Continued Conversations with Megan Gill

Everyone please welcome my friend and fellow fit model Alia Parise to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Alia and I have been seeing each other around the fit model world for a few years now. We often work together with the same clients, and I knew I needed to have a conversation with her. Alia is a plus model who works with a wide range of clients. Because we both actively work as fit mode...

Everyone please welcome my yoga teacher and new friend Marissa Procelli to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! I’ve been taking Mar’s yoga classes for about two years now, and it wasn’t long before I recognized she approaches her teaching through a healthy body image lens. Her language in her classes spoke to me and allowed me to further deepen my connection to my own body in my practice. Ma...

Everyone please welcome my newer friend and fellow actor Asher Phoenix to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Asher and I met through a dear friend (hi, Kate Stoss), and I’m so beyond grateful for our discussion about body image. In our conversation, we discovered we both work through the Internal Family Systems modality in our own therapy sessions, and Asher speaks on how some parts of them...

Everyone please welcome my college friend and fellow creative Ashley Justice to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Ashley and I went to Wichita State University together circa 2010-2014-ish, and this girl knows the body!!! She was in the dance department, and I was in the musical theatre department. Ashley is an insanely talented dancer and choreographer, and I had the pleasure of taking ma...

Everyone please welcome lovely friend and fellow (voice)actor Maddie McGuire to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Maddie and I met online in 2020 during Ashli Pollard (of The Doers)’s business course, Square One Accelerator. We’d only known each other over the internet until the fall of 2024 when we finally got to meet in person! Since then, we’ve gotten closer and closer, and Maddie was o...

Everyone please welcome my wonderful friend and fellow creative Scarlett Dyer to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Scarlett and I met when we both first moved to Los Angeles in 2019 through the Crash Acting community, and we have been friends ever since. Scarlett is an actor, a fashion designer, a costume designer, a writer, and an activist. She designed the wardrobe for my short film, “A...

Trigger Warning: This conversation contains discussion of eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and weight loss drugs. There is a lot of nuance in our conversation around cultural conditioning of weight gain stigma and the stigma of weight loss drugs. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome my dear friend and fellow a...

Trigger Warning: This conversation contains discussion of eating disorders and nutrition post-recovery. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome my friend and fellow Substack writer Sarah Plenge to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Sarah and I met while I was thick in the depths of a serving job, and she bro...

Everyone please welcome my long-time friend, hairstylist, style coach, and overall style icon Geena Mericle to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations ! Geena is one of the most authentic and beautiful humans I have ever met in my lifetime, and she’s a true rainbow in human form. Not only is she one of my dear friends, but she’s also an expert personal stylist who’s had a direct impact on my pers...

Trigger Warning: This conversation contains discussion of eating disorders, nutrition, and body dysmorphia. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone please welcome my friend and acting consultant Jen DiBella to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! Jen is an actor, acting coach, and acting career consultant. I’ve been working...

Everyone please welcome my friend and fellow fit model Jas NaTasha Anderson to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! She’s an actress, model, and fit model in Los Angeles. Jas and I met on a fit job in the summer of 2024, have kept in touch ever since. Jas’ openness and vulnerability throughout our conversation brought us both to tears, and our connection over what it was to grow up in the ‘90...

Everyone please welcome Emilia Ray to Continued Conversations! Emilia directed my short film A Broadway Body and is an influential voice in the body image conversation as an actor, director, and intimacy director/coordinator. We began discussing body image in musical theatre back in 2021 and haven’t stopped since. I’m so excited to share our conversation with you because Em’s perspective is cultur...

Trigger Warning: in our conversation, we discuss eating disorders, food intake, and over-exercise. Please take care of yourselves as you listen and avoid if these topics might be triggering for you. Everyone welcome my dear friend Katelyn Stoss to A Broadway Body: Continued Conversations! She’s a choreographer, director, creator, educator, and performer. Katelyn and I have known each other since o...