Continued Conversations with Megan Gill

Trigger Warning: On our conversation, we discuss some themes around food intake, exercise, and body alterations. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Aidan Rees to Continued Conversations ! Aidan and I have known each other for a long time now, and I was so excited to sit down with her to talk body image. We bot...

Trigger Warning: In our conversation, we discuss diet culture, weight, and numbers pertaining to these topics. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Sara McKinley to Continued Conversations ! Sara and I met through the acting world, and I’ve been wanting to chat with her for a while now, so I’m thrilled she joine...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss weight, weight loss, diet culture, over-exercise, disordered eating habits, and more. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Evan Neilson to Continued Conversations ! Evan is my very first male guest on this series!!! Evan and I were connected through his sister, Me...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss themes surrounding body image, the beauty industry, and diet culture. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Mallory Gonyea to Continued Conversations ! Mallory and I met through The Spark Membership (shoutout Amy McNabb for bringing us together!), and I’m so gratef...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss themes around body image and evolving bodies. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone, please welcome Kelsey Cally to Continued Conversations ! Kelsey and I met in an acting class here in Los Angeles, and she’s since moved back to Chicago, which is fun since I’d spent a few years i...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss the impacts of the modeling industry and other themes around the beauty industry and diet culture. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone, please welcome Brittany Brown to Continued Conversations ! Brittany and I met through a shared acting community in Los Angeles back in 2019. I...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss chronic health conditions, diet, and body measurements. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone, please welcome Katie Stone to Continued Conversations ! Katie and I were connected through a friend of mine, Alia Parise, who I previously spoke with on Continued Conversations . (Thank...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss themes around body image, diet culture, and weight loss. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Alena Acker to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Alena is another wonderful actor and human that I met through Amy McNabb’s The Spark Membership, and I was so th...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss ideas relating to diet culture and self-image. Please take care of yourselves as you listen, and please avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome Tatiana Pavela to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Tatiana and I are a both a part of The Spark (Amy McNabb’s mindset-focused membership for ambitious, heart-cent...

Everyone please welcome Shalon Dozier to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Shalon is a plus fit model (for brands like Skims, Good American, Cato, Adidas and any popular brand in Nordstrom’s, Target, Walmart). She is also the owner of The Dozier Agency in Los Angeles, CA, which is a plus-size fashion consultation firm who consults brands on what plus-size women want when it comes to their...

Everyone please welcome Cornelia Hanes to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Cornelia and I met in acting class - she’s a phenomenal actress and filmmaker, as well as a lovely human being. The intersection of her work in both the fitness and entertainment industries, not to mention her being a new mama, makes for a vital conversation about body image. There is so much to take away from wha...

Everyone please welcome my dear friend Roxana Venzor Garcia to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! As Roxana and I have become closer friends this year, she has been so receptive to my deep affinity and love for talking about body image online. Slowly but surely, she would respond to my posts and share bits and pieces of her story with me. She then came to me with her story being diagnosed...

Everyone please welcome my mama, Dona Gill, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! I somehow swindled her into sitting down with me when I was home over Thanksgiving to have a conversation. She was hesitant to say yes, but I’m so thankful she did because I walked away from our conversation a more empowered woman. In our conversation, we discuss… * When little kids start to recognize their b...

Everyone please welcome Amy Geist to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Amy Geist and I met on the set of a music video almost ten years ago. We’ve since produced multiple projects together and have both created short films with themes of body image. Amy is a powerhouse filmmaker and a wonderful human being, and she opens up so beautifully in our conversation about incredibly important top...

Everyone please welcome my sweet friend Destiny Allen to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Destiny and I have known each other for a few years now (spoiler alert: she’s dating two of my besties), and being an expert in the field of bridal fashion, I was so excited she agreed to have a conversation with me. Destiny is making waves in the way she shows up as a bridal consultant. She works a...

Everyone please welcome Liz J to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Liz and I were a part of the same university program, so we’ve known each other for quite some time now. I was so excited to bring Liz in for a conversation about body image. Liz pulled back the curtain on being raised in a musical theatre world and discussed how the beauty and body standards of Broadway impacted her as a...

Everyone please welcome my friend and fellow actor, writer, producer, Christine Dickinson, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Christine is an actor, a writer, and a producer, and I met in our acting class at Crash Acting a few years ago. She very recently debuted her one-woman play “Mother” in Los Angeles, CA, and the show was phenomenal. We’d had this conversation before I saw it, and...

Everyone please welcome Jennifer Ledesma to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Jennifer is an actor based in Chicago. She and I were auditioning in the Chicago theatrical market at the same time back in 2016-2018, and while we’d never booked the same show, we’d always see each other at auditions, in class, and in the community. (If you’re in the Chicagoland area, catch her in a show!) In o...

Everyone please welcome Beth Hawkes to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! As both an actor and photographer of actors, Beth is a multi-talented creative human being. I met Beth online in a business program in 2020, and I’ve shot with her in-person three times now! Each time I’ve done a shoot with her, she’s beautifully captured my essence as a human being at that particular time in my life...

Everyone please welcome my friend and fellow Wichita State alumni Maddie Mason, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Maddie is a dance teacher and choreographer based in Oklahoma City, OK. We’d attended university at the same time and danced in many a class together, and I was thrilled to have a conversation with her! The way Maddie speaks about showing up to the dance spaces she leads is...

Everyone please welcome my Jennie Hughes, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Jennie is a multi-hyphenate theatre-maker based in New York City. She’s also the co-founder of Forager Theater Company, making art with those in her orbit to tell the stories she believes in. Jennie and I met in our college program, and her personal adversities as a stage actor helped shaped the story for my sh...

Everyone please welcome my long-time friend and fellow musical theatre actor and entrepreneur, Stacy Keele, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Stacy is not only an actor, she’s also a certified Human Design reader + Neuro-linguistic Programming coach helping chronically-ill entrepreneurs build body-led businesses their way, so they can show up in business authentically and avoid burnout...

Everyone please welcome my sweet friend and mindset coach, Amy McNabb, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! I’ve known Amy since 2021 when we met in an online business program. She’s slowly but surely become a dear friend of mine as well as the mindset coach I work with as an actor and a business woman. Amy is a voice actor, a singer, and a mindset coach for actors and businesswomen. Amy’...

Everyone please welcome my dear friend and fellow actor and model, Chloé Godard, to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Chloé is an actor, hand model, fit model, yoga teacher, and voiceover artist, along with a close friend of mine. From working with her hands on set for companies like Mattel, to fit modeling for shoe companies like Lulu’s, to acting in national commercials and film, Chloé...

Everyone please welcome my new friend, Health and PE educator, as well as the founder of Pretty Little Lifters, Tiffany Ragozzino to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Tiffany and I were connected by a mutual friend who I recently shared a conversation with (hi Maddie McGuire!) because of our shared passion for dismantling diet culture and leaning into strength and wellness. Tiffany is batt...