night Body gets hot, wake up (sign that something wrong) [15:56] The health benefits of using the ChiliPad Overall healing effects Manage stress, oxygenate blood Improve metabolism + circulation [18:44] Why the future of health is in sleep Stress flushed out by sleep Autoimmune, chronic pain treatments at night [21:07] What Tara is working on now Reducing EMFs in bed while sleep Protective cocoon as ideal space [23:17] Chili Technology’s expansion Europe and Australian markets Subtle bed size differences, cords [24:29] Why it’s difficult to create cooling clothing Electronics tethered to body create EMF field Need power to cool core (portability challenge) [27:06] Why Chili Technology doesn’t make pillows Core body temperature controls sleep switch Want to push circulation back toward core [29:29] Tara’s tips for getting optimal sleep Outside before 9am to trigger circadian rhythm Meditate + journal to manage stress Exercise and drink lots of water Eat two hours before bed Shut down electronics 30 minutes before bed [33:01] Tara’s top tip for Ali Fitness listeners Journey to better health starts with tiny habits Learn More About Tara Youngblood Chili Technology Chili on Facebook Discount Code ALIFITNESS25 Resources Tara’s White Paper on Cold Therapy & Sleep Clifford Saper’s Research on the Sleep Switch Jerome Siegel’s Research on Hunter-Gatherer Sleep Oura Ring Tiny Habits with BJ Fogg Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear James Clear on Ali Fitness EP097

Today,  I’ve invited artist Tara Reed to chat about art trends and how she works with an art agent. I met her at the annual Surtex Show in New York. This is where manufacturers go to check out artwork and designers. So if you ever wondered how that floral pattern got on your Kate Spade bag- the design was most likely licensed to Kate Spade by the artist. (sometimes manufacturers have their own in house design team) Part of being an artist who creates patterns and artwork for home decor, giftware and fashion means keeping an eye out for trends.   In this podcast, you will discover... What's trending now in art What's it like to be a licensed artist How to work with an art agent Discussing the trends Tara and Miriam spotted at Surtex (03:30) The amount of influence trends actually have on Tara (06:47) How Tara prepares and produces artwork for shows (10:28) How art licensing works (11:34) What Tara’s tropical bird collection looks like (13:12) Whether it matters what medium you work in (15:08) How changes and alterations work when it comes to finalizing a deal (17:57) How the number of collections Tara has to show were less when she was her own agent (19:02) Why Tara decided to have an agent rather than representing herself (19:54) How Tara ended up having an agent (22:05) How Tara plans her collections around trade shows (23:39) Feedback Tara’s agent has been giving her that is improving her work (26:52) for full show notes, go to schulmanart.com/9 ++++++++++++++++++++

