This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our March Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering anti-diet puberty books, clothing size chart confusion, our style icons, and a mom who thinks her 13-year-old needs to chew her food more. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'...
Mar 09, 2023•10 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Debra Benfield , RDN. Debra has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food eating in their bodies over her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in the prevention and treatment of disordered eating, and brings her passion, expertise, and lived experience to the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation work. Deb’s work is rooted in helping clients recognize internalized ageism and end it, dismantle internalized diet...
Mar 02, 2023•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our February Ask Us Anything episode! We're covering body autonomy for kids, 90s makeup icons, body feelings, and the dreaded business casual. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll only get the first chunk. To hear the whole...
Feb 23, 2023•7 min
It's time for another community episode! This month, we’re tackling the new AAP guidelines for the treatment of pediatric ob*sity. The conversation we’re having here today is intended to articulate the harm we are experiencing, as fat people, as parents, as humans concerned about the safety of other humans. Thank you to everyone who contributed today. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get al...
Feb 16, 2023•34 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Lauren Leavell ! Lauren is a trainer and fitness instructor based in Philadelphia, and the creator of Leavell Up Fitness a body positive and weight-inclusive fitness network that makes working out accessible and fun. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber to get all of Virginia's reporting and bonus subscriber-only episodes. And don't forget to preorder ! Fat Talk: Pa...
Feb 09, 2023•31 min
What is a sensitivity read and why is it so important to the book publishing process? Today Virginia is chatting with Dominic Bradley ! Dominic is a Brooklyn-based Black disabled queer visual artist, writer, and performer who provided the sensitivity read on Virginia's upcoming book, Fat Talk . And don't forget to preorder ! Fat Talk: Parenting In the Age of Diet Culture comes out April 25, 2023 from Henry Holt. You can preorder your signed copy from Virginia's favorite independent bookstore, Sp...
Feb 02, 2023•26 min
It's time for your January AMA! Corinne is back, and we're answering your questions about fat language, allyship, cozy clothes, Chick-fil-A, breakfast and more. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber. To reward us all for surviving the January diet culture noise, we're taking 20 percent off subscriptions until February 1. That's just $4 per month or $40 for the year. Click here for the discount! And...
Jan 26, 2023•58 min
Today is a Very Special Episode because we're hearing from all of you! If you’re a paid Burnt Toast subscriber, then you know about Friday Threads . Today's episode is like a Friday Thread for your ears. Our prompt is anti-diet New Year's resolutions and I can't wait for you to hear what everyone had to say. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Produci...
Jan 19, 2023•16 min
Today Virginia is chatting with the brilliant Aubrey Gordon! Aubrey is the co-host of Maintenance Phase , and the author of two books: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat and (out this week! go buy it!!) "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People . If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requi...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr
New Year’s is a fraught time for a lot of us! Resolution culture means that diet noise and fitness noise are turned up to level 1000 right now. I was thinking about that and remembered this really lovely conversation that Amy Palanjian and I had with Christy Harrison on our old podcast Comfort Food and I decided that this episode called “New Year, No Diet” would be the perfect rerun to share with all of you this week. It originally aired on January 13, 2019. And wow, the world is different! But ...
Jan 05, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Being able to feed yourself without the observation of someone around you just really changes things. You’re listening to Burnt Toast. This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fat phobia, parenting and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith, I also write the Burnt Toast newsletter. Today we are revisiting a newsletter essay, one that I actually published just last month. It’s called “ Do I Wear Spa...
Dec 22, 2022•11 min
Today Virginia is chatting about the intersection of diet culture and care tasks with the great KC Davis! KC is a licensed professional therapist, author of How to Keep House While Drowning , and the person behind the mental health platform Struggle Care . If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment...
Dec 15, 2022•42 min
Today Corinne is back! She got bangs, you guys! And it is time for a very special holiday themed Ask Us Anything. As always, we record these once a month. (Except last month when Thanksgiving threw us off. But here’s October if you missed it!) So if you have questions, you can email them over by hitting reply to any newsletter or drop them here . If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5...
Dec 08, 2022•40 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Jeff Hunger who is an assistant professor of social psychology at Miami University in Ohio, who studies weight stigma. Our focus of this episode is Jeff’s work on anti-fat bias, understanding how we internalize it, the difference between implicit and explicit bias, and how we start to separate out concepts like body image struggles from the larger conversation of anti-fat bias. We cover a lot of important ground. Including Taylor Swift. If you want more conversati...
Dec 01, 2022•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com Today Virginia is chatting with Emiko Davies , an award winning Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, and cookbook author based in Italy. Her most recent book is Cinnamon & Salt , and she also shares her recipes on her Instagram and in her Substack newsletter,Emiko’s Newsletter. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entir...
