Untamed Podcast: Wildly Disrupting the Dialogue on Food, Body and Womxnhood
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UNTAMED 020: On Coming Out + I AM with Lauren Stamm
October 31, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBWelcome to Episode 20 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Lauren Stamm. Lauren Stamm is the creator and songwriter of ‘I AM,’ a play with music. Throughout her own life experiences, Lauren consistently turned to music as a means of self expression and a source of healing. Discovering that the songs she had written over the course of nearly a decade told an important story, she created ‘I AM,’ which explores the parallel stories of two main characters struggling to find personal fulfillment and...
UNTAMED 19: On Beautiful Me + For Black Girls with Ruby Taylor
October 17, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBWelcome to Episode 19 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Ruby Taylor. Ruby is a healer, social worker, filmmaker, and seed planter. Following a significant medical event that prevented her from continuing her work in the field of mental health, Ruby decided to change the world through film and advocacy. Ruby’s first documentary, Mad Believer, explored the murder of her older brother and her anger towards God. This film has been screened at various venues including the African American Museum ...
UNTAMED 018: On Self-Compassion + Being Kind To You
September 26, 2017 12:14 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBWelcome to Episode 18 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Dr. Kristin Neff. Dr. Kristin Neff is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion over a decade ago. In addition to writing numerous academic articles and book chapters on the topic, she is author of the book "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself,...
UNTAMED 017: On Microagressions + The I’m Tired Project with Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans
September 12, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBWelcome to Episode 17 of the Untamed Podcast with guests Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans of the I’m Tired Project. Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans are the founders of The I’m Tired Project, a project aiming to highlight the lasting impact of everyday microaggressions, assumptions and stereotypes. It was founded just a few short years ago, in 2015, while Paula and Harriet were studying at the University of Nottingham. Both Harriet and Paula now work in communications outside of their work with th...
UNTAMED 016: On Diet Culture + Body Justice with Melissa Toler
August 29, 2017 04:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBWelcome to Episode 16 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Melissa Toler. Melissa Toler is a speaker, writer and educator. Her goal is to help women make the connection between our culture’s oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggles with self-acceptance. She helps women unlearn the toxic messages and behaviors from lifelong dieting so that they can live free from obsession and self-loathing. Having a 25-year history with dieting herself, she knows personally what it means to be stu...
UNTAMED 015: On Cannabis + Sisters of the Valley with Sister Kate
August 15, 2017 03:51 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBWelcome to Episode 15 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Sister Kate of Sisters of the Valley. Sister Kate graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Business Education. She spent the first decade of her career working in project management in the credit card industry and the newly de-regulated telecom industry, before beginning her own consulting firm and embarking on a journey that took her, as an analyst, into a specialization in newly de-regulating industries. She consult...
UNTAMED 014: On Style + What’s Underneath with Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum
August 01, 2017 04:00 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBWelcome to Episode 14 of the Untamed Podcast with guests Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum of StyleLikeU. Elisa Goodkind was a fashion stylist working for top fashion magazines and celebrities. After twenty years in the business, she was frustrated by how the industry, which had once been a home to artistry and rebellion, had become about selling status, conformity and increasingly formulaic ideals of beauty. At the same time, Elisa’s daughter, Lily Mandelbaum, was a teenager struggling de...
UNTAMED 013: On Periods + Biological Anthropology with Dr. Kathryn Clancy
July 18, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBWelcome to Episode 13 of the Untamed Podcast with Dr. Kathryn Clancy. Dr. Kathryn Clancy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, with additional affiliations in the Program for Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives. Dr. Clancy’s research integrates life history, evolutionary medicine, and feminist biology to contest clinical definitions of normal in women’s he...
UNTAMED 012: On Shadow Diving + Owning Your Truth with L’Erin Alta
July 05, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBWelcome to Episode 12 of the Untamed Podcast with guest L’Erin Alta. L’Erin Alta is a soul guide, shadow diver and spiritual teacher known for burning down the stale, fluffy, boring “self-help” formulas and helping women ignite true personal liberation. Her workshops, retreats and 1-on-1 intensives have been called, “transformation temples for unruly, soulful women”. She believes loss, grief and pain are healing initiations and if honored, they will fortify you, bringing you through the shad...
UNTAMED 011: On Perseverance + Pretty Big Movement with Akira Armstrong
June 20, 2017 04:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBWelcome to Episode 11 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Akira Armstrong, Founder and CEO of Pretty Big Movement. Akira Armstrong began her intensive dance, drama and vocal training at age 8 at Mind Builders Creative Arts Center; Bronx, New York. She was hand-picked to participate in a high level merit program and is also a former student of the Alvin Ailey School.Following her graduation from professional performing arts high school, Ms. Armstrong studied at Syracuse University, where she re...