I lived in Nashville Tennessee for 16 years. It was beautiful. There were rolling hills. We had four perfect seasons. The shopping and the culture were to die for. A friend visited me and said it was like being in a Hidden Valley Ranch commercial. It was beautiful and wonderful. In spite of the culture and beauty, it’s not the scenery of a town that plants you there, it’s the people who you share that place with. Today’s episode is about my home town of Lufkin, Texas and how sometimes we end up in the very place that we thought we needed to escape. My friend and guest today is Tara Watson-Watkins the Lufkin Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director. Tara was Miss Texas and left Lufkin for ten years for school and her career. She has been back for 14 years and loves promoting Lufkin and small town life in general. Today, we talk about the advantages of small town life and living in Lufkin and similar small towns. You can find Melissa here: Podcast Web Page Facebook Page @MsMelissaRadke on Instagram @msmelissaradke on Twitter Show Notes [02:47] Tara Watson-Watkins loves Lufkin and loves being able to promote her hometown. She gets to tell people why they should visit Lufkin, and reminds the residents why they should love to be home. [03:51] Tara was also Miss Texas. She truly has a love for Lufkin and small towns in general. [04:02] Tara left Lufkin for ten years. She went to school at Texas Christian University and then worked at Pfizer pharmaceuticals and another company. [04:23] Tara knew it was time to come home when her father passed away, and her mother had an accident falling off of a ladder. [04:59] Tara has been home now for 14 years. [05:16] How many women and young girls just want to get out of their small towns. [05:48] Tara may go to bigger cities to shop and get her fix, but there is no better place than being home. [06:11] What small-town life provides. There is such a networking opportunity of friends and family that aren't even blood relations. [06:56] In a small town, it's important to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know people. Go into it with open eyes and an open heart. [07:44] Moving back to Lufkin changed Melissa's outlook on everything. [07:54] In a small town, you can have no blood relatives and yet have a community. Take the time to appreciate the heart of a small town. [08:13] If you make the effort, people will make the effort with you. Embrace the people that are there, because small-town people are the best. [09:04] How moving back to your hometown can be a culture shock and feel like starting over. [09:37] Melissa decided to make herself approachable and started smiling at people. [10:32] What Tara loves about Lufkin. It's a special town. Being a part of the community is a full circle moment for Tara. She loves being able to leave her car running and know it will be there when she gets back. [12:19] In small towns, you also make friends who play jokes on you. [12:47] The Lufkin community is the most giving community that Tara has ever been a part of. [13:22] How the community comes together to make a difference. [14:43] Lufkin is the home of Lufkin industries an oil and gas equipment company. It was the town's largest employer, but was purchased by a larger company and started outsourcing jobs. The town lost a lot of employment. Especially, when another employer Temple-Inland was acquired by International Paper. [15:33] Because of these job losses, the city and Chamber of Commerce have been working hard to bring new industry to the town. [16:31] Lufkin is bringing back jobs and industry. [16:41] Lockheed Martin is also bringing in a new plant. There are definitely things on the horizon. [17:49] When people say negative things about Lufkin, Melissa wants to engage. [18:35] There are a lot of things for families to do in Lufkin. [19:30] Tara wants her children to grow up appreciating their small town. She has worked hard to instill a sense of volunteering and giving back. [23:23] Doing an educational push to shop local. All of Melissa's merchandise is produced locally. If they succeed, they are succeeding with Lufkin. [27:21] A great story about when Tara was Miss Texas, and she went to Target and denied being Miss Texas. [28:48] When Melissa was at The Dollar Store, a man was going to rob the store, but his wife was in line and prevented it. [29:19] Tara shares a CVS story about discretely trying to buy a pregnancy test. [30:53] Melissa's Red Ribbon Week video was on CNN and how a store clerk kept her grounded. [33:57] The lightning round with Tara. Thanks for joining us on Ordinary People Ordinary Things. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave a nice review. Just like your mother taught you. Links and Resources: Podcast Web Page Facebook Page @MsMelissaRadke on Instagram @msmelissaradke on Twitter This Sucks But God Is Good (online course) Visit Lufkin Nashville TN Lufkin Industries Texas Monthly Magazine Red Ribbon Week Video

Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clients how to find what makes them most effective. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design Sponge, and in the bestselling book The $100 Startup. She is also an instructor and speaker, teaching about entrepreneurship, money, and the new economy. She joins Charlie on the show today to talk about her journey and her work and share some of her insights on the entrepreneurial world.    Key Takeaways: 01:40 – How Tara got started doing what she does. 06:28 – The hardest lessons Tara learned during her first years of business. 09:58 – How Tara’s background in religious studies helped and also didn’t help in her early years of business. 13:23 – Figuring out how what you create aligns with people’s worldviews and with their needs and with their values. 14:29 – Entrepreneurs realizing that they’re solving the same problem everyone else is solving, but doing it in a way that’s completely unique to you. 15:42 – What Kick Start Labs is all about. 18:40 – How Tara balances being an introvert and doing the work that she does. 23:51 – How being a control freak can get in the way of being an entrepreneur and navigating a business. 28:37 – Moments in Tara’s career that made her know for sure this was what she wanted to be doing. 34:33 – What Tara is afraid of right now in her work.  37:57 – The most unanticipated challenge Tara is currently facing. 39:30 – Leverage what’s most effective for you.   Mentioned In This Episode: Quiet Power Strategy Fast Company Forbes Design Sponge The New York Times The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau CreativeLive Lebanon Valley College Borders Books and Music Kick Start Labs Etsy Pioneer Nation