Nov 17, 2022•12 min
Today Virginia is chatting with Naureen Hunani , the founder of RDs for Neurodiversity, a neurodiversity-informed online continuing education platform for dietitians and helping professionals. Naureen also has her own private practice in Montreal, where she treats children, adults, and families struggling with various feeding and eating challenges through a trauma-informed, weight-inclusive, and anti-oppressive approach. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in ...
Nov 10, 2022•45 min
Today Virginia is chatting with with Pam Luk, founder of Ember & Ace , a new line of plus size athletic clothing for kids. We get in what's wrong with the kids' clothing industry, and Pam has so many tips and hacks to making finding clothes for kids in bigger bodies more doable. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requir...
Nov 03, 2022•41 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our October bonus episode! And since it's spooky season, and maybe nothing is more terrifying than retro gender norms, Virginia is revisiting an old essay about Halloween in Girl World. If you are already a paid subscriber, you’ll have this entire episode in your podcast feed and access to the entire transcript in your inbox and on the Burnt Toast Substack . If you are not a paid subscriber, you'll ...
Oct 27, 2022•6 min
Today’s episode is our October Ask Us Anything with Virginia and Corinne Fay of @SellTradePlus! We get into unlearning fatphobia, managing treats with kids, and our very unpopular opinions about Halloween. If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber. It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of time and resources from several talented people....
Oct 20, 2022•45 min
Today’s episode is a delightful conversation with Shelly Anand and Nomi Ellenson , co-authors of the wonderful new picture book I Love My Body Because . If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of time and resources from several talented people. Paid subscriptions make all of our work possible an...
Oct 13, 2022•32 min
Today’s episode, a conversation with blogger and fat liberation activist Linda Gerhardt, is the kind of story I can only tell on Burnt Toast. Because lipedema—despite impacting some 11 percent of women worldwide—isn’t a Sexy News Story. It doesn’t have the kind of hook mainstream media outlets want. Lipedema patients aren’t the kind of victims (i.e. thin white ladies) that America loves to rally around. But there are millions of them living quietly, in pain, unable to access healthcare or even c...
Oct 06, 2022•47 min
This week, we're taking it old school with a solo Virginia episode! She's reading her most popular essay to date, about why you should stop romanticizing your child's lunchbox . (Note: We recorded this before the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health ; check the transcript for some thoughts on these new developments.) If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . Subscriptions are on sale this ...
Sep 29, 2022•28 min
This week, Corinne joins Virginia for another Ask Us Anything episode! We have a lot of thoughts about pants. So buckle up for that. We also talk about snacks. Pants and snacks, and I know, you're already in. If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of time and resources from several talent...
Sep 22, 2022•54 min
This week, Virginia chats with Chelsea Conaboy , author of an amazing new book, Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of time and resources from several talented people. Paid subscriptions make all of our work possible...
Sep 15, 2022•37 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our September bonus episode! And we're trying out a new format: Virginia's Office Hours, where a Burnt Toast subscriber comes on the pod to chat with Virginia about fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health. Our first guest is Serena, who is trying to navigate family gatherings while in eating disorder recovery—but her relatives aren't just diet-y, they are diet culture creators. If you are alre...
Sep 08, 2022•17 min
This week, Virginia chats with with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, cofounders of the Center for Body Trust , and authors of a new book out this week, Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of time and resources from several ta...
Sep 01, 2022•34 min
This week, we revisit an old episode of Comfort Food where Virginia Sole-Smith and Amy Palanjian chat with Lisa Du Breuil, an incredible fat activist and clinical social worker who specializes in eating disorders and addiction. They discuss sugar addiction and how to navigate endless treats with your kids. If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Pro...
Aug 25, 2022•44 min
This week, Virginia chats with Dana Miranda, a certified educator in personal finance and the founder of Healthy Rich , a platform for inclusive budget-free financial education. Check out her podcast and her Substack newsletter, Founder Notes . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment of ti...
Aug 18, 2022•41 min
Today, Virginia is chatting with Julia Turshen . Julia is a New York Times best-selling cookbook author. Her latest book is Simply Julia , she writes a fantastic newsletter, and she’s the host and producer of the podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On . Julia lives in the Hudson Valley, with her spouse Grace and their pets. And she teaches live cooking classes every Sunday afternoon. Follow her on Instagram: @Turshen. If you'd like to support the show, please rate and review us in your podcast player! A...
Aug 11, 2022•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com They're dealing with a consumer that they've never marketed to before and they don't really have the tools to do that. They don't know what's going to speak to that consumer. And it's also fatphobia, right? Because the brand doesn't want to center fat people as their customer. So they have to put everybody together in order for it to be okay. You're listening to Burnt Toast. This is the podcast where we ...
Aug 04, 2022•13 min