UNTAMED 010: On Liberation + Trans Women of Color with Lourdes Ashley Hunter
June 06, 2017 04:00 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBWelcome to Episode 10 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Lourdes Hunter. Lourdes Ashley Hunter is originally from Detroit, Michigan. She’s been a catalyst for change having led grass roots initiatives that impact the socio-economic growth and development of communities disproportionately impacted by state sanctioned violence for over 20 years. Lourdes is a healer, curator, orator and academic. Most noted is her role as a transformative thought leader and change agent for grass-roots initia...
UNTAMED 009: On Physical Disability + Sitting Pretty with Lolo
May 23, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBWelcome to Episode 9 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Lolo. Lolo, is a disability lifestyle influencer and vlogger with her own YouTube channel titled “Sitting Pretty.” Sitting Pretty is a series Lolo created to showcase her life as a physically disabled woman in a wheelchair. Her vlogs feature a range of topics from disability fashion tutorials, everyday challenges dealing with society, dating, and her new diagnosis journey. Recently, Lolo starred in a comedy sketch “Thoughts You Have Whil...
UNTAMED 008: On Motherhood + 4th Trimester Bodies with Ashlee Dean Wells
May 09, 2017 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThanks for checking out Episode 8 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Ashlee Dean Wells. Ashlee Dean Wells is an internationally acclaimed photographer, published author, producer, feminist and storyteller currently calling Chicago home. Mama to Xavier (11) and identical twin daughter’s Nova (4) and Aurora (stillborn due to Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome); she is also an advocate for visibility in differing abilities and shattering the stigmas surrounding peri and postnatal loss. In additio...
UNTAMED 007: On Body Size + Fatphobia as Bigotry with Virgie Tovar
April 25, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBWelcome back to Episode 7 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Virgie Tovar. Virgie is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help those who are ready to break up with diet culture, and started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 201...
UNTAMED 006: On Connection + Dignifying the Homeless with Lolly Galvin
April 11, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBThanks for tuning in to Episode 6 of the Untamed Podcast with guest, Lolly Galvin. Lolly Galvin is the founder of Dignity Project & #phillystreetcuts. In 2016, she took to the road and completed #thedignitytour. This was a crowd funded adventure where she lived in a van for one month while stopping in 14 US cities to provide conversation and essentials to homeless individuals. Back in Philadelphia, she’s continued to share the stories of the people she meets along the way. Lolly is a bel...
UNTAMED 005: On Justice + Difficult Conversations with Desiree Adaway
March 28, 2017 02:46 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBWelcome back to the Untamed Podcast. In Episode 5, I speak with guest Desiree Adaway about her powerful work leading difficult conversations for organizations, communities and activists. We talk social justice, feminism, politics, vulnerable people groups, systems of oppression, personal biases, fragility, meritocracy and SO MUCH MORE. Desiree is a seasoned nonprofit consultant and facilitator known for building resilient organizations and leading difficult conversations about race class and...
UNTAMED 004: On Ballet + Seizing Every Opportunity with Ingrid Silva
March 14, 2017 02:16 - 55 minutes - 45.3 MBWelcome back to the Untamed Podcast. In Episode 4, I talk with professional ballerina Ingrid Silva about dance, the gift of opportunity, her mother’s influence, being a ballerina of color, a day in her life, our mutual affection for french bulldogs and tattoos – AND MORE. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ingrid began ballet studies at the age of 8 at Projeto Dancando Para Nao Dancar. She studied at Escola de Danca Maria Olenewa, Centro de Movimento Debora Colker on full scholarship and at age ...
UNTAMED 003: On Race + Being Raised in a White Family with Lacey Tezino
March 03, 2017 03:04 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBWelcome back to the Untamed Podcast. In this episode I chat with guest Lacey Tezino about her childhood, being raised in a white community, transracial adoption, death, talking race with children, traveling and more. Lacey is a writer, mentor, adventurer, and public speaker who is passionate about encouraging young people to travel, fall in love with other cultures, and cultivate positive relationships. Through her work managing hospital projects, Lacey spent the last 3 years living in Doha,...
UNTAMED 002: On Rape Culture + Project Consent with Sara Li
March 02, 2017 22:08 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThanks for tuning in to Episode 2 of the Untamed Podcast with guest Sara Li. Sara is the founder and executive director of Project Consent, a global advocacy program that aims to fight sexual assault. Their mission is to support survivors and raise awareness by giving voice to those who have been assaulted and to change the culture of rape around the world. Sara is also a social influencer, a blogger, and a writer for MTV Founders. To learn more about Sara and her work at Project Consent go ...
UNTAMED 001: Introduction to the Untamed Podcast
February 28, 2017 17:39 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBIt’s here! The first episode of the Untamed Podcast. In this solo show I introduce myself and my coaching business, LU|EATS. I also share the inspiration for the Untamed Podcast and my vision for its future. I tell you where you can find more information about Untamed and personally answer the list of closing questions I’ll be asking each of my upcoming guests. (It’s only fair!) I’m thrilled to be bringing this long-time dream to life. It’s my hope that by tuning into the Untamed Podcast reg...