Tara Dawn had a life changing decision to make that she feared would compromise her successful Chicagoland exteriors business. After living and breathing Opal Enterprises 6 days a week, Tara decided to move 1,000 miles away to raise her children closer to family. Tara feared that her absence would jeopardize her team's trust in her as a leader, make them feel abandoned, and risk chaos breaking out in the office. The amazing part is that Opal Enterprises has continued to thrive both financially and culturally even with Tara running the business from three states over in a different time zone. What Tara learned from this transition will help us all build unshakable company culture, higher profit, and happier employees. Contact Us: www.AccelerateEvent.com http://www.gfourmarketing.com/strategy Office:(305)856-8788

The history of RAPS (Richmond Autism Parents Support). People welcome at meetings. When and how often do meetings take place? What happens when you are there? Meeting of the minds. Special guest speakers and talks that can take place. Participant anonymity, confidentiality, and group safe haven. Benefits of attending. What Tara and Pam would like you to know about autism.

Listen to This Episode (Audio Version for Podcast)Something I hear from new house flippers and wholesalers all the time is, “Why would anyone agree to sell their house to me at a discount?”Some people think no seller would ever agree to such a thing. Or they assume you have to cheat or mislead the seller in some way to get the discount, which is totally untrue.If you’re thinking this, you have it all wrong.There are absolutely motivated sellers out there who will gladly sell at a discount… and I know this firsthand, because I’ve been a motivated seller myself. I recently found myself in a situation where I didn’t have the knowledge or resources to get myself out… and I just wanted the problem gone. When an investor showed up to help, I was overjoyed… even though I lost thousands of dollars and knew he was going to make a nice profit off me.None of that mattered. I was thankful for his help.So how did it happen? First of all, I wasn’t selling a house… it was something else…Episode 127: Show NotesA few takeaways from today’s episode.What ended up happening to the VW bus we bought a few years back…What we would have had to do to fix up and “flip” this VW bus ourselves…Why I was happy to lose several thousand dollars on this transaction…How opportunity cost played a major role in our decision to sell…Why many sellers don’t mind and are even happy if you make money flipping their house…What Tara is going to be speaking about at Flip Hacking LIVE…Links and ResourcesTickets to Flip Hacking LIVE are available now at an extremely low early bird rate. Get in before seats fill up! Head over to FlipHackingLIVE.com to reserve your spot!Also, check out the book Spin Selling by Neil Rackham. The concepts in this book have already helped Kale close more deals from private sellers!Like what you hear? Subscribe!If you've found any value or helpful information in the House Flipping HQ Podcast, we’d love to hear about it! Head over to iTunes to subscribe, and while your'e at it, leave us a rating (5 stars would be great!) and a review so that others who are interested in starting a house flipping business can find us and get in on the good stuff! If you have any questions or comments about this show or its contents, please post them in the comments area below and I’ll be happy to answer them! The post HFHQ 127: How I Became a Motivated Seller (This is Why You Can Buy Houses at a Discount) appeared first on House Flipping HQ. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clients how to find what makes them most effective. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design Sponge, and in the bestselling book The $100 Startup. She is also an instructor and speaker, teaching about entrepreneurship, money, and the new economy. She joins Charlie on the show today to talk about her journey and her work and share some of her insights on the entrepreneurial world.    Key Takeaways: 01:40 – How Tara got started doing what she does. 06:28 – The hardest lessons Tara learned during her first years of business. 09:58 – How Tara’s background in religious studies helped and also didn’t help in her early years of business. 13:23 – Figuring out how what you create aligns with people’s worldviews and with their needs and with their values. 14:29 – Entrepreneurs realizing that they’re solving the same problem everyone else is solving, but doing it in a way that’s completely unique to you. 15:42 – What Kick Start Labs is all about. 18:40 – How Tara balances being an introvert and doing the work that she does. 23:51 – How being a control freak can get in the way of being an entrepreneur and navigating a business. 28:37 – Moments in Tara’s career that made her know for sure this was what she wanted to be doing. 34:33 – What Tara is afraid of right now in her work.  37:57 – The most unanticipated challenge Tara is currently facing. 39:30 – Leverage what’s most effective for you.   Mentioned In This Episode: Quiet Power Strategy Fast Company Forbes Design Sponge The New York Times The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau CreativeLive Lebanon Valley College Borders Books and Music Kick Start Labs Etsy Pioneer Nation